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LONDON, England (CNN) -- Tino Schaedler is an architect-turned-digital design artist whose groundbreaking work has been seen in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" and "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix."

Tino Schaedler, Jean-Lucien Gay and Michael J. Brown talk about design, virtuality and the future

Schaedler's next film project is "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time," a fantasy epic starring Jake Gyllenhaal and due in 2010.

In 2007 he joined with Michael J. Brown and Jean-Lucien Gay to found NAU, a cross-disciplinary design collective positioned between architecture and film.

CNN talked to Schaedler and his NAU colleagues, as well as collaborator Ken Leung, a graphic designer.

CNN: You have said that graphic design is very powerful. Can you explain why?

TS: I think graphic design, for us, is very important as it helps to break down very complex information into digestible, easy-to-understand buttons or whatever. In the world we're living in, we're flooded with information and need someone to almost kind of channel it and create signs that we can read. That's why I think graphic design becomes more important, the more complex our world becomes.

CNN: Can you explain the work that NAU does?

TS: NAU is a company that I founded with Michael and Jean-Lucien, friends from the architect firm I worked at. I guess we all wanted to collaborate, and me being interested in drifting back from the world of architecture to the world of film, I guess Michael and Jean-Lucien had something to offer. They usually take over the architectural side of things and I can be more free and visionary. I push them further with the kind of ideas I come up with and at the same time they make my ideas real.

JLG: The idea was really to create a label, a structure that could cope with all the different locations that we're working from. It's also about the idea of remote collaboration.

CNN: How important is it for you to collaborate with people?

TS: For me, working with Ken has been like adding a whole new layer to the 3D worlds that I'm designing. I always liked the combination of high-end 3D graphics and subtle 2D graphics.

I think for me, collaboration is also about creating situations that we'll both profit from. Also there are new tools we use that are a combination of Skype, video conferencing and Photoshop which allow you to do a video conference, which allow me to use a sketchpad that the other person can see.

We can sketch correspondingly with each other and create something although we are not sitting in the same office.

KL: Working with Tino, I've seen my work transformed into 3D. My background is print and magazines, so in this sense, things come alive, they move, it makes it real.

CNN: How does architecture tie in with digital or 3D design?

TS: You need two images and through the images you can interpolate the architectural spatial design which creates a 3D model... that technique also comes into film because it is photogrammetry, (a way of measuring 2D or 3D objects from photo-grammes or photographs as well as electronic imagery.)

CNN: Didn't the makers of "The Matrix" use similar technology?

TS: They basically just have the actress [Carrie-Ann Moss] up in the air and they take a photograph each at the same time so that's why she's in that movement... the camera moves around her but she doesn't move because its all different shots so you stretch the whole experience in two or three seconds. We're doing something similar on [the film] "Prince of Persia" that I've just finished. We record some action with five cameras... from these five images they recreate the actors as 3D objects and then project according to which angle. It's fascinating what kind of technology is out there.

CNN: Can you define the relationship between working as architects and still working on a project like the Cocoon?

MB: For us, it's less about the physical infrastructure that you are creating and more about the spaces and the experiences that you have there. In that sense I see a development of designers who are working across many media.

CNN: Let's talk more about the Cocoon. What is it?

TS: I actually had the idea for the Cocoon when I was walking down Oxford Street on a Saturday afternoon. We know how manic it can be when everyone is shopping. I thought it would be brilliant to have something like a telephone booth that could help me disappear from the madness and allow me to relax or walk through the Amazon or let me sleep under a starry sky or whatever. You also have to see it like a retreat, it's to chill out.

MB: I think the important elements for us were to be able to ask, "Can I communicate with this piece through physical actions that are not so much tied to moving my fingers across the keyboard, but are much more about how I walk down the street, how I wave to people." How can I break down the barrier which is typically this sort of 2D screen between me and this digital world?

CNN: Will we end up wired to computers and never see each other?

KL: It's very different from gaming in the 80s. Then, you'd go to a computer game parlor and sit in a car for example. This is kind of taking it one step further, you're a bit more enclosed and the graphics are a lot better. I wouldn't be so daunted going into it.

