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I've actually been busy traveling this week, so I only had a brief moment to check into the site on Tuesday. I visited a gallery or two, saw the interface of images on virtual walls, thought it looked fine, and decided to come back later when I had more time to browse around. That free time didn't actually materialize until Thursday afternoon, when I again logged in and hoped to dig around. I'm deeply sorry to report that this visit was an unfortunate bust. For better or worse, I am a PC user, with Internet Explorer as my browser. Apparently some time between Tuesday and Thursday, it was determined that Internet Explorer was not going to be supported anymore, and so when I logged in, I was urged to download an alternate browser. Having no time or inclination to do this, I went ahead anyway, knowing that this wasn't likely to be successful, and found that I was now unable to access any of the booths. I clicked through to Pace/MacGill for example, it seemed to load, and then gave me nothing but a grey screen - no silhouetted man, no artworks on the white wall, nothing. This was true for every single gallery in the entire fair, which was discouraging.
The only way I could see any images at all was to use the search capability. So I filtered for "Photograph" and was given a series of lists not dissimilar from an online auction catalog: thumbnail image, title, date, other details, and the gallery name. When I clicked through to see a larger image, I was sent to the gallery booth, which was of course, as I've already explained, a grey void. And although I had paid for the VIP privilege of seeing prices, I couldn't actually get any specific prices (since they were in the booths I assume); all I could do was sort the lists by price buckets (i.e. $100K - $250K). Any normal person would now have given up in exasperation or gone back and downloaded an alternate browser as instructed, but I persevered a bit longer to try and get a cursory handle on what photography was on offer, regardless of the failures of the interface I was using.
The show itself is divided into four sections: Premier Large, Premier Medium, Focus, and Emerging. I was able to use the sorting capabilities to determine that there were the following number of photographs on offer in each section:
Premier Large: 206 (out of 1017 total works available)
Premier Medium: 76/472
Focus: 65/169
Emerging: 38/214
Add that up and take a percentage and you'll find that a solid 20.57% of the fair was photography.
The pricing system cut the works into 9 buckets. I've tallied the number of photographic works in each bucket across the four gallery sections and placed those numbers in parentheses:
$1 million + (0)
$500K to $1 million (3)
$250K to $500K (15)
$100K to $250K (33)
$50K to $100K (58)
$25K to $50K (88)
$10K to $25K (108)
$5K to $10K (86)
$0 to $5K (18)
Statistical minded folks will realize that these numbers don't add up to the same total as the ones in the section above, diced by gallery section. I have no idea why the system doesn't true up; my guess is that somewhere the totals got hard coded and then the galleries switched in new pieces as the fair progressed, misaligning the totals.
Since there were so few high end lots, I've decided to outline them in summary here, in order by artist's name, with their gallery locations:
$500K to $1 million
1 Gursky @Spruth Magers
1 Gursky @Gagosian
1 Prince @Gladstone
$250K to $500K
1 Abramovic @Kelly
1 Arbus @Pace/MacGill
1 Rodney Graham @Donald Young1 Nixon (Brown sisters) @Pace/MacGill
1 Penn (cigarette) @Fraenkel
1 Prince @Sadie Coles1 Sherman @Metro
1 Sherman @Spruth Magers
1 Sugimoto (theater) @Fraenkel
1 Sugimoto (theater) @Koyanagi
1 Sugimoto (theater) @Pace
1 Sugimoto (seascape) @Pace
1 Sugimoto (drive-in) @Pace/MacGill1 Wall @Marian Goodman
$100K to $250K
1 Abramovic @Lia Rumma
1 Aitken @Eva Pressenhuber
1 Avedon (American West) @Fraenkel
1 Avedon (Francis Bacon) @Pace/MacGill
1 Close @Pace/MacGill
1 Matthew Barney @Gladstone
1 Hai Bo @Pace/MacGill1 Bochner @Fraenkel
1 Crewdson @Luhring Augustine1 Demand @Spruth Magers
1 Eliasson @i81 Frank @Pace/MacGill
1 Gilbert & George @Bernier Eliades
3 Rodney Graham @Donald Young1 Horn @Hauser & Wirth
1 Isaac Julien @Victoria Miro
1 Mapplethorpe (calla) @Xavier Hufkens
1 Rafael Lozano-Hemmer @OMR1 Maier-Aichen @Gagosian
1 Mikhailov @Pace/MacGill
1 Ruff @Lia Rumma
1 Neshat @ Gladstone1 Roman Opalka @Yvon Lambert
3 Ruff @Mai 361 Ruff (substrat) @Zwirner
1 Struth @Hyundai
1 Struth @Marian Goodman
1 Hank Willis Thomas @Shainman
1 Hannah Wilke @Alison Jacques
In general, while many of the major contemporary art galleries were represented here, only three photography specialist galleries were in attendance that I could see: Pace/MacGill, Fraenkel, and Yancey Richardson.
So I'm afraid this is all the information I can provide, given my limited visit to the fair. As a result, my takeaways on the VIP Art Fair are more in the vain of "what might have been". The concept seems entirely valid and workable, especially for photography, and the brief glimpse I saw of the full interface earlier in the week gave me hope that such a model could work effectively; with roughly 400+ lots of photography on offer, it's the semi-equivalent of one extra large, high end auction catalog. The execution this first time was more than a bit spotty, but I hope this doesn't deter the organizers from improving the glitches for next year. As collectors, we're absolutely ready for such an online fair, if the backend mechanics can run more smoothly.


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It's been a tough couple of years for BMW M fans. First we saw the M badge applied to a pair of SUVs, followed by the demise of the fabled high-revving normally aspirated M engines - only the M3's V8 remains, and that'll soon be replaced by a production-based blown straight-six.
Naturally, purists mourn the passing of these fantastic engines, but times change. With the demand for greater efficiency and cleanliness, there's no place for the E60 M5's wonderful V10. So the F10 M5 followed the trend for downsizing and turbochargers, borrowing the X5M's V8 motor and ushering in a new age of M-Power that's less manic, more refined.
The switch to forced induction brings one obvious benefit: ease of tuning. Where the high-strung V10 had approached the limit for a normally aspirated 5-liter engine, the V8's turbos offer an easier route to dialling in more horses. And while the 560hp M5 4.4-liter V8 could never be described as anything other than highly tuned, the development work for tuners generally involves software rather than extensive hardware upgrades.
This isn't to suggest that Manhart Racing (MHR) hasn't been typically thorough with the engineering of its F10 M5-based MH5S Biturbo. Engine output is tweaked with a carefully reprogrammed ECU and improved breathing thanks to great looking carbon airboxes plus a complete stainless steel exhaust system.
The result is 646hp, representing a 16% increase over stock, and 570 lb-ft, elevating the M5's performance to an even higher plane.
In truth, opportunities to use all the performance are few and far between - even on Germany's de-restricted autobahns. The MH5S gathers speed with such ferocity, that you quickly find yourself travelling massively faster than any of the surrounding traffic.
Our first foray onto the 'bahn saw us spear past 175mph with ease, the DCT transmission serving up a wave of unrelenting thrust that suggested plenty more to come.
