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Memorial Day weekend always makes me wonder why I don't live full time where everyone else vacations.

The remote 'gig economy' has never been more accessible than it is today.

Our laptops and phones run faster off the grid for longer.

On the downside, the signal-everywhere, digital economy makes working 24/7 dangerously irresistible.

On the upside, freelancers working remotely now comprise the fastest growing segment of the job market—which means it's more culturally permissible than ever to work from home overlooking the beach.

Rented.com recently released its rankings of the "The 150 Best Places To Buy A Vacation Rental Property In 2018" in the U.S.

There's a wealth of insight in here when it comes to hard costs and data like amortized return on investment, the relative burden of local taxes and regulations, and long-term cost of ownership vs. current rental rates.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge connects the "low and slow" bounty of Maryland's Eastern shore to Washington, D.C. and Baltimore in less than an hour

My idea of the perfect vacation home has always rested of seven simpler, more emotional, and less data-driven principles: cool, historic architecture, one hour from an airport, three hours from the nearest big city, stretching my money, maximum proximity to every activity possible, hanging near rich people who own yachts and invest back into the community (and whose houses are far nicer than mine), and something has to be going on year round or I'll shrivel up and socially die.

There are fewer of these places around than you might think.

And they're calling your name: "Buy me", "Work from home here now".

Despite some of the headlines recently, mortgage rates are still historically low.

Unless you happen to love hunting Bobwhite quail, there's no reason you would have ever heard of Thomasville before.

The locals know how to keep their secrets close to their vests.

Thomasville lies in southwest Georgia in an area known as the Red Hills, a name that nods to the red clay soils and gently rolling pine and palm tree landscape that defines the area geographically.

"Thomasville's history plays an unmistakable role in why this small town is a thriving place today," says broker Ben McCollum of the Wright Group, which focuses on selling plantation, legacy properties.

"During the late 1800s, Thomasville was the end of the railway.

Instead of Florida beaches, wealthy Northerners and Industrialists came south here to escape the cold and ultimately fell in love with the pine-infused air, mild climate, and sporting life.

These Northern families bought land, established large winter estates and created sporting plantations, most of which are still privately owned and operated to this day.

Thomasville is unique in the sense that a 6 oz. bird assists in driving the city culturally and economically today, and that was the same force that helped found the city."

For a small town, there's plenty to do in Thomasville year-round.

"The downtown is charming with brick paved streets lined with elm trees and historic houses, tastemakers and trailblazers alike, all in walking distance of one another," McCollum continues.

"The culinary scene has also put Thomasville on the Southern food map, and local store owners have curated special spaces that are inviting, creative and distinct.

There are annual festivals throughout the year that revolve around the sporting life, historic preservation, and the arts, with a long peak season that runs from October - May."

For many second homebuyers here, some of whom come from America's wealthiest families, acreage is the priority; it translates into wildlife habitat and privacy.

But the other main feature people come here for is the proximity to Florida's panhandle beaches, which are less than 90 minutes away and some of the most remote and unspoiled in the country.

"There's another group of buyers here who are driven by Thomasville's downtown architecture," says McCollum.

"They want to refurbish a home in one of the historic districts.

They fall in love with downtown and want a restored storefront condominium for $300,000.

They want to drive to the beach for the day instead of maintaining a large estate.

Thomasville is special in this sense that it can offer a smaller, safe, affordable city life and quiet country living at the same time, and the two notions mix here really well.

We're like Charleston, Savannah, or New Orleans.

But at a fraction of the price, making us one of the best-kept secrets in the South.

Palm Springs, California Mid-Century architecture.

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When most people think of Palm Springs one of three things typically comes to mind: pretentious actors, too many golf courses, and stifling desert heat.

All of those things are true to a minor extent depending on the time of year.

Palm Springs is also one of the coolest, affordable destinations in America if you have any love at all for the outdoors, National Parks, hot springs, art galleries, film festivals, a world-class foodie scene, polo, hot air balloons, and some of the best preserved modernist architecture in the country.

Palm Springs isn't so much a city as it is a valley of towns, gouged out of the desert in a broad southeast to northwest swath that's walled in to the south by the San Jacinto mountains and Joshua Tree National Park to the north.

Los Angeles is three hours west, Las Vegas three hours east.

Palm Springs' own airport could land Air Force One (it has) so its proximity to everywhere has always been one of the big sells.

The valley also is home to some of the hottest and most therapeutic hot springs mineral water in North America.

Mount San Jacinto, which towers 10,700 vertical feet above the valley floor is the highest dead rise of any mountain in the continental U.S.

There's a European-designed rotating tram that runs to the top putting hundreds of miles of wilderness hiking trails at your fingertips without ever even having to hike uphill.

If you have the urge to carve a few turns on the ski slopes before you soak in the hot springs, Big Bear is three hours north.

When it's time to buy, keep an eye on your real estate taxes, condo, and "resort" fees, which can vary wildly neighborhood by neighborhood and depending on whether the home is in a development or not.

Prices, especially for condos, still haven't quite recovered since the Recession so $250,000 - $350,000 will comfortably get you two-bedrooms and 1800 SF of mountain views.

Livingston is one of those few western mountain towns left that hasn't given up its soul and architectural character while still catering to the private jet crowd that shacks up in the 10,000 SF, 100-acre ranches outside of town.

Livingston's downtown is just north of Yellowstone National Park and sits on the banks of the Yellowstone River along Lewis And Clark's epic route across America.

The Yellowstone is the longest free flowing river left in the U.S. and widely regarded as one of the top trout fishing rivers on the planet.

The hiking, biking, mountain climbing, skiing, hunting, and horseback riding nearby rivals anything in the West.

At night, Livingston's historic downtown—fronted with the perfectly-preserved facades of the original brick and timber storefronts dating back to the late 1880s—comes alive with street art, wildlife galleries, boutiques, an up and coming farm-to-table scene, local bands playing local bars, and an eclectic mix of old timers and new locals that always keeps the place lively.

For new pioneers looking to build their dream home you can still snatch up 3-5 acre lots with mountain views for $100,000 outside of town.

You can own a 4-bedroom Victorian piece of Livingston history with original millwork and architectural details and walk to dinner for $350,000.

You can also walk to fish in the Yellowstone the next morning.

The fall "Supermoon" rises over the Chesapeake Bay west of Easton, Maryland

If you live in Washington, D.C., this historic town of 15,000 people on Maryland's Eastern Shore across the Bay Bridge from Annapolis is no secret.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheyney own waterfront estates not far out of town, along with dozens of other members of D.C.'s politico-corporate elite.

There are five key selling points to Easton: crazy low property taxes, year round culture, a farm-to-table foodie scene that gets better every year, water everywhere, and a level of celebrity discretion that's on par with the Hamptons.

"It's the pace and natural beauty of the Eastern Shore that draws people here, including the D.C. elite," says local realtor Kathleen Coale of Long & Foster whose mother-in-law is political broadcaster and journalist Greta Van Susteren.

"We have over 600 miles of gorgeous Chesapeake Bay waterfront.

The towns of Easton and St. Michaels offer amazing restaurants, boutique shopping, art galleries, and museums that you won't find anywhere else an hour away from a major city.

But Easton and Talbot County have everything the Hamptons have without the drawbacks.

We're only a few hours from Philly, New York and New Jersey where home prices and taxes are soaring.

Our proximity to three major airports (two in D.C. and BWI in Baltimore) as well as Easton Airport make us convenient for travelers who are flying in from around the country."

