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Orthodox Christians do not celebrate the birth of baby Jesus, we celebrate the Incarnation. What?, you say. What is the Incarnation? This is an important word as it means God becomes Man. This is what we celebrate. The birth of Jesus was that moment in history when God sent His only begotten Son to become like us, taking on human flesh for our healing. This miracle of miracles took place though the ascent of Mary whom we call the Theotokos, Birth-giver of God. God with His divine will became man, taking on a human will in human flesh so Man could unite his human will with God's divine will. From the time of Adam and Eve, man was separated from God ,unable to follow God's law. The Incarnation is the beginning of the transformation of mankind so we can be reunited with God.
Nativity Icon
Above you can see the icon of the Nativity. Let's look at each element of this icon to learn what it communicates to us.
The Star
In the top center you see a blueish light, which represents the star which guided people to witness the Incarnation. Was this a real star? Probably not. It was most likely a spiritual sign not seen by everyone. You can see that it points to the Christ Child who is lying in a manger.
The birth place
Christ was born in a cave, which is shown as a dark place. This was a reality as well as symbolic. Christ came to bring the light of knowledge to overcome the darkness of our ignorance. The star symbolizes this as well. It brings bright light to the dark cave, showing us the way to Christ. It is a light pointing us to the Truth. In the area where Christ was born, it was common to have a stable in caves carved in the hills of that region.
But why did he choose a stable? Stables are where animals are kept and you can see the animals looking at the Christ child in the icon. Where animals are it is also smelly and not the normal place anyone would choose to bear a child. This shows us the great humility of Christ. He could have chosen to be born in a palace if he wanted to, but he chose the most humble of places, a stable. This is a message for us, to be humble like Him.
Christ's clothing
What kind of clothes is Christ wearing? He is wrapped in linen. This is how a person was wrapped in those day for burial after his death. This is showing us that He is destined to the same fate after His Crucifixion where He was able to claim victory over death in His Resurrection.
Mary, The Theotokos.
She is shown in the center of the icon to show her importance in this event. She was the instrument of God to bring about His incarnation. She gave her ascent to bear the Son of God. Surely an awesome responsibility. She is looking away to show her humility and wonder at this wondrous event.
Joseph and the devil
In the lower left corner of the icon you will see two men. An old man and one with a cane. The old man with the halo is Joseph. He was old because he was appointed as a mature man to protect Mary so she could remain a virgin. Some say he was 70 – 80 years old. Since he was not the father of the baby, he is being tempted by the man with the cane who is Satan. He is trying to raise Joseph's doubts about the possibility of a virgin birth. This shows how difficult it is for all of us to accept things that are beyond our reason.
Near the top you can see angles. Angels are from heaven and they glorify God. You see them here to glorify the Christ Child and herald the good news to all the world, because it is not just a child that has been born, but God himself who has become man.
On the upper right you can see two shepherds with their sheep below. An angel is telling them about this miraculous birth calling them to come and glorify Him. Why shepherds? Would you go to college to become a shepherd? Of course not. Shepherds are among the simplest of people. This indicates that God did not become Man for those who are privileged, but for the simplest of people. He calls all to follow Him so all people can be united with God in eternal life.
One shepherd is playing a reed flute, which shows that human music is also appropriate for the glorification of God.
The wise men or Magi
To the left you will find three men on horses. These were men who came all the way from Persia following the star. They were probably astronomers, scientists of their day. They saw the star which was a symbol for them of a great cosmic event. They followed it to find the Incarnation of God. Knowing how important this was they brought gifts of the highest value in appreciation of what God had done. They came some time after the birth, so you can see that in an icon we can have many events that happen even at different times being shown to tell the complete story.
In the lower right we have the women who are preparing the font for the cleansing of the baby after it was born. This shows the humanity of Jesus. This too is symbolic of the baptism we are to undergo, to be united with Christ, cleansing us of our sins and receiving a transformation in our heart with the Holy Spirit, which is sealed with our Chrismation.
The two animals
The ox and the donkey represent the two people: the Jews and the Gentiles.