TS: For me, the true potential evolves more once the virtual information is completely freed from any medium that displays it. That's actually not far from the Cocoon because the next big step is the interface - if I can interact with something that's in front of me, I'm also using my body and that's also what the Cocoon is establishing. I see virtuality, once it's fully unfolded, as contributing to the slowing process that puts us back in tune with ourselves.

CNN: What appeals to you most about the Cocoon project?

KL: It's almost like being in your own virtual world. You see people with their iPods. They want to be in their own worlds, this is taking it one step further. But the good thing is you're using your whole body and almost becoming part of it.

TS: I think [the Cocoon] frees virtuality from the computer. I've been dealing with this concept for probably ten years, because it was a big theme in architecture in the 90s. Everyone was afraid that architecture would disappear and be completely replaced by virtuality. I think it's got such amazing potential to make the world so much more exciting. When we think about our childhoods or watching "Star Trek" - seeing people being beamed - there's so much cool stuff and ideas... the future is now.

CNN: Is the world ready for it?

TS: I think it always takes some time to invent something, then for people to adapt it. I think with technology accelerating we also accelerate in the way that we adapt it so I think it's always no problem to get used to that and to enjoy it as well.

CNN: What role do you see the Cocoon playing in the real world?

TS: While working on the project, I read an article which talked about how in the future we would be much more limited in the way that we can physically travel. It will be a luxury to have a car or travel across countries and continents. It also mentioned that virtuality and Internet communication will be much more enhanced and will be even more importance. I think with the Cocoon and the technology that we propose in there, to travel to places, to work remotely, to have enhanced communication for remote shopping, will be even more important.

Michael: For us the Cocoon is, I hope, the first step in trying to bring people a little bit more freedom from how they work and how they communicate.

CNN: Do you think we're getting better at it?

KL: I do. Personally, I loved the modernism of the 60s and 70s; everything was boiled down and focused on central points. Now we've got so many tricks with computers that we tend to go overboard, but I think the ideas are lacking and that people need to focus on the ideas first.

I think we kind of share the same visual sensibility as well. Tino will send back a brief and I will send three options and we'll narrow it down from there. We work together quite well.

CNN: Is it weird being together?

TS: You know something like this always evolves. You start a project with certain expectations and I've had other collaborations that don't work that well and some where there's kind of a chemistry where things kind of create a synergy and something evolves that you would not be able to do yourself.

CNN: Ken, where do you see the future of entertainment from your perspective, from print and magazines as entertainment, what's the future?

KL: Well I think there is a future in magazines, I think people still want to have time and space from all the rush of the world. To me, when I'm on a plane, I'm happy because I'm not going to be interrupted by anyone and that's kind of the same with the Cocoon. I think its kind of getting away from reality; it's just the need to get your thoughts together.

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answer: I think graphic design, for us, is very important as it helps to break down very complex information into digestible, easy-to-understand buttons or whatever. In the world we're living in, we're flooded

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(CNN) -- Researchers with a Malaysian university said they have uncovered evidence of an iron industry that dates to the 3rd Century, A.D., and proves that ancient civilizations in Southeast Asia were more advanced than once thought.

The archaeologists from the Universiti Sains Malaysia found the remains of an iron smelting site, tools to pump oxygen into the iron smelting process, rooftops of buildings, beads and pots, said Mokhtar Saidan, a professor and leader of the team.

The discovery was made after a month of excavation at Lembah Bujang, a historical site in Malaysia.

"This is the first discovery of the earliest iron industry in Lembah Bujang and has been dated conclusively. This date also adds on to the facts and data on the early history of Southeast Asia," he said.

He said coal from the site was sent to a laboratory in Florida that said elements in the coal dated to the 3rd Century.

The professor said the discovery confirms that human civilization in the area was more advanced than thought and the site probably was a place for exporting iron in the 3rd Century.

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BRUSSELS, Belgium (CNN) -- European leaders agreed Friday to send an 1,800-strong security force to maintain stability in Kosovo, although they stopped short of backing independence for the province.

French soldiers at the NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Kosovo last month.

Kosovo is expected to declare independence from Serbia early in the new year.

Serbia, however, insists the region should remain autonomous within its borders.

Speaking at the end of a one-day summit of European heads in Brussels, Jose Socrates, the Portuguese prime minister currently holding the European Union presidency, said that sending the security mission was a "political decision."

