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Persian Pony
A new book of poems by Michael McClure is a cause for celebration. One of the readers at the historic Six Gallery reading, McClure has been an influential and inspired cultural presence in American literature for the past six decades. His poetry offers a radical aesthetic that is original and profound. In Persian Pony, his new book of poems, McClure writes with conviction and authority, addressing the metaphysical vision at the heart of his work with lyric precision. Persian [...read more...]
Mephistos & Other Poems
"He is such a sweeet paradox! Like most of Shelley and the late poems of D.H. Lawrence, McClure turns the phenomenal world inside out, seeking mind within mind." —Diane di Prima
Michael McClure is a poetry legend. In this fresh collection of new poems, he continues his exploration of bio-romanticism, including an ongoing "grafting" experiment, growing new poems from fragments of older works. The book climaxes with "Song Heavy," recounting McClure's recent encounter with a beached whale and recalling his [...read more...]
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Originally self-published in 1964 and long out of print, Ghost Tantras is one of Michael McClure's signature works, a book mostly written in "beast language." A mix of lyrical, guttural and laryngeal sound, lion roars, and a touch of detonated dada, this is one of his best-known but least available books, a deep well from which decades of poetry have drawn.
McClure's inspiration has always been the animal consciousness that lives in mankind, and he has had a consistent message: [...read more...]
Mysteriosos and Other Poems, Michael McClure's newest book of poetry, speaks of working toward freedom and beauty during a time of interminable war and the destruction of nature. In the introduction, McClure clarifies his playfulness with time, explaining how within the moment of his writing all moments and memories exist. His "willingness of unwearied senses to be what they perceive" as Anne Waldman says, "opens our perceptions."
Included in this new collection are a long travel poem about India [...read more...]
Of Indigo and Saffron: New and Selected Poems
This essential collection of Michael McClure's poetry contains the most original, radical, and visionary work of a major poet who has been garnering acclaim and generating controversy for more than fifty years. Ranging from A Fist Full, published in 1957, through Swirls in Asphalt, a new poem sequence, Of Indigo and Saffron is both an excellent introduction to this unique American voice and an impressive selection from McClure's landmark volumes for those already familiar with his boldly inventive work. One [...read more...]
Specks
First published by Talonbooks in 1985, Specks was published in a new edition in 2012, with an new introduction by Paul Nelson.
Michael McClure expands upon Charles Olson's proprioceptive poetic with Aristotelian metaphysics, Lorca's duende, environmental awareness, and biological exploration.
Specks assumes the form of a blastula, offering a poetic model of embryonic development that arises from the cellular division known as "cleavage." It presents groupings of ideas that mimic and challenge one another in a deep biological state. With [...read more...]
Plum Stones: Cartoons of No Heaven
"In McClure's poems, the shapes are abstractions like DNA (statement of relation and in some poems one-word centered lines on a page) which as a language can't ever be the same as the object (such as 'black lily'). Yet he breaks down a distinction between text as object and the phenomenal object of 'black lilies' (words), and physical sensation (of the 'speaker' or reader of these words)…
He transposes (enacts) the (comic book bubble) language of his poetry as theater; [...read more...]
Rain Mirror: New Poems
"Rain Mirror," writes Michael McClure, stands as my most bare and forthright book. It contains two long poems, 'Haiku Edge' and 'Crisis Blossom,' which are quite disparate from one another." Together, the poems complement each other as so light and dark.
"Haiku Edge" is a poem of linked haiku, often humorous, sometimes harsh, and always elegant. "Crisis Blossom," in contrast, is a long poem in three parts that records the author's "state of psyche, capillaries, muscles, fears, boldnesses, and hungers [...read more...]
Touching the Edge: Dharma Devotions from the Hummingbird Sangha
Booklist says,
"Beat poets McClure [and others] caused a great seismic shift in literature with their fresh and liberated approaches to language and focus on the chimerical workings of the mind. Their meditative perspectives led not only to revolutionary poetry but to sustained and beautifully articulated Buddhist practices. In his new collection, McClure presents a series of dharma devotions — lithely observant and gently philosophical musings — that flow down the center of elongated pages like brooks, tree trunks, reeds, [...read more...]
Huge Dreams: San Francisco and Beat Poems
HUGE DREAMS brings back two books, long out of print, that are a cornerstone of the Beat movement.
For the first time in one volume, The New Book / A Book of Torture and Star present vividly contrasting sides of poetry's consciousness. In The New Book / A Book of Torture, a classic example of immediate biological expression, Michael McClure simultaneously delves into, and delivers himself from, the self-christened "dark night of the soul." Star, a book of [...read more...]
3 Poems: Dolphin Skull; Rare Angel; Dark Brown
Penguin Poets presents "Dolphin Skull," Michael McClure's newest long poem of the imagination, published here for the first time with two of McClure's earlier works. Spontaneously written with long gazes into the unconscious, it is also an exploration of the fullness of memory in the present moment.
In "Rare Angel," MClure uses his totem animals of sea and land to write a vivid environmental poem, a work of the present that stretches back in time as well as vividly out [...read more...]
Lighting the Corners
"Without McClure's roar there would have been no sixties, and it has not diminished," wrote Dennis Hopper. Over the past four decades, Michael McClure has been at the center of the "New American" artistic storm—as a major innovative poet, and also as a playwright, novelist, lyricist, and environmentalist.
Lighting the Corners: On Art, Nature, and the Visionary draws together McClure's crucial essays and interviews (many previously unpublished) ranging through such subjects as poetry as a "muscular principle," theatre, the Beat [...read more...]
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Rebel Lions
Rebel Lions, Michael McClure's first book of poetry since the retrospective Selected Poems (1985), spans a decade of profound personal change and poetic evolution for the author. In an introductory note, he provides a backdrop for the collection, which moves from old life to new. McClure's work bursts forth from the matrix of the physical and spiritual. "Poetry is one of the edges of consciousness," he asserts. "And consciousness is a real thing like the hoof of a deer [...read more...]
Simple Eyes and Other Poems
The running theme in Michael McClure's Simple Eyes & Other Poems is: looking at the world directly. The results are often as disquieting a they are illuminating, whether he directs his unblinking gaze on the American cityscape, the landscapes of Mexico and Kenya, or the mind's own terrain. In the long title poem, "Simple Eyes (Fields)," the stanzas on the Persian Gulf War bloom out of images of all wars the poet has known — "the spiritual wars, the napalm [...read more...]
"Poetry," Michael McClure has said, "is not a system but is real events spoken of, or happening, in sounds." And for thirty years, whether in his early "Dionysian" lyrics or his evolving "bio-alchemical" wisdom, his work has shown a ferocious energy and driving physicality. A poet of and for our time, his own formal structures—the shape of his poems and his highly charged breath-line—nevertheless look back to the classics, to the Provençal troubadours, and to the Romantic verse of Blake, [...read more...]
The Beard and VKTMS: Two Plays
The play that made its debut as the greatest cause celebre in modern drama, The Beard is a bold and poetic work about two mythic figures in American culture—Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid.
"Almost as if two ghosts from two periods of the American past were speaking across decades to each other, and yet at the same time are present in our living room undressing themselves or speaking to us of the nature of seduction, the nature of attraction, [...read more...]
