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How do you invent a new loaf? Grandaisy Bakery is known for its white, Italian-style breads. But after they opened a store on the Upper West Side, they sensed a demand for a "health" loaf. Julio Guarchaj, Grandaisy's head baker, started playing around with 100% whole wheat flour, and the bakery's head pastry chef suggested they throw in some toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds. Soon they had a loaf that everyone loved and dubbed it sette grani, "seven grains," in keeping with the bakery's Italian sensibilities. The bread slowly built up a following, but they didn't know they had a hit until they ran out. "When customers started getting angry it wasn't there," says Grandaisy owner Monica Von Thun Calderon, "we knew it was a success."
Grandaisy Bakery was founded in 2006 but actually has roots at least a decade older. Monica, the bakery's owner, was the longtime business manager of Sullivan Street Bakery and also Jim Lahey's partner in that operation. In 2006, the partners decided to go their separate ways, with Jim taking the Sullivan Street name and Monica holding on to the Sullivan Street address. They shared the breads because, well, you can't copyright a loaf. (Look at all the sub-par copies of Sullivan Street Breads being made by bakeries around the city.) Since 2006, Grandaisy has continued to make consistently excellent, Italian-style breads while also experimenting with new products like the sette grani and a light and delicious brioche roll.
The most spectacular of Grandaisy's traditional loaves is its filone. The length of two footballs placed end-to-end, the filone is sprinkled with a thick coating of wheat bran flakes and then baked until almost black. When you slice into it, the crust is so crisp that blackened crumbs seem to explode from the bread and spray all over the table. All of the filone's weight is concentrated in the crunchy, slightly bitter crust; the crumb is an ethereal, faintly tangy cloud with a loose hole structure perfect for sopping up olive oil.
The stirato is Grandaisy's Italianate take on the baguette. The crust has the familiar baguette crunch, while the crumb is slightly denser and more flavorful (thanks to the leavening and unbleached wheat flour). The best baguettes only have a shelf life of four hours or so before turning stale; this stirato is a 12-hour loaf with the substance to stand up to salumi or even an all-American hot dog.
Grandaisy's pizza bianca comes out of the oven the size of a small canoe. Remarkably for something this huge, what makes the pizza so good is the baker's light touch. It's simply made from flour, salt, yeast, a few sprigs of rosemary, and a drizzle of olive oil. Sliced, it's the most addictive part of a restaurant breadbasket; at home, it makes a perfect base for a sheet or two of prosciutto di Parma.
There are at least a dozen versions of raisin walnut bread floating around town. Most are mediocre, largely due to lack of balance: not enough raisins and walnuts, too much cinnamon, a crumb that's too fluffy and light, and so on. Grandaisy's pane noci ed uve rises above the rest with a dense loaf that's stuffed with juicy raisins and fat walnuts and spiced with just a touch of cinnamon. It's the perfect breakfast bread, the one that you dream about for lunch and dinner.
Finally, we come back to the sette grani, which comes from the opposite side of the bread baking universe as the filone. A loaf weighs in at three pounds, and while the crust is nice and chewy, you don't really notice it because all your attention is on the moist, dense crumb. It gets its lovely nutty-wheat-y aroma from 100% whole wheat flour, the toasted pumpkin and sunflower seeds, and flaked rye, wheat berries, oats, sesame, millet, flax seed, and spelt. Actually, if you add those ingredients up, you come up with nine grains. But I won't quibble, because I'm too busy chewing.
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250 West Broadway, New York NY 10013 (map) 212-334-9435
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Made in Nature, a seller of organic dried fruit and fresh fruit products, is moving forward with plans to base its corporate headquarters at the downtown Boulder property that long housed the Boulder Map Gallery, company officials and a broker involved in the transaction said Thursday.
Officials for Made in Nature recently purchased the building at 1708 13th St. for $428,840, according to Boulder County property records filed earlier this month. Todd Walsh, a broker with the Boulder-based Colorado Group, represented Made in Nature.
The sales transaction came just weeks after the Boulder Map Gallery moved its retail store and operations to 607 S. Broadway in the Table Mesa Shopping Center.
Patrik DeCicco, Boulder Map Gallery's owner, said he decided to move his map shop as a means to save money, operate in a larger space and gain increased visibility.
DeCicco said the proximity to the weekly Farmers' Market during the summers negatively affected sales as customers of the destination shop were not able to access easy parking.
Made in Nature's owners said they believe the presence of the Boulder Farmers' Market could help bolster awareness of their brand. Designs of the new office call for garage doors to replace the front windows, allowing for the facade to be open when the farmers' market occurs, said Wendy Goldner, Made in Nature's spokeswoman.
"It was too good to pass up," she said. "It just seemed like as a dried fruit company with products made from organic fruit … we couldn't find a better spot."
Made in Nature currently has four employees in Boulder operating out of offices housed at the Fresh Ideas Group public relations firm.
The company's production facility in Fresno, Calif., and its office in Wellington, Fla., will remain, but the 13th Street building will become Made in Nature's corporate headquarters, she said. Expectations are for the firm's Boulder office to be about 10 people in size within the next 12 months.
"We were just looking for a new home to build our future endeavors," she said.
Made in Nature's move to the 1708 13th St. building should be complete by the summer, she said.

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Signs of the housing-market recovery are everywhere, from galloping mortgage rates to rising home prices and all those "under contract" signs popping up around the neighborhood.
Nationwide, homes typically sold in 83 days in the second quarter, 14 percent faster than a year earlier, according to Realtor.com. At the same time, the median list price rose 5.4 percent, to $196,000, and the number of homes on the market dropped by more than 10 percent.
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Betty J. Stone, 77, of Amarillo died Tuesday, May 22, 2012.
A celebration of life reception will be from 4 to 7 p.m. Friday at 3913 Danbury Drive. Arrangements are by Rector Funeral Home, Osage Chapel, 2800 S. Osage St.
Mrs. Stone was born July 28, 1934, in Matador. She married the love of her life, Bobby Stone, 60 years ago. She worked at the Globe-News. Her biggest joy in life was raising her three sons and two grandchildren, who considered her a blessing every day.
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First of all, I have to say that I am happy that my cousin's wife had her baby. Now they make a family of 3. Hopefully soon DH and I will be a family of 3.
I had my lap. surgery on Friday. Sure enough I had endometriosis. I'm not sure the details. The dr. talked to DH, and I just don't details. I'll find out on Monday for my post-op. I know I woke up with 3 holes, not just 2. I think they said he took some cyst off an ovary. Since the hole is on the left side, I assume it was from the left ovary. I know I haven't been Oing from the left ovary at least this year. So, maybe now I'll be able to O a little better.
I get very sick from the gas anesethia, so I triple checked with the place I was getting my surgery at. I was assured each time, they don't use that method much anymore, but they could still give me something in my IV to help, just in case I got sick from the other stuff. The anesethiologist starts explaining what he was going to do. Low and behold, he was going to use gas. I finally talked him out of it, I wasn't going to let him put me under using the gas. No way!! I told him of my experience with it, and I was not willing to go through it again, especially when there is a clear alternative. Eventually he saw it my way. He gave me valium in my IV, and I started laughing. He said it would burn, but even if it did, I didn't seem to care. I don't remember leaving my husband and going back to the operating room. But, I do remember upon arriving in the operating room, I asked if they were going to use everything I saw on me. They assured me they were not going to use it all. I asked, what I think was the doctor, what they were going to talk about during the surgery. (I'll probably ask at my post-op, to make sure). But, I'm pretty sure I asked, and made them answer me, the answer was Politics and Baseball. I was content knowing that wasn't going to miss much. I remember they had me help them get me on the operating table. I remember very well, they had me put my arms closer to my body, and they kept telling me to do that. That was it.