The police and security force is expected to be deployed to the Balkan state ahead of an announcement of independence.

"This is the clearest signal that the EU could possibly give that it intends to lead on the whole issue of Kosovo's future, its status and its role in the region," Socrates said.

According to CNN's Robin Oakley in Brussels, European leaders are trying to balance an obvious readiness to back Kosovan independence with incentives to Serbia, which is seeking membership of the EU.

EU leaders are deeply conscious of their failure in the early 1990s to move early enough to prevent the bloodletting in the Balkans over the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, he said.

Although most EU leaders support Serbia becoming a member state to boost stability in the Balkans, French President Nicholas Sarkozy said that Serbia's membership is dependent on it recognizing Kosovo's independence and handing over war criminals.

Socrates confirmed to CNN that any fast-tracking of Serbia into the EU could only be considered if it agreed to hand over Ratko Mladic, the Bosnian Serb general wanted at the The Hague for suspected war crimes.

Two years of negotiations on the future status of Kosovo ended in failure earlier this week, when talks mediated by Europe, the United States and Russia ended without an agreement.

The disputed province is dear to the Serbs, Orthodox Christians who regard it as Serbian  territory. But it is equally coveted by Kosovo's ethnic Albanians, Muslims who have a 90 percent majority.

Since 1999 the United Nations has been running the province with NATO peacekeepers, who still number 16,000.

Oakley said the EU mission to Kosovo would help to ease the handover from the U.N. to local authorities. E-mail to a friend

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WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Sen. John McCain on Thursday accused Sen. Barack Obama of breaking a promise when the Democrat decided to forgo public financing in this fall's campaign.

Sen. Barack Obama repeatedly broke campaign fundraising records during the Democratic primary season.

Obama told supporters in an e-mail message Thursday that he would not accept about $85 million in public funds when he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.

In the e-mail, Obama said the public campaign financing system allowed "special interests [to] drown out the voices of the American people" and asked his supporters to "declare our independence from a broken system."

McCain said that Obama's move to drop out of the system "should be disturbing to all Americans" and that he may decide to opt out, too.

"Sen. Obama's reversal on public financing is one of a number of reversals ... that he has taken," McCain said while touring flood-damaged parts of Iowa.

"This election is about a lot of things, but it's also about trust. It's also about whether you can take people's word. ... He said he would stick to his agreement. He didn't."  Watch McCain's attack on Obama ÃÂ»

He said his campaign will reconsider whether to opt out as well.

"We''l have to reevaluate in light of his decision," he said. But he said he leans toward taking public money.

But Rep. Rahm Emanuel, an Obama supporter, argued that the Democrat had "more than realized the objective of public financing" by setting up a system to accept small donations over the Internet.

"It has given the American people a voice in our political process and has forever changed politics in this country by inspiring record numbers of Americans to participate in bringing change to Washington," Emanuel said.

Despite the heated back-and-forth, CNN senior political analyst Bill Schneider said it is unlikely the controversy will influence voters.

"I'm not sure it's a big deal for most voters. There's not a lot of support for the public financing system." Schneider said. "About a year ago, the polls asked people if they supported the idea that candidates and campaigns should be financed by taxpayer money ... and most persons said no.

"They like the idea of financing campaigns through small contributions from a lot of individual contributors, which is what Obama has done," he said.

Obama would be the first major presidential candidate to drop out of the modern campaign financing system for the general election since its creation in 1976 in the post-Watergate era.

Under this system, candidates agree to spend only the public funds and cannot raise or spend money directly obtained from individuals.

Because he has decided not participate in the system, Obama will be able to spend an unlimited amount of money during the general election.

The two camps also bickered Thursday over whether they had held negotiations on public financing before Obama's move to drop out.

Obama counsel Bob Bauer said he discussed the public funding issue for 45 minutes with Trevor Potter, his McCain counterpart, on June 6 when they met to talk about a possible town-hall appearance between the candidates.

Potter said the two "spoke in general terms about the public financing system, with Bob outlining reasons it could be considered 'broken' or irrelevant in 2008, and I explaining why Sen. McCain remained committed to it and thought it was good for the country."

