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Im sure you know as well as I do how annoying a desktop tower can sound when it is running at full capacity. Sometimes it's not that it's loud, but it's because of the high pitch winding noise that comes out of the computer. There are ways to soundproof your desktop computer, and you can also go the DIY route and make a complete silent pc build. It might not be entirely soundproof, but you sure can do things to make your desktop computer much quieter.
Here are our Top 10 Tips to get that silent gaming experience. Or at least have a quiet computer in your home office.
1 – Keep Your Computer Clean
The first and one of the essential noise reduction aspect is cleanliness. A clean PC is usually a quiet PC. I'm obviously talking about the literal aspect of cleanliness and not file dumping. Open up your PC tower a couple of times a year and vacuum the inside. It only takes a few minutes to do, and you would be surprised as to how much dust can accumulate inside a computer.
The amount of cable clutter within your computer tower doesn't have much of an influence on temperature but it does have an influence when it comes to noise. Fewer cables you freely have inside your computer casing the less turbulence you will have and the quieter your computer will become. If you do have a lot of cables inside your computer casing, use plastic zip ties to wrap them together so they're not cluttering the inside of your computer.
2 – Quiet PC Fans with the "BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 Cooling Fan"
Most of the noise can come directly from your cooling system. It's not the fact that you may have too many fans but you might not have the right type of fans to make your computer silent.
You can buy quiet PC fans for a lot less money than you might expect! The best quiet computer fan we tested is the "BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 Cooling Fan". These cheap, quiet PC fans are usually around 25 dollars. You can certainly buy a more expensive quiet computer fan, but the BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 is all you need!
At low speed, the BeQuiet Silent Wings 3 is nearly silent. When at high speed, they're making a tiny bit of noise but far from your typical computer cooling fans. Doing 1600 RPM on a 140mm fan is obviously going to make "some" noise; I can only compare this cooling fan to the Noctua fans on my CPU cooler, and those do seem louder at max, and they spin 100 RPM slower.
What this fan does very well is avoiding making mechanical and electrical noise, even at moderate speeds. It's mostly just the winding noise of air until you get closer to max speed. My other fans produce a mild hum when running at moderate speed. The air winding noise does seem a bit lower pitched as well, and that's exactly what I look for in a cooling fan.
Another thing to point out is that the frame has a rubber coating for maximum sound absorption. Click here for the current Amazon Price for this cooling fan.
3 – Proper Cooling Fan Placement
Cooling is a struggle between temperature and noise. If you can manage to keep your PC cool, then you should have less noise in return. People often make the mistake of running as many fans as they can cram into their system.
The key here is to find the right balance between the number of fans and the speeds they have to run to keep your computer tower from overheating. To achieve this, you can either spend big money on expensive fans or be clever with the gear that you have.
The air that your cooling fans are producing must have a clear path to leave the interior of your computer. Try to set up your fans so that all air moves in a straight line. Bottom to top, front to back or even inverted versions can also work; as long you don't have opposing fans or obstructions to the flow. The smoother the air flows, the less hard your cooling fans need to work, and the quieter your computer system will be.
4 – How To Set Up Automated Fan Controls To Achieve Quiet Computer Fans
Most motherboards, graphics cards and even the computer casing itself have fan controls. You might not know this, but you can make changes to your fan controls, so they work more efficiently.
Go into your BIOS or GPU software and create a custom profile. Some PC components can raise the level of heat within your computer. Make a profile that uses minimal fan speed while your computer is idling. I have to admit, I have no clue what so ever how to configure the way your fan operates. But our friends at How-To-Geek can certainly show you how. Follow this link find out how to auto-control your PC's fans for cool and quiet operation.
5 – Remove Non-Essential Moving Parts
Other than fans, your PC can have many moving parts like hard drives and optical drives. Make sure these two particular pieces of hardware are not spinning when you're not using them.
It's not a bad idea to auto-set your hard drive into sleep mode when it's not in use for a predetermined amount of time. Go to your control panel and select the "energy settings" option and you should be able to find what you're looking for in there.
You can avoid those annoying optical cd/DVD drive spin-ups by ejecting the disk. Removing the optical drive altogether is not a bad idea either because speaking for myself, I hardly ever have the optical drive in use. Buying an external optical drive could solve that problem by only connecting it when you need to use it.
6 – Where You Keep Your Computer Can Have an Impact
Where you keep your computer can have a great impact on perceived noise. Make sure intakes and exhaust are completely unobstructed. Move the computer system as far away from where you're desk chair. Unless you want to show off your computer of course.
7 – Sound Deadening Computer Case
The thicker and stronger your computer casing is the quieter it should be. Avoid rattling plastic panels or cases with ultra-thin metal panels. I did find some computer cases made of very thick steel that are quieter than cases with pre-installed sound deadening features.
It all depends on how much you're willing to spend on a computer case. I have a PC case with thick sound deadening material inside it, and I do find that there is a difference between the computer I have now and the one I had in my previous casing regarding soundproofing.
The Corsair Carbide Series 100R Silent Edition (Amazon Link) is the computer case I would recommend if you don't want to spend hundreds of dollars for a computer casing. Corsair's Silent Edition is the best value for what you're getting regarding a premade sound deadening computer case. It comes with sound dampening side panels and a 3-speed fan controller. The fans can power up on overdrive only when performance requires it.
This computer case also comes equipped with two silent fans. My only problem with this case is the power light is brighter than a freaking lighthouse! If you keep your computer in a bedroom, then you can simply turn that light off permanently by disconnecting the LED wires.
If you don't want to go as far as buying a brand new case, you can go the DIY route. Install the
Sound Deadening Computer Case
SilverStone 1″ X 15″ 4mm Thick sound-dampening acoustic silent foam on the inside of your PC panels. That will certainly help silent your computer.
8 – Use Vibration Canceling Ring and Mounts Inside Your Computer
If your quiet computer fan comes with vibration canceling rings or mounts, use them. The same goes for installing power supplies and hard drives. If your computer casing does not come with these types of rubber washers; Why not make some yourself from a rubber sheet or even from an old mouse pad.
You can also buy some cheap rubber rings and washers at your local hardware store.
9 – Underclock Your Computer Speed To Reduce Noise and Heat
If you know how to underclock your PC, it will have a considerably longer hardware lifespan, reduced heat generation (and hence dissipation), decreased electrical power consumption, increased stability and reduced noise from mechanical cooling parts.
If you don't require the extra speed your computer has in its arsenal; why not lower it down a few notches?
Click the link for complete in-depth depth instructions on How to underclock your PC.
A couple of things I should warn you about though;
- Underclocking will reduce overall computer performance.
- Underclocking voids the system warranty on most computers, depending on the manufacturer.
So there you have it, our top 9 tips to make your PC quiet. If you followed most of these steps, your computer should be much quieter and should also consume less electricity and generate less heat.
Please let us know in the comment section below if you have additional tips we might have missed. Let us also know if some of these tips helped you out, we love receiving reader feedback.
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Houston Bar Association to Honor Ajamie LLP Attorneys Courtney Scobie, Ryan van Steenis
Houston, TX (Law Firm Newswire) May 11, 2017 – Ajamie LLP is pleased to announce that the Houston Bar Association (HBA) will recognize two of the firm's attorneys at the HBA's Annual Dinner meeting on May 18 at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston.