Manhart Racing claims the MH5S will hit 196mph (316km/h) flat-out after the new software removes the 155mph factory speed limiter. And from our experience, we'd certainly believe every last km/h of it.
The transition from mooching around town to pinning the speedo on the autobahn demonstrates a Jekyll and Hyde character. The low speed refinement and silky transmission provide sharp contrast and added shock value when the MH5S responds to full throttle.
Of course, much the same could be said of the standard M5 but in the process of extracting more performance, MHR added some personality to the M5 recipe.
While a great deal of its new personality comes from the firm shove in the back, it's the carbon airbox (GruppeM on this car, but MHR is developing its own setup) and custom exhaust that contribute most.
It's amazing how more noise can define the character of a car; in the MH5S it's the defining trait as the engine snorts, snarls and growls up and down the rev range.
Crack the throttle open at low revs and you hear an underhood tornado as boost pressure grows and pressurized air is forced into the engine - an aural warning of the impending onslaught of forward motion. Back off the throttle and there's a huge 'choooof' as excess boost is dumped into the atmosphere; the childish among us will provoke this intentionally (me included). Stay with the throttle though and, as boost rises, the engine gets into its stride. The exhaust note hardens, the V8 rumble giving way to an aggressive blare as rich, powerful sounds flood the cabin from the MHR stainless steel exhaust system. It's an impressive aural performance that's sheer entertainment and sets the MH5S apart.
On top of this is a selection of aesthetic alterations that give the subdued M5 a more imposing look that cleared the overtaking lane rather well. The trump card, the piece that grabbed our attention but would damage your wallet most, was the custom carbon hood with integrated vents, evoking the M3 GTR and aiding engine cooling.
A stroll round the MH5S also revealed a new front spoiler, rear diffuser and trunk spoiler also finished in bare carbon fiber. This particular car was even treated to a matte grey wrap providing greater contrast to those carbon fiber parts that tied everything together.
The cosmetic pieces don't detract from the business of getting from A-to-B as quickly as possible. Aiding the MH5S in its role as a supreme mile-muncher was an adjustable KW Clubsport suspension system unique to MHR, which dropped the MH5S closer to the ground (possibly too close for daily use).
The car sits on a set of 21" three-piece MHR08 wheels supplied by American company ADV.1. They're wrapped in 265/30 front, 305/25 rear Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires; seemingly the rubber of choice for many top tuners these days...
They do a fine job of sticking the BMW to the black stuff, while the firmer damping all but eradicates body roll when pressing on.
The ride quality remains surprisingly compliant despite the skimpy sidewalls, but you're always aware of the 4400 lb curb weight. The nose wants to push in tight turns, and the huge wave of torque easily lights up the huge rear tires if you're running in one of the more relaxed modes.
The MH5S is better suited to fast, sweeping country roads and freeways than tight turns, where it's high-speed stability, immense grip and precise steering come to the fore.
All tuners are in the business of pushing the performance envelope beyond the point where the manufacturers leave off and by tweaking the M5, Manhart Racing has infused the car with a healthy dose of character in the process.
From the snorting histrionics of the carbon induction system and custom exhaust, to the added aesthetic attitude, and the fact the MH5S Biturbo can turn harder than the stock M5, it lays down a marker of what's possible with the F10 M5. And with other companies developing their own conversions, we're sure this sports sedan has even more to offer.
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Music students earn achievement awards
PLAINVIEW -- Wayland Baptist University's Department of Music honored eight of its students with the Music Achievement Awards after a competition recital held Thursday, March 25.
The awards recognize outstanding scholar-musicians, with competition based on academic achievement as well as musical talent and performance. The awards are the highest granted yearly by the music department.
Students compete for the awards by their class year, with two winners per level awarded. Music department faculty served as judges for the event, which featured 19 student performers. Dr. Gary Belshaw, Jennie Lynn Hodges and Polly Morgan served as accompanists for the competition.
The winners of the Musical Achievement Awards are Gabrielle Unfred, first-year pianist from Lubbock; Megan Roberts, second-year percussionist from Clarendon; Curtis Broome, third-year percussionist from Lyons, Colo.; and Candice Lasiter, fourth-year clarinetist from Plainview.
Runners up are Abby Holmes first-year vocalist from Hobbs, N.M.; Mark Franklin, second-year euphonium player from Plainview; Amy Grisham, third-year vocalist from Plainview; and James Moss, fourth-year trombonist from Tahoka.


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But which states will feel these cuts the most (and the least)? The White House has put out a state-by-state breakdown of the sequester's military cuts, which the Washington Post has helpfully compiled, that gives us a sense of who will get hurt and who won't. I took the raw numbers and adjusted for state populations to give us cuts per capita. As you can see in the chart here, Alaska and Hawaii get disproportionately large defense spending cuts for their size, followed not-so-closely by the Washington-metro area.
The 10 States That Should Be Most Afraid (and Least Afraid) of the Sequester's Military Cuts
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Next week I am speaking at an event on reputation management, the date is October 21st and the events location is the Dorchester Hotel, London. The event is held and managed by Augure – Corporate Communications Solution, you do not have to pay anything to enter, but there is limited seat availability so better book now than later.
"Reputation has become a board level priority affecting an organisation's ability to raise capital, attract and retain staff, sell products and services and ultimately compete in today's marketplace."
Really good speakers are doing this event and it looks like a great event for those that are looking to learn about the latest in reputation management.


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We are a small company that do lots of demos and trade shows, so we need a stylish single-page A4 brochure and powerpoint template that we can use to show off our stuff.
Both the A4 brochure and the PPT tempate need to leave sufficient white space in the middle for text and diagrams.
The following words are an important marketing concept for us: "Connect, Automate, Analyse, Understand". We also use the tagline "Enterprise Integration Specialists".
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Who Framed the Murdochs?Rupert Murdoch and James Murdoch pretend they're the victims of unscrupulous employees.
The Huffington Post ChallengeThe legacy media continue to ignore the lesson the aggregation giant is teaching.
Why Newspapers Have Gone to HellNo, the answer cannot be found in the reductionist explanation by experienced newsman James O'Shea.
Who Is Jose Antonio Vargas?A prominent journalist comes out as an illegal immigrant, raising additional questions about his real identity.
"I Would Have Loved To Piss on Your Shoes," Part 2More F.U. gestures directed at bosses by journalists who were fired or resigned.
Bloggers, Not Parasites An academic finds local public-affairs bloggers who pull their weight, thank you very much.
Outrageous! Unethical! Sometimes Criminal!Can anyone—or anything—stop the British tabloids from misbehaving?
The $15,000 InterviewSo what if NBC News and other outlets pay their sources? There are journalistic problems with unpaid sources, too.
Anthony Weiner's Semantic SatiationThe sexting doesn't bother me. The copious apologies on top of the pile of lies do.


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The Dodgers beat the Brewers 12-8 in 10 innings tonight at Miller Park. For a full recap and boxscore click here.
And what a game that was, as the Dodgers rallied to tie the score in the ninth off Trevor Hoffman and then put up six in the tenth to open the game up, only to have the Brewers put up a mini-rally in the bottom of the tenth off Jonathan Broxton. Still, the Blue came away with the win.