Given his record-breaking ability to raise donations over the Internet, the Illinois Democrat probably will be able to raise more than and outspend the presumptive GOP nominee.  Watch CNN's Candy Crowley explain the significance of Obama's decision ÃÂ»

Since January 2007, Obama has raised more than $272 million, including nearly $31 million in April. During that time period, McCain has raised less than half that amount, roughly $100 million. In April, the Arizona Republican brought in about $18 million.

The FEC ruled unanimously in March 2007 that presidential candidates could accept general election public financing, provided that they return any money raised for the general election while following certain guidelines. At the time, Obama's actions appeared to be a desire on his part to preserve the public financing option while enabling him to raise general election money.

After that ruling, spokesman Bill Burton said, "Sen. Obama is pleased the FEC took this important step in preserving the public financing system, which is why he sought the opinion. If Sen. Obama is the nominee, he will aggressively pursue an agreement with the Republican nominee to preserve a publicly financed general election."

McCain is embroiled in controversy over his attempt to withdraw from the primary public financing system. He entered the program last year when his campaign was strapped for cash, and took a loan using future fundraising -- or the matching funds from the public financing system -- as collateral.

But after his primary victories on Super Tuesday, McCain wrote to the Federal Elections Commission announcing his intent to withdraw from the program.

But the FEC has four vacancies -- and no quorum -- to vote on whether to allow McCain's withdrawal. And federal election rules say that a candidate who uses the matching funds as collateral cannot withdraw from the system. The Democratic National Committee has filed a complaint with the FEC, but the lack of a quorum has stalled assessment of the complaint.

Obama, meanwhile, asked supporters Thursday to "declare our independence from a broken system, and run the type of campaign that reflects the grass-roots values that have already changed our politics and brought us this far."

The Democrat also attacked McCain and Republicans for taking money from lobbyists and political action committees, and he faulted McCain for not checking the campaign spending of conservative groups independent from his campaign.

"We've already seen that he's not going to stop the smears and attacks from his allies running so-called 527 groups, who will spend millions and millions of dollars in unlimited donations," the e-mail said, referring to independent political advocacy groups that often purchase issue ads independent of the presidential campaigns.

These groups operate under Section 527 of the Internal Revenue Service tax code.

CNN's Rebecca Sinderbrand and Dana Bash contributed to this report.

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answer: "I'm not sure it's a big deal for most voters. There's not a lot of support for the public financing system." Schneider said. "About a year ago, the polls asked people if they supported the idea that candidates and campaigns should be financed by taxpayer money ... and most persons said no

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question: What will the move allow?

answer: "special interests [to] drown out the voices of the American people"

text: "special interests [to] drown out the voices of the American people"

question: How much money can Obama spend to campaign now?

answer: sed more than $272 milli

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question: McCain says what should be disturbing?

answer: Obama's move to drop out of the system

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question: What did the analyst say about the voters?

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question: Move will allow Obama to do what?

answer: o spend an unlimited amount of money during the general election

text: o spend an unlimited amount of money during the general election

question: What did McCain say?

answer: accused Sen. Barack Obama of breaking a promise

text: accused Sen. Barack Obama of breaking a promise

question: What did Barack Obama say?

answer: Obama told supporters in an e-mail message Thursday that he would not accept about $85 million in public funds when he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.

text: Obama told supporters in an e-mail message Thursday that he would not accept about $85 million in public funds when he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee.

question: What did Sen. John McCain say about the decision?

answer: "should be disturbing to all Americans"

text: "should be disturbing to all Americans"

question: What did McCain call "disturbing"?

answer: Obama's move to drop out of the system

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Editor's note: On CNN's "State of the Union," host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on issues affecting communities across the country.

Pope McLean Jr. tells CNN's John King that a lot of farms are hurting because of the global recession.

LEXINGTON, Kentucky (CNN) -- Crestwood Farm is tucked into the rolling hillsides of Kentucky's legendary bluegrass country. Kipling and Unbridled Energy are among the stallions critical to the reputation -- and the bottom line -- of the McLean family business.

And just how do the stallions prove their value?

"When their progeny does well on the race track," Pope McLean Jr. said. "Can't bluff that. That's when they prove what they are worth."