Bar Association President Neil Kelly will recognize Courtney Scobie with the President's Award for her participation in HBA's AIDS Outreach Program. Ms. Scobie chairs the Outreach Committee, which is responsible for providing holiday gifts for families affected by HIV or AIDS and for hosting the Spring Luncheon for residents of Bering Omega House. In her capacity as Senior Counsel at Ajamie LLP, Courtney' s practice is focused on complex commercial litigation in state and federal courts and federal government investigations.
Her efforts with the Bar Association's AIDS Outreach Program are part of the firm's longstanding commitment to combating the AIDS crisis. Ajamie LLP is also an active supporter of the American Foundation for Aids Research (amfAR). Founded in 1985, amfAR is dedicated to ending the global AIDS epidemic through innovative research.
Ryan van Steenis will receive the President's Award for participating on the CLE Committee as an Online Subcommittee Co-Chair. The Bar Association's Continuing Legal Education program offers an array of legal education courses to new and seasoned attorneys in the greater Houston Area. As an associate with the firm, Mr. van Steenis provides our clients with considerable experience in resolving complex commercial litigation and business disputes.
Please join us in congratulating Courtney and Ryan on May 18 at the Annual Dinner Meeting. Additional information on the event can be found on HBA's website here.
About the Firm
Ajamie LLP is a unique, boutique litigation law firm with a proven track record of large recoveries for victims of financial fraud at trials and arbitrations as well as a long history of defending corporations in complex commercial litigation. The firm is also widely recognized for providing cross-border representation in complex business litigation matters and has the skills and resources to represent clients worldwide.
Debbie Molloy
Manager of Research and Communications
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711 Louisiana, Suite 2150
Houston, TX 77002

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Barnes' bunt, blast back Buehler's stellar start to lead Dodgers past Rays
Walker Buehler pitched in the World Series like the Los Angeles Dodgers' aces of old.
Think Sandy Koufax, Fernando Valenzuela and Orel Hershiser, all leaders of title runs.
Now Buehler has the Dodgers two wins from the championship that has eluded them since 1988.
"Being a big-game pitcher and really succeeding on this stage, there's only a few guys currently and throughout history," Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. "He's in some really elite company,"
Justin Turner homered in the first inning against a surprisingly hittable Charlie Morton, who was chased in the fifth.
Austin Barnes, the Dodgers' No. 9 hitter and catcher, added a sixth-inning homer against John Curtiss. He became just the second player to drive in runs with both a homer and a sacrifice bunt in the same Series game.
He'll probably remember the home run most.
"It's a cool little stat, but it's not easy to barrel the ball up against all these really good pitchers," Barnes said.
Los Angeles overwhelmed Tampa Bay in all phases, leaving the Rays' scuffling offence with a .206 batting average and 11 runs in the Series. The Rays' .133 average (6 for 45) against Clayton Kershaw, Tony Gonsolin and Buehler is the lowest through three Series games against a team's starters since the Boston Red Sox held the Philadelphia Phillies to .129 in 1915, according to STATS.
Julio Urias, a hard-throwing Mexican left-hander in a Dodgers lineage dating to Valenzuela, starts Game 4 on Saturday night, while the Rays start Ryan Yarbrough, who relieved in the first game.
Thirty-eight of 59 previous teams that won Game 3 for a 2-1 lead went on to take the title.
Justin Turner and Austin Barnes homered for the Dodgers, who have outhomered the Rays 7-4 in the Series and opponents 25-16 in the post-season. Barnes also drove in a run with a squeeze, the second player with RBIs on a bunt and home run in a Series game behind Hector Lopez of New York Yankees in Game 5 of 1961.
Steely-eyed like Hershiser, who won MVP honours of the 1988 Series, Buehler has supplanted Kershaw as the Dodgers' ace. He showed no indisposition from the blister on his right index finger that has bothered him.
He has allowed one run in 13 Series innings that include seven scoreless in Game 3 against Boston two years ago. He improved to 2-0 with a 1.80 ERA in four post-season starts that include the win over Atlanta in Game 6 of the NL Championship Series last weekend.
The 26-year-old right-hander started 15 of 21 batters with strikes and threw strikes on 67 of 93 pitches. Buehler didn't allow a hit until Manuel Margot's one-out double in the fifth. Willy Adames then drove in Margot with another double.
Tampa Bay's only other hit off him was Austin Meadows' leadoff single in the sixth.
"You can see the fastball just pop through the zone," Rays manager Kevin Cash said. "Other than a few breaking balls here or there, it was very much a there it is, hit it approach. You totally understand and appreciate why he's so talented."
Rays batters were kept off balance by his mix of 59 four-seam fastballs, 14 knuckle-curves, 12 sliders and eight cut fastballs. He became the first pitcher in the Series with 10 or more strikeouts in six or fewer innings.
"That might have been the best I've ever seen him," Barnes said.
Blake Treinen and Brusdar Graterol followed with a perfect inning apiece. Kenley Jansen finished the four-hitter, giving up Randy Arozarena's record-tying eighth post-season homer.
Morton, a right-hander who turns 37 on Nov. 12, had entered unbeaten in seven straight post-season decisions, one shy of Orlando Hernandez's record, including wins in five consecutive post-season starts. But he took the loss, allowing five runs and seven hits in 4 1/3 innings — more than the four runs total he gave up in his previous five post-season starts combined.
No Rays starter has finished the fifth inning in their last five Series starts since Matt Garza in Game 3 against Philadelphia in 2008. Tampa Bay repeated its pattern of a dozen years ago, losing the opener, winning the next game and dropping the third.
"I wasn't particularly sharp," Morton said. "I felt like I was able to get two strikes pretty quickly with a lot of guys and just not able to put them away."
Turner put the Dodgers ahead on Morton's 14th pitch, turning on a high 94.8 mph fastball with a 1-2 count and driving the ball 397 feet over the left-field wall. Turner's home run was the 11th of his post-season career over 69 games, tying the team record set by Duke Snider over 36 games with the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers from 1954-59.
Los Angeles extended the lead to 3-0 in the third when Morton hit Corey Seager on a toe with a pitch, Turner doubled and Max Muncy drove a cutter into centre for a two-run single.
After singles by Cody Bellinger and Joc Pederson, Barnes drove in a run with the safety squeeze to first baseman Ji-Man Choi, the first RBI bunt in the Series since the Rays' Jason Barlett in Game 2 in 2008 and the first since for the Dodgers since Billy Cox in 1953.
Mookie Betts followed with a two-out RBI single that made it 5-0, and Barnes homered off John Curtiss in the sixth. Five of the Dodgers' first six runs scored with two outs, raising their total to nine of 18 in the Series and 50 of 87 in the post-season.
"Obviously there's two outs, but you can still build an inning not giving away at-bats," Betts said. "That's how you win a World Series."


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Since it launched the model in 1999, the BMW X5 has been referred to by BMW not as a 'Sports Utility Vehicle', but as a 'Sports Activity Vehicle'.
Semantics? Undoubtedly. And yet four generations, 2.2 million sales and an amazing rise to prominence suggest Munich's marketing department knew what it was doing.
