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have retained a very distinguished attorney to represent them. Since
they retained Mr. Sun long before the 'Phoenix Issue' it is a testament
to their patience that they have not fully unleashed the 'heavy guns' in
prior matters. It is also just as clear they have zero intention
of allowing anyone, irrespective of their wealth & influence, to
obstruct them from marketing Champ Car in a fair and lawful manner and
certainly not by unfair monopolistic business practices.
Brian Sun
Brian Sun is known in the legal world first and foremost
for his results as a trial lawyer but he is also known as a "go to"
lawyer for Fortune 300 Companies. After graduating from the University
of Southern California (Phi Beta Kappa; B.A. Magna Cum Laude 1976; J.D.
1979) he clerked with Federal Judge Andrew Hauk and later became a
federal prosecutor with the Justice Department.
As an Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) in Los
Angeles from 1982-1986 Brian was Chief of the Financial Investigations
Unit and testified before Congress helping to draft pioneering money
laundering legislation while heading up a multi-agency task force that
targeted very sophisticated money laundering operations in the U.S. and
Brian was then courted by the owners of a high profile
'boutique' law firm in Los Angeles that specialized in trial work and
left government service to become a named partner in their practice
which became O'Neill, Lysaght & Sun. In 2003, realizing they could not
grow their firm fast enough to keep up with the clients that were
seeking to retain them, Brian accepted a senior partnership at one of
the world's largest law firms, Jones Day, with more than 2200 attorneys
on staff and which American Lawyer has rated among the best in the U.S.
Besides being one
of the most powerful attorneys in the USA, Brian Sun is also a 3rd
degree black belt in martial arts, and a long time Champ Car
supporter and fan. Mr. Sun is pictured here at the 2002 Long
Beach GP.
The move has enhanced Brian's extraordinary ability to
not only select lawyers and staff with specialized skill sets to action
teams but to manage those teams in a manner that produces work product
that is so persuasive that he is able to settle many cases pre-trial and
the ones that actually make it to trial his well recognized abilities in
the court room give his clients the advantage tipping the scales to
where the most probable outcome is that they prevail.
The larger firm and more diverse staff has allowed Brian
to accept more clients with anti-trust, unfair competition law,
corporate criminal investigations, business crime, and complex
litigation while actually allowing him more time for trial work from
other areas within the firm. In April of this year Jones Day was named
'Global Business Crime Law Firm of the Year' by the Who's Who Legal
Awards (Official Research Partner of the International Bar Association)
where Brian Sun received special recognition. April also found Brian
named to the Lawdragon 500 (A guide to the best in the courtroom when it
comes to shaping corporate America) as one of the 500 leading litigators
in America for his Trial Practice expertise. Brian is listed in the
2005-2006 Edition of Best Lawyers in America, and has been ranked twice
as among the "100 Most Influential Attorneys in California" by the Los
Angeles Daily Journal.
Brian's list of clients have included automobile
manufacturers (American Honda among them), investment and accounting
firms, other law firms, government officials as well as high net worth
individuals (the Pritzker Family among many) in very confidential and
sensitive matters. He has a solid reputation for prevailing for his
clients in both State and Federal Courts in civil, criminal, and
regulatory cases but specializes in complex corporate litigation.
His reputation inside the corridors of government is
such that when government officials, particularly law enforcement and
intelligence officials who are facing serious jeopardy, Brian Sun is at the
top of the list of people they turn to for help. Some of the public
cases that have been disclosed include a FBI counterintelligence
official and Los Alamos nuclear scientist, Wen Ho Lee who was accused of
spying for China. After Lee was held for nine months in virtual
'incommunicado' in solitary confinement Brian assisted in his criminal
defense, which resulted in his release and last week won a multimillion
dollar civil settlement (1.645 Million in compensation alone) and the
strength of his arguments were such that the U.S. Supreme Court has
declined to entertain additional litigation in the matter.
Brian has lectured and written extensively on trial
practice, ethics, white-collar crime, and corporate compliance with
government regulations. He currently sits on the board of directors of
Bet Tzedek and the board of trustees of Southwestern University School
of Law.
