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Artists Workshop
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"Finding and fostering fresh, new voices – the DC Talent Program is a vital component of reaching out, discovering and developing the next generation of talent." - Jim Lee
The Goal
2-Week Workshop
Learn in-house from some of the very best artists in the business, surrounded by comic book professionals.
Master Classes
All aspects of the business will be covered as you develop your DC portfolio.
The Goal
Those who succeed have a shot at professional work!
How to Apply
Current Résumé
Your résumé should include all prior education and publishing credits, comics related and beyond. Sequential art experience is preferred but not required.
Short Composition
A short composition is no longer than the space provided, which is equivalent to about a page, double-spaced and in size 12 font, or 2000 characters (with spaces). It should tell us why you want to be a DC comic book artist and how your background will add a unique perspective to our publishing portfolio.
Art Portfolio
Applicants must upload a portfolio that includes up to five pages of art: at least three pages of sequential art (preferably three pages in sequence with one another) and no more than two illustrations. The pages must be uploaded as JPEGs or PNG files ONLY, with a 1 MB limit for each page. You may also send us links to a file share or blog site such as DeviantArt. Portfolios that do not include sequential art cannot be considered. Artists are encouraged but not required to represent the titles and characters listed on our website. We will, however, want to see how you handle our characters' likenesses.
Submission Agreement
We must have your submission agreement to review your portfolio. Make sure both your signature and all required information are at the bottom. The agreement must be uploaded to your application before the deadline. Faxes and emails of this document will not be accepted. Please take into account the time it will take to submit your submission agreement when applying.
Artists Workshop Feb 1 - Mar 1, 2017
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The story starts at Campus Square Farmers' Market at Lehigh University. A few of the students fell madly in love with our Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Muffins. They would come up in small groups and just stare, all googley-eyed over those muffins. Well, they haven't been able to get that pumpkin-chocolatey goodness since October, so one sweet young lady called to order a dozen muffins for her friend who was feeling down. This afternoon, when she arrived to pick up her package she revealed that she had just walked more than 2 miles from the south side of town, to the north side of town, over the bridge that spans the Lehigh River, and now she had to walk back. Wow. That deserves a big hug.
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Tours of Central Print and The Firecracker Press' Old North location are scheduled by Central Print and available for groups of up to 25 participants.
Tours can be tailored to the participants' area of interest (art prints, the letterpress process, evolution of fonts, or a certain period in print history).
All tours provide demonstrations of printmaking equipment in use, a detailed history of letterpress printing, and how the preservation of the historic printmaking equipment has relevance today. Pre-tour preparatory materials and follow-up activities are available for teachers upon request. Tours have one hour time slots allotted with 50 minutes of active guided discussion.


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Anthony Springford
Anthony Springford is a Sydney-based artist with a broad practice that includes painting, drawing, printmaking, writing, curating and teaching.
Anthony's life and practice is shaped by his fascination with the history of visual culture, and of intimate, domestic and bodily life. He is drawn to the texture and viscosity of old images or déclassé luxuries from the recycling bin of taste, and his paintings are a bit like an uncool form of 'remix culture'; sampling and rehashing techniques, ideas and styles that culture-at-large has chosen to forget. His work is intended to be gently funny, but should also reward long attention because he engages us in subtle games with the rhetoric of Realist and Baroque painting, Modernism and the grotesque.
Alongside painting, Anthony has a PhD in Art History focusing on Baroque still life, aesthetics and social history. He teaches Art History and Design Theory at the University of New South Wales, and works for Sydney Living Museums producing and delivering public programs on social history and design.
1993: Bachelor of Fine Arts. College of Fine Arts, UNSW
1994: Bachelor of Art Theory. College of Fine Arts, UNSW
2004: PhD in Art History, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Dual and Solo Exhibitions
Black Parrot, 2014.
Artsite Gallery, 2013. Then All Collapsed (with Anthony Buselli)
Peter Pinson Gallery, 2011. Still Life: The Continuing Tradition (with Lindsay Churchland)
Taylor Galleries, 2009. Rainbow of Chaos
Taylor Galleries, 2008. Two Artists (with Randal Sinnamon)
Taylor Galleries, 2005. Tender Dissections
Taylor Galleries, 2003. The Life of Things
Group Exhibitions
Artsite, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2014; Kogarah City Council, 2011; Taylor Galleries, 2010, 2009, 2006, 2006, 2004, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2002 ; Delmar Gallery, 2001, 2001, 2000, 2000, 1999, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1996, 1993; St Andrew's Cathedral School, 2005; Brett Whiteley Studios, 2005, 2001; Bishop Druitt College, 2001, 2000; First Draft, 1999; CoFA, 1996; CoFA Student Gallery, 1995
Public Collections
College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales
Trinity Grammar School, Summer Hill
Anthony Buselli
Anthony Buselli has been painting and exhibiting regularly for close to 20 years, showing in galleries such as Brian Moore, Artsite and Stella Downer. He has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize and the Salon de Refusee, and won the Willoughby Art Prize, the Jenny Birt Award, the Chroma Australia Painting Prize and the Alfred Altschuler Memorial Prize.
Drawing on the legacy of artists like Chuck Close and Gerhard Richter, Anthony uses photographs as a starting point. He typically takes his own photos but will also source from magazines or pop-culture, and some of his choices are very funny.
In his words: "I copy black and white photographs... The process of translation highlights the impossibility of the 'perfect' copy, which in turn foregrounds the medium… something is lost and something is gained through this transformation from photography to painting."
He introduces complex spatial shifts into seemingly familiar subject matter, to make work that is conceptually complex but also paradoxically reminiscent of abstract expressionism. Because there is no obvious centre to the composition, our eye can get lost in the exploration of these ambiguous planes and folds, the dark caverns and sudden leaps to the horizon
2004: Masters of Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, UNSW.
1998: Bachelor of Fine Arts with first class honours, College of Fine Arts, UNSW
Exhibitions – Solo
Artsite Gallery, 2013, Then All Collapsed
Brian Moore Gallery, Paddington, 2004, New Works .
Brian Moore Gallery, Paddington, 2003, Wood Constructions
Brian Moore Gallery, Paddington, 2002, Recent Work
Southern Highlands Regional Gallery, Moss Vale, 1999, Double Image
First Draft Gallery,1999, Menagerie
Exhibitions – Group
Clifton School of Art, 2014: Artsite Gallery, 2014, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2012: Mosman Gallery, 2009, 2008, 2007: Willoughby Council, 2007: Ivan Dougherty, 2004: Stella Downer, 2002: Wombarra Sculpture Garden, 2001: AGNSW, 1999: SH Irvin 1999: CoFA Student Gallery, 1998, 1997: CoFA, 1997.
Willoughby Art Prize, Highly Commended, 2D Painting and Mixed Media, 2007.
Willoughby City Art Prize for three dimensional work, 1998.
Jenny Birt Award for painting, 1998.
Chroma Australia Painting Prize, 1997.
The Alfred Altschuler Memorial Prize for painting, 1996.
Future Artists
Black Parrot Editions is in negotiation with more contemporary Australian artists. We will be launching new collections with them over the coming year.