Notwithstanding the long gated driveways, Gulfstream Vs parked at the Easton airport, and the better than 50% odds that the woman sitting behind you at dinner is a UN ambassador, getting a piece of Easton's action doesn't require a security clearance.

(Easton recently ranked 8thon Kiplinger's list of 20 Small Towns With Big Millionaire Populations).

$250,000 buys you a carefully, re-crafted renovation in town.

If you're willing to stake your claim 20 minutes outside of Easton, St. Michaels, and Oxford, you can still find affordable waterfront as well.

Though it probably won't be next door to Rumsfeld and Cheyney.

"Donald Rumsfeld celebrated the publication of his new book in our restaurant years ago," says Alice Lloyd, who co-owns the Bartlett Pear Inn with her chef-husband Jordan Lloyd.

"Dick Cheney ate a hanger steak with fries and béarnaise while enjoying a peaceful date with his lovely wife not too long ago.

Countless other local politicians have dined with us over the years.

Essex is a tiny lakefront hamlet flanked in by Lake Champlain (America's "6th Great Lake") and Vermont's Green Mountains to the east and the largest, roadless protected wilderness area east of the Mississippi to the west, New York's Adirondack State Park.

There's nothing about it in particular that makes it famous (except a few of the residents' last names, like Pataki).

Some places are simply blessed by geography.

"People love Essex because it's on Lake Champlain between Vermont and the High Peaks.

And it's much quieter and less developed on the New York side," real estate broker Lauren Murphy tells me.

Not only is this place beautiful at every time of year, but our location provides proximity to everything for outdoor enthusiasts and families like hiking, biking, sailing, kayaking, and skiing."

Essex was an early 19th century shipping port, and a bustling lakeside village in its early years, surrounded by large farms and forests.

Most of the historic architecture you see today was built during this period (Essex is on the National Register of Historic Places).

Today's residents full and part time have maintained a strong preservation ethic, both in architectural and land conservation, and it shows in the tidy homes, village streets, and old farmhouse estates that fan out up from the lake.

"Essex has a large summer population," Murphy continues, "With most people either having a camp on or near the lakeshore or a second home in the village.

People have been coming here to summer since around 1900, including to the Crater Club south of Essex village along the lake that was founded in 1899.

There are a lot of families who have history here, and they've been coming back for generations."

If you can find Essex on Google Earth it's close to nothing—which is part of the town's allure.

But it's less than 90 minutes from Montreal, an hour from Burlington, Vermont and a four hour drive from New York City.

On the outdoor front, it's 45 minutes from Lake Placid, home to the 1980 Olympics and Whiteface Mountain, and an hour and change (depending on how well you time the ferry ride across the lake) from Vermont's famed ski resorts like Stowe and Killington.

One of Essex's most coveted waterfront properties is now for sale for the first time in generations

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Given the privacy a dollar buys you up here, most people buying in Essex and the surrounding areas come largely from Manhattan, New Jersey, Boston, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C.

Properties for sale range from $1.5 million, 100-acre lakefront legacy estates that would cost $20 million if they were built on Long Island to historic in-town properties with views of the marina and within walking distance to the ferry to Vermont.

You can grab an fixer-upper with rich architectural history for less than a coat closet in Manhattan.

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Prior to this date, the court had met at York, a small settlement north of Dover Bridge. The court decided that this location was not convenient to all sections of the county and, in order to change the location, the above act of the Assembly was passed. As a result of this act, two acres of land were purchased from Philemon Armstrong, at a cost of 5,000 pounds of tobacco. Upon this tract, the same plot upon which the present Talbot County Court House now stands, the court house, a brick building 20 x 30 feet, was erected at a cost of 115,000 pounds of tobacco. The courts of the county were held in this building from 1712 until 1794. A tavern to accommodate those who attended court was one of the first buildings erected; stores and dwellings followed. The village was then known as "Talbot Court House". These were not the first buildings in the area. The frame meeting house of the Society of Friends was built between 1682 and 1684. The Wye plantation was settled in the 1650's by Welsh Puritan and wealthy planter Edward Lloyd and is owned and occupied by the 11th generation of that family.


On August 22, 2017, Richard Amardi was selected to play for the Canadian Senior Men's National Team to compete in the FIBA AmeriCup 2017 in Argentina.

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# SENIOR MEN'S NATIONAL TEAM ANNOUNCES FIBA AMERICUP 2017 ROSTER

TORONTO, ON (August 22, 2017) - Canada Basketball's Men's High Performance Program is pleased to announce the final roster for the Senior Men's National Team set to compete at the FIBA AmeriCup 2017 in Argentina.

Head Coach Roy Rana will lead the team for the FIBA AmeriCup 2017 and first two FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 Qualifiers windows (November 2017 and February 2018).

Joining Rana for the FIBA AmeriCup 2017 will be assistant coaches Craig Beaucamp, Jack Sikma, Michael Meeks and Nathaniel Mitchell.

"Following a successful selection camp, we're pleased to announce the players that will represent Canada at the upcoming FIBA AmeriCup 2017 as we begin our journey towards a berth in the FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019," said Roy Rana, Head Coach.

"This tournament is an opportunity for our players to earn some important international experience as we compete for an Americas Championship and beyond.

The team is currently training at the BioSteel Centre (20 British Columbia Rd, Toronto, ON) until Thursday, August 24 and will travel to Bahia Blanca, Argentina for additional training on August 26 prior to the tournament.

"The FIBA AmeriCup 2017 will be a great first step for our program towards our ultimate goal of qualifying for the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games," said Jay Triano, Senior Men's National Team Program Head Coach.

"While we are focused on winning every time we step out on the court, the AmeriCup provides our coaching staff with a valuable opportunity to evaluate our talent pool prior to the start of the qualification process in November."

The FIBA AmeriCup 2017 will be played from August 25 to September 3, 2017 and brings together America's best 12 men's national teams.

Canada will be part of Group B in Bahia Blanca, Argentina and will open the tournament against 59th ranked United States Virgin Islands on Sunday, August 27 at 6:30 PM ET.

The following night, Canada will face the hosts and 6th ranked Argentina before concluding the group phase against 15th ranked Venezuela on Tuesday night.

The top team from each group will advance to the Final Phase, along with Argentina who will automatically qualify as the main organizer of the competition.

The Final Phase will be played in Cordoba (Argentina), where the winners of the semifinals will square off in the title game.

Following the FIBA AmeriCup 2017, Canada's pursuit of a FIBA Basketball World Cup 2019 berth continues with the Americas Qualifiers where 16 teams will compete for seven World Cup spots.

Canada will face Bahamas, Dominican Republic and the United States Virgin Islands in Group D.

Each team will compete against the other three teams on a home and away basis with Canada hosting the first game against Bahamas in Halifax, NS on November 24, 2017.

Canada's Senior Men's National team is currently ranked 8th in the Americas and 24th globally.

Media are invited to post-practice scrums on the following dates.

Tuesday, August 222:15 p.m. Gym Opens2:30 p.m.

Thursday, August 24 (Air Canada Centre)1:45 p.m.

*All times are EDT and subject to change

The full staff list, roster and schedule can be found below.

Follow Canada Basketball on Twitter for game streaming details and live game coverage.

