The Federal Communications Commission is exploring whether to ease limits on foreign ownership of broadcasters, a change that could boost investment in U.S. TV and radio stations, the agency's chairman said.
Relaxing rules that now limit foreign ownership of broadcasters to 25 percent or less is "a goal worth pursuing," FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler said Wednesday in a speech at the National Association of Broadcasters' conference in Las Vegas.
The FCC in 2013 said it would consider allowing non-U.S. citizens to hold more than a 25 percent stake in a broadcaster on a case-by-case basis. That needs to be widened to "affirmatively permit foreign ownership above the 25 percent cap once and for all," Commissioner Michael O'Rielly said in a blog post last month.
Wheeler said benefits for investors may be on both sides of the U.S. border. In addition to encouraging foreign investment in U.S. TV and radio stations, American companies may get "potential reciprocal treatment" in other countries if they also drop curbs on foreign owners.
Companies including Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, CBS Corp., Sinclair Broadcast Group Inc., and the Walt Disney Co., which owns ABC, backed the FCC's 2013 loosening.
The foreign-ownership issue has "entangled" Pandora Media Inc.'s application for a radio station license in South Dakota, O'Rielly said in his blog post. The company has not been able to demonstrate the nationality of its shareholders, he said.


Windstar Cruises has announced the name for the first of its three new, all-suite, power yachts as Star Pride. Star Pride, launching in May of 2014, will spend its first season in Europe offering exciting new voyages which open for bookings on 14th May 2013.
The names of the additional two yachts will be announced in the coming weeks.
The addition of the three new yachts is part of Global Windstar, the line's fleet expansion and new product development initiative. Increasing the size of the fleet enables Windstar to cruise a global set of itineraries to new destinations, such as Wind Spirit's much anticipated return to Tahiti and Star Pride's European voyage collection which will include new places in Europe such as a voyage in the Black Sea, to be announced in May. In the future, Global Windstar will provide opportunities to visit Asia and South America.
The new power yachts are identical, with a guest capacity of 212 each in 106 suites. At 10,000 gross tons, each yacht is 440 feet long with a breadth of 63 feet and six passenger decks. As the three yachts enter the fleet, they will all undergo a Windstar branded renovation. The new power yachts will showcase many signature Windstar experiences, including the line's famous deck barbecue, the open Bridge policy, and the celebrated sail-away party.
Earlier this year, Windstar Cruises announced its owner, Xanterra Parks & Resorts®, reached an agreement to purchase the three power yachts. The expansion doubles the size of Windstar's fleet, making the company the market leader in small-ship cruising with 300 or fewer passengers, with a total of 1,230 berths.
Following the May 2014 introduction of Star Pride, Windstar Cruises will take possession of the additional two yachts in in April and May 2015. These two yachts are scheduled to start sailing in May of 2015 following their dry-dock period.


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Everything You Need To Know About Mambo Content Management System
If you're knowledgeable about the Mambo content management system and other popular open source web software, then you might be acquainted with how to migrate ms-access Mambo pages to use MS-Access because their user interface. Mambo is an open source web application framework that's written in Java, so it makes it rather simple to convert web pages to something that's usable with MS Access. But in case you have never used Access before, then it may be quite intimidating at first, as there are literally thousands of items in Access that are not encouraged or built into the conventional web browser.
When starting out with Access, it is often difficult to understand what all the different buttons and attributes are for. There are in fact several distinct extensions which make it much easier to browse around the internet pages, however there are many confusing items such as the View, Load, and View All dialogue boxes. Should you need more help with navigating the various menus and view boxes on accessibility, there are numerous web guides which may be found on the Microsoft site.
Among the most difficult elements of surfing the web is when attempting to figure out how to view a document from a different web server. For example, if you would like to look at a record from another web site, then you have to download the file from another site and then upload it to your neighborhood computer. Fortunately, accessibility includes a feature called Microsoft Internet Information Services (MIVI) that allows you to define the server to which you need to upload the file. When the document is uploaded, you can then view it in your Microsoft Access workspace. There are four different MOVIE types, which can be program, desktop, internet, and shared.
When the document has been uploaded, you want to learn how to see it in Access. Fortunately, it truly is very easy to configure the way to view file data from some of the different MOVIE kinds. From the"functions" menu, then you will notice an option called"view-file information from any server". Double-click this choice to bring the new URL. In the text box, you will enter the title of the document that you'd like to view.
Despite the fact that there are many diverse ways for you to see file info out of Access, among the easiest ways to do it would be to upload a very simple web page from an outside source, such as a Word file or PDF file saved on a disk or uploaded to your server. When you view file info in entry, the default view alternative is"Web" By clicking this choice, you will be able to open the file in Access in the default web browser.
If you'd rather not have access to the default view feature in Access, you can always select"Content" and then"HTML" in the" Views" list that's at the base of the display. By utilizing the appropriate arrow keys and the text boxes that will appear online page that you wish to exhibit in Access, you will be able to browse through the record which you want to look at. It's also possible to use the arrow keys and the Enter key to move down and up the page. Then you'll have the ability to open the embedded XHTML code in your favourite web browser. Whenever you have completed viewing the web page, you may just close it by clicking the"x" button on the computer keyboard.
If you are a business user that has developed some custom applications which use stored procedures to recover information from an MS Access database, it can be quite helpful to be able to see these procedures in a separate browser. As luck would have it, this is exactly what you can do by placing a taste for accessibility to conserve the contents of this file which you're working on in a separate file. To try it, start the"Types" menu that is at the top-right corner of the primary navigation bar. The remaining side of this menu will contain options which will enable you to save file contents.
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Scarlett Johansson is Latest Celeb to Move to Hudson Valley
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Scarlett Johansson has purchased a $4 million home right here in the Hudson Valley.
It seems as if we're being invaded by Hollywood celebrities. The Hudson Valley has seen an increase in famous residents, as more and more people realize what we've already known; that the Hudson Valley is a great place to live.
James Earl Jones started the trend years ago, taking up residence in Pawling. Other celebrities, including Liam Neeson, Robert DeNiro, Paul Rudd and Mark Ruffalo, have since made our the Hudson Valley their home as well. In fact, Mark Ruffalo and his wife have even become local business owners, opening up their own local shop.
The Hudson Valley Shop You Didn't Know Was Owned by Mark Ruffalo
Well, now you can add Scarlett Johansson to the list of big-name celebrities who have decided to plant some roots in the Hudson Valley. According to the New York Post, the Hollywood actress has just purchased a $4 Million dollar home overlooking the Hudson River in Rockland County.
The 4,000-square-foot house sits on a beautifully manicured .79 acres of land near Palisades. The home was designed by architect Eric Gugler, who was also hired by FDR to draw up plans for the West Wing of the White House.
Rockland County residents should keep their eyes open for not just Johansson, but also her boyfriend Colin Jost. The Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update correspondent has been dating Johansson for over a year.
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Night data plan is not usually taken by most people but if you have a large file or video to download, Night data plan could be best for you. One of the reasons for this is that network used to be stronger in the night coupled with the fact that the plan is cheaper than the normal tariff plan.
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Q: Faster database access by using Laravel's Eloquent or query builder I'm new in Laravel and I'm a little confused because some say that it's faster for the database access to use Query Builder instead of Eloquent ORM.
Is there a difference from the access speed point of view, or are there some arguments that specify a method is better than the other?
Or it's just a matter of what suits best your project.
Thanks

A: Usually you won't notice much of an impact when working on local projects. It really depends on the size of your DB. Eloquent allows you to take advantage of Laravel's ActiveRecord implementation, which basically means that it's easier to update the model's timestamps and so forth.