The next thing I knew I was fighting, sitting up in bed, laying down, and going back and forth, and shaking, and yelling, "I'm going home." I noticed there were 3, maybe 4 nurses gathered around me, as well as DH, they were all trying to calm me down. Once I realized what was going on, I laid back, but continued to shake. The nurse told DH, that I was fighting because I fought going to sleep, and to me, the 1.5hours, was more like a second, so I just kept fighting from before I was put to sleep. DH told me, that I pointed to him and said, "that's my husband, he loves me." I remember repeating myself to the nurses and having them come closer because I couldn't see them, they were all blury. I told the nurse, that I wanted DH to give me my apple juice. Turned out my nurse in recovery was 32wks pregnant. I know I was drugged, but I couldn't see, and kept having her come closer so I could see her belly, but it just wasn't there.
So that makes 3 surgeries that I've ever had, 4 if you count one I was simply in twilight sleep. Thus far I haven't reacted the same any 2 times to the anesethia. I think I did best after my spleen ruptured and I was too sick to care what was going on. But, post-op was terrible. I hate surgeries because they give you medications that make you lose control. That very person you keep bottled up inside, just might exscape during the pre-op or recovery phase. For somebody who likes to stay in control of her words and actions, it just isn't fun. I'm naturally a pretty shy person, so when I opposite, it's like I wasn't even myself.
Now I am 4 days past my lap. I am still in pain, but not as bad as yesterday. The problem I'm having right now, is it seems as though I have a bladder infections. So, not fun. I'm still cramping and experiencing pain, especially when I sit. But, I am so tired, I can't help but to sit. Tired, not sleepy. Hopefully this recovery will be over soon, and this TAB cycle will be over soon, so I can start TTC next cycle again.
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First of all, I have to say that I am happy that my cousin's wife had her baby. Now they make a family of 3. Hopefully soon DH and I will be a family of 3.
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Rob, short for Robyn (yes, he is really a she) Thurman lives in Indiana, land of rolling hills and cows, deer, and wild turkeys. Many, many turkeys. She is also the author of the Cal Leandros Series: Nightlife, Moonshine, Madhouse, and Deathwish; has a story in the anthology Wolfsbane and Mistletoe; and is the author of Trick of the Light, the first book in the Trickster series.
Besides wild, ravenous turkeys, she has a dog (if you don't have a dog, how do you live?)--one hundred pounds of Siberian husky. He looks like a wolf, has paws the size of a person's hand, ice blue eyes, teeth out of a Godzilla movies, and the ferocious habit of hiding under the kitchen table and peeing on himself when strangers come by. Fortunately, she has another dog that is a little more invested in keeping the food source alive. By the way, the dogs were adopted from shelters. They were fully grown, already housetrained, and grateful as hell. Think about it next time you're looking for a Rover or Fluffy. For updates, teasers, deleted scenes, and various other extras, visit Rob Thurman's website and her LiveJournal.


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Washington sends right-handed pitching prospect Karns to Tampa Bay
VIERA, Fla. -- The Nationals acquired the backup catcher they had been seeking, acquiring Jose Lobaton, outfielder Drew Vettleson and left-hander Felipe Rivero from the Rays for right-hander Nathan Karns, who was seen packing his clothes in the Nats' clubhouse Thursday morning. Washington and Tampa Bay had been talking for at least a month about a trade for Lobaton.
"It just kind of fell into my lap this morning," Karns said. "I talked to [Nationals general manager] Mike Rizzo. I have good feelings. It's just a new opportunity. Not everybody gets to stay in the same organization their whole career. Maybe, in the future, I'll be back. If not, I had a great time here. I have nothing but great things to say about it."
Karns, who was the fifth-best prospect in the Nationals' farm system, made his Major League debut last year and allowed 10 earned runs in 12 innings before he was sent down to Double-A Harrisburg, where he went 10-6 with a 3.26 ERA and 155 strikeouts in 132 2/3 innings.
Prospects acquired by Nationals
- Drew Vettleson, OF: Vettleson was ranked No. 10 on the Rays' Top 20 at the time of the trade. The Pacific Northwest high school product was an all-around prospect in the 2010 Draft class, one who could switch-pitch. He was taken in the supplemental first round by Tampa Bay, though, for his bat. Vettleson has shown the ability to hit for average with a short left-handed stroke. He has a solid approach at the plate and his bat speed should allow him to hit for some power in the future. That, plus an excellent arm -- just his right one -- makes Vettleson well-suited for the right-field spot he's almost exclusively played as a professional. The 22-year-old is ready for the big jump up to Double-A.
- Felipe Rivero, LHP: Rivero, ranked No. 18 on the Rays' Top 20 when the trade was announced, hit the national stage in 2012 when he represented the organization at the Futures Game. The Venezuelan lefty has moved a level at a time since making his United States debut in '11 and should join Vettleson in Double-A in '14. Rivero's fastball can touch 95 mph -- he's added considerable velocity since signing in '08 -- and it has good sink when he keeps it down in the zone. Rivero gets high marks for his quick arm, one that can deliver a swing-and-miss curve at times. His changeup gives him the chance to have a third very viable weapon. Rivero hasn't missed a ton of bats, but he's been a ground-ball machine. His walk rate jumped in '13, but he's generally been a strike-thrower in the past, one who needs to refine his command within the zone and profiles as a middle-of-the-rotation lefty in the future.
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Lobaton became expendable after Tampa Bay re-signed free-agent catcher Jose Molina and traded for Ryan Hanigan. Lobaton played in 100 games for the Rays last season and hit .249 with seven home runs and 32 RBIs. He is best remembered for hitting the game-winning home run last fall against the Red Sox in Game 3 of the American League Division Series.
The Nats see Lobaton as insurance in case starting catcher Wilson Ramos has to go on the disabled list. Ramos missed a significant amount of time last year because of hamstring problems.
Lobaton is not eligible for arbitration until 2015.
"Out of the group of catchers, [Lobaton] fits the criteria we were looking for," Rizzo said. "Switch-hitting is a bonus for us. He had a [decent] season from the left side of the plate. He is a guy we control at a reasonable cost.
"His pitch framing is key. He blocks balls well, he frames pitches well. He is a good offensive catcher. He's a guy who caught a championship-caliber staff and caught 100 games last year. He passed the makeup test and the character test. He was a good fit for us. "
With Lobaton on board, the Nationals have nine catchers in camp, including Chris Snyder, Sandy Leon and Jhonatan Solano.
"I don't know if there is going to be a competition," Snyder said. "I'll see how the official word comes down and makes its way down [to the locker room]. We'll just wait it out and adjust accordingly."
Don't look for Rizzo to trim his surplus of catchers right away. He pointed out that injuries could happen this spring.
"A lot of things could happen in camp. Injuries happen," Rizzo said. "You are playing for scouts from other teams. There is a lot of opportunity for all the catchers."
Karns was having dinner with teammate Aaron Barrett on Wednesday when he received a call from his agent and his mother telling him about the rumors that he could be part of a trade that would send him to the Rays for Lobaton.
An hour before the trade was completed, Karns said he was concentrating on competing for the fifth spot in the Nats' rotation.
"That's my approach so far for Spring Training," Karns said at the time. "[The Nationals] are my first team, they signed me, they fixed me, I had my debut with them. There is a lot of history between us. It would be tough to go. But if I have to go, it's a new chapter, a new opportunity. I have to be fine with whatever happens."
