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One year ago today, we met for the very first time. There was so much anticipation as I stepped off the plane. The anticipation quickly turned to chaos as I tried to navigate the Kinshasa airport and got into the taxi that broke down several times on the way to our guest house. I sat in that taxi- just trying to breath in Africa and Congo and soak up memories like Frederick the mouse does when he soaks up colors for the winter. I wanted to etch those images of your beautiful birth country onto my heart and mind so that I could tell you about how beautiful the people of your homeland are and how giving and resilient and loving they are. I wanted to soak up the sounds and the smells so that I could share that piece of your history with you as you grew. As I was basking in it, all of a sudden we pulled up to the guest house and there you were- in all your tiny, sad, scared glory. You were just a precious little peanut! I remember thinking that you were so much smaller than I ever could have imagined. I wondered for a minute if they had the wrong baby. But then I saw your sweet, sleepy eyes and I knew you were the same little boy whose picture I'd stared at for months. The memory of you that sticks out the most in my mind from that first day we met is when I stripped you down naked to inspect you and you just stood there in the middle of the floor, scratching your butt like your life depended on it. At the time, I couldn't stop laughing, but now that I know you- that move is soooo classic Miles!
Our week together in Congo was one of the most memorable times of my life. It solidified for me the reason that we chose Congo for our adoption in the first place. Yes, the need is great, but darling, Congo is amazing. Miles, if ever you remember anything that I ever tell you about Congo, remember this: never ever will you meet stronger people than in DRC- especially the women. Their quiet strength is breathtaking. I see that strength in you, dear. You are a survivor.
Then we landed in America after that never ending flight across the ocean and our adventure in becoming a family began. You met your daddy and siblings and for several months we seemed to be on a smooth journey. Our honeymoon came to an end about two months into this adventure. Miles- you just did what you felt you had to do. You weren't sure how to handle the permanence, or the love and the attention and you rebelled against it. And it's okay. I get it. I understand it. It wasn't easy on you or any of us, but we kept putting one foot in front of the other. We kept trying, we kept loving. And for the most part, you've fallen into it. You are beginning to embrace it. It is always two steps forward and one step back, but the progression is positive and I give you and A for effort :-) The struggle makes you who you are. It's made me who I am. It's molded and changed and stretched our family in ways that we never thought possible, but also in ways that allowed for growth. Growth is good even though sometimes growth hurts.
We've done a lot of fun things over the last year. We went on a couple of vacations. You were built to travel! We've been to several churches and lots of places to speak and you always put on a show! You love to play outside (as long as the dog is not around and it's at least 75 degrees) and you can run around and keep up with the big kids just like you were twice your age. You watched your brother start preschool and your sister start first grade. You wait by the window for the bus to come around every afternoon. You also wait by the door for daddy to come home from work. As soon as you see his car pull up you work yourself up into a frenzy just waiting for him to open the door. You make sure that no one leaves this house without lots of hugs. You bring so much action and life into this house (read- you are NEVER still!) You love to eat, but you are starting to get picky about what you like and don't like. You take after your mama wanting to eat sweet stuff for breakfast. Yummo-brownies before 7am! You enjoy music and television. For a long time I thought your need to be the center of attention was attachment related. But darling, I am learning that it is just your nature to be an entertainer! Move over Bill Cosby and Will Farrel- Miles Terry is hot on your heels.
You are ridiculously smart. You are a master at anything electronic. You only need to be shown how to do something once and you've got it figured out. You are fiercely independent like most toddlers your age. There really isn't much you can't do. Sometimes I wonder if you've got webs that shoot out of your hands because you have the ability to climb things that defy gravity. Your tiny stature makes you endearing. People are always smiling at you and saying, "He's so cute and little!" You eat up compliments like a fat kid and cake. And you get lots of compliments because you are just so darn magnetic! There is just something about you that draws people in.
Miles, you are such a blessing to our family. You've taught me more about being a mother than all the others combined. Most importantly, you remind me that LOVE is a VERB. You remind me that love must be shown over and over again- that it is something that takes work. And oh baby- have you made me work for it! But sweetheart, it has only made loving you and having that love returned that much sweeter. Happy adoption day! We are so lucky you are here!
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A new effort in Omaha will bring jobs to the city and hope to millions of people in need across the United States.
The effort is titled Good 360. It's a company that helps other companies donate products to nonprofits.
Boxes of paintbrushes at a distribution center in northern Omaha will become part of a large brushstroke for good.
"A 360-degree circle of good, good for businesses, good for the community, good for the environment, and most of all, good for the people in need," Good 360 President and Chief Executive Officer Cindy Hallberlin said.
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My assignment was to create a portrait of writer/director Josh Hornbeck, and our meeting place was an old theater he worked in at the time. There were no constraints or specific requirements, so I was able to "do my thing" and respond to what inspired me. In the theater, I didn't see anything interesting to me, so I took a look at the lower level of the building. Once downstairs, I walked into a dark dingy room, and I knew right away I was in the the place I wanted to use for the location. The room felt like an interrogation room rather than a theater, but it was perfect. A lamp hung just slightly off to one side, and it seemed to hold a story on it's own. I was fascinated by it.
Right from the beginning I had an idea of how I would light this picture, and I was pretty sure it would involve two lights. For the sake of time, I set up both lights right away, but I didn't turn them on yet. I knew I wanted the lamp in the shot, and I also wanted the lamp to be on. For this to happen, the light bulb would dictate the exposure of the picture. If my exposure was not long enough, the lamp could appear to be off, or very dim. If the exposure was too long, the lamp would be blown out and there would be no detail. The image below is my exposure for the light bulb without any strobes. 1/40 at f/10.0 on ISO 100.
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For the key light I used a 7" grid reflector with a 10 degree grid. This gives a focused beam of light with very little spread. The narrow grid also helps keep your key light from lighting up unwanted areas of the frame. I experimented with several different positions for the key light until I decided on the one in this image. I love the light falloff from grids. It is like dropping a pebble into a smooth pond. The greatest disturbance is at the point of impact on the water and as the ripples move out in a circle they gradually fade. It is the same with a grid reflector. The light is the brightest at the center, and it fades as it moves away from the center. If you position a grid reflector just right, you can use the light spread (dimmer light away from the center) to light closer objects without blowing them out. For example, the white lamp above Josh. If I were to use just a regular reflector on a strobe without a grid from the same position, the white lamp would be completely blown out on the right side because it is closer to the light source than the subject. The grid allowed me to direct the light at my subjects face so the exact center was on his face. This is the brightest spot of the light, and the light begins to decrease in power quickly as it spreads. Although the lamp is closer to the key light than the subject, they are both getting the same amount of light.
Once the key was set, I had some definition on the lamp, both on the inside from the light bulb, and on the outer right side from the key light. I also had my subject lit, but the shadows were still a little too deep.
