By Tony GarciaPublished: May 2025 at 9:43 AM CDT|Updated: 17 minutes agoEmail This LinkShare on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInSPARTA (WSMV) - A collaborative rescue effort involving ten agencies ended with the rescue of a trapped hiker on Saturday in White County According to the Sparta Rescue Squad, the call came in around 10:45 a.m Here are instructions on how to watch WSMV4 live on various platforms. An individual was unable to exit one of the caves and had become trapped inside the person was safely removed from the enclosure the Bon De Croft Volunteer Fire Department and TN Fire Chaplains all assisted with the rescue Putnam County Rescue also sent four crew members to cover that county for the Sparta team during the rescue efforts — First responders rescued a Nashville man from a cave in White County Saturday the Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service says they were called to help the Sparta Rescue Squad and White County Emergency Management on the rescue mission in Blue Spring Cave in Sparta is a Vanderbilt student who was on an overnight research trip with classmates The Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service says he got sick three miles into the cave It took hours for crews to complete the mission according to Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service his classmates and rescuers made it out safely by 7:30 p.m Captain Brandon Powers released the following statement: The Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service says Blue Spring Cave is privately owned and gated Already have an account? Log in here the man and crews were safely out of the cave Digital Producer/Weekend Assignment Editor The Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service was called to help rescue a sick man from a cave in White County Saturday afternoon the Rescue Service joined the Sparta Rescue Squad and White County Emergency Management when a Nashville resident could not leave the White County cave Email notifications are only sent once a day Your browser is out of date and potentially vulnerable to security risks.We recommend switching to one of the following browsers: Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device The Aussie rocker added choral touches and a little humor to sweeten his long and heavy set with the Bad Seeds at the Armory There were the usual tunes about midnight-dark souls and violence and unholiness The songs that really hit hardest at Sunday night’s unrelenting Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds concert at the Armory in Minneapolis They didn’t bother recruiting an opening act and performed for nearly three hours. In just one of those hours, they covered more emotional and musical ground than most full concerts, veering between boisterous, soaring, crescendoing epics enhanced by a four-piece choir to more hushed, tender moments that would turn the three-quarters-full Armory close to pin-drop quiet. As is always the case when he’s out with the Bad Seeds, Cave himself covered a lot of ground in the literal sense, too. The lanky, 67-year-old singer would frequently jump up from his grand piano to run onto a walkway that jutted out from the stage, where he would frequently get right in fans’ faces or hold their hands. At one point early in the set during the intensely orchestrated “Conversion,” Cave marched back and forth onstage and vehemently pointed at fans over and over, loudly proclaiming the refrain to each of them: “Stop! You’re beautiful! Stop! You’re beautiful!” He sang it as if he were furious at them for thinking otherwise, too. “Conversion” was one of eight songs in the 23-song set list from the elegantly arranged, emotionally wracked new Bad Seeds album, “Wild God.” The record found Cave coming out the other end of a dark tunnel in which he mourned the deaths of two sons, one just 15. He truly seemed to want to bring light to the rest of the world as he ran in and out of the spotlight Sunday. Having a gospel-tinged quartet of backup singers was just one of many ways levity and a joyful spirit balanced out the sad undercurrent in tunes like the eerily electrified show opener “Frogs” and one of the show’s quieter highlights, “Bright Horses.” Two of the “Wild God” tracks, “Cinnamon Horses” and “Joy,” grew from languid-at-first ballads into triumphal, hands-in-the-air musical climaxes with help from the extra singers and the Bad Seeds’ multi-instrumental approach. This is one rock band that can blend in violin, vibraphones and even timpani the way most bands simply change up guitar pedals. Some of the older tunes that dotted the set list were given new treatment, starting with 2004’s “O Children,” about which Cave said he picked for the tour because “here we are living in a world today that can’t take care of its children.” That was followed by an ultra-manic “Jubilee Street” and muddied, tribal-sounding “Tupelo.” Between the heaviness of both the old and new songs, Cave managed to work in bits of lighthearted humor, too — starting with pretending he thought he was in Milwaukee, and including some biting banter with audience members.  The biggest laugh came in the encore when he picked out the murder ballad “Henry Lee” for the first time this tour and had to ask new bassist Colin Greenwood for the song’s musical key. “Colin knows because he’s in Radiohead, and they know stuff like that,” Cave quipped. After “Henry Lee,” all the Bad Seeds walked offstage and left Cave to finish the show by himself with a solo piano version of “Into My Arms,” a song that casts doubt on everything except the power of love. It was the lightest and simplest-sounding song in a long and very hard-hitting performance, and yet it felt like the most powerful one, too. Here’s the set list from Sunday’s Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds concert at the Armory in Minneapolis: Chris Riemenschneider has been covering the Twin Cities music scene since 2001, long enough for Prince to shout him out during "Play That Funky Music (White Boy)." The St. Paul native authored the book "First Avenue: Minnesota's Mainroom" and previously worked as a music critic at the Austin American-Statesman in Texas. Music Gioachino Rossini’s comic opera plays at the Ordway Music Theater in St Benson Boone’s American Heart Tour will open at Xcel Energy Center on Aug just two years after he played in town at the Fine Line The Grammy-winning Americana star heads to Minneapolis because of Prince Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInCAVE CREEK, AZ (AZFamily) — Take a trip to Cave Creek, and you may smell freshly smoked meat at the entrance of the western town. The aroma will soon lead you to Cryin’ Coyote Barbeque a family-owned restaurant serving tasty BBQ sandwiches Cody and Beth Edgin opened the Cryin’ Coyote near Cave Creek Road and Basin Road after purchasing the restaurant from a previous owner and the family changed the name to represent the coyotes that howl throughout the night in the area “There wasn’t a night that I didn’t go to bed as a child up in Cave Creek where the coyotes weren’t crying and singing me to sleep,” says Cody The family then created their own recipes and implemented some from their grandparents’ to make the mouthwatering menu all of our meat is all smoked in house as well too Cryin’ Coyote offers a variety of smoked meats The restaurant also serves filling plates with your choice of meat and sides and chile relleno rice esquites street corn which is Cody’s great-great-grandmother’s recipe Another side dish is green chili cornbread They also offer a hefty loaded baked potato that’s topped with butter The Cryin’ Coyote sandwiches have a generous portion of meat that will leave you satisfied and wanting more For those who can’t decide which meat to get stacked between a bun with a choice of one side Remember to top off your meal with one of Cryin’ Coyote‘s homemade BBQ sauces the Cryin’ Coyote makes delicious banana pudding and a Texas Sheet Cake which is made with Beth’s grandmother’s recipe and has been in the family for generations The Edgins say 90% of their menu is gluten-free We make it every morning fresh for everybody another important aspect of the Cryin’ Coyote is that the Edgins can run the restaurant as a family “I understand now having our own family-owned business because we get to spend quality time together We get a sense of fulfillment doing it together,” said Cody “It really lends itself to the Cave Creek community as well with our family being here and being able to support everything that goes on in Cave Creek.” The Edgins hope to open more restaurants in the Cave Creek area in the future they are preparing to celebrate their second anniversary on the Fourth of July So that’s been the sentiment and that’s what we‘re trying to share,” said Beth See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? Please click here to report it Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send it to us here with a brief description Valerie and Melvin Cordell are accused of forcing their 16-year-old daughter to engage in sexual acts with her siblings in front of other adults ARIZONA TRAFFIC 4:09 PM | Updated: 5:13 pm BY PAYNE MOSES PHOENIX — The westbound lanes of Loop 101 Pima Freeway were reopened near Cave Creek Road on Friday after a vehicle fire, the Arizona Department of Transportation announced The eastbound lanes were not impacted by the fire Drivers were told to expect delays and to take alternative routes to reach their destination Get the latest KTAR News 92.3 FM traffic alerts sent straight to your phone by texting “TRAFFIC” to 620620 Follow @pwmoses11 Have a story idea or tip? Pass it along to the KTAR News team here (WKRC) - A mother and father allegedly kept their seven children in "deplorable" conditions forcing them to live in a semi-underground cave as they sexually assaulted them According to a press release from the 6th Judicial District Attorney's Office investigators were first tipped off to the crime when someone reported "criminal sexual acts involving a minor" at the semi-remote property where police would soon find the children agents learned that the family of 9 was living on a 35-acre site located in a semi-rural portion of Luna County "Investigating officers described it as an inhumane along with buckets located all around the property filled with human feces." The oldest child told policethat she had been impregnated twice once when she was 14 and another when she was 16 50-year-old Melvin Cordell and 41-year-old Valerie Cordell were both arrested following the investigation Melvin was charged with 24 counts of sexual assault and child abuse one count of criminal sexual contact of a minor one count of conspiracy to commit child abuse Valerie was charged with 16 counts of child abuse and one count of conspiracy to commit child abuse by Jakai Spikes CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — Rescue crews from Hamilton County had a busy and challenging weekend, pulling a Vanderbilt University student out of a cave where he became trapped we talked with members of the Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service who were called up to Sparta 'We were thinking it might be a multi-day rescue.' The student became trapped in Blue Spring Cave near Sparta The Chattanooga Hamilton County Rescue Service says the student who was on a research trip with classmates fell ill three miles into the cave and was too weak to exit on his own The mission required several hours of effort from the rescue crews rescuers considered carrying the student out on a makeshift bed known as a sked the student eventually managed to walk and crawl out of the cave on his own "At some point the cave becomes very small and there's this one section of the cave that's a little over 2,000 feet of crawling." The