For more information, contact:Matt Walker, mwalker@basketball.ca

Amardi started his professional career close to home with the National Basketball League Of Canada in 2014 where he played with the Brampton A’s for two years. He averaged 15.2 points per game, 4.6 rebounds and 1.1 assists in his rookie season in 2014-2015. In the 2015-2016 season he averaged 11.9 points per game, 4.4 rebounds and 1.5 assists.
 Amardi then joined the Niagara River Lions in the 2016-2017 season. Amardi averaged 12.8 points per game and 6.3 rebounds per game with the River Lions. Amardi was named NBLC All- Canadian Third Team.


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The rest of the process remained the same (however, there turned out to be no tie votes in the season).

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The Survivor Game Changers preseason is officially underway.

Every week day until the season premiere on March 8, Parade's Josh Wigler will present a new story from the beaches of Fiji, as told in the Survivor contestants' own words.

Click here to start from the beginning, and click here for our table of contents and castaway photo gallery.

Before the game begins, the Survivors openly wonder about the true nature of the season's name, Game Changers.

Is it more than just a cool new nickname for this season's castaways?

Is it a warning sign, a flare in the air to signal some serious overhauls to the Survivor rule book?

What are your views on Survivor's tie-breaking mechanism?

Because in Game Changers, it's losing one of its signature components: this season, there will be no revote after an initial tie vote.

Jeff Probst (Executive Producer and Host): The biggest change we're doing this season is if there's a tie at Tribal Council, there will not be a revote.

There will not be a chance for people to change their votes.

You go directly to the tiebreaker, which is openly discussing among yourselves who you want to get rid of.

If you can come to a unanimous decision, then that person goes home.

If you can't get a unanimous decision, everybody draws rocks.

In the past, the revote after the tie has led to some major moments, including John Cochran's famous flip on Savaii during the South Pacific merge.

Rarely does it lead to an actual rock draw.

Probst says he and the Survivor team arrived at the idea to remove the revote over the course of production on Millennials vs Gen X, only the third season in which castaways (including Game Changer Zeke Smith) pushed the votes to rocks.

Jeff Probst (Executive Producer and Host): I realized last season that they're getting this free look into the future.

They want to know if somebody has an idol, and we have enough people in our alliance that we can actually split the votes for free and change them on the re-vote.

The emphasis on the word "free" is what stood out to me.

Survivor is a game in which everything should have an invoice.

Every single decision you make should come with the risk of costing you something.

If you want to know if somebody has an idol, you're going to have to be willing to risk the consequence that if you don't [make the move], you might find yourself in a tie-breaker and you might go home.

Probst ponders a few possible consequences of the new tie vote rules, including giving an edge to players outside of major alliances:

Jeff Probst (Executive Producer and Host): So that means these guys will quickly figure out there could be opportunities where a minority alliance can place a vote on one of their own members to force a tie and then say, "I'm willing to draw, because there are only three of us and there are six of you."

As for whether or not he thinks the rules will lead to more ties and rock draws?

Jeff Probst (Executive Producer and Host): I don't think we're going to have more ties as a result of this change.

They're still there if you want to have them.

I think this just makes Tribal a little more alive.

I don't think it'll result in more ties, but I do think ties will continue to happen because players have finally realized what I've been preaching for a decade: there's only one winner.

Why leave your family, quit your job, lose all that income, for fifth?

The castaways learn about the new twist for the first time right before the season's first immunity challenge.

Watch the scene here, then read on for what the castaways were thinking about the true meaning of Game Changers and the potential twists ahead.

Andrea Boehlke (Redemption Island, Caramoan): This is called Survivor Game Changers, so there has to be something bigger and better than we've seen to this date.

I'm thinking there are going to be a lot of mix-ups.

Debbie Wanner (Kaoh Rong): I hope there are no idols.

I would love to see a twist where there are no idols.

Luck is a factor of life, but here, if you just get lucky and stumble upon it?

Without idols, you're playing on your skill.

Michaela Bradshaw (Millennials vs Gen X): Out here in Fiji every tree looks like an idol belongs in it.

Hali Ford (Worlds Apart): Idols are essential.

It's hard to get ahead without them in this game.

I know the old school way to look for idols is looking for a weird tree and just start digging, but this time it's going to be different.

Ozzy Lusth (Cook Islands 1, Micronesia, South Pacific): Honestly, the Game Changer theme is very exciting and scary at the same time.

Obviously some twists they've never done before.

Hopefully the challenges are incredibly tough.

Hopefully they don't feed us, so the tribes rely on people to go out and get food.

I want it to be a hard season in that aspect.

I need people to rely on providers to keep the game going until at least the last half.

I don't even want to think about it until we've started to play.

Michaela Bradshaw (Millennials vs Gen X):

I think we're going to pick our own teams.

When you get voted out, that's not the end, something's going to happen.

Or maybe they'll do that thing where everybody who gets voted out gets to come back in.

And I think there might be more challenges and more to the game.

It's not going to be a regular Survivor, which is scary, but also interesting.

Sierra Dawn Thomas (Worlds Apart): I know they're going to do crazy crap the whole time.

For some reason I think on day one something very crazy is going to happen.

I don't know if it's a challenge or someone's getting booted immediately.

Debbie Wanner (Kaoh Rong): I think they're going to bring back the "remove a member of the jury," which I actually really enjoy.

Tai screwed everybody, including me, in his own little subtle way.

Michele was going to win no matter what, but it certainly made her appear to be a smarter player.

Troyzan Robertson (One World): Are they really thinking about every scenario that could happen at any second, or some crazy idol stuff?

You know the producers are going to throw all sorts of screwballs at us.

Tai Trang (Kaoh Rong): Maybe we'll all live on one big beach.

Josh Wigler (Survivor press, Parade): What if they One World you?

Troyzan Robertson (One World): I would One World!

One Worlding on the same beach would be good.

If that's a ten percent advantage, hey, I'll take it.

Hali Ford (Worlds Apart): This might be the third echelon of playing, but what that would look like?

I think people might be more surreptitious.

Ciera Eastin (Blood vs Water, Cambodia): This will probably be a season of firsts.

All of these people claim to have this title of being a game changer, so the game will probably change more than once.

A lot of adapting and maneuvering through a bunch of hurdles.

It's going to be about who can adapt the quickest and bounce back the fastest.

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"Survivor: Game Changers — Mamanuca Islands" is the 34th season of the American CBS competitive reality television series "Survivor", featuring 20 returning castaways. The season premiered on March 8, 2017 with a 72 two-hour airing, marking the series' 500th episode, and ended on May 24, 2017, when Sarah Lacina was named the winner over Brad Culpepper and Troy "Troyzan" Robertson in a 7–3–0 vote.
 This season was the third to film in Fiji after "Survivor: Fiji" and "Survivor: Millennials vs. Gen X". It was the fourth season to feature entirely returning players, following "Survivor: All-Stars", "Survivor: Heroes vs. Villains", and "Survivor: Cambodia" and was the 11th season overall to feature returning players. This season introduced several alterations to the game format. The process for resolving a tied vote was changed for this season, removing the second ballot where only non-tied castaways were allowed to vote between the tied castaways and proceeding directly to the procedure to resolve a deadlocked tie: an open deliberation between non-tied voters.


On March 1, 2017 Powell was named as one of three potential applicants to fill the vacant Supreme Court seat, the other two applicants being Judge Lisa White Hardwick and attorney  Benjamin A. Lipman.

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The seven-person Appellate Judicial Commission narrowed the list of applicants to take over the empty seat on the Missouri Supreme Court bench from 31 down to three Wednesday evening.