Now, just as it is for the Porsche 911 or Volkswagen Golf GTI, such success is why the new G05-generation X5 has so little margin for error. In fact, the class-leading expectations placed on this new iteration far outweigh those of its great-grandfather, whose brand cachet, practicality and handling prowess made it a winner.
The game has moved on, and BMW has identified comfort as a core dynamic attribute for the car in 2018. Consequently, this new X5 uses acoustic glass for the windscreen and, optionally, the side windows; the suspension is now pneumatic; there is electronic roll stabilisation on some models; and passengers can enjoy four-zone climate control and an enlarged panoramic glass roof.
Naturally, BMW promises a more involving driving experience than ever, and we'll shortly discover whether its engineers continue to defy the laws of physics in this respect.
Equally, this X5 uses a significant level of autonomous technology. The car can operate free from human input at modest speeds, and BMW has deployed its first in-cabin camera, rather than steering-wheel sensors, to ascertain whether the driver is paying attention to the road ahead by scanning their eyes.


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Some Filofax users seem to be naturally organized, highly efficient individuals. I am sadly not one of them. Left to my natural tendencies I forget appointments, names, dates, and to do things as simple as sweep the kitchen. Before Filofax (B.F.) I relied heavily on other people to keep up with things, and really lots of things went forgotten and eventually fell through the cracks. Like many non-planner users, I thought that I had a very good memory and that I got along just fine without planning.
My current setup is devised to balance many competing desires; I want weekly perspective with plenty of space to write every day. I want portability but also want to have everything at my fingertips. I want to use a binder that makes me smile every day, but that binder also needs to be robust enough to handle the bumps and bruises of daily, heavy use with aplomb. Janet's comment about her filofax needing to work as hard as she does really resonates!
After playing around with various inserts, sizes, brands, and binders over the past few years, I've landed on a setup which meets my current needs beautifully and works extremely well.
The lovely Natalie sold me her 5/4 Winchester which is what I'd planned to use, but when I actually got the setup all thought out and put together I did not need the extra capacity so I stuck with the vivid red ⅞ model. This binder is fabulous and absolutely makes me smile every day. It is just right in every way, just the right size, just the right color, just the right amount of flexibility to the covers…
Immediately following the notepaper is my DayTimer two-page-per-day diary insert. This is the real meat of my planner and where I have the planner open to throughout the day. There are eleven lines for tasks, 8am-8pm scheduling (which is my biggest complaint about these pages, my day frequently ends much later than 8pm!), and an open page with 40 lines for notes. As you can see, I stamp the top of the notes page with my daily home routines stamp; the left hand column is generally done in the morning before work, and the right hand column in the evening after work. I check these items off as I do them. Most of these are really 5 minute tasks which, when done daily, help enormously to keep up with the housework and prevent things from going all out of control. The rest of the notes page I use for free-form note taking throughout the day. I jot figures when I am working with budgets, I write down checks written, phone numbers, anything I want to transfer into my reference binder at home. At the end of the day I usually jot down some a list of good things that happened that day, a "gratitude list." I mark the current day with a frosted today marker.
All other scheduling goes onto the weekly diary, which is slotted in just after the daily pages. I'm using a week on two pages with lines from Filofax. I write in meetings, appointments, and ticklers here. If I send an email today and want to make sure I have a response, I will jot in a "F/U w/ABC" next week (meaning "follow up with 'initials of person').
I also used the month on one page tabbed from DayTimer (which comes with the daily diary) to help me flip easily from month to month. These have a month view on the front and a list of tasks to complete that month on the back. I use them just for very basic overview and to jot out tasks I plan to accomplish during that month.
To make this system work, I need to do a weekly changeover, which is normally done on Sunday evening. I start by flipping through the coming week's pages and copying all appointments and tasks onto their appropriate day pages. I then go day by day through the prior week's daily pages and insure that everything was done or logged, and transfer any unfinished items to the coming week's daily pages. I review my "waiting for" list and my monthly task list and add anything in. I then remove last week's daily pages and insert the newly prepared coming week's pages. The whole process takes about 15 or 20 minutes, and in the process I get a thorough review of the past week and a good look at the coming week, preparing me for what comes ahead.
I keep the archived pages and the coming weeks' pages in a storage binder; this one happens to come from Franklin Covey but I prefer the DayTimer version.
So that's my system in a nutshell. It takes some maintenance to run but that maintenance serves as a useful reminder of things that have happened, things coming up, and things I need to plan for or around.


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Widespread detention of non-citizens is an unnecessary component of enforcing immigration laws. Indeed, immigration detention itself, without judicial oversight, runs counter to basic constitutional principles of substantive and procedural due process and violates international human rights laws that prohibit the government from arbitrary deprivations of liberty. As concluded by the UN Special Rapporteur, "The overuse of immigration detention in the United States violates the spirit of international laws and conventions and, in many cases, also violates the actual letter of those instruments. The availability of effective alternatives renders the increasing reliance on detention as an immigration enforcement mechanism unnecessary. Through these alternative programmes, there are many less restrictive forms of detention and many alternatives to detention that would serve the country's protection and enforcement needs more economically, while still complying with international human rights law and ensuring just and humane treatment of migrants."
Click here to see the report from Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service


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Discrete methods in combinatorial geometry and geometric topology
A group of researchers has a sound tradition in the study of algebraic and geometric structures, which are either discrete or can suitably be treated through discretization techniques: The study of such topics embraces themes of great interest for their applications to science and technology. For instance, graphs are employed nowadays within the most common data structures and computing algorithms, and can even be encountered in the study of social and financial phenomena; knot theory is connected with the study of biological structures (comparison of genetic data) and physical structures (string theory); computational topology has become a basic tool for the computer guided description and comparison of shapes, with a subsequent fallout on graphic manipulation, on the comparison of models and on the acquisition of visual information. A good amount of experience was gained in enumerative problems from various contexts, developed on different platforms, which is susceptible of further growth.
The three main areas of investigation are the following:
Algebraic and differential topology
- Topology and geometry of manifolds
- Combinatorial group theory
- Algebraic topology, homological algebra and L-theory
Applications of crystallization theory to geometric topology and quantum gravity
- Relations between crystallization theory and colored tensor models in quantum gravity
- Trisections of PL 4-manifolds with boundary
- Generation of catalogs of PL 4-manifolds using colored graphs and their classification
- Graph coloring, decomposition and characterization
- Matching search, perfect matchings (1-factors), 2-factors
- Graph theory techniques applied to DNA assembly problems
Staff researchers:
Arrigo Bonisoli, Simona Bonvicini, Maria Rita Casali, Alberto Cavicchioli, Paola Cristofori, Carla Fiori, Carlo Gagliardi, Fulvia Spaggiari
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In light of the Arizona shootings, there is considerable discussion in the media about the influence of violent and aggressive speech in political debate.