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DARPA Building Robots With 'Real' Brains
Posted by Magnus Olsson on April 13, 2013
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Mindcomputers, Tech News.	Tagged: artificial intelligence, brainchip, computers, darpa, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, machines, physical intelligence, robot, robotics, scientists.	1 Comment
Building Robots With 'Real' Brains
By Sandra I. Erwin
The next frontier for the robotics industry is to build machines that think like humans. Scientists have pursued that elusive goal for decades, and they believe they are now just inches away from the finish line.
A Pentagon-funded team of researchers has constructed a tiny machine that would allow robots to act independently. Unlike traditional artificial intelligence systems that rely on conventional computer programming, this one "looks and 'thinks' like a human brain," said James K. Gimzewski, professor of chemistry at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Gimsewski is a member of the team that has been working under sponsorship of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency on a program called "physical intelligence." This technology could be the secret to making robots that are truly autonomous, Gimzewski said during a conference call hosted by Technolink, a Los Angeles-based industry group.
This project does not use standard robot hardware with integrated circuitry, he said. The device that his team constructed is capable, without being programmed like a traditional robot, of performing actions similar to humans, Gimzewski said.
Participants in this project include Malibu-based HRL (formerly Hughes Research Laborary) and the University of California at Berkeley's Freeman Laboratory for Nonlinear Neurodynamics. The latter is named after Walter J. Freeman, who has been working for 50 years on a mathematical model of the brain that is based on electroencephalography data. EEG is the recording of electrical activity in the brain.
What sets this new device apart from any others is that it has nano-scale interconnected wires that perform billions of connections like a human brain, and is capable of remembering information, Gimzewski said. Each connection is a synthetic synapse. A synapse is what allows a neuron to pass an electric or chemical signal to another cell. Because its structure is so complex, most artificial intelligence projects so far have been unable to replicate it.
A "physical intelligence" device would not require a human controller the way a robot does, said Gimzewski. The applications of this technology for the military would be far reaching, he said. An aircraft, for example, would be able to learn and explore the terrain and work its way through the environment without human intervention, he said. These machines would be able to process information in ways that would be unimaginable with current computers.
Artificial intelligence research over the past five decades has not been able to generate human-like reasoning or cognitive functions, said Gimzewski. DARPA's program is the most ambitious he has seen to date. "It's an off-the-wall approach," he added.
Studies of the brain have shown that one of its key traits is self-organization. "That seems to be a prerequisite for autonomous behavior," he said. "Rather than move information from memory to processor, like conventional computers, this device processes information in a totally new way." This could represent a revolutionary breakthrough in robotic systems, said Gimzewski.
It is not clear, however, that the Pentagon is ready to adopt this technology for weapon systems. The Obama administration's use of drones in "targeted killings" of terrorist suspects has provoked a backlash and prompted the Pentagon to issue new rules for the use of robotic weapons. "Autonomous and semi-autonomous weapon systems shall be designed to allow commanders and operators to exercise appropriate levels of human judgment over the use of force," said a Nov. 2012 Defense Department policy statement. Autonomous weapons, the document said, must "complete engagements in a timeframe consistent with commander and operator intentions and, if unable to do so, [must] terminate engagements or seek additional human operator input before continuing the engagement."
Original: http://www.nationaldefensemagazine.org/blog/Lists/Posts/Post.aspx?ID=1101
Computers versus Brains
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Mindcomputers, Tech News.	Tagged: artificial intelligence, Blue Gene, brain, brain's neurons, computer scientists, Computerbrain, computers, fastest supercomputers, ibm, machines, neurons, scientific american, scientists, supercomputers, synapses, Technology.	Leave a comment
For decades computer scientists have strived to build machines that can calculate faster than the human brain and store more information. The contraptions have won. The world's most powerful supercomputer, the K from Fujitsu, computes four times faster and holds 10 times as much data. And of course, many more bits are coursing through the Internet at any moment.
Yet the Internet's servers worldwide would fill a small city, and the K sucks up enough electricity to power 10,000 homes. The incredibly efficient brain consumes less juice than a dim lightbulb and fits nicely inside our head.
Biology does a lot with a little: the human genome, which grows our body and directs us through years of complex life, requires less data than a laptop operating system. Even a cat's brain smokes the newest iPad—1,000 times more data storage and a million times quicker to act on it.
By Mark Fischetti http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=computers-vs-brains
IBM Simulates 4.5 percent of the Human Brain, and All of the Cat Brain
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By Mark Fischetti
Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world cannot match the overall processing power of the brain. And they are nowhere near as compact or energy efficient.
Nevertheless, IBM is trying to simulate the human brain with its own cutting-edge supercomputer, called Blue Gene. For the simulation, it used 147,456 processors working in parallel with one another. IBM researchers say each processor is roughly equivalent to the one found in a personal computer, with one gigabyte of working memory.
So configured, Blue Gene simulated 4.5 percent of the brain's neurons and the connections among them called synapses—that's about one billion neurons and 10 trillion synapses. In total, the brain has roughly 20 billion neurons and 200 trillion synapses.
IBM describes the work in an intriguing paper (pdf) that compares various animal simulations done by its cognitive computing research group in Almaden, Calif. The group has managed to completely simulate the brain of a mouse (512 processors), rat (2,048) and cat (24,576). To rival the cortex inside your head, IBM predicts it will need to hook up 880,000 processors, which it hopes to achieve by 2019.
Read more about Computers vs. Brains in the issue of Scientific American.
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal
Posted in: Artificial Intelligence, Mindcomputers.	Tagged: artificial intelligence, calculations, computers, ethical decisions, future of life, Immortal, immortality, intelligences, intelligent, Ray Kurzweil, science, smarter-than-human, SYNTHETIC TELEPATHY, the Singularity, time magazine.	1 Comment
Time Magazine By Lev Grossman
Singularity: How Scared Should We Be?
Top 10 Man vs. Machine Moments
On Feb. 15, 1965, a diffident but self-possessed high school student named Raymond Kurzweil appeared as a guest on a game show called I've Got a Secret. He was introduced by the host, Steve Allen, then he played a short musical composition on a piano. The idea was that Kurzweil was hiding an unusual fact and the panelists — they included a comedian and a former Miss America — had to guess what it was.
On the show (see the clipon YouTube), the beauty queen did a good job of grilling Kurzweil, but the comedian got the win: the music was composed by a computer. Kurzweil got $200.
(Watch TIME's video "Singularity: How Scared Should We Be?")
Kurzweil then demonstrated the computer, which he built himself — a desk-size affair with loudly clacking relays, hooked up to a typewriter. The panelists were pretty blasé about it; they were more impressed by Kurzweil's age than by anything he'd actually done. They were ready to move on to Mrs. Chester Loney of Rough and Ready, Calif., whose secret was that she'd been President Lyndon Johnson's first-grade teacher.
But Kurzweil would spend much of the rest of his career working out what his demonstration meant. Creating a work of art is one of those activities we reserve for humans and humans only. It's an act of self-expression; you're not supposed to be able to do it if you don't have a self. To see creativity, the exclusive domain of humans, usurped by a computer built by a 17-year-old is to watch a line blur that cannot be unblurred, the line between organic intelligence and artificial intelligence.
That was Kurzweil's real secret, and back in 1965 nobody guessed it. Maybe not even him, not yet. But now, 46 years later, Kurzweil believes that we're approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity — our bodies, our minds, our civilization — will be completely and irreversibly transformed. He believes that this moment is not only inevitable but imminent. According to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 35 years away.
(See the best inventions of 2010.)
Computers are getting faster. Everybody knows that. Also, computers are getting faster faster — that is, the rate at which they're getting faster is increasing.
True? True.
So if computers are getting so much faster, so incredibly fast, there might conceivably come a moment when they are capable of something comparable to human intelligence. Artificial intelligence. All that horsepower could be put in the service of emulating whatever it is our brains are doing when they create consciousness — not just doing arithmetic very quickly or composing piano music but also driving cars, writing books, making ethical decisions, appreciating fancy paintings, making witty observations at cocktail parties.
If you can swallow that idea, and Kurzweil and a lot of other very smart people can, then all bets are off. From that point on, there's no reason to think computers would stop getting more powerful. They would keep on developing until they were far more intelligent than we are. Their rate of development would also continue to increase, because they would take over their own development from their slower-thinking human creators. Imagine a computer scientist that was itself a super-intelligent computer. It would work incredibly quickly. It could draw on huge amounts of data effortlessly. It wouldn't even take breaks to play Farmville.
Probably. It's impossible to predict the behavior of these smarter-than-human intelligences with which (with whom?) we might one day share the planet, because if you could, you'd be as smart as they would be. But there are a lot of theories about it. Maybe we'll merge with them to become super-intelligent cyborgs, using computers to extend our intellectual abilities the same way that cars and planes extend our physical abilities. Maybe the artificial intelligences will help us treat the effects of old age and prolong our life spans indefinitely. Maybe we'll scan our consciousnesses into computers and live inside them as software, forever, virtually. Maybe the computers will turn on humanity and annihilate us. The one thing all these theories have in common is the transformation of our species into something that is no longer recognizable as such to humanity circa 2011. This transformation has a name: the Singularity.
The difficult thing to keep sight of when you're talking about the Singularity is that even though it sounds like science fiction, it isn't, no more than a weather forecast is science fiction. It's not a fringe idea; it's a serious hypothesis about the future of life on Earth. There's an intellectual gag reflex that kicks in anytime you try to swallow an idea that involves super-intelligent immortal cyborgs, but suppress it if you can, because while the Singularity appears to be, on the face of it, preposterous, it's an idea that rewards sober, careful evaluation.
See pictures of cinema's most memorable robots.
From TIME's archives: "Can Machines Think?"
See TIME's special report on gadgets, then and now.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2048299,00.html#ixzz2B3ulw8km


Two people were shot at a private event at Ballpark Village, across from Busch Stadium, in downtown St. Louis.
According to police, gun shots were fired after a disagreement took place. The shooter escaped, and police did not immediately have a description.
Both victims were taken to the hospital. According to police, one was unresponsive after being shot in the head. The other was hit in the thigh.
An update to the story. KMOV-TV is reporting one of the shooting victims has died.
The St. Louis Cardinals and Cordish Company released a joint statement.
The Cardinals were in Pittsburgh on Sunday and return to Busch Stadium on Tuesday to start a series with the Chicago White Sox.