It was the Matt Kemp show tonight, as the snubbed center fielder went 3-for-5, including a masterful bunt for a base hit in the ninth and grand slam in the tenth. That's not to mention his Willie Mays-esque catch to end the game, running with his head turned towards the wall but still managing to make the grab.
Chad Billingsley struggled, lasting only 5+ and allowing five runs on five hits and four walks. He raised his ERA to 3.37 heading into the all-star break.
Jonathan Broxton wasn't great either, giving up two runs in the tenth inning in his first appearance since Sunday. It wasn't a save situation, though. An indicator: Broxton didn't strike out any of the seven batters he faced.
Five homers for the Dodgers tonight, the most they've had in a game since the epic back-to-back-to-back-to-back home run game against San Diego on September 18, 2006. You may remember that Hoffman was the partial culprit in the game as well.
Home run hitters included Andre Ethier, Manny Ramirez, James Loney, Russell Martin and Kemp.
Solid relief turned in by Guillermo Mota (allowed only one runner to score when he inherited a bases-loaded, no-out situation, Ramon Troncoso (a scoreless inning and two thirds), and Cory Wade (another scoreless inning).
The Dodgers continue the three-game set in Milwaukee, sending RHP Jeff Weaver (5-2, 3.32) for his first start since June against Brewers RHP Mike Burns (1-2, 5.57) at 4:05 PST.


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Why Darcy would not have married Elizabeth Bennet
Linda Colley
- The Gentleman's Daughter: Women's Lives in Victorian England by Amanda Vickery
Yale, 436 pp, £19.95, May 1998, ISBN 0 300 07531 6
The experience of reading this book is a paradoxical one. Innovative, expertly researched and luminous in style, it nonetheless seems at times almost eerily familiar. The reason for this quickly becomes evident. Those who know their Jane Austen well have been here before. There are echoes of the novels even in some of the characters we encounter in Amanda Vickery's volume: the clergyman's wife from a commercial background, for instance, who – very much in the manner of Mrs Elton – addresses her spouse as 'Mr R'. More important, though, are the similarities in method. Austen claimed to have derived inspiration from the closely observed antics of a narrow sample of comfortably-off county families. Unable to spy on her subjects over the card table or across the assembly room, Vickery has instead haunted the Lancashire Record Office at Preston and pored over all the letters, diaries and account books there written by privileged women between 1730 and 1825.
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EAST LANSING, Mich.—Indiana's Victor Oladipo stood with the basketball roughly 20 feet from the south goal at Michigan State's Breslin Center, and surely the basket was calling to him. There were a half-dozen minutes left with only a point separating the two teams, and the Hoosiers were running out of time to conjure some sort of shot attempt on this possession. This was his moment. What a star typically does here is sweep into the lane, make something extraordinary happen and knife out the competitive heart of the opposing team.
Oladipo passed the ball to an adjacent teammate, which a few seconds later led to a Hoosiers turnover. He'd declined his opportunity to take over the game. And still that game wound up in his hands—over and over and over, until he'd delivered enough special moments to fill every column in the box score that would account for No. 1 Indiana's 72-68 victory over the No. 4 Spartans, a result that gave IU a one-game lead in the Big Ten race.
"What happened is, he's got incredible heart and he just did what he does," Michigan State coach Tom Izzo said. "I can give you our scouting report right now—cut him out, cut him out, cut him out—and he went and got it."
Barricading the front door against Oladipo and allowing him to sneak around to the side might be the greatest favor an opponent can grant him. This is a different sort of stardom: Stealth stardom.
Don't want him to shoot or drive? Fine. He'll steal it and dunk it, or he'll tip in a teammate's miss, or he'll spoil the opponent's essential possession with an unexpected block. And of course the game-clinching final rebound will end up in his hands.
Nearly every opportunity Oladipo has to make a play for himself is left unspent; every time he gets a chance to assist his teammates, he positions himself for the rescue. If he winds up winning the Naismith Award as national player of the year—and that's far from impossible after a game such as this—he might send a couple of teammates to accept it for him and just hang around in case one of them happens to drop it.
Asked how he would define his entirely atypical style of play, Oladipo offers a few items regarding energy and intensity and desire, and in between he says this: "Doing whatever it takes to help my team win."
Here's the thing, though. For most people, that means, "I'll do whatever I'm capable of doing to help." Oladipo, though, can do whatever he wants on a basketball court, and he'll deliver the appropriate action when the moment arrives.
No, really:
10:02, first half: After MSU guard Travis Trice stole the ball from IU's Jeremy Hollowell, Oladipo runs down Trice on the break and blocks his layup attempt into the crowd.
9:48, first half: Oladipo pulls the trigger on a top-of-the-key 3-pointer for a 21-16 IU lead.
7:52, first half: Oladipo slips in behind big Derrick Nix on a low-post double team and swipes the ball from his hand.
5:22, first half: Inbounding underneath the IU basket, Oladipo notices MSU freshman Matt Costello has his back turned to the ball with no idea what Oladipo might do. So Oladipo bounces the ball off Costello's back side, retrieves it and rises for a dunk before anyone can react.
"No matter what game you play, he's always going to go out there and be the best player he can possibly be," said Indiana's Calbert Cheaney, the 1993 Naismith winner and now the program's director of player development. "Whether it be on offense or defense, that's just what Vic does."
At halftime during the ESPN broadcast, Michigan State legend Magic Johnson told the audience it was essential for Hoosiers center Cody Zeller to step forward after a 3-of-6 first half in which he started strongly but drifted into halftime.
"Superstars win games on the road," Johnson said, and he was right on that count, but had identified the wrong Hoosier.
Oladipo, a 6-4 junior from Upper Marlboro, Md., acknowledged he played this game in pain. He'd hurt his ankle in Saturday's comfortable win over Purdue, but he rehabbed hard, practiced Sunday and was announced as fit to play by coach Tom Crean.
As hard as it is to imagine what Oladipo might have been capable of Tuesday had he been 100 percent, he said, "I'm not going to lie, it hurt me a little bit. But I wanted to win and help my team more than anything."
Crean contended Oladipo was tired toward the end, but again it seemed implausible given the string of spectacular plays he almost surreptitiously authored as the game tightened in the final stages:
8:11, second half: Handling the ball to the left of the lane, Oladipo slices to his right and banks it in off the glass for a 59-55 IU lead.
5:58, second half: Three seconds after declining the potential drive and seeing that decision result in a turnover, Oladipo tips a pass from Spartans guard Keith Appling toward freshman Denzel Valentine, saves it miraculously along the right sideline to point guard Yogi Ferrell and then transforms Ferrell's lead pass into a dunk to take back the lead, 61-60.
0:47, second half: Ferrell tries a driving layup that rolls off the front rim, but Oladipo surges along the left baseline and sticks his hand up to tip the ball in for a 68-67 lead the Hoosiers would never lose.
0:10, second half: As forward Christian Watford tries to inbound the ball from a tough angle along the right sideline, the count advances and his only option seems to be timeout. Wrong. Oladipo streaks toward the IU goal and Watford spots him for a long pass that Oladipo dunks for a 3-point lead.
0:01, second half: Having missed the first of three free throws with MSU down three points, Spartans guard Gary Harris makes the second, then misses the third on purpose in hopes a teammate will rebound and tie the game on a putback. Nope. It's Oladipo's ball. Again.