Hamilton County Rescue Team used a communication device resembling a World War II-era phone to maintain contact with the trapped student According to the National Speleological Society Blue Spring Cave is the longest mapped cave in Tennessee The rescue team made contact with the student three miles into the cave Share on FacebookShare on X (formerly Twitter)Share on PinterestShare on LinkedInWACO Ever since Donkey Kong came out in 1981 there have been numerous additions to the platforming genre Since there are so many games of this type out there it can be difficult to carve a spot for yourself in the sea of options Psychoflow studios and Mureena seek to do just that with a unique combination of 2d platformer and physics-based puzzler in Bionic Bay As you are dropped into the middle of a mechanical sci-fi waste there is nothing to do but move forward You will very quickly find that this place is as inhospitable as it is expansive and it will require you to be on your toes mentally and physically While there are no enemies per say the environment is just as deadly as any monster could be Our own wits and agility with maybe a bit of alien tech thrown in here and there The first and arguably most important mechanic you will learn is the jump and dash This 1 2 combo of movement will be your bread and butter throughout the game While I would not put this on the level of precision platformers like Celeste there is no denying the controls feel tight and reactive enough that you can pull off almost any maneuver With your physical abilities you also get multiple items that give you physics breaking abilities The first and most used ability you find is the swap tool This allows you to shift places with a litany of objects littered through the levels Almost any movable object can be swapped with allowing you to save yourself or reach previously inaccessible areas Just because the game is 2D don’t think that means you can treat the levels simply though With the addition of freezing rays lasers that can bounce and burn or even some Cave Johnson approved orange and blue goo the world gives you just as many tools as your own abilities When all these come together and start to click you truly start to feel what makes this game feel special One thing I think is done extremely well here is the balance of difficulty It toes the line very well between frenetic high speed mobility platformer and methodical physics puzzler With the game pacing itself between the two forms well you don’t feel like you have to be on edge or in a rush constantly but also don’t spend too long in a single spot trying to rack your brain on a solution to most situations Most times the only way to learn is by going forward oftentimes blind and that means dying… a lot Thankfully the devs have made a fairly forgiving checkpoint system There is a checkpoint built in before most challenges and I only found myself having to redo a few sections and that was usually due to it being chained together in a way that stopping in the middle could break something I never once was put back as far as to be off put from playing for a while While the gameplay is great let’s talk about the world that you are surviving in “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious.” By that metric we can call this world absolutely mesmerizing This world is a masterwork of mechanical function While desolate and derelict you can see how things in the environment would have worked together in times gone by Even though things are broken and placement seems sporadic at times There are a few downsides to these richly made environments First is that it can sometimes be difficult to figure out which way to go With no camera control you are often running blind and may think that the right way to go is down when a small movement of the camera to the right would have revealed the path Second is that while there is a decent amount of separation between foreground and background elements the player interactable elements can sometimes be hard to discern I found myself on more than a few occasions reaching for a ledge or rope that I thought was just where I needed to go but was in fact just decor this does not happen often enough to be a major issue but enough to be warned about All of these rich environments are wrapped in a perfect pairing of a sci fi soundtrack that feels straight out of synth heaven Mostly that is a joke but to be honest other than the lore dumps you usually get when unlocking a new piece of tech there is not much to the surface level story There may be more if you look deep into the environment and such but there are no collectables or journal entries to widen the overall story I don’t think this is necessarily a terrible thing though honestly; I feel like this game only needs a loose amount of firm story to hold it together Leaving enough of it open to interpretation allows you to fill in the blanks yourself if you think that’s something it needs and doesn’t bog the game down with it if you don’t I honestly think where this game will shine is speedrunning there are interesting interactions available that could be fun to watch people bend and break the game to the best of their abilities There is a mode with online leaderboards with a rotating list of levels that are available for various time periods that are completely different from those in the base game This adds an infinite amount of replayability and value for people who enjoy competing for the best times and seeing how far they can push the systems and fun physics interactions the platforming felt fluid With difficult sections and levels being tempered by a forgiving checkpoint system the game never felt like a chore to get through while staying interesting enough to draw me forward The shifting environments never felt stale and the music kept you feeling like you were truly on an alien planet With a few small hurdles in lore and mix-ups with interactable elements This is truly a title that no fan of puzzles or platformers should miss Bee Cave voters have weighed in on two propositions up for a vote in the May 3 elections Voters in the city of Bee Cave are in favor of both propositions put forward in the May 3 election authorizing a road tax and new public safety building for the city according to unofficial voting results from Travis County Early voting results show Proposition A has received 85.76% approval with a total of 843 votes counted in favor authorizing the city to collect a sales tax at the rate of 0.125% to be put toward road maintenance and repair There have been 140 votes counted against the proposition so far Proposition B has received 82.89% approval with a total of 809 votes in favor so far authorizing the city to construct a new public safety building to house the city’s police department and Lake Travis Fire Station 603 with an $18 million budget There have been 167 votes against the proposition counted as of press time Authorization of the road tax has been put before voters every four years for the last two decades Requiring voter authorization for new developments like the public safety building, however, is new for Bee Cave. Following last November’s election, in which Proposition G passed with a total of 2,200 votes in favor and leases must be put to a vote before development can occur With the public safety building approved, Bee Cave will continue planning work for the facility, which has been ongoing since it was first proposed in 2021.“The city of Bee Cave is grateful to our residents for their overwhelming support in this election,” Bee Cave Communications Director Crystal Cotti said "Early returns show voters want a new public safety building—a vital investment that will provide modern expanded space for our police and firefighters This facility will enhance emergency response capabilities and gives our first responders the tools they need to continue protecting our growing community." No firm date has yet been set for construction to begin on the public safety building but late summer or early fall was the estimated time frame provided by city officials Community Impact will update this article as more election day vote totals are released All results are unofficial until canvassed Visit communityimpact.com/voter-guide/election-results to see results from all local elections in your community Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds returned to the Miller High Life Theatre on Wednesday night for more than two hours of musical drama Bobby received his BA-Mass Communications from UWM in 1989 and has lived in Walker's Point He has published three non-fiction books in Italy – including one about an event in Milwaukee history Bobby released four LPs and had a songs featured in episodes of TV's "Party of Five" and "Dawson's Creek," and films in Japan The Yell Leaders were named the best unsigned band in their region by VH-1 as part of its Rock Across America 1998 Tour the band contributed tracks to a UK vinyl/CD tribute to the Redskins and collaborated on a track with Italian novelist Enrico Remmert He's produced three installments of the "OMCD" series of local music compilations for OnMilwaukee.com and in 2007 produced a CD of Italian music and poetry he was awarded the City of Asti's (Italy) Journalism Prize for his work focusing on that area He has also won awards from the Milwaukee Press Club He has be heard on 88Nine Radio Milwaukee talking about his "Urban Spelunking" series of stories in that station's most popular podcast.  After defeating the Chromatic Abbest, you'll be awarded the First Offensive Pictos This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page An official website of the United States government Open Search  Mobile Menu Quarterly cave search and rescue trainings paid off during two fast and successful cave rescues at Bureau of Land Management (BLM) caves in the Carlsbad area in March The Carlsbad area has the highest density of cave and karst in the world, and it is a mecca for recreational cavers, so incidents are inevitable, said Tom Evans, a geologist in the BLM’s Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) who has trained for cave rescues for 20 years and participated in both rescues They are rare events, however, and Evans had never participated in an actual rescue until the night of March 11-12 at the BLM’s Wind-Hicks Cave and the rescue took about an hour and a half from cave entry to completion Evans entered the cave and assisted local firefighters Thinking it would be a long time, if ever, before he participated in another cave rescue, fate proved Evans wrong when he received another call for an injured caver at the BLM’s Parks Ranch Cave on March 21 and a helicopter was necessary to fly the caver to a hospital in Texas It took about four hours from cave entry to completion They also highlighted the importance of the quarterly training of the area’s interagency cave search and rescue team the City of Carlsbad and Eddy County fire departments Forest Service and Carlsbad Caverns National Park Evans said he cannot understate how much it helped that everyone knew each other and had already worked together while training While rescuers found the caving party in the first rescue easily because the caller pinpointed where they were called authorities when the caver didn’t call by a certain time and although the cave register showed the caver had entered the cave includes more than four miles of passage and at least 20 entrances The caver could have been anywhere within the cave and might have even entered one of the hundreds of other caves in the area Evans sent six teams to points underground and a seventh to search a trench line that the caver had a high probability of coming out on if the caver had exited the cave That’s where a team of three City of Carlsbad firefighters found the caver The caver