This is an extract from a speech given by former President Bill Clinton to the Center for American Progress Action Fund in April 2010:
- Watch Clinton (7m)
Clinton talked of the role of right-wing media and radio talkback hosts in the 1990s. He said participants in the political debate need to be responsible in their use of rhetoric because it falls on the "serious and the delirious alike":
We can't let the debate veer so far into hatred that we lose focus of our common humanity. It's really important. We can't ever fudge the fact that there's a basic line dividing criticism from violence or its advocacy, and that the closer you get to the line and the more responsibility you have, you have to think about the echo chamber in which your words resonate. […]
But what we learned from Oklahoma City is not that we should gag each other or we should reduce our passion for the positions that we hold, but the words we use really do matter because there are — there's this vast echo chamber, and they go across space, and they fall on the serious and the delirious alike. They fall on the connected and the unhinged alike. And I am not trying to muzzle anybody, but one of the things that the conservatives have always brought to the table in America is that no law can replace personal responsibility. And the more power you have, and the more influence you have, the more responsibility you have.
Clinton spoke of how he had changed his own tendency to refer to "federal bureaucrats" in a disparaging way when he disagreed with some aspect of government policy:
Oklahoma City proved that beyond the law, there is no freedom, and there is a difference between criticizing a policy or a politician, and demonizing the government that guarantees our freedoms and the public servants who implement them. And the more prominence you have in politics or media or some other pillar of public life, the more you have to keep that in mind. I acknowledged that in my political career, I had more on than one occasion, in the face of a government policy I disagreed with or a practice that I thought was insensitive, referred in a disparaging way generally to "federal bureaucrats," as if all of them were arrogant or insensitive or unresponsive, and I have never done it again. You could not read the stories of the lives of the people who perished in Oklahoma City and not respond in that way.


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Nawal El Saadawi
Nawal El Saadawi, Egyptian author, has been appointed honorary doctor at the University of Gävle.
She will receive the mark of honor at an academic ceremony later this spring.
Nawal El Saadawi, born 1931, is one of the most respected amongst the Arabic speaking female authors. Her literature is well spread all over the world and she has received many awards, among them the Stig Dagerman award in 2012. She has also been nominated for the Nobel Prize in literature.
The lifework is connected to the Vision of the University
Nawal El Saadawi's lifework and struggle for women's rights is strongly connected to the vision of the University of Gävle – For a sustainable living environment.
Nawal El Saadawi is an educated doctor and has been responsible for public health matters in Egypt. She is a well known advocate of the free word and a front figure of the women's movement in the Arab nation that has periodically been forced into exile.
The Dagerman award 2012
When she was awarded the Dagerman award 2012 Nawal El Saadawi visited the University of Gävle. She inaugurated the by the time newly established Dagerman seminar together with Stig Dagerman's son Réne Dagerman, the chairman of the Dagerman association Arne Ruth and the vice-chancellor of the University Maj-Britt Johansson. The Dagerman-seminar is aimed towards honoring Stig Dagermans memory and to strengthen the University's literary and humanistic activities.
Ceremony at academic holiday
Nawal El Saadawi will receive her mark of honor at the university's academic ceremony April the 25th at the Gävle concert hall together with an additional two newly appointed honorary doctors, Arne Ljungkvist doctor and professor, founder of the Professor Arne Ljungqvist Anti-doping Foundation and one of the front figures in the work with anti-doping and also Per Laurell CEO of Gävle Energi.


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How to Download and Run Simax Video Signmaker an Atari Emulatorcourtesy of Jack Bellis
This requires an emulator program and a quite few steps.
- Part 1: Get the Emulator from Emulators, Inc. :
From the Emulators, Inc. site (http://www.emulators.com), download the emulator as follows:
- Go to their downloads page (http://www.emulators.com/download.htm).
- Select the
best emulator for Atari 8-Bit. Since I have XP, the right one
now appears to actually be in the ATARI ST
EMULATION section, not the 8-Bit section. I chose Gemulator 8.03.
Here's a link to get it:
GEM2000.ZIP (188K) http://www.emulators.com/freefile/gem2000.zip
- Download and unzip the emulator.
- To support the emulator company, I don't provide a copy of their files here. Contact me if you don't see it.
- Part 2: Get the Simax Program from AtariArchives.Org:
Download the files that comprise the Simax program and optionally, some data files that have sample images and "shows" as follows.
- The files are archived publicly at http://www.atariarchives.org/swlibrary/.
- Go there are download at least "Video Signmaker - 1984 version. Side A." I personally download only the "ATR" files. Some day I'll figure out and tell you what the alternate format, the DCM versions are for.
- Part 3: Run, Baby, Run:
- Note: This is the complicated part and I don't have time to write exhaustive instructions right now, but here's the basics:
- Understanding the emulator. Before stepping
you throught it, you need to understand it a little:
- When it is running, right-clicking brings the emulator control window (as opposed to the Atari program being run) to the foreground.
- Simax needs the Atari Basic language to work.
- In the old version of the emulator Xf2000 it ran the Basic language automatically as long as you chose an emulation mode that includes the indication "(Basic)."
- In the newer one there's a hidden keystroke [Shift]-F10 that toggles basic on and off.
- The essence of running a program is reassigning the disk image to see the new program disk, which is the "ATR" file. It's as if you're swapping floppy disks.
- Literal Steps:
- Run the emulator program.
- The intro screen should appear with a Mode selection list.
- Select a mode with Atari 800 and, if possible, "(Basic)" in it.
- Select Options/Disk Properties.
- Set the Disk Image File to the downloaded data file, SIMAX81A.ATR and close the dialog.
- From the emulator window, click Continue.
- If,
in step 3, no options included "(Basic)", press
[Shift]-F10 to use the Basic language. The Atari
window should show the Simax menu.
- Starting the main program has a long delay because it used every bit of RAM and then some, swapping out after loading, and because only a few lines are in machine language.
- For good measure, it would seem one should return to the emulator and save your configuration but I haven't had much success with this: right-click in the Atari window and from the emulator chose File/Save Configuration.
- To load holiday graphics repeat the Disk Properties maneuver, pointing to one of the disks below, and then accessing the appropriate "Load" function.
- To load sample "shows" there are three on the program disk.
- It looks like I don't have "Exit" functions on the menus. What the hell's goin' on there? Was it because exiting consists of rebooting the Atari, or restarting the OS? Probably in the case of Simax.
- Troubleshooting:
- In Gemulator, I've had to use File/Autoconfigure to clean things up and recover the Atari 800 mode.
File Descriptions:
|Current (newest/1984) version of the program (main program and graphics editor)
|I believe this is obsolete, simply a duplicate of the A side of the floppy I sent to the archives.
|Obsolete, the original version of the program (main program). I seem to recall that the program was probably split into two disks originally to implement the copy protection scheme I used, a simple hidden-file-name technique.
|Obsolete, the original version of the program (graphics editor)
|Picuture disks:
|Pre-made graphics (mode 11?) files, one of which can be included in a running show.
|January through September holiday images.
|Flip side of January disk, possibly meaningless but the archiver saved the disk image.
|October through December holiday images.
|Flip side of January disk, possibly meaningless but the archiver saved the disk image.