Indiana had secured its first win at Michigan State since 1991; a total of 85 Indiana players graduated without winning at Breslin. But not these Hoosiers.
"He's always made big plays for us. He's a great player with a knack for the ball," Zeller said. "That's what good players do."
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Atomik Dynamic Publisher is available immediately in the UK, Europe and North America. Contact Easypress Technologies [www.easypress.com] to order. Atomik Dynamic Publisher runs as a server product in conjunction with QuarkXPress Server 7 on Mac OS X and Windows servers. The software also runs on Linux and Unix with the Alfresco components installed.
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Easypress Technologies (www.easypress.com) provides software for converting content between XML and QuarkXPress. Its flagship products include Atomik Roundtrip™, which provides full bidirectional XML support for QuarkXPress; Atomik Xport™, which provides automated QuarkXPress-to-XML conversion; and Atomik Import™, which provides flexible import of XML content into QuarkXPress documents. Easypress Technologies is a Quark Preferred Solutions Provider through its Atomik XML Publisher solution for QuarkXPress 7. The company has an extensive global client list that includes Centaur Communications, Economist Intelligence Unit, Euromoney Institutional Investor, Trailfinders, Harvard Business School Publishing, Roularta Media Group, New Statesman, Parade magazine, Federal Reserve Bank, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals, Incisive Media, Sotheby's, Time Out, and Wilmington Group plc. Easypress Technologies is an operating division of EvolvedGroup Limited and is headquartered in Guildford, UK.
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Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are mixed to down with no objectives. Support is at 82.90, 82.50, and 81.70 December, with resistance of 84.20, 85.50, and 85.80 December.
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Opinion: Obama Plays California
Editorial Writer Allysia Finley on the President's visit to moneyed California donors, with a pit stop on the way.
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... I ... well ... Obama spent three days in California this week that's basically fundraiser in chief for the Democrats running in the November elections ... he did a fundraiser in Beverly Hills fall by another fundraiser first with Steven Spielberg of the Shoah Foundation in ... Los Angeles he went Donald will play a good one there ... many ended up in San Jose to another fund raiser among technology executives to talk about all that with me is Wall Street Journal it oral page writer Elisa Finlay ending Alicia and and you know what was interesting about this trip is that there was one place he did not visit in California ... and that was the Central Valley or a lot of a ... cop States farms are ... they have this incredible drop going on there it's really in some ways for most Californians the big story ... but somehow it was in on the president's itinerary obvious explain that paradox all the spray that ... in fact he's only visited Central Valley wants at her ... at ... I will not have ... to Mr. ... I'm so the Bella's couple months ago I did when he scare shooting scene for a couple hours to visit with Jim Aitken crops that ... a Democrat were for and very vulnerable Democrat in the Central Valley district ... when you have right now flying on in the Central Valley is you have probably in need close two million acres ... of land that's going to be fallow because there just isn't enough water ... because of drought diversions for a stand and smells ... of his Abreu ... an abomination environmental vandal it in the straight and won the great ironies is that the depressed received an award for Spielberg fetish for ads and ambassador for humanity ... in meeting their faster for fix this problem or have more like it's DEL ... let's talk about a dollar irony of it just before we came on the president finished the big speech in San Jose on the subject of energy efficiency ... he spoke of like the bomb alternative energy ... what's interesting is he's out there raising millions for endangered congressional Democrats but they include ... Democrats who are really engaged in a terrible ... policy conflict ... or things like the Keystone XL pipeline and fracking for natural gas could you tell Slavov that about who those people are and how that fits in with the kind a speech the president to stay and that's the great irony is the lobbyist money at its plants for BP in seeing that this is all centering at ... a fundraiser for ending ... the Democratic Senate right okay that may be ... a lot this money that is being raised by people a field in the Hollywood and also ... it aam sire of its Alcon values ... I in in a climate change your monitor is just ... pouring millions into ... high into these campaign seemed to of of of ... that fear about you know what climate change or two to two places like places like Central Valley ... ah but the battle is a place of what's he added all the money is coming from places like silk on value seven but he's come from environmental is in its FEP entering the port in places like Louisiana Arkansas ... says she's actually getting money ... indirectly from the screen for step toward our Montreal in Colorado was well writes in a very tight battle with ... unexpectedly so I believe those are the pools acting chairman running things even actually ... the a and soul ... that is that the answer and then being the actually at the answer to eighteen are one Thomas Const Russell is written about this though and it's in ... the elbow has to wonder what what are they what are they getting our ... from this and now it's absolute best name will see whether voters in Louisiana Colorado connect the dots between there and what the president is done in California ... thanks Alicia ...


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In early April, palladium prices attempted a run at the $800-per-ounce level, but were thwarted — quite likely — by the collapse in gold prices. Chart 1 shows that palladium was moving independently, responding to what have become very bullish supply/demand fundamentals. At about the same time that gold peaked at $1,750 per ounce back in October, palladium began a close-to-$200-per-ounce rally that held right up until gold broke below $1,600 per ounce. Palladium could not withstand the winds of liquidation.
Palladium may be rare, but it is not a precious metal, at least not in the same sense that gold is, because its investment sector is negligible. While volatility in gold prices may affect palladium prices in the short term, palladium should not be beholden to the broad precious metals investment climate.
Just about all available palladium supplies are used for industrial purposes. About 70% is used as a catalyst for the exhaust systems of motor vehicles. The balance is used by the jewelry, chemical, and dental industries.
Palladium has taken auto catalyst market share from platinum over the past 10 years. Johnson Matthey (JM) estimates 2012 global platinum auto catalyst demand at just over 3 million ounces. That's down from the 2007 peak of more than 4 million ounces. Palladium demand during this period, on the other hand, experienced explosive growth. JM estimates 2012 usage at 6.5 million ounces, up from 3.5 million ounces in 2003.
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A place to look at the work, new and old, that I have created over the years.
Monday, 27 February 2012
DEATH .... an up and coming premier!
Update to the film 'DEATH'.
Do check out the trailer [ see link below] and if you watch and blink you'll miss the two bits that feature my work! lol!
But it has a really nice soundtrack, from the little I've heard, from Simon Woodgate, and if you know ways of spreading the word then please do Martin a favour and do!
Now for something a little more esoteric [or something].
Along time ago, to eke out a living I did some work for Penthouse magazine, it didn't go very far as my saucy postcard approach was considered 'not raunchy enough' for its illustrious pages. I never knew what happened to the work, it was never 'sold' and never returned [ah the work I've 'lost' over the years.... sigh], but one piece did appear in an illustration website a few years ago. How it got there .... I have no idea, who 'owns' my work .... you guessed .... I have no idea, but I had no objection [per say] to see it put on as an example of my work [lol]. Well recently another piece has been 'posted' and as I stated earlier .... for those die-hard completists of my work here they are ...
So there they are .... Now a shameful plug.
Also seen for sale on Ebay ..... for even more dedicated completists [cough] there is an old fanzine I did some spot artwork for ..... this dates before the
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titles - Copper Toadstool 5, Vol. 3, no. 5.
Lastly, just completed a couple of small pieces for Kobold Quarterly Magazine and will hopefully be able to publish soon. Till the next time.