Pope McLean Sr. got into the horse business in college and took over Crestwood Farm in 1970. His son worked on the farm while growing up. After college he took a job in the financial sector, but in 1991 he returned to Crestwood. His brother Marc returned a few years later, and their younger sister Grandison joined after she graduated from college.

"It's been pretty much a family business since that point," Pope McLean Jr. said during a tour of the 1,000 acre property.

Kentucky is to horse racing what Michigan is to the domestic auto industry. Racing and breeding thoroughbreds is a multibillion-dollar business in the state and the source of some 100,000 jobs.

But "The Sport of Kings" is hardly exempt from these painful economic times, and in fact is taking a severe blow in the global recession.

"It's truly an international industry, so we have people, a lot of buyers, from Europe come in. And they have dialed back," McLean said. "Domestic buyers have dialed back their participation, as well. The good horses are still bringing decent money, but everyone has to lower their expectations."

At this year's Keeneland September Yearling Sale, which McLean calls the horse industry's version of the NBA draft, the gross was down more than 41 percent from last year, the largest year-to-year drop in the 66-year history of the auction.

"The prices are down, and our production costs increased with commodity prices going up and so forth, so it definitely puts a squeeze on commercial breeding operations," McLean said. "A lot of farms are hurting. And then you have the credit squeeze that has hurt a lot of farms, too."

McLean sees another lean year next year, and then hopes for a rebound because of an odd twist to the laws of supply and demand. In 2008, when the stock market was plummeting, 30 percent fewer mares were bred, so the supply of horses available at auction the year after next will be smaller.

"I think people just decided to pull back," McLean said. "So the supply of horses available at auction will be reduced and that should start to help market conditions."

At Crestwood, McLean predicts an "about even" year. "We're down at bit," at the moment, he says. "I feel pretty sure there will be quite a few farms that will go out of business."

Out of business is an all too common theme in Hazard, a coal country town in Eastern Kentucky's Appalachia region about 120 miles away from Lexington and horse country.

Statewide, the unemployment rate in Kentucky is 11.1 percent. Hazard is the county seat in Perry County, where the jobless rate has been on a steady climb and is 12.7 percent.

On Main Street, a clothing and novelty store is closing down, along with an adjacent print and copying shop. Fallout, locals say, from the closing of a uniform plant that had employed more than 140 people, and then a Weyerhaeuser lumber facility that employed 180.

Joanne Caron knew there were problems when Weyerhaeuser canceled weekend shifts, "but we didn't think it would be that drastic."

The bad news came suddenly in March when workers were told their jobs were being eliminated immediately. "They called us in the conference room and said due to market conditions, you know, they had to shut us down."

Caron has been looking for work for seven months. Nothing.

Her unemployment check is $746 every two weeks. She cashed in her Weyerhaeuser 401(k) and, despite the long-term risks, allows herself a small slice of that money every month, as well.

"My daughter likes to eat, and she likes clothes," Caron said with a shrug. "And we like heat and air conditioning. That's the choices we have to make."

Her 19-year-old is enrolled at the local community college, where Joanne also plans to take classes in hopes of improving her job prospects. Two older daughters completed college over the past two years, one in Florida and other here in Kentucky, but neither has been able to find work.

"So everything I told them as they were growing up: go to college, get a degree so you can get a good job, it's just not working out that way."

Caron tries to keep her spirits up, dryly joking that "you get to see everybody during the day because nobody's at work." But the long search can be demoralizing. "I worked all my life and now I'm collecting an unemployment check. I feel real uncomfortable about that, but there's no jobs available."

When Caron returned to the Weyerhaeuser plant for the first time, it made her feel sad.

"The last shift I worked was 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Twelve hour shifts," she said as she looked through the fence, chained and padlocked shut.

"Sad to see it like this," Caron said. "I made a lot of good friends working there. We had good times working in there. It wasn't a glamorous job, but we had fun and we got along, and I miss seeing those people every day."