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Fragments of Perseus
"NOW IT IS TIME FOR A NATION,/…a spiritual nation/based/and formed on open freedom,/on flesh and biology…" The antipolitical activism, biologically based aesthetics, and exuberantly sensuous spirituality that have won Michael McClure acclaim since the birth of the San Francisco poetry renaissance in 1955 are affirmed with new range and eloquence in Fragments of Perseus.
The title poem presents fragments of an imaginary journal by Perseus, son of Zeus and Danae, slayer of the snake-haired Medusa, and husband of Andromeda. [...read more...]
Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac
In this collection of essays, poet anad playwright Michael McClure reviews his own career and the contributions of his contemporaries over the past three decades to develop a new perception of art as a living "bio-alchemical organism."
Included are poems by Charles Olson, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, Philip Whalen, Robert Creeley, Jack Kerouac, Hart Crane, and others, as well as selections from McClure's own work. The poems, selected with remarkable sensitivity, form integral parts of the arguments advanced in the [...read more...]
Josephine the Mouse Singer
Michael McClure's Josephine: The Mouse Singer, a play in verse, is based on a story of Franz Kafka's, "Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk." Kafka and McClure? And yet the combination is bound to work, for in essence both writers in their different ways ponder the trials of the artist in an arbitrary universe. McClure's exuberant, inspired adaptation, in fact, reminds us of the bizarre whimseys Kafka's tales were originally intended to be.
The first New York production [...read more...]
Antechamber and Other Poems
Antechamber and Other Poems joins a growing list of contributions that includes the verse collection September Blackberries (1974) and Jaguar Skies (1975) as well as the musical play Gorf (1976). His writing in recent years is "alchemical" in its intent, yet his twin declarations, "Biology is Politics" and "I Am A Mammal Patriot," perhaps express more accurately both the universality of his outlook and its human particularity.
McClure's mysticism is vigorously scientific. Even the familiar patterned shapes of his poems [...read more...]
Jaguar Skies
"Perhaps the crux of all writing is to find the word that describes what the eye has seen and the mind imagined," says Josephson Nicholson in Rolling Stone. "Judged on that basis, Michael McClure's . . . most recent books are as good as anything going. Their advantage is Sheer Scope."
In Jaguar Skies McClure reaffirms the biological intelligence, indeed the active principle, at the heart of his own work. As the book demonstrates so clearly, the exuberant resonances [...read more...]
Gorf
Readers of Michael McClure's play Gorf may be reminded of Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi, even if dancing TV sets and the "Middle American" protagonists Mert and Gert bring the surreal effect down to native ground. On another level, Gorf is a ritual of regeneration, or, if you like, a kind of spiritualized Hellzapoppiin. The "murdered" Mert and Gert and reborn in the search for their child, the Shitfer, who disintegrated when "hurled through Time and Space," is resurrected [...read more...]
Rare Angel
Biochemical investigations—concerns with the shapes and meanings of bodies— are inseparable from poetics. Experience in all times and spaces is the mainstream. The ability to sensorially perceive without the constraint of traditional, modern proportions is the joy of the yogin, the adept, the poet, and the scientist of meat.
Michael McClure's foreword:
"Rare Angel tracks vertically on the page and is Oriental in that way. The selves that compromise our whole being may play over this poem, as if [...read more...]
September Blackberries
"Poetry and theatre are organisms and biological extensions of the artist," says Michael McClure. "My unusual line and shape of poems is a feedback between poems as living beings and knowledge of traditional shapes. I believe in inspiration. I am especially fond of wild flowers, mastodons, and stars."
In September Blackberries, a collection of seventy-five of his recent poems, McClure demonstrates this "bio-alchemical" aesthetic with his usual prodigious verbal energy. Readers familiar with the work of the Beat Generation [...read more...]
The Mammals
The plays in this book were written during the same period as DARK BROWN and in the same manner — THE BLOSSOM was written spontaneously after "three days of careful preparation". Together they form the catalyst for later work — the first use of grahhr language in THE FEAST and the involvement with Billy the Kid in THE BLOSSOM.
Read as poetry ("projective verse turned to theater") these dramas, in the same way as DARK BROWN, explode the traditional separation [...read more...]
The Adept
Nicholas, the hero-narrator of The Adept, begins his story with an assault on the reader in the form of a paraphrase of Charles Baudelaire. Nicholas is "a healthy full-grown adult male animal with air down past his shoulders and a fine set of muscles." He spends his days in meditation, turned on by drugs and sex. Nicholas supports himself pushing cocaine. The scene moves back and forth from Greenwich Village to a jet flight to the Arizona desert in [...read more...]
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Gargoyle Cartoons
Michael McClure, San Francisco poet, novelist and playwright, has created a new form, the "Gargoyle Cartoon"—a short, mad, whimsical, funny, incisive one-act play. This series of eleven plays includes Spider Rabbit, The Meatball, Apple Glove, The Cherub, The Authentic Radio Life of Bruce Connner and Snoutburbler, and six others. John Wasserman, in the San Francisco Chronicle, says McClure is "doing to words what avant-garde musicians are doing to melody." The characters are creatures: ogres, [...read more...]
The poetry of Michael McClure is a highly personal statement, moving from the visionary to the polemical, the abstract to the graphic, a poetry which Allen Ginsberg called "a blob of protoplasmic energy." His style manifests itself in eccentric punctuation, capital letters, and "beast" sounds; words become action, forcing the objects of his poems into abstraction or materializing themselves into forms.
In this new collection of poems, McClure again demonstrates the unique quality which led the London Times Literary Supplement [...read more...]
The Mad Cub
Captain Nowhere is a man of genius and heroic components. He is also a sexual fetishist, a religious visionary and a dope freak. Captain Nowhere goes through sexual changes as rapidly as he runs through life. Propelled by drugs, sex and the fantastic pulse of his own existence, he explores the possibilities of America, until he has eliminated all but one… [Bantam Books description, 1970]
The Mad Cub, first published in 1970, is a sexual coming-of-age tale, illustrating how [...read more...]
"Michael McClure's The Beard is a mysterious piece of work, for while its surface seems simple, repetitive and obscene, there is an action working which is dramatic and comic at once, and the play emits an odd but intense field of attention…" —Norman Mailer, (from his Introduction)
"The Beard is a milestone in the history of heterosexual art." —Kenneth Tynan
"…juicy & exuberant…" —Allen Ginsberg
"The dialogue throughout makes 'Virginia Woolf' almost a Sunday school recitation by comparison. [...read more...]
The New Book / A Book of Torture
The poetry of Michael McClure is a highly personal statement, moving from the visionary to the polemical, the abstract to the graphic. His freedom of style, eccentric punctuation, and use of capital letters are an intrinsic part of his emphatic gesture; words become action, forcing objects into abstraction or materializing words into forms.
Of his poetry, McClure writes: "I want a writing of the Emotions, intellect and physiology. The direct emotional statement from the body (from the organs and from [...read more...]
"The poems in Dark Brown try to use words as "Part of physiology" and as a way to shed secrecy, mystery, self-protection and self-censorship and to expose the vulnerable "spiritmeat" of the self. The poetic action is now largely made up of assertions and assertive exclamations within the action-poem structure. Mr. McClure is still exploring consciousness: "no ease to truth. I half admit it". But now the continuous invention catches up with his new dialectic between change and "the black [...read more...]