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I already created the shadows I wanted with the key light, but I needed to use a fill light to add some detail to some of the shadows. What I did not want to do was add new shadows. The entire left side of the room (camera left, not pictured) was a white wall, just like the background. Because I wanted a soft and subtle fill, I decided to bounce the strobe with a 7 inch reflector off of the white wall. Think of the wall as a large softbox you don't have to set up or tear down. Depending on how close you place the strobe to the wall, you can increase or decrease the size of the light source. I experimented with the light and tried a few different angles to get the right look. The first few angles I tried caused the left side of the image to be too bright. Eventually I angled the head so it was pointing more behind me than toward the subject. I lost a lot of light by doing this, but it gave me just enough light to gently fill in some of the dark areas not touched by the key.
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Camera: Canon DSLR
Lights: Elinchrom Ranger Battery Pack and Head x2
Light Modifiers: Elinchrom 7" grid reflector
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In a box labeling exercise keeps my packaging class, Dang Khoa Vo proposes pretty boxes that evoke the absolute freshness.
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In an exercise where students had to design packaging from old objects, Maxime created Dirty Tripe («tripe» like tire tube in french), a bottle of perfume for men sold in a glass bottle and covered with a road bike inner tube. The cap is created from the famous Presta valve.
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Champlur- | Sophie Giraldeau
For this exercise in which I asked my students to retrieve an object and to apply its function to a packaging application, Sophie Giraldeau proposes a valve system / plug for champagne borrowed from plumbing. Industrial components implemented as security access system to this drink of the gods, the "faucet" which reinvents the luxury.
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Flavowine | Aurélien Hervé | ECV Nantes
Ici il n'est pas question de château ou d'année. La marque Flavowine met en avant le point le plus important pour apprécier un vin : l'odeur.
Focus on the smell
Here the chateau or the year doesn't matter. The brand Flavowine puts forwards the most important point to appreciate a wine: the smell.
Une étiquette olfactive
Inspirée des testeurs de parfumerie, la collerette indique les arômes de la bouteille. Fruité, floral, végétal, épicé, boisé, empyreumatique, minéral, lactique, animal. Des gouttes de vin indiquent ces informations. Mieux encore, elles permettent de sentir le vin, sans ouvrir la bouteille. De plus, la collerette, une fois la bouteille ouverte, sert de sous bock.
An olfactory label
Based on perfume testers, the collar indicates the aromas of the bottle. Fruity, floral, vegetable, spicy, woody, empyreumatic , mineral, lactic or animal. Wine dropped onto the card will show this information. Better yet, they allow you to smell the wine without opening the bottle. Moreover, the collar can be used as a coaster.
Everybody can taste wine, as a means of democratizing wine tasting, the second label explains how to appreciate it.
Une bouteille noire
Le noir a toujours été synonyme d'élégance. Ici il est aussi au service de l'odeur. La bouteille nous prépare à vivre une expérience olfactive, où la vue passe au second plan.
A black bottle
Black has always been synonymous with elegance. Here it is also at the service of the bouquet. The bottle prepares us to have an olfactory experience, where the sense of sight is secondary.
mercredi 16 mars 2016
La Petite Ourse | Evi Jane Kay Molloy
In a packaging project, I asked my students to develop a package from a found object. Evi Jane Kay Molloy proposes a special gin specially adapted for the severe cold of winter in Quebec. It has to be drank hot and therfore, the old fur cap found in a flea market was recovered and protects hands from the heat. The product is called the Little Dipper.
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Germoir | Alice Damour
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Ariel Dukes stopped 13 stops at No. 6 UC Irvine Saturday (photo Harvard Athletic Communications).
IRVINE, Calif. – Devan Kennifer scored three goals and Ariel Dukes made 13 saves, but the Harvard women's water polo team dropped a 15-8 decision to No. 6 UC Irvine Saturday night. The loss came in the Crimson's last game of its five-game trip to California.
The Crimson shutout the Anteaters in the first period, as Harvard took a 1-0 advantage after eight minutes. Dukes sparkled in the period and throughout the game with fantastic play in goal.
UC Irvine stepped up its offense in the second period, scoring three times and limiting Harvard to two goals to tie the score, 3-3, entering halftime.
Harvard continued to stay close with the Anteaters in the third quarter, as the Crimson scored two more times, but UC Irvine began to pull away. The Anteaters scored four times in the third and exploded for eight scores in the fourth frame to run away with the victory.
Dukes was the catalyst on the defensive end with her 13 stops, while Shannon Purcell, Kennifer and Shayna Price made two steals apiece.
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Two retailers' listings now peg FIFA 11 for an earlier North American release date - September 28 - which would seem to resolve a packed October schedule for EA Sports that must now accommodate EA Sports MMA.
Officially, no North American release date has yet been sent up for FIFA 11 though I have contacted EA Sports Canada. GameStop and Amazon list the game with a September 28 release; Best Buy lists it for October 19.
The ramifications are clear: NBA Elite 11 is fixed to an October 5 release date that is set by the NBA (it also governs NBA Jam), and by a competitor that will come out on that day, NBA 2K11. November is a wasteland for sports, as evidenced by NCAA Basketball 10, pinched by a release date set against pre-holiday mammoth releases. Plus you don't want to delay a proven best-seller like FIFA. So when EA Sports MMA was given its October 19 release date at E3, the smart money had FIFA moving earlier, not later.


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WASHINGTON Pamela S. Karlan is a champion of gay rights, criminal defendants' rights and voting rights. She is considered brilliant, outspoken and, in her own words, "sort of snarky." To liberal supporters, she is an Antonin Scalia for the left.
But Ms. Karlan does not expect President Obama to appoint her to succeed Justice David H. Souter, who is retiring. "Would I like to be on the Supreme Court?" she asked in graduation remarks a couple of weeks ago at Stanford Law School, where she teaches. "You bet I would. But not enough to have trimmed my sails for half a lifetime."
While there are clear political advantages to Mr. Obama if the perception is that he has avoided an ideological choice, Ms. Karlan's absence from his list of finalists has frustrated part of the president's base, which hungers for a full-throated, unapologetic liberal torchbearer to counter conservatives like Justice Scalia.
It has been more than 40 years since a Democratic president appointed someone who truly excited the left, but Mr. Obama appears to be following President Bill Clinton's lead in choosing someone with more moderate sensibilities.
The president has narrowed his list to four, according to people close to the White House two federal appeals judges, Sonia Sotomayor of New York and Diane P. Wood of Chicago, and two members of his administration, Solicitor General Elena Kagan and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
While it is possible Mr. Obama has a surprise in the works, those on this list are cut from molds similar to those of the two Clinton appointees, Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer. They are liberal on most issues that divide the court and surely too liberal for many Republican senators but have not been the outspoken leaders of the legal left that advocates crave.
"He's not going to go in that direction," said Bernard W. Nussbaum, who was Mr. Clinton's first White House counsel and oversaw Justice Ginsburg's appointment. "I don't think that he's worried about the left. I think he's doing the same thing we did."