Emulator Hotkeys:
F1 .. F4: These are the XL function keys (defaults to cursor keys)
F6: XL HELP key
F7 .. F9 - START, SELECT, OPTION keys
F10 - SYSTEM RESET key
` or ~ - Atari Logo key
End - Atari BREAK key
Scroll Lock - toggle 1.8 MHz (normal speed) and Turbo speed modes
cursor keys - keyboard emulation of joystick
Page Down - keyboard emulation of joystick fire button
Ctrl + cursor keys - Atari cursor keys
Shift+F10 - toggle Atari BASIC on/off and reboot Atari
Shift+F11 - Disk Properties dialog
Alt+F11 - Properties dialog
Ctrl+F11 - main menu
Shift+F12 - toggle monitor mode (color TV or black & white TV)
Cltr+F12 - reboot Atari
Alt+F12 - switch modes (Atari 800, Atari 800XL, Atari 130XE) and reboot Atari
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The modern NFL is becoming more of a passing league every year, which has further accentuated the importance of the QB position for nearly every team in the league.
However, the flip side of that is that rushing the passer has never been more important either. And since there aren't many elite QB prospects in the 2013 NFL Draft, Jacksonville may be better off looking through a deep class of DE's and OLB's to anchor their defense for the next decade.
One name that immediately comes to mind is Georgia's All-American OLB Jarvis Jones, whom Jaguars fans know from his dominant performance in the Bulldogs win over Florida in Jacksonville this year.
Over at Draft Countdown, Scott Wright projects the Jaguars to take Jones with the No. 2 overall pick, but that's only if his history of medical concerns checks out:
The Jaguars simply must find a dynamic pass rusher who can wreak havoc off the edge and that is exactly what Jarvis Jones of Georgia does best. In the past two seasons Jones has racked up an eye-popping 42.0 tackles for a loss and 26.0 sacks against elite competition, drawing favorable comparisons to Von Miller. However, there is a medical issue that could potentially send Jones freefalling down draft boards. Jones actually began his college career at USC, where he was diagnosed with a case of spinal stenosis and advised to retire by the Trojans.
From the outside, it's impossible to know whether the USC doctors were being too cautious or whether Jones is a medical liability that could explode in his team's face at the next level.
While the training and medical staff don't get a lot of public attention, in a violent sport like pro football, they can often be the difference between a winning and a losing organization. Whoever is medically evaluating Jones over the next few months will certainly have their work cut out for them.


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Hoskins and Haber fire Stevenage to victory...
Stevenage put in a strong home performance to get all three points against a tough Notts County side.
Sam Hoskins and Marcus Haber got the goals in a tense affair, which produced a first home victory since October and edged the Boro up the table.
A dream start came when Hoskins poked home after a deflected effort fell into his path with less than a minute on the clock and with less than a minute remaining Haber headed in his side's second.
Gary Smith sent out a flexible side that would simply look like a 4-4-2 line-up, however from the off it was clearly a 3 pronged attack. Morais dropped deeper into the central three with Hoskins on the right of the attack, Steve Beleck in the middle and Lucas Akins on the left.
The manager has often spoken of his desire to see his side fly from the traps and a goal inside 40 seconds certainly ticked that box. Boro rushed forward and the ball came to Morais on the edge of the area, his effort was blocked well by Gary Liddle but fell to Hoskins and his low placed shot nestled into the bottom corner beautifully. Minutes later County thought they had an equaliser, but the linesman ruled out Jeff Hughes' effort with an offside flag.
The game settled and County began to feel their way back into it, Jamal Campbell-Ryce is always one of their main outlets and the sight of him progressing down the right wing can often be followed by a chance. His ball into the back post on 25 minutes very nearly found the outstretched Hughes, but he was centimeters from connecting.
Akins wasn't performing to his full potential in the first half but was still managing to get into the positions that could threaten. The most memorable came five minutes later when a ball into the back post unexpectedly fell to the former Tranmere man but he neither took or touch or shot, and it bounced out of play.
End to end was a perfect way to describe the tie, and when Francois Zoko burst into the box Boro fans would have feared the worst, but Steve Arnold got his body in the way and held onto the ball exquisitely. Stevenage sustained some heavy bombardments into their penalty area before the break, but when it came the lead was intact.
After the restart Boro showed better signs, David Gray of all people saw a brilliant low shot deflected and Dunne hit a rocket that was blocked brilliantly, but at the other end Zoko went close. A lovely ball with the outside of Arquin's foot found him, he controlled and turned before hitting a hard shot but it flew wide of the mark. Boro brought on Freeman for Akins to add some more pace to the attack and go in search of a second.
The rain was battering the playing surface and County began to move up a gear looking for an equaliser, although they were seeing much of possession they weren't quite breaking through the defence as they would have liked. The introduction of Enoch Showunmi would aid their assault on the box, with 25 minutes to go.
Boro were holding on and the aerial assault continued, corner after corner was cleared and the closest the Pies came was with a volley that Dunne blocked well on the line. Concentration would be key for County 'keeper Fabian Speiss though, and some late free kicks into his area could have yielded a second for Stevenage had he not organised his defence so well.
Haber came on for Beleck who had put in a strong shift in attack and it proved to be a masterstroke from Smith as with added time approaching the Canadian striker headed in from a Morais cross.
He rose well in the box and directed his header into the bottom left hand corner to all but certain the victory as a breathe of relief echoed around the Lamex Stadium.
Arnold; Gray, Roberts, Chorley, Comminges; Morais, Dunne, Tansey; Hoskins (Grant 63), Beleck (Haber 69), Akins (Freeman 53)Stevenage (4-3-3)
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Italian rockers Hangarvain has a new single and video for "Animal Instinct"
SleazeRoxx.com is pleased to premiere Italian rockers Hangarvain's video for their new single "Animal Instinct" which features former Hardcore Superstar guitarist Thomas Silver.
K2Music's press release indicates:
"Formed in 2013, with thee albums out "Best Ride Horse", "Freaks" and "Roots and Returns" and several tours around Europe supporting among the others Gilby Clarke (Guns N' Roses), Hardcore Superstar, Skillet and The Darkness, Hangarvain have reached within few years a strong international fanbase and a status as one of the most recognisable and untiring live acts around.
"In these times of darkness and imprisoned souls, we're trying our best to dream big and keep the faith in life. That's what our new song Animal Instinct is about and we couldn't be more excited to share this new chapter in Hangarvain's journey with the amazing Thomas Silver, a legendary musician and a bright heart we have the privilege to call as a friend" (Hangarvain)"
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Monday, December 31, 2012
Nailz Craze Stamping with OPI Skyfall
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That looks lovely! I really like your mani :)ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks so much Natalie! Your stamping plates are just gorgeous! I love the ones I got. :)Delete
Wow! These plates are amazing! I have some that don't even compare to these! Love the colour contrast also! xReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Sher, I agree. The Nailz Craze plates are awesome!Delete
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Passando para visitar e aqui fiquei, estou amando o blog.
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I wish I could stamp as good as you :D
When I try to stamp the polish acts really weird and the design is messed up :(
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Lemonade from Mount Lemmon?
By: Michael J. Needleman
In Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, the Supreme ruled – unanimously – that the 20 employee threshold of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), 29 U.S.C. 630 does not apply to any state or local agency or political subdivision. In a short opinion, Justice Ginsburg wrote for the unanimous Court that Congress amended the ADEA several times over the years, but did not include language that carried the 20 employee threshold. And insofar as the ADEA is based in large part on the Fair Labor Standards Act, which applies to all employers public or private, regardless of the number of employees, the 20 employee threshold could not be read into the statute.