Michael McClure's first book, Passage was published by Jonathan Williams in Big Sur. It includes six poems.
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Ok well i read the germ420 guide but i already knew how to germinate but i was justwodering does it matter if the side opes up first and the white this is just sticking out a lil bit?
Yeah it matters. It means the seed is germinating!
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News / Re: Version 1.15 has been released!
hello Egon, great work as usual.
I m particularly interested in your new Texture constructor, would it be possible to add a variant with a Color object (or 3 int for rgb values) to create a texture with the given color instead of always black?
Sorry guys, just found the solution in a previous post (i.e. making the translation permanent by confirming it with translateMesh() ).
I m doing more or less a tile based level editor. Each tile is refering to an Object3D... For some kind of tile I will need to do the combination of two Objects. I will naturally merge them. But it seems that mergeObjects doesn t keep a previous translation aimed at positioning the first object depending on the second.
For instance I have two objects : a square and a tree, and i want to obtain one final object (the tree in the middle of the square). Even if i use different combinations of setOrigin setCenter or translate, after merging, the tree remains at one corner of my square.
Unfortunately i have to have only one Object3D as a result so i can t use a child-parent relation between 2 Object3D.
- if no, what is the exact process behind merge object in order that I understand where my problem is.
hello, changed to the Beta 1.15 and now everything is ok... I feel ashamed... the previous thread talking about this problem was launched more than 1 year ago... So i m surprised but it seems that i was using a "very" old version of JPCT. Anyway it works fine now.
News / Re: Beta of 1.15 released!
Congratulation for the shadow texturing Egon... that s definetely a huge improvement (and huge work i suspect).
Also happy to see that Rolz is still in the field.
I have an app with 2 different world objects (rendered using the same loop in two different canvas using AWTGLRenderer). One is supposed to show the selected object while the other one is displaying the whole map.
I don t know why but i am unable to have the same texture (registered in the TextureManager displayed in both world).
Did anyone already do something similar that worked?
Do you have any idea what may cause this problem?
Sorry Egon, i didn t read correctly your answer but I wanted to replace, not to add. As Melssj said (and also because it would simplify my life ), i think it would be a nice option.
By the way, good trick melssj... But i think it will not work for my own case. I am making a tile-based map editor for an application... So for each tile, I will save the texture name... When loading in the app, the grid should not appear so if i modify the texture itself, i will have some kind of black grid... Maybe i can use pairs of textures (one with extruded borders for the editor and the full one for rendering into my application) but i don t think it s a beautiful solution... Anyway, thanks all for these answers.
I m a little bit surprised by the first answer given the fact that s what i have done first.
As you can see, the blue border appears to be violet.
When using multi texturing, supposing that i have one base texture and an upper texture with transparent parts (a square that i could use for showing the borders of a tile), is it possible to replace only the visible parts of the upper texture? I didn t find any mode for this.
Also, looks dummy to me but is it possible to access texture names or IDs from an Object3D?
Finally, is there some example posted somewhere?


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Kid Cudi Set to Star in Upcoming Entourage Film
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Kid Cudi is heading to the silver screen the film adaptation of the popular HBO series "Entourage."
According to Deadline, the Cleveland native will play the assistant to Jeremy Piven's character, Ari Gold. Cudi also has a role in the action-packed "Need for Speed" which is set to hit theaters on March 14.
But don't expect the former G.O.O.D Music member to put music aside anytime soon, in addition to his previously released tracks, "Satellite Flight" and "Going to the Ceremony," Kid Cudi has a full-length album on the way titled SATELLITE FLIGHT: The Journey To Mother Moon.
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According to the plea agreement, Between the dates of April 1, 2020, and May 9, 2020, Draggs communicated with three teenaged females using internet-based communication including social media applications such as Snapchat. During these communications, Draggs requested, persuaded, induced and enticed the minors to send him nude images and engage in sexual contact with him. Draggs knowing one victim was a minor, engaged in multiple sexual acts with her. Multiple videos were produced of this sexual contact and were exchanged and stored via the internet-based social media application Snapchat.
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The Week Ahead…and City Launches Sterilization Program to Fight Rats
Gerard Brown, head of DC Rodent Control, takes a question from the audience at ANC6B's meeting last Tuesday. Commissioner Jennifer Samolyk, seated at left, who praised Brown's efforts and responsiveness, invited him to address the ANC. Also pictured (l-r) are Commissioners Denise Krepp, Jerry Sroufe and Kelly Waud.
City Launches Sterilization Program to Fight Rats
Last Tuesday night, Gerard Brown, head of Rodent Control Programs, DC Department of Health, told ANC6B that an additional $1 million had been added to the Rodent Control budget for four new hires and new programs. Among the latter is a rodent sterilization program which has proven effective in other cities – rodents consume a liquid agent which leaves them sterile. The program will be rolled out in Adams Morgan and move across the city.
Another innovation is a Citizen Assist Program, under which the Department of Health will accept date stamped photographic evidence of trash violations. The alleged violator has two weeks to offer an explanation. If there is a hearing before an administrative law judge and the he complainant appears as a witness, a violator could be issued a notice of infraction and a $500 fine.
A third change is that the Department's certified pest controllers will be given the authority to enforce code – enabling the Department to increase its enforcement capability, allowing one person to do what two do now.
Commissioner Jennifer Samoylk, seated at left in the photo, praised Brown's efforts and responsiveness and issued the invitation to address the ANC. Also pictured (l-r) are Commissioners Denise Krepp, Jerry Sroufe, and Kelly Waud.
ANC6A's Transportation & Public Space Committee meets at 7:00pm, at Capitol Hill Towers, 900 G Street, NE.
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Request for renewed support of legislation (B22-0351) introduced by Councilmember Allen that would create a School Parking Zone Program, allowing DDOT to issue permits for school staff to park in particular zones during school hours.
Discussion with Rock and Roll Marathon representatives and MPD Special Operations Unit regarding the 2019 marathon course in ANC.
ANC6A Alcoholic Beverage Licensing Committee meets at 7:00pm, at Sherwood Recreation Center, 10th and G Streets, NE.
Discussion of request by Halftime Sports Bar for changes to its license (adding cover charge endorsement, 39-seat summer garden, and overall expansion of seating capacity).
Capitol Hill Restoration Society (CHRS) Board of Directors meets at 6:30pm at Capitol Hill Townhomes, 750 6th Street, SE.
ANC6A's Economic Development and Zoning Committee meets at 7:00pm, Sherwood Recreation Center, 10th and G Streets, NE.
824 13th Street, NE – Zoning adjustment for a special exception from the minimum parking requirements, for variances from the lot occupancy, the rear yard requirements and from the side yard requirements to construct a new flat in the RF-1 Zone.
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Candidate Debate for Ward 6 representative to the DC State Board of Education: 7:00-9:00pm, at Hill Center, 921 Pennsylvania Avenue, SE.
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From the passionate punk of Sink Or Swim to the smooth and powerful songwriting of 2012's Handwritten, The Gaslight Anthem have consistently proven to be one of the best bands in rock and roll. Later this summer, the New Jersey band will return with album number five, titled Get Hurt, and from the looks of it, they haven't lost any steam.