Vettleson was Tampa Bay's supplemental first-round selection, the 42nd overall pick, in the 2010 First-Year Player Draft. In 314 professional games in the Rays' system, Vettleson hit .276 with 66 doubles, 15 triples, 26 home runs, 171 RBIs and 45 stolen bases. He was a Midwest League All-Star and team MVP after posting a .772 OPS and 20 stolen bases for Class A Bowling Green in 2012.
"He is a 22-year old outfielder with a cannon for an arm," Rizzo said. "He has put up good numbers in a tough accelerated high A level at 21 years old. You couple that with the need, the years of control and the talent level of Lobaton, we feel really good about the trade."
After trading prospect Robbie Ray to the Tigers this offseason, the Nats were able to replace him with Rivero, who won a career-high nine games and posted a 3.40 ERA in 25 games (23 starts) last season for Class A Charlotte. He represented the Rays at the Sirius XM All-Star Futures Game at Kauffman Stadium in 2012 while pitching for Bowling Green, and he earned an All-Star nod from the Midwest League. Rivero's fastball can hit 96 mph and he has a good breaking ball.
Rivero is 29-25 with a 3.45 ERA in 96 games (65 starts) in five seasons since signing with Tampa Bay in 2008 as a non-drafted free agent out of Venezuela.
"He has a huge upside," Rizzo said. "The most important thing on the Rivero part of the trade is, his stuff is really good. He is a wide-arm -- 21-year-old at the time in the Florida State League -- who is throwing 94, 95 mph, touching 96. Our scouts said he spins the curveball."


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Tombstones from long ago surfacing on S.F. beach
Strong winds and shifting sands have uncovered an eerie reminder of San Francisco's past: discarded gravestones and broken tomb markers used decades ago to shore up the Ocean Beach seawall.
The tombstones became visible this week, including bits and pieces of marble and granite that once marked the final resting places of citizens long dead.
One of them is the nearly intact marble tombstone of Delia Presby Oliver, who died at the age of 26 on Apr. 9, 1890.
Her remains were removed and reburied when San Francisco authorities closed nearly all the city cemeteries and moved the bodies to Colma in the early 20th century - part of a move to make space for the growing city. Oliver's original tombstone and thousands like it were used as landfill or in other ways throughout San Francisco.
Some were used as breakwaters. Pieces of others were used to line the gutters of Haight-Ashbury's Buena Vista Park. Some gravestones were used to build the seawall along the Great Highway. Large tombs and crypts were dumped into San Francisco Bay.
'No mystery'
"There's a romance to it, but no mystery," said John Martini, a San Francisco historian and former National Park Service ranger who has studied what lies under the Ocean Beach sands. "They are part of San Francisco history."
Martini said strong winds often uncover all kinds of things, even the remains of shipwrecks. The timbers of the sailing ship King Philip, wrecked at Ocean Beach in the 19th century, reappeared a couple of years ago and then vanished again under the sand after a few weeks.
The gravestones are like that, Martini said.
"They turned up some years ago in about the same place. There was a big fuss, and then they were covered up again. How soon we forget."
Delia Presby Oliver's grave marker is a heavy, solid piece of stone meant to last an eternity. The tombstone, nearly as intact as the day it was carved more than 122 years ago, was uncovered in a drift of black sand near the end of Rivera Street.
She was a member of a prominent family. Her father, David Shattuck, was born in New England and served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Her parents lived on Nob Hill.
Delia Presby was born in San Francisco in 1863 and married Frank B. Oliver on Oct. 27, 1885. She died less than five years later.
Newspapers did not report the cause of her death, but a notice in the San Francisco Call on April 10, 1890, said, "Friends and acquaintances are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services ... from the residence of her parents No. 814 Powell Street. Interment private."
It is not clear where Delia Oliver was buried, but it is likely that a person of her standing might be interred in the old Laurel Hill Cemetery, which extended south and west of California Street near what is now Presidio Avenue.
In the 1920s and '30s, the city decided to move the cemeteries out of the city. The Chinese, the Jewish, the Masonic and the Catholic cemeteries were destroyed.
Displaced by development
Laurel Hill was one of the last to go. In 1937, The Chronicle described it as "a silent city of the dead." There were 35,000 men, women and children buried there, all removed to make way for the Laurel Heights development.
Martini said much of the western part of the city was built atop old cemeteries, including shopping centers, housing developments and the campus of the University of San Francisco.
"They found hundreds of bodies when they did seismic work at the Palace of the Legion of Honor," he said. "It was pauper's cemetery. And there are literally hundreds of bodies under the Lincoln Park Golf Course. No one kept track of them all."
In established cemeteries, like Laurel Hill and Calvary on Geary Boulevard, "The remains of the loved one were removed at no cost," Martini said. "But if you wanted to remove a headstone, or a funerary building, the family had to pay the cost."
So tombstones left behind were recycled and used in various city projects. The Chronicle wrote about gravestones surfacing on Ocean Beach in spring 1977. Beachcombers were stunned.
Finding them was "the strangest stuff I've ever come across in a city that's weird enough," Gail Bills, who grew up in the Sunset District, told The Chronicle in a 1977 article about the tombstones.
The drifting sands soon covered them up again.
Fierce spring winds
This spring, the winds were particularly fierce, said Alexandra Picavet, spokeswoman for the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, which manages Ocean Beach. "This happens every once in a while," she said. "It's been a crazy year for sand."
Picavet said the Park Service has no plans to remove the gravestones. Eventually, they'll be covered again by the drifting sand, only to be rediscovered in a few more years.
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The Second Time Arounders is an adult marching band in St. Petersburg, Florida. We will perform in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade this year and need an improved design before our television appearances. The winning design will feature an ad for you or your firm.
The Awesome Original Second Time Arounders Marching Band, Inc.
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Fun promotional site
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Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
I am the developer of the Second Time Arounders site at http://secondtimearounders.org . The CSS is functional but unattractive. I know my limitations as a designer and invite you to help us make an attractive homepage that features our story (who we are, our history), pictures of the band, and an area for advertisement.
The homepage of the current site focuses on calendaring and links for members. I would like the redesign to be more promotional in nature. The homepage should feature, at minimum...
- Our existing logo (http://secondtimearounders.org/images/logo.png)
- An area for a brief "about us" or "who we are" where we can begin telling our history.
- An area for an image slideshow. I will implement it later in jQuery.
- An area for "latest news" where we can update the public on where we will be performing, etc...
- Menu with items Home, History, Contact, and Members. Either vertical or horizontal is fine.
- A login box for members. After logging in, the members will be redirected to a page like the current site's homepage. You don't need to design this page or anything but the homepage.
- An area for ads. We currently have an Amazon search box and will be adding promotional items like hats, mugs, etc... This is an important source of revenue.
- An advertisement for you or your firm. Since our budget is not huge for this redesign, I want to make it worth your while. We have 500+ local members, many of whom are business owners. Also, we will be seen live by over 3 million people on Thanksgiving, and by 60 million TV viewers. We will also likely be featured on national TV shows before the parade. Long story short, you will receive a lot of promotion for your services.
Thoughts on the design:
- The color scheme will be important and I leave this mostly in your hands. It should incorporate some dark blue since that's our primary band color.
- It should be fun. The band is all about the joy of making music at any age, plus we're very excited to be in the Macy's parade.
- You can also visit our old site at secondtimearounders.com for some "about us" text and images for mockup.
Have fun with it! I really look forward to seeing your designs.