Gov. Eric Greitens will choose between Judge Lisa White Hardwick, Benjamin A. Lipman and Judge W. Brent Powell to be his final nominee to the seat vacated by the late Judge Richard Teitelman.

He is required to pick one of the three within the next 60 days, likely after meeting with all of them personally.

Lipman is a member of the illustrious Lewis Rice law firm based in St. Louis and earned his law degree from Washington University.

Hardwick serves on the Western District of the Missouri Court of Appeals and has her law degree from Harvard Law School.

Powell is a circuit judge in Jackson County and earned his law degree from the University of Missouri School of Law.

The process from the Appellate Judicial Division is further outlined here, but the selection of these three candidates came after 10 hours of public testimony, nearly four hours of deliberation by the commission and seven rounds of voting.

Chief Justice of the Missouri Supreme Court Patricia Breckenridge chaired the commission.

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He was invited to speak at the Allen and Co. Sun Valley Investor's Conference in 2018.

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# Sun Valley 2018 Guest List Includes Shari Redstone, Leslie Moonves, Tim Cook, Mark Zuckerberg (EXCLUSIVE)

Things could get awkward at Sun Valley, the annual gathering of moguls and media barons taking place next month in Idaho.

Shari Redstone and Leslie Moonves, currently locked in a fierce battle for control of CBS that has them trading legal jabs and corporate put-downs on a daily basis, have both been invited to the one-percent confab.

By the time Sun Valley takes place in July, Moonves may have succeeded in his plan to dilute the Redstone family's control of CBS and prevent a shotgun merger with Viacom.

Viacom CEO and Redstone favorite Bob Bakish's name does not appear on the list.

Redstone and Moonves aren't the only big names gassing up the private jets and hitting Idaho for Allen & Co.'s annual media conference.

Facebook chief Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon head Jeff Bezos, General Motors CEO Mary Barra, Flickr and Slack founder Stewart Butterfield, and Apple head Tim Cook have all made the grade, according to a copy of the guest list obtained by Variety.

Warren Buffett, the "Oracle of Omaha," who often drives his own station wagon to the event, is another industry giant expected to be rubbing elbows at the "masters of the universe" retreat.

Sun Valley isn't just a chance for media chiefs to trade their power suits for blue jeans and windbreakers.

It's been a breeding ground of sorts for corporations looking to expand or be acquired.

AOL's disastrous union with Time Warner, Comcast's purchase of NBC/Universal, and Disney's deal for Capital Cities/ABC are just a few of the blockbuster mergers that have been hatched at Sun Valley.

Harvey Weinstein, a regular at the investment bank's conference, did not get an invite this year.

He's currently facing rape charges in New York after allegations emerged that he had harassed and assaulted dozens of women.

However, Charlie Rose, the CBS and PBS host who also faced multiple allegations of harassment, is on the list.

Tom Brokaw, who has also been accused of harassment, is another invitee.

Weinstein has said any encounters were consensual, Rose has apologized for "inappropriate behavior," and Brokaw has denied the allegations.

Jeff Bewkes, currently hoping the justice department loses its bid to block Time Warner's sale to AT&T, is on the guest list.

He joins AT&T chief Randall Stephenson, the potential future boss of his media company, among the invited.

Rupert Murdoch and sons Lachlan and James have once again made the cut.

Like Bewkes, their empires are about to be absorbed into even larger conglomerates, either by Disney or Comcast, both of which are jockeying for the right to own most of 21st Century Fox.

Both Comcast chairman Brian Roberts and Walt Disney Company chairman Bob Iger are expected to attend.

Other notable invitees include Nike founder Phil Knight, Netflix founder Reed Hastings and chief content officer Ted Sarandos, Peter Chernin, Liberty Global CEO Mike Fries, NBA commissioner Adam Silver, Softbank founder Masayoshi Son,Wasserman Chairman and Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee Chairman Casey Wasserman, and University of Chicago President Robert Zimmer.

Most press is kept behind rope lines, but a few high-profile members of the media are allowed inside the secretive gathering to see and often moderate panels on topics ranging from politics to healthcare to higher education.

This year's guest list includes CNN's Anderson Cooper and Van Jones, CNBC's Becky Quick and Andrew Ross Sorkin, CBS's Gayle King, and the New York Times' Thomas Friedman.

Graydon Carter, the former Vanity Fair chief and another Sun Valley staple, was not included on this year's list.

Radhika Jones, his replacement at the magazine, was not included among the expected attendees.

Producer Brian Grazer, ICM super-agent Chris Silbermann, Jeffrey Katzenberg, Candice Bergen, MPAA chairman Charles Rivkin, "Breaking Bad" creator Vince Gilligan, and CAA co-chairman Bryan Lourd are Hollywood figures who may hit the ski resort for what has been dubbed summer camp for billionaires.

Guests aren't just culled from the executive suites.

There are several people who represent the worlds of politics and advocacy, among them Environmental Defense Fund President Fred Krupp, diplomat Martin Indyk, Cleveland Clinic CEO Toby Cosgrove, NYPD Deputy Commissioner for Intelligence & Counterterrorism John Miller, and Smart Approaches to Marijuana Co-Founder Kevin Sabet.

Being on the guest list doesn't necessarily mean a mogul or media icon will attend.

Jerry Seinfeld, for instance, was once featured on the round-up of invitees but never actually showed up.

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Kevin Abraham Sabet-Sharghi (born February 20, 1979) is a former three-time White House Office of National Drug Control Policy advisor, having been the only person appointed to that office by both a Republican (Administration of George W. Bush) and Democrat (Obama Administration and Clinton Administration). He is also an assistant professor adjunct at Yale University Medical School, a fellow at Yale’s Institution for Social and Policy Studies, the Director of the Drug Policy Institute, and a courtesy assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida.
 With Patrick J. Kennedy, Sabet co -founded Smart Approaches to Marijuana in Denver in January 2013.
 Sabet is the author of numerous articles and monographs including the book "Reefer Sanity: Seven Great Myths About Marijuana", now in its second edition.
 Sabet is the recipient of the Nils Bejerot Award given in conjunction with H.M. Queen Silvia of Sweden and was one of four Americans (along with Jonathan Caulkins, Bertha Madras, and Robert DuPont) invited by Pope Francis to the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences to discuss marijuana and other drug policy.


She was elected to the Seattle City Council in 2017 to represent the at-large position 8.

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# M. Lorena González and Teresa Mosqueda win Seattle City Council seats

Originally published November 7, 2017 at 8:21 pm

Six of the nine Seattle City Council members will be women after M. Lorena González and Teresa Mosqueda won election Tuesday night.

M. Lorena González was handily re-elected Tuesday to the Seattle City Council, while Teresa Mosqueda defeated Jon Grant in the other council race.

The nine-member council will soon have six female members to work with new mayor Jenny Durkan.

González, a civil-rights attorney and former legal adviser to ex-Mayor Ed Murray, won 68 percent of the vote against South Seattle neighborhood activist Pat Murakami on Tuesday.

González raised $130,000 more in campaign contributions than Murakami and won a wider range of endorsements, including those of the Sierra Club, Planned Parenthood and King County Democrats, in the citywide Council Position 9 contest.

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In the Council Position 8 race, also citywide, Mosqueda got 62 percent in Tuesday's count.

Mosqueda, political director of the Washington State Labor Council, and Grant, former executive director of the Tenants Union of Washington State, were separated by nearly 23,000 votes.