Biblical Story
The story of the Nativity of Christ is beautifully told in the Holy Scriptures. The story is found in Matthew 1:18-25 and in Luke 2:1-20.


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5 Myths About Federal Retirement
Good news! You don't have to be a millionaire to retire comfortably.
One of the things I enjoy most about teaching classes and conducting webinars on the topic of pre-retirement planning is when I can bust a myth that is standing in the way of someone meeting his or her retirement goals. Sometimes these myths have been circulating so long that they've taken on an aura of truth. And they can stand in the way of planning for a bright and comfortable retirement.
Let's take a look at some common federal retirement myths.
1. You need to save at least $1 million (or some other specific dollar amount) to retire comfortably.
Who says? More importantly, how do they know? Federal retirees have at least one and sometimes two sources of retirement income that will last a lifetime. In many cases, these will cover monthly living expenses not matter how much you've been able to save.
To figure out how much you really need in savings, start by thinking through your future living expenses. Here's a simple worksheet from Vanguard to help you.
Next, get an accurate estimate of your Civil Service Retirement System or Federal Employees Retirement System benefit from your agency human resources office. And contact Social Security or create an online Social Security account to figure out what, if anything, you can expect to receive based on your work record -- along with any spousal benefits you might be entitled to.
Your retirement savings will help pay for future unexpected expenses and to cover inflation. (Yes, you will receive cost-of-living adjustments on your federal retirement benefits, but they may not cover some expenses that tend to increase at a rate higher than inflation -- think health care, for one). Some federal retirees will need their savings to provide a third source of monthly income in addition to their government retirement benefits, but the dollar amount may not be as high as you think.
2. You definitely can retire from government at age 57 if you have 30 years of service (or at 60 with 20 years of service, or at 47 with 25 years of service and an offer of early retirement).
These basic rules apply under either CSRS or FERS, but they obscure a more important question: Can you retire comfortably at any of those ages and ensure your financial future? The important thing is to figure out at what age and with how many years of service you can afford to retire.
Myths one and two are opposites of each other. The first causes people to fear they will never be able to retire, and the second rests on the false assumption that just because you're eligible to retire, you can do so comfortably.
3. You should take your Social Security benefit as soon as you are eligible since you don't know how long you will live.
It's not that simple. Claiming early may be the right decision for some people, such as those with serious medical issues or a family history that suggests a shorter than average life expectancy. But with people living longer and retirement sometimes lasting decades, it's best to make deliberate calculations and see if you can wait longer in order to collect more. By the way, this is not "gaming" the system, or taking advantage of a benefit that was created to keep people out of poverty. It's just being smart and using all of the information you can get to put together a retirement income that will sustain you for the next 20, 30, 40 or more years.
It's true that Social Security is an actuarial system that pays out the same amount to someone who claims their benefit at 62 or 70 as long as they die around age 81. But you might live longer than that. In addition, you could have someone else who depends on your income -- or vice versa.
4. There's a magical best date to retire for everyone.
I accept some responsibility for this myth. As many of you know, I write an annual "Best Dates to Retire" column. It identifies the dates in any given year that are generally good. But you should only pick a specific date after considering the following:
- What are you trying to accomplish? Maximizing your lump sum annual leave payout? Coordinating your retirement with the starting date of your second career? Maximizing the anount you can save in the Thrift Savings Plan? Avoiding paying more taxes than you have to?
- What other income will you have after your retirement and when will you begin to receive it?
- When will your retirement benefit start? It's the first day of the month after your date of final separation. Between your retirement date and the date your benefit kicks in, you won't receive either your salary or your benefit check.
5. Because the G Fund is safe, it's your best bet for TSP investments.
The G Fund, which invests in government securities, has a reputation for rock-solid security. As a result, many federal employees invest 100 percent of their TSP in the G Fund. They're afraid of the risk of stocks and bonds because they don't know when to invest and when to pull back.