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Art Carts are interactive, hands-on activity centers. Touch materials, draw or build, and discover the world through art. Led by our fun and knowledgeable educators. These lively informal gallery get-togethers are for all ages. Ask our friendly docents what activity will be on tap today! (Programming subject to change)
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Monday, June 28, 2010
R.A. Dingered!
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- AnonymousJune 29, 2010 at 2:21 AM
I guess Ollie's on the same island as Sting. let's hope no one gets that message in a bottle!ReplyDelete
I like the new Ollie reference. I wonder if Carlos Zambrano is on the same island with him? Keep the great art coming. Would you mind if I linked to you on my site?ReplyDelete
Thanks...Not at all...Link away... ThanksReplyDelete
What's up Joe maybe oliie and Maine and castillo eaten by a marlin next I could live with that lol great work!!! LET GO METSReplyDelete
I keep forgetting about Castillo. (I hope the Mets do too) LOLReplyDelete
Thank Joe, I certainly will, you do a great job with your artwork. I had forgotten about Castillo until someone mentioned his name on the broadcast the other day!ReplyDelete
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Wall Pyramid by Paul Guillimette
The art I make with found materials is initially inspired in the moment of finding. Coming across beauty in unexpected places at no particular time causes an excitement deep inside of me, much like the excitement I felt as a kid finding golf balls in the woods or river ( I was an avid golf ball hunter and golfer), or feel now meeting a beautiful stranger who sees me back. Walking with my good friend Raul once, I was trying to explain to him the �finding� . We were near some discarded wood I felt compelled to go look at and he stated succinctly an idea I wish I had thought of years ago when trying write an artist statement. He said, � You wake up sleeping art.� What I do with the materials back in my studio takes many different directions Primarily, I seek to reveal that once-sleeping beauty in ways that can be funny, metaphorical, ironic or just plain beautiful.


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Will Montgomery contract says he's not yet a starter
The contract details on new Broncos center Will Montgomery are in. They suggest Montgomery, who started the three previous seasons with Mike Shanahan's Washington Redskins, may begin the organized team activities (OTAs) as a backup but with a chance to compete with Manny Ramirez for the starting center position.
Montgomery received a one-year contract with a non-guaranteed $1.2 million salary. Free agents who are signed to start generally get at least $2 million a year.
If Montgomery remains on the Broncos' roster by Aug. 15, he will receive a $50,000 roster bonus. He would get another $75,000 bonus if he's on the Broncos' opening-day 53-man roster. If Montgomery earns the starting job — which could happen if the Broncos move Ramirez to left guard — he could make another $600,000 in incentives. So that would get him close to the $2 million mark.


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September 17, 2013 -- Updated 0234 GMT (1034 HKT)
Washington (CNN) -- [Breaking news update at 10:34 p.m. ET]
Besides the 13 people who were killed, eight people were injured in Monday morning's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, Washington Mayor Vincent Gray told reporters Monday night. Three of those were injured by gunfire, and the others had other types of injuries, such as contusions and chest pain. Earlier Monday night, Navy Vice Adm. William D. French said 14 people were injured. The 13 dead include suspect Aaron Alexis.
Washington police are confident that only one person was involved in Monday morning's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, and they are lifting a shelter-in-place order for residents who live nearby, Police Chief Cathy Lanier said Monday night. Authorities have said suspect Alexis, 34, was killed after an encounter with security.
The ages of those who were killed in Monday morning's shooting at the Washington Navy Yard range from 46 to 73, Gray said.
[Original story published at 9:20 p.m. ET]
The FBI has identified the dead suspect in Monday's shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard as Aaron Alexis, a 34-year-old military contractor from Texas.
But authorities are still searching for more information about him, and they're asking members of the public for help.
If you have information regarding Aaron Alexis or the Navy Yard shooting, call 1-800-CALL-FBI or visit the FBI's website.
"No piece of information is too small," said Valerie Parlave, assistant director in charge of the Washington FBI Field Office. "We are looking to learn everything we can about his recent movements, his contacts and associates."
In addition to the gunman, authorities said at least 12 people were killed and 14 others were injured in the shooting, which put government buildings on lockdown and sent police SWAT teams rushing to the scene.
The names of those killed, except for the suspected shooter, have not been made public, pending notification of their families.
Even as the FBI ruled out any other shooters in the rampage at the headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command, Metropolitan Police were trying to track down at least one person to determine whether that individual had any involvement.
"We'll continue to seek information about what the motive is. We don't have any reason at this stage to suspect terrorism," Washington Mayor Vincent Gray told reporters, "but certainly it has not been ruled out."
The other possible suspect was described by police as a black male, between 40 and 50, wearing an "olive drab-colored" military-style uniform.
"We still don't know all the facts. But we do know that several people have been shot and some have been killed," President Barack Obama said Monday afternoon. "So we are confronting yet another mass shooting. And today it happened on a military installation in our nation's capital."
Obama called the shooting a "cowardly act" that targeted military and civilians serving their country.
"They know the dangers of serving abroad," he said, "but today they faced the unimaginable violence that we wouldn't have expected here at home."
Witness: People pushed their way out of building
The violence started unfolding at 8:20 a.m. when several shots were fired inside the southeast Washington facility.
Police spokesman Chris Kelly soon described a suspect as an adult male, about 6 feet tall with a bald head and medium complexion, dressed in a black top and black jeans.
He was armed with an AR-15, which is a semi-automatic rifle; another rifle and a semi-automatic Glock handgun, according to a law enforcement official.
Two witnesses told CNN affiliate WJLA-TV that they heard a fire alarm go off in the building where they worked, then saw a man with a rifle down the hallway as they exited the building.
"He aimed the gun and fired our way," Todd Brundidge told WJLA.
People frantically ran down stairs to get out of the building, Brundidge said.
"They were pushing. They were shoving. People were falling down," he told WJLA. "As we came outside, people were climbing the wall trying to get over the wall to get out. .... It was just crazy."
The injured included a Washington police officer who has been hospitalized, and a base security guard officer, said Metropolitan Police Department spokeswoman Saray Leon.
Three people, including the D.C. police officer, were admitted to MedStar Washington Hospital Center with multiple gunshot wounds. They are expected to survive, chief medical officer Janis Orlowski told reporters.
One person was pronounced dead at George Washington University Hospital, according to Dr. Babak Sarani, chief of trauma and acute care there.
Details emerge about suspect
As authorities investigated the deadly shooting, across the country details began to emerge about the suspect.
The FBI said it identified Alexis using fingerprints and ID.
He was in the Navy's ready reserve, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus told CNN. In the past, he was an enlisted petty officer working on electrical systems. He was discharged from the Navy following a "pattern of misconduct," a U.S. defense official said. The military is reviewing his files.
The suspected shooter had an active ID and entered the base legally, according to a federal law enforcement official.
Outside Fort Worth, Texas, friend Michael Ritrovato said Alexis had recently been frustrated with the civilian contractor about a payment issue. But Ritrovato said his friend never showed signs of aggressiveness or violence, though he played a lot of shooting video games online.
"It's incredible that this is all happening, because he was a very good-natured guy," Ritrovato said. "It seemed like he wanted to get more out of life."
In Seattle, police said they arrested Alexis in 2004 for shooting out the tires of another man's vehicle in what Alexis later told detectives was an anger-fueled "blackout."
SWAT teams swarm area
Meanwhile, at the Navy yard, helicopters hovered overhead. In one chopper, there appeared to be a police sniper peering out, with a scope at the ready.
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives sent a team of about 20 special agents to the scene, a law enforcement official said. The team was the same group that helped apprehend Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the official said.
