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Judy Chicago Artworks
American Painter, Sculptor, and Installation Artist
Movements and Styles: Feminist Art, Body Art, Installation Art
Born: July 20, 1939 - Chicago, Illinois
Artworks by Judy Chicago
The below artworks are the most important by Judy Chicago - that both overview the major creative periods, and highlight the greatest achievements by the artist.
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Domes (1968)
Artwork description & Analysis: Composed of three dome-like forms and using transparent material with spray-on plastic, this piece is rendered in the Minimalist style of Chicago's early work. Its use of repeated shapes and glossy, "industrial" media suggest the work of artists such as Donald Judd, though there is significant contrast to the hard, geometric forms of Judd and his contemporaries in the deployment of softer, rounded forms that suggest a kind of ambiguous femininity. Critic Susan Jenkins suggests that the work prefigures the "purely feminist idiom" that was to come: the three domes make up what came to be Chicago's signature stylistic motif, the triangle, closely associated with vaginal imagery in Chicago's oeuvre.
Sprayed acrylic lacquer inside clear acrylic - EDG, Exhibits Development Group
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Through the Flower (1973)
Artwork description & Analysis: Created by the artist after Chicago's decade-long "struggl[e]... in a male-dominated art community," Through the Flower marks the artist's newfound embrace of less abstract and more accessible imagery: the female sexual organ, depicted here as a round element or opening. The painting's "trippy" opticality relates at least in part to the artist's experience with mood-altering drugs. The subject matter is radical: genitals were always demurely concealed or merely suggested in the tradition of the female nude, yet here the vaginal opening constitutes the focus of the work. Through the Flower is one of the landmark pieces of Chicago's early feminist phase. It serves as the title and cover of the artist's 1975 autobiography as well as the name of the non-profit feminist art organization she founded in 1978.
Sprayed acrylic on canvas
The Dinner Party (1979)
Artwork description & Analysis: The Dinner Party is a monumental installation celebrating forgotten achievements in female history. Chicago described it as, "as a reinterpretation of The Last Supper from the point of view of women, who, throughout history, have prepared the meals and set the table." The central form is a forty-eight-foot triangular table with symbolic places set for thirty-nine "guests of honor"—remarkable women from different stages in Western civilization. Each guest has her own runner, embroidered on one side with her name and on the other with imagery illustrating her achievement. Each place setting includes a glass plate, decorated with a butterfly or floral motif symbolizing the vulva. By incorporating elements of a contemporary social event with the status and appearance of a banquet, Chicago elevates her guests to the role of heroes, a traditionally male epithet. In essence, Chicago states, the work "takes us on a tour of Western civilization, a tour that bypasses what we have been taught to think of as the main road." The floor is inscribed with the names of 999 additional women worthy of recognition, while acknowledgment panels on the walls honor the 129 collaborators who worked with Chicago on the piece.
Ceramic, porcelain, textile, glass - Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum
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Hatching the Universal Egg (1984)
Artwork description & Analysis: After The Dinner Party, Chicago continued to address the underrepresentation of female experience, this time related to the lack of imagery in Western culture portraying the moment of birth. One of the images from Chicago's Birth Project, created between 1980 and 1985, Hatching the Universal Egg depicts a squatting woman giving birth to the egg of life, depicted in rich tones and a warm and translucent light flowing from her womb. The series was a major international collaboration, which involved working with 150 needleworkers to create a series of painted and embroidered images of birth, ranging from the humorous to the mythical. The Birth Project was another significant achievement by Chicago both in her campaign for the representation of womanhood and in the championing of a medium all but dismissed by the world of high art.
Embroidery on silk
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Driving the World to Destruction (1985)
Artwork description & Analysis: Part of Chicago's Powerplay, a five-year-long project that occupied the artist from 1982 to 1987, Driving the World to Destruction portrays an exaggeratedly muscular male figure grasping a steering wheel—here a symbol of uncontrolled patriarchal power. In this series of drawings, paintings, cast paper reliefs, and bronze works inspired by the artist's 1982 trip to Rome, Chicago upends the tradition of the heroic nude. Rather than glorifying her subjects, depicted with the heightened musculature of Renaissance-era nudes, she critiques them, portraying them as almost cartoonish in their quest for domination. Seemingly stripped of skin, the figures are also curiously vulnerable. As with this piece here, the work's titles often include wordplay; another image is titled Power Headache. Powerplay overlapped with The Birth Project, though it marks a shift in subject matter as Chicago moved away from the female body as the sole repository of emotion.
Acrylic and oil on Belgian linen - ACA Galleries est 1932
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Imbalance of Power (1991)
Artwork description & Analysis: Representing the "terrible imbalance of priorities in the world's treatment of children," Imbalance of Power includes a series of horrifying images, among them a Nazi soldier who appears to be pointing his gun at a Warsaw boy, depictions of starving children, and the famous photograph of a Vietnamese girl being burned by napalm. The work comes from The Holocaust Project: From Darkness to Light (1985–93), a multimedia installation composed of a tapestry, two stained-glass windows, and thirteen tableaux (including the work depicted here), incorporating elements of painting and photography in an innovative way. While exploring the manifestations of power in Powerplay, Chicago directly encountered issues surrounding the Holocaust, which highlighted her ignorance of her own Jewish heritage. As a result, Chicago, in collaboration with her husband, the photographer Donald Woodman, embarked on a major visual and intellectual research project into the history of the Holocaust. As in this piece, the project as a whole situates the Holocaust in the context of other historical catastrophes, such as the Native American genocide and the Vietnam War. The comparative approach to the subject—which some saw as diminishing the uniquely horrific nature of the Holocaust—made the work highly controversial in the Jewish community.
Sprayed acrylic, oil and photography on photolinen
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The ABS aims to produce high quality data from its industry collections while minimising the reporting burden on businesses. To achieve this, extensive effort is put into collection and questionnaire design, collection procedures and processing. Estimates were produced using number raised estimation methodology with a sample of 939 production and post-production services businesses, and a census of 71 commercial free-to-air, subscription and public television broadcasters and subscription television channel content providers and 107 digital games developers. Note that the business counts published in this publication are not the same as the number of businesses surveyed due to businesses ceasing trading during the financial year or having been deemed as out of scope.
For this collection, non-sampling error may result from such things as deficiencies in reporting and/or errors made in compiling results. The extent to which non-sampling error affected the results of the collection is not precisely quantifiable. Every effort was made to minimise reporting error by careful design of questionnaires, intensive training of collection analysts and efficient data processing procedures. Additionally, to ensure the accuracy of the estimates produced, the data have been checked against previous collection results and other sources, including contact with providers.
There was an 81% live response rate from all production and post-production services businesses that were surveyed and found to be operating during the reference period. Data were imputed for the remaining 19% of operating businesses. Imputed responses contributed 6.2% to the estimate of total income.
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Employee turnover is something that all companies should be concerned about, as it is one of the clearest indicators of whether a work environment is thriving or not.
In general, most companies will want to keep their employee turnover rate low. Having a "high" turnover rate could indicate that there is something severely wrong with the way the company is currently operating. In this article we will cover everything related to employee turnover, including defining what it is, how to calculate it, and how companies can successfully lower their turnover rate.
What is Employee Turnover?
Employee turnover, or "employee churn", is a measurement of the rate at which employees leave a company and are replaced by new hires. To measure employee turnover you can use the following calculation:
Employee Turnover Rate = (# of Separations / Avg. # of Employees) x 100
While this equation may appear simple on the surface, defining these variables can actually be quite challenging. For example, defining the average number of workers at a company requires careful consideration, especially when the workforce is comprised of a mixture of full-time, part-time, and temporary employees.
Additionally, you will want to know what qualifies as a "departure". Some companies may or may not want to include employees who have been terminated for poor performance as part of their calculation
Why is Understanding Employee Turnover Important
For most companies, the goal is to hire as many "perfect" candidates as possible, foster a productive and creative workgroup, and keep everyone happy so they stick around for the long run.