Brian's personal life is demonstrative of his commitment
to integrity (he has taught trial advocacy for the U.S. Department of
Justice and served as adjunct Professor of Law at Southwestern
University), strength (he is a 3rd Degree Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do) and
humility (Pro Bono work for the less fortunate and past recipient of the
American Jewish Congress Award for Pro Bono work). Brian is also a long
time supporter, and fan, of Champ Car regularly attending his home Long
Beach Grand Prix.
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Polish pianist Rafał Blechacz, who at age 20 swept all five top prizes at the 2005 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, can now add another prestigious award to his collection. Early Wednesday, Blechacz was named the 2014 Gilmore Artist.
The Gilmore may not have quite the name recognition as the Chopin Competition, but it has a distinguished cachet of its own, plus a generous $300,000 cash award.
Actually, the Gilmore isn't a competition. Named for a Kalamazoo, Mich. businessman and philanthropist, the distinction is given every four years to a pianist who has no idea he or she is in the running for anything — not unlike the MacArthur Foundation "Genius" grants. The first Gilmore Artist, David Owen Norris, was selected in 1991, the year of the inaugural Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival. Other winners include Leif Ove Andsnes, Ingrid Fliter and Kirill Gerstein.
In an email exchange yesterday, Rafał Blechacz (RAH-fahl BLAY-hahtch) said that he had performed at the Gilmore Festival in 2008 but had never followed the award closely. "I didn't know I was under consideration or being observed, so the news came as a great surprise," he wrote. "I haven't yet decided what I will do with the funds. I have a few ideas, but I need time to allow thoughtful consideration to an award this important and substantial, and how it can be used to support my career."
Blechacz's career, so far, is tied closely to his compatriot Frederic Chopin, especially since that clean sweep in Warsaw. Blechacz won the overall top prize, plus awards for the best mazurka, polonaise, sonata and concerto performances. He's since recorded three all-Chopin albums.
"In Chopin's music there are a lot of emotions, a lot of different emotions. There are full palettes of emotions," Blechacz told Performance Today host Fred Child in 2010. "I think that my role, the pianist's role, is to enter into Chopin's feelings and recreate them afresh."
As a youngster growing up in north central Poland, Blechacz was fascinated by the church organ and had dreams of making it his instrument until piano lessons convinced him otherwise. He studied at the Artur Rubinstein State Music School in Bydgoszcz and later at the city's Feliks Nowowiejski Academy of Music, where he was still a student when he won the Chopin Competition. Now 28, Blechacz, in addition to his international concert career, is pursuing doctoral studies in the philosophy of music at Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń.
Blechacz's first concert as the 2014 Gilmore artist will be webcast live from WQXR's Greene Space, Wednesday, Jan. 8, at 5:30 p.m. ET.
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SIEGEL: The music is Chopin. It's his first piano concerto. The pianist is Rafal Blechacz, a 28-year-old from Poland who is in our New York studio today because of a prestigious award that he's won. It's the Gilmore Artist Award. It's given every four years to an exceptional pianist, $300,000 to be dispersed over four years.
Rafal Blechacz, welcome and congratulations on winning this.
RAFAL BLECHACZ: Thank you very much.
SIEGEL: And tell me, when did you learn that you had won the Gilmore Award?
BLECHACZ: I was in Berlin. It was in July last year. I got an email from Dan Gustin, the director of Gilmore Festival. He wrote me that he would like to have a meeting with me so I supposed that the meeting was going to be about my next concerts at Gilmore Festival in 2014. But when I heard the news, I was extremely happy because I didn't expect this award.
SIEGEL: Tell me about you and playing the piano. You're 28 now. You won the Chopin competition in Warsaw when you were just 20. How young were you when you started playing and when you figured out you were going to be a pianist?
BLECHACZ: I was five years old when I started to play the piano, but I must tell you that my first fascination was the organ music and I really wanted to be the organist, not the pianist, when I was a child. So my memories from my childhood are connected with going to the church and listening to the organ music. I was absolutely fascinated by the huge sound of the organ.
But when I started to play more and more piano, I realized that this is the right instrument for me so I wanted to play more and more Bach compositions and Mozart and Chopin, of course.