had exited the cave but tried to climb out of a large pit and became injured “This was a management nightmare [due to the layout of Parks Ranch Cave] and it turned out to be very easy,” Evans said “The only reason it was accomplishable was because we already had relationships with these groups It would not have been possible without those existing relationships.” about 15 firefighters from the City of Carlsbad and Eddy County Carlsbad Caverns National Park and Texas Search and Rescue a natural resource specialist for cave and karst in the BLM CFO an outdoor recreation planner for caves in the BLM CFO an environmental protection assistant in the BLM CFO were team leaders and went in the cave to search and he appreciates the respect the professional firefighters showed them during both rescues The Carlsbad-area cave search and rescue team plans to train again in May and they will have a renewed sense of purpose “It is just a matter of time before someone gets hurt again and it is important for all the agencies here to be prepared for that eventuality,” Evans said An official website of the Department of the Interior The BYU-Idaho Outdoor Activities Program will be holding a trip to the Civil Defense Caves on Wednesday explains what students can expect when participating in this event “It’s a really big open cavern that we walk to the end of and then walk back,” said McDougal “It does narrow out a lot and people can continue through and crawl on their belly It’s fun for students to see because a lot of people don’t know that they’re there so it’s fun for them to be able to go and just walk around the caves.” Caving is usually associated with crawling through tight spaces Some students may be hesitant to go because they may not realize that it’s the opposite in this case This event is intended for all students to be able to come and experience something they haven’t tried before especially for beginners who are not familiar with caving so they can just be in a cave and kind of smell what it’s like and experience the senses,” McDougal said McDougal said that the $5 that students pay covers the transportation the instruction for the activity and any gear that is needed “We take students out to the Sand Dunes and out by R Mountain,” McDougal said “We let them explore and see the cave and experience something that’s really unique to Rexburg.” For more details on this event, and any other campus event, be sure to check the BYUI I-Belong app or visit the BYU-Idaho I-Belong website BYU-Idaho Scroll displays advertisements but is not responsible for their content or claims Ad revenue supports our operations and helps keep our content accessible I-Comm Student Media is an academic program tied to the Communication Department of BYU-Idaho and is committed to representing BYU-Idaho and its parent institution The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.  Never have I seen a man on crutches move so fast I spotted him in the middle of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds' brilliant Miller High Life Theatre concert April 30 just Cave's fourth Milwaukee appearance ever in a career spanning over four decades I was mesmerized by Cave's theatrics during the soul-cleansing "Conversion" when suddenly there was a blur practically sprinting across the walkway in front of the mezzanine headed toward the doors but I think he was moving so swiftly because he wanted to miss as little of the show as possible And I doubt anyone watching Cave's concert would have blamed him even though Cave at that concert was largely contained behind a piano Cave was with his band the Bad Seeds — 10 backing musicians Greenwood on bass — giving him the freedom to transform into a spellbinding rock star in the vein of a doomsday preacher fans routinely lifted their hands to the heavens as if they were in church Watching Cave early in the night frantically pacing the edge of the stage for "Song of the Lake," repeatedly barking the words "Never mind sweetened by the soft glow of the choir and the vibrant chimes of Jim Sclavunos' xylophone That intensity paled in comparison to Cave's rendition a few songs later of "From Her to Eternity," with Cave slamming violently on the piano; unleashing visceral yeah" (an oft-repeated refrain all night) that the crowd gleefully yelled back; and gripping hands in the pit with enough might to snap fingers if he wanted Cave channeled that ferocity into theatrics like on "The White Elephant," when he mimicked ripping his eyes out sweat glistening on his forehead (despite repeated attempts to wipe it away with a towel between songs) and on "Tupelo," his hellfire voice morphing into a hideous apropos for his vivid lyrics recalling a terrifying storm As it appears on 2013 album "Push the Sky Away," it remains one of Cave's finest slow-building stunners with Cave tipping his hand about the impending turbulence early in the song with more venom in his voice as he sang of Bee a woman with history "but she had not past." The energy from the band steadily grew Cave's voice steadily became more unraveled cuing the band to push the pedal to the medal as he repeatedly cried out look at me now," the choir's radiance completing the catharsis The song climaxed with Cave violently flinging his handheld microphone and running to the piano to pound on the keys It wasn't until the seventh song "Long Dark Night," 42 minutes into a two-and-a-half-hour set that Cave and the band let some softness seep in the night's quieter moments proved to be even more powerful Cave repeated a highlight from his Riverside Theater concert a video camera was fixed tightly on his face Cave's anguish as he sang through clenched teeth "Nothing really matters" and the moving release as he crooned "I need you." The song peaked with Cave repeatedly calling out "Just breathe For "Bright Horses," he altered the lyrics to make a political message — "We're all so sick and tired of seeing things as they are," he sang adding a line about "no shortage of tyrants" — his observations about the beauty of horses encapsulated by Warren Ellis' heavenly falsetto (a sharp contrast with his hellfire playing Wednesday off the rails violin solo during "Final Rescue Attempt") And then for "Joy," there was a spine-chilling moment where the band completely dropped out triumphant metaphors of love" — the audience in an awed hush as Cave quietly sang of his epiphany "And I jumped up like a rabbit and fell down to my knees," Cave sang; the audience was so still you could hear the sound of his lips parting That song — and the aforementioned "Song of the Lake," "Long Dark Night," "Conversion" and "Final Rescue Attempt" — were among the eight performed Wednesday from Cave's latest album "Wild God," a towering testament to joy That may be surprising from such a menacing singer-songwriter best known for songs like "Red Right Hand" — a clear crowd favorite at Miller High Life Theatre and through the pain and pathos he made so palpable onstage and the sorrow and injustice that can make their attainment so hard It conjured up the kind of soul-searching emotions that can make a concert so special — and this concert Contact Piet at (414) 223-5162 or plevy@journalsentinel.com. Follow him at facebook.com/PietLevyMJS downtown Austin's Pecan Street Festival was the place to be Attendees shuffled by hundreds of vendor tents run by eager painters chefs and other local creatives trying to market their goods you had to do the Pecan Street Festival,” said Lynda Coleman a painter and a leader of Generational Artists Collective the festival's long-term location on East Sixth Street turned into a hotspot for the bustling nightlife scene The homeless population in the area also increased Festival organizers announced in late March that the festival, scheduled for this weekend, would move to the Hill Country Galleria in Bee Cave, due to the “recent restructuring” on Sixth Street they said presented an “unsustainable financial future” for the event who has worked with the festival's planning company for two decades said the city's addition of sidewalk barricades in January would've cut out a third of the usual vendors if the festival stayed downtown Coleman said the new location gives everyone more "breathing room." and it would have been a strain to try to push to keep it on Sixth Street," she said She and artist Joseph Worth both said that in recent years It was cramped as vendors rushed in to claim the first-come first-serve space and parking to unload supplies was limited and expensive Worth said he stopped working the festival in 2016 because of the conditions on Sixth Street He said homeless individuals sometimes approached vendors and made them feel uncomfortable who moved to Austin in 2007 and had considered the festival prestigious It was a real concern for people out there.” Worth isn't completely sold on the move to the Hill Country Galleria He said he worries about vendors making back the $600 booth fee trying to sell their products in a center with over 100 restaurants and shops “It's gonna go from a festival event to essentially just people shopping,” he said But Coleman said she feels confident the new location “will be a blessing” for both vendors and attendees “I see people on Facebook complaining that they moved it," she said “My question to them is: When was the last time you've been to Pecan Street Festival but you don't know the changes of everything" since 1996 Warren Ellis of the Bad Seeds discusses what has and hasn’t changed over the past decade amid family tragedy After talking a lot about how his close collaborator and bandleader has evolved and grown amid tragic events over the past decade Warren Ellis was quick to clarify one thing that hasn’t changed about Nick Cave “He hasn’t grown soft,” the Bad Seeds violinist and guitarist and Cave’s movie scoring partner said/warned It was valid to think otherwise about Cave, whose concert Sunday at the Armory in Minneapolis will be his first Twin Cities show with the Bad Seeds in more than a decade Just the mere fact that the wild-eyed Australian goth-punk legend is now 67 might suggest he has lost some of his famous intensity and physicality as a live performer Cave also has endured what Ellis called “an incredibly real and intense and very sad moment that you wouldn’t wish on anyone.” This set him down a path of emotionally guttural yet poignant musicmaking on a pair of albums “Skeleton Tree” and “Ghosteen.” Then he also unexpectedly lost an older son Amid all that, the enigmatic and mysterious Cave turned surprisingly open and accessible. He started an online blog called the Red Hand Files where he answers fans’ questions about loss and struggle He also went on solo tours and talked openly about his faith and family “I’ve watched him grow into a really remarkable person,” said Ellis a fellow Aussie who joined the Bad Seeds in 1997 after five years of leading his own band the gorgeously anarchic instrumental rock trio the Dirty Three Nick’s private life was always his private life,” Ellis continued it was something that was thrown on everybody’s doorstep So the answer to that was in his missives that he sends weekly The answers often say more about him than they do about whatever the question is.” deeply personal connection to fans has similarly transformed Cave’s shows with the Bad Seeds He noticed the difference right away when the band went on the road to support “Skeleton Tree” in 2017 (a tour that skipped Minnesota) “At the first show I think he realized he needed the audience more than ever,” Ellis recounted The shows flipped on a dime into something else something incredibly inclusive and internal “There was this whole thing going on with the audience and the outpouring of support and emotion for him The new album’s centerpiece is an elegant, choral-laced ballad called “Joy,” which seems