A better approach is to diversify between the C, F, G, S, and I funds no matter what is happening in the market. Rebalance your savings from time to time to take advantage of growth, and shelter some of your investments from too much risk -- especially as you get closer to retirement. (Or let the lifecycle funds do this for you.)
Shortly after the TSP started in 1987, the stock market took off like a rocket. As it grew, many federal employees moved all of their G Fund money to the C Fund. Then the market "corrected." Many feds lurched back to the safety of the G Fund. That's like going to Las Vegas and constantly putting your money in slot machines after you've seen them light up for a payout.
Just because the G Fund, which invests in government securities, will never have a negative return does not necessarily mean it's your best option. If you need to understand more about investing, there are lots of opportunities to learn. You can start with information from the Thrift Savings Plan itself.
If you need additional help, you can attend a pre-retirement or midcareer planning seminar at your agency. I've been conducting such seminars since 1988 and the most common comment that I see on evaluations is "wish I would have attended sooner," followed by "this training should be mandatory."
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R. Kelly has been charged with a 2001 sex crime involving an underage girl in Minneapolis.
The disgraced R&B singer, who already faces a total of 18 counts of sex-related charges brought against him last month in both Chicago and New York, has been accused of paying a minor $200 to sleep with him in his hotel room when she asked him for an autograph.
According to Variety, "Kelly is charged with two counts of engaging in prostitution with an individual under 18 years old and offering to hire for sexual purposes a person under 18," with the victim claiming there was "dancing" and "sexual contact" between the two. However, there was no sexual intercourse.
Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman admitted the case will be difficult to prosecute because it happened over 20 years ago, but there seems to be enough evidence to support the allegations.
Following the news, Kelly's lawyer Steven Greenberg weighed in on the new charges via Twitter, tweeting, "Give me a break. This is beyond absurd."
Kelly is currently in custody in New York, where he was denied bail last week after pleading not guilty to other sex crimes, including sex trafficking and kidnapping.


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YajHFC (Yet another Java HylaFAX client) is a client for the HylaFAX fax server written completely in Java.
- Faxing documents in PostScript, PDF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, GIF and HTML format
- Polling faxes
- Support for generating cover pages from templates (in PostScript, HTML and (with a Plugin) XSL:FO or ODT format)
- Viewing sent and received faxes
- Phone book (entries can optionally be read from SQL databases or LDAP directories)
- Visible table columns may be selected in a dialog
- Runs under Windows, Linux and Mac OS X (and probably other platforms if a suitable JRE is available)
- Supports ten languages: Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Polish, Russian, Spanish and Turkish
- A installed Java 5.0 (or higher) JRE (Java 6 or higher recommended)
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Millions of Instagram Users Affected by Plain-Text Password StorageTwo security issues disclosed by Facebook over the past month are worse than first thought, adding to a harrowing series of data-handling mishaps by the social network.
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In mid-March the social network disclosed that it had been storing plain-text passwords for hundreds of millions of users going back to 2012 (see: Report: Facebook Stored Millions of Passwords in Plaintext).
The passwords were searchable, but not improperly accessed, by Facebook employees, the company wrote in a March 21 blog post. Security writer Brian Krebs first reported on the situation.
In an update to that post on Thursday, Facebook writes: "We discovered additional logs of Instagram passwords being stored in a readable format. We now estimate that this issue impacted millions of Instagram users."
Facebook plans to notify those newly affected users. It was first thought the issue only affected tens of thousands of Instagram users.
Email Contacts Issue Affects 1.5 Million
The second issue involves Facebook's former practice of asking some new users for their email passwords as part of its signup process, which Business Insider reported on April 3.
The practice, which was intended to help people find their friends, immediately raised eyebrows because it could increase the chances that an email account could be compromised, through either a mishandling of data or phishing attacks.
It was first highlighted by Twitter user @originalesushi and appeared to only apply to people who signed up using email domains from certain providers, such as Yandex and GMX, Business Insider reported.