Companies with a high turnover rate typically get all of these elements wrong and are subjected to damaging consequences such as decreased productivity, high recruitment costs and poor company morale.
This isn't to say that companies should strive for a turnover rate of zero. The pursuit of such a goal would require fulfilling the wants of every employee, which is unrealistic and could end up being detrimental to the company.
What is a healthy turnover rate?
A healthy turnover rate will vary from company to company, but essentially, a turnover rate can be considered "healthy" so long as the company can maintain both growth and productivity on an annual basis. To gauge the health of your company, compare your average turnover rate to that of the industry you operate in. This will help you decide whether you are on track or need to take steps towards improvement.
Why Do Employees Leave?
Employees leave for a variety of reasons, like changing industries or pursuing higher paying work. In many cases, this is largely out of a company's control. Career changes are highly personal decisions, and as far as pay goes, it's quite possible that your company simply cannot afford to increase the pay of an employee indefinitely.
However, there are reasons why employees leave their current job that you do have some control over:
- Poor Relationship with Management
- Hostile Company Culture
- Boredom
- Misuse of Skillset
- Poor Recognition Program
- Poor Working Condition
- Poor Feedback & Coaching
To identify trends and pinpoint areas where you can work to reduce turnover, it's important to track why employees are leaving. To do so, we recommend asking employees their reason for leaving during the exit interview process. On a quarterly basis, this information can be aggregated and reviewed to see if there are recurring themes leading to a higher turnover rate. If employees' reasons for leaving are within your company's control, steps can be taken for improvement.
How to Reduce Employee Turnover
Reducing employee turnover takes careful consideration, patience, and self-evaluation.
The key to improving company turnover is to identify the factors causing it and determine if your company has control over them
Ask the Important Questions
Most investigations begin with a round of questioning. Discovering the reasons for your company's high turnover rate should be no different.
Below are some good starting questions to ask when investigating why the company's turnover rate is out of control:
- Is the company hiring the wrong people?
- Is the management team effective?
- Is the company culture toxic?
- Are employees properly motivated?
- Are employees given career advancement opportunities?
- Is the employee compensation package competitive?
While asking these questions can prove to be quite informative, sometimes the best way to evaluate your current environment is to observe the workplace firsthand. In the case of evaluating the effectiveness of the management team, it's important to pay close attention to how supervisors interact with their employees.
- Are they respectful?
- Are they building a team that fosters comradery?
- Are the employees responding to the supervisor's instructions and feedback?
In many cases, it would also be helpful to examine the performance reviews of everyone on the management team to see if any member has a history of poor leadership. Observing the workforce can also reveal other issues, such as hostility between employees.
As many of us already know, most work groups are not perfect, and there's almost always one or two employees who make things uncomfortable for everyone else. In these instances, it's important that all disruptive employees are dealt with in a fashion that is fair and provides them the opportunity to correct their behavior.
Develop a Plan of Action
Once the above questions have been answered and observations have been conducted, it's time to develop a plan of action. This plan doesn't necessarily have to be complex, but because multiple individuals are likely to be involved, it's pertinent to keep everyone on the same page and working towards the same goals.
A proper plan to reduce a company's turnover rate should include the answers to the above questions, turnover rates (i.e., current, goal, industry average, etc.) and what the company can afford in terms of making changes.
For example, many employees leave their current employer because they've found a higher paying job and/or a better compensation package. It's important to examine if your company has the resources to expand its employee compensation package (e.g., actual pay, more vacation time, company perks like profit sharing, work from home privileges, etc.) to make it more appealing for current employees to stay within the organization.
Final Thoughts on Employee Turnover Rate
Keeping your company's turnover rate low can have many positive effects on things like employee retention, employee satisfaction, and overall company productivity. Even if your company has a relatively low employee turnover, it may still be useful to develop a plan of action for making incremental improvements. This will reduce the risk of sliding backwards. No company wants to be caught flat-footed, and improving your turnover rate is one of the best ways to stay proactive. Still looking for more? Get a granular look at employee turnover metrics.
Lower Your Turnover Rate by Onboarding Correctly
Hiring the right candidates goes a long way toward reducing employee turnover. Newton's Applicant Tracking System comes equipped with the tools you need to make the right hire every time. Loaded with Pre-Hire Assessments, Interview Scorecards, Background Checks and more, Newton also comes with an onboarding module that allows you to automate work and guarantee that new hires are set up for success on (or even before) their first day.
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Below is a description of the main ministries we currently offer adults at Indianola Community Church — "Intro" and "Groups." Feel free to contact the leader listed for a particular ministry with any questions you have about that ministry! Additionally, you can find a PDF of our Ministry Catalog on our Resources page.
Whether you are new to the church and want to see what we're all about, or you have been attending for awhile and are simply looking for ways to become more committed, we recommend you take our "Intro" membership classes. Over the span of three Sundays, you will have a chance to meet several pastors and elders of the church as they share about the "Foundation", "Framework", and "Membership" here at Indianola Community Church. Sign up for "Intro" here.
In the first "Intro" class, you will learn about what we believe about God, people, faith, baptism, communion, and more. Come find out who we are and where we believe God is taking us in this season of our church.
Every building is made up of a framework on top of a foundation. In this class, we'll discuss the framework of how we engage in God's work of restoration, what a follower of Jesus looks like, how to determine what your spiritual gifts are, and more.
At our church, we like to say that in membership, "you get us and we get you." If you've taken Foundations and Framework and want to move forward in your commitment to this place, we encourage you to take this class.
We believe living in relationship with one another is vital to spiritual health and growth, so we encourage every adult in our faith family to be part of a group. Groups at ICC are small, regular gatherings that provide fellowship and accountability, and act as a launching pad for service and missional living. Take a look at the groups we offer below. Each type of group serves a different purpose, and depending on where you are in your life right now, one of these options will be a great fit for you. To sign up for a group, head over here.
Community Groups are created for adults committed to rejecting isolation and pursuing friendships. Community groups are available for men and women of all ages and stages of life, and typically involve a recommended commitment of one year at a time. Look below at our Community Groups offerings to see if one might be a good fit for you. Once you've signed up for one here, we'll get in touch with you about next steps.
- Groups for adults of all ages who want to read scripture, pray for one another, and have some fun in the more relational setting of a host home. Contact Ben Segebart here.
- Groups for adult men looking to be spurred on to godliness through scripture reading and prayer. Contact Jerry Watters (515)961-7827.
- Groups for adult women who would like to share their hearts and lives with other women through the lens of scripture reading and prayer. Contact Gail Meckley here.
If you have additional questions about joining or leading a group, contact Ben Segebart here.
Restoration Groups exist to equip you with the special tools you desperately need to work through either a current season of distress or unaddressed turmoil from your past. Some Restoration groups last for one semester, while others are available for as long as you need them. All of our Restoration Groups provide a place of safe, confidential healing and support. Look below at our Restoration Group offerings to see if one might be a good fit for you. Once you've signed up here, we'll get in touch with you about next steps.
- Celebrate Recovery offers large and small group opportunities for people to learn and apply Biblical principles, and find the support necessary, to become free from life's hurts, habits, and hang-ups. Thursday evenings at 6:30. Find more information about Celebrate Recovery HERE. Childcare is available for 12 years and younger. Register here.
For a list of several other seasonal Restoration Group offerings, (like GriefShare and DivorceCare) which typically take place on Thursday nights at the church, check the Latest News and Group Sign-ups. You can sign up for any of our Restoration Groups here.


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Cameron Bancroft
A right-handed wicketkeeper-batsman and former Australia Under-19 representative, Cameron Bancroft first played for Western Australia in one-day cricket in 2011. A first-class debut followed in 2013-14, when he played 11 matches as an opening batsman as the Warriors made it all the way to the Sheffield Shield final. He began the following season in fine style with a one-day century against the touring United Arab Emirates side. Bancroft has been touted as a contender for Test selection after hammering over 700 runs in each of the two past Sheffield Shield seasons, including a best of 211 against New South Wales. Bancroft made his T20I debut in 2016 but didn't face a ball.