SIEGEL: I should explain to people that when you won the Chopin competition in 2005 in Warsaw, you did the equivalent of not just winning a pentathlon, but winning every single event in the pentathlon. One event is the polonaise and you have a CD out in which you play the Chopin polonaises and here's a bit of you playing one, one which I think is fitting for a triumphant day when you've won a big prize.
SIEGEL: These pieces obviously mean a great deal to you.
BLECHACZ: Yeah, it's a very famous piece, it's the polonaise from my last album for Deutsche Grammophon. I decided to record seven polonaises because I really wanted to show a specific, very typical Polish written, and the same we have in the mazurkas. You know...
SIEGEL: A rhythm, a Polish rhythm.
BLECHACZ: Yes, a Polish rhythm, the folk music was a big inspiration for Chopin so I am very happy that I can show the specific type and the specific atmosphere of the Polish dance.
SIEGEL: Have you listened to many recordings, whether they're Rubinstein recordings or other people's recordings of these pieces and are there some which stand out to you as an ideal or do you want to approach them more freshly?
BLECHACZ: I have many recordings of Rubinstein and it's a big inspiration for me. There are so many energies, so many political fragments. And the second pianist, one of my favorites, is Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, the Italian pianist and I love his (unintelligible), his (unintelligible) sonatas, his articulation. I think that he combines the intellectual aspects and emotional aspects in the interpretation very naturally.
So it's absolutely amazing for me. But I think that the most important thing in the interpretation is to find your own way on the particular piece and to find individual view on the particular musical work.
SIEGEL: How does that happen? That is, I assume that there are Chopin pieces that you've been playing since the time that you were 12 or 13 and you've been at it now for 15 years. Have you always played a piece in your own way or does that happen after you've played it a hundred times or when do you find your own way through a Chopin piece?
BLECHACZ: I think it's a very natural process. Of course, the interpretation is changing when I play the same repertoire in different concert halls and different acoustics, on different pianos, on different instruments. I think the interpretation is changing all the time.
SIEGEL: But when you say it depends on the hall that you're playing in as well, because that's how you're hearing it and you're responding to the music that you're playing?
BLECHACZ: Yes. Sometimes I have to change some elements in the interpretation. For example, the (unintelligible), the articulation because sometimes when I play in the Italian theaters where the acoustic is very dry, I have to change some (unintelligible) in the interpretation. When I play in the different concert halls with different acoustics, I have to think about different elements.
So sometimes it's very important to talk with the tuner before the concert about the specific intonation to the specific repertoire, to the specific acoustic of the concert hall. It's very important.
SIEGEL: Does winning the award, the Gilmore Award, does it alter your plans for the next few years?
BLECHACZ: Well, this is a great award so now I am thinking about my next projects. Maybe this award help me with buying a new piano. I have a wonderful piano in my house, but this is the Steinway Model B. I would love to have Model D, the concert piano. So maybe this award can help. After my winnings in 2005, I bought an extremely good piano, Model B, in Hamburg because I realized that this is the best.
I really want this, too, to play more Debussy and the colors and different shades of the sounds. It's very important in this music so I needed a very good instrument and now I can study the sound, which is very important in impressionism but also in Chopin's music. I think very interesting is the middle part of the first polonaise.
There is an extremely beautiful melody, the harmonies are very, very special.
BLECHACZ: And very important for me was to create many different colors of the sound in this section so I was very happy that I could study this repertoire on my new piano. It was very important before the recording. And also, extremely beautiful and amazing piece for me is the last polonaise, "Polonaise Fantasy Op. 61." There are so many improvised fragments and poetical fragments and I really wanted to create totally different colors.
SIEGEL: Colors, different colors.
BLECHACZ: Colors of the sound, yes.
SIEGEL: Rafal Blechacz, thank you very much for talking with us.
BLECHACZ: Thank you. Thank you very much.
SIEGEL: Rafal Blechacz, who spoke to us from New York, is the winner of the 2014 Gilmore Artist Award. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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When Giacomo Meyerbeer's Robert le diable was first performed in 1831, Paris was the centre of the musical world. It was also a turbulent place, struggling to get on its feet after the radical Napoleonic era. The monarchy that followed Napoleon's abdication proved an unhappy affair, so the 1830 July Revolution routed Charles X. He was replaced with Louis Philippe I, the 'citizen king' as he was initially known. Alongside this majestic new order, grand opera was born.