Hey @facebook, demanding the secret password of the personal email accounts of your users for verification, or any other kind of use, is a HORRIBLE idea from an #infosec point of view. By going down that road, you're practically fishing for passwords you are not supposed to know! pic.twitter.com/XL2JFk122l
— e-sushi (@originalesushi) 31 March 2019
Facebook told Information Security Media Group on Thursday that it "unintentionally" uploaded the email contact lists for 1.5 million new users since May 2016. If users didn't enter the password, they couldn't create accounts. But if they did, users were not notified their email contacts would be sent to Facebook.
Before May 2016, Facebook asked some users for their email password as part of an identity check, but gave people the option if they wanted to upload their email contacts, Business Insider reports.
Facebook says it will delete the email contacts data for the 1.5 million users. The email contacts data was used for targeted advertising, friend recommendations and building webs of connections, Business Insider reported.
Facebook ended the email password verification practice earlier this month (see Dark Patterns: How Weaponized Usability Hurts Users).
Plain-Text Password Storage
Krebs' report on March 21, which was sourced to an anonymous senior Facebook employee, described how plain-text passwords had been stored for hundreds of millions of users going back to 2012.
The password storage issue affected users of Facebook Lite, the slimmed down version of the application that's designed for users where connectivity may be challenging.
Facebook didn't give a reason why it was storing passwords in plain text. It explained that it follows industry practices for handling passwords, which means it's only retaining a salted hash, or a cryptographic representation of a password that would be unusable if captured by an attacker.
"In line with security best practices, Facebook masks people's passwords when they create an account so that no one at the company can see them," the social media company says. "In security terms, we 'hash' and 'salt' the passwords, including using a function called 'scrypt' as well as a cryptographic key that lets us irreversibly replace your actual password with a random set of characters."
Facebook isn't mandating a password reset for accounts, but in its March 21 blog post did advise how users could change passwords and advised users to set a unique, strong one.
Ongoing Headwinds
The security issues add to more headwinds for Facebook, which despite a series of scandals, data breaches, lawsuits and regulatory inquiries is nonetheless trying to convince the public it is shifting to a more privacy-centric platform.
Early last month, Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged the suspicion around the move given the social network's patchy security record.
"I understand that many people don't think Facebook can or would even want to build this kind of privacy-focused platform - because frankly we don't currently have a strong reputation for building privacy protective services, and we've historically focused on tools for more open sharing," Zuckerberg writes.
Looming large is an ongoing investigation by the Federal Trade Commission into the Cambridge Analytica scandal and whether Facebook violated a 2011 settlement. The settlement put Facebook on a monitoring regime aimed to ensuring users' consent was gained before sharing their data (see: Report: Federal Trade Commission Weighs Facebook Fine).
The Washington Post reported on Thursday that the FTC may be mulling whether to hold CEO Mark Zuckerberg more accountable for the site's data handling mishaps, a move that could send a strong signal about executive responsibility for data lapses.


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"Sharp and incisive ... Even though the book is focused squarely on Powell's life, he spares the reader from excessive navel gazing along the way. He seems to have a better idea of when to share and when to pull away and let the pictures do the talking, demonstrating an overall more mature approach to his work. ... If Powell keeps creating material this good, I'll definitely be along for the ride." -- Marc Mason, Comics Waiting Room
"...proves that comics can mimic having a beat or pulse using static images the way writers and poets can with words. Also, all of the stories, to one extent or another, are connected by Powell's profession of working with adults who have developmental disabilities. That serves to humanize the story, giving them an earthiness these stories need whenever Powell has flown off into his internal world of self-examination. His intricate art, a kind of ornate 'indie style,' makes Please Release a catchy EP of ear candy for the eyes and mind of the curious reader." -- Leroy Douresseaux, Comic Book Bin
Please Release collects four autobiographical stories, each linked by a series of open questions on work, mental disorders, aging, punk rock, developmental disabilities, horror movies, and a little unrequited love to boot. Recognized for his publications Tiny Giants and It Disappears, as well as his signature dream-like, luscious, and meticulous illustrations (reminiscent of Craig Thompson and Farel Dalrymple), this is Nate Powell's most direct and concrete work to date -- guaranteed to engage your brain and dazzle your senses. -- 7" x 8.5" comic book, 40 pages, Diamond: SEP063611


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Alan King on using caps in low power applications:
...[I found some] black filter caps with gold lettering said "gold cap" on them. Sure enough, those numbers really said 2.3v 10F, big F, no pesky little u in there! Charged it up to 1.93v and put a superbright red led and 1K resistor on it, and it's still glowing well four hours later. I can't wait to see how long I can get them to run a PIC doing some low power data sampling. Definitely an alternative to batteries for some low power apps, about 1/2" shorter and 1/8" less diameter than an AA cell. A bit pricey, $7.50ea from DigiKey in singles, but not as bad as I was expecting, and drops to around $3 each at 1K, probably less from some other distributors. And the current version is rated 2.5v, so you only need two to start out with 10F at 5v. I'm only 30, but I remember how they used to say it'd take a railroad car size to have a 1F cap not so very long ago, much less 10F. Neat to have a small train's worth of cap powering your PIC..