Emergency personnel, the FBI, U.S. Capitol Police and local D.C. police responded to the shooting, shutting down traffic in the area on the District's south side along the Anacostia River. Some people were evacuated, and others sheltered in place.
Paul Williams, who works at a nearby nonprofit, was headed to his office when he witnessed panic at the Navy yard.
"I heard four rapid bangs -- bang, bang, bang, bang," he said.
At first, he thought it was construction noise, but less than a minute later, he saw hundreds of people coming toward him.
"I didn't know what was happening. I just ran with them," Williams said. "Everyone seemed scared. People were crying. People were being consoled and calling loved ones and family."
Government buildings, schools tighten security
Security was stepped up at the Pentagon.
And at least eight schools were on lockdown as a precaution, the Washington public schools said.
Air traffic to Reagan National Airport in northern Virginia, the closest airport to downtown Washington, was suspended after the shooting but later resumed, the Federal Aviation Administration said.
Officials postponed a Washington Nationals baseball game that had been scheduled for Monday night at Nationals Park, just a few blocks away from the Washington Navy Yard.
The headquarters for Naval Sea Systems Command -- the workplace for about 3,000 people -- is the largest of the Navy's five system commands. It has a fiscal year budget of nearly $30 billion.
"With a force of 60,000 civilian, military and contract support personnel, NAVSEA engineers, builds, buys and maintains the Navy's ships and submarines and their combat systems," the Navy said.
Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington's congressional delegate, described the Navy yard as a "very secure facility."
The Washington Navy Yard -- the Navy's oldest land establishment -- was created in 1799 following an act of Congress, according to the Naval History and Heritage Command. Originally envisioned as a shipbuilding and fitting facility on the Anacostia River, it serviced some of the Navy's most famous early vessels, including the USS Constitution.
Burned during the War of 1812, the Navy Yard was transformed into a center for ordnance and technological development. The facility was the world's largest ordnance plant during World War II, but its military role steadily diminished during the Cold War era.
Today, the Navy Yard includes the headquarters of Naval District Washington and is home to a naval museum. The area around the facility has been marked in recent years by significant commercial and residential revitalization.
CNN's Barbara Starr reported from Washington, and CNN's Catherine E. Shoichet reported from Atlanta. CNN's Chris Cuomo, John King, Deborah Feyerick, Evan Perez,Tom Cohen, Dan Merica, Larry Shaughnessy, Brian Todd, Alan Silverleib, Susan Candiotti, Joe Johns, Eliott C. McLaughlin, Joe Sterling, Paul Courson and Ed Lavandera contributed to this report.


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'Parineeti' in Sanskrit means evolution. Either at a physical level or on a mental plane, 'Transformation' is the song of all beings. The fact that the level of transformation of a mind, is the value-metrics for all the quality in this Nature. Herewith this small piece of e space, we wish to share, some special search information which is Unique and Thought Provoking. Yummy! 'Spicy Stuff', to help transform your brains after a client's call or soon after a fb teaser from your Hot Girl Friends
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Return to Mordor on a mission of conquest and vengeance, fighting endless fantasy villains in a systemic sequence of epic confrontations
Gorgeous environments, characters, and creatures call to mind the films directed by Peter Jackson
Excellent voice actors bring the story to life, and a militaristic orchestral score punctuates the action, sometimes integrating individual sword strikes into the musical soundscape
The complex web of abilities and skills is tutorialized gradually, as the game recognizes unused abilities and prompts their use
You are a merciless tornado of ruin touching down in an unforgiving world of battle and domination, and embracing that unfettered power is a joy
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Orcs scatter as my drake makes another pass over the fortress, breathing fire into their ranks as they scramble to cover. I leap off and dive hundreds of feet, landing in a shockwave that scatters allies and foes alike. In a flash of savage strikes, my essence magically splits into multiple forms, each a machine of destruction, holding the courtyard. My army of spiders crawls over the defenders, and giant cat riders gallop through the breach in the wall made by the siege beasts. The horde charges the inner keep, and I step through the shadows and instantly reappear on my flying mount to survey the chaos.
Shadow of War is a playground of intense and emergent action scenes shaped by your choices and triumphs. Across a vast territory of five open-world regions, hundreds of missions unfold, many appearing in direct response to your previous actions, and pitting you against individual named enemies that remember you between encounters. Whether in the opening minutes of stealth or the frenzied melees that inevitably follow, combat is rich and rewarding, offering dozens of ways to bring down the denizens of Mordor. The overriding sensation is that of a sandbox of super-powered predation and exploration in a world where you are the prime mover, and on a scale that dramatically outstrips its predecessor.
Developer Monolith exhibits a thorough understanding and deep love of Tolkien's grand fantasy world and its themes, and I appreciate the constant ways the game nods to its source material. But Shadow of War's storyline launches in its own over-the-top direction; Middle-earth fans who can leave their reverence at the door will find a rewarding tale drenched in the darker elements of the fiction. Dramatic reinventions of characters like Shelob and the nature of the Nazgûl feel strange at first, but viewed independently of Tolkien canon, the logical leaps are no more outlandish than other fantasy stories.
Continuing their quest for vengeance, Talion and Celebrimbor forge a new Ring of Power and set out to conquer Mordor. Rather than follow a single central plot, the story quickly splits along multiple threads, from confronting the threat of the ringwraiths to helping a beleaguered spirit hold back a cabal of necromancers. The pace is always brisk, but I enjoyed each of the largely self-contained plotlines, and the way they shed light on a land drenched in sorrow and warfare. Everything comes together in a satisfying final turn, setting up the canonical events of The Lord of the Rings and maintaining the open-world gameplay for some dramatic new twists post-campaign. The game suggests a story conceit for continued warfare after the central conflict has come to a head, and in a way that provides new toys to enjoy.
See more of the review at Game Informer
Immerse yourself in the epic scale of Middle-Earth as you forge a new ring and siege epic fortresses to face the Dark Lord and Nazgul.
Experience a richer and more personal world full of new enemy types, stronger personalities and deeper stories-anyone you face can now evolve from a lowly soldier to a mighty overlord. Personal nemesis or ally.
Go behind enemy lines and use strategy, cunning or brute force to conquer Sauron's fortresses and turn them against him.
In Middle-Earth: Shadow of War nothing will be forgotten.


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High-speed rail is certainly a greener travel alternative, but a new design concept could make the concept even greener. The T-Box has been designed to capture the wind created by speeding trains, turning it into a renewable source of energy.
The device would actually be placed in the spaces between the tracks, so that it can harness the wind that's created below the train itself. According to the creators, 150 boxes could be installed for every 1000 meters of rail. Over that range a train travelling at 200 kilometers per hour could theoretically produce 3500 watts of power.
The T-Box was a winner at the 2010 Lite-On awards, which recognize green design excellence.
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Part of National Museums Liverpool
Search through 4,680 items from across our internationally significant Egyptology collection. The full collection is one of the largest in the UK with nearly 20,000 items spanning from the Prehistoric (about 5300 BC) to the end of the Byzantine Period (AD 642). Month by month we are making more records available online.
For World Book Day, we're celebrating all things literary.
Author: Forbes, Henry Ogg
Publisher: Free Public Museums of the City of Liverpool
Date: 1906
Author: Downes, Dorothy
Publisher: Aris and Phillips Ltd
Date: 1974
Description: Publication of Professor John Garstang's excavations at Esna based on archives kept in the Garstang Museum of Archaeology, the University of Liverpool. The book is based on a University of Liverpool Ph.D. manuscript by Dr Dorothy Downes who was a former Keeper of Archaeology at Liverpool Museum. The publication brings together Garstang's unpublished photographs, notebooks and individual tomb record cards made by his assistant, Mr Harold Jones. The book includes many objects from both Liverpool collections (World Museum and the Garstang Museum of Archaeology).