to apply Cave’s current state of mind to current affairs around the world: now is the time for joy / And all across the world they shout bad words they shout angry words / About the end of love yet the stars stand above the earth / Bright Ellis said “Joy” also has become “a real moment” in the live shows “I think it’s an incredibly beautiful and meaningful song,” he said “It’s like a petition and an act of defiance The sentiment of it is so powerful and spiritual lowercase “joy” is also now a central component to the Bad Seeds’ concerts With a mostly stable lineup since the 2009 departure of guitarist Mick Harvey the Bad Seeds are touring with Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood filling in for an ailing Martyn Casey and it really has been a joy to play it live,” Ellis said “And I think it’s had a knockdown effect with the whole live show and the other tracks we play from the catalog The fact Nick felt good enough within himself to make a record like this one is a real triumph.” And that’s when the violinist made the point of addressing what hasn’t changed with the Bad Seeds’ bandleader who’s been known to literally get in the face of fans and sometimes crawl over them when he just seemed to be attacking the audience lunging at them and flying around,” Ellis explained with audible admiration Here’s a little more of what Ellis had to say about working with Cave as well as with one of Minnesota’s most renowned indie-rock groups On what has made him Cave’s closest collaborator for the past 25 years: “We’ve been in the studio for the last three months working on two TV series and a bunch of other stuff He wouldn’t let an idea go unless he was literally dragged away from it That’s something that made us migrate toward each other.” On their scoring work for movies including “The Road,” “Wind River,” “The Assassination of Jesse James” and last year’s Amy Winehouse biopic “Back to Black:” “A lot of it is music that your better judgment would normally tell you not to go down that path You’re serving the film and the director’s hopes for it “The scoring work will often inform what we do with the band next We’ve done a few shape changes by the time we get around to doing another Bad Seeds record which can make its way onto that record.” his and Cave’s more electrified and manic side band: “If we’re gonna do it that band is a little more of a young man’s game [laughs] Although I think it’d be kind of great if we came out bashing again in our 80s.” whose Duluth band Low recorded a hidden-gem EP 2001’s “In the Fishtank 7,” with Ellis’ old band the Dirty Three: “We toured together when we did ‘Ocean Songs,’ our quietest record It kind of forced us to play in a different way She was just a really great person — still very young then but also very levelheaded Tickets: $84-$134, ticketmaster.com. Paste and Jay Feelbender will be the night's special guests BY Sydney BrasilPublished May 5 The show follows PACKS' release of Melt the Honey last year, and the one-off single "before i was bleeding." It will also mark Paste's return to the venue after playing as Oasis for Death to T.O. back in October Feelbender released his latest single "Angel" back in March Doors will open at 8 p.m. Advance tickets for the show are available now via Ticketweb.  View this post on Instagram A post shared by Moodle (@packstheband) View this post on Instagram A post shared by PASTE (@paste_band) Be the first to get our biggest stories delivered to your inbox. The Nike Downshifter 13 in the College Grey/Cave Stone colorway offers a seamless blend of style and performance catering to both casual wearers and serious runners This versatile sneaker is crafted with a lightweight breathable mesh upper that ensures optimal airflow keeping feet cool and comfortable during intense workouts or leisurely strolls making it an ideal choice for various outfits and occasions the Cave Stone accents add a subtle contrast enhancing the shoe's overall aesthetic appeal The design is further elevated by the iconic Nike swoosh on the side Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum visited Mammoth Cave National Park in Kentucky to spotlight the park’s geological and cultural significance while also highlighting the Department’s ongoing commitment to ensuring our National Parks remain open and ready for peak season this summer The Secretary participated in a guided cave tour of the site’s artifacts and monuments passing through famous cave areas like the Historic Entrance During the visit to the longest known cave system in the world, the Secretary was joined by Congressman Brett Guthrie (KY-02) as they met with Superintendent Barclay Trimble and the management team to discuss park significance and current project initiatives Tuesday’s visit took place during National Park Week which comes as the Department remains laser focused on guaranteeing our parks are accessible to the American public.  Secretary Doug Burgum visited White Sands National Park in New Mexico today home to the world’s largest gypsum dunefield and one of America’s most extraordinary landscapes Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum today directed the National Park Service to implement an Executive Order from President Donald J aimed at enhancing public safety and cleaning up NPS lands in the District of Columbia The new directives focus on revitalizing public spaces addressing crime and making the nation's capital both cleaner and safer for both residents and visitors The Department of the Interior today announced that the National Park Service has signed a new 10-year lease and right of way with Williams Transco for the continued use of historic hangars in the Floyd Bennett Field unit of Gateway National Recreation Area This agreement ensures these historically significant structures will be used for energy infrastructure providing a vital resource to New York City and demonstrating a responsible use of federal lands This page was not helpful because the content: (WDEF) – A weekend cave expedition in Middle Tennessee turned dangerous for a Nashville man prompting a successful multi-agency rescue mission The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Rescue Service joined forces with the Sparta-White County Rescue Squad and White County Emergency Management to assist a Vanderbilt University student who became trapped deep inside Blue Spring Cave in Sparta Officials say the student was on an overnight research trip with classmates when he got sick roughly three miles into the cave system on Friday Though he initially struggled to move due to weakness he was later able to crawl out on his own with assistance from rescuers White County EMS evaluated him on Saturday and he did not require further medical transport The group had entered the cave on Friday afternoon including the injured student and his classmates Captain Brandon Powers with the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Rescue Service credited the collaboration among agencies for the positive outcome Our main task was to establish communication with the patient and determine if a carryout would be needed,” Powers said “While we were ready to assist with a carryout through some tight passages the student’s condition improved enough for him to crawl out Blue Spring Cave is a privately owned cave network in Middle Tennessee that spans more than 37 miles Known for its complex underground passages the cave is gated and only accessible with permission “We’re thankful for the teamwork that led to a successful outcome.” Best of luck to those impacted by the layoffs Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner — a firm that brought in $869,603,000 gross revenue in 2024 65 on the Am Law 100 — recently announced that it will be conducting layoffs across its international offices The firm is planning to cut 8% of its support roles and reception staff among the positions that will be affected As noted by the American Lawyer the rationale behind the layoffs was relayed to partners during a call earlier this week — it seems that BCLP spends about 2% more than its peer firms on business support staff The firm offered the following statement on the upcoming cuts: “We are undergoing a broader business modernization program which involves a series of strategic initiatives to streamline operations and appropriately reshape teams as we continue to support BCLP’s growth and client focus The firm is offering enhanced redundancy packages and additional support for affected colleagues The proposed changes will impact approximately 8% of the firm’s global business services population said of the layoffs: “We recognize the impact changes like these can have on our people and we do not take these decisions lightly and we are fully committed to supporting affected colleagues with care fairness and transparency throughout.” Best of luck to those who will soon be getting let go from Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner If you’d like to sign up for ATL’s Layoff Alerts please scroll down and enter your email address in the box below this post If you previously signed up for the layoff alerts You’ll receive an email notification within minutes of each layoff announcement that we publish BCLP Plans Job Cuts at Business Support Level [American Lawyer] MyCase streamlines your firm so you can focus on winning cases See how much time you could save with our Law Firm Time Savings Calculator—try it now Position your firm for long-term growth with better financial visibility and control and plan strategically—download the full e-book now Lexis Create+ merges legacy drafting tools with AI-powered assistance from Protégé and secure DMS integration enabled by the Henchman acquisition where dense forests blanket the land and trees intertwine I spent 17 days on an exploratory adventure filled with challenges and surprises on the Indonesian islands of Seram and Kalimantan This journey was more than just an adventure; it was a true test of patience The story begins with a deep love for nature and its indigenous creatures I began planning my adventure by reaching out to entomologists particularly those specializing in beetles beetles account for a significant portion of the diversity on our planet — around 40% of discovered insects are beetles This adventure was built around exploring the world of beetles in the mysterious forests of Seram which took two exhausting days to reach following four flights and a sea journey (there is no airport on the island) The Adventure in Seram’s Forests In the heart of pristine nature I stayed in an open hut overlooking the forest on one side and the ocean on the other The first two days were spent exploring parts of the forest on the island where we encountered a species of large spiders Days three and four marked the real challenge We ventured deep into the forest with a team of four We also had to camp overnight in the heart of the forest The first challenge we faced was the steep terrain as the forest was not flat but consisted of high altitudes and sharp inclines capturing images requires effort and focus especially in harsh environmental conditions After camping on the third and fourth nights My research with Eastern European universities revealed that this species is only found on Seram Island Finding it felt like discovering a hidden treasure as we trekked no less than eight kilometers daily in harsh conditions The Duplipectus degroofi beetle is one of the rarest species making it extremely difficult to document due to its limited distribution in areas like the forests of Seram Island This beetle is known for its small size and shy behavior which makes it challenging to capture or study in its natural habitat Another challenge was sleeping in the depths of the forest I was surprised to learn that the team did not use enclosed tents