Mr. Obama talked with his legal team on Monday, and White House aides said an announcement could come as early as Tuesday. Coming so early in his tenure, before he establishes a record of lower court nominations, the decision could be an important indicator of how he will use his judicial appointment power. It could also intensify the debate over how to define Mr. Obama ideologically after months in which he has mixed traditional liberalism with a more centrist streak on a wide range of issues.
"It's quite likely the left is not going to get what it wants," said Thomas C. Goldstein, co-head of the Supreme Court practice at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld and founder of Scotusblog, a well-read Web site. "If you talk about somebody who's a true liberal, a very strong progressive and a visionary architect of the law and jurisprudence, then you're talking about somebody like Pam Karlan at Stanford. And nobody is seriously talking about Pam Karlan."
Other favorites of the left who do not appear to be on Mr. Obama's short list are Kathleen M. Sullivan, who also teaches at Stanford, and Harold Hongju Koh, the dean of Yale Law School, whom the president has nominated to be the legal adviser at the State Department.
"Unless Obama restrains his compulsion toward centrist consensus and appoints real progressives to replace not only Souter but Ginsburg and Stevens, our right-wing court may get even more conservative," Jeff Cohen, founding director of the Park Center for Independent Media at Ithaca College, wrote on a Web site for progressive commentary, OpEdNews.com.
The four said to be on Mr. Obama's list are known as liberals if not crusaders, and advocates said they would still generate enthusiasm. Judge Wood, in particular, has attracted favorable attention from the left. Still, Geoffrey Stone, a University of Chicago law professor, who expressed great support for his former colleague, noted that she was an "incrementalist" not inclined to take on broad structural changes in the law.
Ms. Kagan has drawn more mixed reviews on the left because of her support for executive power and what some colleagues said was a tendency to find a middle road.
The White House does not appear to be especially worried about criticism from the left. With an eye to the confirmation battle ahead, it seems happy to embrace the conclusion that Mr. Obama was choosing from a list with more moderate tendencies than many liberals would like to see in the next justice.
Mr. Obama is already taking heat from conservatives for saying he favors appointing someone who shows "empathy," a word the right views as code for judicial activism.
If nothing else, the White House has succeeded in keeping its base quieter than the Bush White House did its own. While conservatives were vocal about their desires before President George W. Bush's selections of John G. Roberts Jr. and Samuel A. Alito Jr. and effectively torpedoed the short-lived nomination of his White House counsel, Harriet E. Miers liberals have been largely silent in public about the Obama selection process.
Some liberals said they wished Mr. Obama would be as bold in reshaping the court from the left as Mr. Bush was from the right. Mr. Obama has more latitude than Mr. Clinton did, they said, noting that Democrats would control 60 votes in the Senate if Al Franken's victory in Minnesota is upheld, enough to beat back any filibuster.
"I'm sure there's enormous pressure, because I'm hearing it being two steps removed from the president," said Charles J. Ogletree, a Harvard Law School professor who advises the White House.
Walter Dellinger, who was acting solicitor general under Mr. Clinton, said liberals might be wrong to hope for a repeat of the activism of Chief Justice Earl Warren, whose court outlawed segregation, established privacy rights and broadened due process protections for defendants.
"The Warren court heroically took on entrenched systems that were utterly inconsistent with constitutional equality and fairness," Mr. Dellinger said. "But that is history. It is not clear that progressive values will best be served in the future by judicial activism. Judicial power is now often used to strike down or limit progressive measures adopted by Congress or the states."


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The makers of Angry Birds are launching a cartoon series this weekend, expanding further beyond its highly addictive games in a bid to expand entertainment and merchandising.
Rovio, the company behind the popular mobile app game Angry Birds, said the cartoons will feature adventures of birds that appear in its games.
Angry Birds Toons can be downloaded through on-demand services, and will also air on television channels such as FOX8 in Australia, ANTV in Indonesia, Cartoon Network in India, and MTV3 Juniori and MTV3 in Finland, it said.
Rovio has expanded into merchandising and licensing in the past few years and its colorful, round bird characters are sold as stuffed animals and appear on everything from T-shirts to soda cans.
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Margaret Soltan of University Diaries, posts on "The Online Amplification Effect" at the Association of American Colleges and Universities website, arguing that it is in the interest of colleges and universities to engage, not ignore, blogging and the web. She writes, in part:
All of this information-turmoil will yield inaccuracies, to be sure. Things can happen fast, and not everyone understands what's going on. But what the turmoil's mainly doing is making democratic editorial decisions. The turmoil represents a collective consciousness outside the established media, a force that can, if it wishes, move a story up and up in importance, until the amount of online attention and discourse the story attracts becomes the story.
Universities are accustomed to operating with a great deal of secrecy--in tenure decisions most notably, but also in other institutional circumstances. The blatancy of the Web clashes mightily with the reticent ethos of campuses. Thus the disdain many professors express for Rate My Professors and other online student evaluation sources, and their continued indifference or hostility even to high-profile academic blogs of the sort maintained by legal scholar Richard Posner and Nobelist Gary Becker....
Many university administrators and faculty are hardwired to loathe the loose-jointed, populist, ramifying Web, and that is their prerogative. They are free to see its ways as a threat to serious scholarship, professorial autonomy, and so forth. But as the Web displaces physical newspapers and similar media to become the primary point of news access for more and more Americans, universities, with their often antiquated public relations offices and defensive instincts, are making themselves vulnerable to reputational damage.
This is particularly true when big, violent campus stories break, as they recently did at the University of Massachusetts Amherst (student riots) and Duquesne (a homicidal fight involving students and nonstudents). Student bloggers on the scene of these events are often the first to report them, so that when people Googled the names of the school involved, they were are as likely to be linked to these citizen journalists as to larger media outlets....
Universities should have lots of on-campus bloggers--students, faculty, administrators-- actively chronicling the life of the school, so that outsiders already know something of the reality of life there, and so that many voices at the university--official and unofficial--can have an immediate and accessible say in the presentation of its way of being to the world. What's needed is an understanding of the new ways in which events will be transcribed and aired; what's needed is the adoption of a substantial public online voice that can enter the fray with power and clarity.
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Seven running for three South Lake Tahoe City Council seats
Seven candidates are vying for three open seats on the South Lake Tahoe City Council in municipal elections this November.
The candidates have all been certified to the ballot, with the filing window closing last Friday.
Candidates running for three of the five seats on the South Lake Tahoe City Council include incumbents Brooke Laine, Tom Davis and Angela Swanson, all of whom are running for reelection, as well as four challengers: Wendy David, Bruce Grego, Matt Palacio and Austin Sass.
Wendy David, a 17-year school board member for Lake Tahoe Unified School District, was the first candidate to be certified to appear on the ballot. She said she wants to be "part of a great direction" the city is moving in.