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I got a nice little review folder from Pocket Gardens recently. I've checked them out before, a while back, and I've always appreciated their concept. Essentially, designers Carter Denja and Stormy Aluveaux provide easy instant-gardening pieces. Landscaping can be so much fun in SL, but it can also be quite tedious and complex. The cool thing about Pocket Gardens is that it's one object to rez and position, but it looks like so much more!
The pics above are just examples of some of the pieces from the Country Impressions series that I've worked into my own existing landscaping. I like being able to plop down that one object and get a nice rustic fence, some more grasses, possibly a bird or woodland creature - all very organically arranged.
To give you a better idea of what each object really is (and remember that each pic is just one object) I shot them on a white background so you can see ONLY the Pocket Gardens stuff. Again, pieces from the Country Impressions set:
..and a few from the Garden Edging set. This set is good for more defined garden spaces.
Being the picky gal that I am, I would love to see more 3d sculpted flowers in these sets, and less of the flat prim-textured flowers. I also recognize that that is much easier said than done. I'd love a bit more shading and definition to the rocks, as well. Overall, though, these are definitely worth a look to round out your landscaping - like I said, it's easy! Most of these objects are pretty low in prims, too, which makes it even better.
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It's time for a new challenge with with ColourQ
Hope you will join us and play along!
With all the snow that fell last Saturday I thought I would make a card using these spring colors...
The flower stamp set is from WPlus9, Doodle Buds. I stamped them using memento black ink and colored them with Copic Markers. Than I added some white accents with a gel pen. The stitched rectangle die is from Lil'Inker Designs. The scalloped die is from Mama Elephant.
The sentiment is from PaperSmooches, Scripty Sayings. I stamped that using memento black ink onto vellum. I added some sequins from Pretty Pink Posh and enamel dots from Recollections.
I followed the sketch from CAS(E) this Sketch
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EA released a new trailer today to show off one NHL 14's new game modes, which just so happens to be an homage to the classic NHL 94 title. NHL 94 is considered to be the greatest hockey video game of all-time. It's been shown in movies, and provided great conversation amongst friends due to its solid gameplay, iconic 16-bit soundtrack, and of course the player injuries.
The visuals have been doctored up a bit in NHL 14, but the charm of NHL 94 is still present. The game engine may be from 2013, but EA made sure to add back in some classic features for the NHL 94 anniversary mode. It will feature blue ice, stars around the players, old school organ music, no rules, and a host of other throwbacks to the original NHL 94.
The inclusion of a NHL 94 mode in NHL 14 has just skyrocketed it to the top of my games to play in 2013 list. I'm pretty sure most gamers who grew up in the 80's and 90's will share my sentiments. Make sure to check out the gameplay trailer for this awesome mode after the break.
NHL 14 is set to ship on September 10, 2013 for the PS3 and Xbox 360.
NHL 14 – NHL 94 Anniversary Mode Gameplay Trailer
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French art experts blast Seoul over 'fake' painting
[SEOUL] French art experts on Tuesday lambasted South Korean state prosecutors for declaring a "fake" painting to be genuine despite its own scientific findings that supported the artist's disavowal of the work.
The painting "Beautiful Woman" by one of South Korea's most renowned artists, Chun Kyung Ja, has been the focus of a bizarre and decades-long dispute over its authenticity.
Before her death last year at the age of 91, Chun had repeatedly insisted that the 1971 portrait owned by the country's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) was not one of hers.
"Parents can recognise their children. That is not my painting," she insisted.
The museum is adamant that it is genuine, and in April a prosecutorial investigation was launched after one of Chun's daughters filed a complaint. She accused former and current MMCA officials of hurting the artist's reputation by promoting the painting as authentic.
State prosecutors last week found in favour of the museum, citing forensic evidence and the opinion of local art experts.
They also clarified the provenance of the painting, saying it was once owned by the former head of the South Korean spy agency and was appropriated by the government after he was executed for assassinating then-president Park Chung Hee in 1979.
"This announcement is an egregious affront to the justice system," French imagery analysis firm Lumiere Technology and Chun's relatives said in a joint statement.
The statement accused the prosecution of continuing to "willfully avoid seeking the truth even when presented with it".
Chun, born in 1924 in a small town in the southern part of the Korean peninsula, was best known for her paintings of female figures and flowers using vivid primary colours that broke with traditional South Korean styles.
Her works have recently sold at auction for between US$700,000 and US$1 million.
Lumiere Technology said it published a 63-page report after a "thorough" and scientific examination of the piece and nine authenticated paintings by Chun.
Based on forensic analysis using specialist technology, Lumiere Technology concluded that "the 'Beautiful Woman' is absolutely and unequivocally a forgery".
But the prosecution authorities "completely disregarded" Lumiere Technology's scientific results, arriving at a conclusion based on "statements and notions backed by no evidence", it said.
"The Prosecution's denial of empirical evidence is akin to a DNA paternity test - for a child revealing that a man is in fact not his father - being disregarded in place of the mother's testimony that the child must be the offspring of that man because she never had a relationship with another man," it added.
Chun's family has also rejected the prosecution's conclusion, accusing it of seeking to help state museum authorities save face.
"We wonder if the prosecutors... caved in to political pressure," the family said.
They vowed to pursue efforts to have it declared a forgery.


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Telecommunications and mobile phone masts
Mobile phone masts
The mobile phone companies are required to publish their plans for new phone masts each year. Access to the schedules from the companies who have supplied information to the council is now available.
There are already many mast sites in Adur and Worthing. More are expected in order to meet the continuing growth in the use of mobile phones and also the development of new technology.
The information acts as an early warning to the Councils on the likely applications to come forward during the next 12 months. If you wish to make a comment prior to the application about any particular proposal please contact Planning and quote the reference.
Some of the sites on the list have already had planning permission, but are still to be erected. Any new applications the council receives will be available for people to see and comment on. Neighbours will be notified, a site notice displayed, a public notice put in the newspaper and the residents association informed if there is one.
- Mobile Operators Association (MOA) Annual Rollout Plans 2015-16 in Adur (52KB)
- Mobile Operators Association (MOA) Annual Rollout Plans 2015-16 in Worthing (62KB)
See also:
- Links in the 'Ofcom' section below
You may be interested in:
Ofcom's website offers information about where mobile network operators make available information on the location and operating characteristics of individual base stations, so that people who wish to inform themselves about this can do so.
To check check coverage please see:
Mobile UK / Mobile Operators Association (MOA)
The Mobile Operators Association no longer exists. If you have queries relating to issues that would have previously have been handled by the MOA, these should now be addresses to individual operators.
The MOA is in the process of merging with the Mobile Broadband Group to become Mobile UK. Contact details can be found on the Mobile UK website.
Mobile phone companies
- 3 website
- O2 website
- EE - Everything Everywhere website - includes:
- Vodafone website
Mobile phones and health
A wide range of information about health matters relating to telecommunications and mobile phone equipment can be found on the websites below:
- Mobile phone base stations and health - on the gov.uk website
- NHS website - Mobile phone safety, Risks and FAQs
- Department of Health (DoH) section of the gov.uk website
Contact details
Contact Planning (Development Management)
Development Management,
Adur & Worthing Councils,
Portland House,
44 Richmond Road,
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My Suffolk - Brendan Keaney
Dancer and choreographer Brendan Keaney is the Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Dance East. He talks about his life in Suffolk
Where were you born and how did you come to live in Suffolk?
I grew up in Walthamstow and have lived in London all of my live, pretty much, and I came to Suffolk for the job as Artistic Director & Chief Executive of DanceEast. I did know a little bit about Suffolk because my wife is from Suffolk, and my mother-in-law lives in Halesworth so I have been visiting Suffolk for a number of years.
Do you enjoy walking?
I do like walking but I don't get as much time for it as I'd like. I have been so preoccupied with work that I haven't done the amount of walking I'd like to, yet. I walk through Christchurch Park on the way to work occasionally. Hopefully, when things calm down at the office I will do more walking and more exploring.
What makes the county special?
There are lots of things that make it special. It has a real identity, which is great as it's hard to maintain an identity when you're so close to London. There's a lovely mixture of the coast and the countryside. It's got some extraordinary places and extraordinary cultural offerings – Aldeburgh Music, DanceEast, New Wolsey Theatre, Gecko, Pacitti Company, there's a great mixture of contemporary art, culture, tradition and history.
What is it like working in one of the most celebrated modern buildings in Ipswich and are there any other places you have been to on the waterfront that you would recommend?
It's one of the most celebrated dance buildings in the country, it's an extraordinary facility. The quality of the dance studios is amazing and people of Suffolk, not just Ipswich are incredibly proud of this asset as there's not much to better it across the country. The Salthouse Harbor Hotel is a lovely place to eat, and even nicer place to stay. Lots of bistros that I've used I would recommend wholeheartedly. There's a great balance between a good night out, at Isaacs for example, and lots of nice little intimate places like the Waterfront Bistro, Bistro on the Quay and the lovely boat restaurant, The Mariners.
What's it like working here?
It's fantastic, it's fun, it's a lovely place to work. You get to meet new people every day.
Where do you like to eat out in Suffolk?
Suffolk Food Hall of course, is a great place to eat, extraordinary food, and it's in a beautiful location. I haven't eaten out as much I'd like to, life has been a bit of a rush and I've only been here a year so I'm planning on doing some more exploring. I live on Henley Road so The Greyhound a great little place for a pub lunch. The Butt & Oyster at Pin Mill is a great place too and Arlingtons is also nice.
Adnams, Aspalls or Greene King?
That's a difficult one. I would say, if it was beer, it would definitely be Adnams or Greene King, no honestly I think it would have to be an Adnams Ghostship. I do also love cider, and there's no other cider to drink other than Aspalls.
Where do you like to shop?
I haven't really explored the retail offer at all since moving to Suffolk. I've noticed that St Nicholas and St Peters Street has lots of lovely little independent shops which look great, along with other little shops in Woodbridge. Shopping isn't my number one past time, but for food, again, Suffolk Food Hall is a fantastic place, to be able to get a variety of local produce all under one roof, is great.
Have you got any hobbies?
I'm afraid I have one hobby, which some people may frown upon, and its motorcycles, I love them. I love Ducati and Ducati Monsters in particular, I am very proud of my motorcycle.
What do you love about the arts in Suffolk?
I love the diversity - I don't think people quite understand the extent of our arts offer. We have our Constables and that kind of thing, but we also have a fantastic contemporary offer with fantastic contemporary artists.
What makes the people of Suffolk special?
They are incredibly friendly and very nice, I love the fact that everyone seems to have time to talk to you, even in supermarkets, which is something that definitely doesn't happen in London.
Where would you take newcomers on a tour of the county?
I'm a newcomer – I wish someone would take me on a tour of the county! I suppose I would have to do the bits that I know, and the bits that I know best are Southwold, Walberswick and Orford and I also love the little villages around Clare and Cavendish, they are incredibly beautiful. The contrast between the coast and the countryside is just fantastic.