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Another Schwarzenegger Idea Runs Dry
Tim Cavanaugh | 8.10.2010 6:38 PM
Proposition 18, a ballot initiative that would have put California taxpayers on the hook for an additional $11 billion in water bonds, has been withdrawn by the state legislature.
This effectively ends another of the many dreams Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger pursued during his tenure. The Gubernator came into office with bold visions for permanently ending the state's water crisis, and he has returned to this theme through both his terms. The California Water Plan 2005 Update, for example, envisioned a strategic realignment of water practices stretching through 2030, large investments in storage, plans for desalination and other ambitious projects. Post-Hurricane Katrina attention on the poor state of Central Valley levees helped boost the governor's plans for an upgrade, and Schwarzenegger has proposed grand and controversial projects such as a peripheral canal for the Sacramento Delta.
In 2006 California voters approved more than $5 billion in new flood control and water bonds. These funds ended up leaking into unrelated projects or getting absorbed into operating costs. Californians have a long history of largesse with respect to water projects, yet the money always ends up evaporating. As of right now, there has been no upgrade to the levees, the 2030 plan remains a pipe dream, and essentially none of the governor's water plans have come to pass.
Now Prop. 18 supporters have opted to remove the initiative from the ballot and bring it back in 2012—when, they hope, the state will not be facing a nearly $20 billion deficit and voters will be feeling more expansive. There's reason to doubt that, but even if it passed in two years, the initiative would be far short of Schwarzenegger's plan and take effect long after he has left office.
It was probably a bad idea, in a state whose water supply depends directly on mountain runoff, to appoint a man named Les Snow as director of Water Resources. But the water problem is vast and complicated, involving resource and rights questions, Colorado River water sharing arrangements with other states and Mexico, and the hard fact that much of the state is a desert. Some of the heat has gone out of this issue thanks to slowing population growth and a few decent years of rainfall. But this has been another matter in which Schwarzenegger was doing all the things that voters supposedly wanted—thinking big, planning for the long term, using his magnetic leadership to solve complex, longstanding problems. And yet in the end nothing came of it.
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Old Mexican
In 2006 California voters approved more than $5 billion in new flood control and water bonds. These funds ended up leaking into unrelated projects or getting absorbed into operating costs.
That's the normal fate of many a government project – the funds end up in someone else's pocket.
Why no one goes to jail for shit like this is beyond me.
Hugh Akston
What, the bad water puns? Give a guy a break.
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It was probably a bad idea, in a state whose water supply depends directly on mountain runoff, to appoint a man named Les Snow as director of Water Resources
Internet Journolistic GOLD!
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It was probably a bad idea, in a state whose water supply depends directly on mountain runoff, to appoint a man named Les Snow as director of Water Resources.
Now if they could only find a man named Les Cash to be the chief state economist…
Just as I put my mouse over the picture, I said to myself, "Tim better…YES!"
What killed the dinosaurs? The Ice Age!
Arnold was the best part of that movie.
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Dick Les is in charge of ghostbusting.
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James Anderson Merritt
"Some of the heat has gone out of this issue thanks to slowing population growth and a few decent years of rainfall."
"Slowing population growth," check. "Few decent years of rainfall," yet to be seen. THIS year (rain year starting 2009) was almost exactly average in my part of central coast California (101%), for example, after several years of sub-par rainfall (2008: 71%; 2007: 81%; and 2006: 54%). The last really good stretch of rainfall came in 2004-5 and 2005-6, with 138% and 141%, respectively, and THAT followed several dry-to-normal years, in which annual rainfall was between 5-10% below average.
The reason the "heat" has gone out of the issue has less to do with the rainfall statistics, I think, and more to do with the population's poor (or nonexistent) memory, exacerbated by erroneous and unsubstantiated media declarations (including, apparently, this Reason posting). Here in Santa Cruz, CA, for instance, I got used to seeing and hearing that 2009-10 was an "unusually wet" year, when my longtimer's memory and longstanding rainfall spreadsheet both agreed that it was only "normal." The people in the media who (not bothering to check facts, apparently) dubbed this a "wet" year were readily believed by those who didn't remember (or, being transplants to the State or the region, had no memory at all of) either normal rainfall, or abnormally heavy rainfall (e.g., during the "205%" year we had in 1997-8).
In a way, I'm sorry that the Governator's water-management ambitions will never be realized during his term, if ever. He did seem to have his heart in the right place in this case — as in so many others, actually — even if his proposed approach wasn't necessarily something I personally would have endorsed. It's just sad that an administration that came in with such a loud noise and hope for common-sense, populist reforms, has been blocked, bluffed, and distracted into what looks an awful lot like impotence.
Steve Chaos
Somebody needs to get a Les Wynan joke in here, stat.
August.11.2010 at 10:28 am
Wait, there is no Councilman Les Wynan.
prolefeed
Or, they could solve the water "shortage" at no cost at all, by pricing all the water at market costs, so low-value uses like alfalfa growing stops and frees up the water for higher uses.
August.11.2010 at 6:49 am
using prices to balace supply and demand? what kind of nutjob are you?
The state is ungovernable.
Picking a different bus driver won't help either–the steering doesn't work.
There are only two faint glimmers of hope…
1) Things get so bad that reality sets in and makes the politicians deal with reality.
2) Split the state and hope things get better in the realignment.
I think we're already way past any hope of reality making the pols wise up, so let's look at splitting the state already.
There's no reason why Los Angeles, Orange County, The Inland Empire and San Diego should have to be beholden to what are essentially the interests of Oregon. Hey NorCal, go be Oregon if want to, and leave the rest of us in the land of Reagan and Nixon alone.
Seriously, the Czech Republic and Slovakia did it, why can't we do it too?
It may sound pie in the sky, but if you look at the political mess we've been in going back to at least Pete Wilson's time in office, breaking up sounds a lot more realistic than straightening out this Gordian knot.
So, maybe we'd fare better in a reshuffle. It's bad enough trying to assuage the interests of both Los Angeles and Orange County–why the they should both have to assuage the interests of San Francisco and the farming interests up north is beyond me.
Just let the counties north of the grapevine vote on which way they wanna go, and let's just call it quits. We're destroying ourselves here, and it isn't about to get any better any time soon. Even the economic realities aren't making things any better.
Imagine if Utah and Nevada were in the same state. Mormons and Casino interests–in the same state. Northern California and Southern California are worse than that in some ways. So, let's reshuffle the deck already. …for goodness' sake.
P.S. The Giants suck.
You'll be singing a different tune after this weekend, pal. The Fraudres are gonna crash and burn.
The interests of Oregon? What are blathering about? Which part of Oregon?
There is something called the State of Jefferson, though. Northern California (the real Northern California) and Southern Oregon made a half-assed attempt to create their own state back in 1941 because the lousy state roads were impeding resource development. But the revolt fizzled out when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor a week later. Japan also bombed the State of Jefferson's coastline a year later. I guess they didn't like the idea of the State of Jefferson. Bastards.
Pretty much, all of it.
Although Washington State might be a better comparison…
They even have the winery business like NorCal, the high tech industry has a big presence in both places, and Metro Seattle has some political sensibilities like San Francisco…especially the environmentalism.
The environmentally minded inflicting themselves on the pristine streams and forests of Northern California; you have any idea how ridiculous it is when they inflict that crap on San Bernadino County?
I know…San Bernardino County has a few mountains and forests too–I'm talking about one polity inflicting itself on another. Really, why should the people of Victorville and Fontana have to compromise with the people of San Francisco? It's a pointless exercise, and it's at the root of California's political problems.
P.S. The Bay area has two crappy baseball teams where Seattle only has one, but that's beside the point too. Things don't have to be alike in every way in order to be useful for comparison purposes, and there are a lot of ways that NorCal is more like Oregon and Washington State than it is like SoCal.
Yes, the NorCal environmental ethos can be insufferable, but take a look at the Wildlands Conservancy, headquartered in Oak Glen, CA in San Bernadino County. There's all this crazy environmental brouhaha going down in the Mojave Desert at the moment.
A Bay Area headquarted (Israeli owned) solar energy company wanted to build some hella solar arrays down yonder in the Mojave — you know, to reduce our carbon footprint and stuff. But they were smacked down by the greenies in San Bernadino and the Dept. of Interior. The greens said it was going to kill off the desert tortoise populations. Mind you, the project was going to affect less than %2 of the total land holdings
if I can remember correctly. This is why California is so sweet. It's hilarious. Aren't we pushing for alternative energy? Who cares about the turtles? Turtles are messed up in the head; they live in a shell, for Christ's sake.
But I think you might be on to something about the Washington State tech industry and NorCal. And I think it might be the only hope for our dear failed states of California and Mexico and the world. Paul Allen of Microsoft recently built the Allen Telescope Array in Shasta County, and they've been looking for extraterrestrial mofos out there in the firmament. Hopefully, ET will send gold and blueprints for a bigger and better Disneyland.
P.S. NorCal semi-pro collegiate summer baseball is where it's at. Humboldt Crabs and Colt .45s, dude. There's some good college talent right up close.
Hmmm, it looks like solar project in San Bernadino County is getting the green light. And it looks like it's not a typical solar array; the panels are mirrors that direct the sunlight to a solar water boiler, and the steam generates energy.
But where are they going to get the water for the boiler? Certainly not from Les Snow. Ehh.
Imagine if Utah and Nevada were in the same state. Mormons and Casino interests–in the same state.
Actually, much of Nevada north of Vegas is Mormon country. And, ironically, a lot of Mormons live and work in Vegas because the casinos want honest employees they can trust to not rip them off.
So, make Vegas its own state, and let the rest merge with Utah, and you'd have a political division that makes more sense.
All gambling is illegal in Utah.
There may be a lot of Mormons in Nevada, but it isn't like Utah.
Sorry…quoted line from the wrong comment, but the point still stands.
I've always thought San Francisco was the Bratislava of the West Coast….
There's no reason why Los Angeles, Orange County, The Inland Empire and San Diego should have to be beholden to what are essentially the interests of Oregon.
You guys need our water. So, there!
In 2006 California voters approved more than $5 billion in new flood control and water bonds. These funds ended up leaking into unrelated projects or getting absorbed into operating costs. Californians have a long history of largesse with respect to water projects, yet the money always ends up evaporating. As of right now, there has been no upgrade to the levees, the 2030 plan remains a pipe dream, and essentially none of the governor's water plans have come to pass.
Tim, you magnificent bastard.
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Northern California needs to take its water back from southern Cali and turn LA back into a desert.
Water rights have a complicated history.
Thankfully, that's something that's still generally governed by courts and property rights. If the government can do something to create more water (like infrastructure projects), that might not be such an evil idea–hell, that's one of the few things government has been useful for over the ages (see ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus valley, et. al. for references.)
It's hard to imagine how awful the world would be if things like water rights could be turned off and on by state governments rather than negotiated and bought and sold by property owners. …on second thought, it would probably look a lot like California's budget mess, just imagine the water is money–where people who need and use the water efficiently are squeezed out and government and it's interests use and squander it with little accountability…
…the last thing we need is government interfering with Southern California's water supply. I'm sure you enjoy your hatred of Southern California, but believe it or not, that kind of hatred probably doesn't translate into sound public policy.
P.S. Your favorite baseball team sucks.
Once that high speed rail is in place they'll have water virtually on-demand.
At some point, people are going to realize that they reason they don't have any water is that they have wasted tens of billions on various boondoggles, and trillions on bloated pub-sec employee compensation.
You need money to get water in CA? You've got plenty. You just need to prioritize.
Again, to a large extent, Southern California's interests in these areas are being squeezed by Northern California's political sensibilities.
Well, that's fucked. Fixing up our Central Valley water infrastructure is something the California government should be doing.
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It was probably a bad idea, in a state whose water supply depends directly on mountain runoff.