Grand opera is sung throughout (unlike opéra comique, it has no spoken dialogue). But its essential characteristics give rise to the genre's imposing moniker, as many of the works of the 1830s and beyond show. Plots set tragic private romance against a background of impressive and heroic historical events; there were impressive stage effects; the chorus played a major dramatic and vocal part; there were many leading characters and, increasingly, a ballet was included at some stage in the drama. With vast forces in big ensembles, stage tableaux and complex plots, the operas usually stretched to five acts. And Robert le diable was right at the forefront of this new all-embracing idea of drama, music, movement and image.
Composers such as Meyerbeer, Fromental Halévy and Daniel Auber displayed a real talent for combining such elements as medieval stories, grand flights of passion, stunning vocal showpieces and grand spectacle. Auber's 1828 La Muette de Portici set a trend, especially by including a volcanic eruption on stage (a trick nicked from La Scala's production of Giovanni Pacini's L'ultimo giorno di Pompei). Gioachino Rossini, brought to Paris by the former king, followed suit with the equally imposing historical epic Guillaume Tell in 1829. Both operas were designed by Pierre-Luc-Charles Ciceri, whose visual genius was also used for the staging of Robert le diable. Meyerbeer had come to Paris after becoming successful in Italy, and his experience and the new cultural atmosphere he encountered fired his theatrical imagination. Robert le diable appeared in 1831.
The Paris Opéra, then resident at the Salle Le Peletier, was the place to see and be seen, the heart of Paris society. But if these entertainments seemed the preserve of the upper classes from the expensive seats, the general public were also avid fans higher up in the cheap ones. On stage, the operas often have a spirit of class conflict through stories in which powerful, privileged characters are brought face to face with the rebellious masses. La Muette de Portici revolves around an uprising in 17th-century Naples, the like of which Paris knew well. Partisan clashes – often religious – run through Halévy's La Juive as well as Meyerbeer's Les Huguenots and L'Africaine. The premiere of Robert le diable comes shortly before the events that inspired Victor Hugo's Les Misérables. Not surprisingly, the opera house was under the constant scrutiny of the censors!
Although Robert le diable was relatively tame politically as one of the earliest of these grand operas its impact on French culture was immense. The night-time nuns' bacchanal in Act III, captured vividly by Edgar Degas in 1871, was an inspiration for Giselle (which had its premiere at the Salle Le Peletier in 1841). Giselle in turn travelled to Russia in 1842 and inspired similarly eerie, moonlit scenes in La Bayadère and Swan Lake.
Ballet was, in itself at the time, part and parcel of grand opera and many would come just to see the dancing. Perhaps the clearest indication of the importance of this type of opera and its structures during the 19th century was when Wagner's Tannhäuser came to Paris in 1861. The all-too-powerful Jockey Club had grown used to turning up halfway through the evening. Its members would watch their girls in the corps de ballet and then promptly leave for dinner. But Wagner did not play by the rules, moved the ballet from its customary position well on in the opera to the beginning of Act 1, and uproar ensued.
Robert le diable continued to be staged at the Paris Opéra throughout the 19th century, both at the Salle Le Peletier and at its even grander successor, the Palais Garnier. And even when operetta and opéra comique became more fashionable, Meyerbeer's supernatural masterpiece survived. But, as naturalism made its mark at the end of the 19th century, and the economics of opera production became more challenging, French grand opera increasingly lost its place on the stage and with the audience. And so Robert le diable fell out of favour. As well as being absent from the Royal Opera House since 1890, it disappeared from the Paris stage for nearly a century. But like its famous phantom nuns, the opera has recently begun to rise again and, with it, a flavour of the volatile world in which it was created.
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I have been asked by so many people so many times to talk about the use of technology in health clubs, that I frequently feel like Stephen Hawken, the brilliant scientist and author of "A Brief History of Time," must have felt when questioned about the subject of space and time. In other words, it seems like everybody wants a succinct, how-to short answer on a complex subject.
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2014 Outdoor: Competed in the 1,500m run at the 2014 America East Outdoor Track and Field Championships at Vermont, finishing 13th with a time of 4:46.82… Her time ranks as the ninth-fastest in UMBC program history.