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Theology, culture, politics, and human flourishing
I'm grateful for the privilege of getting to teach, write, produce, and speak about things that matter: like what it means to be a human being; what sorts of habits and ways of life lead to flourishing, individually and communally; and what it might look like to live in a way that transcends various hostilities and partisanships, all while still caring and talking a great deal about things like justice and mercy and truth-telling. And trying to do it all with a sense of humor and kindness and gentleness.
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At Kick-It! Training we're focused on developing healthy young athletes, which begs the question what is a healthy young athlete? In his book Athletic Development, Vern Gambetta, a pioneer in the field tells of being at a sports medicine symposium where a speaker referred to the term " healthy athlete" as an oxymoron.
There certainly are times when that seems true. We hear about the epidemic of ACL injuries among female athletes, about concussions in football and hockey, and problems with obesity and weight related issues with football players both during and after their playing days. Recently in one of my training sessions with a group of 14 year old soccer players one of the girls asked me, "How come so many of us have knee problems? I mean look, she said, pointing up and down the line of girls, 75% of us." Her math was right.
In each case one of the physical therapists at the clinic could explain the pain and how to treat it. And, while their participation in sports wasn't necessarily the cause of that pain it was a contributing factor and perhaps what is more important it was the place in their lives where it was starting to show up and have an impact.
Like many of us who have played or coached sports I have a good friend who, in her forties, is biding her time and dealing with serious pain untill the time is right for a knee replacement most likely the result of two ACL reconstructions and the removal of most of her cartilege during her career as a college soccer player. Is this what we want for our kids either now or down the line? The answer of course is no.
So what's a responsible parent or coach or administrator to do? We have a lot of options, from giving up sports altogether to developing better ways to help young athletes prepare for and recover from the stresses and injuries associated with athletics. Somewhere in the process of making those choices though I think it might be helpful to step back and ask the question I raised at the beginning; what is a healthy athlete?
First let's distinquish between health and fitness. Fitness has to do with the ability to perform a given task and how well and how long you can do it, as well as how long it takes you to recover afterward. Think of playing a tennis match or a soccer game, playing it well and being able to do it repeatedly. The qualities that go into that are usually what we mean when we talk about or train for fitness. Most of what is done today in training young athletes focuses on improving their fitness.
Health is something different. The World Health Organization defines health as " A dynamic state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease." Developing and maintaining that dynamic state of physical, mental, spiritual and social well-being is a much broader consideration than just developing fitness for an activity. Improving a soccer player's fitness is a fairly specific task. Developing and maintaining that soccer player's health means working in a bigger arena.
A healthy athlete is more than simply a fit athlete. A healthy athlete isn't just free from injury or illness, as in the coaching mantra, "We seem to be pretty healthy going into this week's game." A healthy athlete is living in and drawing on that dynamic state of well being. Their health is the fundamental resource they draw on in developing their fitness.
So, where do we start when comes to developing and promoting the health of young athletes? What can we do? Let's start by keeping a few key words in mind and maybe ask ourselves a some key questions.
WHOLE-The word health comes from the Old English work hale, meaning "wholeness, a being whole, sound or well." Whether as a parent, coach or administrator are you focused on the whole person or just the athlete? When an athlete comes to practice or a game the whole person shows up, not just some of the pieces and parts. The experience they take from the training session or competition goes with them as well. Let's learn to recognize, value and work with the whole person and not just the role of athlete. Working with the whole person also means coming together as parents, coaches, administrators and athletes to work on shared goals and keep the big picture in mind.
BALANCE – Consider the value of the different aspects of a young athlete's life. Beyond the physical, how are they doing mentally, socially and even spiritually? Are they connected, being supported and growing in all those areas and how is their experience in athletics contributing or at the very least not working against that balance? We don't need to play therapist, or social worker or pastor. That work is best left to the experts. Just pay attention. Most of the time great athletes are also great people who have a sense of balance in their lives. Eventually the imbalances show up on the field or in the locker room.
DYNAMIC – Physical or athletic balance isn't static it's dynamic. It's about the systems of the body constantly working together to adapt to changing stimuli. Are those of us who work with the young athlete working together, communicating, adapting to help them grow as athletes and as people? Are we able to respond in our programs, practices, and relationships or are we more focused on having the athlete adapt to our system? Dynamic means there's a give and take.
CAPACITY – Sometimes we focus only on increasing a young athlete's physical capacity. How are we helping to develop their capacity mentally, socially, and spritually as well? Remember that when they show up on the field, in the gym or on the ice they bring all of that with them for better or worse. As a coach or administrator I might not be the one primarily responsible for their development in those areas but, am I contributing to it, ignoring it or even working against it in some way?
Despite the stress that is inherent in training and competition the healthy athlete needn't be an oxymoron. In fact, the healthy athlete, living out of that state of dynamic well-being, has much more to draw on in developing their fitness and pursuing their goals. Athletics can contribute to that healthy life if we're focused on making it happen.


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New York, Gladstone Gallery, Basil Wolverton, June-August 2009
"The only fascinating landscape on this earth is the human face." —Klaus Kinski
Basil Wolverton, "Beautiful Girl of the Month," MAD, # 11. 1954. Collage and ink on paper, 72.4 x 58.4 cm. Glenn Bray Archive-Collection
Gladstone Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition by American graphic artist and cartoonist Basil Wolverton curated by Cameron Jamie. Basil Wolverton submitted his first cartoon for publication in 1925 when he was only sixteen and remained an active cartoonist from the 1940s through to the 1970s. His unique and humorously grotesque drawings reveal both his fantastic wit and inventive technique, once famously described in LIFE Magazine as the "spaghetti and meatball school of design."
Wolverton had no formal training as an artist, creating his own style that distinguished him from the other cartoonists of his generation. As he said, "I know I draw things that look like all kinds of organs and glands, it is like the monkey which, if he pounded away for a million years, might accidentally type out the 'Star Spangled Banner' lyrics." Generations of artists including Peter Saul, Ed Ruscha, Robert Williams, Jim Shaw, Mike Kelley, and Cameron Jamie have been influenced by his meticulous technique and pictorial freedom, in addition to its undeniable impact on numerous cartoonists from R. Crumb to Drew Friedman.
This exhibition includes a wide spectrum of Wolverton's work from his earliest drawings published in numerous comic books, including "Spacehawk" and "Powerhouse Pepper," to his very detailed caricatures, with sculpted and exaggerated features. Perhaps the most famous body of work in the exhibition are his drawings for Harvey Kurtzman's comic-book version of MAD Magazine from the 1950s. Also included are portraits made for Topps Chewing Gum in the 1960s, which appeared on bubble gum posters and stickers. [...]
Born in 1909 in Central Point, Oregon, Basil Wolverton resided for most of his life in the Pacific Northwest until his death in 1978. His work has been published in a variety of magazines and comic books, from MAD Magazine, America's Humor Magazine, The Portland News, Plop! and Hollywood Today. His work has been featured in Timely Comics, Circus Comics and Target Comics. He also contributed to the Li'l Abner Comic Strip and LIFE Magazine. In 2006, his work was exhibited at The Portland Art Center in Oregon and in 2007 the CSUF Grand Art Center in Santa Ana, California presented a solo exhibition of Wolverton's oeuvre from the collection of Glenn Bray. The works selected and presented in this exhibition are also from Bray's private archive/collection.
George, 1955. Ink on paper, 29.2 x 36.8 cm. Glenn Bray Archive-Collection
Linus Sinus, 1971. Ink on paper, 36.8 x 29.2 cm. Glenn Bray Archive-Collection
Nell No-Smell, 1972. Ink on paper, 43.2 x 50.8 cm. Glenn Bray Archive-Collection
Joel Holehead, 1972. Ink on paper, 43.2 x 50.8 cm. Glenn Bray Archive-Collection
Eyeball Doctor, 1956. Ink on paper, 35.6 x 30.5 cm. Glenn Bray Archive-Collection
Cameron Jamie. Eyeballs pulled and ripped out of their sockets, rotten zigzagged buck teeth pointed in every crooked direction, wild scraggly yarn hair, faces and bodies pulled inside and out twisted into abstract knots distorted beyond recognition: Basil Wolverton is my Picasso. I discovered Wolverton's "spaghetti and meatballs" style of humorously grotesque art for the first time when I was a kid in the 1970s. His bubblegum cards and comic books became staples of my visual diet, and it has never quite been the same again. I found my first serious interest in fine art through digesting Basil Wolverton's visual entree. Countless other artists and freaks around the country entered Wolverton's revolving door and were likewise liberated by his grotesque style, which I believe became meaningful and inspirational as an existential canon for artistic creation. In other words, Basil Wolverton's art inspired and equaled freedom of artistic expression. Who had ever heard of ugly pride?
Basil Wolverton created some of the most humorous and horrifically uncanny depictions of humans (if you could call them that) ever drawn on paper. He takes our basic facial ornaments—the eyes, ears, nose, head, hair—and literally destroys them if only to rebuild the face way passed the point of no return and into his own uniquely distorted configurations. Wolverton's horrific and mind-bending portraits are closer to the vision of a mannerist sculptor who slaps, knocks, punches, bends, and kicks masterfully odd shapes out of the human face and body to create another type of humanoid. Considering that Basil Wolverton's art has influenced generations of artists in virtually all graphic and visual fields during the last gasp of the 20th century, his absence from LA MoCA's 2005 "Masters of American Comics" exhibition was a shocking omission. Repairing this blindspot is another of many reasons that I have wanted to curate an exhibition entirely devoted to Basil Wolverton's work.
[...] I consider these drawings to be some of Wolverton's masterpieces where his monstrous style matched the fantastic nature of the subject matter. [...]
So please pull out your eyeballs and knock your brains out of your skull to the art of Basil Wolverton. He's one of the good guys.
Gladstone Gallery, New York