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Excavations directed by John Garstang of the University of Liverpool Institute of Archaeology on behalf of the Egyptian Excavations Committee and the Institute of Archaeology during 1905 - 1906. The cemetery is near 'Hagar Esna' about 4 km to the north west of Esna town, on the west bank of the Nile. Garstang inspected the site in 1904 and was convinced that it was important and unless excavation was undertaken as soon as possible very little would survive the systematic plundering which was flourishing at that time. The first season of work lasted from March to early May 1905 and was conducted by Garstang's assistant, Harold Jones, while Garstang was busy at the site of Hierakonpolis and at Dakke. A second season began in January 1906 and continued for 5 weeks working with 100 Egyptian workmen. again the work was mainly directed by Jones, while Garstang continued his work in Nubia, at Dakke and Koshtamneh. After leaving Esna Garstang and Jones moved on to concentrate on the excavation at Abydos. The Garstang Museum of Archaeology (Liverpool University) hold 110 glass negatives, antiquities and field notes from the excavations.
John Garstang, 'Excavations at Hierakonpolis, at Esna and in Nubia'. Annales du Service des Antiquities de l'Egypte 8 (1907) pp. 132-148.
Dorothy Downes, The excavations at Esna, 1905-1906. (Warminster, 1974).
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A 17 day exhibition of antiquities excavated between 1905-6 from sites including, Abydos, Esna, Hierakonpolis and Kostamneh. The event was held in what is now the World Cultures Gallery at World Museum. A 4 page exhibition catalogue was published by the University of Liverpool Institute of Archaeology. The exhibition was inaugrated July 10th, 1906, by the Right Hon. The Earl of Derby, K.G., G.C.B., LL.D. and included antiquities belonging to the committee members of the University of Liverpool Institute of Archaeology: Ralph Brocklebank, Esq., The Rt. Hon. Sir J. T. Brunner, Bart., M.P., F. C. Danson, Esq., J.P., Wm. Johnston Esq., Rev. W. MacGregor, M.A., John Rankin Esq., The Lady Amherst of Hackney, Theodore M. Davies Esq., Dr H. O. Forbes and Jesse Haworth Esq.
The full title is taken from the exhibition catalogue:'An Exhibition of Egyptian Antiquities Recently Discovered in Egypt and Nubia by Mr John Garstang and Mr E. Harold Jones, Under the Patronage of the Egyptian Excavations Committee of the University Institute of Archaeology'.
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iConvert hardware scanner for iPad coming in February
iConvert is set to launch an iPad specific hardware scanner in February. The scanner has been designed for the road warrior that no longer wants or needs to carry around a laptop, but needs to regularly scan documents on the go .Our iConvert Scanner for iPad and iPad 2 Tablets scans hard copies to JPEG files directly to your tablet, giving you instant e-copies of your most important documents. The JPEG files are automatically stored in the picture folder. Great for use at home, the office and on the go. The entire scanner is sized to take with you in your messenger bag or backpack.The scanner has a front document feeder tray which adjusts to accommodate documents from 2 inches to 8.5 inches wide. The scanner works with a free app which will be available from the App Store on launch. The iConvert Scanner will be available in early February and will cost $149.99. With so many software based scanners already available for the iPad 2, it is hard to see where this scanner will fit in. Unless of course you need high quality scans on the move or have the original iPad without the camera.
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iConvert hardware scanner for iPad coming in February
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Behind the Dictionary
Lexicographers Talk About Language
Get Your Creak On
Back in December, a small study by researchers at Long Island University got a lot of news play. Maybe you heard about it. It was about the supposed recent increase in young American women's use of vocal fry — the lowest vocal register, the one with a creaky quality to it. (Other registers include modal, for normal speaking; falsetto; and a register called whistle, which is not the same thing as actual whistling.) The story broke in ScienceNow, and for the next two weeks came up again and again in newspapers, in TV news segments, and online.
Here and there, other linguists disputed the study's claims. On Language Log, Mark Liberman pointed out that vocal fry is not new, noting that even the LIU linguists cited papers on it from the 1960s. Posts on other linguistics blogs included samples of well-known males engaging in vocal fry, including Ira Glass and Kurt Cobain. (In fact, the post with Cobain was published way back in April, months before vocal fry hit the big time.) Josef Fruehwald, who wrote the post featuring Ira Glass, also noted that since the only participants in the study were women in the first place, you can't conclude that it's a female phenomenon. Even in a segment about the LIU study on the Today show (embedded in Fruehwald's post), linguist Janet Pierrehumbert denied that vocal fry was a new phenomenon, and put down a speculation (offered without evidence in the LIU study) that pop stars might be responsible for its popularity. But as Fruehwald wrote, "The whole premise of the piece is wrong, and she says so, and they power right along like it's irrelevant." News outlets were happy to run the story without asking any tough questions.
By about the fifth time I encountered the vocal fry story, I'd been subjected to the term vocal fry enough that I got to wondering why it was called vocal fry. The original term I'd heard for it was actually glottal fry. It was back in sixth grade, and my friend Greg and I were trying to produce the vocal effects described in a book called MouthSounds,written by a guy named Frederick R. Newman, best known these days as the provider the (oral) sound effects on A Prairie Home Companion. The book was updated in 2004 (complete with a CD to illustrate the sounds, instead of the floppy plastic record Greg and I played), and in it, Newman writes that glottal fry is useful for sounds effects such as creaking castle doors, unearthly computer voices, or "slowed way down to a series of sparse clicks, ... a Geiger counter or cosmic ray detector." As for its origin:
Scientists in the field of vocal production ... invented the term "glottal fry" years ago to describe a particular series of clicking sounds created in the glottis — the opening between the vocal folds in the upper larynx. Although the Glottal Fry does not sound exactly like frying an egg over easy, it's close enough that we can forgive the burst of poetic license.
This etymology is the commonly accepted one: Vocal or glottal fry sounds like the crackling and popping of something frying. It's part of the definition for vocal fry given in the glossary for the online Voice Academy (dedicated to the vocal health of U.S. teachers). That definition is the one that one commenter quoted when the question came up on StackExchange on Dec. 31.
The explanation sounds reasonable, but so do a lot of etymologies that are completely bogus. To date, vocal fry and glottal fry do not appear in the Oxford English Dictionary, and the entry for just fry contains only the common definition of the cooking process, plus a few other even less relevant meanings. Even so, this etymology turns out to be the real deal. The term glottal fry was first published in 1942, in a two-page article by Henry M. Moser in the Journal of Speech Disorders. In it, he describes the case of a young man who had been so embarrassed when his voice began to change during puberty that he developed the habit of speaking at a pitch high enough to avoid the cracking. He never quit, and years later, he still had an unusually high-pitched, "effeminate" voice. Moser was able to guide the man to a normal voice by means of
the 'glottal fry' attack. It is a method I have used with considerable success and one which I do not believe is well known. It is very easy to demonstrate but extremely difficult to describe. You may recognize it as the sound produced by many youngsters in imitating a motorboat but to me it more nearly resembles the sound of vigorously popping corn.
So there you have it. It really is called a fry because it reminded someone of something frying in hot oil. But when did glottal fry become vocal fry?