but open ones due to their deep knowledge of the forest and its dangers Despite being with researchers and specialists with experience ranging from 17 to over 30 years we had no protection from creatures that might visit us during the night made it feel like nature was testing our patience The noise was so intense that it almost drove us mad and the lack of sleep affected our ability to navigate the following day and photograph the creatures Warrior’s Rest: After five nights in the heart of the forest With its eerie hut inhabited by reptiles and insects at night this village initially seemed primitive with its simple huts after two nights in the depths of the forest We spent a day recovering before heading back into the heart of the forest We had to camp another two nights in the forest to reach it and very few people had managed to reach it After trekking for about 12 hours through the dense jungle our team split due to an incident with my friend He was “bitten” by a poisonous plant This difficult moment almost canceled the entire mission one of them told me that even the island’s indigenous people dared not venture to the cave due to its danger I felt as though reaching the cave was like achieving an impossible dream We set off early in the morning and reached the cave by 5 PM It felt like a challenge beyond photographing insects we set up lights to attract various insect species and study them scientifically It was one of the most rewarding moments of the journey as I felt like I was in a scientific laboratory amidst nature and the power of nature merged with knowledge and science The End of the Adventure on Seram Island: On the last day as we returned from the heart of the forest — where there was no cell phone coverage or means of communication except for a satellite phone — we encountered heavy rain Despite being well-prepared for such conditions Kalimantan’s Forests: After leaving Seram Island and traveling to Kalimantan’s forests as though the mysterious island was telling me that I had not yet uncovered all its secrets though similar in duration to those of Seram The experience in Seram made us feel as though we had already explored Kalimantan’s forests where we encountered new species and creatures different from those of Seram This journey was a saga of challenge and perseverance revealing to me nature’s power and mysterious beauty I learned that passion and knowledge can open doors to worlds we never dreamed existed It is a story of 17 days that will remain etched in my memory like an inspiring film about what people face in the grandeur of nature About the author: Mofeed Abu Shalwa is a scientific researcher and 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Resources (ODNR) will host the Columbus Symphony Orchestra in the beautiful Hocking Hills’ Ash Cave on Sunday General Admission passes go on sale Friday acoustic setting which allows music to echo and resonate throughout This year's performance at Ash Cave will take place on Father's Day weekend “The experience of listening to live music in Ash Cave is like no other and I am thrilled that the Columbus Symphony Orchestra is coming back to the Hocking Hills to perform for a fourth year in a row,” said ODNR Director Mary Mertz “It’s truly a remarkable experience to be in a rich natural setting and be immersed in live music outdoors.” The performance will include a variety of musical selections Admission to the performance comes from purchasing a general admission parking pass which permit one vehicle with up to eight guests Passes are limited and are expected to sell out quickly Attendees should bring their own chairs and blankets There is also a VIP ticket for an additional $20 per 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Ticketing and more information can be found on the event information page All proceeds from the event will support Ohio’s 76 beautiful State Parks. Read more about all of state’s parks The ODNR ensures a balance between wise use and protection of our natural resources for the benefit of all. Visit the ODNR website at ohiodnr.gov Karina Cheung ODNR Office of CommunicationsMedia Line: 614-265-6860Mobile: 614-202-4756 High Resolution Photo 1 High Resolution Photo 2 The Carleton Alumni Volunteer Experience (CAVE) is the annual kickoff to Carleton’s Reunion planning and Alumni Annual Fund fundraising process. It brings volunteers together for training The success of Carleton’s Reunion and Alumni Annual Fund programs is directly related to the time and energy volunteers spend at CAVE 2025 and will be held in person on campus in Northfield Most CAVE sessions and presentations will occur on Friday and the 10th Reunion (Class of 2016) will have additional programming beginning on Thursday Please complete the volunteer form to ensure you are on the list for communication about CAVE. If you have any questions, please contact the Alumni Annual Fund Office (800-745-2275) Reunion 2025: June 20-22Reunion 2026: June 19-21Reunion 2027: June 18-20 507-222-4000 Sign In Charlie Cave and Aidan McLane Named Second Team All-Ivy4/30/2025 2:01:00 PM | Men's Lacrosse CAVE CITY (KATV) — A company called Artemis Technologies is setting up a Bitcoin Data Center representatives of the company spoke at a public meeting at Cave City's high school that quickly turned tense as locals made it clear they did not want a cryptomine in Sharp County "When they started the dirt work here recently I’d guess you’d say 'worked up,'" said State Rep Artemis Technologies has already broken ground on the future 3-acre site of its new facility—which one person familiar with the business told KATV "When cryptomines first started coming to Arkansas air-cooled monsters that just sounded like a jet plane We've worked hard in the legislature to stop that," Schulz said we'll make sure they do," he said "We understand everyone's concerns and questions We don't necessarily have to come out here and do this but we want to—we want to show people we're real and we care about their communities," said Watt Stephens Artemis Technologies' chief commercial officer Artemis Technologies is American-owned and has a close relationship with the Arkansas Blockchain Council an association of Arkansas cryptominers that has proven much more transparent and reputable than companies deemed bad actors by the state "The Blockchain Council's just here to educate and kind of cast away those shadows of our industry and hopefully have people listen to us and be open-minded," said Benjamin Smith president of the Arkansas Blockchain Council Smith was at the meeting Tuesday night alongside Stephens trying to answer community concerns about the planned cryptomine's noise levels and significant usage of the local power grid He and Stephens said the air-cooled facility would be indoors and have extra sound mitigation measures Neither Stephens nor an Entergy representative present at the meeting would divulge how much power the cryptomine would require—something some in the crowd were quick to seize on Sharp County Judge Mark Counts himself made it clear he doesn't want any cryptomines in his jurisdiction "I told them that I didn't want cryptomining in Sharp County never did want cryptomining and never will want it," Counts told KATV And the message from Cave City locals couldn't be any clearer "Just go away and don't come here is what we're trying to say," one man said "We don't want you," said another For more information on Artemis Technologies, which has two other facilities in Arkansas, click here A network of correspondents providing impartial news reports and analysis in 33 languages from locations around the world Up-to-the-minute news and analysis from around the world and in Chicago Hosted by WBEZ's Mary Dixon and NPR's Steve Inskeep Newshour is the award-winning flagship program of the 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species might gather and network The floral and vegetative forms were drawn from objects — china figurines and bric-a-brac — that Cave often finds at antique malls while scavenging with his partner Though Cave had once been intimidated by working in bronze the durable medium allowed him to envision a sculpture that would live and change with the seasons “Amalgam brings together the two key elements of our gardens which is nature and art,” said Suzanne Ramljak vice president of collections and curatorial affairs at Meijer Gardens “It’s a continuation of a body being in this world and feeling strong and safe but it’s also as naked as any of his figures have been it’s his declaration: ‘I am safe with a thin veil of nature.’ ” said that Cave’s bronze “brings together the two key elements of our gardens Courtesy of Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park “I like this idea of birds of a feather flock together — the migration hub as a place to gather and network.” “It also connects to the idea of protest and how we can stand collectively as one,” added Cave the sculpture’s life outdoors opens up new questions and new possibilities “What’s it going to look like once it’s covered in snow What does that feel like?” He remains open to whatever relationships the work might build with its environment over time Cave’s Amalgam (Origin) evolved from a sculpture called A-mal-gam that he debuted at a career retrospective show organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago in 2022 Amalgam (Origin) also opens up a conversation about monuments and the shifting role they play in American society today, with many — including Chicago’s own Christopher Columbus — being removed or forcibly taken down “This work had already been in the making before this whole monument takedown really transpired,” Cave said “but I think this sculpture is sort of like a new birth Something comes down and then this new birth and new beginning emerges.” Amalgam (Origin) marks Cave’s first permanent sculpture designed for the public realm a space he has long engaged through performance and ephemeral installations but is only now entering through monumental form “There is still this question of how it’s going to live in the world,” he said It’s a direction Cave hopes to continue exploring it’s going to happen — a bronze in Chicago,” he said Show Breaking News BarCloseLocal NewsOmose Ighodaro CAVE SPRING, Va. – It’s been the question around the area and on social media: “Is there really going to be a Starbucks moving in?” 10 News got an exclusive sneak peek at the construction site at Cave Spring Corners on Friday, and a contractor confirmed the suspicions. 