Andy Kunz on multiple power connections to SMT chips
You should keep the distance between the Vdd and Vss pins on the same chip as short as possible. If there are two Vdd pins, you need to put bypass caps on BOTH pins.There should be one connection from a chip to the power supply. If ther are two leads on the chip, the best method is to make a T with equal left/right sides if possible. Don't kill yourself for it, though. If you need to make a main feeder which splits into two short (unequal but not greatly disparate) lengths, so be it.
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I am going to go out on a limb and say that ground planes are overrated. They are good for three things; overcoming electrostatic field interference, making high density layouts possible, and compensating for an inability to route a decent ground net.Just a hypothetical: let's say you had four circuit pieces on a single board. Further say that three are analog, and one is high current switching. Further say that none of them can withstand interference from the other.
The PSU is a split supply coming in at one corner of the board. Route each sub circuit in a clean manner, but return ground and power for each section individually to the power entry point. Do this for all four sections, and add generous capacitor decoupling at the sub circuits. Add both mono and electrolytic caps at the power source.
Take this example one step further and split the grounds from each component if necessary, maybe in a tree fashion.
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Hi I have a project that is going on a car and I need to filter the supply can someone give me an idiots guide to a general purpose automotive DC filter (12-24v) 1.5amp max. from what I can see I need a choke and two caps (one for high and one for low freq) but what values? and configuration? E.g. 0.2uf cap on the input, into a 10uh choke, and a 200uf electrolytic cap on the other side. Thanks+
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1 While Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and all his army and all the kingdoms and peoples in the empire he ruled were fighting against Jerusalem and all its surrounding towns, this word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:
2 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: Go to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him, 'This is what the LORD says: I am about to give this city into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.
3 You will not escape from his grasp but will surely be captured and given into his hands. You will see the king of Babylon with your own eyes, and he will speak with you face to face. And you will go to Babylon.
4 "'Yet hear the LORD's promise to you, Zedekiah king of Judah. This is what the LORD says concerning you: You will not die by the sword;
5 you will die peacefully. As people made a funeral fire in honor of your predecessors, the kings who ruled before you, so they will make a fire in your honor and lament, "Alas, master!" I myself make this promise, declares the LORD.'"
6 Then Jeremiah the prophet told all this to Zedekiah king of Judah, in Jerusalem,
7 while the army of the king of Babylon was fighting against Jerusalem and the other cities of Judah that were still holding out —Lachish and Azekah. These were the only fortified cities left in Judah.
8 The word came to Jeremiah from the LORD after King Zedekiah had made a covenant with all the people in Jerusalem to proclaim freedom for the slaves.
9 Everyone was to free their Hebrew slaves, both male and female; no one was to hold a fellow Hebrew in bondage.
10 So all the officials and people who entered into this covenant agreed that they would free their male and female slaves and no longer hold them in bondage. They agreed, and set them free.