T20 Debut date : 31/01/2016
Age : 27 years 9 days
Role : Batter
Height : 182
Batting Style : Right Hand
Bowling Style : Right Arm Medium
Team Played For : N/A


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Thousands of teachers, professional developers, and teacher educators throughout the United States and internationally are using the assessment probes and FACTs. If you have a strategy or tip for using these resources that you would be willing to share on this web site, please contact Page Keeley by clicking on the Contact button at the top of this page. Please check back regularly as new ideas are shared and added.
Robert Miller, a fifth grade teacher in Florida, has created a set of video probes, based on the Uncovering Student Ideas series, that students respond to using Edmodo. Click here for the link to Miller's extraordinarily well done video probes.
Cl-Ev-R Poster for Probe Explanations- Thanks to William Rewitz, Puyallup, WA, who teaches at the Bethel School District. William constructed this poster after attending a workshop presented by Page Keeley. William gave us permission to share this adaptation of the Claims- Evidence- Reasoning Explanation Analysis criteria used to self-assess explanations to the Uncovering Student Ideas probes. Based on Kate McNeil's work on constructing explanations in science using data, this self-assessment is designed to be used with the probes in pre-assessment elicitation (before students have the scientific evidence to draw upon) and post-assessment (after students have had an opportunity to collect scientific data or learn the science concepts). Overall, it helps students write better explanations to the probes so that teachers are able to understand students' thinking for the purpose of informing instruction. Click here to download the poster. Thanks William!
Traffic Light Slider- Thanks to my colleague, Cheryl Rose-Tobey, for sharing this idea. The Traffic Light Slider is based on the formative assessment classroom technique (FACT), Traffic Lighting (see pp 199-201 in the Science Formative Assessment book). Print a picture of a traffic light on card stock. Cut 2 parallel slits to the left of the picture. Cut two card stock arrows and place one on top of the slits and the other woven through the back so th epointer and the end of the arrow parts meet. Then staple them together. Now the arrow can slide up and down indicating the green, yellow, and red ranking according to your formative assessment scale. Students can place this on their desks and adjust it as they work, indicating to the teacher when they may need help.
Triple Sticky Bars- This adaptation of "Sticky Bars", from Science Formative Assessment- 75 Practical Strategies for Linking Assessment, Instruction, and Learning (Keeley, 2005) was used in a high school classroom during a unit on photosynthesis (thank you to Amy Neiman from La Center, WA). AMy used the probe,"Sequoia Tree", from Uncovering Student Ideas in Science- Volume 2, toprobe for her students' understanding of the transformation of matter that occurs as a result of photosynthesis and the tree's use of food. The post it graphs were made with different colors during the elicitation phase preceding instruction, at a mid point during instruction, and at the end of the unit. Notice how the students' ideas changed during the unit and the record of thinking this strategy provides throughout the instructional unit. Thanks for sharing, Amy!
The Tricycle Demo- This demonstration was used to elicit students' ideas about motion in the direction of a net force. It uses the example of a tricycle instead of the spool in the "Pulling on a Spool" probe from Uncovering Student Ideas in Physical Science- 45 Force and Motion Probes (Keeley and Harrington, 2010). Thanks to Harry Rosvally from Danbury, CT for sharing his demo. Click here for the PowerPoint slides to go with the demonstration.
Is It a Model?- The National Science Education Leadership Association (NSELA), in partnership with WGBH Boston, hosted a webinar on "Data Modeling: Bringing Math and Science Together in K-12 Classrooms". Presenter Bruce Jones, from the Mesa Academy, shared how he used the "Is It a Model" formative assessment probe to uncover his students' ideas about models, particularly mathematical models, in order to inform his instruction. You can hear how Bruce used the probe and what he learned from it by linking to the webinar. The "Is It a Model" discussion is about 13:35 minutes into the presentation.
Pond Water- Visualizing the Internal Structure of Single-Celled Organisms. Consider extending the second part of a probe (the explanation) to have students draw a picture to represent their thinking. In these two fifth grade examples used with the "Pond Water" probe (Keeley, 2011), you can clearly see that these students think the single-celled organisms they observed in a drop of pond water or a hay infusion have organs similar to familiar animals. The drawings from the probe show how students overgeneralized what they learned about animals' internal structures when presented with unfamiliar single-celled organisms. For example, upon further probing both students pointed out how their drawings show a stomach and heart. Drawing 1 also shows intestines and Drawing 2 shows lungs (in orange) and eyes. This is an example of how drawings can be used to further elict ideas from the probes and may be particularly useful with ELL students and students who like to draw.
Beyond Penguins and Polar Bears- With permission from the author and NSTA, this NSF-funded project from Ohio State University, uses the Uncovering Student Ideas probe format to develop probes about polar-related concepts. Several of the Uncovering Student Ideas probes are featured as well. Click on an issue and under "Professional Learning", click on the Misconceptions link. Here you will find a variety of strategies and probes for eliciting students ideras about concepts such as weather, and climate, polar organisms, fossils, geologic time and more.
Differentiated Assessment Probes- A team of teachers, from Orlando, FL, took a class: Differentiating Instruction- Strategies for Teaching English Language Learners. Their assignment called for them to consider multiple intelligences and learning styles and produce or modify a pre-assessment for students. This graphic shows how they modified the "Moonlight" probe (Volume 4) to accommodate visual learners and ELL students. Thanks to the team of Ed Olson-Moore, Jorge Carrion, and Sybil Stilwell!


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Clinique Clarifying Lotion Review
Do You Want Brighter, Younger-Looking Skin?
is your skin flaky and ashy looking, even if you have an oily complexion? If so, you could just need to exfoliate. Clinique, one of the worlds's leading scientifically-driven cosmetics giants,claims that their Clarifying Lotion will do just that. Over the next few paragraphs, we'll take a look at it to see what's in it and what users are saying about it.
What Does Clinique Claim?
There are actually three steps to Clinique's Skin Care Regimen and they have sets that address each skin care need. Though the goals of each set are the same (beautiful, younger looking skin), the ingredients differ a bit. We're going to look at exfoliating Step 2, the clarifying lotion, in the oily/combination line.
Clinique's Clarifying Lotion is the step that actually works to slough off the dead skin to reveal new, bright skin underneath. It makes your skin look fresher and smoother from the first use, and within 2 weeks, the results will be obvious, especially if you use all three steps (clean, exfoliate and moisturize) of the system.
What's In It?
The ingredients in this product are fairly straightforward. The actives are witch hazel, alcohol, menthol and sodium borate. The alcohol is obviously an astringent but witch hazel has been used for centuries as a skin conditioning agent and to tone and tighten skin to make it look younger.
Menthol has a dual purpose in skin care products. It's an anesthetic and a penetration enhancer that can help vitamins and other useful ingredients to penetrate your skin.
Finally, sodium borate is a cleansing agent and buffering agent that softens your water and keeps ingredients from settling into your pores. Beside using the active ingredients, there really aren't any bad ingredients. Water and some dyes. That's it.
What Are Users Saying?
The majority of users love this product. There are some issues with the fact that the first ingredient is alcohol. Apparently the clarifier smells pretty heavily of alcohol, too. That's the only complaint and there are actually very few people who made this complaint but it does bear mentioning. As a matter of fact, one of the main pros of the Clinique Clarifying Lotion is that it's non-drying.
Other pros of this product include that it's exfoliating, balancing, refreshing, acne treating, and cleansing.
Final Word
Usually alcohol isn't OK in the products that we review but we're going to step away from that rule for two reasons here. First, people are reporting that it's effective. Since the clarifier doesn't have any truly bad ingredients in it and it's followed by a moisturizer, we say give it a shot!
To find a great deal on Clinique Clarifying Lotion click here
If you've used this product, we'd love to hear about your experience in the comments section below.


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I carried out website testing on various devices to ensure the functionality and styling was working correctly. Through testing, I realised that the portrait styling was sufficient but I needed to amend the styling for landscape views. I resolved this through created another css media query for orientation=landscape. The below screenshots show some of the errors that I resolved.