New energy minister Angus Taylor has launched a new and extraordinary attack against wind and solar, saying they cause "de-industrialisation" and claiming that Labor's 45 per cent emissions reduction target would send a "wrecking ball" through the Australian economy.
The comments came in an interview on Sky News on Sunday night, and little more than a week after Taylor told radio stock jock Alan Jones that there was already "too much" wind and solar in the grid.
On Sunday, he went even further: Asked by Sky's Chris Kenny what he thought of Labor leader Bill Shorten's comment that Labor was still thinking about adopting some aspects of the National Energy Guarantee, now dumped by the Coalition government, Taylor trotted out all the usual diatribe about wind and solar. …..
The fact that the ring wingers Jones and Kenny hold such extreme and ill-informed views about climate and energy is well known, and not of great consequence.
But the fact that the country's energy minister goes on to their programs and agrees with them, despite all the evidence to the contrary, is deeply troubling – for investors and consumers ……..
The notion of "de-instrialisation" will be news to the likes of UK billionaire Sanjeev Gupta, and the new state Liberal government. Gupta has rescued and is planning to expand the steelworks at Whyalla, based around a huge investment in solar and storage – a plan he intends to repeat with his steel operations in Victoria and NSW.
Half a dozen other major energy users have also signed up with Gupta's Simec Zen Energy for cheaper electricity delivered largely by renewables and storage, and more are set to follow. Zinc refiner Sun Metals, brewer CUB, confectionary maker Mars, and vegetable grower Nectar Farms are all turning to wind and solar, as are many other companies.
The South Australia Liberal government has also embraced the state's high renewables share, and islifting its commitment to battery storage, both large and small. A plan for $100 million in household grants has already had an industrial pay-off, with German battery giant Sonnen to build a manufacturing plant in the old GM Holden factory in Elizabeth.
And why not? As we pointed out last week, South Australia stands to benefits in multiple ways from its commitment to renewables – in emissions, prices and investment. AEMO seems comfortable with the fact that the state is heading towards 73 per cent renewables by 2021 and equivalent to 100 per cent by 2025.
Taylor's antipathy to "intermittent" generation is well known, and long standing, and in the interview with Kenny he didn't stop there, trotting out a series of claims that are in direct contradiction to the findings of institutions such as the Energy Security Board, the ACCC, the Australian Energy Market Commission and The Australian Energy Market Operator.
That's not true at all. AEMO's Integrated System Plan contemplates that existing targets of the state governments, and Labor's nation-wide target, and finds no issues. Yes, some extra investment in networks will be needed, along with other measures such as the need to orchestrate distributed energy sources, but it sees no threats such as the lights going out.
In fact, the AEMO report highlights the fact that the biggest shift from what Taylor likes to call "fair dinkum" baseload power towards wind and solar and storage will be in NSW – the one state without a renewable energy target. That's because its coal generators are old, expensive and dirty, and nearly all will need replacing in coming decades.
Nor does AEMO's or the ESB's 10 year outlook see any prospect of the reliability obligation – which is still in the works – being triggered.
Even if the definition of reliability is changed, to address the concern raised from exceptional and extended heat-waves, and the fear that country's existing coal and gas generators will be unable to cope, the answer to that issue is not more "baseload", but more dispatchable generation.
Taylor describes himself as the minister for getting prices down, but as the Energy Security Board, and any number of analysts, including most recently the Australia Institute, have pointed out, price falls in the next couple of years will be delivered by the influx of renewables from the renewable energy target.
Kenny made the baseless claim that renewables had been the primary cause of Australia's electricity price rises. Taylor readily agreed. Even the ACCC report notes that by far the biggest contributor was the increase in network prices, following closely by wholesale prices driven mostly by the lack of competition and a jump in gas prices…….
Many of Taylor's other claims are full of hot air.
Taylor says the government will ensure that new "dispatchable" generation is built, but a new report from S&P says that the lack of any coherent policy under this government will be the biggest factor against building new capacity.
It was interesting to note that Taylor said it may be months before an outline of the government plans to underwrite "new 24-hour baseload" would be unveiled. That's an indication of the difficulties ahead. To achieve his desired outcome, would go against engineering and economic sense, and it won't be in place before the next poll.


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Will Sudan be allowed to try to end the Tigray war by mediation?
August 5, 2021 Martin Plaut Ethiopia, News, Tigray
The idea of the Sudanese Prime Minister, Abdallah Hamdok might mediate to end the Tigray war is to be welcomed. [See story below]
But it has to be recalled that mediation has been attempted in the past. Indeed, the African Union tried to get talks going less than three weeks after the conflict began on 4 November 2020.
In November 2020 the chair of the African Union, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, agreed to appoint three former African heads of state as mediators. He did so after discussions with the Ethiopian President, Sahle-Work Zewde.
This statement, carried on 21 November, made clear what was agreed.
The current African Union Chair and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has appointed three African "distinguished Statespersons": Joaquim Chissano, former President of the Republic of Mozambique; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, former President of the Republic of Liberia; , former President of the Republic of South Africa – as Special Envoys of the African Union to help to mediate between "the parties to conflict" in Ethiopia, a statement released by the office of the AU Chairperson said.
The statement was released after talks between President Sahle-Work Zewde and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa.
President Sahle-Work traveled to South Africa today in "her capacity as Special Envoy of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed."
Sadly, this agreement was all too soon repudiated. Mediation was blocked by Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed almost as soon as it was announced.
This was underlined in an official Tweet.
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Kgalema Motlanthe and Joaquim Chissano were allowed to visit Addis Ababa, but were not permitted to travel to Tigray to take up their mission.
One has to ask why PM Hamdock has apparently been given the green light to mediate, when the African Union mediators were not.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Sudan's Hamdok to mediate Tigray conflict
August 4, 2021 (KHARTOUM) – Sudan is preparing to launch a mediation between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), with the support of the international community.
The Sudan Tribune learned that Prime Minister Abdallah Hamdok is in contact with the Ethiopian government and the TPLF leaders to bring the two parties to the negotiating table to discuss a peaceful solution and allow humanitarian aid to civilians.
Hamdok, also, informed of his initiative the heads of the East African bloc IGAD, Eritrea and a number of friendly Western countries, including France and the United States of America.
Sudan is increasingly concerned about the nine-month-long escalating conflict in Ethiopia as the war zones in the Tigray and Amhara regions border the country and refugees continue pouring into Sudan.
Officials in Khartoum further say that this conflict might ignite other hotspots in the multiethnic country pointing to the western Benishangul-Gumuz region which is also bordering Sudan as was the case in December 2020.
USAID head Samantha Power, on Tuesday, said they support the Sudanese initiative to resolve the Tigray conflict.
"We want to support Sudan's transformation from a source of instability to a partner in resolving the challenges of a volatile region, most urgently by working together to address the conflict in Ethiopia, to which there is no military solution," Power said in a lecture at the University of Khartoum.
On 31 July, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke with Hamdok and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed where he expressed his concern about the continued fighting in the country and called to allow unfettered humanitarian assistance to the needy.
"The President also stressed that the development of the situation required the negotiation of a break in hostilities and the opening of political dialogue between the belligerents, with respect for the integrity and unity of Ethiopia," reads a statement released by the French presidency.
For his part, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken discussed Wednesday with Hamdok the expansion of fighting in the Amhara and Afar regions of Ethiopia, and the need for a negotiated solution.
"Secretary Blinken and PM Hamdok agreed to encourage all parties to enter negotiations toward a ceasefire, to engage in an inclusive political dialogue to preserve the unity and integrity of the Ethiopian state, and to allow full humanitarian access to those in need," said the State Department.
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With greenlights from USA, France &AU, Sudan mediation between Gov't of Tigray & Ethiopia has a chance to succeed. It can use a carrot and stick approach. Tigray needs a safe route for humanitarian aids to its ppl. Ethiopia wants border disputes with Sudan resolved. Amharas farmers may want to have usage right in Alfashqa fertile land. Sudan has also a vested interest in the positive outcone of its mediation.It is a complex issue that requires diplomatic & legal skills. TPLF's considered as Terrorist Party by Ethiopia. Abiy's govt is considered as an illegitimate By Tigray Elected Government. By involving US, EU, and AU, whether or not it succeeds, Sudan's mediation efforts may be the last chance to spare Ethiopia from violent disintegration.