2013-14 Indoor: Placed seventh in the 1,000m run at the 2014 America East Indoor Track and Field Championships with a career-best time… Her time of 2:57.23 ranks third in school history behind teammates Sarah Daly and Cody Mezebish… Also posted a career-best in the 800m run during the year… Recorded a time of 2:18.15 at the Armory Collegiate Invitational, the eighth-fastest time in UMBC program history… Competed in the one mile at the NYU Team Challenge, finishing with a top career-time of 5:14.99 to jump into the UMBC all-time top-ten for the event.
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The Shema is one of only two prayers that are specifically commanded in Torah (the other is Birkat Ha-Mazon -- grace after meals). It is the oldest fixed daily prayer in Judaism, recited morning and night since ancient times. It consists of three biblical passages, two of which specifically say to speak of these things "when you lie down and when you rise up." This commandment is fulfilled by including the Shema in the liturgy for Ma'ariv (evening services) and Shacharit (morning services). Traditional prayerbooks also include a Bedtime Shema, a series of passages including the Shema to be read at home before going to bed at night.
Part 1: Deuteronomy 6:4-9
The first part of the Shema begins with one of the best-known, most fundamental expressions of Jewish belief, and the one from which this prayer gets its name: Shema Yisra'el... (Hear, Israel). This expression is so fundamental that the most liberal Reform synagogue I know has these words carved on the outside of the building in foot-high letters (albeit in English). The second line of this part (Barukh sheim k'vod...) is actually not part of this passage from the Torah. It doesn't even appear anywhere in the Bible. It's a congregational response from the days of the Temple: whenever the High Priest would say the Divine Name, the people would respond with this line. Today, it is not said aloud except during Yom Kippur services.
Part 2: Deuteronomy 11:13-21
The second part of the Shema repeats many of the themes from the first part, but adds promises of rewards and punishments.
Part 3: Numbers 15:37-41
This third part of the Shema does not mention the need to speak of these things morning and night. It talks about the tzitzit (fringes) that are traditionally worn like a string around the finger as a reminder of the commandments, like the tefillin and mezuzot that are commanded in the first two paragraphs. The passage is also included to fulfill the mitzvah to remember the Exodus from Egypt every day of our lives.
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- Final slot allocation will be determined on race day based on the number of official starters in each age group. If there are no starters in a particular Age Group, no slot will be allocated
-If there are no finishers in a particular Age Group that had at least one participant start then that slot will be moved to the next calculated Age Group within the gender
- Athletes MUST claim their slot in-person at the qualifying race during the IRONMAN World Championship Slot Allocation and Rolldown Ceremony. Please check the event schedule of events for time and location of the ceremony.Back to top
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Anyone who wishes to claim a Rolldown slot must attend the IRONMAN World Championship Slot Allocation and Rolldown Ceremony and claim their slot in person.
- If an automatic qualifier in an Age Group chooses not to take the slot, does not attend the IRONMAN World Championship Slot Allocation and Rolldown Ceremony, or has already qualified, the next eligible finisher in that Age Group may claim the slot that has rolled down.
- If there are no more eligible finishers in a particular Age Group or no other finishers in attendance at the IRONMAN World Championship Slot Allocation and Rolldown Ceremony in that Age Group, that unclaimed slot will be reallocated to another Age Group within the gender based on the athletes-to-slots ratio.
- The Age Group within the gender with the largest athletes-to-slots ratio will receive the first reallocated slot, followed by the next largest ratio receiving the second re-allocated slot (if applicable), and so on.Back to top
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In accordance with the World Triathlon Corporation Anti-Doping Policy, all athletes participating in the IRONMAN World Championship will be required to sign a Condition of Entry, Release and Indemnification waiver, by which they agree and acknowledge that they have read and fully understand the Rules as adopted by WTC, and understand that they may be required to submit to a medical control urinalysis, blood, or other non-urine doping text conducted by WTC. Athletes voluntarily consent to be governed by the published rules.Back to top
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Spontaneous nipple discharge is when fluid comes out of the
nipple on its own. This means a person has not squeezed or pressed on a nipple
or breast to force out the fluid.