A former member of the City Council, Bruce Grego, a local attorney, said he's the type of independent thinker needed on the council.
Austin Sass ran for the City Council in 2012 and was not elected. He said he wants to bring aboard his background in sales, marketing and recreation.
"I understand the business side of the recreation industry and with gaming taking a big downturn, the general consensus from people who live here and government is we need better facilities, access and connectivity. I think council would do well to have someone understanding that on it," Sass said.
Matt Palacio said he wants to be part of South Lake Tahoe's next generation of leaders. Senior sales manager at Sierra-at-Tahoe, this is Palacio's first run for public office.
"I have no grudges, no agenda, I'm just trying to bring people together to move forward. I really want to focus on a healthier environment, a vibrant economy and improved recreation," Palacio said.
City Clerk Susan Alessi and City Treasurer David Olivo also are running for reelection to their positions in November. Neither are facing challengers.
South Lake Tahoe's municipal election is Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Voters on the South Shore also will elect a new District 5 El Dorado County supervisor to replace departing supervisor Norma Santiago, who cannot run for reelection because of term limits. Two candidates from Meyers emerged as the top vote-getters in a six-way June primary and are in the running for that job: Kenny Curtzwiler and Sue Novasel.


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Potty training is one of the most frustrating parenting experiences I've faced, but I still can't muster even a fraction of an ounce of empathy for Robin Greinke, 26, an Illinois woman, who along with her boyfriend beat her 3-year-old son to death because he wet his pants. Once they were finished, and he lay nearby dying, they ate a pizza and watched a movie.
Greinke and Steven Neil, 33, admitted that they took turns beating the boy for more than an hour after he had an accident February 8 while they were visiting Florida. "They were upset with him and they tossed him and spanked him and punched him," a homicide investigator told Central Florida News 13.
After enjoying themselves with the pizza and movie, Greinke finally called 911 around 5 a.m. to say her son, Noah Fake, was wheezing, and she couldn't sleep. She couldn't sleep. No one with even a hint of a conscience possibly could, but apparently she has none.
If it was a rash incident, it wouldn't make it any better, but at least there would be a tiny hint of understanding of how someone can snap. Potty training can be brutal, but this? This is truly one of the most horrific, unconscionable acts against a child by his own mother I've come across. It makes me physically ache to think about what this child endured.
I just can't imagine what cold, callous people these individuals must be, and what an awful life this boy must have led during the years he was alive. With a mother like that, I can't imagine they were anything but awful. I don't want to believe he's better off dead, but he would likely be better off anywhere than in the care of a woman who could not only kill, but sit by and chow down on dinner afterwards. Monster is the only word for someone like that, and no alcohol or drugs or anything else can provide even a hint of an excuse for these actions.
The couple has been charged with aggravated child abuse, child neglect, and first-degree murder. Greinke was denied bail on Saturday and remains in jail and on suicide watch. I hope they watch her closely, because she doesn't deserve such an easy escape from her actions.
While I don't support the death penalty, it's cases like this that make me question that stance. I hope whatever punishment they face is as severe as the law allows and that they never get to enjoy a piece of pizza or view a movie ever again.
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As they prepare to battle Braga in the Champions League play-off round, Udinese minds will be flashing back to one year ago. Doubts centred on their now-customary policy of selling their star players. Alexis Sanchez, Gokhan Inler and Cristian Zapata all departed after the Friulani's impressive 2010-11 fourth-place finish.
Udinese were brave and at times over 180 minutes the better side against Arsenal in the corresponding qualifier, but ultimately dropped into the Europa League. With one less Champions League spot on offer last season they were not expected to be in the reckoning, especially considering their summer transfer activity.
Yet Francesco Guidolin did guide his side into the Champions League last May and again the club enacted their transfer strategy. This is after all a policy which has more often than not taken provincial Udinese to European competitions since their UEFA Cup appearance in 1997-98.
This summer Kwadwo Asamoah and Mauricio Isla left for Juventus and Samir Handanovic joined Inter. Additionally, Gabriel Torje and Antonio Floro Flores moved to feeder club Granada, Michele Pazienza went back to Juventus and Almen Abdi joined the newly acquired Pozzo family club, Watford. Experienced defender Damiano Ferronetti was allowed to leave on a free transfer.
Yet the revolving door at the Stadio Friuli is always in operation. The departed stars are replaced with potential ones. The system angers some fans, but Udinese's scout network is renowned for its ability to unearth new talent. On this, Guidolin was bullish ahead of the Braga showdown, stating: "We must believe we've built a proper team in these 40 days."
The most exciting addition is Colombian livewire Luis Muriel. His seven goals on loan at Lecce last season earned plaudits, as did his dribbling ability and pace. Muriel is first choice to start alongside Antonio Di Natale in attack this campaign.
Another with Serie A experience is goalkeeper Zeljko Brkic. The 26-year-old featured for Siena on loan last term where he made 18 appearances and kept five clean sheets. An agile goalkeeper, he has been preferred in pre-season to fellow signings Wojciech Pawlowski and Venezuelan international Rafael Romo.
Marco Faraoni moved the opposite direction to Handanovic and could operate as a wing-back in the usual 3-5-1-1 formation. In making his Serie A debut last season, Faraoni showed the poise and ability which has him pinned as one to watch in the upcoming years.
The Udinese scout system takes regular stops to South America and this season is no different. Four Brazilians have joined – Willians, Maicosuel, Allan and Gabriel Silva, who signed in January and featured for Novara last campaign. The former duo are 26-year-olds, the latter pair 21 and part of Brazil's 2011 Under-20 World Championship winning team.
Willians is described by the club's website as a 'pitbull' defensive midfielder, while fellow midfielder Maicosuel – who has past European experience at German club Hoffenheim – is blessed with more of a deft touch. Allan is a versatile player able to play in defence or midfield, while Silva is described by the club as a 'little gem' and most comfortable as a left-back. In addition are other new arrivals such as Thomas Heurtrax and Jean-Alain Fanchone, players expected to play a bit-part role.
Udinese can also rely on two constants of their recent success in Di Natale and Guidolin. They are back for another year, even if the captain admitted both wanted to quit at the end of last season. Furthermore, Pablo Armero, Mehdi Benatia, Danilo and Dusan Basta are well-versed in the Guidolin system and now team leaders.
The Coach will go into the campaign with low expectations as always. He and the players transmit an air of caution about their chances, claiming to think only of the mythical 40-point barrier as their foremost target. While a large portion of Udinese's squad is chopped and changed each season, Guidolin is a clever tactician. It would not be a surprise if he masterminded another European finish this season.


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Greenhouse & The Roosevelt Rubicon, Redux
Linda Greenhouse has a compelling Opinionator column today at the New York Times that concludes that Chief Justice Roberts, not Justice Kennedy, may be the key vote in the individual mandate cases that will ultimately come before the Court. Thus continues the Great 2010 F1@1F-Greenhouse Mind-Meld.