The two were vying for the seat that was held by retiring Councilmember Tim Burgess.

"I'm excited," González said about the six women on the council and Durkan's election.

"It may provide us the opportunity to work on the gender wage gap affecting working women in the city," she said.

It will be the most women on the council since 1994, when there were seven.

Durkan will be Seattle's first female mayor since Bertha Landes' election in 1926.

Mosqueda said her top priority is to fight for equal pay for women.

"I have legislation ready to go," she said.

"Tonight is a night to celebrate" the campaign's work, said Grant, who was endorsed by Councilmember Kshama Sawant and her Socialist Alternative Party, as well as The Seattle Times.

Every local Democratic Party group and most unions endorsed Mosqueda, whose supporters include U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal.

Mosqueda and Grant disagreed over affordable-housing policy.

Grant said he would demand that developers devote 25 percent of their projects to low-income housing — rather than the 2 to 11 percent required under the city's existing framework.

Mosqueda said that might sound good but would deter developers from building needed housing.

Taxpayer-funded "democracy vouchers" figured prominently in both council races.

Grant and Mosqueda each collected the $300,000 maximum in vouchers from Seattle voters.

González received $213,175 in vouchers while Murakami got $128,850.

Bob Young: 206-464-2174 or byoung@seattletimes.com

Teresa Mosqueda is an American politician and labor activist from Seattle, Washington.


This interactive educational website tells story of African-Americans and the role they played, and still play, in the horse industry.

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# The Chronicle of African Americans in the Horse Industry

Civil War soldier, ca. 1860, Rick Carlile Collection

Please join us on this journey of discovery.

Funded by a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and housed at the International Museum of the Horse, the Chronicle of African Americans in the Horse Industry will build on information discovered while creating the exhibit Black Horsemen of the Kentucky Turf.

The history of the horse industry in America cannot be separated from African American history.

From slavery to agriculture to professional sports, one could say that the entire equine industry has been built on the backs of African Americans.

Recognition of individuals and their contributions and achievements is long overdue.

The memory holders are fading away and it is critical to document their experiences and knowledge before it is too late.

The goal of the Chronicle of African Americans in the Horse Industry is to create an online, interactive archive to house and display photos, documents, artifacts, and oral histories of African Americans who have worked, and continue to work in equine industries.

Its users will be able to connect the past to the present.

It is our intention to engage a diverse audience of people and communities to provide valuable input relating to the Chronicle.

This will help us create a resource that is valued and useful and will include:

Descendants and African Americans currently working in the horse industry will be able to explore the past and connect history to modern experiences.

The perspective of descendants will steer the development of the website, with a dedication to preserving their heritage with the utmost respect.

We invite them to add their own voice to the Chronicle.

Historical institutions, genealogists, and libraries will integrate their collections and gain ease of access to use documents for their own interpretive purposes.

We invite them to link their collections to the Chronicle.

Students and teachers will gain a better understanding of African American history and its connections to local places and events related to the horse industry.

We invite them to provide feedback on use of the Chronicle.

College students and professors will engage with primary documents and related content, learn the importance of metadata, and build the Chronicle by entering information.

We invite them to help assemble the Chronicle.

If you have a connection to African Americans in the horse industry or would like to be involved in the development of the Chronicle, please email [email protected] or call 859-259-4279.

This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.

African Cemetery No. 2 (Lexington, Kentucky)

 Over 150 graves are of those who worked in the equine occupations-trainers, jockeys, foremen, stablehands, and grooms. The range of birthdates, 1842 to 1897, and the dates of death, 1890 to 1932, indicates the prominence of African-Americans in a thriving horse and racing industry. Birthdates before 1866, show the likelihood that eight people were born enslaved.
 Thoroughbred Racing Hall of Fame jockey, Isaac Burns Murphy, born 1861, was originally buried in African Cemetery No. 2. Murphy, the first jockey to win three Kentucky Derbys, died February 12, 1896 of pneumonia.  In 1967, his remains were moved to the Man o' War gravesite off Russell Cave Road, and were moved again in 1987 to the Kentucky Horse Park. The International Museum of the Horse, located at the Kentucky Horse Park, is collaborating with cemetery volunteers in creation of the Chronicle of African-Americans in the Horse Industry.


Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF): LIPA was placed in the gold category, achieving the 15th highest award in the country.

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artsThe Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts opened in 1996 to forge a new approach to performing arts training.

It was co-founded by our Lead Patron Sir Paul McCartney and Mark Featherstone-Witty, Founder, and is housed in his old school, which underwent a multi-million pound renovation to transform it into a state-of-the-art performing arts higher education institution.

Today LIPA is an acknowledged part of the UK's higher education provision for the performing arts, recognised and ranked alongside institutions a lot older.

LIPA provides learning for the main skills needed for putting on a show (performers and those who make performance possible), uniquely blending specialist and generic skills.

LIPA offers degree courses in Acting, Applied Theatre and Community Drama, Creative Technologies & Performance (BA (Hons)/MArts programme), Dance, Management of Music, Entertainment, Theatre & Events, Music, Sound Technology, Theatre and Performance Design and Theatre and Performance Technology.

We also run full-time one year Foundation Certificates in Acting, Dance and Popular Music and Music Technology.

To further develop your skills we offer full-time one year masters-level degree courses in Acting (Company) and Costume Making.

We train students for a future of sustained work.

Most recent figures have shown that over the most recent four year period, 89% of LIPA's graduates are in work four years after leaving, while 78% work in the performing arts.

To achieve this, our curriculum is constantly being revised.

We offer a range of programmes, including Foundation Certificate courses and undergraduate courses offering BA (Honours) Degree programmes for applicants aged 18 and over.

Our courses are validated by Liverpool John Moores University

## Quality Assurance Agency - UK Quality Mark

We are pleased to note the excellent outcome from the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA), following its review in May 2015.

A team of QAA reviewers visited Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts and judged that its academic standards, the quality and enhancement of its student learning opportunities, and the quality of information about its learning opportunities all meet UK expectations.

The review identifies a number of examples of good practice.

the comprehensive range of individually tailored and flexible support provided for studentsthe strategic approach to the use of deliberate and collaborative interdisciplinary practice, which prepares students for long term employability.

The review made one recommendation for improvement: to work with the awarding body to clarify and implement the policy on assessment to ensure that students receive feedback and marks in a timely manner.

QAA's Higher Education Reviews are carried out by experts from other universities and colleges.

Every review team includes a student reviewer, because QAA believes that students should be partners in the quality assurance of their education.

The team that reviewed Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts included Professor Hilary Grainger (University of the Arts, London), Associate Professor Alan Howard (University of Reading) and Laurence McNaughton (student reviewer from the University of Southampton).

"The quality marks we achieve are reassuring for many.

This one from QAA is especially welcomed."

Read the full QAA report here (external link)

Action Plan Arising From QAA Higher Education

ReviewStudent Representatives were consulted on the agreed action plan at the meeting of Institute Student Advisory Board on Thursday 26 November 2015 and confirmed that they endorsed the actions outlined.

## Teaching Excellence Framework Results

Our teaching received the top Gold rating in the Government's Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Awards, which were announced in June 2017.The

award means that the TEF panel judged that LIPA delivers consistently outstanding teaching, learning and outcomes for its students.

It is of the highest quality found in the

TEF was introduced by the Government to build evidence about the performance of the UK's world-class higher education sector, complementing the existing Research Excellence Framework with an analysis of teaching and learning outcomes.