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Matier & Ross: Newsom considers city fee for sellers of sugary soda
Mayor floats a fee for S.F.'s big sellers of sugary drinks
After banning plastic bags from chain grocery stores and bottled water from City Hall, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsomhas set his sights on soda - working up a plan to charge a new city fee to big retailers of sugar drinks.
"The bottom line is that there is a direct nexus between high-fructose corn syrup drinks like colas and Big Gulps and obesity among schoolkids," Newsom said Friday.
The idea of taxing soda to combat obesity - which is being touted as the first in the nation - has been roiling around in health circles for some time, including backing from the American Medical Association.
In San Francisco, Newsom said a recent Health Department survey found that 24 percent of fifth-, seventh- and ninth-graders were overweight and that high-sugar drinks accounted for 10 percent of the kids' caloric intake.
All in all, he said obesity accounts for tens of millions of dollars of the city's health costs.
Now Newsom wants the soda sellers - primarily big-box retailers and chain drugstores - to chip in for his "Shape Up San Francisco" program and for media campaigns to discourage the soda habit.
The size of the fee (it won't be billed as a tax) is being worked out, but it may include a sweetener - namely giving the stores some other kind of fee break.
But one way or the other, Newsom wants the merchants of sweet to sweat a bit.
By the way, Newsom said he has no plans for a Twinkies or Ho Hos tax.
Box office draw: The Democratic PR team of Fabiani & Lehane (as in former Clinton-Gore White House and campaign staffers Mark Fabiani and Chris Lehane) is being paid $100,000 a month to spin for the movie studios in their battle with striking writers.
It's especially noteworthy because nearly every Democratic presidential contender has shown up on the picket line in support of the writers - including Hillary Rodham Clinton, with whom Lehane has been working as an unpaid adviser for months.
And while Clinton and Co. may choose to look the other way (after all, they're still taking checks from the Hollywood moguls themselves), Service Employees International Union President Andy Stern's "Change to Win" unions were severing ties with Lehane.
Labor leader Stern also predicted that Lehane's days in the labor movement "are numbered."
For his part, Lehane - whose firm handled the rollout of MichaelMoore's "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko" - says that he's earned "zero, nada" from the unions and that everything he's done for them (including helping resolve a cafeteria workers' health care fight in Los Angeles) was done either at cost or pro bono.
Says Lehane, "The real issue here is that Stern needs to do some explaining on how it is that he is fighting for people who make more than doctors and pilots against the interest of real working-class people (set workers and others who have been sidelined during the strike) - and less time punching at shadows."
Demo derby: Former state Sen. Jackie Speier has just signed Mayor Gavin Newsom's onetime campaign manager Alex Tourk to help launch her still-unofficial campaign to unseat Peninsula Congressman Tom Lantos in next June's Democratic primary.
"She hasn't declared yet, but she asked me to join her team - and I'm honored to be part of it," Tourk said Friday. "And I'm confident when people are reminded of her record and talk to her one-on-one in house meetings, there will be no doubt her time is now."
On the island: The trial of three Oakland teens convicted Friday in the Halloween night murder of 15-year-old Ichinkhorloo "Iko" Bayarsaikhan at an Alameda park certainly produced a number of interesting revelations.
But The Chronicle's Demian Bulwa, who sat in the courtroom this past week, was especially struck when prosecutors played a taped police confession from one of the two brothers found guilty of the killing.
"How come they don't do this for people in Oakland?" the 15-year-old asked when talking about how Alameda cops had been so dogged about tracking down the killers.
"What do you mean?' the detective asked.
"In Oakland, they don't do all this to look for somebody," the youth replied.
Detective: "We're not in Oakland. This is the city of Alameda."
Teen: "No, I'm saying, why don't Oakland do it?"
Detective: "I don't know. I don't think the people in Oakland cooperate as much with the police as they do here. We received a lot of tips on this thing because a lot of people felt bad for the poor family of Iko."
Shine on: Four months after being abruptly reassigned to the night patrol, Kevin Dillon - the popular former captain of Northern Station - has left the San Francisco Police Department.
Dillon committed the sin of embarrassing the Newsom administration in August when he told residents in the upscale Marina, who were worried about a spike in crime, the truth about how their beat officers were being sent over to the shooting-plagued Western Addition.
The next thing you know, Dillon was sent to the nether world of the night shift.
An opening appeared at the USF Public Safety Department. He got the job, and so left the SFPD 32 years to the day after he became a cop.
As Dillon told us, "It was great, but it was time to move on."
'Nuff said.
EXTRA! Catch our Web page at www.sfgate.com/matierandross. Weigh in on the destruction of the CIA's torture videos. Play the Barack Obamaand Oprah Winfrey caption contest. Check out the bricks and kisses in feedback. And read the Extra, Extra, Extra musings and insights of friends including Rich "Big Vinny" Lieberman and The Chronicle's Carla Marinucci and Don "Bad Reporter" Asmussen.


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By Madi Wong
Whether it is behind the scenes at a high-end recording studio or at home using nothing but an iPhone, podcasters have brought audio storytelling to life.
Podcasts have become increasingly common and popular in Canada due to the endless amounts of creativity that can go behind each episode using only audio, as well as the variety of genres and topics that podcasts can be about.
This month, Hot Docs hosted its third-annual Hot Docs Podcast Festival, bringing together podcasters from chart-topping shows to interact with a live audience.
Alan Black, managing director of Hot Docs cinema, said that the festival works wonderfully because people come together to talk about the craft of podcasts.
"They get to engage with audiences that they don't usually get to normally. Also, Canadian podcasters get to be introduced to international podcasters," said Black.
Having phones and other mobile devices have allowed people to access content wherever and whenever they want.
Black said that this is beneficial when it comes to podcasts because being able to plug in headphones while on the streetcar or cooking dinner can offer a great opportunity to feed into great story podcasts.
"I think audio content is very personal in a way other mediums aren't. The audio is being piped right into your brain and there's this deep connection of what you're listening to. And some hosts you even feel connected to," he explained.
As opposed to visual content such as TV shows and documentaries, having audio as the prime and sole element in podcasts gives creators a challenge in making their show stand out.
During an NPR and CBC Original Podcasts in Conversation panel at Hot Docs, podcast executives discussed the stories and skills needed to build an audience.
Leslie Merklinger, head of CBC Podcasts said that podcasters should "entertain but should also look for other layers of value to engage audiences."
For instance, Merklinger mentioned how podcast stories of humanity can captivate listeners. Capturing both their attention to follow the podcast and their emotions can engage audiences in ways aside from general entertainment.
Audio can be seen as participatory to audiences since they are forced to imagine the visual content that podcasts do not supply.
Listeners are able to be a part of the storytelling process in a sense by imagining what a person looks like and the scenery of where interviews are taking place in podcast shows.
"What makes them special is that they find stories that are relatable and find ways to connect their audience no matter the subject," said Black.
In addition to fans and listeners, podcasters on the rise and those with an interest in entering the field also attended the festival.
In fact, this year Hot Docs introduced a Creators Forum in which industry professionals hosted roundtable discussions and workshops.
These enabled those who are interested in entering the field to seek advice and tips, as well as guide those who wish to host their own show one day.
Luke Peters is a content creator and recent graduate from Ryerson University's Media Production program.
After trying to build his own podcast for a while, Peters recently founded one, titled 'Instant Cult Classic.'
Since starting his audio storytelling journey, Peters said that he wanted to seek knowledge from professionals in order to gain some direction.
"The big thing with the crutch of podcasts and success of podcasts is that you're really limited to just audio," he said.
"You can share and do the story in the comfort of your home and you can fill in all the other aspects. You have so much more at your disposal because you have the entire imagination of your viewers," said Peters.
Peters' newest project in the works is called, 'I Don't Deserve a Podcast.'
"(It is) under the pretense of 'I just have a degree and nothing else, I'm open to learn' and basically the end goal would be me getting to a point where I do deserve a podcast," said Peters.
The way in which podcasts are able to depict emotion, spark imagination and appeal to listeners around the country are main reasons why existing and upcoming podcasts are popular in Canada.
Despite having only the element of audio to work with, podcasts have proved to be a unique way of crafting stories for all audiences.
Check out this video of the event by Madi Wong:


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Shane Meadows has a rare ability to convey the drama and humor of everyday life in well-observed, well-acted scenes that rarely drag on interminably or try too hard to dazzle. The biggest problem with Meadows' films to date is that they tend to give way to plots unworthy of their best moments, often pumped up with gratuitous violence and pat conclusions. That isn't the case with Somers Town, Meadows' latest, written with frequent collaborator Paul Fraser. Originally intended as a short film sponsored by railway line Eurostar—whose construction around London's St. Pancras station figures prominently in the story—Somers Town evolved into a short feature as Meadows kept allowing his cast to improvise. Meadows has said that he let some scenes play out for hours, then excerpted their best one or two minutes. The result is a movie that feels enjoyably aimless—one that invites viewers to just hang out for an hour.
Thomas Turgoose (the baby-faced, sad-eyed star of Meadows' This Is England) plays a Midlands teen who runs away from home and takes the train to London, where he befriends Piotr Jagiello, a Polish immigrant who lives with his single dad. For the bulk of Somers Town's 70-minute running time, Turgoose and Jagiello just roam the streets, working odd jobs and doing petty crimes, while mooning over the French waitress at a local café. Sometimes the dialogue is hard to hear—especially Jagiello's—but it's never hard to understand. As the two boys wander around an apartment complex stamped with the sign "Children Playing On These Grounds Is Prohibited," it becomes increasingly clear that both have been asked to grow up before they were ready—when neither really has any idea how to dress, provide for himself, or talk to a girl. Yet Meadows and Fraser also imply that Turgoose and Jagiello will be probably be okay, because if nothing else, they live in Europe, where a good mate is easy to find, rail-fare is cheap, and anyone looking for a change can just buy a ticket and get gone.


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Cheeky Dog Bakery is NOW CLOSED for orders of treats and cakes, we may be back with an exciting online shop in future. To follow Oscar pop over to instagram @cheekydogadventures.
What we do...
Welcome to Cheeky Dog Bakery, we are a one woman and one dog online operation based in Dublin 4. We have a passion for making treats for our furry friends that look as great as they taste!
All of our treats and cakes are made from specially selected, dog friendly, all natural, high quality, human grade, and wherever possible, organic ingredients, not only that but we aim to make cakes your dog will find delicious! We never use any artificial flavours or preservatives, and all of our frosting, icing and fondant are made specifically for dogs and are sugar free. Only the best for your pets!
How we roll...
Get it? Roll? Dough... ha ha! Sorry, bakery humour, allow us to answer a few questions about all things Cheeky Dog that you might have:
How did it start? The bakery all started with Oscar's first birthday, 1 February 2012. I went in search of a dog bakery to order a cake for this doggy milestone and when one couldn't be found I decided to get to work! My first attempt at a cake may not have looked great but Oscar was all too delighted to chow down and I was inspired from there to make my own bakery. The first year was spent researching and testing recipes, finding inspiration in Oscar's cheeky outlook on life for our name, investing in all the equipment and acquiring the skills to become the Cheeky Dog Bakery that we are today!
What are they made of? All of our treats and cakes are made with natural, human grade ingredients. We use organic options wherever possible and tailor all of our recipes to suit canine needs and only ever use doggy safe ingredients!
Is it safe? For your peace of mind and ours we are fully insured and registered with the Department of Agriculture as a manufacturer of pet food (Registration Number: IED241463). We take the safety and well-being of all our canine customers very seriously and we believe it shows in the quality of our products.
What next? We have grand visions for the future of the bakery, we hope to one day have a bricks and mortar shop to proudly call our own but for now we are letting the business to grow naturally. You can look forward to finding us in the finest pet shops in the near future and we hope to make our way into one near you! In the meantime please hop on over to our online shop and have a look around or come visit us at our Pup-Up Shop at Marlay Park Market from 10am to 4pm on Saturdays.
Do you give back? Oscar and I both feel very passionate about supporting charities and we hope you feel the same. We strive to make financial contributions, donate food and toys whenever we can and any treats that are leftover in the bakery or go unsold are boxed up and delivered to local dog charities. Not only does it stop waste, our local charities such as DogsTrust always have enough furry mouths to make treats disappear, but it is also heartwarming for us.
We hope you enjoyed reading about us and how we got started.
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You will find that the more versatile a florist is, the more popular their business will be. When it comes to special events such as weddings or anniversaries, customers will usually want a specific flower as well as a specific color. Smaller flower shops will have the basic arrangements with the basic and most popular flowers but will not be able to supply the customer with something that is unique. Before you visit your local flower shop, you should research the types of flowers that your local flower shops may have. This could save you a lot of time when it comes to finding the right business for your special occasion.
You can use the Internet as a great resource to find your local florist businesses and call them to ask your questions before you take the time to visit their shop. There are so many different types of flowers that are available for flower arrangements. When browsing through a shop, you may find a particular flower that you have never seen before and decide on having that one instead of the one you had in mind.
When it comes to choosing flowers for a special event such as a wedding, it can be a bit over whelming with all the different kinds of flowers that there are. You can actually use the expertise of the owner or employees of the florist, to help you with your decision making. These people have a lot of insight on what will look good as well as what types of flowers go well together. You can learn about the different flowers in their meanings of the flower as well as the color in order to make your wedding seem that much more special.
When choosing a florist for this special occasion, you want to make sure you choose one that has experience. Creating flowers for a wedding is a very big task, and you want to make sure you hire a flower business that is up to that task. When it comes to weddings, a bride can have just about any color that they want to have because of the dying techniques that flower shops have. There are some flowers that do not take the dye very well but there are many popular flowers such as the rose or the carnation that can be transformed into the perfect flower for your perfect day.


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The GCC initially created in 1981, just 2 years after the Islamic revolution in Iran when the Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was overthrown. The reason for creation of the common intergovernmental organization was actually the fears in the Gulf monarchies of the possible revolts within their own countries, where the Shia-muslims made up from 10% (in Saudi-Arabia) to 75% (in Bahrain) of the total population. The Shia-muslims have long been seen as a base for future Islamic revolution, the concept of which the new Iranian regime adopted in its foreign policy as an instrument that allowed to broaden its sphere of influence on the region by delegitimizing the monarchies under the banner of the establishment the just system of rule based on true (Shia) values of Islam.
Already at the beginning the two main areas of cooperation were defined. The proclaimed economic cooperation between the Gulf states with obviously same oil-exporting economies was already then seen as a marginal field of work within the GCC. However, since its establishment the GCC has involved from mere the free-trade agreement to the customs-union and there is now the implementation of the common currency in the agenda, although differences within the GCC hamper this process[1]. The Council deepens economic ties with such regional player as Turkey[2] and the more influential China.
Much more interesting was another domain of cooperation, defence. As it was initially formulated the main objective of the GCC in matters of defence was actually cooperation against any possible outside threat in the region, primarily Iran, that is still perceived by the GCC as a main destabilizing factor in the Gulf. It explains why the GCC provided financial support to Iraq during the War of 1980-1988. Despite its declarations of readiness for fight against external aggression, the Iraqi occupation of Kuwait clearly showed the disability of the GCC to defend its own territory[3]. After the establishment anti-American regime in Iran and the active engagement of the USA in the Middle East in Afghanistan and Iraq the GCC has obtained greater significance in the eyes of the American policy-makers that would like to see Saudi-Arabia (the core country in the GCC[4]) as a counterbalance for Iran and a stabilizing factor in the region as whole.
After inviting foreign troops to fight Iraq and start of the Saudi-American cooperation in the region the necessity of having developed system of defence within the GCC became less acute. Instead, the Gulf-countries have focused their attempts on the building of the effective force structure that could fight internal threat coming from the Shia-comminites in the Gulf-monarchies. The cooperation of the Gulf states in this area demonstrates the nature of the Council. It is the intergovernmental mechanism created by the monarchies in order to safeguard[5] their regimes existing in the highly unstable surrounding[6] by mutual financial and first of all military support. The ongoing negations over the possible accession such countries as Morocco and Jordan with their monarchial system of governments show the growing need inside the GCC for more sources that might legitimize its own systems of rule.