Reminding readers that Roberts's mentor and predecessor, Chief Justice Rehnquist, aborted his own "federalism revolution" in 2003's Nevada Department of Human Resources v. Hibbs, Greenhouse goes on to examine Roberts's own role as the fifth vote to last year's broad, Breyer-written federalism case, United States v. Comstock. She concludes:
In his decision this week, Judge Hudson also mentioned the Comstock case, endeavoring to show why it didn't save the statute. In my view, his effort to wish the case away was unpersuasive, but my view is not the one that matters. The view that ultimately may count the most is that of Chief Justice Roberts. As everyone knows, he was once William Rehnquist's law clerk. So my question, as the health care debate continues on its path to the Supreme Court, is this: When John Roberts thinks about his former boss and mentor, which Rehnquist does he see? The one who started the federalism revolution, or the one who ended it?
Without my gunning for her attention (a/k/a "the Greenhouse Effect) and surely without her looking to F1@1F, Greenhouse and I have been on the same wavelength, absent reference to Rehnquist's ghost, for nearly a year now.
For any challenge to the health care legislation, at least one of the current Court's conservatives–my guess is Roberts himself–will recognize that the political moment, at least in terms of an individual mandate for all Americans to have health insurance, is not ripe for restoring the reign of the Constitution in Exile.
John Roberts is an acutely image-conscious chief justice, as watchful and protective of the Supreme Court's image as he is of his own. I find it almost impossible to believe that this careful student of history would place his court in the same position as the court that has been rewarded with history's negative judgment for thwarting the early New Deal.
F1@1F in May, post-Comstock:
Of course, Roberts may have simply agreed from the start with Breyer and the liberals. But even if such a thought was ideologically plausible prior to the announcement of Comstock, it just doesn't make strategic sense for the Chief to entrust the opinion to Breyer. However, if the Chief was in the majority and did assign the opinion to Breyer, it could have been to send a message to those hoping the Court will strike down Obamacare: abandon all hope ye who enter here, for the Roberts Court will not cross the Roosevelt Rubicon.
After Schwarzenegger v. EMA, I'm no longer as confident in Comstock as dispositive of the Chief's vote on the individual mandate. Before oral argument in EMA, no one could see any daylight between Roberts's robust First Amendment opinion for the Court in Stevens and the similar violence-as-obscenity facts in EMA, but Roberts made clear from the bench that he believed that Stevens, however sweeping in its language striking down Congress's ban on depictions of animal cruelty, did not touch the constitutionality of California's ban on the sale of violent video games to minors. Accordingly, in the health care cases, Roberts already has a blueprint in Judge Hudson's decision for distinguishing Comstock away, however apposite Comstock might seem.
Still, history and politics will be sitting like massive gorillas in the room–indeed, every room: chambers, conference, court–when this case finally reaches the Court. Not only would a decision against the mandate mark the Court's deepest incursion into pre-1937 territory since, well, 1936, but it would also come during a Presidential Election year. A conservative majority ruling against the liberal incumbent's signature first-term legislation will be an inter-branch collision not seen since, you guessed it, 1936. The decision itself will fast become campaign fodder for Obama to cast the Court as unprincipled political actors hell-bent in their conservative activism to collide with the elected branches and stand athwart the forward march of history screaming "NO!"
How unseemly it all could be.
And let's not forget that unlike Citizens United, which sat alone on last term's docket among a bunch of less-than-massive cases, the health care cases may very well reside on the same docket as the Prop 8 case, the University of Texas affirmative action case, the Arizona immigration case, and maybe a Nebraska abortion case. The Court will have to pick its hot button to push in a deeply political moment, and I can't see the Chief selecting the one that reduces to rubble a cornerstone of modern American jurisprudence.
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Prop 8 might be disposed by then on standing grounds. Comstock does seem like a red flag — some who think the law is unconstitutional (making various arguments, though only the 'mandate' gets most of the attention) already uncomfortably admit to the fact.


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BOSTON, Mass. – The MIT men's and women's track and field teams opened up their outdoor seasons on Saturday, sending a small contingent of runners to the Northeastern Invitational. Tech had entries in the 5000 and 10,000 meter races at the non-scoring invitational meet.
Senior Daniel Harper (Naperville, Ill.) had the most impressive performance of the day, winning the 10k with a time of 30:37.38, a personal best and the third-fastest time in Institute history. Harper's time ranks fourth on the season in Division III. Sophomore Roy Wedge (Lawrence, Kan.) buoyed Harper's showing with a fourth-place finish of his own, coming through in 32:21.39.
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Senior Stephen Serene (Washington, D.C.) finished fourth in the 5000 meters with his time of 15:18.05. Sophomore Justin Bullock (Detroit, Mich.) was not far behind, finishing in 15:34.72, good for eighth place.
Senior Margaret Lloyd (Sacramento, Calif.) was third in the women's 5000 meters, crossing the finish in 18:47.06.
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Today's CNET story, "AOL, Netflix and the end of open access to research data", describes how two large so-called "anonymized" databases have been re-identified, compromising the privacy of everyone in them. This provides yet another example of why "anonymized" data is a myth — and reinforces the need to avoid the release of large datasets of medical records, even if they are supposedly "de-identified."
The first incident described involves the release of 500,000 people's movie ratings by Netflix in 2006. To protect the privacy of their subscribers, Netflix carefully removed all personal information. They offered $1 million to anyone who could develop an algorithm that would improve their movie recommendation system — a worthy goal. However, this week researchers announced that they successfully re-identified the data using publicly available information.
A similar scenario occurred when AOL publicly released "de-identified" search data for 500,000 of its users. Some were re-identified within days.
The lesson in this is simple: THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS ANONYMIZED DATA. To some extent, it can always be re-identified. For those who are interested in more details, computer scientist Dr. Latanya Sweeney's Data Privacy Lab at Carnegie-Mellon has been studying this issue for years and developing the theory needed to understand it.
So what are the implications for medical data? As previously described in this space (Protecting Privacy While Searching Health Record Banks), each person's complete health records need to be stored in a central location with all access under the control of that individual (or whomever they designate). To provide the tremendous research benefits available from searching this data, queries should be submitted to health record banks, but NO DATA SHOULD EVER BE RELEASED. Instead, the result of a query would be a count of the number of matches and a carefully controlled demographic summary. In this way, re-identification is prevented since no actual data is available. This allows all of us to have the fruits of medical research WITHOUT having to give up our privacy.
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Chinese consumer prices climbed 1.7 percent year-over-year in October, dropping to a 33-month low, according to the latest data from the National Bureau of Statistics.
The drop in CPI was driven be a decline in food prices, while all other components saw prices rise.
Producer prices fell -2.8 percent year-over-year in October, but were up 0.2 percent month-over-month.