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Q: How to force rails to create links to the www subdomain? I have a partners subdomain which serves content using a controller.
The urls are like: http://partners.example.com/...
Is there a way I can force all _path and _url functions to return links to the root www subdomain? Since the resources my links refer to are not on the subdomain itself and only on the root domain (and I don't want to serve duplicates).

A: In Rails 3.1, it can be done with:
resource_url(:subdomain => 'www')

But, the helper resource_path does not accept the subdmain key.

A: This is similar to my answer here: How to automatically set all links to nofollow in Rails
Instead of no-following (like in my other answer), you could:
def link_to(name, options = {}, html_options = {})
  html_options.merge!(:host => with_subdomain("www"))
  super(name, options, html_options)
end

def with_subdomain(subdomain)
  subdomain = (subdomain || "")
  subdomain += "." unless subdomain.empty?
  [subdomain, request.domain, request.port_string].join
end

with_subdomain method is from http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3

A: I'd set the default_url_options to include your main host:
ActionController::Base.default_url_options = {:host => '...'}

The options you pass to link_to will override these but, as the name suggests, this allows you to provide default values.

A: There is an excellent rails cast on this subject here:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/221-subdomains-in-rails-3
Your question was too vague without actual code snippets of your controller requests.
This should get you your answer though.  Just customize to your needs.


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Home Lead New Villarreal coach dies in Spain
New Villarreal coach dies in Spain
Eloise Horsfield
14 Jun, 2012 @ 09:24
THE new coach of football team Villarreal has died 24 hours after taking the job.
Manuel Preciado, 54, suffered a heart attack just hours after agreeing to join the relegated side, known as the Yellow Submarine.
The former Sporting Gijon coach had been out of work since his sacking in January, following six years at the club.
Preciado had suffered a double tragedy in the last decade after his wife died from cancer in 2002 and his 15-year-old son was killed in a car accident last year.
One of the highlights of his time at Gijon came in April 2011, when his team ended Jose Mourinho's nine-year unbeaten home league record when they defeated Real Madrid.
Mourinho was among the first to pay tribute to Preciado, saying: "Manolo was always an honourable opponent, who I got to know well when he came to visit us in Madrid.
"He had everything that I like in a person and in sportsmen: character, openness and the courage to fight against blows.
"My memory of him will be heartfelt and permanent."
Former Arsenal star Cesc Fabregas added on Twitter: "I can't believe the bad news I just woke up with. Hugs for the family of Manolo Preciado. RIP my friend."
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Country risk analysts saw increased risk in all of the world's main economic/geographical regions during the first six months of 2012, according to the Q2 2012 results of Euromoney's Country Risk Survey.
Sentiment deteriorated not only in Europe – led by the eurozone – but also in Africa, Central and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and – to a lesser extent – North America, Latin America and Asia. In total, 108 countries out of the 186 in the survey became riskier during the first half of 2012.
In the latest results of Euromoney's Country Risk Survey, participating economists and country risk analysts registered further deterioration in perceptions of sovereign risk across all main global regions this year. In total, 108 of the 186 countries in the survey have become riskier in the first half of the year (ie have deteriorating ECR scores), with just 56 becoming safer (with improving scores; see map).
The eurozone saw the largest deterioration of any region, falling by an average of 1.8 points in the survey. However, the fall was more moderate than the 4.3 point-drop the region experienced during the second half of 2011.
Within the G10, seven countries (Italy, France, the Netherlands, Japan, UK, US and Canada) have seen increased risk during the last six months. Three countries (Sweden, Switzerland and Belgium) have seen an improvement in their risk profiles during the period, underpinned by amelioration in their survey assessments for economic risk. Switzerland remains the safest G10 sovereign, with a score of 88.8, second only to Norway – the safest sovereign in the ECR survey.
Italy remains the riskiest G10 sovereign (on 58.9 points). Italy's ECR score is in free fall, losing a further 4.3 points since January – after a deterioration of 7.4 points in H2 2011 – as economists' confidence in the sovereign's ability to withstand the eurozone crisis has further diminished.
Other peripheral eurozone countries (not only Spain, Portugal and Ireland, but also Cyprus, Estonia, Malta and Slovenia) have all succumbed to increased risk (lower ECR scores) during the period. Greece has seen its score improve marginally after the recent elections, but it remains far adrift of other euro participants on a score of 34.4, half the eurozone average.
More than 400 economists and country risk experts from a range of financial and other institutions take part in Euromoney's country risk survey. They evaluate the risks faced by international investors in more than 180 markets, scoring countries across a range of political, economic and structural criteria.
The US and Canada have exhibited more resilience than their European G10 counterparts, but for contrasting reasons. The US score has been negatively affected by declining assessment by economists in the survey's political component, in the run-up to the presidential election in November. The US retains a strong and stable overall political assessment, but there is some anxiety creeping into contributors' perceptions about the future direction of policy in light of the uncertain outcome. For Canada, the economy is more of a concern.
The Brics, CEE and Western Europe regions have also seen substantial downgrades in their sovereign risk outlook from economists, with each deteriorating by more than one point out of 100 since the start of 2012.
The country with the largest ECR score shift is conflict-riven Syria, a fall of 6.8 points to 19.4.
Seven of the 20 countries that have declined the most in ECR's rankings are from sub-Saharan Africa. Three more (Egypt, Syria and Lebanon) are based in the Middle East/North Africa and three (Hungary, Slovenia and Cyprus) are from Central and Eastern Europe. Sri Lanka is Asia's biggest faller.
Led by Sri Lanka, the majority of sovereigns in Asia succumbed to increased risk during the first half of 2012 – driven by a mix of economic, political and structural concerns, and in particular the increased risks enveloping the region's powerhouses: India and China. Confidence in Brunei, Thailand and one or two countries in the Caucasus has improved nevertheless.
With an average ECR score of 47.3, the Central and Eastern Europe region is still safer than Latin America (averaging 45.1), but the two regions appear to be on a convergence path, with their points-differential narrowing from 3.1 in January to just 2.3, as confidence in the CEE region is declining at a faster pace.
Only two regions of the world have seen an improvement in their average risk scores during the last six months: Australasia and the Caribbean. But in both cases the results have been skewed by just a handful of countries.
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Let Me Look At you Edinburgh [preview]
I've been working with a good friend and amazing performer Mark Pinkosh, it's been interesting partly because he lives in Los Angeles for most of the year. So far we have had three weeks face to face split up over 2017 and months of distance dramaturgy in-between without seeing one another. This, in hindsight, has been a rather good way of working because coming back to the text with space in between makes you see it with fresh eyes, and work that's created in the heat of the moment can sometimes look somewhat cooler after the initial creative splurge. It's made the job of dramaturgy much easier and everyone has had a hand in the development. We started by sitting down and recording anecdotes of Mark and his husband Godfrey's years of the 'gay movement' which celebrates this year with the 50th anniversary of the Sexual Offences Act. Then we sifted through them alongside historical factoids and Godfrey would write them up in his cabin in LA and in his own inimitable way. Mark would then travel back over to Plymouth and we would look at what we had and play with the text adding and cutting when needed. We noted though that in the current climate, on both sides of the pond, things haven't changed that much and in some places like the middle east, it has taken a backwards step and therefore it feels very relevant. The show called Let Me Look At You opens at the Edinburgh Festival at the Pleasance, Bunker 2 at 11.15 am August 2nd – 28th but we are previewing one show only at the Wardrobe Theatre in Bristol on Wednesday 26th July at 5pm. Please come along and give us some feedback either to the Wardrobe or at the Pleasance, you won't be disappointed. Mark and Godfrey work on stage as Starving Artists and are double Fringe First winners. When they started taking their work to Edinburgh over twenty years ago Mark was the first recipient of The Stage's Award for Acting Excellence and in those days it was just the one award. So its going to be a bit of a homecoming but I am very excited about being part of this show and am looking forward to seeing it on its feet in Bristol on the 26th.
This entry was posted in Festival, Performances, Uncategorized and tagged Let Me Look At You, Pleasance Bunker 2, Starving Artists, Wardrobe Theatre on June 23, 2017 by Ruth.
Can performances connect with audiences in traditional theatre spaces even when the fourth wall is broken?
The performances I chose to consider were Michael Pinchbeck's The End, Frantic Assembly's Beautiful Burnout and Starving Artists Take me With You. These three different performances I saw over consecutive days, each had many similarities but if you were to put them into artistic practice categories, then I think they would all be different. Each show was created and rehearsed to go on tour but irrespective of which practice category they would fall into, I saw each performance within a traditional space. The End at the Roland Levinsky Theatre (Plymouth University's theatre space), Beautiful Burnout in the main Theatre Royal Plymouth and Take Me With You in the small studio space at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol. The audience for all three was end on.
I am sure that each performance has had to adapt and re configure for various spaces on the touring schedule and not every space would be end on. The one main problem I had with all of them was that I was positive I would have had a better overall experience had I been in a different spatial configuration, as an audience member.
To begin with The End at the Roland Levinsky theatre – a theatre that is primarily a lecture theatre and that certainly retains that aura not helped by the décor of flat brown on brown with 2 purple curtains giving us a nod to colour before rows of blacks to cover the fact that there is no wing space – the performer alluded to this.
Michael Pinchbeck, who created The End is, according to the British Council "an award-winning writer, live artist and performance maker based in Nottingham, Pinchbeck uses autobiography as a means to illustrate loss and explore absence and presence and aims to challenge the boundaries of text, performance and installation by reliving memories and revisiting real-life events." (http://dramaanddance.britishcouncil.org/artists-and-companies/profiles/michael-pinchbeck/).
This description certainly categorizes him and puts him, in my mind, in the 'performance artist' mold, indeed without reading this description I had already made a similar decision about his disciplinarity from the theatre brochure. 'Michael Pinchbeck's last piece for theatre asks why we perform and how we will know when to stop". Of all of the three pieces I would presume that this performance could be viewed in many spaces, it has no set as such but a microphone, a couple of blocks, a couple of bear suits and a lot of paper. Michael repeatedly breaks the fourth wall by talking directly to the audience and also by handing bits of paper to the people on the front row. His younger fellow performer even mimes the fourth wall across the front of the stage. By repeating and re examining certain aspects of the text he quite cleverly manipulates the structure so that we keep returning to the same points, sometimes by changing the performer.
'elegantly structured, thought-provoking and coolly resonant'; Exuent magazine
'beautifully structured post-modernist piece; the Guardian
'It's a sweet piece of meta-theatre'; What's on Stage
These critiques are interesting in their own right, it's like the discipline of 'performance' allows a different set of terminology to be used, post-modernist, meta theatre, cool! I could agree with them all but I wonder how and where those reviewers saw the performance, did they see it in a University lecture theatre or in a studio space or a black box? And do those surroundings colour the way you interact with the performance. I personally felt quite cut off, I wanted to look him in the eye when he was asking questions to the audience and I sometimes felt that the piece was pertinent enough for me to talk back, but I felt that my behavioural expectations were different within a traditional environment.
The second performance Beautiful Burnout by Frantic Assembly –was again in a proscenium arch theatre. Over the years Frantic Assembly have grown a strong following for their style of work, when they speak about themselves they say they create 'thrilling, energetic and unforgettable theatre'. They constantly use the term 'theatre' and hardly use the word 'dance' or 'performance' even though their work is not traditional and very much inspired through the discipline of dance.
The show, about five young fighters as they aim for the bright lights, away from Glasgow's streets is played upon a boxing ring and each of the characters at some point break the fourth wall and talk directly to the audience, although they wouldn't have seen most of the audience as the proscenium lights would have blocked them out.
I sat on the third row of the stalls and yet felt strangely removed from the action. It didn't help that the boxing ring was a good three-feet off the floor of the stage so that I was looking up at the actors and couldn't even see their feet – pretty useless for a piece that uses movement and dance. I'm sure that when it was first performed the audience would have sat around the ring just like a fight audience and they would've felt part of the pulsating action. In fact I know this happened because according to Exeunt magazine
This is a great piece of storytelling that throbs with energy, but playing as it did in the main house, at times it felt too far removed, too much like spectacle; when it premiered in Edinburgh in 2010, it was staged in the round, with the audience on three sides, which must have been mesmerizing – to feel the heat of physical exertion, to hear the panting breaths, must have only heightened the intensity of the characters' desperate ambition.(exeuntmagasine.com).
I've seen a lot of Frantic Assembly shows in the Drum Theatre Plymouth and felt so much more intimate with the company and the play but as their fan base grew and their shows grew with it, their spatial demands had to be met and so they went from a black box studio to a traditional proscenium arch theatre and I think lost something in doing so.
Finally Take Me With You by Starving Artists at the Tobacco Factory in Bristol is, a simple piece of storytelling. Over twenty years Starving Artists have created simple small shows that tackle gay and queer issues in California and Hawaii. The themes are universal but there's a mythology within the Hawaiian settings that add to the quality of the story telling. Here, two actors, a bare stage (bar one chair) with beautiful lighting to act as the set, it feels like the ideal play to tour with. I saw it in a black box studio that seats about 75 to 100 people so pretty intimate and yet I still felt removed and wanted to be with them up close, yes I chose to sit near the back quite high up so I was looking down on them and maybe I should have sat at the front. Of all the shows this was the most intimate but, I know it will be playing theatres that in my opinion, will be too big for it and the audience, on that night, will not see it in the best light.
In the book The Turning World, stories from the International Festival of Theatre, Lyn Gardner says 'LIFT recognized something that British theatre had previously ignored: that the audience brings as much to the performance as the actors do, that without our contribution there can be no theatre.' This book is looking at work across the city of London from 1981 – 2004 and eight years later I do wonder if companies think about their audience and how their spatial relationship to the performance will affect them. I realize, for example that it would be hard to find a space in every city on tour that could accommodate a full size boxing ring with space for an audience around it. In the 1980's and 90's some theatre companies toured their shows in pop up mobile auditoria, the Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Royal Shakespeare Company being two of them. This enabled the performance to be re produced and repeated in every venue exactly as it was created in its original space, therefore bringing audiences, away from the company's home, an equal opportunity to see the play as it was intended. Seeing as the Arts Council has now got money for theatres to improve the structure of the building maybe they should also think about the type of shows that are now being toured and whether traditional spaces are the right place for them. Maybe studio spaces should be more adaptable with their seating so they can accommodate the many varieties of touring companies, whether you categorize them as 'theatre' or 'performance' and then the audience may start to get a better spatial experience.
This entry was posted in Research, Uncategorized and tagged Beautiful Burnout, Exeunt Magazine, Frantic Assembly, Michael Pinchbeck, Starving Artists, Take Me With You, The Turning World on October 12, 2012 by Ruth.