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Music by: Max Richter and Clyde Otis
This breathtaking and poetic dance for a man and woman explores the haunting, tenuous melodies of Dinah Washington's soulful rendition of "This Bitter Earth" as remixed by British composer Max Richter.
This Bitter Earth is a pas de deux from Christopher Wheeldon's Five Movements, Three Repeats. The full work was originally created for Fang-Yi Sheu & Artists, a group led by former Martha Graham Dance Company star Fang-Yi Sheu that included NYCB dancers Wendy Whelan, Tyler Angle, and Craig Hall. Set to a remix of Dinah Washington's This Bitter Earth and Max Richter's On the Nature of Daylight, the ballet had its Company premiere at NYCB's 2012 Fall Gala.


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Actually it has waited for the weather as a combination of rain and snow in Mobile, Ala., prompted cancellation of the first day of the Mardi Gras Invitational today. The tournament is hosted by South Alabama and is being played at Jaguar Field.
The Lady Bisons, the preseason favorite to win both the Atlantic Sun Conference regular season, had been scheduled to play Central Arkansas this afternoon. Instead, they will play their first regular season game Saturday morning at 9 against Western Kentucky.
"We haven't worked outside as much as we would have liked," said coach Kristin Ryman who is starting her fifth season as head coach of the Lady Bisons. "We got out for awhile when we first started team practice with a week-and-half of great weather. Since then we have had a lot of snow, a lot of rain and a lot of cold weather.
"We have had a chance to get a lot of hitting work in even though we have been inside. Our pitchers have thrown live to our hitters inside. We have made do with our situation. I'm not too concerned with it, but we definitely haven't got outside as much as we would have liked."
Central Arkansas returns 11 players from last season. The Bears were 24-31 last season.
The Lady Bisons return all nine starters from last season, but there will be a different look in the middle of the infield. Senior Abby Keese, a preseason All-Conference selection, will be starting at second base. Sophomore Courtney Billington will move to shortstop.
"Abby has been very open-minded, and we truly appreciate that," Ryman said. "She is somebody who just wants to be in the field and be in the lineup. And she is somebody we need in the lineup.
"This fall and early this spring it has been a matter of her getting used to playing second base. Courtney brings quickness to the table. Abby is versatile enough to easily make the change to second. Abby has handled it well."
Sophomore Whitney Kiihnl, A-Sun Freshman of the Year last season, is expected to get the start in the season opener. Sophomore Mollie Mitchell will be behind the plate.
"We are leaning towards starting Whitney right now," Ryman said. "We have talked about trying to determine some different match-ups. We play Western Kentucky Saturday, a team that we are more familiar with. We would like to create ourselves a good match-up in that game."
Kiihnl was 18-9 last season with 230 strike outs. Ryman and pitching coach Lexi Meyers have been working with Kiihnl on expanding her pitching choices.
"Whitney has relied a lot on a few pitches," Ryman said. "She throws those few pitches so well that she has been very effective. With one year in the conference under her belt she isn't going to be a surprise anymore.
"She has added a couple of pitches. She is really working a lot on the consistency factor and lowering her number of walks. She has to be the same pitcher with runners on as she is when they are not. I think she is a better pitcher now than she was last year."
Ryman could also choose to use either senior Alaina Jacobson or senior Christen Campbell in the opener. Senior Christy Grisham and freshman Ali Watson also are expected to get some work during the tournament.
"We feel confident with our pitchers right now," Ryman said. "We are going to have a lot of options off of the mound."
Rounding out the infield will be senior Kellie Sirus, the Atlantic Sun Preseason Player of the Year, at first base and Campbell at third.
In the outfield will be Mackenzie Tucker in left, senior Lauren Dortwegt in center and freshman Breanna Thurman in right.
The Lady Bisons will play SIU-Edwardsville at 11:30 a.m. Saturday. Sunday they close out the tournament against South Alabama at 2.
"I think it is a great tournament to start with," Ryman said. "We are definitely going to be challenged right away. But I think we need that.
"We have some tough games ahead of us. We are going to have some tough games in the conference. If we can get some wins early in the season and build some confidence it is going to make a difference for us. We have to go out and perform."
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Learners create edible models of the interior composition of the Earth and Moon. Common food items are used to construct the cores, mantles, and crusts of both planetary objects. They then compare their structure as they are eating their models.... (View More) This activity is part of Explore! Marvel Moon, a series of activities developed specifically for use in libraries. (View Less)
Keywords: Differentiation
Audience: Informal education
Materials Cost: $1 - $5 per group of students
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Well, today...my birthday present arrived in the post at 10.30am...Fabric from Spoonflower!!!!! I KNOW! Drool, drool, drool...how am I ever going to get any work done now????? For those of you who haven't heard of Spoonflower they custom print fabric on demand. Yep, you can design your own, or as I did, cheat and buy other people's beautiful designs. Each designer will even get a portion of the amount you pay for any of their designs you purchase. What a great idea.
I'm in heaven, aren't they just divine :-) Happy, happy girl! Happy Birthday to me!!! This is what Mr C gave me for my birthday, took me till February to choose it, and March to receive it, but boy am I happy!!!!
I'm going to spend the afternoon washing, drying and preparing them for each of their projects. Yes, I brought each piece with something in mind...that's why it took me sooooo long to get them. Any excuse to just touch them, I am in heaven. I can't pick an absolute favourite I love them all for the projects I have in mind. I do LURVE the two yards of bamboo cotton it is sooooo soft, with beautiful drape and the big pink peonies are heaven, I'm thinking either a simple dress as the fabric is quite wide or a soft flowy, ruffley top...hhmmmmmmmmmm.
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Nikki Rae Philemon Slemp, 71, of Kimberly Lane, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at her home.
Nikki Rae Philemon Slemp, 71, of Kimberly Lane, died Sunday, Feb. 3, 2013, at her home.
A private celebration of life service will be held at Lexington City Cemetery conducted by Pastor Mike Hillard.
The family will receive friends at the home of a daughter, Alisa Johnson, on Hugh Miller Road, Lexington, on Saturday after 2 p.m.
Mrs. Slemp was born January 19, 1942, in Mecklenburg County, to Wade DeArmond Philemon and Anna Pauline Hamm Philemon. She was retired from Morris Used Cars and a member of High Rock Community Church. In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by a brother, Theodore Everhart.
Surviving are daughters, Sheila Kersey, Alisa Johnson and husband Keith, and Mandi Burkhart and husband Keith, all of Lexington; five grandchildren, Hannah Kersey, Matthew Johnson, Kelsey Johnson, Ashton Burkhart and Madi Burkhart; a brother, Steve Philemon and wife Brenda of Lexington.
Memorials may be made to Davidson County Meals on Wheels, PO Box 1697, Lexington, NC 27293 or to High Rock Community Church, 135 Lowes Blvd. Lexington, NC 27292.
Online condolences may be made at www.davidsonfuneralhome.net


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All the local colleges will be in action this week. This late in the season very few are playing for anything. The exception being the University of Redlands which has an outisde shot at sharing the conference title and a possibility of a wild card playoff berth.
Redlands at Pomona-Pitzer.