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Blue. That color has been in my head for weeks now. Blue, midnight blue. Something's brewing. I wonder how it will culminate on canvas.
I'm holding on to this one, whatever it is, whatever this painting is in my head I'm holding on to it, refusing for now to put it on canvas. I remember this feeling when I was in college. I had an idea for a painting. I could FEEL it but I waited and waited until I was nearly in a frenzy before I picked up a brush. It was desperation, a boiling over of every emotion detained for how ever long its sentence.
I remember driving to the store that night to get the canvas. The store was used to me pacing up and down the canvas aisle looking, touching, shaking my head, rejecting and finally choosing the perfect one. They figured it was best to leave this maniac alone, the one who often came 30 minutes before closing.
I drove home with purpose. The details of the painting were coming in to focus. The painting wasn't just in my mind, it felt like it was on my heart and that if I held it in any longer I'd combust.
I got home where everything had already been put in its place. The 5 foot canvas was stationed. Once I picked up the brush and heard the slide of paint on the canvas, saw the color stand up, there was no turning back. I painted for three days straight. It was exhilarating, exhausting, satisfying. At the last stroke there was a sigh of relief as if I'd released myself.
There was grief that for the empty space but only for a moment. I'd cleared my head and my heart, and stored it in color. The experience was extraordinary but there was grief at the end, a feeling of emptiness.
For weeks now I've seen the color blue in my head. I've seen blue and I've felt the sense of urgency that graduates to a monumental purging of emotion and energy. I've only a handful of paintings created with this feeling that goes beyond passion and boarders madness.
What will blue bring? Or should I say, what will blue release?


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Until I was 20, I conceptualized my life as a series of failures. I wanted to be successful in a way that would make my parents proud—to be rich enough that my mother could brag about me to my relatives in the exact opposite way that she usually spoke to me about my future: with fear, anger, and frustration. My idea of my worth was based in what I thought I had to do to earn love, and I thought I had fallen short.
My failure to be my mother's daughter was also a failure of my heritage; my blood. In traditional Taiwanese families, you are to nurture and honor those who have come before you, which means, in our culture, the capacity to care for your parents when they're "done" taking care of you. (Your family is never "done" taking care of you, at least not mine; you exchange care and find new family, weaving in and out. In immigrant families, care is often circular; an infinite loop.) To my mother, who subscribed to this belief, there was a finite number of acceptable job fields for me, and they're ones you might find predictable if you are also the child of immigrants: business; science; health. I was to become a doctor or an engineer, a lawyer or a nurse. I don't think this is a particularly unique experience to Taiwanese-American families, but it was the path set in front of me, and I tried to follow it. I went into engineering programs; I went into physics; I spent my summers in laboratories and lecture halls and classrooms and prep courses.
I failed. I failed at it so thoroughly I was banned from engineering school for a while for constant misbehavior. This was a rebellious failure, I guess: I knew what I was expected to do, so I did the exact bare minimum, and ran straight into the opposite direction when I was through. Being mediocre is equivalent to failure when you're Taiwanese. That kind of failure is impressive in its commitment to the cause.
I failed my way to my own path for awhile. It was awesome: I threw myself into fashion, I got my first byline, my first front row seat at fashion week, free stuff, a new job. It wasn't what my parents wanted but it made me excited to wake up in the morning. I was finally excelling at something: just being me, in all of the particulars. When I finally got my dream job as a beauty editor, my parents ended up being thrilled for me. It felt like a culmination of something, some kind of retribution. Working on other people's modes of success hadn't worked for anyone involved. But here, something had. Something that was mine.
Many failures later—and successes, sometimes, too—I realized that you can succeed at your greatest goal and realize it's not what you wanted after all. I quit that job. I got everything I thought I wanted, and it wasn't what I wanted anymore. I learned actually, that there was a world of difference between wanting something because other people wanting it, and wanting it yourself. I found myself wandering in the space between. The disheartenment ate at me: Did I do it right? Is there something wrong with me, that I don't find this marvelous? Where did I go wrong?
It took me some time to get my shit together, trying to find those answers. I realized the problem wasn't me, but the circumstances I'd been put under. Leaving was the best thing for everybody involved. It took me more than one breakdown to get out. I tend to try to work on things until they've burned me up because I become so obsessed and used to failure that I can fall into the rhythm of it rather than moving on.
I'll let you in on a secret I learned the hard way: Success is temporary, and failure is inevitable—and that's not only OK, but necessary. Failure helps us become whole—and understand the possibility that we don't know everything after all. Because, friend: we are mutable. We're temporary and fragile! We're water and star stuff and gelatin! We are more like Jell-O than stone. Of course our plans change and our dreams redirect. We aren't meant to be forever one thing—for our decisions to be static, correct, and steady to the course. We bend to new courses; we change through them.
Failure showed me what it meant to move. When I know what doesn't fit, the pleasure of finding something that does is almost indescribable. It fills me. That joy takes shape in the reflections of the failures that came before. I know what to say no to now before I even start, I know my limits harder and faster and better. I know what I need because I know what I can't stand for. Walking away can seem illogical to other people, not to mention terrifying. Giving yourself space and time and listening to your instincts—isn't that so scary? Of course you might fail. You could end up regretting it.
You also might not, or, at least, not permanently. Failure might lead to something even better. There's no way of knowing before you do it. However scary that is, it's cool, too. You have enough time to try (and this is true regardless of your age). Maybe it won't work out. Try something else, and when that kind of trying becomes too much, you can stop. And then you try what comes from that.
Failure is a jailbreak. Failure is often an act of resistance against what you are told or "meant" to do. Failure means, "Not that. I choose otherwise." Failure is a victory: the stubborn survival of the self, and an expression of the confidence that you can make more for yourself once you've shut the door. What you've failed at can become useful later. This was the case at least for me, because now I use my random knowledge in fields of science to find unusual patterns in beauty, a field that is filled with cool molecules. I like to conceptualize failure as the silence in between sentences, the long pause before something marvelous. It's filled with anticipation, darkness, possibility, and power. Failure can be angry, and often is. But it's not all it ever was, and, anyway, anger isn't always a bad thing. It's a source of energy you can eat and use for sustenance on your path to something that suits. It becomes a nutrient, some kind of marrow in the bones you need to work. You fail and know one more way you can't win. And you work from there.
When you say no and stop and I can't go on, you rewrite a story written with someone else's terms. You edit it in a way that makes you feel better about yourself. This might mean slowing down when everyone else is telling you do move forward. This might mean stopping entirely and letting go of what you thought you wanted. If anything, failure is a disruption of a storyline you've goten lost in. If success is the complete narration of a moment and an idea, failing at it is a twist in the chapter you thought you knew the ending to. I always thought the twists were the most interesting parts. Who ever wants to get to the conclusion of a good book, anyway? I love never finishing stories; I refuse to let them go.
What is delicious about letting things fall apart entirely: the opportunity to make new things in their places. There's an art to unbecoming—to failing so beautifully you have no choice but to reassemble your entire life into something more suited to your skin—something more surprising, and more hospitable.Failure isn't the end of fortune, but its beginning. This is all a cycle. Temporary, transient. Gloriously so.
The artist Barbara Kruger has a piece that proposes the meaning of life is that it stops. I find it so comforting. I look at it when I am failing, or have finished succeeding, and have begun to fail. I have failed in that I have become bored, unhappy, something more that is indescribable: restless? Not quite the word. It's a hunger that claws. It lets me know it's time to move again. I can find it exhilarating and exhausting in equal measure, as long as I allow myself both responses. It does help. Carry in you every option. There are always more options.
I don't regret trying, but I also don't regret the thoroughness of my failure at all. It is enough to know what I don't want. When the inevitable happens, you can take it. Yes, you failed at that thing you tried. Find pleasure in the detour. And? And then? Now what? We've still got a sun in the sky. Keep going. Let it ride. Try your best, let things happen, and if they fall apart, and if you do—you have that precious moment and material to reassemble, realign, and to be reborn. ♦