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41st Primetime Emmy Awards
(Ceremony)
(Creative Arts Awards)
Pasadena Civic Auditorium, Pasadena, California
Academy of Television Arts and Sciences
John Larroquette
Most awards
Murphy Brown (3)
Most nominations
L.A. Law (15)
L.A. Law
Outstanding Miniseries
War and Remembrance
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Program
The Tracey Ullman Show
Television/radio coverage
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The 41st Primetime Emmy Awards were held on Sunday, September 17, 1989. The ceremony was broadcast on Fox from the Pasadena Civic Auditorium in Pasadena, California. The ceremony saw the guest acting categories double, as they were now based on gender as well as genre. Two networks, Lifetime and USA, received their first major nominations this year.
After being nominated and losing for the previous four years, Cheers regained the title of Outstanding Comedy Series. L.A. Law also won Outstanding Drama Series after losing the previous year. For the second straight year, L.A. Law received 15 major nominations, making it the first show ever to receive more than 14 major nominations multiple times. With nine main cast acting nominations, L.A. Law tied the record set by Hill Street Blues in 1982.
Winners and nominees
Cheers, (NBC)
Designing Women, (CBS)
The Golden Girls, (NBC)
Murphy Brown, (CBS)
The Wonder Years, (ABC)
L.A. Law, (NBC)
Beauty and the Beast, (CBS)
China Beach, (ABC)
thirtysomething, (ABC)
Wiseguy, (CBS)
Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special
The Tracey Ullman Show, (Fox)
The Arsenio Hall Show, (Syndicated)
Late Night with David Letterman, (NBC)
Saturday Night Live, (NBC)
Tap Dance in America, (PBS)
Day One, (CBS)
Roe vs. Wade, (NBC)
David, (ABC)
Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, (HBO)
My Name Is Bill W., (ABC)
War and Remembrance, (ABC)
I Know My First Name Is Steven, (NBC)
Lonesome Dove, (CBS)
A Perfect Spy, (PBS)
The Women of Brewster Place, (ABC)
Lead performances
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Richard Mulligan as Dr. Harry Weston on Empty Nest (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)
Ted Danson as Sam Malone on Cheers (Episode: "Swear to God"), (NBC)
Michael J. Fox as Alex P. Keaton on Family Ties (Episode: "Alex Doesn't Live Here Anymore"), (NBC)
John Goodman as Dan Conner on Roseanne (Episode: "Dan's Birthday Bash"), (ABC)
Fred Savage as Kevin Arnold on The Wonder Years (Episode: "Birthday Boy"), (ABC)
Candice Bergen as Murphy Brown on Murphy Brown (Episode: "Respect"), (CBS)
Bea Arthur as Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls (Episode: "Love Me Tender"), (NBC)
Blair Brown as Molly Dodd on The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, (Lifetime)
Rue McClanahan as Blanche Devereaux on The Golden Girls (Episode: "Yes, We Have No Havanas"), (NBC)
Betty White as Rose Nylund on The Golden Girls (Episode: "High Anxiety"), (NBC)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
Carroll O'Connor as Chief Bill Gillespie on In the Heat of the Night (Episode: "A Trip Upstate"), (NBC)
Ron Perlman as Vincent on Beauty and the Beast, (CBS)
Michael Tucker as Stuart Markowitz on L.A. Law, (NBC)
Ken Wahl as Vincent Terranova on Wiseguy, (CBS)
Edward Woodward as Robert McCall on The Equalizer, (CBS)
Dana Delany as Nurse Colleen McMurphy on China Beach (Episode: "The World"), (ABC)
Susan Dey as Grace Van Owen on L.A. Law, (NBC)
Jill Eikenberry as Ann Kelsey on L.A. Law, (NBC)
Linda Hamilton as Asst. DA Catherine Chandler on Beauty and the Beast, (CBS)
Angela Lansbury as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote, (CBS)
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Special
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special
James Woods as Bill Wilson on My Name Is Bill W., (ABC)
Robert Duvall as Augustus "Gus" McCrae on Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part II"), (CBS)
John Gielgud as Aaron Jastrow on War and Remembrance (Episode: "Part VIII"), (ABC)
Tommy Lee Jones as Woodrow F. Call on Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part IV"), (CBS)
Ben Kingsley as Simon Wiesenthal on Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, (HBO)
Holly Hunter as Ellen Russell on Roe vs. Wade, (NBC)
Anjelica Huston as Clara Allen on Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part III"), (CBS)
Diane Lane as Lorena Wood on Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part IV"), (CBS)
Amy Madigan as Sarah Weddington on Roe vs. Wade, (NBC)
Jane Seymour as Natalie Henry on War and Remembrance (Episode: "Part XI"), (ABC)
Supporting performances
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Woody Harrelson as Woody Boyd on Cheers (Episodes: "Golden Boyd" + "The Gift of the Woodi" + "Call Me Irresponsible"), (NBC)
Joe Regalbuto as Frank Fontana on Murphy Brown (Episodes: "Baby Love" + "It's How You Play the Game" + "The Summer of '77"), (CBS)
Peter Scolari as Michael Harris on Newhart, (CBS)
Meshach Taylor as Anthony Bouvier on Designing Women (Episodes: "Hard Hats and Lovers" + "Tyrone" + "One Sees, the Other Doesn't"), (CBS)
George Wendt as Norm Peterson on Cheers (Episodes: "Norm, Is That You?" + "Jumping Jerks" + "Don't Paint Your Chickens"), (NBC)
Rhea Perlman as Carla Tortelli on Cheers (Episodes: "Swear to God" + "Those Lips, Those Ice" + "I Kid You Not"), (NBC)
Julia Duffy as Stephanie Vanderkellen on Newhart, (CBS)
Faith Ford as Corky Sherwood on Murphy Brown (Episodes: "Devil with a Blue Dress On" + "It's How You Play the Game" + "The Morning Show"), (CBS)
Estelle Getty as Sophia Petrillo on The Golden Girls (Episodes: "The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo" + "Sophia's Wedding" + "Two Rode Together"), (NBC)
Katherine Helmond as Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss? (Episodes: "Double Dump" + "Your Grandmother's a Bimbo" + "Party Double"), (ABC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Larry Drake as Benny Stulwicz on L.A. Law (Episodes: "Hey, Lick Me Over" + "I'm in the Nude for Love" + "America the Beautiful"), (NBC)
Jonathan Banks as Frank McPike on Wiseguy, (CBS)
Timothy Busfield as Elliot Weston on thirtysomething, (ABC)
Richard Dysart as Leland McKenzie, Jr. on L.A. Law, (NBC)
Jimmy Smits as Victor Sifuentes on L.A. Law, (NBC)
Melanie Mayron as Melissa Steadman on thirtysomething (Episodes: "Trust Me" + "Success" + "Be a Good Girl"), (ABC)
Michele Greene as Abby Perkins on L.A. Law (Episodes: "Sperminator" + "Victor/Victorious" + "America the Beautiful"), (NBC)
Lois Nettleton as Joanne St. John on In the Heat of the Night (Episodes: "Stranger in Town" + "Tear Down the Walls" + "A.K.A. Kelly Kay"), (NBC)
Amanda Plummer as Alice Hackett on L.A. Law (Episodes: "America the Beautiful" + "Urine Trouble Now" + "Consumed Innocent"), (NBC)
Susan Ruttan as Roxanne Melman on L.A. Law (Episodes: "Romancing the Drone" + "Izzy Ackerman or Is He Not?" + "Urine Trouble Now"), (NBC)
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Special
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Special
Derek Jacobi as The Imposter on The Tenth Man, (ABC)
Armand Assante as Richard Mansfield on Jack the Ripper, (CBS)
James Garner as Dr. Bob Holbrook Smith on My Name Is Bill W., (ABC)
Danny Glover as Joshua Deets on Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part II"), (CBS)
Corin Nemec as Steven Stayner on I Know My First Name Is Steven (Episode: "Part I"), (NBC)
Colleen Dewhurst as Margaret Page on Those She Left Behind, (NBC)
Peggy Ashcroft as Miss Dubber on A Perfect Spy (Episode: "Part V") (PBS)
Polly Bergen as Rhoda Henry on War and Remembrance (Episode: "Part XII"), (ABC)
Glenne Headly as Elmira Boot Johnson on Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part II"), (CBS)
Paula Kelly as Theresa on The Women of Brewster Place, (ABC)
Guest performances
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Cleavon Little as Tony Larkin on Dear John (Episode: "Stand By Your Man"), (NBC)
Sammy Davis Jr. as Ray Palomino on The Cosby Show (Episode: "No Way Baby"), (NBC)
Jack Gilford as Max Weinstock on The Golden Girls (Episode: "Sophia's Wedding"), (NBC)
Leslie Nielsen as Jack Harper on Day by Day (Episode: "Harper And Son"), (NBC)
Robert Picardo as Coach Ed Cutlip on The Wonder Years (Episode: "Loosiers"), (ABC)
Colleen Dewhurst as Avery Brown on Murphy Brown (Episode: "Mama Said"), (CBS)
Eileen Brennan as Corine Denby on Newhart (Episode: "The Little Match Girl"), (CBS)
Diahann Carroll as Marion Gilbert on A Different World (Episode: "For She's Only A Bird In A Gilded Cage"), (NBC)
Doris Roberts as Mrs. Bailey on Perfect Strangers (Episode: "Maid to Order"), (ABC)
Maxine Stuart as Mrs. Carples on The Wonder Years (Episode: "Coda"), (ABC)
Outstanding Guest Actor in a Drama Series
Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
Joe Spano as John Saringo on Midnight Caller (Episode: "The Execution Of John Saringo"), (NBC)
Peter Boyle as J.J. Killian on Midnight Caller (Episode: "Fathers and Sins"), (NBC)
Jack Gilford as The Old Gentleman on thirtysomething (Episode: "The Mike Van Dyke Show"), (ABC)
Michael Moriarty as Wayne Virgil on The Equalizer (Episode: "Starfire"), (CBS)
Edward Woodward as Drummond on The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents (Episode: "The Hunted"), (USA)
Kay Lenz as Tina Cassidy on Midnight Caller (Episode: "After It Happened..."), (NBC)
Shirley Knight as Mrs. Robert McCall on The Equalizer (Episode: "Time Present, Time Past"), (CBS)
Jean Simmons as Eudora McVeigh on Murder, She Wrote (Episode: "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Part 1"), (CBS)
Maureen Stapleton as Auntie Sue on B.L. Stryker (Episode: "Auntie Sue"), (ABC)
Chloe Webb as Laurette Barber on China Beach (Episode: "Chao Ong"), (ABC)
Teresa Wright as Nina Rothman on Dolphin Cove (Episode: "The Elders"), (CBS)
Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series
Peter Baldwin, for The Wonder Years (Episode: "Our Miss White"), (ABC)
James Burrows for Cheers (Episode: "The Visiting Lecher"), (NBC)
Michael Dinner for The Wonder Years (Episode: "How I'm Spending My Summer Vacation"), (ABC)
Terry Hughes, for The Golden Girls (Episode: "Brother Can You Spare That Jacket"), (NBC)
Barnet Kellman for Murphy Brown (Episode: "Pilot"), (CBS)
Steve Miner for The Wonder Years (Episode: "Birthday Boy"), (ABC)
Robert Altman for Tanner '88 (Episode: "The Boiler Room"), (HBO)
Thomas Carter for Midnight Caller (Episode: "Pilot"), (NBC)
Eric Laneuville for L.A. Law (Episode: "I'm in the Nude for Love"), (NBC)
John Pasquin for L.A. Law (Episode: "To Live and Diet in L.A."), (NBC)
Scott Winant for thirtysomething (Episode: "We'll Meet Again"), (ABC)
Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program
Outstanding Directing in a Miniseries or a Special
Jim Henson for The Jim Henson Hour (Episode: "Dog City"), (NBC)
Debbie Allen for The Debbie Allen Special, (ABC)
Ted Bessell for The Tracey Ullman Show (Episode: "Family Therapy"), (Fox)
Hal Gurnee for Late Night with David Letterman (Episode: "In Chicago"), (NBC)
Don Mischer for Tap Dance in America, (PBS)
Simon Wincer for Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part IV"), (CBS)
Dan Curtis for War and Remembrance (Episode: "Part XII"), (ABC)
Larry Elikann for I Know My First Name Is Steven, (NBC)
Gregory Hoblit for Roe vs. Wade, (NBC)
Daniel Petrie for My Name Is Bill W., (ABC)
Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series
Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series
Diane English for Murphy Brown (Episode: "Pilot"), (CBS)
Matthew Carlson for The Wonder Years (Episode: "Pottery Will Get You Nowhere"), (ABC)
Todd W. Langen for The Wonder Years (Episode: "Coda"), (ABC)
David M. Stern for The Wonder Years (Episode: "Loosiers"), (ABC)
Michael J. Weithorn for The Wonder Years (Episode: "Our Miss White"), (ABC)
Joseph Dougherty for thirtysomething (Episode: "First Day / Last Day"), (ABC)
Steven Bochco, David E. Kelley, William M. Finkelstein, Michele Gallery for L.A. Law (Episode: "His Suit Is Hirsute"), (NBC)
David E. Kelley for L.A. Law (Episode: "I'm in the Nude for Love"), (NBC)
David E. Kelley, William M. Finkelstein, Michele Gallery, Judith Parker for L.A. Law (Episode: "Urine Trouble Now"), (NBC)
Edward Zwick, Marshall Herskovitz for thirtysomething (Episode: "The Mike Van Dyke Show"), (ABC)
Outstanding Writing in a Variety or Music Program
Outstanding Writing in a Miniseries or a Special
Late Night with David Letterman (Episode: "Seventh Anniversary Special"), (NBC)
Not Necessarily the News, (HBO)
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, (NBC)
Abby Mann, Robin Vote, Ron Hutchinson for Murderers Among Us: The Simon Wiesenthal Story, (HBO)
William G. Borchert for My Name Is Bill W., (ABC)
Alison Cross for Roe vs. Wade, (NBC)
JP Miller, Cynthia Whitcomb for I Know My First Name Is Steven, (NBC)
Bill Wyttliff for Lonesome Dove (Episode: "Part I"), (CBS)
Most major nominations
By network [note 1]
NBC – 57
ABC – 40
CBS – 35
L.A. Law (NBC) – 15
The Wonder Years (ABC) – 11
Lonesome Dove (CBS) – 9
The Golden Girls (NBC) / Murphy Brown (CBS) / thirtysomething (ABC) – 7
Cheers (NBC) – 6
Most major awards
ABC – 7
CBS – 5
Cheers (NBC) / Murphy Brown (CBS) – 3
L.A. Law (NBC) / Midnight Caller (NBC) / Roe vs. Wade (NBC) / thirtysomething (ABC) – 2
^ a b "Major" constitutes the categories listed above: Program, Acting, Directing, and Writing. Does not include the technical categories.
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What's Current: British publications respond to female Dr. Who announcement with nude photos
by Meghan Murphy
After man-babies throw a hissy fit over the decision to cast a female Dr. Who (not to worry — a solution has been found), The Sun and Mail Online publish nude photos of Jodie Whittaker, the actress who will play the 13th doctor.
Nighat Dad, who founded the Digital Rights Foundation in 2012, is helping Pakistani women deal with the growing phenomenon of online harassment and revenge porn.
On the "crazy/bitch" narrative pinned to senior academic women.
Guys, Caitlyn Jenner is transphobic.
Libertarian "feminist" writer defends R. Kelly, claiming he is simply engaging in consensual abusive relationships with young women.
So… R. Kelly is in a polyamorous, dom/sub relationship with multiple consenting adult women. This is alarming why? https://t.co/V0HNSIIRzs
— ElizabethNolanBrown (@ENBrown) July 17, 2017
Meghan Murphy
Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women's Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.
Open letter in support of Martha Harvey
What's Current: Lesbian elders organize Hold Hands on a Tram campaign to fight lesbophobia
Meghan Murphy July 18, 2017


A Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back Tauntaun prop, saved and restored!
We originally learned of this Star Wars the Empire Strikes Back Tauntaun prop over a decade ago, when it was on display in a Planet Hollywood restaurant. Even then, the Episode V prop needed some TLC. The jaw of the creature had come loose and had broken some of the fragile foam skin of the cheeks. Untreated and unsupported, this foam latex damage worsened over time.
Some time later, the prop came up for auction and a client of ours hired us to consult before bidding… when he won the movie prop, it was sent to our studio for restoration. Now, over a decade since first seeing the piece, an original Star Wars The Empire Strikes Back Tauntaun bust was here in our studio and finally getting some much needed attention! The condition and size of the ESB prop (Tauntauns are bigger than most folks expect!) was daunting, but as with many of these movie prop restoration projects, as we started to put the pieces back together, things started to improve very quickly. After some careful patching and very judicious use of touch up paint, the bust began looking pretty great!
The client wanted to see what could be done to enhance the finished display and our friends at Propstore of London had just the thing! A fiberglass bust of a Star Wars prop head and neck, molded directly from a production-made casting of a tauntaun from the Freeborn makeup department. We painted the bust in a neutral color, and trimmed it to match the odd shape of the Tauntaun prop face. Once fit with a rig to support the prop, the combination of the fiberglass bust with the original foam latex tauntaun prop made for a display with a sense of context that still allowed a screen used prop to shine!
CREDITS – Restoration, Bust Modification & Mounting: Mike Thomas, Tom Spina and Patrick Louie with additional assistance from: Melissa Dooley, Mike Ulloa, Victoria DeMaria, and Patrick Flanagan. Fiberglass tauntaun bust by Bruce Hansing for Propstore of London, molded from a production piece created by Stuart Freeborn's makeup FX team on The Empire Strikes Back.