This opinion is significant because it means local governments are now subject to suit over age discrimination, even if they fail to meet the 20 employee threshold. It is also significant because this was a unanimous decision, an unusual occurrence even when there were not stark divisions among the Justices, as there are now. (This is quite an understatement, we realize.)
If you are a business manager, town manager, mayor or council person in a municipality with entities whose employees number less than 20, should you be worried? Perhaps not. The Supreme Court in Guido validated the existing state of affairs. The EEOC has consistently held the belief that the 20 employee threshold does not apply to political subdivisions or state agencies. But, claims still have to be proven, and nothing in the new opinion from the Court makes any changes in how or whether such cases are proven. Therefore, having good and effective litigators defend the town, agency or department is crucial.
If you have questions, or would like additional information, please contact Mike Needleman, Partner in Reger Rizzo & Darnall's Employment Practices Group, at 215.495.6513, or via email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
This newsletter is designed to keep you up-to-date with changes in the law. For help with these or any other legal issues, please contact Reger Rizzo & Darnall LLP. The content of this newsletter is intended solely for your informational purposes. It does not constitute legal advice, and it should not be relied on without a discussion of your specific situation with an attorney.


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Pietro lives in an anonymous suburb. He has a job, a home and a family. His job consists in distributing leaflets on the streets. His home is an old apartment left to him by his parents, now decaying. Pietro lives in it with his brother Francesco, who represents his entire family. However their relation is anything but easy. Francesco's a drug addict, depending on his drug dealer and friend NikiNiki and his mates. The only way Pietro has to connect to his brother seems to be to live out the role of a fool assigned to him by the friends' circle. This stuff he's put through during the nights spent with his brother at home is only the other side of the many insults that on his work place he has to suffer by the hand of a violent boss for little more than peanuts. Despite all this all these characters go on with their lives blindly facing the on-going devastation in their broken lives. A change seems to occur when at work Pietro meets a girl somebody who may be even more desperate than him, with whom he slowly starts a different kind of relationship. – a relationship that gives space to tenderness and compassion. But all this is mere illusion in the middle of a dark story whose destiny has already been decided in a microsociety used to loneliness and violence, with little room for togetherness. During one of the usual evenings Pietro introduces the girl to his friends and suddenly the story takes a sour turn with Pietro reacting in a most unexpected way…
Festival & Award
Festival Del Film Locarno 2010: International Competition (Young Jury Prize);
International Rome Film Festival: Italian Screenings;
Istanbul Italian Film Festival;
Goteborg Film Festival: Five Continents;
Solothurn Film Festival: Passages;
Filmfest München.: International Program;
CPH PIX 2011: Spotlight: Italien;
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This huge compilation is billed as The Best Q&A Columns From Over Two Decades, and it's an incredible collection of queries on everything strength, muscles and sports-training related.
As most IRON MAN readers know, Charles Poliquin is a legendary athletic coach, having trained numerous Olympic and pro athletes. He's also very popular in the bodybuilding arena—and has quite a set of guns himself. That gives him the street cred he so rightfully deserves.
So what's in this 266-page full-color book? Chapter 1 is Energy System Training, and he answers questions on everything from cardio and fat loss to interval training to VO2 levels in sports.
Chapter 2 covers equipment selection. Poliquin presents excellent info on many pieces, including the Gerard Trap Bar, Swiss balls and Body Blades. He also talks about how to develop rotational strength and the effectiveness of stretching devices.
Chapter 3 gives you more on fat loss, with discussions on protein, walking, specialized supplements—L-carnitine is a favorite—German Volume Training, bulking for bodybuilding, ab hardening and fat calipers.
I won't describe every chapter, but you get the point. You get a lucky 13 of them, with Poliquin filling your brain with knowledge on injury prevention, loading parameters, lower-body training, muscle gain and male hormones, nutrition, sports training, supplements, upper-body training and women's issues. Whew!
There's so much here that you'll refer to this tome again and again throughout your training career. It's a solid reference from a coach who has answers on the questions of how to get bigger, stronger and faster.
Whether you're looking to build muscle, lose fat, get strong or perform better at your chosen sport, you'll want a copy of this book.
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Monday 29 February 2016
Hairy Slobbery Company!
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Oh Sweet Nellie, you look so adorable WE will take Cinnie for the week for you! We are sure that Mommie will work really hard to keep her from bothering you though.ReplyDeleteReplies
Mes LOVES Cinnamon, shes just gots bigs feets.Delete
We bet Cinnie will calm down a little bit, Nellie. She was just very happy to see you, we bet! :)ReplyDelete
Hugs to you both, and Mommy, too.
Darling, we think you should remain safely in your little buddy. Woofies just don't know when they are being obnoxious! XOCK, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista JoReplyDelete
I bet you will miss her at the end of the week when she has to go back.ReplyDeleteReplies
Summer, yous KNOWS mes will! Mes LOVES my hairy slobbery sister!Delete
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Waving maddly!!!
Cinnie is so sweet but she shouldn't STEP on you! Maybe she's just excited to see you and will calm down! (we hope!)ReplyDelete
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Cinnie has 2 speeds...Excitement and sleeping!Delete
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Oh boy! Cinni visiting is fun except when you get stepped on or run over or have your food stolen! I guess since you're puppy-sitting her all week you'll have no choice but purrrrrrlease be careful and stay in your bed so she can't hurt your tiny little self! Please tell her "Sammy says hi" !ReplyDelete
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Sammy, mes having a heck of a time posting on your blog since mes started and log in as mine...please let mes knows if yous getting my posts....Delete
I'm sure you two will have a good time.ReplyDelete
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We really loves each other. We don't sleeps together, but we loves each otherDelete
We're sure that Cinnie is excited to see you and she will soon settle down.ReplyDelete
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Wes settled down right away!Delete
It's not fun to be stepped on, but Cinnie doesn't mean it. She is just excited to see you again.ReplyDeleteReplies
She apologized with a beautiful face wash! My but me has missed those!Delete
She's excited to see you, for sure ! We hope she will calm down in a while. PurrsReplyDeleteReplies
Cinnie is right at home now. She and mes is having a great time!Delete
nellie, ewe noe yur sisturr waz just buzzed happpee two see ewe.....{ we noe ewe wz buzzed happee ta see her two...huh !! } ♥♥♥ReplyDeleteReplies
Wes is good buddies! Yous guys will be glad to knows that she was barking at the sea gulls trying to lands on our roof today!Delete
You two are both so adorable! Have fun pretty Nellie!ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Brian! (Blush)Delete
That looks like a safe place to hang out and survey your realm!ReplyDelete
Actually, my cubby is the bestest place in the world!Delete
Oh Nellie Bellie I think your hairy slobbery sister is just very pleased to see you! But best to be safe than sorry, so why don't you pop over here and we can be convivial until she goes! ;) ❤❤❤❤ReplyDeleteReplies
Thanks Austin, a good cuddle with yous fixes everything!Delete
We hope you two can work things out since you have to spend a week with her.ReplyDeleteReplies
Wes worked it all out! Wes LOVES each other!Delete
Nellie, Tomy is delighted to see his pal, Cinnie! Woofies can be a little rough, except for Tommy who is always gentle (Fernant, on the other hand, is a brute) but we are sure you know how to keep her in order!ReplyDelete
We love you, Nellie (and Cinnie too!).