11 But afterward they changed their minds and took back the slaves they had freed and enslaved them again.
12 Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:
13 "This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I made a covenant with your ancestors when I brought them out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. I said,
14 'Every seventh year each of you must free any fellow Hebrews who have sold themselves to you. After they have served you six years, you must let them go free.' "Your ancestors, however, did not listen to me or pay attention to me.
15 Recently you repented and did what is right in my sight: Each of you proclaimed freedom to your own people. You even made a covenant before me in the house that bears my Name.
16 But now you have turned around and profaned my name; each of you has taken back the male and female slaves you had set free to go where they wished. You have forced them to become your slaves again.
17 "Therefore this is what the LORD says: You have not obeyed me; you have not proclaimed freedom to your own people. So I now proclaim 'freedom' for you, declares the LORD —'freedom' to fall by the sword, plague and famine. I will make you abhorrent to all the kingdoms of the earth.
18 Those who have violated my covenant and have not fulfilled the terms of the covenant they made before me, I will treat like the calf they cut in two and then walked between its pieces.
19 The leaders of Judah and Jerusalem, the court officials, the priests and all the people of the land who walked between the pieces of the calf,
20 I will deliver into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them. Their dead bodies will become food for the birds and the wild animals.
21 "I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah and his officials into the hands of their enemies who want to kill them, to the army of the king of Babylon, which has withdrawn from you.
22 I am going to give the order, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, take it and burn it down. And I will lay waste the towns of Judah so no one can live there."


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-- By Stephen Thompson, NPR Music
Ever scroll around on an old-fashioned radio dial and hear two stations drift together? It's like a distant, ghostly ancestor of the mashup, wherein one band's rhythms might mix with another's guitar solo to create something new, if ephemeral and hard to re-create. Lonesome Dreams, the first full-length album from the L.A. band Lord Huron, creates that effect at times, as the cavernous choruses of Fleet Foxes or My Morning Jacket collide with the polyrhythmic playfulness of, say,Givers.
It's an alluring mix. Indie-choirboy folk music has a way of sometimes slowing to a crawl — of sacrificing momentum at the altar of prettiness — while a lot of vaguely worldly, rhythm-intensive music can feel sterile and showy, its emotion lost amid the precision. The brainchild of singer-songwriter Ben Schneider, Lord Huron finds a way to triangulate the best of both sounds, with songs that feel wide-open and ambitious, but also giddy and unpredictable. There's motion to them, whether or not the percussion has kicked in. Songs like "Time to Run," with its goofyWestern-style video, have a roiling quality, while maintaining room to breathe and seethe along the way.
Out Oct. 9, Lonesome Dreams comes along at just the right time of year, meeting as it does between the beachy lightness of summer and the bittersweet plaintiveness of autumn. It straddles the seasons with disarming deftness — sunny enough to distract, sweet enough to comfort.
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(CNN) -- It should have been a great morning for Richie Incognito. A brand new black Ferrari was delivered to his Florida house on Tuesday.
Instead he is at the center of national media attention and exiled from his NFL team after a Miami Dolphins teammate made allegations of misconduct against him.
Dolphins coach Joe Philbin suspended Incognito on Sunday night.
"You know, I'm just trying to weather the storm right now. And this will pass," he told CNN affiliate WSVN outside a doctor's office in Weston, Florida, on Tuesday.
Incognito said he didn't want to comment on media reports that he sent line-mate Jonathan Martin voice mails containing racial slurs and threats of physical violence. When asked about his status with the team, Incognito closed the door to his car without answering and drove away.
ESPN, NFL.com and other media outlets reported that representatives for Martin on Sunday submitted the voice mails and texts to the league and the Dolphins. One of the messages, from April, contained a reference to Martin's biracial background, according to ESPN's sources.
"Hey, wassup, you half (expletive) piece of (expletive). I saw you on Twitter, you been training 10 weeks. I'll (expletive) in your (expletive) mouth. I'm gonna slap your (expletive) mouth, I'm gonna slap your real mother across the face (laughter). (Expletive) you, you're still a rookie. I'll kill you."