CPI is expected to rise before the year is out but stay in the 2 - 2.2 percent range, according to Bank of America's Ting Lu. Inflation is expected to rise because of an uptick in demand, rising price of soy beans and corn because of the drought in the U.S., and because of the base effect since inflation had cooled considerably in the fourth quarter of 2011.
Based on the latest data, inflation is not a cause of concern for policymakers, despite what the media says, according to Lu.
"Last month quite a few media misinterpreted what the deputy PBoC [People's Bank of China] governor Gang Yi just said during the IMF/World Bank annual meeting.
...What Mr. Yi really said is that the PBoC's top tasks are price stability and asset bubble prevention. Actually most central banks in the world take price stability as their top task, but it's not necessary for those central banks to always take inflation as the top threat. What's new is that the PBoC now puts much more emphasis on preventing asset bubbles.
In our view, the top task for the PBoC now is to prevent growth from further slowdown while stemming the rebound of home prices. This is what we have highlighted many times in the past few months: the major constraint for policy easing in 2012 is home prices (which rebounded since mid-year) instead of CPI inflation."
Societe Generale's Wei Yao is a bit more cautious. She thinks consumer inflation wasn't as "benign" as the headline number suggested and expects inflation to "rise notably" by year-end but didn't seem too concerned by the numbers either.
Moreover, she points out that the month-over-month rise in producer prices was a good sign for the manufacturing sector. "PPI bottoming out was another constructive sign that the manufacturing sector is near the end of destocking and margin compression in this cycle."
For now she expects the Chinese central bank will "probably stay on the sidelines".
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'Vicious' cycle: State, local officials disagree over new law
In light of a recent pit bull attack on its owner in Celina, an Auglaize County official says state legislators may have acted irresponsibly by eliminating the "vicious dog" label on pit bulls in a new state letter.
The Ohio General Assembly passed a bill in light of public opposition the Breed Specific Legislation (BSL), which had labeled pit bulls as a vicious animal. The state's Judiciary Committee, which did fact-finding into the legislation, recommended the law change to remove pit bulls from the vicious dog label. The bill was approved by the House and Senate and was signed into law Feb. 21 by Gov. John Kasich. The law officially takes effect May 22.
However, the Ohio Dog Warden Association recently released a three-year study showing pit bull attacks dropped significantly since stricter regulations had been placed on pit bulls. They suggest those numbers will again increase as the ban is lifted. Bailey said he felt those numbers were believable.
"It does take off some of the burden that a dog warden faces in regulating pit bulls," Auglaize County Dog Warden Russ Bailey said, "but I don't know that that is necessarily a good thing."
Advocates for relaxing the regulations claimed pit bulls were discriminated against because of their breed when calling for the law change. They claimed owners are more responsible for the behavior.
However, a 15-year study completed by Texas physicians titled "Mortality, Mauling and Maiming by Vicious Dogs" completed in April 2011 revealed of 228 cases investigated, pit bulls were associated with a higher median injury severity scale score, a higher risk of an admission Glasgow coma scale score, higher hospital charges and a higher risk of death.
The main changes seen by the law will be the vicious dog label will be removed from pit bulls. Pit bulls will fall under the same legislation as any other pet.
Currently, pit bulls are automatically assumed as vicious. Owners must carry a $100,000 insurance policy and must be enclosed in an outdoor cage with a roof.
Bailey admitted he was once on the side of many of the advocates.
"I have been a certified canine handler since 1982," Bailey said. "When I started at this job I thought the legislation was a little harsh. However, based at what I have seen, I have changed my opinion."
Friday's pit bull attack in Celina lends some credence to claims of pit bulls being vicious, officials said.
Celina police officers responded to a call of Douglas Thomas, 55, 214 Elm St., Celina, being attacked by a pit bull at 4:22 p.m.
The attack was ongoing as officers arrived at the scene and had the victim pinned into the corner. An adult female pit bull was hanging on the victims leg with three other pit bull mixed pups attacking.
Due to the enclosed area, weapons could not be discharged and the dogs had to be restrained by pepper spray so the victim could be tended to by an emergency squad.
Thomas suffered bite injuries to his left lower leg, right ring finger and left forearm. The injuries included puncture wounds and severe skin and tissue removal. Police photos released revealed an approximately 2 1/2 inch of Thomas' fibula being exposed. Thomas is currently in Lima Memorial Hospital recovering from his wounds.
The mother pit bull involved in the attack had been a family pet for several years since it was a pup and had not shown signs of aggression before.
A fourth pup had just been returned to the home after being treated by a veterinarian. The pup had been placed in a cage to recuperate and the adult female pit bull was attempting to remove the pup from the cage by chewing on the cage. As the victim approached the cage to keep the dog away from the cage when the dogs attacked without further provocation.
Bailey said the problem is not specifically with the breed of the dog, but the damage they can do.
"If a pit bull bites you, you are at their mercy," Bailey said. "They are going to let go when they want to. The basic thing is the amount of damage they can do. Once they have attacked and established themselves as an alpha dog, they will have a higher tendency to do so."
Under the new legislation, pit bulls will not be able to be tagged as "vicious" unless they attack, effectively establishing a "one free bite" rule. If a pit bull attacks it will be held to a 10- day rule in which owners can appeal and have the dog returned.
If the animal is returned, owners will have to obtain a second "vicious dog" license with further specifications on the pet. They will also have to be spayed or neutered.
Bailey said the dogs will now no longer be held to the enclosed with a roof policy and will be able to run loose on the property just like other dogs and the $100,000 insurance policy will no longer be able to be enforced.
"I am not saying they are more likely to attack," Bailey said, "but common sense shows that the number of serious attacks will go back up."


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Substance Designer 5 is a node based texturing tool to create materials. Tired of messy layers ? Fit everything you need in a few compact and handy nodes. Let Substance connect all the channels for you and focus on what really matters: your art.
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Nowadays, artists have to be equipped with a business plan — not just a paintbrush.
Jennifer Taylor knows how to hustle.
The Riverside, Ill., entrepreneur has an aggressive marketing campaign in place to promote her business. Taylor designed a company Web site, ordered car magnets sporting her logo, printed up business cards and brochures, placed ads in local publications, compiled a mailing list of potential customers — the whole nine yards.
But her "product" isn't quite the standard fare that falls under the category of goods and services. Taylor sells fine art. Paintings and hand-painted furniture, to be exact.
"You really do have to be business-savvy to survive as an artist. It's not just a purely creative endeavor anymore," Taylor said. "You can't just sequester yourself in the studio and wait for someone to discover you. Building your brand and getting your name out in the community is a must."
For many, a job description that includes strategizing on public relations tactics, budgeting supply costs and signing contracts seems at odds with an image of the white-collar worker's free-spirited counterpart: the tortured visionary who weaves a story on canvas using bold brush strokes. One is ruled by figures and the bottom line; the other, by emotions and aesthetics. Yet, lately, the divide between left- and right-brain thinkers is closing for a growing number of artists dabbling in traditionally corporate undertakings.