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text: sister

text: Grandison

text: joined

text: after

text: she

text: graduated

text: from

text: college

text: It

text: 's

text: been

text: pretty

text: much

text: a

text: family

text: business

text: since

text: that

text: point

text: Pope

text: McLean

text: Jr.

text: said

text: during

text: a

text: tour

text: of

text: the

text: acre

text: property

text: Kentucky

text: is

text: to

text: horse

text: racing

text: what

text: Michigan

text: is

text: to

text: the

text: domestic

text: auto

text: industry

text: Racing

text: and

text: breeding

text: thoroughbreds

text: is

text: a

text: multibillion

text: dollar

text: business

text: in

text: the

text: state

text: and

text: the

text: source

text: of

text: some

text: jobs

text: But

text: The

text: Sport

text: of

text: Kings

text: is

text: hardly

text: exempt

text: from

text: these

text: painful

text: economic

text: times

text: and

text: in

text: fact

text: is

text: taking

text: a

text: severe

text: blow

text: in

text: the

text: global

text: recession

text: It

text: 's

text: truly

text: an

text: international

text: industry

text: so

text: we

text: have

text: people

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: buyers

text: from

text: Europe

text: come

text: in

text: And

text: they

text: have

text: dialed

text: back

text: McLean

text: said

text: Domestic

text: buyers

text: have

text: dialed

text: back

text: their

text: participation

text: as

text: well

text: The

text: good

text: horses

text: are

text: still

text: bringing

text: decent

text: money

text: but

text: everyone

text: has

text: to

text: lower

text: their

text: expectations

text: At

text: this

text: year

text: 's

text: Keeneland

text: September

text: Yearling

text: Sale

text: which

text: McLean

text: calls

text: the

text: horse

text: industry

text: 's

text: version

text: of

text: the

text: NBA

text: draft

text: the

text: gross

text: was

text: down

text: more

text: than

text: percent

text: from

text: last

text: year

text: the

text: largest

text: year

text: to

text: year

text: drop

text: in

text: the

text: history

text: of

text: the

text: auction

text: The

text: prices

text: are

text: down

text: and

text: our

text: production

text: costs

text: increased

text: with

text: commodity

text: prices

text: going

text: up

text: and

text: so

text: forth

text: so

text: it

text: definitely

text: puts

text: a

text: squeeze

text: on

text: commercial

text: breeding

text: operations

text: McLean

text: said

text: A

text: lot

text: of

text: farms

text: are

text: hurting

text: And

text: then

text: you

text: have

text: the

text: credit

text: squeeze

text: that

text: has

text: hurt

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: farms

text: too

text: McLean

text: sees

text: another

text: lean

text: year

text: next

text: year

text: and

text: then

text: hopes

text: for

text: a

text: rebound

text: because

text: of

text: an

text: odd

text: twist

text: to

text: the

text: laws

text: of

text: supply

text: and

text: demand

text: In

text: when

text: the

text: stock

text: market

text: was

text: plummeting

text: percent

text: fewer

text: mares

text: were

text: bred

text: so

text: the

text: supply

text: of

text: horses

text: available

text: at

text: auction

text: the

text: year

text: after

text: next

text: will

text: be

text: smaller

text: I

text: think

text: people

text: just

text: decided

text: to

text: pull

text: back

text: McLean

text: said

text: So

text: the

text: supply

text: of

text: horses

text: available

text: at

text: auction

text: will

text: be

text: reduced

text: and

text: that

text: should

text: start

text: to

text: help

text: market

text: conditions

text: At

text: Crestwood

text: McLean

text: predicts

text: an

text: about

text: even

text: year

text: We

text: 're

text: down

text: at

text: bit

text: at

text: the

text: moment

text: he

text: says

text: I

text: feel

text: pretty

text: sure

text: there

text: will

text: be

text: quite

text: a

text: few

text: farms

text: that

text: will

text: go

text: out

text: of

text: business

text: Out

text: of

text: business

text: is

text: an

text: all

text: too

text: common

text: theme

text: in

text: Hazard

text: a

text: coal

text: country

text: town

text: in

text: Eastern

text: Kentucky

text: 's

text: Appalachia

text: region

text: about

text: miles

text: away

text: from

text: Lexington

text: and

text: horse

text: country

text: Statewide

text: the

text: unemployment

text: rate

text: in

text: Kentucky

text: is

text: percent

text: Hazard

text: is

text: the

text: county

text: seat

text: in

text: Perry

text: County

text: where

text: the

text: jobless

text: rate