With the album announcement, the band released a teaser video featuring a clip of a new song, which you can check out after the break. The track features a crunchy, bluesy guitar riff that harkens back to Handwritten highlight "Biloxi Parish." If this is the direction the band is taking on a record that frontman Brian Fallon previously described as "the weird album," then consider us very excited to hear what they have in store.
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How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
by Daniel Schulman
Nonfiction / Biography & Autobiography / Business
Like the Rockefellers and the Kennedys, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of the modern age, but they have never been the subject of a major biography — until now.
Not long after the death of his father, Charles Koch, then in his early 30s, discovered a letter the family patriarch had written to his sons. "You will receive what now seems to be a large sum of money," Fred Koch cautioned. "It may either be a blessing or a curse."
Fred's legacy would become a blessing and a curse to his four sons-Frederick, Charles, and fraternal twins David and Bill-who in the ensuing decades fought bitterly over their birthright, the oil and cattle-ranching empire their father left behind in 1967. Against a backdrop of scorched-earth legal skirmishes, Charles and David built Koch Industries into one of the largest private corporations in the world-bigger than Boeing and Disney-and they rose to become two of the wealthiest men on the planet.
Influenced by the sentiments of their father, who was present at the birth of the John Birch Society, Charles and David have spent decades trying to remake the American political landscape and mainline their libertarian views into the national bloodstream. They now control a machine that is a center of gravity within the Republican Party. To their supporters, they are liberating America from the scourge of Big Government. To their detractors, they are political "contract killers," as David Axelrod, President Barack Obama's chief strategist, put it during the 2012 campaign.
Bill, meanwhile, built a multi-billion dollar energy empire all his own, and earned notoriety as an America's Cup-winning yachtsman, a flamboyant playboy, and as a litigious collector of fine wine and Western memorabilia. Frederick lived an intensely private life as an arts patron, refurbishing a series of historic homes and estates.
Sons of Witchita traces the complicated lives and legacies of these four tycoons, as well as their business, social, and political ambitions. No matter where you fall on the ideological spectrum, the Kochs are one of the most influential dynasties of our era, but so little is publicly known about this family, their origins, how they make their money, and how they live their lives. Based on hundreds of interviews with friends, relatives, business associates, and many others, Sons of Witchita is the first major biography about this wealthy and powerful family-warts and all.
"Sons of Wichita feels as close to the truth as anyone is likely to get for a long time to come."—Financial Times


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By: DamnationDoorMat
Going Home DVD Review
Written by DamnationDoormat
DVD released by Panorama Entertainment Hong Kong
Directed by Peter Ho-Sun Chan
Story by Matt Chow & Jojo Hui
2002, Region 0 (NTSC), 61 minutes, Not rated
Leon Lai
Li Ting-Fung
Eugenia Yuan
Criminal Investigation Department officer Chan (Eric Tsang) and his son Cheung (Li Ting-Fung) move into dilapidated, marked for demolition tenement after falling on hard times. In the opposite living complex reside Yu (Leon Lai) and his wife Hai'er (Eugenia Yuan), who is paralyzed from the waist down, and their quiet, yet mysterious young daughter. Almost immediately upon arrival Cheung begins to hear and see strange distant things and with his father trying to support him at work, must face them alone. Soon after investigating the building Cheung disappears. Chan returns home and begins frantically searching for his lost son. He confronts Yu who disavows any knowledge of his son and claims he doesn't even have a daughter. Not believing him Chan breaks in several days later, searches the apartment, and is knocked cold when discovered by Yu. Chan awakens bound to a chair, Hai'er revives in three days...
Originally stuck in the middle of the 2002 Asian horror triad, Three (San geng), Peter Chan's Going Home quickly assured itself as the clearly superior story of the lot. After receiving high critical acclaim and being nominated in 9 categories in the 2003 Hong Kong Film Awards, Panorama Entertainment issued a stand-alone edition featuring the extended director's cut.
Going Home is an outstanding and surprising example of simplistic storytelling and filmmaking. With it's relatively short running time, the film perfectly measures every one of it's crucial aspects. It balances intelligent observations about love, loss, societal norms, and they're importance to our live's everyday semblance and normalcy. It stresses the significance of memories and photographs as the only real connection to loved ones lost by time no matter what degree we desperately try to hold on. It's also one of the few films that use it's more, though sparse, 'Grand Guignol' conventions to give it's statements even more true emotional power or distress, depending on your perspective. The revelations are saved for the conclusion and are truly profound, amongst the most overwhelming I've personally witnessed when thought about in hindsight. That's another wonderful detail, the feature doesn't bog down in deliberate artistic movements. It can be enjoyed on a basic level but if the viewer is willing to dig a little deeper the story gives you the keys for a clear understanding of the subtext.
The acting on hand is superb. Eric Tsang as Cheung's father, Chan, gives the character an appealing universal 'everyman' atmosphere who, even in rough times, puts his son as the first priority. Leon Lai (whose performance garnered him a 2002 Taiwanese Golden Horse) portrays Yu has a logical, educated man whose mind is clouded trying by intense love and dedication, to defeat one of reality's blunt facts. Eugenia Yuan as Yu's wife, Hai'er, even though basically having a monologue is nonetheless uniformly excellent, she earned the Best New Artist honor at the 2003 Hong Kong Film Awards for this film. Peter Chan's direction is straightforward and gains all the more strength, it just wouldn't be the same with excessive abstract camera angles and needless flash. The film's low-key, green manifestation is accredited to cinematographer Christopher Doyle and Art Director Hai Chung Man, doing an outstanding job of capturing urban decay and realizing the film's essence of drab melancholy. The score, by Cho Sung-Woo & Peter Kam, is also worth noting due to using more traditional forms of musical styles like operatic orchestration, that weave delicate tendrils of compassion and apprehension into the imagery with masterful strokes.
Going Home is presented it's original 1.85:1 aspect ratio in a non-anamorphic transfer. It suffers from all the problems that present themselves with non-enhanced material. Grain, mild jagged hardlines, and some compression artifacting is noticeable at times. Overall, it doesn't distract from one's enjoyment and suits the film's downtrodden appearance.
Presented in it's original language, Cantonese, in DTS 5.1, Dolby 5.1, and 2.0 tracks. I watched the film in crystal clear DTS naturally, and when employed it becomes quite an enveloping experience. The English subtitles (Chinese also included) are a decent size and font, white with black rims, and have very few grammatical errors.
Limited to a English subbed Making-of running just over 15 minutes with interviews with it's principals and some behind the scenes footage and an unsubbed Director Commentary. The Making-of is informative but due to it's relatively short duration and also including minutes devoted to the other films included in the original Three, it leaves a bit to be desired. The packaging itself on the other hand is quite nice and a pleasing addition to your shelf. It looks like a bound book that's slightly larger than a standard DVD case with a flat finish, while the lettering remains shiny.
A masterpiece of applying standard Horror thematic to reap deep, touching sensibilities common to every person. A film you need to see.
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Sackville School was founded by public subscription in 1859 as a National (Church) School on a site provided by Countess Amherst, a member of the Sackville family. The original buildings now form the eastern part of the Chequer Arts Centre in De la Warr Road.