"It's tough because even if you're more than a hobbyist and have studied art in school, you never learn how to sell your work, do the bookkeeping or track your supplies costs. Business classes aren't usually part of those programs," said Jim Currie, owner and operator of Westside Multimedia & Gallery in Berwyn, Ill. "But artists are being forced to bridge that gap given the current economic landscape — especially if they depend on their art to pay the bills or want to achieve a certain level of success."
Tending to entrepreneurial tasks might not be the most glamorous, sexy or mysterious part of an artist's career, but it's becoming a necessity. So much so that the Alliance of Fine Art, a nonprofit professional association of suburban Chicago art organizations, is planning a February workshop focused around related issues. The awareness-raising event is an attempt to beef up artists' arsenals.
"Very few of our members have any clue when it comes to this stuff, so it's a huge challenge. There is little or no training or even foundation to use as a jumping-off point," said Liz Popp, workshop chair and Lemont Artists' Guild member. "It's like math — nobody wants to do it, but you have to to meet real-world demands. In this case: to be profitable or even just to recoup your costs."
Expert speakers will lead how-to sessions covering topics such as writing an artist's biography and statement, drafting a brochure, negotiating with gallery owners, protecting copyrights and more. Participants will be given templates for press release write-ups about their work, exhibits and award recognition and taught how to navigate contract agreements for different occasions.
In the meantime, the checklist for success has been distilled to a bunch of essentials for the modern artist.
Web site
According to most artists and marketing experts, having an online presence is crucial.
"Managing your own Web site dedicated to your portfolio is absolutely vital. This is 2008, and anyone who doesn't have one in this business is lame," said Taylor, who calls her company the Painted Board Studio and purchased a matching domain name. "They're cheap and easy to build and maintain. Web sites increase your visibility in a way that no other medium can."
The painter pays about $30 a year for the www.paintedboardstudio.com URL and roughly $5 a month for hosting costs. The investment has driven a lot of traffic to the Web site, which has translated into more inquiries about her work and word-of-mouth marketing.
Popp held onto a piece in The Artist's Magazine that lists Web sites where artists can register and upload their work. Some are free of charge and others have service fees. Popp has found the article to be a useful resource — especially for those who are more comfortable leaving the domain name, hosting and other technical, jargon-infused computer issues to someone else. The advantage of going this route is that these portal-associated portfolios are easier to happen upon through Google searches, maximizing the artist's exposure.
Nancy D'Agostino, a Lisle, Ill.-based painter and president of the Downers Grove Artists' Guild, has run her own Web site (www.nancydagostino.com) for seven or eight years now and said she can't imagine doing business without it. Like many other artists, she also has started a free Facebook page to exhibit her pieces, join virtual art and graphic design groups, and network with artists around the world. Additionally, D'Agostino blogs about her creative process to keep her supporters following the progression of her collection.
Newsletters, e-mail updates and mailings:
Each month Taylor sends out an e-mail newsletter showcasing recent artwork to a mailing list of about 800 people who have filled out her store's guestbook or visited her Web site over the years.
"I include a photo of chairs I custom painted for Mary P., and then Mary P. is going to say 'Let me forward this to all of my friends so they can see how I'm redecorating my kitchen,'" Taylor said. "This circulates your images — which are your selling points — and gets people talking about your stuff."
Marilyn Dale, a Naperville, Ill., marketing consultant and former featured speaker for Alliance of Fine Art workshops, said she thinks this approach is key.
"Postcards, listservs, whatever — anything that ensures people remember you and can combat the out-of-sight-out-of-mind trap," she said. "That way, artists aren't just waiting for someone to wander in a gallery and happen to fall in love with whatever's up, but they're actively pursuing customers. They're continually updating their inventory for interested parties in a very visual way, which keeps the lines of communication open and can score you a devoted following."
Professional associations:
"Get involved in local art organizations or national associations in your media — whether for watercolor or pastel or photography artists. It's a credibility builder," Dale said. "Annual membership fees are usually nothing earth-shattering — between $30 and $50 — and this gives you access to other colleagues, discounted classes and speakers."
D'Agostino always takes advantage of community outreach opportunities through these affiliations.
"The networking that goes on is really valuable," she said. "You're essentially growing your contact list of people in the field who may be able to pull strings for you or pass your name along or share wisdom to guide your career trajectory."
As an active member of Illinois' Naperville and Plainfield guilds in addition to her Downers Grove leadership position, D'Agostino also receives chances to participate in monthly shows and exhibits — oftentimes without a hanging fee — that are open to the public. And she has accepted many teaching and demonstration offers through these leagues to supplement her income.
Taylor also advises artists to join these groups because of information about fellowships and grants that often gets passed along to those in the directory.
"If you have your ear to the ground through these coalitions, you can find out about these endowments you can apply for," she said. "If you're selected, you might be given a chunk of money to live on so you can afford to not work during the time you're pursuing your artistic passion."
Fair booths and galleries:
Displaying work where people can view it is perhaps the most obvious but trickiest part of pushing sales.
"You should be discriminating about where you're looking — whether it's a gallery opening or show," Dale said. "Do your homework before you shell out for the entry fee. Keep tabs on the place for six months to a year, attending the exhibits to see whether they're adequately promoting featured artists, what they're showing and what's selling."
D'Agostino agreed.
"You want to go survey the gallery to see how closely pieces are hung to one another. You have to check on whether your artwork would be competing for attention with others in close proximity," she said. "And figure out what percentage they take off of any of your sales. If it's 50 percent, you have to ask yourself whether you're going to get lost in the shuffle with 20 other artists or whether they'd work hard to market your collection."
Taylor has struck partnerships with trendy restaurants, nightclubs and other businesses, who will decorate their walls with her paintings for a certain length of time. Interested buyers are then directed to her.
Volunteering artistic services for village auctions — whether the fundraiser consists of being sponsored to paint a cow, bench, barrel or milk can — isn't a lucrative venture, according to D'Agostino. But it's a fantastic way to get an artist's name out into the community and can lead to commission work or other opportunities.
This also can be a nice transition into sidewalk fairs. But as much as the promise of visibility can be alluring, without some selectivity, artists sometimes can end up with a steep rental cost that yields no purchases. That's why Dale recommends artists have a solid understanding of the demographic they'd likely reach based on the subject matter, style and medium of a collection. This doesn't mean pandering to an audience, but it does help narrow down geographic markets they're vying to break into so they waste less time in areas where residents aren't as receptive, she added.
Coming to terms:
"I think it's a struggle for a lot of us to play the game and sell ourselves," Popp said. "Especially because some are inclined to think that that cheapens their art or makes it seem commercialized. We're trying to fight the misconceptions and help artists understand that they have a responsibility to go out and promote."
Ted Knaffel, a Geneva, Ill.-based photographer, has slowly accepted this reality.