text: has

text: been

text: on

text: a

text: steady

text: climb

text: and

text: is

text: percent

text: On

text: Main

text: Street

text: a

text: clothing

text: and

text: novelty

text: store

text: is

text: closing

text: down

text: along

text: with

text: an

text: adjacent

text: print

text: and

text: copying

text: shop

text: Fallout

text: locals

text: say

text: from

text: the

text: closing

text: of

text: a

text: uniform

text: plant

text: that

text: had

text: employed

text: more

text: than

text: people

text: and

text: then

text: a

text: Weyerhaeuser

text: lumber

text: facility

text: that

text: employed

text: Joanne

text: Caron

text: knew

text: there

text: were

text: problems

text: when

text: Weyerhaeuser

text: canceled

text: weekend

text: shifts

text: but

text: we

text: did

text: n't

text: think

text: it

text: would

text: be

text: that

text: drastic

text: The

text: bad

text: news

text: came

text: suddenly

text: in

text: March

text: when

text: workers

text: were

text: told

text: their

text: jobs

text: were

text: being

text: eliminated

text: immediately

text: They

text: called

text: us

text: in

text: the

text: conference

text: room

text: and

text: said

text: due

text: to

text: market

text: conditions

text: you

text: know

text: they

text: had

text: to

text: shut

text: us

text: down

text: Caron

text: has

text: been

text: looking

text: for

text: work

text: for

text: seven

text: months

text: Nothing

text: Her

text: unemployment

text: check

text: is

text: every

text: two

text: weeks

text: She

text: cashed

text: in

text: her

text: Weyerhaeuser

text: and

text: despite

text: the

text: long

text: term

text: risks

text: allows

text: herself

text: a

text: small

text: slice

text: of

text: that

text: money

text: every

text: month

text: as

text: well

text: My

text: daughter

text: likes

text: to

text: eat

text: and

text: she

text: likes

text: clothes

text: Caron

text: said

text: with

text: a

text: shrug

text: And

text: we

text: like

text: heat

text: and

text: air

text: conditioning

text: That

text: 's

text: the

text: choices

text: we

text: have

text: to

text: make

text: Her

text: old

text: is

text: enrolled

text: at

text: the

text: local

text: community

text: college

text: where

text: Joanne

text: also

text: plans

text: to

text: take

text: classes

text: in

text: hopes

text: of

text: improving

text: her

text: job

text: prospects

text: Two

text: older

text: daughters

text: completed

text: college

text: over

text: the

text: past

text: two

text: years

text: one

text: in

text: Florida

text: and

text: other

text: here

text: in

text: Kentucky

text: but

text: neither

text: has

text: been

text: able

text: to

text: find

text: work

text: So

text: everything

text: I

text: told

text: them

text: as

text: they

text: were

text: growing

text: up

text: go

text: to

text: college

text: get

text: a

text: degree

text: so

text: you

text: can

text: get

text: a

text: good

text: job

text: it

text: 's

text: just

text: not

text: working

text: out

text: that

text: way

text: Caron

text: tries

text: to

text: keep

text: her

text: spirits

text: up

text: dryly

text: joking

text: that

text: you

text: get

text: to

text: see

text: everybody

text: during

text: the

text: day

text: because

text: nobody

text: 's

text: at

text: work

text: But

text: the

text: long

text: search

text: can

text: be

text: demoralizing

text: I

text: worked

text: all

text: my

text: life

text: and

text: now

text: I

text: 'm

text: collecting

text: an

text: unemployment

text: check

text: I

text: feel

text: real

text: uncomfortable

text: about

text: that

text: but

text: there

text: 's

text: no

text: jobs

text: available

text: When

text: Caron

text: returned

text: to

text: the

text: Weyerhaeuser

text: plant

text: for

text: the

text: first

text: time

text: it

text: made

text: her

text: feel

text: sad

text: The

text: last

text: shift

text: I

text: worked

text: was

text: a.m.

text: to

text: p.m.

text: Twelve

text: hour

text: shifts

text: she

text: said

text: as

text: she

text: looked

text: through

text: the

text: fence

text: chained

text: and

text: padlocked

text: shut

text: Sad

text: to

text: see

text: it

text: like

text: this

text: Caron

text: said

text: I

text: made

text: a

text: lot

text: of

text: good

text: friends

text: working

text: there

text: We

text: had

text: good

text: times

text: working

text: in

text: there

text: It

text: was

text: n't

text: a

text: glamorous

text: job

text: but

text: we

text: had

text: fun

text: and

text: we

text: got

text: along

text: and

text: I

text: miss

text: seeing

text: those

text: people

text: every

text: day

question: How many jobs does the horse racing industry create?