In 1951 the senior school was re-named Sackville, and moved to its present site on Lewes Road in 1964. The first comprehensive intake came in 1970 and was followed by considerable building developments to keep pace with the needs of a rapidly growing school. The badge is the red rose of the duchy of Lancaster, of which the town of East Grinstead was once a part.
It is fully comprehensive, with no competition from selective schools, serving the eastern half of East Grinstead, together with parts of East Sussex and Surrey. Its motto: 'Together we Achieve' encapsulates the school's pragmatic approach; we like to think that there is, indeed, a Sackville style. Much of that style is to be found in our firm belief that our school should be a structured and disciplined society.
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Lulu Frost's First Retail Store Challenges Shopping Norms
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Charms at the Lulu Frost DIY jewelry bar, including letters and numbers from doors at the Plaza Hotel in New York.
A Victorian flower arrangement station, DIY jewelry bar, and coded gemstones collections make the brand's first brick-and-mortar a shopping experience
By Elizabeth Fazzare
Photography by Trent Bailey
When looking for inspiration for Lulu Frost's first retail store, designer Lisa Salzer doesn't discriminate by decade. "If it's cool and has character, I like it," says the company's founder over a case of antique and vintage charms in her flagship retail store in New York. Opening Thursday evening, the concept shop will feature a DIY jewelry bar, a custom "language of flowers" counter in collaboration with florist Tess Casey, and Lulu Frost's seasonal jewelry collections. The project's key players are all close to Salzer's heart: the interior designer, Katie Martinez of San Francisco–based Katie Martinez Design, is her best friend from undergraduate at Dartmouth College; the florist Casey designed all arrangements, bouquets, and flower-related decorations for her wedding; and the vintage jewelry buyer is her mother.
Florist Tess Casey (left) and Lulu Frost founder Lisa Salzer (right) at the "language of flowers" counter in the Lulu Frost flagship in New York City.
"It's such a changing time where people are so scared of retail but I felt like it was the right moment for us to show our unique vision," she said. The minimal Nolita shop is painted in a chic Santorini Blue by Benjamin Moore, brightened by Rejuvenation mirrors and Schoolhouse Electric lights. Jewelry cases by New Jersey–based Bespoke7 display pieces from the collection and vintage charms at the DIY bar, where shoppers can build a necklace of pieces from the Victorian era to the 1980s, including numbers and letters from doors at The Plaza Hotel that Salzer rescued during its 2005 renovation ($25 to $400 per charm). "For me it's all about finding something from the past and celebrating it," she explains.
Bespoke jewelry cases hold treasures from the Victorian era to today, including a "100-year necklace" Salzer has designed with costume jewelry dating from 1860 to 1960: "We have a century of history on a single piece," she said.
Seasonal collections of Lulu Frost costume pieces.
Certainly, her collaboration at the flower counter does that. As a satellite for Casey's studio in the Flower District, arrangements can be made based on a century-old Victorian code, where the flowers in a bouquet sent after a date could convey a suitor's feelings. Each bouquet from Lulu Frost arrives with a decoder booklet, explaining that peonies mean "I'm charmed by you," while striped carnations hint that he's "just not that into you," she quips.
With a calendar of events in the works, involving astrology sessions, tarot card readings, and parties with Victorian flower arrangements, Salzer has big plans for her small shop at 7 Prince Street: "It's experience as opposed to shopping. You can come in and do something and enjoy that." We can't wait to stop by.
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The Pacific Northwest's most anticipated rock festival for 2015 will be headlined by Slipknot, Lamb of God, Three Days Grace, Bullet for My Valentine, and more.
Pain in the Grass began rocking PNW area fans in 2007. The first festival was headlined by Godsmack, Buckcherry, and Northwest natives Candlebox. KISW 99.9 "The Rock" have kept the festival coming back in varying forms ever since. Initially a single day festival, Pain in the Grass grew to two days. The festival also moved from the parking lot of Tacoma's Cheney Stadium to Auburn's White River Amphitheater.
Excited rock fans have high expectations for this event. After Mayhem Festival had a lackluster showing this year, die-hard metal heads are hopeful that the big name headliners will make up for Mayhem falling short. The 2015 festival is a single-day event that will feature two stages. Doors open at 1:00 p.m. The show will begin with Seattle-based band Ayron Jones & The Way at 1:50. The festival will kick off at 2:00.


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Postal service police screen employees entering the Royal Palm processing and Distribution Center, Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 in Opa-locka, Fla. A law enforcement source tells The Associated Press that Miami-Dade police have gone to the mail-sorting facility in Opa-Locka, Florida, at the request of the FBI in connection with the suspicious package investigation. Don't let the decline in mail volumes over the past few years fool you. June 30, 2012. Processed through USPS Sort Facility August 27, 2012, 9:17 pm OPA LOCKA, FL 33054 Registered Mail™ Depart USPS Sort Facility August 26, 2012 BETHPAGE, NY 11714 Processed through USPS Sort Facility August 25, 2012, 8:13 am BETHPAG E, NY 11714 Processed Through Sort Facility August 21, 2012, 4:11 pm ISC NEW YORK NY(USPS) Origin Post is Preparing Shipment.,, i … July 03, 2012, 12:48 am. This West Palm Beach, FL and Opa Locka, FL sorting facility's needs to be investigated by the USPS Inspector General quickly before they ruin people's businesses. 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16 People Were Sentenced to Death in Bangladesh for Setting a Student on Fire
Nusrat Jahan Rafi was killed after refusing to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against her principal.
by David Gilbert
Oct 24 2019, 11:37am
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Sixteen people have been sentenced to death for the murder of 18-year-old student Nusrat Jahan Rafi, who was set on fire after refusing to withdraw a complaint that one of her teachers was sexually harassing her.
Among those convicted were two female classmates as well as the principal of the Islamic college, who Rafi accused of touching her inappropriately in his office.
Rafi's murder in April shocked the country and led to mass protests calling for the killers to be brought to justice. Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina met with Rafi's family and promised to prosecute all those involved.
There were angry scenes in the courtroom on Thursday, which was packed with the victim's family and friends. While they welcomed the outcome, Rafi's family say they are still in fear of their lives.
Rafi's brother, Mahmudul Hasan Noman, told reporters the defendants had publicly threatened him in the courtroom. "I am very afraid. I am urging the prime minister to ensure our security. And the police super should also keep a track on our wellbeing."
Lawyers for the defendants indicated they will appeal the ruling. Twelve of the defendants confessed, according to the prosecutor.
Rafi, who lived in Feni, a small town about 100 miles outside the capital Dhaka, said she was summoned by her principal Siraj Ud Doula on March 27.
The 18-year-old told police that he repeatedly touched her in an inappropriate manner before she fled. A young woman making such an accusation against a man in a position of power is very uncommon in Bangladesh, and rights groups have said that the prevalence of sex crimes in the country is much higher than reported.
The police arrested Doula but prosecutors say he and another teacher, together with local leaders of the ruling Awami League party — who were also among the 16 convicted on Thursday — ordered students to carry out the killing.
On April 6, against the wishes of her family, Rafi returned to school for an exam. A female classmate asked Rafi to come to the roof of the school where she said another classmate was being beaten up.