"It's incredibly difficult to switch gears between creating and promoting. When you're first pledging your life to preserving snapshots of the world and people inhabiting it, no one tells you about this other aspect of the job," he said. "I could tell you anything you'd ever want to know about aperture settings, but it took me awhile to get to a place where I began to educate myself on putting together an Excel cash-flow spreadsheet.
"It's been a real eye-opener to realize you need a business plan as an artist," he added. "But it's a prerequisite if you want to see your work anywhere other than occupying a spot on your mother's mantle."


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5 Country Singers Who've Never Won a Grammy
If Cole Swindell wins a Grammy in 2019, he'll have one more than Kenny Chesney — but he's not the most surprising country singer without a Grammy Award!
There's a long list of country fellas with no Grammys on the shelf at home. Chesney's nomination in the Best Country Album category in 2018 was his sixth all-time nomination. That's two more than Jason Aldean and one less than both Toby Keith and Blake Shelton, all of whom have won as many times as your next door neighbor (assuming you don't live next to Vince Gill or Alison Krauss, who have 21 and 14 wins, respectively).
The biggest shock on this list? Luke Bryan. Not only has he never won a Grammy, but the hitmaker has never even been nominated!
You have to search a bit harder to find a female artist who has never won. Miranda, Carrie, Maren, Kacey, Dolly, Loretta ... they've all won at least one, if not more, Grammys. For some reason women have better odds then men at this annual all-genre musical celebration. Using Taste of Country's list of the Most Powerful Women ever as a guide, we had to go 18 artists deep to find Tanya Tucker, who has never won a Grammy. She's been nominated 10 times, most recently in 1993.
Bonus: One more country singer who is Grammy-less? Eric Church! He's 0-7.
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Rapids player ratings vs. Toronto: How bad for Colorado? This bad…
This edition of Rapids player ratings comes from guest contributor Chris "UZ" White, a Colorado native who runs the Burgundy Wave blog and is a member of the Bulldog Supporters Group. Find Chris on Twitter @BurgundyWave and @uzworm
Frustration isn't quite strong enough a word for the emotion that the Colorado Rapids and their fans are going through right now.
After blowing their fourth 1-0 lead of the season against Toronto FC — with similar late losses against New England, San Jose and Dallas already stinking up the joint — the Rapids seem to be out of the playoff picture even though the season is only halfway through.
Against Toronto, we saw the same things we've seen time and time again from this squad: lots of possession at times, some lackluster defending and plenty of chances that went wanting. There were some good signs throughout the game, of course. For once, a tweak to a road lineup worked out well in the form of Wells Thompson getting a start, and Tyson Wahl showed decently in his first ever start as a Rapid.
Still, when a 2-1 loss is staring you in the face, the negatives always seem to outweigh the positives. The ratings:


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Not all of the past two weeks have been hard. I did do some felting...though the piece is dragging on much longer than usual. But the best thing I did art-wise was to do some dyeing and felting with my wonderful nieces. These little girls always bring me joy and when we are doing these projects I feel good about myself.
First we picked some leaves and berries that were growing in the yard. We had to do this quickly since a thunderstorm was fast approaching. We weathered the storm in the basement, not because it was that bad but because that is where the dye studio is. It is great to have this space where we can be really messy! I forgot to take photos but the girls' mom got some shots as we were opening our bundles.
Here we are discussing what worked well.
'A' does not look too sure about touching the mushy cooked leaves, though 'K' does not seem to mind.
We were all happy with our results, though 'A' was getting a bit silly putting a large felt bowl on her head.
We had talked about mordants and how they can change the colors. (These girls are very smart and interested in everything!) Since my piece had colors similar to the girls' I put it in washing soda to show them how it would change. Here is a photo of it after the washing soda dip.
While we were waiting for the pot to boil we did some felting. They wanted to make butterflies. Unfortunately I don't have a photo of the ones the girls made. Here is mine.
I did more dyeing on my own as well.
This one was done with old dried rose petals found while cleaning out my daughter's college apartment.
This was done with mystery leaves I gathered in Ithaca on a break from cleaning out that apartment. I wish I knew how it happened that while the one leaf only left an outline the spot where it overlapped the other leaf is a different color. My theory is that it acted as a resist of some sort.
I did some dyeing with berries. It is too bad that the color will not stay for long. This is done with chokecherries.
Leftover crushed black berries. The pot had some iron in it.
This was done with purple loosestrife and a fern that had lots of spores on the back of the leaves.
This was a piece that I over-dyed with annatto by just sticking it in the jar and letting it soak for a long time. The dark spots are from St. John's wort.
Here is a photo of all the pieces. The silks on the upper right were done with rust.


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Parrot Toy Acrylic Medium RingAvi One Acrylic Toys for birds are a safe way to keep your bird Boredom free!
Avi One Bird Toys and Accessories are designed to keep your Avian Pet entertained, whilst helping to relieve possible destructive boredom. Create different activities for your bird by introducing a number of toys and accessories such as bells, mirrors, swinging perches and ladders, also don't forget essential accessories such as feeders and waterers.


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A little more on Stop the Beach Renourishment
Elisabeth Oppenheimer is a recent graduate of Stanford Law School.
As Anna Christensen noted in her earlier post, the Court's opinion in Stop the Beach Renourishment, Inc. v. Florida Department of Environmental Protection (08-1151) ended up turning on a narrow question of Florida property law. But the Court took the case to explore the idea of judicial takings, and six Justices expressed their views on that subject. A four-Justice plurality "" the Chief Justice and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito — emphatically endorsed the idea that the Takings Clause applies to all three branches of government. As for the standard of review, the plurality concluded that the question was not whether the state court's decision was "unpredictable," as the petitioner had suggested, but whether a court had "declare[d] that what was once an established right of property" no longer existed.
However, there was no obvious fifth vote for either the notion of a judicial taking or the standard of review suggested by the plurality. Justices Breyer and Ginsburg refused to address the question of judicial takings at all. Justice Kennedy, joined by Justice Sotomayor, suggested that there should be some constraint on a court's ability to reallocate property rights. But they thought that constraint should come from the Due Process Clause, rather than the Takings Clause. Justice Kennedy questioned how a judicial taking would work — in particular, whether a court could constitutionally take property if just compensation were paid (as a legislature can), and, if so, who would pay that compensation. Given that complication, he proposed a simpler way to restrain over-active state courts: "The Court would be on strong footing in ruling that a judicial decision that eliminates or substantially changes established property rights, which are a legitimate expectation of the owner, is "arbitrary or irrational' under the Due Process Clause."
The decision may be a partial victory for property-rights advocates; there are four strong votes for a judicial takings theory, and no votes for providing state courts with unfettered discretion. But both the plurality and the concurrences leave significant questions about the broader concept of judicial takings unanswered or under-analyzed, and there is no consensus about how to go forward.


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