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Tons of ice that have come directly from Canada glaciers has been used to make this experience. In this bar everything is made of ice, including the walls, the benches, the decoration with magnificent sculptures and even the glasses of our famous cocktails!
Have you ever imagined a place where you could get lost in a fruit tree labyrinth? Or where you could see horses, donkeys, wild boars, goats, rabbits, badgers, deer and many other animals? Come to the Biological Park of Serra da Lousã that has a lot to offer you: a learning farm, a wild life park, a rose park and much more!
Just like Paris or Amsterdam, visiting Aveiro can be healthy, ecological and economical, in addition to being fun. All you need is a BUGA, a Free Use Bike in Aveiro, made available by the municipality.
A small group of Aveiro lovers in love with their city founded Cale do Oiro, in order to share the natural and cultural richness of the region with its visitors. The goal is to become a reference label of the regional tourism offer, presenting a vast selection of services and memorable experiences related to the city, the
This active tourism enterprise is based in Coimbra, and organises several leisure activities, the most famous one being canoeing down Mondego river. Caminhos de Água also offers other options in Coimbra and in Centro de Portugal region such as: canyoning, windsurf, diving, paintball, climbing, rappel, slide, walking trails, among others.
Caminhos da História, Lda., based in Tomar, is specialised in cultural theme visits dedicated to the History of Portugal, historical heritage and cultural richness. It develops circuits and touring mainly focusing on Medieval military religious orders, such as the Knights Templar, the Order of Christ and the Cister Order, Jewish heritage and Portuguese Discoveries, interpreting
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The 33rd chapter of Deuteronomy begins with this verse:
This is the blessing that Moses the man of God pronounced on the Israelites before his death.
As the chapter unfolds, we find separate blessings.
This is part of the blessing for the tribe of Joseph from verses 13-16:
About Joseph he said:
"May the Lord bless his land
with the precious dew from heaven above
and with the deep waters that lie below;
with the best the sun brings forth
and the finest the moon can yield;
with the choicest gifts of the ancient mountains
and the fruitfulness of the everlasting hills;
with the best gifts of the earth and its fullness
and the favor of him who dwelt in the burning bush.
Let all these rest on the head of Joseph,
on the brow of the prince among his brothers."
I don't hear much about people blessing others anymore.
Why couldn't we?
Not just when we are dying, but throughout our lives?
What about praying for good things for our children, even when they become teenagers and adults?
Prayers that ask the Lord to bless them.
Prayers about blessing them with wisdom.
Blessing them with hearts that are tender toward God.
Praying for their faithfulness.
Praying for their purity.
Praying for their strength.
Can't we bless our own children when we pray for them?
Shouldn't we?
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The Master Esthiology Program is offered our Provo, Utah campus. If you are looking to broaden your esthetics education in Utah, contact us today! Financial aid is available to those who qualify.
We have created our Master Esthiology program to help students become well rounded estheticians. Our curriculum covers plant-based techniques and skills as well as chemical-based services in hopes that a varied education will open more job opportunities later on. If you're interested in taking your skincare education to the next level, contact us!
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Content management systems have become an integral part of websites these days, and Java-based CMSes are quite popular. Whether it is about developing a simple website or complicated enterprise portal, you can find plenty of content management systems backed by Java, making it easy for you to develop robust and secure applications on the go.
Alfresco is one of the top open-source, Java content management systems with portlets. Behind this CMS is a celebrated team of developers, including the co-founder of Documentum. Its modular and robust architecture uses cutting-edge open source Java technologies, such as Hibernate, Spring, JSF and Lucene.
In addition to a powerful content repository, this CMS includes an out-of-the-box web portal framework for managing and using standard portal content, a CIFS interface that provides file system compatibility on Microsoft Windows and Unix-like operating systems, a web content management system that can virtualize static websites and web apps via Activity workflow, Apache Tomcat, and Lucene indexing. Alfresco comes in three flavors:
Alfresco One
Alfresco one is the full-fledged product which offers end-to-end content management, including management of scanned images, photographs, videos and even engineering drawings. It intuitive design improves the efficiency of business processes and promotes a friendly and rewarding a user experience. It also offers robust security features to protect and control access to the data.
Alfresco for Cloud
Alfresco offers its services on cloud through SaaS. It enables users to access the content from any device at anytime, anywhere securely.
Alfresco Mobile
Alfresco offers free mobile app for iOS and Android smartphones & tablets that allows users to manage the content of the website while on the go.
Apart from all these, it brings a whole host of features like: Document management, web content management, repository-level versioning, records management, transparent overlays (similar to UnionFS), auto-generated XForms (with AJAX support), image management, learning content management support for learning management systems, LOR Learning Object Repository, and integrated publishing.
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Introducing Vilho Jonsson, Founder & Principal Innovation Evangelist at Curlabs
On today's show, we get to hear Vilho talk about how everyone needs to innovate and that innovation is different for everyone – thus the importance of having different tools and processes. How do they do it? Taking you from curiosity to realized value.


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Before you hit the enter button to post a comment on your favorite blog, social media, or online site, be forewarned that if your comment can be proven in a court of law to contain a libelous statement about an individual or business you can be sued for damages.
As the Internet has become an increasingly popular reporting and social media tool, libelous claims have risen. Two criteria apply. If your post can be proven false, and proven that it was published with the intention of harming that entity's reputation, the offended party has a case against you.
The defense tool you hold is the truth. If what you are posting is the absolute truth and can be proven to be so, your post, no matter how damaging to a person or businesses' reputation, is not libel. Keep in mind, however, that defending your comment as truth can be difficult and expensive and in any legal claim, your position of "truth" is not assured.
So what happens if you are posting "anonymously"? If you don't know it by now, you are not as anonymous as you might think. Your identity can be traced. Numerous court cases have forced Internet Service Providers (ISP's) to provide information and the IP address of known offenders.
So, before you post that comment, listen to my podcast for answers to the following questions:
- Do you have to use a persons name to be sued?
- Can you also be sued if you just agreed with the libelous comment?
- What is the statute of limitations for online defamation?
- Can the ISP and host website also be sued for libel?
- My caller, a public figure in her community, was falsely accused of having an affair. Does she plan to sue the commenter?


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ITE_X has a strong experiential feel to it. As the light permeates through the woven rods, intricate patterns emerge creating beautiful shadows.
These sculptural pieces, exude a sense of rhythm, dressed in an intricate simplicity. Beautifully handcrafted in Nigeria, this collection celebrates the power of welding and metal craftsmanship with a timeless flair.


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All women know that a Chanel purse in your hands on hanging from your shoulder means that you were blessed with a perfect taste and a generous dad or boyfriend who can afford buying you such a present. Anyway, all Coco Chanel purses are made to satisfy the needs of the mist fashionable and styling women all over the globe and it is hard to find such a woman who will refuse from having this gorgeous accessory.
Everybody knows that it is very convenient to find almost anything you want on the net. It can be said about all brand things as well including bags, purses, outfit, and foot wear. If you do not know much about brand things, you are suggested joining an online forum dedicated to it. And, of course, when you browse the net, you will find a good purse forum Chanel there. Women and men from different countries share their experience from purchasing their Chanel purses.
They share their pictures, post their Chanel secret tricks and tips there and much more. And surely you can ask where to get the best Chanel purse prices! Both amateurs and fashion connoisseurs take part in discussions, give advices and help in case someone asks for it. It is very pleasant to be among those people who really love and appreciate what the house of Chanel manufactures.
Good things cost good money – it is a common knowledge. We can say the same about Chanel purses but if you look for cheap Chanel purses, you are advised to browse official and trusted online shops. They often have discounts on certain groups of purses – featured products, different monthly specials which give a chance to save up to 81% of the regular price. It sounds very pleasant and encouraging, doesn't it? So if you make up your mind to treat yourself with a cute black Chanel purse, for instance, or a Chanel shoulder bag of red, pink, blue or any other color, there is always a chance to do it with online shops specials.
There are lots of famous and trusted online shops which are already favored by customers and which can please with discounts and new coming and Chanel purses Neiman Marcus is one of such shops. Everyone knows that Neiman Marcus is a well-known American department store specializing on luxury products only with its history beginning from early 1900th.
The reputation and the history of the Neiman Marcus has always been on top and the owners have just put the store on the modern online type of working. Chanel purses, cosmetics, outfits and much more – are always available there.
So find you own way and treat yourself with a top-notch Chanel purse!


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Picture: Vanessa Hudgens star of High School Musical 2 sign copies of the soundtrack to the Disney movie and attend the press conference for the UK...
The cast of hit Tv and film franchise High School Musical are set to reunite for charity.
Vanessa Hudgens, Ashley Tisdale, Corbin Bleu, Lucas Grabeel, Kaycee Stroh, Olesya Rulin and director/choreographer Kenny Ortega are throwing their support behind the GimmeMo' Foundation, an organisation working to improve the lives of youths all around the world.
The castmates will come together in December (13), for the five-year reunion party and charity event in Los Angeles.
Zac Efron, who reportedly battled substance abuse issues earlier this year, will not attend, according to Us Weekly magazine.