Of course, some people still do call it glottal fry, such as Fred Newman. Vocal fry seems to have joined glottal fryabout a decade later. The earliest citation I've found is in the Handbook of Speech Pathology and Audiology, by Lee Edward Travis, which doesn't offer any explanation. Later sources credit Moser with the original description of vocal fry, ignoring the fact that he called it glottal fry. One source that does acknowledge the difference in terminology is Voice and Articulation,published in 1958, by Charles van Riper. Though he prefers vocal fry, van Riper mentions that Moser calls it glottal fry, and that the author of a book on singing calls it "glottal scrape or rattle." But it sheds no further light on the origin of vocal fry.
Meanwhile, professionals outside the fields of music or speech pathology have also been talking about glottal/vocal fry for years, but they've been using (and continue to use) yet another term. Linguists call it creaky voice, and according to the Google Ngram viewer, it turns up more than glottal fry and vocal fry combined, although some hits are undoubtedly examples of creaky voice used without any specialized meaning. You can see in the graph that creaky voice goes back to the 1800s, but the hits from that era are mostly from works of fiction, not linguistic studies. The first example I've found with creaky voice in its technical sense is from 1937, in The Tongues of Men by John Rupert Firth.
The fry/creak vocabulary distinction is a surprising social marker, indicating whether one's relationship with phonetics falls more into the realm of pure or applied linguistics. But in a gesture toward increasing communication between the two groups, I now propose the term creaky fry.


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Crispin Gurholt's "Live Photo" in Lillehammer
Crispin Gurholt. Live Photo
Lillehammer Art Museum, Lillehammer
April 21 – June 17, 2012
Norwegian artist Crispin Gurholt (1965) has created site-specific installations, called "Live Photo", that are built up as carefully planned tableaux and designed to be a dialogue with the environment in which they occur. They are staged in mundane, everyday surroundings, like a coffee shop, a bookstore, or a hair salon. The models pose in frozen photographic moments, which are only interrupted by short breaks. The scene that unfolds shows the most charged moment in a storyline. Gurholt's photographs combine such different genres as theater, film, photography and painting.
Roma, Live Photo # 17. 2008
Venice, Live Photo # 14. 2007
A selection of the artist's "Live Photo" are being shown in Lillehammer Art Museum's main auditorium through June 17, including a video that is based on the same tableaux as the photos. Beginning with June 2, two more tableaux will be added. One of them is "Live Photo Lillehammer", which can be described as one of several projects where Gurholt fixes a critical look at the institution of art, in the broadest sense of the word.
Sunday 17.45, Live Photo # 7. 2004
Gurholt's artistic practice is conceptually based, and draws on both relational and site-specific art, in addition to the staged photograph. He belongs to a generation of artists who freely use the photograph as an artistic tool. But the complexity of administration reflects the artist's broad and complex training, which also appears to be essential for the creation of such a dense universe that "Live Photo" represents. Gurholt holds a master's degree from the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts and has studied under Odd Nerdrum, the famous Norwegian figurative painter; in addition, he has a background in set design and directing. He studied at the Film School of New York University and has worked part-time on set design for Wam & Vennerød (a famous Norwegian film duo who produced and directed a number of Norwegian films between 1975 and 1995) and Thomas Robsahm (an award-winning Norwegian film director, producer, musician and actor). He has also directed music videos. The "Live Photo" series appears to be the sum of a broad education, and together with a critical perspective, makes them compelling images of our time.
Crispin Gurholt instructs the statists. Live Photo Lillehammer Kunstmuseum. 2012 © Lillehammer Kunstmuseum
Crispin Gurholt is an international artist. He has completed installations in Venice, Rome, Paris, Berlin and Copenhagen. In addition, he has exhibited at several major Norwegian art institutions. He opens up a number of questions regarding the relationship between the viewer and the work, as well as about the various forms of visual practice.
Behind the scenes. Live Photo Lillehammer Kunstmuseum. 2012 © Lillehammer Kunstmuseum
Photographer in action. Crispin Gurhol during Live Photo Lillehammer Kunstmuseum. 2012 © Lillehammer Kunstmuseum
The curator of the exhibition is Janeke Meyer Utne.
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Beijing, May 10th 2014: The International Advertising Association announced the recipients of its most prestigious global industry awards to Ms Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo and Mr John Wren, President and Chief Executive Officer of Omnicom Group, at its 43rd IAA World Congress, taking place this week in Beijing.
Faris Abouhamad, IAA Chairman and World President and Heather Leembruggen, IAA Vice President and Chair of the IAA Awards Committee declared "The IAA Award is presented to an individual in recognition of outstanding services in the field of international advertising and marketing. It was previously known as the "Annual Award" and was presented each year from 1951 to 1984. It then became a biennial award, presented on the occasion of the IAA World Congress. The IAA did not hold awards in 2012, so this year we have honored two recipients – Ms Indra Nooyi, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of PepsiCo and Mr John Wren, President and Chief Executive Officer of Omnicom Group."
Cathy Tai, Vice President Corporate Affairs, PepsiCo China accepted the award on Ms Nooyi's behalf and Serge Dumont, Vice Chairman, Chairman Asia Pacific of Omnicom Group accepted the award on Mr Wren's behalf.
Other most recent previous recipients have included Simon Clift, CMO Unilever (recipient in 2010); Tateo Mataki, former Chairman and CEO, Dentsu Inc. (recipient in 2008); Maurice Levy, CEO, Publicis Groupe (recipient in 2006); Sir Richard Branson, Chairman, Virgin Atlantic Airways, Ltd (recipient in 2004).
The 43rd IAA World Congress program includes leading global ad industry figures – Ian Alwill,Chairman, Australian Advertising Standards Bureau; Tim Andree, President & CEO, Dentsu Aegis Network; Adam Anger, General Manager for Asia Pacific, Microsoft Advertising; Bharat Avalani, Regional IBC Director Homecare Asia, Africa, Middle East & Turkey, Unilever; Scott Beaumont, Managing Director, Google Greater China; Bhaskar Bhat, Managing Director, Titan Company Ltd;Mykim Chikli, CEO, ZenithOptimedia China; Jeffrey Cole, Director, Centre for a Digital Future, USC Annenberg School; John Defterios, Anchor & Emerging Markets Editor, CNN International;Jean-Marie Dru, Chairman, TWBA; Jim Elms, Global CEO, Initiative; Oliver Gray, Director General, European Advertising Standards Alliance; Jeff Han, General Manager Marketing, Tencent Online Media Group; Chris Harrison, Chief Strategy Officer APAC, ZenithOptimedia; Ben Hughes, Global Commercial Director and Deputy CEO, Financial Times; Li Ya, Chief Operating Officer, Phoenix New Media; Zeng Liang, Vice President, Baidu; Bill MacLeod, Attorney, Kelley Drye & Warren LLP; Angela Mills Wade, Executive Director, European Publishers Council; Zhong Ming, Chief Researcher, Hakuhodo Institute of Life and Living – Shanghai; Rob Norman, Chief Digital Officer, WPP Plc; Doug Pearce, CEO, OMG China; Atifa Silk, Brand Director, Campaign Asia; T.B. Song, Chairman, Ogilvy & Mather Greater China; Sir Martin Sorrell, Chief Executive, WPP Plc;Andrew Ward, Vice President Marketing, Etihad Airways; Bob Winslow, Executive Vice Chairman, Fleishman Hillard; Chen Yan, Chief Strategy Officer, Focus Media; Leaders of the Chinese Government; and many more.
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Flex on Mixx
June 26th, 2008 by enefekt
There are so many online communities out there already, but I was curious when Mixx debuted their "Communities".