As well as the styling, there was also a few links that weren't working correctly, of which I successfully resolved. I got some members of my target audience to test my site, they registered and tried out the training guide. From this, my target audience gave me some useful feedback of which I acted upon. I added an option to preview week one if the users doesn't sign up on a Monday, as well as edited a few spelling mistakes and working more on form validation. Previously if the user entered a username but no password, it would still let the access their guide. To overcome this, I altered the code so that it checks the database to see that the password and username match and if not an error message appears.


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This seems like a long and hard recipe, I was a bit overwhelmed when I first read it but once I dove in I was surprised at how easy it really was. It's another skinny recipe from Gina! I served mine with a parmesean cous cous which ended up being a great mix, and of course a margarita!
Sauce for topping:
2 garlic cloves, minced
1-1/2 cups tomato sauce
1/2 tsp chili powder
1/2 tsp ground cumin
3/4 cup fat free chicken broth
salt and fresh pepper to taste
Chicken Filling:
1 tsp vegetable oil
8.5 oz (2 breast halves) cooked shredded chicken breast
1 cup diced onion
2 large clove garlic, minced
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1 tsp chili powder
1/3 cup chicken broth
1/2 cup tomato sauce
6 (7-inch) reduced carb whole wheat flour tortillas
1 cup shredded low fat Mexican cheese
non-stick cooking spray
In a medium saucepan, spray oil and sauté garlic. Add chili powder, cumin, chicken broth, tomato sauce, salt and pepper. Bring to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for 5-10 minutes. Set aside until ready to use.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Heat the vegetable oil in a medium skillet over medium-high heat. Sauté onions and garlic on low until soft, about 2 minutes. Add chicken, salt, cumin, oregano, chili powder, tomato sauce, chicken broth, and cook 4 to 5 minutes. Remove from heat.
Spray a 13 by 9-inch glass baking dish with non-stick spray. Put 1/3 cup chicken mixture into each tortilla and roll it. Roll 7-8 tortilla's.
Place on baking dish seam side down, top with sauce, then the cheese.
Cover with aluminum foil and bake in the oven on the middle rack for 20-25 minutes.
My funny story to this one is I forgot to cover it with aluminum foil, a bit dry on the top, crunchy even but it was still really good! See even a whoops can still come out good!
Nutritional Information:
Servings: 8 • Serving Size: 1 enchilada
Calories: 159.5
Fat: 5.9 g
Protein: 16.2 g
Carb: 17.8 g
Fiber: 8.3 g


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Tehehe… Seriously… Another one? Awww… Thanks ETSY 😀
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Handmade stationery featuring OWLS by ETSY. Yes, again… Hmmm… People seems to like my little Henry :')http://www.etsy.com/listing/87317590/henry-the-owl-thinking-of-you-i-loveOoooh it makes me happy! Another little "yay!"listing #87327747 mentioned and added on ETSYs curated treasury list by Studio Green Garden… http://www.etsy.com/treasury/MTgzNTczNDN8MjAxMTgzMjAyMw/legsThis is the second mention Samphire Arts has had in a matter of weeks! ;-)) Better get some new work out soon! Sorry folks been a busy start to the year but I'm already cutting a new print and preparing for an open studio event in conjunction with the London 2012 Olympic & Mayor of London!
Here's the previous listing added in the Valentines promo and included Henry the owl(http://www.etsy.com/listing/87317590/henry-the-owl-thinking-of-you-i-love) and Keys to my heart print (http://www.etsy.com/listing/87324530/keys-to-my-heart-wall-print)4. Keys to my Heart
Another feature on Blomming's e mag… (yay!)
This time, it's the KEYS TO MY HEART PRINT
A bench with a view
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Letterpress (without a press)
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So, among my many loves, I have a huge love for Letterpress!
I cannot imagine a world without it. It would be colourless and most importantly, texture-less and that, in itself is a crime that cannot go noticed (or unpunished for that matter! To the guillotine I say!). For me to truly experience something, it has to be both visually and tactile (oh, and sometimes by smell! especially little goodies meant for my tummy!). I have a habit of touching everything, I have to constantly remind myself not to when I am in a museum. No, really… I stick a thumb under my satchel strap, easing it's weight off and the other hand holds the exhibition guide.
Anyway, I have been keeping an eye on a letterpress machine for years now. It's so tempting especially when recently a friend offered it to me for a hundred odd quid!! How do you resist the temptation of creating beautiful, tactile, paper goodies?! I'll tell you how, live in a small place! Currently over-run by Arthur Roy Fisk (my beauuutiful drawing table, pre-owned by lovely Claire daughter of Roy Fisk, a Lincoln based artist), Bertha– My small but heavy Victorian press, Ben– My lil' table for the digital stuff… amongst hundreds of books and little knickknacks I have lovingly accumulated over the years and stuffed into this little room! So, you see, adding a tabletop letterpress would be me literally bursting at my seams, so to speak!
And so, I decided to do letterpress without the 'Press'! Yes… I cheated… But.. but… what can I do? I haven't the budget or space (yet!)
A friends' birthday was coming up so I thought I'd give a try… and this is what I managed… I know, it looks a bit pitiful but, not bad i think considering i had to physically press it between two boards to get any sorta impression! Takes lots of muscle this method… and some patience with the trial and error. However, at the end of it, you'll have something like a letterpress…
p.s: I'd like to assure you only two metal letterpress letters were 'hurt' (actually broken in two!sob!) in this instance. It has been reported to the RSPCLP (Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Letterpress Printing). And they recommend, should you have any unwanted tabletop letter-presses, fonts etc give them to me to prevent further metal/wood fonts getting hurt (Including my nails, and fingers…).
More trial and error this time with a pre-factory made plastic 'letterpress'. Again, I didn't have the right machinery to 'press' these but you can see the general outcome here…
All this was actually brought about by the thought of wedding invites and a poem I read many years ago, by Edward Estlin Cummings. I have been toying with this poem for a while and wanted to produce it by letterpress. Turns out, it's pretty expensive and so I resorted to a not so old-fashioned way to produce it. (More to follow in the next blog!) For now, I hope everyone rediscovers this beautiful art of letterpress and I wish to convince future brides/grooms to use letter-press for their wedding stationery, Save the Date cards or even to announce the new arrival of your lil' ones post wedding dates and dramas etc…
Letterpress for me has an understated elegance- A beauty to look at and appreciate both visually and tactile.
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Bags of Love…
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I normally use recycled fabric but in this case, I was preparing for a Christmas fair that I had decided on last-minute and had to order the bags in all ready-made. Saving me time to stitch my own from the reclaimed textiles which we had acquired sometime between painting the house and changing the soft furnishings.
As it was my first time to 'paint' a fabric, I started with sketching a scene made of birds on some plant or something, anything to give me an idea of what I could do with the medium. I realised I needed some inspiration rather than to draw every single bag at a whim especially with such little time. So I rifled through to my sketches which gave me the idea of using them as simple sketches and either leaving them as a sketch or painting in bits of it and maybe time permitting, add the extra touches like the stitching around the brogues, buttons and ribbons…
The night before the opening, I managed to sketch and paint all the bags but didn't get a chance to do more (lack of time and tiredness from lack of sleep making me highly irritable). I wasn't convinced they looked nice. But in the morning, when we set up our tiny stall, I must say I was chuffed! I actually secretly hoped no one would buy the brogues and the bike as they were my favourite ones (and the first of the batch). Unfortunately, the ones I had done in colour sold before I got a chance to take a picture… So here's trying to replicate what was done on a tired short night! (The bike bag was sold painted in green, white and silver but the brogues were left as sketches in Black.)
p.s: If you'd like to order one drop me a line or fill in the comment form! I make each order individually and to your tastes…
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Henry Part II
Posted November 8, 2010on:
A variety of paper stock and colors are available. Including one-off prints created on hand made flower pressed paper, water colour paper and recycled ("up-scaling") paper! For hand printed/painted items, products vary as they are not mass produced on a machine making each item unique in its own rights. Please see the next post to see what is available and if you don't see what you would need, please get in touch!