answer: 100,000

question: What is the source of 100,000 jobs in Kentucky?

answer: Racing and breeding thoroughbreds

text: Racing and breeding thoroughbreds

question: What have the domestic and international buyers dialed back?

answer: their participation,

text: their participation,

question: What is the Kentucky unemployment rate?

answer: 11.1 percent.

text: 11.1 percent.

question: Who has dialed back participation?

answer: "Domestic buyers

text: "Domestic buyers

question: What is the unemployment rate in Kentucky?

answer: 11.1 percent.

text: 11.1 percent.


text:
(CNN) -- The Queen of the Blues is dead.

Koko Taylor performs in Spain in 2005. Her last performance was in May of this year.

Koko Taylor, a West Tennessee sharecropper's daughter who went to Chicago, Illinois, with "35 cents and a box of Ritz Crackers" at 24 and wound up an award-winning blues legend, died Wednesday at her Chicago home at 80.

She died of complications from a May 19 surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding, her Web site reported.

Just days before the surgery, Taylor won her 29th Blues Music Award, picking up the trophy for Traditional Female Blues Artist Of the Year. She performed her signature song, "Wang Dang Doodle," at the ceremony.

Known for her powerful vocals, Taylor was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame in 1997, won the Blues Foundation Lifetime Achievement Ward in 1999 and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts National Heritage Fellowship in 2004.

She also won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album in 1985 for her album "Queen of the Blues."

Taylor was born Cora Walton and picked up the nickname "Koko" because of her love of chocolate as a child. She also displayed a love of singing from an early age.

She and her future husband, the late Robert "Pops" Taylor, traveled to Chicago in 1952, where Pops Taylor worked for a packing company while Koko Taylor cleaned houses. By night, the two roamed Chicago's blues clubs, where Koko Taylor sat in with top bands and was soon a popular guest artist.

But it took 10 years for Koko Taylor to record on her own, after Willie Dixon got her signed to Chess Records and produced several singles, including "Wang Dang Doodle."

Taylor landed a permanent home with Alligator Records when Chess was sold in 1975.

Her final performance was the May 7 blues award show, but earlier in the year she performed at the Kennedy Center Honors program honoring actor Morgan Freeman.

Throughout her lengthy career, she shared the stage with nearly every blues performer imaginable, from Junior Wells and B.B. King to Taj Mahal and Muddy Waters. She was a strong influence to later performers, including Bonnie Raitt and Janis Joplin.

Survivors include Taylor's husband, Hays Harris, daughter Joyce Threatt, son-in-law Lee Threatt, grandchildren Lee Jr. and Wendy, and three great-grandchildren.

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text: May

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text: year

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text: performed

text: at

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text: Kennedy

text: Center

text: Honors

text: program

text: honoring

text: actor

text: Morgan

text: Freeman

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text: career

text: she

text: shared

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text: stage

text: with

text: nearly

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text: and

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text: King

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text: Mahal

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text: Muddy

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text: strong

text: influence

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text: later

text: performers

text: including

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text: Raitt

text: and

text: Janis

text: Joplin

text: Survivors

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text: husband

text: Hays

text: Harris

text: daughter

text: Joyce

text: Threatt

text: son

text: in

text: law

text: Lee

text: Threatt

text: grandchildren

text: Lee

text: Jr.

text: and

text: Wendy

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text: three

text: great

text: grandchildren

question: What type of surgery did he have?

answer: gastrointestinal bleeding,

text: gastrointestinal bleeding,

question: who is taylor?

answer: Queen of the Blues

text: Queen of the Blues

question: Where did the May 7 show take place?

answer: Spain

text: Spain

question: what Her final performance was a May 7?

answer: blues award show,

text: blues award show,

question: when Taylor dies at Chicago home of complications from?

answer: died Wednesday

text: died Wednesday

question: did she win anything else?

answer: also won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album

text: also won a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album