It's one of the conference powerhouses against one of the lower tier teams. The Sagehens can throw the ball but don't have much of anything else. The Bulldogs are deeper and more physical and should be able to overpower Pitzer's offensive front so Jacob Caron might not have much time to get rid of the ball.
Redlands 44, Pitzer 14
La Verne at Whittier
This is a toss up but the Leopards have shown more progress lately than the Poets have.
La Verne 28, Whittier, 21
Claremont-Mudd-Scripps at Chapman
CMS has a trio of quarterbacks, two of whom are coming off injuries and the other a junior that hasn't played much. The Panthers are solid and are playing at home.
Chapman 32, CMS 14
Riverisde at Chaffey
Chaffey is coming off a loss to woeful Citrus and Riverside has played better competition than have the Owls. Chaffey is the most penalized team in the state, with 185 yards called against it last week. One of Chaffey's two quarterbacks was a no-show in practice for the first half of the week. That isn't good.
Riverside 28, Chaffey 14
Southwestern at San Bernardino Valley
Southwestern hung 41 on Victor Valley and Victor Valley trounced SBVC. This one should be ugly early, unfortunately.
Southwestern 48, SBVC 10
San Diego Mesa at Victor Valley
If O'Ryan Bradley is back at quarterback the Rams could win a close one. If not they will lose. He is scheduled to go, for now.
Victor Valley 28, Mesa 24


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A Montage of Infomercial Actors Struggling to Do Stuff
In every infomercial, they show someone struggling to do something simple...like use plastic wrap or crack an egg without getting pieces of shell in the food.
And the actors always make it look IMPOSSIBLE. So someone took a bunch of those clips, and posted a four-and-a-half minute montage online.


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"Heaven's Gate" is the Schrödinger's cat of film history. Either the most colossal Hollywood flop of all time or a lost American classic, Michael Cimino's epic 1980 anti-western exists for most people in the black box of its unseen-ness, neither alive nor dead but somehow both. Initial reports wrote it off as self-indulgent twaddle — the movie that wrecked its own studio. Three decades of revisionism have claimed: Not so fast, there's greatness here. So, which is it?
The irony is that the movie itself has never gone away. "Heaven's Gate" was out on VHS by the early 1980s, and in the "legendary, un-cut" 219-minute version, no less. That version — as opposed to the 149-minute cut United Artists forced the director to make after initial reviews savaged the film — has remained available on DVD and even got a brief theatrical re-release in 2005. A painstakingly restored new version of "Heaven's Gate," tweaked by Cimino down to 216 minutes, played the Venice and New York film festivals earlier this year to standing ovations, and it has just arrived on DVD and Blu-ray in a deluxe two-disc package from Criterion.
Yet many moviegoers may still feel they don't have to see the movie to have seen it. That daunting 3½-hour running time is the least of its problems. The legend of "Heaven's Gate" doesn't just precede the film but extends from it in all directions, like an oil spill. This is the movie that was five days behind schedule after six days of shooting. The runaway production whose budget swelled from an initial $12 million to
$44 million ($109 million in 2012 dollars) and that grossed a laughable $3 million in theaters. The putative train wreck whose wunderkind director — Cimino had won best director and best picture Oscars for 1978's "The Deer Hunter" — went through money and reels of film like a drunken sailor goes through grog. The film that was arguably brought down by a single New York Times review (quoth Vincent Canby, " 'Heaven's Gate' is something quite rare in movies these days — an unqualified disaster") and that subsequently brought down United Artists, whose corporate parent, Transamerica, soon after sold the studio to MGM.
These and many, many other details can be found in "Final Cut," the 1985 book written by UA executive Steven Bach about the "Heaven's Gate" production and its aftermath. "Cut" is one of the great Hollywood tell-alls, and for most people it's the only good thing that came out of the fiasco. But is "Heaven's Gate" truly that bad? Or are European audiences and critics who said Cimino's film never got a fair shake right, and is it truly that good? One wonders: Would "Heaven's Gate" even be synonymous with catastrophe if it had had a different title — if that tell-tale "Gate" hadn't been poisoned by Richard Nixon's shenanigans eight years earlier? Heavensgate: It's the Watergate of cinema, a black hole of directorial hubris that fatally bent the perspectives of everyone inside it.
In the end, your decision is pretty simple. Here's a plastic box with two discs in it. Put one of the discs in your DVD player and press play. Watch the movie, now, in 2012. What do you see?
Well, first of all, you see an 1870 graduation sequence set at a Harvard University that, hilariously, patently, isn't Harvard at all but Oxford College in England. (This may matter less to those outside New England or the Cambridge mythos.) There is a barely comprehensible speech by an aging Joseph Cotton, followed by an almost wholly incomprehensible valediction by John Hurt, followed by a rapturously endless sequence of young couples dancing on a campus green. It's as though someone told Cimino that the wedding scene in "Deer Hunter" wasn't long enough — that he could do better, longer, more. There's a point beneath the obsessive frippery, though: that these are the heights from which entitled graduates like Jim Averill (Kris Kristofferson) will fall. "Heaven's Gate" is most properly understood as an elegy for the American Dream, and here is the dream in its most graceful and elitist form.
Still, a full half-hour of setup? The brutal truth is that the Harvard scenes add little to what follows; if "Heaven's Gate" had been a Weinstein project, Harvey Scissorhands might have snipped out the whole prelude. There's a comparison to be made with Francis Ford's Coppola's "The Godfather," which Cimino's film begs with its opening titles and the immigrant waltz that lilts beneath it. But the opening wedding scene in "Godfather" darts and wheels from character to character, deftly sketching their traits and interrelationships. By the time it's over, we have a firm grasp on who Sonny and Michael and Kay and Tom Hagen are (but not Brando's Don Corleone, the enigma who holds the film together). By the end of Cimino's Harvard scenes, we have not a clue as to who's who and why we should care.
It improves. We're suddenly in Wyoming, 20 years later, as the Johnson County War between rich cattle barons and immigrant settlers is about to explode. Kristofferson's Averill is the local marshall and the one decent man of his social class who opposes the barons' death list and 50 hired killers. If this were a 1950s movie, he'd be Gary Cooper's Will Kane standing tall against the bad men, but we're at the tail end of the New Hollywood and the 1970s, when heroism has been laid low by exhaustion and entropy. One of the most frustrating aspects for casual viewers of "Heaven's Gate" — and one of Cimino's major themes — is that the lead character is essentially powerless. This is "Hamlet" on the high prairie.
Other characters surface like flotsam along the top of the movie's relentless mise-en-scene. The young Christopher Walken as Nathan Champion, a genteelly conflicted hired killer who favors eye-liner. Jeff Bridges as the unofficial town mayor, friend to the immigrants and proprietor of the dance hall-roller rink of the title. Sam Waterston narrowing his already beady eyes as the racist leader of the cattle barons. Blink and you'll miss Brad Dourif, Richard Masur, Terry O'Quinn, and a babyfaced Mickey Rourke in his fourth movie.