, the panel also released a statement of findings about LIPA.

It highlighted and praised:A strategic focus on vocational and professional education, demonstrated by a rigorous approach for ensuring that students attain the skills most highly valued by the Creative Industries.

An exemplary simulated work environment, including masterclasses, mock auditions, placements and regular public performances.

A strategic use of teacher-practitioners to frequently engage students with developments from the forefront of scholarship and professional practice.

Outstanding levels of student satisfaction for academic support.

Very high levels of student satisfaction for teaching, assessment and feedback.

LIPA celebrated its tenth birthday in January 2006 with a performance at the Liverpool Philharmonic Hall. Featherstone-Witty published a book, 'LIPA - The First Ten Years in Pictures', to commemorate this anniversary.
 Most recent figures have shown that over the most recent four-year period, 92% of LIPA's graduates are in work three years after leaving, while 84% work in the performing arts. To achieve this, the curriculum is constantly being revised.
 LIPA was recognized in 2006 as the first new higher education institution to have been started from scratch in living memory. As a performing arts HEI, LIPA is attended by the highest number of international students in the UK. LIPA has been awarded the Gold Standard from Investors in People.


The school opened in fall 2016 with 400 9th-grade students.

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# New $300 million Portola High School opens in Irvine to 400 freshmen

Audrey Chiang, 14, is reunited with her middle school buddies on the new Portola High School campus in Irvine.

Wednesday was the first day of school for the freshman.

Other grades will be faded in the following years.

Portola High School in Irvine welcomes students for the first time on Wednesday.

The Irvine Unified School District hopes the new high school to accommodate students from new developments in Irvine.

This year only freshman will attend and each year a new grade will be phased in.

A "green roof" atop the student union in Irvine's newest school, Portola High.

The roof, covered in plants, helps provide insulation and is also aesthetically pleasing.

Students get acquainted with the student union featuring "collaboration space."

The furniture is movable for a non-rigid learning environment.

It is attached to the library also known as the "learning commons."

Portola High School in Irvine welcomes students to the new 43-acre campus on Monday.

Students gather on a landing at the new Portola High School in Irvine where they lookout for friends on the first dqy of school.

Students make their way to class the first day at the new 43-acre Portola High School in Irvine.

Principal John Pehrson chats with students at the new Portola High School in Irvine on the first day of classes.

Teacher Desiree Shaffer gives students a tour of the new Portola High School in Irvine on the first day of classes.

Portola High School students Anthony Chan, from left, Ki Joon Lee, Yun Seong Jung, and Leo Yu, all 14, check out Yu's schedule on the first day of the brand new school.

The new 43-acre Portola High School in Irvine features a student union with "collaboration space."

The building contains movable furniture for a non-rigid learning environment.

Hannah Bae, left, and Aliyah Davis, both 14, get an unexpected surprise as they scramble to class he first day of Portola High School in Irvine.

Bae was looking for her Spanish class and Davis her Chinese class.

A freshman rushes to the first day of class at the new Portola High School in Irvine.

of ExpandBy Tomoya Shimura | tshimura@scng.com | Orange County RegisterAugust 25, 2016 at 7:00 am

IRVINE – Welcomed by the giant drawing of a bulldog mascot that faces a parking lot and the smell of pristine classrooms, students, teachers and staff kicked off the historic first day of Portola High School.

There wasn't much celebration Wednesday morning, except for some parents taking photos of their children at entrances to the new campus.

Still, there wasn't a lack of excitement among the 400 students, all of whom are freshmen.

"I'm just so thrilled that we started this brand new school," said Laurel Feldner, 14, who came from Jeffrey Trail Middle School.

"All of the teachers seemed so excited to be here.

I know that I'm super excited to be here, and they just all seemed very ready to teach us."

The opening of Portola High, the Irvine Unified School District's fifth comprehensive high school, is a reflection of what's happening in Irvine, one of the fastest-growing cities in California.

Adjacent to the northeast side of the Orange County Great Park, the school serves students from the developing Great Park Neighborhoods and other parts of north Irvine.

"We are already beginning to see, because of the growth, increased populations of students at our other high schools that were reaching levels that were less than ideal," Irvine Unified Superintendent Terry Walker said.

"It's why it was so critical that we open this school this year."

The district on Wednesday also opened its new K-8 school, Beacon Park School, serving 426 students from Pavilion Park, Beacon Park and other Great Park Neighborhood communities.

Portola High's 43-acre campus will eventually enroll as many as 2,600 students in grades 9 through 12.

Principal John Pehrson and his team have infused ideas of modern learning throughout the school, even into its design.

One of their core principles is collaboration among students, and also among teachers.

The student center features movable chairs and sofas and a library with dedicated quiet rooms, giving it the look and feel of a college or a Silicon Valley office.

District officials looked at such universities as Stanford and UC Irvine to install design and innovation labs where students can work on projects, Walker said.

Teachers are encouraged to work together at their commons space.

The school will also focus on helping students find, nurture and pursue their passion, Pehrson said.

"We are living in an age now where … the post-secondary institutions they like to see what the student is about," Pehrson said.

"It's not just about checking all the boxes anymore.

It's about 'Who is this person and will this person be a fit in this school?'"

Feldner, the student, said she looks forward to starting her own clubs, such as speech and debate and acting.

"I'd like to be able to have an outlet in school that has my interests in mind, so being able to start all those clubs, I feel like that's really huge," she said.

Innovation and design labs are going through finishing touches and a 720-seat theater is expected to be completed in December, district officials said.

Construction of the campus cost $157 million, which was paid through the community facilities district, according to Irvine Unified.

The land, worth $143 million, was provided by the area developer, FivePoint Communities.

Some residents were concerned about stained soil discovered at the campus site, once part of the former El Toro Marine base.

The Department of Toxic Substances Control in May determined the site poses no risk to those who study or work there.

The report from the state agency concludes that the likely source of the compounds detected in the soil gas is recycled irrigation water.

The school's football team has 20 players signed up so far and has been practicing since June.

Head Coach Peter Abe said the Bulldogs' goal is to learn the game and make sure everybody's safe and stick to their "pedigree," or core values.

"If we do that, no matter what the result is on the field, I think the Portola community's going to be proud of our program," he said.

"We don't measure ourselves in wins and losses; we measure ourselves in how well we protect the pedigree."

Contact the writer: 949-445-6397 or tshimura@ocregister.com

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English began as a gospel singer and many of her most popular songs contain references to God, faith and belief in oneself.

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# Kim English, iconic House music songstress, has died

Known for classic club hits like "Unspeakable Joy" and "Supernatural", the early House music breakout star frequently collaborated with Ten City and others

By Dawn Onley - April 3, 2019House music singing star, Kim English.

Kim English, an iconic House music and dance club music star, has died.

English, who was from Chicago, began her career in 1994 with the thumping beat of the dance music song "Nite Life," which she recorded with Byron Burke and Byron Stingily, founding members of legendary House group Ten City.

Nervous Records first announced the news in a Facebook post late Tuesday night.

English made it to #1 on the Billboard Dance charts for her hit "Unspeakable Joy" between 1999 and 2002.

She would enjoy top ranking on Billboard with a total of five of her singles.

Her voice was well known on tracks that first surfaced in the second wave of Chicago House in the early- to mid 90s, as House music was becoming more mainstream.