Couples getting married hire wedding photographers to capture the moments of their special day on film. They depend on these professionals to be punctual, attentive, and thorough – there are no second chances! While pre-wedding meetings and post-wedding work take place in an office environment, the events themselves take photographers to indoor and outdoor venues such as homes, churches, hotels, parks, and other ceremony and reception sites. Likewise, the time of each wedding sets the work schedule, with weekend and evenings being common. The number of weddings occurring in spring and summer months make those seasons especially busy for photographers. While many photography companies exist to provide services, a significant number of wedding photographers are self-employed.
Couples usually become acquainted with their photographer well in advance of their wedding. Such meetings entail viewing examples of the photographer's work, going over pricing, creating a list of desired photos, discussing hours and locations, and signing agreements.
Some wedding photographers take formal, posed engagement photos as part of the picture package. On the day itself, wedding photographers pay close attention to the predetermined schedule so that they arrive where they need to be in plenty of time. For instance, they may start at the bride's house to capture her getting ready with her attendants, head to the church to set up for the ceremony, then end the day at a banquet hall to cover everything from cake cutting to dancing. Following a checklist ensures that important shots don't get missed.
Photographers carefully look at everything they shot. Actions such as removing red eye, cropping, and enhancing improve quality. They also may add graphics or other artistic touches.
The final results are assembled into an online gallery or physical book of pictures. The couple and other interested parties choose which photos they wish to purchase and in which size. The photographer often suggests books, frames, and other display options.
Generating business is part of the job for photographers, especially freelancers. Marketing efforts may include setting up a website, attending wedding fairs, and seeking recommendations from satisfied customers.
Wedding photographers come from various educational backgrounds. Some hold only a high school diploma. Others take postsecondary courses or obtain a degree in photography, art, or a related field. Classes cover subjects such as equipment, positioning, and editing. Learning about marketing and business also can be helpful. When seeking a position with a wedding photography company, a strong portfolio is a candidate's best friend. Employers provide on-the-job training to new hires to verse them in procedures and services.
Earnings for wedding photographers vary greatly based on factors such as location, reputation, and clientele. Perusal of PayScale, for instance, shows a range of $10 to $150 per hour! According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median hourly wage for professional photographers in general is about $16.
While the BLS projects jobs in the photography industry as a whole to decline 6 percent by 2026, opportunities for wedding photographers and other portrait-takers should remain promising as people continue to capture life stages. The number of self-employed photographers is expected to grow 12 percent over the course of the decade.


DirecTV and Dish Network customers are anticipating the fourth season of Mad Men which airs July 25 on AMC HD. But subscribers to the satellite services will be stuck with the standard-def versions because the providers have not been able to add the high-definition version of the show. Other AMC original shows broadcast in HD include Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Rubicon and The Prisoner.
You can probably blame the companies involved: DirecTV, Dish Network, and Rainbow Media (who owns AMC) for failing to come to a financial agreement to run the network in high-definition. One would think if there is an agreement already in place for the standard-definition feed that an addition of the HD feed would just be a step away. But this is not the case.
DirecTV has recently added other HD networks as well as three 3D channels to their lineup, but AMC HD is not one of them. Dish Network recently launched a new satellite to enable even more HD channels, but also has not come to an agreement with Rainbow Media. Dish was recently forced to drop several Disney HD channels, with Disney saying there never was an agreement in place to distribute the high-def feeds.
The fourth season of Mad Men will premiere July 25 at 10PM | 9C.
Doesn't matter you can just download them. Plus downloaded shows already edited out the commercial, even better than HD.