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(CAVE) a computational infrastructure that provides scalable solutions for proofreading and flexible annotation support for fast analysis queries at arbitrary time points CAVE empowers distributed communities to perform reproducible connectome analysis in up to petascale datasets (~1 mm3) while proofreading and annotating is ongoing A rich set of ultrastructural features can be extracted from EM images and used for analysis The corresponding ultrastructural features are annotated with a red asterisk (*) The synapse is annotated with a red arrow pointing from the presynaptic site to the postsynaptic site annotated and analyzed by a distributed pool of users in parallel Proofreading adds and removes fragments from cell segments (left Synapse assignments have to be updated with proofreading All synapses (within the cutout) that were added and removed though the proofreading process of the cell in c are shown we addressed the challenge of supporting analysis of proofreadable cell segmentations in conjunction with annotations produced by automated methods and individual users CAVE enables fast computation of morphological neuron features and representations at any time We introduce a scheme for storing annotations which binds annotations to segment IDs at specific points in time in a process we call ‘materialization’ We show that CAVE’s annotation and proofreading systems support fast queries of the data for any point in time by combining traditional database queries with ChunkedGraph-based tracking of neuron edit histories This enables CAVE to answer analysis queries with no delays after an edit and queries of the dataset at arbitrary time points Automated segmentation overlaid on EM data Each color represents an individual putative cell Different colors represent supervoxels that make up putative cells Supervoxels belonging to a particular neuron with an overlaid cartoon of its supervoxel graph These data corresponds to the framed square in a and the full panel in b One-dimensional representation of the supervoxel graph The ChunkedGraph data structure adds an octree structure to the graph to store the connected component information Each abstract node (black nodes in levels >1) represents the connected component in the spatially underlying graph Storage and costs for the supervoxel graph storage under the original and the improved implementation (v2); GCS users place labels for each side of the split (top right) The backend system first connects each set of labels on each side by identifying supervoxels between them in the graph (left) The extended sets are used to identify the edges needed to be cut with a maximum-flow minimum-cut algorithm Examples of graph traversals for looking up the root ID for a supervoxel ID (top) and supervoxel IDs for a root ID within a spatially defined search area (bottom) Note that only part of the graph needs to be traversed Performance measurement from real-world user interactions measured on the ChunkedGraph server for different types of reads (h) and edits (i) The cumulative ratio of all measured interactions for a given response time is plotted on the y axis which can add substantial cost to its deployment CAVE uses the ChunkedGraph as proofreading backend and hosts it as a cloud service for world-wide access we describe two advancements to the ChunkedGraph to make it viable for petascale datasets Split operations are always executed locally and a user may need to execute multiple split operations to separate two cell segments that were falsely merged in multiple places we added a multimerge operation to neuroglancer allowing users to execute merge operations in parallel the performance for edits was only ~1.6× times slower on the MICrONS65 dataset illustrating the scalability of the ChunkedGraph system Computing these measurements and representations usually requires loading the entire segmentation of a cell Recomputing these features from scratch after every edit is prohibitively time consuming and costly a, The basket cell from Fig. 1c broken into L2 chunks where each chunk is colored differently A skeleton derived from the ChunkedGraph and L2-Cache without consulting the segmentation data Client-side timings for calculating neuron volumes using ChunkedGraph and L2-Cache for neurons in FlyWire and MICrONS65 (NFlyWire = 101,554; NMICrONS65 = 1,357) The timing for the neuron in b is highlighted Client-side timings for creating skeletons from ChunkedGraph and L2-Cache (NFlyWire = 78,030; NMICrONS65 = 1,357) Client-side timings for creating skeletons plotted against the size of the skeletons Each dot is a query for a single neuron (see d for the number of samples) Spatial points can be used to capture a huge diversity of biological metadata generated by either human annotators or machine algorithms Additional metadata for existing CAVE annotations can be added with reference annotations that avoid duplicating existing annotations (illustrated as dashed lines) The annotation services handle all annotations through a generic workflow that depends only on expressing all annotations as collections of spatial points and associated metadata Spatial annotations mark the location of a feature The materialization service retrieves the supervoxel ID underlying all spatial points This enables the materialization service to look up the root ID underneath that points at any given moment in time using the ChunkedGraph Illustration of how the mapping from supervoxel ID to segment ID changed the annotation due to proofreading (octree levels not shown) The changes are tracked in a lineage graph of the altered roots users have created over 120 annotation tables (including 29 reference tables) using 21 distinct schemas and capturing over 1.8 billion annotations This includes tables marking synapse detections mitochondrial locations and functional co-registration points A subset of these tables is associated with static volumetric segmentations of objects which can be linked via the annotation ID to allow users to do volumetric analysis We expect the diversity of observations to grow richer over time and as further secondary analyses are performed thereby producing a materialized version of the annotation data Edits change the assignment of synapses to segment IDs Each of the four synapses is assigned to the segment IDs (colors) according to the presynaptic and postsynaptic points (point The identity of the segments changes through proofreading (time passed: ΔT) indicated by different colors The lineage graph shows the current segment ID (color) for each point in time Analysis queries are not necessarily aligned to exported snapshots Queries for other time points are supported by on-the-fly delta updates from both the annotations and segmentation through the use of the lineage graph A neuron in FlyWire with all its automatically detected presynapses Time measurements for snapshot aligned queries of presynapses for proofread neurons in FlyWire (N = 121,400) Difference between the snapshot and nonsnapshot aligned presynapse queries The two distributions differentiate cases without any edits to the queried neurons and cases with at least one edit to the queried neuron (Nno edits = 98,367; N≥1 edit = 8,132) Presynapse query times for snapshot and nonsnapshot aligned queries including cases where neurons were proofread with multiple edits and whiskers are set at 1.5× the interquartile range Number of samples by number of edits: snap This produces an overinclusive set of segments with which we query the snapshot database we query the ‘live’ database for all changes to annotations since the used materialization snapshot and add them to the set of annotations The resulting set of annotations is then mapped back to the query timestamp using the lineage graph and supervoxel to root lookups and finally reduced to only include the queried set of root IDs we gathered timings for nonsnapshot aligned queries where the query neuron did not see any edits since the snapshot version although its synaptic partners may have (median = 978 ms we gathered timings for nonsnapshot aligned queries where the query neurons were edited since the snapshot (median = 1,385 ms Services can always be added to meet a specific need of a community and replaced with ones that fulfill the same purpose and application interfaces (APIs) CAVE builds on existing infrastructure and storage solutions as much as possible from cluster management (kubernetes) to its databases (for example All services use off-the-shelf commercial and open-source components to manage their data Although these are currently supplied through Google Cloud all components can be replicated elsewhere Proofreading rate in edits per minute for FlyWire (N = 1,349,955; c) and MICrONS65 over 1 year of proofreading (N = 457,285; d) illustrating how CAVE supports both manual and automated proofreading efforts an open-source software infrastructure for managing proofreading annotations and analysis by a distributed group of scientists It is a system that enables concurrent proofreading and annotation querying at arbitrary time points for seamless analysis and the only system that has successfully demonstrated proofreading of petascale connectomics datasets As reconstruction of these datasets progresses infrastructures like CAVE will also become important for analysis a scientific project needs personnel that are able to manage container-based web services as opposed to standalone desktop tools we optimized CAVE for large datasets with dense automated reconstructions and many users This led us to focus our engineering efforts on making CAVE scale well with respect to cost while maintaining sufficiently high performance as illustrated by our upgrades to the ChunkedGraph v2 will be needed to leverage their power while keeping storage cost in check CAVE systems are already holding on to a wealth of data that should be leveraged by automated methods to predict rich annotations of the data and help reduce the need for manual proofreading The middle-auth service provides a dataset-specific authorization layer on top of OAuth2-based authentication End points allow services to query whether users have different permissions on different service tables The middle-auth service provides a mapping between service tables and datasets as well as individual users and groups the ChunkedGraph service has a table named minniev1 so when a user attempts to perform an edit on that table the service will query a middle-auth end point to inquire if that user has ‘edit’ permissions on that table middle-auth will forward them onto Google’s OAuth2 service to authenticate their identity that user is then registered with a unique ID in the middle-auth system The ‘minniev1’ string is mapped in the ‘microns’ dataset in the ChunkedGraph service namespace and all the permissions that groups the user is a member of are gathered to see if at least one of them has edit access the middle-auth end point returns a success; otherwise This same workflow is used whether or not the user is interacting with the service via Python or via neuroglancer The programming of this interaction is simplified by the middle-auth client library which provides a set of decorators that can be used on flask end points to ensure that users are logged in or that they have particular permissions enabled to access that end point The user’s ID is then made available in the flask global variable dictionary for the service to record which user is performing each request Services are run in docker using a nginx-uwsgi implementation to distribute requests to multiple worker processes operating in a single container services have been written in Python using the Flask framework with varying Flask plugins used by different services We use kubernetes to manage container deployment Kubernetes spins up multiple container pods to increase the number of requests that are handled by each service Requests are distributed across those pods through load balancing and an nginx-ingress controller is used to route requests from a single IP to the appropriate service based on the URL prefix Most CAVE services are implemented with a common set of technologies and patterns although this is not strictly a technical requirement Cert-manager is used in conjunction with CloudDNS to manage and renew SSL certificates The neuroglancer state server was written as a Python flask app where the json states are stored in Google Cloud Datastore as a simple key-value store and values are the json encoded neuroglancer state programmatic migration of old state values and formats was possible and enabled seamless changing of user experiences as systems migrated Posting and retrieving json states are implemented as separate end points a ‘Share’ button uses the posting end point to upload the json state The user is provided with a shortened link that contains a reference to the retrieval end point with that state ID as a query argument We programmed neuroglancer to automatically load states when they are defined in the URL and so this mechanism effectively allows the reduced size link