Purrs and woofs,
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Cinnie sends lots and lots of slobbery kisses to Tommy (and Fernant)Delete
How fun that you and Cinnamon can spend some time together, Nellie!ReplyDeleteReplies
We both happy!Delete
I am sorry she ate your foods and you had to share the bed. She makes your Mom happy and it is only a week, you will manage somehow. XOReplyDeleteReplies
Wes gotted it all settles. Shes just misses me tons!Delete
If you were a bit younger you would have joined Cinnie in a good frolic, we think!ReplyDelete
Our dog-guy is all nutzo and boisterous when he sees someone he loves...like when pawppy came home. Or whenever boss-boy comes by. (Otherwise known as Unfurbro-the-Elder...)
Darling. Cinni loves you dearly but she does need to be carefuls. You are tiny.ReplyDelete
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Microsoft's press conference to explain the rationale behind its surprise Nokia acquisition is still hours away, but thanks to the slide deck posted on its investor site, we're getting an early look at the thinking behind the deal. Long story short, Microsoft thinks it can save money and grow its platform faster by bringing its top hardware partner in-house, and it can finance the deal with overseas cash, limiting the deal's impact on dividend-hungry shareholders. But the goal isn't just to save money and get more devices in people's hands — Microsoft is aiming to more than triple its current smartphone market share by 2018, from just over four percent today to 15 percent within five years.
Redmond sees mapping and geospatial services as core to its strategy
As we reported earlier, Microsoft is paying €3.79 billion for Nokia's devices and services business plus another €1.65 billion for its portfolio of patents. That entitles Microsoft to use Nokia's inventions in all of its products going forward, and gives it rights to use Nokia's HERE mapping technology, for which it will still pay annual fees. Redmond sees mapping and geospatial services as core to its strategy going forward, saying that that there needs to be "an effective alternative to Google" and "more than one 'digital map of the world.'" It also believes that Nokia's patent portfolio is extremely valuable — one of the "top two" in wireless technologies — and that the licenses Nokia has in place will give it a valuable income stream going forward. And while Microsoft's license on Nokia's utility patents "only" lasts for 10 years, the company will have the option to make it permanent.
The company's ultimate goal is growth for the platform. After years trying to regain relevance in the mobile industry, Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system narrowly nudged ahead of theird-place BlackBerry in global smartphone shipments, now sitting somewhere in the neighborhood of five percent globally. Microsoft has said that despite the Nokia acquisition it's still committed to its other manufacturing partners, but the company thinks the best way to move the platform ahead is to shoot for a big marketshare target by producing great Nokia products. Microsoft believes that once it gets a bigger foothold in the market, opportunities should be better for the partners that stick it out.
Under its current arrangement with Nokia Microsoft is making less than $10 per device
So how much does Microsoft stand to make from the deal? The company thinks it can save $600 million annually within the first 18 months after the deal closes thanks to cost synergies. The slide deck reveals that under its current arrangement with Nokia Microsoft is making less than $10 per device, that stands to grow to over $40 per unit once it brings production in-house.
And while the devices and services business is among the least profitable parts of Nokia, Microsoft thinks it can break even once sales of phones and tablets crack 50 million units. Last quarter, Nokia sold around 7.5 million Lumia devices, making the target a lot more realistic than Microsoft's stated 15 percent goal for the global smartphone market. Global Lumia shipments have been growing at about 40 percent per quarter over the past two and a half years, and the company is now branching out into tablets alongside Microsoft's own Surface lineup. It's also worth noting that the deal gives Microsoft the rights to Nokia's design patents and handset brands, including Lumia and Asha. And it gives Microsoft a ten-year license to use the Nokia brand on feature phones.
Microsoft now has complete control over its mobile hardware and software, access to a ballooning patent portfolio, and some lofty goals. And with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop joining Microsoft as head of its newly integrated devices team, and longtime Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer stepping down within the year, the pump is certainly primed for someone to make some big moves.


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1. William Gibson's Zero History, his tenth novel, will be released September 3 in the UK, September 7 in the US. He will be touring the US, UK and Canada during September and October.
2. Jason Grote's play 1001 [cast pictured above] will run at Chicago's Chopin Theater from Sept. 9-Oct. 9 in a production from Collaboraction. Look for the feature in Time Out.
3. Dzanc books will publish Terese Svoboda's fifth novel, Pirate Talk or Mermalade, on Talk Like a Pirate Day, September 19 at Bluestockings. The first chapter's at HTML Giant, and she'll read it live at the Brooklyn Book Festival, 10 a.m. September 10 with Pers Petterson and Scott Spencer, in a program called Being is Scary. "Told entirely through dialogue, this quirky tale of period pirate wannabes makes a jeu d'esprit of the privateer life even as it baldly de-romanticizes it… Periodic visits from a mermaid (perhaps their half-sister) and a parrot who steals the scene every time he croaks "Hanged!" add to the fun." —Publisher's Weekly. The trailer for the book is here.
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Thursday 28 July 2011
Literary Art: Covergence, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
Text by Angela Darby
Literature has long been an essential driving force behind many contemporary visual artists' practice. The exhibition Convergence at Golden Thread Gallery in Belfast seeks to illustrate the symbiotic relationship between the two. Curators Chista-Maria Lerm Hayes, a lecturer at The University of Ulster and Peter Richards, Director of The GT Gallery have set out to 'dispel the Modernist myth that artists needed to serve writers, that they were feeding the tribute industry, or lacked in rigour.' Their strong selection of international and regional artists effectively supports the exhibition's objectives.
At the gallery's reception area the sound of a piano playing intermittently greets the viewer. The artist Michalis Pichler presents a spectral homage to the French symbolist poet Stéphane Mallarmé in both video and book form. The artist has cut the lines of text from Mallarmé's free-verse poem Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard (A Throw of the Dice will Never Abolish Chance) carefully following the typographic layout of the 1914 edition. These laser-cut paper sheets have then been placed into the mechanism of an auto piano. As the piano's drum rotates the video records the paper roll passing over the reading mechanism and in the process the perforations are translated into musical notes. Where words and verse once occupied the pages we are left with empty extractions that conceptually exist outside the constraints of their own function. The work is in it's own right is aesthetically beautiful, captivating and truly haunting. Pichler's contribution not only serves as an introduction to the exhibition but also sets a high standard and builds expectation for the rest of the selected works.
Situated in Gallery One the artist Pavel Büchler, has three works displayed. Naturwissenschaftliche Schriften (2006), is part of a series of studies originally created in preparation for a wall installation at the Goethe Institute in Dublin. The title references Goethe's Theory of Colours (1810) and the text Pathologische Farben originates from the title of a chapter found in the book. Goethe's theory was formulated in direct opposition to Newtown's reductive mechanical model. In the poet's view colours arise within a tripartite relationship in which light and dark are mediated through transparent matter. The artist claims that "the work is not about color, or nature or theory...it moves back and forth between reading and seeing, between philosophical and aesthetic experience." The suggestion seems to be that we need to constantly question those conditioned preconceptions, which 'colour' our reading of our own perceptions.