Hand cut & printed using non-toxic water based inks, or metallic silver, gold or copper inks, on water colour paper, hand made flower pressed paper, recycled paper, brown ribbed cards etc. Available as greeting cards, postcards or prints for framing.
"Upscaling" Henry PrintGrey card (recycled) with blue background non-toxicink and metallic silver print. A one off print
Greeting cards + Envelope
Printed on white stock card with metallic inks. Available plain or with a message of 'thinking of you' or 'missing you' to choose from. Various colours available.
Printed on handmade paper on various colours available
Wall Art/ Print3 colour, hand cut & printed wall art on handmade paper (sold unmounted/unframed)
Please order in advance allowing time for hand-printing, handmade paper and postage. For more queries or customisation, please get in touch. Please note, hand printed/painted items, products vary as they are not mass produced on a machine making each item unique in its own rights.Thank you for looking! x
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Henry, is a young Owl whose mother died or left under mysterious circumstances that no one knows about. All he has of her is a woolly jumper she knit for him to keep him warm as an Owlet. It has a red stain on it and a furry collar made from her very own small, soft under wing feathers.
Henry is a happy, playful and considerate owl but with every sunset, his heart sinks and sometimes it makes him cry and the red stain on his jumper turns bright and glows and takes on a shape no one in the forest has seen. You see, Henry is the only Owl in the forest that is afraid of the dark and all the nightly creatures and critters that come out to play laugh at Henry…
Henry was first painted using various mediums (watercolours, pen&ink etc) on acid free 300gsm watercolour paper
Hand cut and printed using non-toxic water based high quality printing inks on 300gsm acid free water colour paper. Available as postcards, greeting cards or as a print for framing. Please specify colour preference if any.
Original hand painted Henry on 300gsm water color paper available as a postcards or Reproduction Print available to buy as a print for framing (all prints are sold unframed/mounted unless specified)
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A knowledge of faith and science
A study of faith and science
Letter to Parents
What do we really see?
Creation or chaos
Angels and man
The life of Jesus Christ 1
The Bible
UNIT 1:1 Our planet is unique
Unit 1:2 God's unique timepiece
Unit 1:3 Life is unique
Unit 2:1 GOD'S SCIENCE
Unit 2:2 God created light
Unit 2:3 Water and Sky
Unit 2:4 Land, sea and life
Unit 3:1 Sun, moon and stars
Unit 3:2 Fish and birds
3.3 animals and mankind
Unit 3:4 A day of rest
Unit: 4:1 Eden
Unit 4:2 The Garden of Eden part 2
Unit 4:3 The tree of life
God is our Father
Sarah's laugh
Philosopher frog on science fiction
Philosopher Frog on Observation
Princess Penelope and the rag doll
Unit 5:1 Where did Jesus Christ come from?
Unit 5:2 Where did Jesus Christ come from? Part two
Unit 5:3 Where did Jesus come from? Part three
Unuit 5:4 Where did Jesus come from? part four
Unit 6:1 Why did Jesus come?
6:2 The arc and the cross
Unit 6:3 The Advent
Unit 6:4 Who is Jesus Christ 1
Unit 6:5 Who is Jesus Christ 2
Unit 6:6 Who is Jesus Christ 3
Unit 6:7 Who is Jesus Christ 4
Unit 7:1 The teachings of Jesus 1
Unit 7:2 The teachings of Jesus on Enemies
Unit 7:3 The teachings of Jesus on God
Unit 7:4 Jesus teaches his disciples how to pray
Unit 8: 1The book of faith and the book of nature
God's covenant with Abraham
UNIT 8 What is time?
Unit 9:1 The new frontier of science
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The earth that we live on is a beautiful world. God did not make it to be useful but to be loved and cared for. He filled the world with flowers, trees, hills and mountains seas and lakes, not only that we might have plenty of space and beauty around us but that we might share all God has provided with one another. God created our world for everybody. It is his gift of love and providence. For the earth provides us with all that we need to live happy lives.
It is a unique world. It is so unique that what we see with our eyes and hear with our ears is just a small part of it. There are things and beings invisible that we know nothing about. God has made them for us to discover. How exciting! It is true for we are discovering things all the time that we never knew existed. Where, for instance, did TV come from, the Internet or the Ipod? They were all made possible because God's intelligence and physics made them possible. Radio waves and light waves are not visible but we have discovered them.
God has made us like himself {Genesis 1:27} And so that is why we can think and discover things. Perhaps one day you will discover something very importance. But the greatest discovery of all is discovering that God loves us and wants to guide and help us to live well by trusting and loving him.
There is another reason why God has made the earth unique. Can you guess what that is? This is also a discovery. For centuries scientists have looked at the stars and planets through telescopes. They have been looking for life on other planets Did you know that our solar system, has 9 planets that journey around the sun in their orbits but only one planet has life on it. All the other planets are either made of gas or lifeless matter. They have no life in them at all. The earth is the only living planet that has life on it. Why? Because God created the earth and the earth alone to have life on it.
Another more compelling reason why the earth is unique is this: It is purposeful. God has a design and a purpose for the earth and all that lives on it. If it were without a purpose nothing would make sense. The rain would fall without a purpose. Plants would grow without a purpose. They would merely be accidental but they are not. They are purposeful because God's purpose was to make the earth to support life. He designed it that way.
1. Why did God fill the earth with good things?
2. Why did God create the planets and stars? (read Genesis 1:14-19)
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Chapter 13 bankruptcy rules, filing bankruptcy advice when initially people hear about bankruptcy especially those who have a little run in with financial troubles, they think it's an easy way out of the mess. Repeatedly, in fact are so fascinated with the provisions they wonder if bankruptcy can be filed by individuals. The truth is to understand the answer one must thoroughly understand the complex legal and financial proceedings that are involved in bankruptcy. Legally, on individual can file bankruptcy as many times in his lifetime as he wants, however, he may not get the desired result. The law is actually such that it discourages people from going for bankruptcy until it is absolutely the last resort for a suicidal troubled debtor. As of 2005 the bankruptcy laws have further been made stringent.
The reason for this is to stop people from misusing the Commission of discharging the debts, and this could be detrimental to the organizations who give credit (consumer or otherwise). And thus lead to economic chaos. In fact now it has been made compulsory to get financial offer by state authorized counselors before a person can proceed for bankruptcy. The counseling session is needed to verify that all other debt paying options including the ones like debt restructuring and debt consolidation options has been explored. This counseling session has been made mandatory whether you choose to file chapter 13 bankruptcy or opt to file it under Chapter 7 bankruptcy rules. The major reason why individuals should avoid bankruptcy at all cost is because not only are they at risk of losing almost all assets in their possession but there credit history show wants the bankruptcy till many years to come and this may adversely affect future applications for loans, jobs as well as rent. However there could be many circumstances that could genuinely lead to filing of bankruptcy. For example sudden loss of employment or a unforeseen drastic reduction in monthly income.
Situations can arise so through medical emergencies like physical incapability to continue current employment or unmanageably expensive medical bills. Under these circumstances there are few other choices than actually going in for bankruptcy declaration. One of the easiest ways to go about complex procedure of bankruptcy declaration is to take help of a bankruptcy attorney. There are many sites like offer which provide free bankruptcy services and help you want to make the right decisions. Bankruptcy in fact you can file bankruptcy online too, however for certain important procedures you have to be present in person too. All in all bankruptcy is a complex legal procedure with very long term repercussions, and it is advisable to take help of to attorney before proceeding. There are many online websites which want to provide you with services required. The author Mr. Ronald Smith is a bankruptcy expert and has written many informative articles on topics such as filing Chapter 13 bankruptcy and filing bankruptcy help, etc.