Philbin told reporters on Monday he made the decision to suspend Incognito "based on the information that I had at that time." He didn't give a reason for the move.
Martin left the team suddenly last week and has not commented publicly on why he walked away in the middle of the season. He remains on the team's roster (meaning he will be paid for this week), though last week he was listed as inactive with an "illness."
Also Tuesday, celebrity gossip website TMZ posted a video of Incognito at a bar, shouting at the top of his lungs while pacing wildly around a pool table topless. He uses profanity and the N-word in referring to one of his teammates who is also there. Martin doesn't appear in the video and TMZ only said the video was recorded earlier this year.
CNN reached out multiple times to representatives for each player but hasn't received comment.
Cafeteria incident sparked departure
Last week, the Dolphins announced Martin had taken "a leave of absence."
Philbin said Martin left the team after an incident at the team's cafeteria. Jay Glazer, an NFL analyst for FoxSports.com, reported that some of his teammates got up from a lunch table as a joke when Martin sat down. The lineman threw his food tray hard to the ground, he reported. Glazer later tweeted the incident was a final straw for Martin.
The coach said representatives for Martin contacted the team on Sunday with their concerns. The Dolphins spent Sunday gathering information, after which he suspended Incognito, Philbin said.
Several media outlets said Martin had left the Dolphins because of bullying, something Incognito denied on Twitter.
"Shame on you for attaching my name to false speculation," one of the tweets said, according to Bleacher Report. That tweet and others addressed to various media outlets were later deleted.
A post from Sunday remained a day later: "Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth -- Buddha."
Philbin said he met with Martin and also talked with members of his family before Sunday, and the second-year player didn't say anything about player misconduct.
The team said Sunday in a statement that Incognito, a nine-year veteran at offensive guard, was suspended for detrimental conduct.
"We believe in maintaining a culture of respect for one another and as a result we believe this decision is in the best interest of the organization at this time," the team said in a statement on its website.
The Miami Herald reported that a Dolphins source said Incognito is "done" with the team. A Dolphins spokesman had no comment.
'Teddy bear off the field'
Chris Draft played with Incognito when both were with the St. Louis Rams in 2007 and 2008. Incognito's on-field aggressive persona was nothing like his personality away from the playing field, Draft said.
"He was really kind of a big teddy bear off the field. My wife actually loved him," he said.
The Sporting News takes a yearly poll of NFL players, and in 2009 they dubbed Incognito the dirtiest player in the league.
The Rams released Incognito in December 2009 after an argument during a game with then-head coach Steve Spagnuolo. He played with the Buffalo Bills for three games before joining the Dolphins.
Incognito, who played in the Pro Bowl all-star game in January, appeared to have calmed down on the field, according to a profile on NFL.com. Incognito pointed to meditation as a positive tool he used.
The NFL will review the case, league spokesman Greg Aiello said Monday.
"I will tell you that if the review shows that this is not a safe atmosphere I will take whatever measures are necessary to assure that it is," Philbin said. "I have that obligation to the players that I coach on a daily basis."
The NFL Players Association has said the union has not started an investigation.
NFL's pecking order
Dolphins rookie Will Davis said he hasn't experienced any acts of bullying or hazing.
"I think a lot of people think of hazing as being cruel, but I don't see anything like that in this locker room," he said. "But it depends on how you take hazing. I've always thought the guys in here were great."
He said everyone on the team loves Incognito.
"I was shocked," he said.
Wide receiver Mike Wallace said there was a lot of respect for both players.
"I know both of those guys personally," he said. "I feel like they are both good guys."
Former Dolphins linebacker Channing Crowder told "Piers Morgan Live" that a locker room is often a place where players are trying to establish a pecking order.
People cannot compare it to working at a regular job, he said, because it involves physically aggressive men with big egos competing and trying to prove their manhood.
NFL players are "a bunch of testosterone-filled alpha males who are trying to find their place on the totem pole," he told Morgan.
He said when Incognito joined the team, he would test people to see where he stood with them.
"He is a guy that needs to know his place with you," Crowder said.