A questioning of ownership is prevalent in the works of Tim Rollins, Andrea Theis and Simon Morris. In The Red Badge of Courage, (1988) the artist Tim Rollins and K.O.S. (Kids of Survival) have appropriated a section of pages that have been removed from Stephen Crane's war novel, (written c.1871). The pages have been collaged together and parts of the text are obscured by paintings of blood red wounds and weeping postulations. This blatant appropriation is not an act of vandalism or defilement on the part of the artist and KOS but instead a tribute to the fight that one must endure in order to survive the rigors of life. Rollins described this collaborative outcome with his South Bronx students as a testimony to the 'civil war' of existence.
Over the course of five days Andrea Theis vigilantly stood beside the Goethe-Schiller Monument in Weimar, Germany. By refusing to move or leave her position when implored by the tourists the artist purposely sabotaged their attempts to photographically record their visit. Reviewing Image Disturbance displays documentation from this interventionist performance alongside footage taken from the Bauhaus Museum's CCTV camera. Both sets of images reveal a diverse range of responses covering physical attacks, verbal abuse, laughter and handshakes. With overtones of a sociology experiment Theis lays claim to the monument to explore a theme which informed many of Goethe and Schiller's works, that of the human condition. Form reflecting content is also apparent in Simon Morris' piece Fan nr 10: Reading as Art (2011). His black and white photographic composition features documented images of the artist reading text by Jacques Derrida alongside the text being read. The proximity sets in motion a perpetual re-contextualization as we move between reading and implied reading presented as image.
The love letters of Franz Kafka to his fiancée Felice Bauer are presented as documents to be examined and analyzed. Within this poignant and captivating piece the artist Joanna Karolina lays bear the personal existential crisis that this revered author endured within his own psyche. In response to the author's self-negation Karolina symbolically defaces the letters by incrementally overlaying the text through repeated photocopying obscuring Kafka's tortured thoughts. According to the curator Lerm–Hayes, the work of the 'typosopher' Ecke Bonk 'bridges the domains of typography and art pratice.' The artist's miniaturized version of Ludwig Wittgenstein: Tractatus logico philosophicus demands attention by forcing the viewer to move in close to examine a typeface that can only be deciphered with the aid of a magnifying glass.
Positioned in the centre of the gallery, The Buddhas of Bamiyan and a reconstructed Assyrian gate at the Iraq National Museum are rendered by artist Julie Bacon as puzzles to be played with. In the sculptural installation entitled The Twins two jigsaw boxes sit separately on the top of two tall, slim white plinths, spectres of 9/11 hauntingly placed on a Kalashnikov patterned Persian rug. Images of the aforementioned national treasures are depicted on the jigsaw box lids illustrating the violent destruction of culture by conflict. On an adjoining wall Bacon has reassembled the jigsaw pieces as a whirling constellation, directed by energies of a different order to those that have laid waste in the here and now. Entering a darkened space we are met with a blown up page from the Irish Times dated April 24th 1986. Accompanying the editorial a slide projector and the voice of a female narrator comments on the significance of the article. In Dear JJ, I read with interest..., Sean Lynch explores the story of an unofficial monument which was erected on top of Carrantuohill mountain in Ireland. The monument we learn was a commemoration of Flann O' Brien's work The Third Policeman.
Emerging from the partial darkness of Lynch's investigative installation one is welcomed by a splendorous light emanating from David Cascio's immense polyhedron sculpture Space for reading Ulysses by James Joyce (2004). Constructed from cardboard and neon lights with white fabric flowers strategically placed at adjoining corners in reference Joyce's fictional protagonist, Leopold Bloom, the construction is an astoundingly beautiful space in which to repose. It offers a formal geometry in which to engage with a text that eschews linear narrative. Watt,the last novel written in English by Samuel Beckett is the subject of Nick Thurston's piece He Wore, He Might Find, & He Moved, 2009. The triptych of bright orange and white screen-prints imitates the iconic cover design of the John Calder edition.
In the work Extreme Reading by Kenneth Goldsmith we experience the spoken word preserved, through transcription, in printed text. Artist's Pavel Buchler and Simon Morris have recorded their telephone conversation discussing Kenneth Goldsmith's book Soliloquy in which he catalogued every word he spoke over a week. Their utterances are presented, as a separate transcription which if read in isolation would lead to a speculative understanding. By preserving the formed sounds that would have otherwise been lost in the passing air they cleverly retain meaning within the necessity of context.
Cerith Wyn Evans' screenprinted text Permit yourself to...(2009) induces a trance like state through a guided visualisation relying on suggestion to transform conscious awareness of place and time. In another meditative work Brian O'Doherty systematically repeats sigla forms originally used as shorthand by James Joyce to denote characters from Finnegan's Wake. As an artist known to adopt aliases it seems appropriate that his print Sketch for H.C.E presents abstracted simulacra.
Tacita Dean re-presents a publication as a landscape-format panaorama of its contents. W.G. Sebald relates to a collision of personal ancestry, national history and sychronicity through which we learn that a random reading of Sebald's The Rings of Saturn placed Dean's great, great uncle as presiding Judge at the trial of Irish nationalist Roger Casement. This incorporation of existing narrative can also be seen in Rodney Graham's The System of Landor's Cottage. The artist 'completes' Edgar Allen Poe's unfinished short story by inhabiting the existing protagonist and placing him in a set of new circumstances within an additional interior room. The emphasis on densely descriptive prose and self imposed formal constraints seem to reference Raymond Roussel's Locus Solus in which a group are given a tour of a series of inventions that progressively become increasingly complex and bizarre.
The curators, Richards and Lerm Hayes decision to invite the editors of the Happy Hypocrite, antepress and Allotrope to contribute are a welcome addition to Convergence. Maria Fusco, the editor of The Happy Hypocrite profiles a selection of articles from the publication. Allotrope is a new initiative by University of Ulster PHD students Keith Winter and Emma Dwan O'Reilly. According to Winter 'the editorial process involves a making and remaking of meaning.' With submissions from renowned artists such as Amanda Coogan, Deirdre McKenna, and Paul Hamlyn nominee Daniel Jewesbury the editors of Allotrope display an ability to harness a range of quality contributors providing images, prose, poetry and written criticism. An achievement, which perfectly reflects that of the curators' vision for this excellent and thought-provoking exhibition.
Convergence continues at Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast until 6 August.
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Posted by Aesthetica at Thursday, July 28, 2011
3 comments:
The piece is conceptual, current and fresh, the review is creative and accurate.
I look forward to reading similar reviews from Aesthetica.
- Thursday, 28 July, 2011
On accuracy, just three examples where A Derby is not accurate:
1/ On the invitation addressed to me, the GTG names not two but one curator, Dr Lerm-Hayes.
2/ Tacita Dean presents not a catalogue but an essay published earlier in the art journal October.
3/ K Goldsmith is not the author of Extreme Reading.That is the work of P Buechler and S Morris, see http://intheconversation.blogs.com/art/2004/10/extreme_reading.html
- Friday, 29 July, 2011
- kamagra said...
This exhibition, in exploring the relationships between art, literature and exhibitions.
- Sunday, 25 March, 2012
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