to be shared easily even when the number of annotations specified in the state is very large The original ChunkedGraph implementation is described elsewhere29 and all concepts described there also apply to the ChunkedGraph v2 The ChunkedGraph implements the graphene format which is derived from neuroglancer’s precomputed format used for common segmentations We changed the edge reading logic to read edges from a chunk in bulk to minimize access to GCS Cross-chunk edges are accessed more often than edges within chunks because they link individual components from subtrees together cross-chunk edges are also stored in BigTable and only the ‘on’ edges contribute to the connected components The initial ChunkedGraph implementation stored this information alongside the edges This information was redundant with the ChunkedGraph’s hierarchy we do not store ‘on’/‘off’ information with the edges We implemented logic to infer the edge state from the ChunkedGraph’s hierarchy directly The edge information on GCS is never changed We call such edges ‘fake edges’ and reserve one row per chunk for them Every operation reading supervoxel edges from GCS also checks for fake edges allowing for an accurate retrieval of the supervoxel graph for timestamps before their creation We implemented new logic to check whether fake edges are needed we first check if there is a path in the local supervoxel graph we extract all local edges between the two components that are being merged and process the merge operation with them the original user input is used to insert a fake edge between the two selected supervoxels We use zmesh (https://github.com/seung-lab/zmesh) for meshing of the segmentation Every L2 chunk component is meshed at MIP 2 Some L2 components only consist of a few pixels and might not be meshed at all L2 meshes are then stitched on the layers above following the ChunkedGraph’s hierarchy up to a stop layer (for example at which many meshes are too large to be held in the memory of a worker node or time constraints of queueing systems (for example This pattern is repeated for higher layers where stitched versions of meshes are stored reducing the number of files that need to be downloaded for any given neuron The sharded format allows retrieval of byte ranges from each shard but adds two additional reads to the header for retrieving the byte range this is a different arrangement from the original precomputed sharded mesh format where all the mesh fragments from a single neuron can be found in a shard This posed a problem for meshes that were created for new components after an edit these are few in number compared to the number of meshes from the initial meshing run we store each of these newly generated mesh fragments as a single file on GCS We refer to this format as ‘hybrid mesh format’ because it uses both sharded and single-file storage Each mesh is compressed using the Draco format for which we wrote and maintain a Python client (https://github.com/seung-lab/DracoPy) The Draco format is a lossy mesh compression format where every mesh vertex is moved to the closest grid node The grid’s spacing determines the compression factor We place a global grid onto the dataset such that meshes retrieved from different chunks can be merged through overlapping vertices Neuroglancer’s precomputed format requires a manifest per segment outlining the mesh fragments that need to be read from GCS to produce a complete rendering of a segment Every edit creates a new cell segment ID with a new manifest Instead of precalculating and storing all manifests the ChunkedGraph produces manifests for segments on the fly from the hierarchy of a neuron the ChunkedGraph can determine whether the fragment is stored in sharded or file-based storage and provide instructions accordingly Cloudvolume implements all necessary interactions with the ChunkedGraph and can be used to programmatically read meshes MeshParty wraps this functionality and adds convenience functionality Features for each L2 ID are calculated on the binarized segmentation we currently calculate the following features: representative coordinate mean and maximum value of the euclidean distance transform and number of voxels at each chunk boundary intersection Area calculations are difficult to perform and are easily inflated by rough surfaces smoothed measurements are ill defined and expensive to obtain our area measurements overestimate the actual area of a neuron We calculate areas by shifting the segmentation in each dimension and finding all voxels where the segment of interest overlaps with other segments We count up the surfaces and adjust for resolution Every L2 ID matches to a row in BigTable and contains a column for each feature Edits require the calculation of new meshes and L2 features for all newly generated L2 IDs. This is an expandable set of work tasks that we keep independent from the ChunkedGraph service to increase modularity and expandability. After every edit, the ChunkedGraph adds a message to a queuing system (Extended Data Fig. 3) to which individual services can subscribe we query the ChunkedGraph for its component L2 IDs and the list of which L2 chunks are directly adjacent to others either via supervoxels that spanned chunk boundaries or proofreading edits that introduced edges between chunks We next query the L2-Cache to identify the representative coordinate (and other properties) for each L2 ID and use this information to generate a graph where each vertex is a single L2 chunk and edges have a weight given by the distance between representative coordinates of adjacent chunks the closest vertex to a cell body centroid or the base of the axon from a peripheral sensory neuron) and find the most distant vertex on the graph The vertices along the shortest path from the distant vertex to the root node are assigned to the skeleton and we ‘invalidate’ vertices within a distance parameter provided by the user we store a mapping from each invalidated graph vertex to the closest skeleton vertex We iterate this process using the most distant uninvalidated vertex and the shortest path to the existing skeleton until all vertices are invalidated To associate synapses with vertices on the skeleton we get the supervoxel ID of the bound spatial point(s) associated with the annotation and use the ChunkedGraph to look up its associated L2 ID(s) We then assign synapses to graph vertices via L2 ID and use the invalidation mapping to associate graph vertices with supervoxel vertices such as volume or surface area for regions of a skeleton can be computed by summing the appropriate values from the L2-Cache via the associated graph vertices The core skeletonization process was implemented in MeshParty and the interaction with the ChunkedGraph is handled through the Python library ‘pcg_skel’ Annotation schemas are defined in Python code where they are constructed using the Marshmallow library Each schema contains at least one field of the custom class ‘BoundSpatialPoint’ This field implicitly creates fields for positions The annotation and materialization process can thus also dynamically locate BoundSpatialPoint fields and use them to execute the generic workflow of supervoxel and root ID lookup described in the materialization process Reference annotations were defined as a custom schema subclass with a target ID field associated with them Postgres data access and storage was facilitated by a module that automatically constructed SQLalchemy models using GeoAlchemy to describe spatial positions as spatially indexed 3D points This model creation code automatically adds spatial indices to spatial points and SQL indices to associated root ID columns to facilitate fast querying It also generates the foreign key constraints associated with reference annotations Each schema is assigned a unique string for identification and is used by libraries to indicate what schema a table uses Reference annotations may or may not have their own set of BoundSpatialPoints and their model creation requires an extra parameter to create a foreign key between the target ID column of the reference table and the ID column of the table that is being referenced The EMAnnotationSchemas repository is the source of truth for what kinds of schemas can be initialized and the community can contribute suggestions through pull requests to this library Because all model creation code is written generically This code is then used both as a library in other services and as a flask-based web service that makes a dynamic list of schemas and their structure as jsonschema facilitated by the marshmallow-jsonschema library available The annotation service manages the creation of new annotation tables and creation, deletion and updating of annotations within tables (Extended Data Figs. 3 and 6) Annotation tables are stored in Google Cloud SQL using PostgreSQL through a library called DynamicAnnotationDB Annotation tables of any schema can be created and multiple tables with the same schema may exist users provide metadata about the table via a REST end point read and write permissions and the resolution of the spatial points The permission model currently allows for three levels of permission for both read and write ‘PRIVATE’ allows only that user to read or write ‘GROUP’ allows for users in the same group (see authorization) to read or write and ‘PUBLIC’ allows for all users with read or write permissions on the dataset to read or write that table The default permissions are ‘PRIVATE’ write but ‘PUBLIC’ read to encourage data sharing and reuse within communities If the user is creating a table with a reference schema then they also must specify the name of the table that is being referenced The service then uses the DynamicAnnotationDB library to create the table within the live SQL database and stores the metadata about the table in a separate metadata table Annotations can be posted through a separate end point which accepts json serialized versions of annotations Annotations are then validated against the schema using marshmallow and the SQLalchemy model is dynamically generated by the schema library Annotations are then inserted into the PostgreSQL database after associating a creation timestamp to the annotation the annotation service sends a notification to the Materialization service to trigger supervoxel lookups for the recently added annotations Deletion is implemented virtually by marking the timestamp of deletion to enable point-in-time consistent querying Updates are represented as a combination of remove and add operations The CAVEclient has Python functions for facilitating client-side validation and packaging of annotations for the REST end point including support for processing pandas dataframes the service provides a human readable website interface for browsing existing tables Snapshotted databases are copies of a time-locked state of the ‘live’ database’s segmentation and annotation information used to facilitate consistent querying which allows for scaling and distributing parallel workloads the Materialization Engine runs periodic tasks to keep the segmentation information up to date from the proofreading efforts and provides copies of snapshotted databases at a fixed interval for analysis The Materialization Engine is deployed to a kubernetes cluster where Celery is run on pods Two types of Celery pods are deployed for CAVE: producers and consumers Producers create workflows that dynamically generate tasks that the consumer pods will subsequently execute The Materialization service also provides a query API for users to query both materialized versions of the database as well as an end point that implements a workflow that enables arbitrary moment-in-time querying of the data Both sets of end points enable arbitrary filters on columns from the annotation tables exclusive and strictly