One fan, Andrew Cicale, responded to the Facebook post about the influences English had on his life.

"Rip I have so much vinyl from nervous records with Kim English still.

She was a huge part of my younger years and also she is a huge reason dance music is embedded in my soul.

Maurice Joshua was a friend of English's and often worked with her, including on her 2007 album My Destiny.

He offered his condolences to English, whom he called his "sister in music" and said he always respected her talents.

"Your voice could transcend like no other!

I'm so honored to have worked with you for many years…

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Throughout her career, English experienced success on the US Hot Dance Music/Club Play, Hot Dance Singles Sales, Hot Dance Airplay charts and the UK Singles Chart, beginning in the mid-1990s and continuing into the 21st century. Although her first chart entry on the Hot Dance Music/Club Play came in 1995 and was only a moderate hit ("I Know a Place", No. 32), her debut single was actually "Nitelife" in 1994, produced and written by Ten City. Between 1999 and 2002 she scored six hits in a row that hit the top two, five of those went to number one: "Unspeakable Joy", "Missing You", "Bumpin' and Jumpin'", "Everyday" and "Treat Me Right". All of these hit singles (excluding "I Know a Place") are featured on her debut album "Higher Things", released in late 1998 on the New York City based record label, Nervous Records NYC. "Unspeakable Joy" and "Everyday" went on to become her most successful radio hits. The album also featured a cover version of Anita Baker's song "Been So Long".


A larger, open conference, the IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2016), was held in October 2016, in San Diego, California.

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# Highlights of the 1st IEEE International Conference on Rebooting Computing (ICRC 2016)

ICRC 2016, sponsored by the Rebooting Computing Initiative (RCI) of the IEEE Future Directions Committee, was held 17-19 October, 2016, at the Hilton San Diego/Del Mar, in Del Mar, California.

ICRC included 150 participants from the US, Europe, and Asia, with a goal of fostering continued improvements in future computer technology.

The program for the conference is available on the ICRC Program page.

Many of the talks are accessible from IEEE.tv, and many of the papers are included in the ICRC Proceedings on IEEE Xplore.

ICRC built on a series of 4 RCI Summits held from 2013-2015.

The conference chair was Stan Williams of HPE, and the program chair was John Paul Strachan, also of HPE.

A second ICRC is being planned for Oct. 2017 in Washington, DC.

Please check back for further information on ICRC 2017.

The conference opened with a review of the history of computing by Dr. Robert Leland of Sandia, focusing on the early role of John Von Neumann in establishing traditional digital computer architectures in the 1950s, followed by Moore's Law scaling of transistors since the 1960s.

But both of these are reaching practical limitations: Delays and power are dominated by shuttling bits between logic and memory, and smaller CMOS transistors are no longer cheaper and more reliable.

In order to continue to improve performance, we need to "reboot" computer technology itself, at all levels.

This will not require discarding what we have developed, but rather taking a second look at a variety of evolutionary and revolutionary approaches that offer ways around the current limitations.

Neuromorphic or Brain-Inspired Computing

New Devices Technologies such as Memristive, Spintronic, and Superconducting

Equally important as incorporating new devices and architectures, papers also addressed the need to co-design software and machine learning to take full advantage of the new hardware.

The ICRC was organized around 6 keynote talks on a variety of novel approaches to computing.

Prof. Neil Gershenfeld of MIT spoke about revolutionizing digital manufacturing, by developing software that merges computation with communication and 3D fabrication.

Prof. Leon Chua of UCLA, who first proposed the memristor more than 40 years ago, spoke about a general organizing principle for digital and analog systems, "local activity".

Prof. Hideo Mabuchi of Stanford University introduced coherent photonic circuits that can be integrated together with electronic circuits

Prof. David Divincenzo of Aachen University (Germany) reviewed recent progress in research toward quantum computing systems, particularly those based on superconducting qubits.

Prof. Kwabena Boahen of Stanford spoke about neuromorphic chips that combine analog computing with digital communications.

Prof. Luping Shi of Tsinghua University (China) reviewed approaches to brain-inspired computing systems.

There were 45 contributed talks, presented in two parallel sessions, papers for which will be included in the Proceedings that will be available online through IEEE Xplore.

These were organized into 4 sessions on neuromorphic computing, together with sessions on approximate computing, adiabatic computing, optical computing, quantum computing, cellular networks, superconducting and novel devices, error-tolerant logic, and memory-based architectures.

In addition, there were 19 posters presented at a poster session Monday evening, on a similar wide variety of topics.

Tuesday evening, after the Conference Banquet, there was a "Wild and Crazy Idea" (WACI) session, where 5 speakers gave brief presentations, often humorous, on an assortment of ideas for future computing.

A repeated theme was that although John Von Neumann was very influential in the early history of computing, it is time to move beyond traditional ways of thinking about computers.

A panel of speakers gave presentations on what US government agencies are doing to promote future computing, as part of the National Strategic Computing Initiative.

These agencies included the Department of Energy, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

In addition, an industry consortium (Semiconductor Research Corp.) is promoting university research in similar topics.

After the end of ICRC, a workshop on Advanced Processors was sponsored by IARPA, with talks on Quantum Annealing and Analog Computing Systems.

See the IARPA workshop page for further details.

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A second student accused Daniels of sexual assault, and brought civil lawsuits against both Daniels and the University of Michigan, in October 2018.

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# SF Opera removes David Daniels from production amid sexual assault allegations

Heidi Stober (left) as Atalanta, David Daniels (center) as Arsamenes and Lisette Oropesa as Romilda in Handel's "Xerxes" at San Francisco Opera.

The San Francisco Opera has dropped countertenor David Daniels from its June production of Handel's "Orlando" in the wake of sexual assault allegations made against the singer, the company announced Thursday, Nov. 8.

"The decision to part ways with Mr. Daniels, for business and professional reasons, was reached after considerable deliberation given the serious allegations of sexual assault, an ongoing police investigation and a lawsuit filed against the American opera singer," according to a statement from the Opera.

In August, a young singer, baritone Samuel Schultz, accused Daniels and his husband, conductor Scott Walters, of having drugged and raped him in 2010.

A second accusation followed in October, when Andrew Lipian, a student at the University of Michigan — where Daniels is on the voice faculty — sued both him and the school over an alleged sexual assault.

Daniels, who is currently on leave from the university, has denied both accusations.

"While these situations remain under investigation, San Francisco Opera is unable to present the artist on the War Memorial Opera House stage," said the company's statement.

David Daniels (left) as Arsamenes and Susan Graham as Xerxes in Handel's "Xerxes" at San Francisco Opera.

Daniels' removal is the latest in a series of consequences to befall prominent musicians who have been accused of sexual misconduct.

Most recently, the Cleveland Orchestra fired two high-profile members — longtime concertmaster William Preucil and principal trombonist Massimo La Rosa — over allegations that they had sexually harassed female colleagues and students over a period of years.

In December 2017, the San Francisco Symphony severed its longstanding ties with conductor Charles Dutoit after four women accused him of sexually assaulting them.

Daniels' scheduled appearance in the role of Medoro would have been his sixth engagement at the Opera since making his company debut in 1998 in Monteverdi's "L'Incoronazione di Poppea."

Since then he has appeared in four operas by Handel: "Giulio Cesare," "Rodelinda," "Xerxes" and most recently, in 2014, "Partenope."

The company said it would announce a replacement for Daniels at a later date.

Joshua Kosman is The San Francisco Chronicle's music critic.