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Lulu and eBooks
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Lulu is a company committed to helping you sell more books and reach more readers. Whether you are out to make your fortune, or simply share an idea, Lulu empowers authors, publishers, educators, and businesses to bring knowledge and expertise to readers more easily than ever before. You can do-it-yourself at no cost using our publishing Wizard or choose from a selection of Lulu services for assistance. Through our Internet retail site, retail partners, and global print network Lulu has created a one-stop shop for the ultimate in publishing freedom. You pick the price, market, and medium. As a Lulu author, you have complete control over your price and content. You earn 80% of the profit or more when your work sells.
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Once you have read and followed Lulu's guidelines for preparing your manuscript, the Lulu EPUB Converter can be used to create an eBook in EPUB file format. These guidelines do not guarantee success on your first conversion attempt, but by following these instructions, your chances of success are greatly improved.
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Product LCD-11676 about 7 years ago
This is really surprising. The serial protocol described in their older literature (no longer available from their site) does not seem to work from many other micros (mostly Atmel, some TI). We unfortunately designed around this paperweight and now have to pull it out after receiving no help from 4D.
Product LCD-11377 about 7 years ago
NO! You cannot do this easily. The module is designed to be a standalone and though 4Dsystems says they support the serial interface, there is no documentation any longer on it. In addition, serial comms do not work with these displays as described in the older manuals. They are BASICALLY USELESS unless you want to just draw pretty pictures and build a system around the Goldelox. IT WILL NOT SLAVE to another processor.
Product BOB-09868 about 7 years ago
Somehow the PDF layouts have the correct pinning but the SparkFun Eagle library has the part backward. This would have been nice to know a few k$ in boards ago.
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Don't underestimate the work done by Rollins here. He's providing the beat in that way somebody in sixth grade always would, by banging on a desk. His knuckles have to be sore by the end of the song but you can't even tell. That's heart.
Anyway, not that you care, but this is evidently associated with some stupid promotion that major league baseball was running.
Ryan Howard and J-Roll- "Take me out to the ballgame" (Remix) [The Fightins']


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Summer countryside exhibition guide – Part 1
Summer guide to art around the country. Part 1
The Icelandic Art center presents all the events around the country so you can combine road trips and culture this Summer, what could be better!
First stop…
Kristinn Gunnlaugsdóttir June 14 to aug 17th
There will be an artist´s talk in Flora on Friday 4 July at. 20
Kristín Gunnlaugsdóttir in an Interview by Ásta Andrésdóttir in Atlantica Magazine 04 2011:
Further information about the work of Kristin can be found here.
The exhibition is open during hours Flora every day at. 10-18. Flora is located at Hafnarstræti 90, Akureryi.
THE CENTRE FOR VISUAL ARTS (Sjónlistamiðstöðin)
Islensk samtíðarportrett – mannlýsingar á 21. öld
The title of this exhibition, Icelandic Portraiture, includes several references appearing in the diverse range of artworks—an interesting mix and interplay of ideas on what is Icelandic, the contemporary era and what the word portrait stands for. All these ideas and often their unexpected interactions play a part in the design of the exhibition. Its main objective is to reflect on the concept of the portrait and what it can reveal. Its second objective is to show the Icelandic contemporary era through the interplay of different portraits and thereby create a mosaic, which will tell us something far beyond words. Overall, the goal is to exhibit portraits in a broad sense, showing diversity in methods, visual thinking and approaches in art creation.The exhibition runs until the 17th of August.
Georg Óskar and Margeir Dire
June 28th – August 31st
Opening 28th 3pm
Here is a link to a video showing the artists´combined painting practice.
Gísla B. Björnssonar – Five Decades of Graphic design
Gísli B. is truly one of the most dynamic graphic designers in the history of 20th century Icelandic design. After returning from his studies in Germany in 1961, Gísli founded an advertising agency and a year later also founded a special department for advertising illustration at the Icelandic College of Art and Crafts—a faculty which today is the department of graphic design at the Iceland Academy of Arts.
The surveys of Gísli's career features among other things work from his student days, magazines, book cover design and layout. Old video footage from his advertising agency are on display, wherein the technology of the day gives insight into the role of the illustrator and copywriter. A large collection of smaller magazine publications as well as various brochures and pamphlets will help to showcase the changing zeitgeist over Gísli's five professional decades, as well as other material which sheds light on the diversity of Gísli's profession, one which he worked tirelessly to help foster build up to what it is today. Diligence and self-criticism have invariably been essential components in all of Gísli's work—and indeed they are the necessary starting point for the creation of good and responsible design.The show comes from the Design Museum of Iceland and is open every day except Mon. 10-17. Curated Ármann Agnarsson. Admission is free.
The Center for Visual Arts is located at Kaupvangsstræti 12, 600 Akureyri http://www.sjonlist.is
Rót 2014
Rót Project takes place from the 23rd of June culminating in a weekend exhibit at Populas Tremula. Organised by three young artists, Karólína Baldvinsdóttur, Jónínu Björgu Helgadóttur and Freyju Reynisdóttur, with many others involved. The project will aim to complete a new piece each day, working together beside the museum and celebrate the diversity of the people involved.
28-29th june.
2-5pm Saturday and Sunday
Ró Ró
The exhibition presents a group of local and international visual artists who are in an active contact with Seyðisfjörður, a village with 670 inhabitants in East Iceland. Some of the artists live permanently in the town, others own houses or reside regularly in the fjord. On exhibition are new or recent works, which are made locally or refer to the place, in the Skaftfell gallery as well as various sites and venues throughout the town. Parallel is an event program that will take place over the course of the exhibition.
The title RÓ RÓ combines two important factors that provide for the thriving cultural life of the town, that has taken place not only for the last years, but also for over a hundred. Firstly, ró meaning quiet in Icelandic, acknowledges the calm and serene environment many artists seek to pursue their practice. Seyðisfjörður is a haven for a number of artists. Secondly, RÓ RÓ also refers to the act of rowing, or fishing, that is a fundamental part of the industrial activity of the town. See more here.
Sunday July 6, at 15.00
Tvísöngur festival, acoustic
Sunday August 3, at 15.00
Performances: Auxpan, Borghildur Tumadóttir, Daníel Karl Björnsson and Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir
Sunday August 3, at 16.00
The Mountain lady festival, open participation
Saturday August 23, at 15:00
Létt á bárunni performs Sexí
Guided tours on Wednesdays at 16.00, 500 ISK.
RÓ RÓ is running through October 5, 2014.
Skaftfell is open daily from 12.00 – 22.00 and admission free.
Phishing the Landscape
29th May – 29th June 2014.
Phishing the Landscape is a exhibition and experimental publication curated by Berlin-based artists Clémentine Roy & Catriona Shaw and featuring positions by 10 international artists.
The title of the exhibition refers to phishing, a form of digital deception, where data is collected via hacking and used for fraudulent purposes. The work in the exhibition presents positionsrelated to phishing in the context of urban and non-urban landscapes, such as the appropriation
and 'hacking' of man-made structures formerly intended for other uses, as well ascontemporary 'updates' of landscapes and their content. Perceptions of identity, history and use of these places is often altered not only by new types of use but also by the type of user:
Former places of labour become places of leisure and art, wartime remnants provide hooks for fisherman's tackle or become playparks for children, and landscapes are reproduced and manipulated by digital means or technical terminology.
The exhibition will feature an accompanying programme with talks and contributions by local artists, as well as engagement workshops run by the artists for the local public and school groups.
Fred Bigot (FR)
Rhona Byrne (IR)
Christine de la Garenne (DE)
Franziz Denyz (B)
Þorgerður Ólafsdóttir (IS)
Anna Líndal (IS)
Clementine Roy (FR)
Sami Sänpäkkilä & Goodiepal (FI/DK)
Catriona Shaw (UK)
The Hjalteryi Scales – Rod Summers
5th – 27th of July
Rod Summers has written an Audiodrama for the Factory "The Hjalteyri Scales" – sound and text – that will be performed for the first time at 15:00 the 5th of July. He is also showing some videos and prints.