French actress Isabelle Huppert was cast as Ella Watson, the frontier bordello madam who loves both Averill and Champion; the choice was controversial then and wouldn't be today, when the likes of Marion Cotillard routinely turn up in Hollywood blockbusters. Huppert is very good, and Vilmos Zsigmund's camera adores her, painting the love scenes with a golden patina that turns to mud elsewhere. "Heaven's Gate" is genuinely touching whenever it deals with small moments of intimacy, all the more precious for being so temporary.
The larger picture remains a mess. Aside from one or two characters, the immigrant settlers congeal into a random mob of faces and accents, and the sound-mix fatally buries the dialogue tracks so that it's hard to hear who's saying what. (It's the Robert Altman approach with none of his art.) Cimino isn't interested in characters, anyway, but the sets, the movements of cameras and crowds, the dust. "Heaven's Gate" obsesses on the absolute exactness of everything in the frame, and almost every scene takes five minutes to get started — five minutes of marveling over details that quickly pall without a dramatic motor to drive them.
The final battle, as the armed settlers assail the besieged hired guns, has the potential to be something great, but you sense Cimino is the general up on the hill, looking at his troops through the wrong end of the binoculars. The idea (and it's a good one) was to subvert movie clichés and show the real squalor of armed conflict, but a filmmaker still has to impose some sort of structure — chaos about chaos merely pushes a viewer away. "Heaven's Gate" stands as the most extreme example of the maverick auteurist ethos that held sway in the 1970s and that allowed directors free rein on self-indulgence. (See: Coppola, Francis Ford; "Apocalypse Now" and "One From the Heart.")
With this one movie, that ethos hit the wall. Said one producer, quoted in a 1980 magazine article about the "Heaven's Gate" fallout: "It's the end of the prima donna directors who can do whatever they want." And it was. Hollywood had already seen the light of blockbuster audience-pleasers like "Jaws" and "Star Wars," and overnight Cimino became the industry poster boy for on-set waste and arrogance. The entire experience felt unclean.
Yet it's clearer, all these years later and in a movie culture that knows only how to package and sell us shiny, happy bonbons that never question anything, what Cimino was after: a grand sense of loss. The loss of our national ideals, of the West for the newcomers who first settled it, of democratic community to the monied powers that be. There are lines of dialogue that stick newly in the craw: "It's getting dangerous to be poor in this country." Decades before the terms became fashionable, "Heaven's Gate" showed the
1 percent putting its boot squarely in the faces of the 99 percent.
Defenders say its politics are what got the movie thrown off the cultural cliff, and it's true that Cimino's timing couldn't have been worse: The film was released two weeks after the election of Ronald Reagan announced that the '60s were truly over. American audiences were in no mood for a lecture on their historical sins — they arguably wouldn't be until Kevin Costner's "Dances With Wolves," 10 years later — and certainly not one this ungainly. But the pieces of "Heaven's Gate" that resonate today are imbued with a sadness for the moments that slip away. A people trying to carve a country out of rock and grass, or a man and a woman dancing to a plaintive fiddle — or a foolhardy man trying to make a personal movie in an impersonal industry.
Even with the box open, "Heaven's Gate" remains dead and alive at the same time.Ty Burr can be reached at tburr@
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Mayor Chris Beutler has announced that the City of Lincoln is among 32 communities in 26 states that will receive federal assistance under the Sustainable Communities Building Blocks program. Lincoln requested assistance with reviewing its zoning code to help determine any barriers or gaps facing the development community.
"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will host a workshop in Lincoln in the next few months to educate the community on smart growth and to solicit input from the development community," Mayor Beutler said. "This will help us develop meaningful and consistent revision of development codes and to gain buy-in with codes inspection. The workshop also will help refine and expand the new sections being added to our Comprehensive Plan."
The EPA received 354 letters of interest requesting assistance through the Building Blocks program. The agency, in consultation with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT), selected the 32 communities through a competitive process. Each community chose a specific development challenge to be the focus of the assistance. During the EPA workshop, private-sector experts and participants will explore the selected issue as well as general strategies for environmentally responsible, economically healthy development.
"This award will help us provide public information and solicit public feedback on building code issues that may limit sustainable development patterns and growth," said Fred Hoke, Manager of the City Development Services Center (DSC). "It's more productive to establish code revision priorities with public input. That guidance will help us design and implement our plans."
The Building Blocks program is part of the Partnership for Sustainable Communities, a joint effort among EPA, HUD and DOT to coordinate federal actions on housing, transportation and environmental protection. The primary goal of the interagency collaboration is to invest federal funding more efficiently in infrastructure, facilities and services that meet multiple economic, environmental and community objectives.
"The public-private partnerships in the Building Blocks program give communities new and proven tools to maximize the health and economic benefits of brownfields revitalization," said EPA Administrator Lisa P.Jackson. "This is another great example of how a targeted investment in protecting public health can create jobs and strengthen the economic future of our communities."
More information on the Building Blocks program can be found at http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/buildingblocks.htm
More information on the Partnership for Sustainable Communities can be found at http://www.epa.gov/smartgrowth/partnership/index.html


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New law urged to better protect Lake Eyre Basin rivers
A meeting in western Queensland has called for a special Act of Parliament to manage rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin.
Graziers, scientists and traditional owners at the conference, which has wrapped up in Longreach, have developed a communique which has been sent to the Queensland and South Australian premiers and federal Environment Minister Tony Burke.
It has called for no further irrigation and the rejection of mining activity in floodplains and rivers in the Channel Country.
The Queensland Government is consulting over plans to remove Wild Rivers protection for rivers that flow in the Channel Country and into Lake Eyre.
Professor Richard Kingsford from the University of New South Wales says new legislation would permanently protect the rivers and ensure the environmental mistakes that were made in the Murray-Darling are not repeated.
Professor Kingsford says new legislation would permanently protect the basin.
"Well it could be a national Act but currently under the constitution, land and water management is governed by the states," he said.
"So it really would be incumbent on the states and the Northern Territory to have that sort of legislation.
"So it is very important we believe that that legislation has power to restrict developments that would affect the river flows in this wonderful river system."
He says it would need cross-border cooperation.
"We are concerned that the current legislative frameworks are strong enough to protect the values that people have and we are talking specifically here about the possibility of having a Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Management Act, which does that appropriately, not just in Queensland but throughout the Lake Eyre Basin," he said.
The Queensland Government says it expects a report from an advisory panel next month on an alternative framework to Wild Rivers protection.
Land release
Meanwhile, Queensland's Minister for Natural Resources and Mines says he expects exploration companies to be "significantly interested" in the release of land in the state's north-west.
The State Government has announced the release of three areas of land, covering more than 2,300 square kilometres near Bedourie.
Andrew Cripps says recent surveys of the area have found it to be potentially rich in minerals and possibly rare earth elements.
"This is an area which has proven historically to be in the north-west minerals province where there's a lot of resources available - currently the region [is] producing over 80 per cent of Queensland metal resources," he said.
"We expect that there will be a lot of interest.
"We've recently undertaken work in the form of those surveys and we believe those surveys have provided us with the data that the geology in the area is rich with minerals."
He says the land had previously been restricted by the Government.
"The Government maintains the restricted areas and controls the release of the areas until we've got data supporting the prospectivity of the land," he said.
"These are planned releases and promote the exploration opportunities in north-west Queensland in an orderly fashion."