Email: jkosman@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @JoshuaKosman

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In the fall of 2018, Daniels was placed on leave with the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance after allegations of sexual assault were made by a student in August 2018.


In 2017, Shout! Factory released a Blu-ray edition restoring the original songs, making this the first home media version since the original VHS release to feature a completely unaltered soundtrack.

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## Where The Buffalo Roam [Collector's Edition]

Released: June 6, 2017 • Available in US & Canada

Comic star Bill Murray is at his wildest as America's leading "Gonzo" journalist, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, the legendary underground reporter whose passion for writing was second only to his love of weird chemicals, alcohol, violence and insanity.

Along with best friend (Peter Boyle), Murray offers a manic look back at the Sixties and Seventies as an eyewitness to everything from a free-for-all San Francisco drug trial to a one-on-one bathroom interview with then Presidential candidate Richard Nixon.

This off-the-wall comedy also boasts a musical score by rock superstar Neil Young.

"…if you're a fan of Thompson's writing or the more well-known film adaptations, give this one a spin.

Shout Factory's new "Select" Blu-ray finally presents Where the Buffalo Roam with its unaltered theatrical soundtrack, plus a solid A/V upgrade and a limited but enjoyable pair of bonus features.

Recommended." – Randy Miller III, DVD Talk

"With Shout Select's terrific presentation and all of the film's original music finally back in it for the first time in many, many years, this is definitely a release worth checking out." – Tim Salmons, The Digital Bits

Inventing The Buffalo: An Interview With Screenwriter John Kaye

The film was scored by Neil Young, who sings the opening theme, "Home on the Range", accompanied by a harmonica. Variations on "Home on the Range" are played by Young on electric guitar as "Ode to Wild Bill" and by an orchestra with arrangements by David Blumberg on "Buffalo Stomp". Music in the film included rock and R&B songs by Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, The Temptations, the Four Tops and Creedence Clearwater Revival. Additionally, characters played by Bill Murray and René Auberjonois sing lyrics from "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".
 Because of the high cost of music licensing, most VHS and all DVD releases retained only the Neil Young score and the Creedence song "Keep on Chooglin'", with the rest of the music replaced by generic approximations of the original songs. The choice of songs for the DVD version was somewhat anachronistic, featuring 1980s-style songs in a 1960s and 1970s setting.


She has consistently been credited with inspiring a generation of singers, and is hailed as being one of the pioneers of contemporary R&B music.

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# I Will Not Tolerate Mariah Carey Slander from Perez Hilton or Anyone Else

## After the release of her 15th studio album "Caution," fans were discussing Mariah Carey's "pop" roots despite her legacy of R&B hits ingrained in Black music.

by Danielle Kwateng-ClarkNov 19 2018, 6:40pm

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If we're lucky enough, we have the free will to express those opinions in public.

That's the appeal of social media platforms like Twitter, which serve as a conduit for mass dialogue spurred by opinions.

It's also the perfect place to make statements not backed by fact or nuance like blogger Perez Hilton did about Mariah Carey's latest album.

On Friday, Carey released her 15th studio album Caution, a 10-track project that finds her working with talents like Jermaine Dupri, DJ Mustard, Blood Orange, and Timbaland.

Called "pure hip-hop-leaning pop bliss" by Rolling Stone, the album illustrates Carey's uncanny ability to write emotional lyrics coupled with uptempo production.

Caution delivers on Carey's indelible sass that we've come to expect from the 48-year-old with songs like "A No No" where she sings "Irregardless (yes, you read that non-word correct) of what transpired / It ain't even worthy of a slick reply / Even if I was the last woman alive / I would be like Ginger, you ain't Gilligan isle."

But also reminds us of her amazing ability to use nostalgia to capture the innocence of young love with songs like "8th Grade," singing, "I'm that security when you're insecure / I'll be that baby girl when you're immature."

At its core, its rhythm and blues married with pop production—a combination Carey became the archetype for nearly three decades ago.

Soon after its release, Hilton tweeted his opinions of the album —having never listened to it.

"In case you didn't know, Mariah Carey has a new album out today," he said to his 118,000 followers.

"Sadly, she isn't expected to debut in the top 5 on the Billboard Hot 100."

When told he was missing out on a "great R&B album" by a commenter, Hilton went on to say, "And another way she's not catering to her base!

Her best work has consistently been her pop output," followed by, "Pop music is vast.

I'm not saying go for radio or go dance.

I'm just saying that R&B Mariah is so played out.

I think many of her old fans miss the other kinds of songs."

Hilton went on to proclaim that Carey's only major hits have been pop songs.

And in fact, Carey's first hit singles foreshadowed an artist who was deeply connected to genres beyond pop.

In September of 1990, Carey had her first number one song on the Billboard charts with "Vision of Love."

The song off of her debut, self-titled album spent 22 weeks on the music charts and was considered contemporary R&B.

Carey went on to have 17 additional number one hits and 34 Grammy nominations in R&B, pop, and gospel genres.

Carey has sang alongside Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin but also made records with hip-hop talents Busta Rhymes, Jay-Z, Diddy, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and the late Ol' Dirty Bastard.

As noted by Noisey, Beyoncé cites Carey's runs on "Vision of Love" as her template for experimenting with the range of her own voice, Ariana Grande has said Carey was a "huge influence" to her career, and Carey is one of the best-selling female artists of all time.

To have lasted so long and garnered so many accolades, Carey had to have appeal beyond sticking to one genre alone for cross-cultural notoriety.

Yes, she was a marketing dream when she first hit the scene having mainstream appeal as a biracial singer with an eight-octave range.

But make no mistake—with Aretha Frankin, Gladys Knight, and the Clark Sisters as influences—Carey's "base" has always been rooted in Black music that has heavily influenced several genres, including pop.

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And while some may think her work has evolved in the wrong direction, Carey's longevity and consistency in the music industry is exemplary—regardless of where this current album falls on the charts.

Carey has done the work and it speaks for itself.

Before we jump on the internet and slander artists, it's critical to understand that music is a young person's sport.

Mass appeal tends to lean toward new, younger talent while maturing artists often struggle to stay relevant with sales, consequently, reflecting this preference.

Carey's legacy, which is firmly rooted in Black culture, cannot be minimized to one genre or one moment in time.

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After a relatively unsuccessful period, she returned to the top of music charts with "The Emancipation of Mimi" (2005), which became the world's second best-selling album of 2005. Its single, "We Belong Together", made her the only artist to top the "Billboard" Hot 100 Decade-End chart twice. With the release of "Touch My Body" (2008), Carey gained her eighteenth number-one single in the United States, more than any other solo artist. The next year, she starred in the film "Precious", which won her Breakthrough Actress Performance Award Palm Springs International Film Festival.
 Throughout her career, Carey has sold more than 200 million records worldwide, making her one of the best-selling music artists of all time. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), she is the third-best-selling female artist in the United States, with 64 million certified albums. In addition to this, she is listed as the female songwriter and producer with the most number one songs in U.S. chart history. In 2012, she was ranked second on VH1's list of the 100 Greatest Women in Music. Aside from her commercial accomplishments, Carey has won five Grammy Awards, nineteen World Music Awards, ten American Music Awards, and fifteen Billboard Music Awards.


In the 1980 case "Godfrey v. Georgia", the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that murder can be punished by death only if it involves a narrow and precise aggravating factor.

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# Godfrey v. Georgia, 446 U.S. 420 (1980)

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