Spontaneous nipple discharge is
often noticed as a stain on a bra or clothing. Sometimes a person can see this
discharge after taking a shower.
Fluid that comes out only when
the nipple or breast is squeezed or pressed is different from a spontaneous
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Ever had a moment so nerdy that you needed to tell the Internet about it? Send your submissions to dorklypwnup at gmail.
I smile every time I read comments about how hard NES and SNES games back in the day, because it was even harder for me and my friends. We lived in Mexico and neither of us spoke English, but we were able to get our hands on American games. Our curse was that we were RPG fans and that meant that we needed to talk to everyone in every town (with one of our friends using a dictionary to try to get the main idea of what was being said) in order to make some progress. Needless to say, our vocabulary improved a lot, and that helped me learn to speak English better than any course I ever took.-Eduardo
The "The Family That Trains Together, Stays Together" Award goes to
So I went on my first ever foreign holiday to Cyprus a while ago along with my step-brother (who I didn't know too well at the time). He asked to borrow Pokemon HeartGold for the plane ride. He only stopped playing a few times a day through the entire holiday, once to ask me to give him a quiz about Kanto. I've never been closer to any family member ever.-Anonymous
The "Love Is A Complicated Thing" Award goes to
Email 1:My girlfriend and I met the day after my birthday. I went to a fall festival down by my house. The only reason her and I even met was that she was wearing cosplay of Chell from Portal, and the reason we got together? She had stopped to join a costume contest, and I placed my hand on her and said, (in my best Space-Core impersonation), "Space!" We had our first kiss that day at the park, and we've been together ever since.
Email 2:We broke up. . .please don't publish this. . .if you've already decided then do if you must. . .however if you have not. . .don't publish it in the article. . .I'm sorry.
Email 3:I sent that to soon
sorry we're still together.
The "This Is The Reason Everyone Hates Calling Customer Support" Award goes to
I work for a call center too and read the latest Pwn Up while taking a call. But I work from home for my call center (as a Residential Customer Service and Tier 1 Agent), so when I'm working I am usually playing World of Warcraft. I spend a lot of time going over low level quests on my level 90 Undead Mage. Right now I am in the Northrend continent. I have tried to do level appropriate dungeons or raids, but I get wrapped up into the game and forget about the caller on the phone. And I am sending in this submission while I'm working too.-John
The "Oh My God, Dude, WHAT ABOUT THE DOG?" Award goes to
I've been recently looking for my old Nintendo DS Lite for the past few weeks, but couldn't find it anywhere. I called my sister and asked if she knew where it was, and then she broke the news to me: I left it at her house. Why she didn't tell me? Because her dog ATE IT. On the bright side, now I'll be getting a new Nintendo 3DS in return.-Maxx
And this week's "This Is Very Sweet, But You Missed SO MANY COINS" Award goes to
So my girlfriend really likes Super Mario Bros. Well, when the time came to see if I could upgrade our status from 'dating' to 'engaged', I figured I might as well see if I could use her love of SMB for a greater chance she'd say yes
Seems like my plan worked (or she really loves me, which I guess is possible too). Mission accomplished. I now have a fiance.-Norm


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Walter Kresnik (b. 1957) worked in the Creativity Explored studio from 2005 to 2016. Kresnik is known for his portraiture in which he captures physical qualities and personality effortlessly with very few marks. Charlie Chaplan, Liz Taylor, Bill Clinton, Gandhi, Chuck Close, and Yo Yo Ma are just a few of the subjects of Kresnik's portraiture.
Kresnik's instinctive delicate sense of line forms solid shapes and ephemeral wisps until the essence of a figure emerges. Sometimes a spare slash of color or lone architectural element is added, but Kresnik is a master of the light touch, never accumulating more than is needed.
Kresnik also draws certain locations like Ellis Island, the sacred places of the Australian outback, or the quilted farmland of south France. Based on transparent washes of color, his assured hatching and delineation of forms add a quiet depth and sense of distance.
One of Kresnik's drawings was selected for the first T-shirt issued by Creativity Explored. He was has been included in numerous exhibitions at Creativity Explored. In addition, his work was featured in I Have Never Taken the Time to Really Look, Accident and Artifact, San Francisco, CA in 2013 and Paper!Awesome!, Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA in 2010.