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Bobbie Benson
Clay Sculpture
Bobbie Benson has been involved in the world of art for many years, but it wasn't until September of 2014 when she joined in the Climate Change March with 400,000 other participants in New York City that she decided to use her artistic skills to make a statement about climate change. She has created 12 three-dimensional Climate Heroes out of clay. They are men and women from around the world who have made important contributions to figure out solutions to climate change. Bobbie tried to let there be a facsimile of truthfulness to the facial features of many of the heroes. She apologizes to any hero who might be offended by her characterization. Her goal was to make them whimsical and yet allow the heroes to speak their truth about activism and Climate Change. Bobbie believes that perhaps through artistic creativity, more minds can be persuaded to become environmental activists.
The first figure that I made was David Koch of the Koch Brothers. I wasn't going to include David Koch in the series because I didn't want to approach this art installation from a negative point of view. In the end I decided that David Koch represented a hero of sorts because he made me want to be a force to work toward a solution regarding climate change.
Waste, and plastic waste is a huge issue globally. In Africa, even more than anywhere else, waste is a major contributor to carbon dioxide emissions and climate change. Isatou Ceesay has been empowering women in The Gambia for over 17 years, to turn plastic waste into revenues and thus take a more important role in society while ensuring their financial independence. With over 2,000 members in 40 groups, and projects with the EU and the UNDP, Isatou's organization, Women Initiative the Gambia, is one of the hopes for the continent to see this situation change.
Pope Francis is the 266th and current Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. He described environmental concerns as a great contemporary challenge and voiced opposition to deforestation. He believes that development should respect what Christians see as creation, and that exploiting the earth is sinful. On 18 June 2015, Pope Francis issued a papal encyclical called Laudato si' on climate change, care for the environment, and sustainable development. The encyclical sets apart the basic human needs and appetites. Although he asks for the use of renewable energy instead of conventional fuels, he thinks that it would not be enough unless society turns down the unlimited appetites of consumerism.
Berta Isabel Cáceres Flores was a Honduran environmental activist and indigenous leader of her people. She won the Goldman Environmental Prize in 2015, for a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder Desarrollos Energéticos, S.A. (also known as DESA) to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam at the Rio Gualcarque. During the campaign against the dam on the Gualcarque River, Cáceres and other organizers were frequently intimidated by the military. She was assassinated in her home, at the age of 44, on March 3, 2016 by armed intruders, after years of threats against her life.
Over ten years ago, Jintana KaewKao, a small town mother from the Prachuab Khirikhan province of Thailand, found herself embroiled in a vicious crusade against the Union Power Development Company, which bought coastal land under the pretense of building a tourist resort, while planning to cut down 10,000 coconut trees to construct a coal power plant. Although KaewKao "didn't quite understand climate change until [she] started fighting against the construction of the factory," she bravely stepped up to take on a leadership role in her community and became a coal activist. Fueled by a passion for the cultural heritage of her beautiful coastal village, KaewKao has risked her life and suffered imprisonment on several occasions to take a stance against powerful corporate and governmental leaders.
James Hansen is an American adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University. From 1981 to 2013, he was the head of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. He is best known for his research in climatology, his 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change that helped raise broad awareness of global warming, and his advocacy of action to avoid dangerous climate change. In recent years he has become a climate activist to mitigate the effects of climate change, on a few occasions leading to his arrest.
Bobbie Benson
Bobbie Benson worked in many media—with a special love for clay. She was an art educator in the Boulder, CO public schools and at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and active many years in the Boulder arts community, as well as co-leading art excursions in Oaxaca with a Mexican artist friend. Her art in various media has been featured in many juried shows. She was a long-time meditator in several traditions. In 2014, she joined the Citizens Climate Lobby and participated in the international march in New York City. When she returned to Colorado, she worked with other artist-activists on local art-climate projects. Bobbie died unexpectedly in January 2017.


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If you're a coffee connoisseur, chances are you do something special when preparing your coffee at home. Perhaps you buy your favorite whole beans, and grind them yourself right before brewing. Maybe you use a brewing method that brings out the best in your bean of choice, such as a fancy Technivorm, or a French press. You may be happy with your particular coffee-making method of choice, but have you ever roasted your own beans? If you haven't, then get ready to take your coffee game to the next level, because today, we're explaining how to roast coffee from home.
Afterwards, check out this coffee crash course to learn everything else about this miraculous nectar.
Roasting Coffee From Home
Roasting coffee in your kitchen is easy and fun, and it cuts out those pesky coffee-roasting middle men that have been taking your money for all these years. It may take a little bit of practice, but it will be that much more satisfying when you're sipping the coffee that you brewed from the beans that you roasted. If you're more of an espresso person, this course on the secrets of espresso makers will help you get the most out of your machine.
What You'll Need
- Roaster: Whatever roaster you decide on will depend on how much money you want to spend, and how much coffee you want to roast. For first timers roasting a small amount, you can simply use a skillet, wok, or a hot air popcorn popper. The popcorn popper yields more evenly roasted beans, while the other methods are more uneven, and require more practice. If you've got a bit of money to spend, then go all out and get an actual coffee roaster, which will give you better temperature control and results in an evenly cooked bean.
- Green Coffee Beans: You can find green coffee beans online very easily, with handy sampler packs offering beans from different parts of the world so you can find your favorites. You may be able to buy green coffee beans from your local roaster, but may be difficult to find.
When roasting beans at home, be prepared for a few things to happen so you don't burn your beans (or your house). Keep the following things in mind when roasting coffee:
- Keep the beans constantly moving in order to ensure an even roast on all of the beans, and to prevent scorching.
- When done roasting, the beans must be cooled quickly in order to stop the roasting process.
- The roasting process produces a lot of smoke, so be prepared to vent it properly.
- The outer skin of the beans, or chaff, will be shed during the roasting, so be ready to deal with those.
Steps for Roasting Coffee
- First off, get your heating source up to a temperature of about 475° F. Once at the proper temperature, add about 8 oz. of the green beans. Make sure you're stirring constantly, or at least every 30 seconds.
- After a few minutes, the beans will start turning from green to a yellowish tint, and will start emitting a grassy smell.
- A few minutes later, the beans will start smoking and steaming, so be ready for that.
- Next, the beans will start making cracking sounds as the water escapes and sugars start to caramelize. Technically, the beans are roasted at this point, but you'll want to play around with the roasting time to figure out what type of roast you prefer.
- The beans will next start to expand and darken in color, and they will stop cracking. Most roasters prefer to stop the process at this point.
- If you want to keep going and achieve a darker roast, the beans will begin to crack for a second time, but more violently this time. After this second cracking, pull off the beans and cool them quickly, as any longer of a roast, they'll be burnt.
- Finally, pour the beans onto a cookie sheet and allow to cool completely – anywhere from 30 minutes to 12 hours.
If your beans turned out well, maybe you have a knack for cooking, and this article on learning to cook, along with this course on healthy cooking, will get you cooking (and healthy) today.
So there you have it – your own roasted coffee! Once you master this step, all that's left is to grow the coffee beans yourself, and you can stop visiting the local coffee shop altogether. This is a pretty easy process, just remember to keep stirring, and be ready for that smoke. If you have some leftover coffee, this course on liquid substitutions for soapmaking will show the crafty caffeine addicts out there how to use every last drop.


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MORNING AFTER: Who hasn't had a morning when you're prone to blame it on the a-a-a-a-a-alcohol? The New Colonists theatre troupe hit Biograph for a new Walk of Shame show, this one dedicated to the ladies. It's an evening of true-life tales of some of life's most embarrassing moments -- the kind that typically come back during the hangover stumble home. 10:30 p.m., 2433 N. Lincoln Ave, $15
MOROCCAN NIGHTS: Take a trip to a foreign land as Le Passage tranforms into a Moroccan paradise tonight. The venue will resemble a subterranean retreat, with belly dancers, and eclectic music, food and cocktails. The first 200 guests gets special gift bags. Use the code word "bellydance" at the door for free entry. 10 p.m., 937 N. Rush St., Facebook RSVP
STONE FREE: In case you haven't heard -- and that's doubtful -- it's Stone Beer Week in Chicago, and several pubs and restaurants are hosting special events to introduce the new California brew. Tonight, get on the party bus and hit the three city locations of Small Bar, sample some Stone, and finish up at a big party at Reggie's Music Joint. Buses run between all three Small Bar locations from 6 - 9 p.m.


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BABY NOTES - boy
Paperback, 200 Pages
Price: $12.00
Prints in 3-5 business days
a notebook to keep track of your baby's day. Also helps Mom remember what happened durning the day. Great for care takers too. use as a reference before doctor's visits or to jot down questions for the doctor.
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- Copyright
- Standard Copyright License
- Edition
- Boy
- Publisher
- Susan DeRobertis
- Published
- March 14, 2010
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 200
- Binding
- Coil
- Interior Ink
- Black & white
- Weight
- 0.78 lbs.
- Dimensions (inches)
- 5.83 wide x 8.26 tall
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