"Casting the mesh into uncharted waters can result in an unexpected catch. When Loki broadcast his sperm into Angrboða we may be religiously sure he didn't expect to net a ravenous wolf, a writhing serpent and sheer hell. These days scientists, bolstered by the support of paper reputations, willingly inform that mobility instigated global warming has caused fish shoal disappearance but I maintain (in this work at least) that the real cause of fishy absenteeism is the result of container ship noise pollution, the European common agriculture policy and speculative chocolate. The Hjalteyri Scales is a 4 channel audio work which seeks to bring a cubist balance into the remotest corners of places of abandoned employment." (Rod Summers 2014)
May 24th – July 6th
Cyclone is an audio-visual installation treating borders, real and imaginary. It searches out the occasions, actions, and thoughts that keep us in a lock-hold and proceeds to the state in which we silently lose our capacity to imagine. From these impasses the narrative moves on to possible confrontations with others or reflections on ourselves. It leads us to the threshold of circular motions that follow the rotational direction of the earth.
Cyclone is composed by the by the Finnish curator, Mari Krappala, with works by six artists. Photographs by Katrín Elvarsdóttir from Iceland were taken in Iceland, Germany, USA and China and the other Icelandic artist, Lilja Birgisdóttir, has produced sound work and it is also shown as drawings. The Finnish photographers Eeva Hannula, Hertta Kiiski and Tiina Palmu have jointly created a video for Cyclone and the installation, Little Dramas, by the Estonian artist Marko Mäetamm is also part of Cyclone.
The exhibition was part of the Reykjavík Art Festival 2014.
July 13 – September 14th
The exhibition consists of works by seven Icelandic artists, born in the years 1948-1966. They have shown their works in Iceland and abroad as two separated artists groups as well as having operated artists-run exhibition spaces. In one of the group are the artists Anna Eyjólfsdóttir, Ragnhildur Stefánsdóttir, Þórdís Alda Sigurðardóttir and Þuríður Sigurdardóttir who were running the StartArt Gallery together with few more artists. In the other group are Birgir Snæbjörn Birgisson, Helgi Hjaltalín Eyjólfsson and Helgi Þorgils Friðjónsson. Helgi Hjaltalín was running the Gallery 20m2 for a while, Helgi Þorgils has been running the Gallery Corridor (Gallerí Gangur) at his home for three decades and Birgir Snæbjörn runs Gallery Sign (Gallerí Skilti) by his home. The subject and use of materials differs by these artists but their works reflects the boom of contemporary art. The art and aesthetic theorist, Margrét Elísabet Ólafsdóttir, has selected the work for the show.
Listasafn Árnesinga / LÁ Art Museum is located in Hveragerði, about 35 km east of Reykajvík. It is open daily from 12-6 pm during the sommermonths May – September but is closed while changing exhibitions and during the Christmas hollidays. Entrance free of charge.
EDINBORG CULTURAL CENTRE (Edinborgarhúsið)
The Assembly of the Holy
Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir & Bryndís Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir
July 5th – 28th
In the exhibition Assembly of the Holy attention is directed to the role of femininity in the ideology of the Western World. To this aim the artist duo Bryndís Hrönn Ragnarsdóttir and Gunnhildur Hauksdóttir have assembled guests to tackle the topic at hand in improvised conversations on the border of reality, poetry and fiction. The conversations are recorded visually, with audio, drawing and texts, i.e. written as manuscripts and published as bookworks in limited editions. Prior to the opening selected locals are invited to take part in a new assembly, assuming roles from contemporary time and history. The outcome of each assembly is then added to the poll of conversations about the feminine and the bestial. The work is a long-term collaboration where every installation entails addition characterized by each particular place and history.
Three Amigos
Brynjar Helgason
Ívar Glói Gunnarsson
Logi Leó Gunnarsson
The space will serve as a studio for the artists for one week leading up to the opening. Therefore the exhibition itself will be determined by the time shared by the three artists in the studio. The exhibition and the time leading up to it will revolve around a worktable in the middle of the space. All the cards will be laid down on that table, meaning the artists´ ideas and things – which will become the content of the show opening on Friday June 27th.
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What are USDA Loans?
In 2009, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) made changes that allowed millions of borrowers to become eligible for rural mortgage programs. Many rural home buyers who dream of purchasing a home don't necessarily have the funds saved to make the hefty 20% down payment required by a typical home loan, so the USDA mortgage program stands alone as the only zero money down program available to borrowers that have not served in the military. These form of loans are also known as a facet of the USDA Rural Development Guaranteed Housing Loan Program.
USDA Loans used to be known as farmers loans, but these loans are not just for farmers anymore. In actuality, nearly anyone looking to purchase a home property outside of a major metropolitan area can qualify for a USDA loan.
USDA Loan Requirements
In order to be eligible for USDA loans, you must meet a certain number of requirements. First, your desired property must be located in a rural region as defined by the USDA, based on zip code and county. Your desired property must be occupied, as investment properties do not fall under eligibility for USDA loans. In addition, you must agree to personally occupy the dwelling as your primary home residence. You must fit the income requirements for the county you are interested in purchasing property in; each state county outlines a maximum income requirement. Lastly, you must not have been suspended or debarred from participation in federal programs.
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July 19, City Council Study Session City Hall at 7 p.m. The agenda includes a presentation by the Bell Policy Center on the state's fiscal challenges, a presentation by Jim Dale and Karen Oxman on Governor Hickenlooper's TBD Colorado project inviting input from Coloradans on the challenges facing the state, and interviews for openings on […][Continue reading…]
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Radio Golden Episode #9: Status of Golden's Sustainability Initiative, Chaos on Clear Creek, and More
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Curious about Golden's air quality? Ever wonder about ozone pollution, or the impacts to Golden of Coors' coal-fired power plant? Did you know that Coors does, in fact, have a coal-fired power plant? It's all in Radio Golden episode #8. Check it out … Download Radio Golden Episode #8 from iTunes (it's free!). Subscribe to […][Continue reading…]
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Listen to (or download) Radio Golden Episode #7. Curious about how City Council is doing so far this year? Want to know how City Council and staff are getting along? Been wondering about renewable energy, creating jobs in Golden, GURA, or downtown development? Council Fisher covered all of this ground and more today on Radio […][Continue reading…]
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A university lab is helping electronics companies prepare their products for the marketplace.
Before an electronic device hits the market, it has to be certified for electromagnetic compatibility compliance.
To the surprise of many local companies, Grand Valley State University actually has a lab that can do the job for them.
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The center is also looking to add a semi-anechoic chamber for radiated emissions and a reverberation chamber for radiated immunity.
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The need for the center is something that Bogdan Adamczyk, GVSU professor of electrical engineering, said he saw coming about two years ago.
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Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Touching Tale of a McDumbass
Is it just me or is McDonalds in the news an awful lot lately? Almost every day while I am searching for some Dumbass News, I come across some story about some dumbass either suing McD's or some dumbass whose order wasn't to their liking so they go ballistic in the restaurant itself. Today's dumbass is a member of the latter group, someone who goes bat shit crazy because their order wasn't made to their satisfaction.
Elaine Emter of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada is now serving 18 months probation and doing 40 hours of community service after she was found guilty of causing a disturbance and resisting arrest for an incident that took place at, you guessed it(!), McDonalds! Elaine was also found guilty of being a dumbass. After reading the article about this, I'm not so sure the employees at McDonalds shouldn't be labeled as dumbasses too.
Here's the deal: Elaine went through the Drive Thru at McDonalds and ordered a hot fudge sundae. After taking a look at the sundae, Elaine the Drive Thru Dumbass decided that there wasn't enough hot fudge on it and she demanded satisfaction. The McDonalds employee at the Drive Thru demanded a receipt. Unfortunately for Elaine, she misplaced her receipt. The McD's employee told Elaine, no receipt, no more hot fudge. Elaine was not pleased, so she got pissed off and created a scene. The cops were called and when they arrived, Elaine got in their faces and was screaming at them. Elaine, this is a bad thing to do and it removes all doubt that you are a dumbass. It's at this point, however, that I have a problem with the faithful McDonalds employee. As long as Elaine brought back a hot fudge sundae that resembled a recently served hot fudge sundae, why not just give her another squirt or two of hot fudge to make her happy? Now we have two dumbasses in this story. Elaine and the dumb fuck McDonalds employee for being an asshole.