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As journalists become targets more often,a reporter finds a bunker mentality taking hold among the press corps.
By P. Mitchell Prothero
BAGHDAD, Iraq
Journalists, by necessity, are fixated on personal security. News organizations have established themselves in compounds of private homes surrounded by blast walls, or in large hotel complexes with extensive security checkpoints. Such precautions, though not unique to the media, reflect a change from a year ago, when journalists preferred lower-profile, less-secure accommodations on the theory that it would make them less likely to be targets.
Much of the problem is a nationwide perception that Western journalists are spies or profiteers taking advantage of the considerable misery of the Iraqi people. Because almost every journalist under Saddam Hussien's regime was either censored or compromised, there is little understanding among the public that Western reporters are not shills for their governments.
But the worst example of government attacks on the press happened during this summer's siege at the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf. At 10:30 p.m. on August 25, dozens of armed police, many of them masked, stormed a Najaf hotel widely used by journalists. Firing warning shots in the lobby and beating down doors to rooms, police forcibly removed some 60 journalists from the Bahr Najaf Hotel and packed them into waiting trucks without explanation.


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Curious about becoming a KEEP Designer? Come meet local Designers, see the product in person, and learn how to launch a side gig with KEEP - it's easier than you think! It's casual and fun, and you'll get a chance to win some free swag!
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I thought that the order of the Tate-Shafarevich group should always be a square (it's also supposed to be finite, but for the purposes of this question let's assume we know this) but I don't seem to find a good explanation; Wikipedia is silent on the matter.
While I know it may be an open problem, is there a good argument pro or contra this?
(I made this a community wiki as I mistakenly thought this was an open problem)


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You can't always solve a mathematical problem by reducing it to something you've already solved. Sometimes, you need to invent an entirely new field of mathematics. Last month, Shinichi Mochizuki of Kyoto University in Japan announced that a new field he's been developing for several years—which he calls Inter-universal Teichmüller theory—has proved a famous conjecture in number theory known as the "abc conjecture." But the abc conjecture is only the beginning: If Mochizuki's theory proves correct, it will settle a raft of open problems in number theory and other branches of math.
The conjecture grows out of a seemingly trivial equation: a + b = c. Unlike the equation a2 + b2 = c2, which requires some algebraic finesse to produce solutions (not to mention its famously unsolvable cousin a n + bn = cn with exponent n greater than two), the equation a + b = c essentially solves itself: Just pick two numbers a and b, add them together, and voilà.
But when you bring in prime numbers, things get interesting. In the mid 1980s, mathematicians David Masser of the University of Basel in Switzerland and Joseph Oesterlé of Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris observed that when a and b are divisible by small primes raised to large powers—numbers such as a = 210 and b = 34—their sum c tends to factor into large primes to small powers. (In this example, 1024 + 81 = 1105 = 5 x 13 x 17.) The abc conjecture describes this connection in precise mathematical language, highlighting how the underlying "tension" between the operations of addition and multiplication produce such lopsided equations: many small primes on one side, a few relatively large primes on the other.
The excitement over Mochizuki's potential proof is comparable to the frisson that greeted the announcement by Grigory Perelman in 2002 that he had proved the Poincaré conjecture, and by Andrew Wiles in 1993 that he had proved Fermat's Last Theorem. But those proofs, although extremely complicated, were based on techniques that were broadly familiar to experts in the field. As a result, researchers could "helicopter in" on portions of the proofs to check their correctness.
Mochizuki, in contrast, has developed an entirely new theory—which will make it tougher for other mathematicians to scrutinize. "As with Perelman or Wiles, this is a first-class mathematician with a very strong reputation in the subject, who has been working on this important problem for many years, so the claim is certainly being taken very seriously," writes mathematician Terence Tao of the University of California, Los Angeles, in an e-mail. "But it is likely to take quite some time to evaluate the work properly, more so than with either Perelman or Wiles."