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They say that imitation is flattery, but when it comes to arcade marble-poppers LUXOR by MumboJumbo may not be an original concept, but this port to the iPhone is immediately fun and challenging; so what more could you ask for? There are three major schemes for controlling the marble-shooter, but sadly the two optional methods seem to exist more as a side-note, with neither one being practical for use. Your shooter can be smoothly dragged around the bottom of the screen, with vertical…Watch The Video Review


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Electronic Arts founder Trip Hawkins had a lifelong fascination with games. "I fell in love with complex board games like Strat-O-Matic and Dungeons & Dragons," he told us. "I realized I was making invaluable social connections from playing games and that my brain was more active."
"In the summer of 1975 I learned about the invention of the microprocessor and about the first retail store where a consumer could rent a timesharing terminal to use from home," he remembered. "That very day I committed to found EA in 1982. I figured that it would take seven years for enough computing hardware to get into homes to create an audience for the computer games that I wanted to make."
After graduating from Harvard, Hawkins moved across the country to pursue an MBA at Stanford, a decision that placed him at ground zero of the personal computer revolution.
"When I finished my education in 1978 I got a job at Apple. When I started there, we had only fifty employees and had sold only 1,000 computers in the history of the company, most of them in the prior year. Four years later we were a Fortune 500 company with 4,000 employees and nearing $1 billion in annual revenue."
Machines that had once filled entire rooms at universities could now be had for less than $500 dollars and fit nicely on a corner desk in the family recreation room. Affordable microcomputers like the Apple II, Commodore 64, and Atari 400/800 brought real number-crunching power to the average person, allowing them to figure their income taxes, write school reports, and of course, play games.
Flush with cash from Apple's IPO, Hawkins knew that it was time for him to make his move. "Right on schedule, I resigned from Apple in January, 1982, but they convinced me to stay a bit longer. I finally left for good in April and on my own I incorporated EA on May 28, 1982. I personally funded it for the next six months. Initially, I worked by myself out of my home, and then in August began using an office at Sequoia Capital, where I also began hiring the early employees." San Mateo, California would become their permanent headquarters for many years until a 1998 move to nearby Redwood City.
The only thing left to do was come up with a name. "The original name had been Amazin' Software. But I wanted to recognize software as an art form and wanted to change it to SoftArt. But Dan Bricklin of Software Arts asked us not to use that name. So, in October of 1982 I called a meeting of our first twelve employees and our outside marketing agency and we brainstormed and decided to change it to Electronic Arts."
From the beginning, Hawkins had an ambitious view of what games could be. "We learn by doing," he said, "and computer simulation was the most efficient way to do this. I wanted to help the world transition from brain-deadening media like broadcast television to interactive media that would connect people and help them grow."
Hawkins also wanted to properly credit and compensate the talent that produced games, giving them the same respect that artists in other media enjoyed. He envisioned Electronic Arts as a publishing company that would be known for its quality and professionalism, working with the best independent talent to make the computer game industry equivalent with film, books, or music.
Electronic Arts shipped its first titles, Hard Hat Mack, Pinball Construction Set, Archon, M.U.L.E., Worms?, and Murder on the Zinderneuf in the spring of 1983. The games were packaged in unique gatefold sleeves, with the designer's names on the front and an elegant graphic design that gave them the hip appearance of rock albums.
"It was a pleasant surprise that the media quickly embraced my vision and lifted the profile of the company," Hawkins remembered. "In hindsight, my choices of the first round of products turned out amazingly well. Of the first six games, three of them ultimately made the Computer Gaming World Hall of Fame, and a fourth one charted on the bestseller lists of the day."


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SAN RAMON, CA — 24 Hour Fitness is the official sponsor of the U.S. Olympic Team in a first ever partnership by a national fitness operator. The agreement designates 24 Hour Fitness as the exclusive official fitness center of the U.S. Olympic Team through the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing.
The sponsorship automatically grants future 24 Hour Fitness memberships to eligible U.S. athletes training for the Olympic Games and Olympic Winter Games. In addition, the company will upgrade the U.S. Olympic Training Centers in Colorado Springs, CO, Lake Placid, NY and Chula Vista, CA, with the same equipment found in all 300-plus 24 Hour Fitness locations nationwide. 24 Hour Fitness will also provide athletic training equipment at high performance centers for the U.S. teams at the Olympic Games in Athens, Greece in 2004 and Beijing, China in 2008; and the Olympic Winter Games in Torino, Italy in 2006.
As part of its sponsorship of the U.S. Olympic team, 24 Hour Fitness will work with the USOC's Sports Science and Sports Medicine divisions to research and develop specialized programs to support the training of U.S. Olympic hopefuls, as well as 24 Hour Fitness' members.
The 24 Hour Fitness sponsorship will allow the chain to capitalize on the popularity of the Games including advertising and promotional use of U.S. Olympic marks and graphics for advertising and marketing purposes.
"This is one of the most exciting days in our 20-year history," said Mark S. Mastrov, chairman and CEO of 24 Hour Fitness. "The synergies between the USOC and 24 Hour Fitness are unparalleled. We are thrilled to be a part of the U.S. Olympic movement and with our goal being that this USOC partnership will enhance our ability to inspire people to make fitness a way of life."
Using the sponsorship as a platform, 24 Hour Fitness will develop a full array of marketing initiatives designed to increase brand awareness while providing numerous benefits to 24 Hour Fitness members, partners and athletes. To start, 24 Hour Fitness plans to create new U.S. Olympic-themed training programs and classes in all of its clubs.
"This is the beginning of a tremendous partnership that gets to the core of our mission to train and support America's top athletes as they strive to achieve their Olympic dreams," said Jim Scherr, USOC chief of sport performance. "For the first time in our history, athletes will benefit from 24 Hour Fitness' network of state-of-the-art fitness centers, which operate at any hour of the day, seven days a week."


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In 1958, Look magazine published a portfolio of Harvey Schmidt's painting of Mexico City, done while Schmidt was there on summer vacation in 1957. Schmidt said, "I don't feel for myself a division between 'fine art' and other art. I think of myself as a reporter rather than a painter... art for me is simply contact with people, evoking a response from people. The things I like most myself nearly always seem to communicate most successfully to others. I never try to make people understand. I just do the best I can."
One more from the May 1959 issue of American Artist magazine...
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Harvey Schmidt: "I don't feel for myself a division between 'fine art' and other art."
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It's always good to see a reportage series in a magazine. I wonder if Schmidt pitched it to Look…?ReplyDelete
Harvey once recounted an interesting experience he had in Mexico City. While he was staying in a ground floor hotel there was an earthquake. He said the bed "walked" out the door and he found himself in the courtyard! Perhaps the reason for a little hint of surrealism in the images?ReplyDelete
So great to hear a personal anecdote to the story like that - thanks Suzanne!ReplyDelete
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Viamente Route Planner API
The Italian service maps optimal routes to maximize efficiency of deliveries and other transportation services. It develops route coverage with multiple destinations and vehicles, with scheduling and turn-by-turn directions adaptable to mobile phones and GPS devices. API methods support listing of destinations to be included in a route and creation of a routing matrix, including efficiency optimization functions. Methods also support tracking and updating a vehicle inventory for fleet operations.