equal filter options as well as bounding box spatial queries on all spatial points By filtering on the segment ID columns of associated BoundSpatialPoints users can efficiently extract all annotations for individual cells this lets users retrieve all input or output synapses from a particular set of neurons or allows users to query what cell-type annotations are associated with a particular set of cells A join query end point allows users to create arbitrary inner join queries on annotation tables with the same filter criteria Queries return data either as PyArrow binary dataframes which are more cross-platform compatible depending on a query parameter option To prevent queries from accidentally requesting multiple gigabytes of data an arbitrary configurable upper bound on the number of rows that are requested from the SQL database is enforced our deployed systems have configured this to be 500,000 rows although users can distribute more data by executing multiple requests in parallel Although the live query end point appears similar to the materialized end point to the user the workflow in the background is more complex In addition to the filters described above users must specify a timestamp that they are interested in querying for a live query the system uses the ChunkedGraph’s lineage graph to translate all the filter parameters referencing segment IDs into an overinclusive set of related segment IDs that are present in the closest materialized time point Equality filters are translated to inclusive filters in this process This translated query is then executed against the materialized database to retrieve all the annotations that are potentially related to the user’s query For all the segment IDs that are not valid at the user-provided timestamp the ChunkedGraph API is then queried using the associated supervoxel IDs to determine the correct segment ID for those BoundSpatialPoints This covers any changes that might have happened in the segmentation data between materialization and the queried time point but does not account for changes in the annotation data that might have happened in that interval a second query is executed on the ‘live’ database using a filter on the created and deleted columns to extract any annotation rows that were added or removed on the queried tables if the closest materialization point is in fact in the future then the meaning of addition and removal is inverted with respect to this step The annotation service also tracks a timestamp for when a table was last modified to skip this step if there is no possibility that the table was altered in the interval between materialization and the query Filters on segment IDs must be ignored in this process because there can be no guarantee of consistency on the live database due to ongoing and distributed update operations Once these new and deleted annotation rows are retrieved the same process of updating expired segment IDs using the ChunkedGraph API is applied Rows from the materialized query that exist as deletions in the live database query are removed and rows that were added are concatenated to the result the original query filters on segment IDs are applied to these aggregated results to remove any annotations that are not relevant to the user’s query Current deployments of CAVE are wholly based on Google Cloud but most parts of CAVE are general such that they can be deployed with other cloud providers or locally Costs per deployment scale with the following three main factors: (1) size of the supervoxel graph (2) number of annotations and (3) number of users The number of annotations and the number (and type) of columns determine the storage requirements for the annotation databases Scaling with the size of the dataset volume varies between datasets especially because synapse densities are different by almost an order of magnitude between mammalian and insect brains Users of CAVE can influence cost by setting the number of materialized databases that are being kept MICrONS65 and FlyWire use databases with ~2 TB of storage Smaller datasets will incur relatively less cost and Google Cloud provides an easy-to-use calculator to determine a prospective cost CAVE’s microservices scale with usage and use tuned node pools (for example there is a lower cost bound because a deployment cannot scale below a single instance of each service The lower cost of the services of a CAVE deployment is around $360 per month We provide extensive documentation for setting up and managing CAVE deployments an external lab requires a software developer or otherwise experienced technical person with programming and computer system knowledge external labs were able to learn and set up CAVE deployments within a few weeks the CAVE deployments managed by the CAVE team are not intended to host datasets from outside groups We measured server response times for all end points served by the ChunkedGraph from all users for several weeks while proofreading was progressing as normal These numbers reflect real interactions and are affected by server and database load and are therefore an underestimate of the capability of our system The most common requests are root to leave requests as they are executed every time a user moves their field of view in neuroglancer We sampled a random set of these interactions representing most proofread neurons in the dataset and all neurons that were marked as proofread from FlyWire We then randomly sampled neurons from each list and queried (1) all L2 IDs from the ChunkedGraph and (2) all volume measurements from the L2-Cache for these L2 IDs We finally added up all volume measurements for a total volume We processed neurons sequentially for multiple days and recorded all measurements We averaged time measurements for neurons for which we gathered multiple measurements Measured performances were affected by the current load on the system We used the proofread neurons from FlyWire for this analysis we executed presynapse queries at time offsets 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Peer reviewer reports are available Publisher’s note Springer Nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations (a) Bipartite split labels are applied to locations in space (b) The closest supervoxels to label points are identified (red/blue dots) The supervoxel graph in the neighborhood of the labeled points is computed (graph) (c) Vertices along the shortest paths between each pair of red/blue labels are found (black dots and edges) Backup methods prevent overlap between paths (d) Affinity between vertices along shortest paths is set to infinity and min cut is computed on the path-augmented supervoxel graph These measurements are from the improved ChunkedGraph implementation using the same FlyWire supervoxel graph that was used for the original implementation29 (a) Performance measurement from real-world user interactions measured on the ChunkedGraph server for reads The cumulative ratio of all measured interactions for a given response time is plotted in the y axis Arrows indicate flow of data between services and storage backends Services are implemented as microservices deployed through kubernetes (a) Times to retrieve a list of L2 chunks for a neuron (root id) (b) Time to look up volume measurements for all L2 chunks belonging to a given neuron (c) Total time to calculate volumes for neurons Number of samples for all plots: N(FlyWire) = 101,554; N(MICrONS65) = 1,357 (a) Users can create and delete annotation tables through the annotation service users select one of many available schemas that define the columns in the annotation table update and delete annotations in the annotation table The materialization service then adds these annotations to the associate segment table and regularly updates the root ids (that is segment ids) associated with these annotations Each row defines a column in the annotation table Entries of type BoundSpatialPoint are linked to the underlying segmentation and updated by the materialization service in the segment table (d) Same as (c) but for a cell type schema (e) Examples from an annotation table using the cell type schema from (d) in the MICrONS dataset This example shows how annotation and segment tables for nucleus annotations are combined and further extended with reference tables Annotation and segment tables are automatically combined by the Materialization service via a foreign key relationship on their ID columns Reference tables created by the user also use foreign key relationships to associate additional information with rows in an annotation table Multiple such reference tables can point at one Annotation table (a) Query times from Fig. 5d versus the size of the query in number of presynapses (N = 121,400) (b) Comparing snapshot and non-snapshot aligned presynapse queries for cases where the neuron was not edited between the snapshot and the query time (N = 121,367) The difference is the overhead of the mapping logic The orange dashed line is a linear fit with intercept 0.44 s and a slope of 1.05 CAVE splits services into global and local clusters dependent on their function Services in the global cluster are light-weight and usually support a wide array of datasets provide general information about datasets Services on local clusters may require more resources and might be specific to a few datasets Local clusters are usually limited to a list of datasets they can service and are associated with a global cluster Multiple local clusters can be associated with the same global cluster Reprints and permissions Download citation DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02426-z Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content: a shareable link is not currently available for this article Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science Download the NPS app to navigate the parks on the go You will also start receiving the Star's free morning newsletter Jane McMichael on a stop on the TranzAlpine Train trip with Castle Hill limestone rock formations (Kura Tawhiti) And I spend a day on a zip line in Kaikoura enjoying the magnificent view of the Pacific We asked Star readers to tell us about trips they have taken and to share their experience and advice: I am drawn to places where the people really value nature and the environment and are motivated and driven to protect it I also knew the photographic opportunities would be great I’d wanted to go for the longest time and had been saving then a sudden health scare put my life in perspective Black Labyrinth water rafting in Ruakuri Cave The cave is nature’s architectural masterpiece every bend and dip different from the last and filled with limestone sculptures and stalactites leading through to deep canyons where we float on our inner tubes The most wondrous part is when everyone turns off their torches I could have stayed looking at them for hours And I am quite proud that I actually did jump backwards off the waterfall The jaunt finished with a warming mochaccino afterwards Our journey began with a scenic drive along the coast before we switched vehicles to ford a river varying from 250 metres to 620 metres in length The excitement you feel as you take that first small jump off the platform is unbelievable The day was spent soaring over the tree canopy always with the magnificent view of the Pacific Our guides through the native forest were two young women The truth is I almost backed out of this adventure twice but the owner was so reassuring and accommodating After I returned from a long day of hiking and thoroughly enjoying the TranzAlpine Train journey recommended Fiddlesticks Restaurant and Bar in Christchurch I loved all the choices that I made: crispy chicken with nuoc cham chay sauce — so fresh and full of flavour; 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