Rafi said that when she got to the roof she was surrounded by five people wearing burkas who pressured her into withdrawing her statement. When she refused to back down, her attackers held her down, tied her hands, and poured kerosene over her before setting her on fire.
Rafi was rushed to a local hospital where doctors found burns over 80 percent of her body. She was able to record a statement about the attack on her brother's mobile phone while she was in the ambulance.
Rafi died four days later.
Cover: In this photo taken on April 12, 2019, Bangladeshi women hold placards and photographs of schoolgirl Nusrat Jahan Rafi at a protest in Dhaka, following her murder by being set on fire after she had reported a sexual assault. (Photo credit should read SAZZAD HOSSAIN/AFP/Getty Images)
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New Jersey Doctor Sentenced To More Than 11 Years For Writing Illegal Oxycodone Prescriptions In Drug Distribution Conspiracy Also Ordered To Pay Approximately $630,000 In Fines And Forfeiture
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Division, and Paul J. Fishman, U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey announced an internal medicine specialist who wrote illegal prescriptions for oxycodone was sentenced today to 136 months in prison for...
Narcotics Task Force Announces Marijuana Seizures
SAN DIEGO - This morning, the Drug Enforcement (DEA) San Diego Field Division's Narcotics Task (NTF) along with the San Diego County Sheriff's Department and Health Advocates Rejecting Marijuana, (HARM) announce the total amount of illegal marijuana plants seized in San Diego County in 2013. During calendar year 2013, NTF...
24 Arrests In Joint Imperial County Investigation Over 3 Tons Of Cocaine Seized
SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - In November 2010, special agents with the Imperial County Narcotic Task (ICNTF) initiated a California State wiretap investigation into the importation and transportation activities of a Drug Trafficking (DTO) based in Mexicali, Baja California (BCN), Mexico. Dubbed Operation Cerberus, this investigation targeted Sinaloa Cartel...
Two Defendants Admit Roles In $65 Million Stolen Identity Income Tax Refund Fraud Scheme
NEWARK, N.J. - Two defendants have admitted their roles in one of the nation's largest and longest running stolen identity refund fraud schemes ever identified, U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman announced today. The scheme caused more than 8,000 fraudulent U.S. income tax returns to be filed, which sought more than...
Pharmacist Arrested, Charged With Assembling Illegal Drug Lab
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration'(DEA) New Jersey Division announced special agents of the DEA and FBI arrested a pharmacist early this morning in Jersey City, N.J., on federal charges alleging he assembled equipment for an illegal drug lab. Jordan Gonzalez...
DEA Prescription Drug Take-Back Numbers
SAN DIEGO & IMPERIAL, Calif. - The final tally is in from the 7th National Prescription Take-Back Day this past Saturday, October 26, 2013. DEA and its partners took back prescription drugs at 40 locations in San Diego County and three locations in Imperial County. Over the course of four...
New Jersey Residents Turn In Nearly 15,000 Pounds Of Expired And Unwanted Prescriptions
NEWARK, N.J. - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the Drug Enforcement Administration's New Jersey Division, announced that this past weekend's National Prescription Take Back Day resulted in the collection and destruction of almost 15,000 pounds, or 7.5 tons, of expired, unused, and unwanted prescriptions throughout New Jersey...
Feds Shut Down Massive New Cross Border Drug Tunnel South Of San Diego
SAN DIEGO - Three suspects are facing federal charges following the seizure of more than eight tons of marijuana and several hundred pounds of cocaine linked to an elaborate cross border tunnel shut down Wednesday night during an operation by federal and local law enforcement agencies. The newly completed tunnel...
DEA Sponsors 7th National Prescription Take Back Day
SAN DIEGO - - The Drug Enforcement (DEA) would like to announce that the 7th National Prescription Take Back will be held on October 26, 2013 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. DEA and its law enforcement and community partners will give the public another opportunity to prevent pill abuse...
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Owners Of Three Pharmacies, Pharmacists, And Others For Illegal Distribution Of Millions Of Dollars' Worth Of Oxycodone And Other Painkillers Nine Individuals Allegedly Used New York And New Jersey
NEW YORK - Carl J. Kotowski, Special Agent in Charge of the New Jersey Division of the Drug Enforcement (DEA) and Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, today announced charges against nine individuals - Paul Wiseberg, Robert Kalaba, Gerald Wiseberg, Stephanie Tomasini, Lana...


Flores Online is a company dedicated to the sell and home delivery of flowers. Besides having the largest variety and best quality of flower arrangements, its main goal is to recreate emotions.
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I was searching for a Property and found this listing (MLS® #20181415). Please send me more information regarding 116 Se 3rd Avenue, Oelwein, IA, 50662. Thank you!
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Park Sung-baek (nome original ; Seul, 27 de fevereiro de 1985) é um ciclista olímpico sul-coreano. Sung-baek representou a sua nação durante os Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2012 na prova de corrida em estrada, mas não conseguiu terminar.

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From a tailgating party to a national barbecue competition, catering to premier restaurants, Crown Verity Inc. has been a trusted name in commercial grills and durable but portable food service equipment for 25 years. Based in Brantford, Ontario, Crown Verity serves Canada and the U.S., manufacturing some of the best outdoor-cooking equipment on the market, made of 100 percent 304-stainless-steel construction and built to last a lifetime.
In 1991, founder Bill Verity released his own state-of-the-art product: an improved commercial barbecue. Since, Crown Verity has been focused on providing high-quality commercial kitchen equipment to food service professionals, including barbecue grills, patio heaters and portable sinks –all with the company's portability promise.
The company has grown across all sectors –food service to the backyard chef- since inception in 1990, but the Verity family name has been recognized in manufacturing since the turn of the 19th century. It began with Bill's ancestors in 1892, when W.H. Verity & Sons relocated to Brantford.
After arrival in Brantford, the company changed its name to Verity Plow Co. The company produced cultivating instruments and plows and soon garnered a nationwide reputation products based on perseverance, integrity and courtesy. In 1897, a disastrous fire destroyed much of the company, but Verity Plow Co. rebuilt and continued to grow to more than 700 employees.
Following the fire, in 1910, Crown Electrical Manufacturing Company incorporated under the Verity family and became the first company in Canada to manufacture lighting fixtures, fireplace assemblies, portable table lamps and brass art ware. In 1936, Crown Electrical Manufacturing Company was forced into bankruptcy by the effects of the Great Depression. In an effort to revive the company, a new charter was obtained by a group of local men under Crown Electrical Manufacturing Limited and P.E. Verity was president. To stay afloat, the company built component parts for aircrafts during World War II.
For one of the toughest, longest lasting line of grills and food service equipment on the market, Crown Verity's are among the easiest to maintain. "Strong components and high-grade stainless steel make our grills especially easy to clean – you can even power wash them," shares Andy.
Crown Verity has set the standard in commercial barbecue grills for years and now the company is moving into a range of products that complement the outdoor kitchen. "Everything from patio heaters to outdoor fryers and sinks, we're bringing the look, feel and power of a commercial kitchen outdoors," suggest Andy.
With a team of dedicated, longstanding employees as part of what Andy calls the Crown Verity Inc. family, the company is building on a tradition of excellence, bringing the professional kitchen to the open air with limitless potential.