Mochizuki's proof, Tao says, is built on decades of work in an extremely difficult area of mathematics known as anabelian geometry, which very few people in the world are actively working on. Launched in the 1980s, anabelian geometry seeks to ground mathematics in certain fundamental concepts—even more fundamental than the set theory mathematicians explored for that purpose in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Mochizuki's Inter-universal Teichmüller theory is his own take on this reconceptualization. Given that his description of the theory—the last installment of which came out in August—spans four dense papers totaling about 500 pages, it will probably take other mathematicians months of study to understand the theory, let alone evaluate it or think about what other mathematical problems it might lay to rest.
"His work probes the very core of mathematical language, such as what we might really mean by a number or a geometric figure, and how they might be interpreted in a manner quite different from usual conventions," writes Minhyong Kim of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom in an e-mail. Kim, who is one of the world's few experts in anabelian geometry, admits even he has his work cut out for him in mastering Mochizuki's new techniques. "There is no one but the author who is familiar with all these things," he writes. "I can't even give an expert summary of the proof because I don't understand it!"
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Sophomore (2013-14)
EIWA Champion at 141lbs. … Named EIWA Championships Most Outstanding Wrestler … Also named All-Ivy League second team … Placed second at the Keystone Classic with a 3-1 record … Reached the round of 12 at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational … Also went 2-2 at the Midlands Championships … Recorded his second career fall against Rider's John Gentile … Registered four straight wins against John Gentile of Rider with a fall at the 4:34 mark, Tom Page of American, 5-0, Nicholas Tige of Binghamton, 4-3, and Tyler Rauenzahn of Army, 5-3 in sudden victory … Registered 12 consecutive wins with ten decisions, one fall, and one technical … Recorded three consequtive decisions against Tyler Scotton of Boston University, 3-1, Jeff Canfora of Penn, 6-2, and Jordan Laster of Princeton, 3-1 in a sudden victory ... Defeated Zachary Tanenbaum of Brown with a technical fall, 22-5 ... Registered back-to-back decisions against Matt Nystel of Columbia, 2-1 in a tie breaker, and Laike Gardner of Lehigh, 9-4 ... Placed first at the EIWA Championships with one fall against Andrew Polidore of Sacred Heart at the 5:29 mark and two decisions against Laike Gardner of Lehigh, 6-1, and Luke Vaith of Hofstra, 8-6, in sudden victory … Reached the round of 12 at the NCAA Championships with two decisions against Daniel Neff of Lehigh, 7-4 TB1 and Zach Horan of Central Michigan University, 6-2.
Freshman (2012-13)
Recorded his first career win for the Crimson with a 10-1 major decision against Colton Dempsey of Stanford ... Picked up a 3-1 win over Rutgers' Ken Theobold ... Registered a 2-1 decision over John Belanger of Army ... Won back-to-back bouts aginst Brown's Zach Rees, 11-5, and Boston University's Nick Tourville, 8-6.
Before Harvard
Selected as captain senior year and earned four varsity letters in wrestling … Blair Academy finished the 2011-12 season ranked No. 1 in the country … Led Blair to a National Championship his senior and freshman year, as well as a runner-up finish as a junior and a third place finish as a sophomore … Three-time national prep champion … As a junior was Beast of the East Champion, POWERADE champion and placed third at Ironman … Three-time Fargo Junior Nationals All-American … Made the Commended list for academics all four years at Blair … Volunteered at Flemington Food Pantry as a junior and sophomore.


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The late Patrick Swayze, who died after a hard-fought battle with cancer two weeks ago, said his life began a downward spiral after his doctor handed a "death sentence."
"When my doctors at Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles said the words 'pancreatic cancer,' a single thought popped into my dead: I'm a dead man," he said.
In his audiobook "Time of My Life" set for release Tuesday, the 57-year-old actor who died two weeks ago after battling pancreatic cancer said he felt "anger, bitterness and despair" after he was diagnosed with the terminal disease.
He penned the memoirs in June 2009 at his home in New Mexico, according to People magazine.
"Now, a lot of things go through your head when you get a death sentence handed to you, started with: 'Why me?'" It's hard not to sink into bitterness ... For me, that initial shock quickly turned into self-criticism and blame."
He decided he wanted to fight the disease rather than wallow in it, he said.
"I was not ready to go, and I'd be damned if this disease was going to take me before I was good and ready," he said. "So I said to my doctor, 'Show me where the enemy is, and I'll fight him."