Figured I would create a community just for Flex. I don't know if there is enough value in a mini Digg-like community just for Flex developers and designers, but I guess we can find out … introducing:
It is open registration for members, so if you think it might be cool, join up!
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Responsibilities: Serve as contact point for media. Prepare news releases, statements, testimony, op-ed columns, and informational publications. Contribute to and edit special, interim, and final reports to Congress. Advise management and Commissioners on communications issues. Experience: Formerly professional staff member, U.S. Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Contributor and chief editor for Hurricane Katrina: A Nation Still Unprepared, the Committee's 732-page report on preparations and responses to the 2005 Hurricane Katrina disaster. Staff advisor to Senator Susan Collins of Maine on banking, mortgage, and financial-regulation issues. Previously, coordinator of financial communications and supervisor of publications, Central Maine Power Company, where he edited and project-managed annual reports to investors for a decade and wrote the company's centennial history, The Light from the River. Also served as staff writer and columnist for the Portland (Me.) Press Herald newspaper. Has taught courses in public speaking, argumentation and debate, and English composition. Education: AB, philosophy and economics, Bowdoin College; MA, communication studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst; Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellowship in economics journalism, Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University; mid-career fellowship in American economic history, National Endowment for the Humanities; American Bankers Association fellowship, Stonier Graduate School of Banking, Rutgers University.


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Will Preservation Worcester be able to auction off the huge Paris Cinema sign that once sat above the marquee space at the former Franklin Street movie house? And maybe more interestingly, what would the prospective buyer do with it?
The answers are forthcoming.
Will Preservation Worcester be able to auction off the huge Paris Cinema sign that once sat above the marquee space at the former Franklin Street movie house?
And maybe more interestingly, what would the prospective buyer do with it?
The answers are forthcoming.
The sign, which actually comes in seven pieces, could be seen for years spead 30 feet across the second floor of the theater's metal fa�ade.
It is one of several items that Preservation Worcester will auction on Saturday.
The event will take place from 6 to 8 p.m. at Crompton Place, 138 Green St.
Deborah Packard, Preservation Worcester's executive director, said some inquiries have been made about the sign, donated last March to the non-profit by the Mayo Group, the theater building's current owner.
"We're just going to have to wait and see," she said.
On Sunday, the non-profit will hold its now annual yard sale from noon to 4 p.m. at the Architectural Garage, 5 Harrison St.
"It'll be like going through a second hand store that features a lot of real old stuff," said James Marcotte, who is the proprietor of the Architectural Garage, and, who is helping Preservation Worcester with the auction and sale.
Wine and light appetizers will be served at the auction, which cost $25 to attend.
Besides the iconic Paris Cinema sign, the auction will have a number of other items including oil paintings of Tuckerman Hall and the Quinsigamond School by Framingham artist Peter McGowan, whose works have been displayed at the Danforth Museum of Art.
Several prints by Honore-Victorin Daumier will also be auctioned off. Daumier was a late 19th century French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor who is well known for his cartoons and drawings, which satirized his nation's policies and society. His works are found in many leading art museums including the Louvre and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
A high end, mammoth chandelier that once hung from a Dartmouth mansion is also on the auction block, among other items.
Officials noted that there are minimum bids for the auction items.
For example, the minimum bid on the Paris Cinema sign is $500.
Officials believe a collector might purchase the sign as an aesthetic piece. Mr. Marcotte said it would be a great accent piece for a bar or restaurant.
Meanwhile much of the stuff at Saturday's sale would be of interest to individuals looking to refurbish old homes, preservationists, antique collectors, and the so-called "pickers."
For example, there are doorknobs, mantels, old wood doors, stained glass, and furniture up for purchase.
The event is less formal than the auction and there is no admission charge, although individuals will be charged $10 if they wish to preview items from 11 a.m. to noon.
Ms. Packard said PW has made up brochures showing how many of the old items may be refurbished into usable accents and pieces. For example, she said, mantels can be made into bed headboards, chairs can be made into swings, and shutters could be transformed into bookcases.
"All one needs is a little creativity," said Ms. Packard.
The sale includes a couple of pews from St. Paul's Cathedral and the doors to the furnace at City Hall, which were built years ago by the former Stewart Boiler Works of Worcester.
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Pizza Egg Rolls
Total TimePrep: 35 min. Cook: 10 min.
Makes13 egg rolls
- 1 pound bulk Italian sausage
- 3/4 cup diced green pepper
- 1 garlic clove, minced
- 1 can (15 ounces) crushed tomatoes
- 1/4 cup tomato paste
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 teaspoon dried oregano
- 1/4 teaspoon sugar
- 1/8 teaspoon dried rosemary, crushed
- Dash pepper
- 8 ounces cubed part-skim mozzarella cheese
- 13 egg roll wrappers
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- Oil for frying
- In a large skillet, cook sausage and green pepper over medium heat until meat is no longer pink. Add garlic; cook 1 minute longer. Drain. Stir in the tomatoes, tomato paste and seasonings. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 10 minutes. Uncover and simmer 10 minutes longer. Remove from the heat; cool for 20 minutes. Stir in cheese.
- Place 1/3 cup sausage mixture in the center of each egg roll wrapper. Fold bottom corner over filling; fold sides toward center over filling. Brush remaining corner with egg; roll up tightly to seal.
- In an electric skillet or deep-fat fryer, heat 1 in. of oil to 375°. Fry egg rolls in batches for 1-2 minutes on each side or until golden brown. Drain on paper towels.
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Sep 17, 2015
My daughter said that these tasted like I took a Pizza Hut pizza and rolled it up into an egg roll. My husband declared this recipe a 'keeper'. I did add a little ham & pepperoni to make up for the fact that I didn't have the full amount of Italian sausage.
May 9, 2014
Delicious! We loved the fresh combination of flavors in the crispy wrappers.
Dec 15, 2012
extra specal
Feb 20, 2012
The kids request this for birthday dinners!
Feb 4, 2012
These egg rolls are the bomb! You can easily swap out ingredients to make to your liking or to use things on hand...so good! Note: I fry mine in an electric fry pan/skillet and just turn them a few times till done. When I did them in the deep fryer, they "leaked" and made the oil nasty...so I find it easier and less waste to do them in the electric skillet. Enjoy!!
Jan 2, 2012
OMG! These were sooooo good. People were raving about them all night. They could not get enough of them. I doubled the recipe, they were the first appetizer to go. I made the filling in advance. I filled and rolled them about 30 - 45 minutes before I fried them, that was not a good idea. The egg rolls got soggy and started to fall apart in the deep fryer. So future note, don't roll until you are ready to fry. I still included them on my platter, and even the ones with big holes in them disappeared. I would deff make over and over again. The word my Nieces boyfriend used was "genus"!
May 19, 2011
We made this as part of our appetizer night and the family loved them. They heated up great for leftovers. Wouldn't change anything on the recipe.
Apr 22, 2010
The flavors are simple, but great. These are not that easy to fry without making a mess though. However, the mess is worth it. If you have the means to fry them outside that's the way to go.
Feb 1, 2010
I just a 8oz of Pepperoni just cut it up into bit size pieces instead of sausage. I did add some Galic power about 1 teaspoon and 1/2 teaspoon of basil. I also added onions. Everyone loved them and wanted the recipe.
Dec 13, 2009
This recipe is GREAT for my son's.......they come home from school, H.S. and College, VERY HUNGRY! I have these made up and in freezer. MUCH better than store bought, and since my boys are in all kinds of sports, we don't worry about callories....they need ALL they can get! I wouldn't eat these regularly, just like pizza. But, for healthy kids, its GREAT!