A successful campaign by an alliance of Greek animal welfare organisations has led to the Greek Government to introduce EU laws requiring individual identification of all horses, donkeys and mules – "equidae". Known as the 'Equine Passport Regulation', animals covered by the EU Regulation will now need to be registered and identified with a unique number (Universal Equine Life Number). This will begin to help give stronger legal protection for all equidae and is potentially very optimistic news for the future of animal welfare in Greece.
In 2017 Ippothesis and Animal Action Hellas formed an alliance to campaign for the implementation of the European Commission Regulations (EU) 2015/262, commonly known as the Equine Passport Regulation.
A Change.Org petition of more than 12,000 citizens campaigning for stronger protection of equidae was presented to the Greek Ministers for Environment and Energy and Agricultural Development and Food in January 2018. This petition included demanding implementing the EU Equine Passport Regulations as well as the adoption of a Code of Good Practice for Equidae.
Without proper identification and registration, equidae cannot be linked to the person responsible for their welfare. Sadly, existing national legislation is inadequate with respect to ensuring equine welfare standards, therefore cases of poor welfare, abuse and neglect are often encountered.
Rosa Roussou, President of Ippothesis said, "Although the EU directives have existed for some time, it has always been more convenient for the authorities not to implement them. As a result it is impossible to determine the official number of equidae living in Greece. Backyard breeding, trading without ownership certificates, online exchanges of equidae , selling new-born foals and an absolute lack of any code of good practice backed by legislation are all part of the awful reality horses, donkeys and mules have to face everyday. This is leading to numerous cases of neglect and abuse. The only way to finally start protecting them is via their registration and identification".
The new registration requirements will begin to ensure all owners of equidae throughout Greece will have to care responsibly for their animals and ensure welfare standards are upheld. Failure to look after their animals properly will incur legal penalties.
Elisa Geskou, Veterinary surgeon, Equine Project Coordinator for Greek Animal Welfare Fund / Animal Action Hellas said, "As vets we have for years been working hard to improve the welfare of horses, donkeys and mules through our outreach programme, especially working animals in island communities. The introduction of the EU 'Equine Passport' will mean all equines should be registered and identified with a Universal Equine Life Number (UELN). Hopefully, this will help give stronger legal protection for all equidae. It is good news for animal welfare in Greece".
Animal Welfare organisations, veterinarians, local animal welfare groups and supportive members of both the European and National Parliaments strongly welcome the introduction the European Commission Regulations (EU) 2015/262 into Greek Law.


Billed as somewhere between a gig, an exhibition and a cabaret night, Shadow Opera's Stop all the clocks promises music by Weill, Schoenberg, Berg, Britten, Satie and Poulenc, alongside specially-made short films inspired by the music the singers will be performing live, creating immersive, engaging vignettes. We are promised an evening to delight, inspire and thoroughly seduce with delicious musical oddities!
Performers include Sophie Goldrick (mezzo-soprano), Patrick Terry (countertenor), Frieda Love (cabaret artist), Alice Privett (soprano), Sofia Troncoso (soprano), and James Long (piano), and the event takes place at the Copeland Gallery, Peckham, 9, 10, 11 November 2017.
I am sure it will be a fascinating evening, but I slightly worry about an event which bills itself with 'WARNING: THIS IS NOT AN OPERA! (it's much more fun…)', and the press release says of the composers, 'don't know who they are? doesn't matter, they're dead anyway…'.
Further information from the Shadow Opera Group website.
Don't be worried Robert! You DO know who the composers are, so you'll have a great time too! See you there.


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DirecTV Inc. parent Hughes Electronics Corp. last Tuesday closed its purchase of digital-subscriber line provider Telocity Inc., which is now a wholly owned Hughes subsidiary.
The deal, first announced last December, helps Hughes in its efforts to market both DirecTV direct-broadcast satellite video service and a choice of high-speed data offerings from Telocity or its satellite-based Hughes Network Systems' DirecPC operation.
Telocity will remain based in Cupertino, Calif., a suburb of San Jose. Hughes and DirecTV are headquartered in El Segundo, Calif., next to Los Angeles International Airport.
Former Telocity chief financial officer Ned Hayes was tapped as president of the DSL subsidiary, said Hughes spokesman Richard Dore. He reports to Hughes consumer sector corporate senior vice president Eddy Hartenstein, who is also DirecTV's global chairman.
For competitive reasons, the company must make high-speed Internet access available to all homes across each DirecTV market, Hartenstein said last Tuesday at The Big Picture, a New York media conference co-sponsored by Cahners Television Group. DirecTV plans to become a whole-house service provider, he added.
A DSL option can help DirecTV compete more directly with cable operators that have aggressively deployed high-speed cable modems and a two-way interactive pipe for digital cable television.
Direct-broadcast satellite rival EchoStar Communications Corp. is also eyeing a DSL component to help strengthen its telecommunications bundle. During an earnings call last month, CEO Charlie Ergen told analysts the company would be more likely to structure strategic marketing partnerships with DSL providers than to buy such a company outright.
EchoStar late last year began offering a bundle of its DBS television service and high-speed data service from two-way satellite provider Starband Communications Inc., in which EchoStar has an investment.
Telocity serves customers in 150 metropolitan markets through partnerships with last-mile DSL providers, including regional Bell operating companies and competitive local-exchange carriers.
Among its last-mile providers was Northpoint Communications, which plans to shut down its DSL service. Telocity has assured customers that it will do its best to find alternative providers.
In addition, Telocity won't bill for missed service and will offer a free month's service in the event of any disruption.
In the days immediately after the close of the Hughes-Telocity deal, consumers who call to buy the DSL service will hear a pitch for the Telocity brand. However, Hughes is examining how it may restructure the name of the service over time.
In short order, current DirecTV and Telocity customers will receive pitches for the other division via direct mail. Because the DSL service is not universally available in all DirecTV territories, it would be less efficient to market the service on-air, DirecTV global digital media president Larry Chapman said.
"Our customers have a very disproportionate usage of computers," Chapman said, adding that many DirecTV subscribers are technophiles or fall into the high-income bracket.
In focus groups, DirecTV found that more consumers were willing to accept a DirecTV-branded DSL service than originally expected.
Initially, Hughes will play up Telocity's PC-based communications features, including the ability to connect multiple computers, plus providing firewall and other information security options.
The company is still evaluating whether Hughes will ask DirecTV manufacturers to incorporate a DSL connection into every set-top box. Telocity plans to market a DSL-based home gateway that can connect multiple devices in the home, including advanced DirecTV set-top boxes, computers and other Internet-enabled home appliances.
"The ability to interconnect in an easy, seamless fashion and move media to different areas of the house is the next big thing," Chapman said. "The gateway that Telocity developed allows for home networking and automation."
Cable operators also are looking at extending their services into home networking. At last week's Big Picture conference, Cox Communications Inc. CEO Jim Robbins said managing in-home Internet devices would be "a huge opportunity for someone who has a good relationship with their customers." He added that where Cox markets cable modems against DSL, Cox is able to win 13 of 14 new high-speed data customers.