There is more to our little tale. According to the prosecutor in this case, "said Emter tried to drive away, but was stopped and informed she was being charged with causing a disturbance. However, the woman refused to get out of her car and one of the officers had to place her in a choke hold so she could be handcuffed. Marr said Emter then bit one of the officers and they twice used a stun gun on her head to subdue her." Elaine, Elaine, Elaine. I was on your side up to this point, but you blew it with the choke hold thing, the biting a cop thing and the stun gun deal. Elaine, you are a major league dumbass and you're lucky all you got was probation out of this episode. You could have ended up as a "friend" to a chick named Spike while doing time at your local provincial prison.
This whole thing makes me wonder what the hell Elaine would have done if her messed up order included a Double Quarter Pounder with cheese? Dumbass.
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- AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 11:11 AM
You can't blame anything on the McDonald's employee here. As a former employee of the golden arches, at least in the stores I worked in, you can't give out any extras for most things (hot fudge included) without charging for it, or you will get in trouble. I'm not gonna get suspended or even fired over the customer not paying for some hot fudge...ReplyDelete
You are exactly right and I should have thought of that. Thanks for the reminder!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 18, 2014 at 1:32 PM
I had a Long John Silver employee not want to give me replacement chicken because I didn't have a recipt. The chicken was raw in the middle and I was holding it in my hand. Fortunately his manager wasn't a complete dumbass and told him (with a look of annoyance at the employee) to give me more chicken.....sad, sad, world.ReplyDeleteReplies
Raw chicken? Holy shit!Delete
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APPROACH-AVOIDANCE TASK (AAT) - with Mouse Input
Script Author: Katja Borchert, Ph.D. (firstname.lastname@example.com) for Millisecond Software, LLC
Date: 08-17-2012 (original AAT.iqx with joystick input)
last updated: 10-31-2019 by K.Borchert (email@example.com) for Millisecond Software LLC
Script Copyright © 10-31-2019 Millisecond Software
This script implements the Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT) Paradigm with mouse input as described in:
Wiers, R.W., Rinck, M., Dictus, M. & Wildenberg van den, E. (2009). Relatively strong
automatic appetitive action-tendencies in male carriers OPRM1 G-allele. Genes, Brain and Behavior, 8, 101-106.
This script is based on the original AAT.iqx (with joystick input) published by Millisecond Software LLC
Participants are asked to do a categorization task of portrait vs. landscape pictures (of 4 different categories, e.g. alcohol, soda etc).
If the picture is a landscape picture, they are asked to move the mouse AWAY from body which shrinks the picture (=AVOID).
If the picture is a portrait picture, they are asked to move the mouse CLOSER to body which enlarges the picture (=APPROACH).
Pull (Approach) and Push (Avoid) responses in regard to landscape and portrait formats are counterbalanced across participants by groupnumber.
Tasks takes about 6 minutes.
The default data stored in the data files are:
(1) Raw data file: 'AATmouseinput_raw*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)
build: Inquisit build
computer.platform: the platform the script was run on
date, time, subject: date and time script was run with the current subjectnumber
/expcondition: used for counterbalancing experimental conditions
1: push for landscape, pull for portrait
2: pull for landscape, push for portrait
blockcode, blocknum: the name and number of the current block
trialcode, trialnum: the name and number of the currently recorded trial
(Note: not all trials that are run might record data)
/currentTrial: the current trial sequence run (e.g. AAT_1)
/stimulus: the presented stimulus image
/targetcategory: the targetcategory of the targetstimulus, 1 - 4
1) alcohol pictures
2) color and shape matched appetitive stimuli (e.g pictures of soda bottles)
3) positive pictures containing people and animals
4) negative pictures containing people and animals
/targetformat : the targetformat of the targetstimulus (l = landscape; p = portrait)
/mouse_y: helper variable to track the y-position of the cursor
/initialresponse: stores the original response to the stimulus (PUSH vs. PUL)
/ACC: stores the correctness of the initial response (1 = correct; 0 = error)
/finalresponse: stores the final response (at time mouse cursor hits top or bottom of screen): PUSH vs. PULL
/changedirection: stores how often participant changed direction during zooming (0 = no change)
/RT: stores the latency of the initial response (in ms)
/completeRT: stores how long it takes until the cursor hits the screen top or bottom (in ms)
(2) Summary data file: 'AATmouseinput_summary*.iqdat' (a separate file for each participant)
script.startdate: date script was run
script.starttime: time script was started
script.subjectid: subject id number
script.groupid: group id number
script.elapsedtime: time it took to run script (in ms)
computer.platform: the platform the script was run on
/completed: 0 = script was not completed (prematurely aborted); 1 = script was completed (all conditions run)
/propcorrect_overall: proportion correct across all test trials
/meanRT_overall: mean latency (in ms) of correct responses across all test trials
/SD_RT: standard deviation of correct responses across all test trials
/medianRT_overall: median latency (in ms) of correct responses across all test trials
+ corrected AAT Difference Scores for each of the 4 main categories,
Diff Scores = median latency of correct trials for Push trials - median latency of correct trials for Pull trials
!!! NOTE: latency only for initial response
/sequence: the experimental sequence generated for the participant
format/direction counterbalanced by group number (odd vs even) (Inquisit Lab: manual input of subject id and group id at beginning of task)
1. runs a trial sequence generation block via helper script AAT_SequenceGenerator.iqx
2. runs a practice block
3. runs the AAT test block
* 80 test trials (4 categories x 2 formats x 10 repetitions) in a semi randomized order (see below for more info on generating the trial sequence)
* intertrial interval of 300ms
Wiers et al (2009) used a semi randomized order of all 80 test stimuli with the following two constraints:
1. no more than three consecutive stimuli of the same category
2. no more than three consecutive stimuli of the same format
Note: a helper script "AAT_SequenceGenerator" generates a trialsequence that fulfills those constraints.
1. The time to generate this sequence DOES differ across participants
2. The code is specific to running 8 categories
If more categories should be run, go to section 'BLOCKS' and follow instructions to use a complete randomized algorithm (without constraints).
* PracticeStimuli: gray rectangle in landscape and portrait format
* 10 trials (5 landscape and 5 portrait formats in random order)
* gives error feedback
Wiers et al (2009): categorization of 4 types of stimuli
1) alcohol pictures
2) color and shape matched appetitive stimuli (e.g pictures of soda bottles)
3) good pictures containing people and animals
4) bad pictures containing people and animals
* 10 stimuli per category (each of these in landscape and portrait format)
* The stimuli used in this script are based on the original ones used.
Millisecond Software thanks Dr. Wiers for generously sharing his material!
Just a word of caution: the stimuli are culturally specific and may not work for your study. To substitute your own stimuli, go to
EDITABLE CODE -> editable STIMULI -> item.targets
the instructions are not original to Wiers et al (2009). They are provided by Millisecond Software.
They can be edited under section "Editable Instructions"
check under EDITABLE CODE below for (relatively) easily editable parameters, stimuli, instructions etc.
Keep in mind that you can use this script as a template and therefore always "mess" with the entire code to further customize your experiment.
The parameters you can change are:
/Startheight_ratioA: sets the initial size of the landscape pictures (default ratio: 0.5 of active screenheight)
/Startheight_ratioB: sets the initial size of the portrait pictures (default ratio: 0.6 of active screenheight)
/MinHeight_ratioA: sets the the min picture height of the landscape pictures(default: 0.05 => 5% of MaxHeight)
/MinHeight_ratioB: sets the the min picture height of the portrait pictures(default: 0.1 => 10% of MaxHeight)
/intertrialinterval: sets the intertrialinterval for the AAT trials (default: 300ms)
/pixeltolerance: sets the initial tolerance of pixelchanges after participants click
the center cross (so that accidental movements are not 'punished'; default: 10)