Chapman said he expects a number of DirecTV retailers would also begin selling the company's DSL service in time for this year's holiday selling season, although he could not yet name the dealers. Because Hughes can offer a "broadband anywhere" solution between DSL and satellite, he added, "that's something retailers can really get behind."
National retail availability of high-speed data services, either by DSL or two-way satellite, should give DirecTV an advantage over cable, Chapman said.
"Consumers can go to retail and not wait for cable to build out these services," he said.
Hughes said that about 94 percent of Telocity's shares had been tendered by close of business Monday, April 2. Shares of Telocity's common stock ceased to exist at close of business Tuesday, April 3.
Hughes is expected to report its total DSL subscriber base at its next earnings call in mid-April.


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Hiking in Sun Valley, Idaho: A Summer Guide
Every spring, Sun Valley transforms from a skiing and snowboarding Mecca into a lush, wildflower-filled valley with miles of hiking and biking trails in the surrounding five mountain ranges. From mellow loops skirting lakes and rivers, to 12,000-foot rocky mountain peaks, there are plenty of hiking trails to please all levels of hikers.
Family-Friendly Adventures
White Cloud Trails
The White Cloud trails are perfect for spring and early summer hikers who want to see the sights without too much vertical. Located across from the Sun Valley Lodge, the White Cloud trails can be done as a 4-mile loop, combining the paved Trail Creek recreation path with dirt trails, or as shorter out-and-back hikes. The upper paths skirt along the White Cloud Golf Course and feature great views of Bald Mountain, the Sun Valley Lodge, and downtown Ketchum. Find a comfortable perch on one of the trail's benches, and enjoy summer's late evening sunsets.
Baker Lake
This family-friendly trail is an easy 3-mile loop from the trailhead. Located at the end of Baker Creek Road, follow the 1.5-mile path to Baker Lake and escape summer's heat or a try your luck at fishing.
Sunny Side Trail
The Sunny Side Trail weaves in and out of the sunny side of Adam's Gulch. In just 2.2-miles, hikers can revel in the purple lupine flowers and scenic vistas. For longer treks, Sunny Side can be combined with Fox, Chocolate, and Oregon Trail loops. Keep in mind that many bikers also love this smooth single track, and you may have to step aside to let them pass.
Dollar Mountain
Dollar's winter scenery is equally matched in the summer. Located close to town, bring a picnic and hike just thirty minutes to the top to watch summer's colorful sunset turn the sky into a kaleidoscope of colors. While the trails on Dollar are not easily found on the maps, there are numerous routes that all more-or-less lead to the top. Starting at the Carol's Mountain Lodge will put you at the base of the hill. Head strait up one of the ski runs or grab one of the meandering trails to the left or right for a longer yet gentler route to the top.
Moderate Mountain Hikes
A great lunchtime jaunt, hiking up Proctor Mountain will raise your heart rate as you ascend three miles and gain nearly 1,000 feet in elevation. A nearby stream provides cool water for dogs during hot summer days, and the top of the mountain serves up a bird's-eye-view of Sun Valley and Bald Mountain. Take a quick detour and visit one of the world's first chairlifts, also viewable from Fairway Road before the trailhead parking.
Taylor Canyon
This 4-mile hike is less traveled than some of the other options within close proximity to town. Accessed via Lake Creek Road, which turns to a dirt road at its terminus, it is best to park in the flat area near the Forest Service Boundary. The heart-pounding climb gives way to vistas well worth the effort, including Bald Mountain and the Boulder Mountains. The Taylor Canyon trail was built in 1986 by the horseback riding community, and is particularly enjoyable during the peak of springtime wildflowers or in the early fall when the changing Aspen leaves light up the valley.
Carbonate
Choose your own adventure just south of Sun Valley, and hike Carbonate Mountain trail in Hailey. Hikers can opt for either the butt-kicking steep ascent that climbs 1,300 feet in 0.9 miles or the casual meandering switchback trail that reaches the top in 2.4 miles. Either way, this local staple provides sweeping vistas from Hailey and views all the way to Bald Mountain in the north.
Titus Lake
Located just off the highway near the top of Galena Pass, a hike to Titus Lake can be easily combined with a day trip to Stanley. The 3-mile round trip hike culminates at the high alpine Titus Lake, and peaks out at over 9,000 feet in altitude. We dare you to jump in for a swim! Hikers wishing to make a longer trek can take the trail back to Galena Lodge for lunch – or a refreshing beverage.
Pioneer Cabin
The hike to Pioneer Cabin is one of the classic bucket list adventures all visitors (or locals) should do, at least once. The 8.5-mile roundtrip hike can be tackled from either the Sun Valley side (Pioneer Creek Trail) or the Hailey side (via Johnstone Creek Trail). From the Sun Valley side, the trail meanders up 23 switchbacks in the shade of the forest. Towards the top, the trail becomes more high alpine and sun exposed, but offers stunning views of Hyndman and Cobb Peaks, and of course, Pioneer Cabin. Built in the 1930s by the Sun Valley Company, the cabin offers a great place to refuel and snap the perfect Instagram shot before tackling the descent.
Bald Mountain
The prized gem of Sun Valley's winter adventures, Bald Mountain is a demanding hike in the summer. Accessed from either the Warm Springs or River Run base areas, this hike climbs in a hurry. On the River Run side, there are two ascending trails, the Baldy Mountain Trail and the River Run Trail. The Baldy Mountain trail is less popular with bikers, and ascends more than 3,000 vertical feet over five miles. After skirting the river and offering great views of town, the hike makes its way to the top of Bald Mountain, rewarding those who make it with 360-degree vistas. Looking for the easy way down? Take the Roundhouse Connector trail to the gondola, which offers downloading during working hours.
Summit Creek to Devil's Bedstead West
This 13-mile trek boasts 4,500 feet of elevation gain and is suitable for experts. Summit Creek trail is accessed from the top of Trail Creek Road, open only in the summer. We recommend an early start with plenty of food and water for a long day in the mountains. The first few miles meander through the forest until mile five, and then the climbing really begins. The last stretch involves scrambling, but the peak's rewarding panoramic views are well worth it. In every direction, the mountains go on for miles, and on a clear day you may even be able to see Bald Mountain.
Greenhorn Trail
A great out-and-back hike, or long loop when combined with other trails, this trail follows the Greenhorn drainage just south of town, peaking out on Mars Ridge with astounding vistas of the Pioneer Range. The trail can be taken nine miles in one direction, or combined with Imperial Gulch for a loop. Hikers will enjoy the ever-changing terrain as they wind through the forest, over open grasslands and rocky ridges, and across fields covered in wildflowers.
Hyndman Peak
Another classic hike, Hyndman Peak, is the highest mountain in the Pioneer Range, gaining 4,000 feet in elevation over 11 miles. The trail follows an old mining road through aspen meadows until it forks at the foot of the impressive Cobb Peak. There, it continues up to a glacial basin between Duncan Ridge and Cobb Peak. From the saddle of Wildhorse Canyon, hikers can summit Hyndman Peak via the Class 3 south east ridge. Post-card worthy views greet hikers from every mile of this classic hike.
The Blaine County Recreation District offers full trail descriptions and trail conditions for these hikes, and many more. Check out their website for a full list of the area's offerings.


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