Incognito also apparently liked to play pranks. In a segment shown on an HBO series that follows one NFL team during each preseason, Incognito figured out a teammate's iPad password. He then teased the player about a status update he made for the player and joked about the player's fiancee.
"Hard Knocks" has given audiences a look inside team dynamics, sometimes giving viewers a glimpse at life for rookies. And inevitably some of the younger players get hazed.
Hazing on the decline?
Still, former Dolphins running back Ricky Williams said it occurs less frequently in the NFL than most people think.
"Really I haven't seen much hazing," he said in an interview on "The Lead with Jake Tapper."
He said it's a well-known "rite of passage" for a high draft pick to pick up a big dinner bill for some other players on the team.
"Once you sign that contract there's a lot of rules, written and unwritten, that you are expected to follow," he said. "For me, this is something that should be handled internally. I don't think the media, I don't think fans, I don't think anyone outside is really in a position to really fully understand what occurs inside of a locker room and inside of a football team."
CNN Sports' Quand Thomas contributed to this report.


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Video-reflexion Clownclimbing Nº10: size matters
El tamaño importa from clownclimbing on Vimeo.
Video-reflexion Clownclimbing Nº10: size matters
El tamaño importa from clownclimbing on Vimeo.
Red Rocks has not Yosemite's infinite steep walls, Indian Creek perfect lines, neither the solitude and adventure of the desert towers. But Red Rocks has a little of everyhwere and much more.
Short and long routes, easy an difficult ones, slab and cracks. And over all it has plenty of good routes. For sure you will be climbing there for months. Dont hesitate. Go to Red Rocks. Viva las Vegas!
Here it is the trailer of our Red Rocks' trip. Photogallery SOON
This is the history of the most important crag in La Pedriza, El Pájaro. Poineers of rock climbing in Spain talk about their adventures in this place.
Video reflexión clownclimbin nº9: power without control IS NOTHING.
Even now, when the topo is finished. This tangle of lines, grades, belays and rappels not intended to be the last word. They are just an invitation for any climber to discover their own ways. Because it is not clear that there is here painted lines follow the path of the first ascensionists or have further routes have been traced on the above. The important thing is worth climbing each route. And of course that this topo is not intended as the final word. Why follow the red line that someone has painted on paper? Maybe it's better to make three pitches of one route and two of another. Or one of each one. Or climb a spiral way!
"The Valley". You have seen it thousand of times, but when you arrive there you think: shit!. This is a fact. Yor have listen thousand of histories about its hard and long routes, but it is not completelly understood till the moment of been there. Another fact. So, no matter what it is told here you must go there and taste it. Because what it is a real fact is that Yosemite is AWESOME.
Yosemite is A-W-E-S-O-M-E, buy they proounce OLSON. The photo gallery is coming soon.
Are you going to climb to Bavella? Besides the 6 tips we saw you, here you have a few routes we have enjoyed. For sure there are many other routes hidden in the huge granite walls of the valley. And it sure there will be many more to discover on Bavella needles. Just for those who are willing to walk enough. Oh, and don´t forget the map if you want to get trackside on the first try. Good luck!
Bavella, one of that climbing destinations everybody knows, some have visit and almost no one climb in. Here you have some tips&trics to climb there.
You walk. More than two hours with the backpack to the brim, no trees, no shade. Once you get to the platform and raise your head, you realize that what you drop on it. In no case is a friendly ground. Everywhere you look it seems the sky. Galayos are field adventure.
You turn around and after a green metal door, step inside Victory Refuge. You let the pack on the floor, trying to plan ahead and everything makes you ordinary. There's no room for your stuff, but there's a place for everyting,
The shelter becomes a space of humanity. Logic and logistical difficulty make each element occupies a particular place. Every gesture implies, like a domino, another tab to be moved. This is the moment where your living space vanishes and find accommodation in knowledge sharing.
As we advance in the trailer made by our friend canalillofilms here is the photo gallery Torozo.
This is also the first time photos are published on a magazine before launching them here.
We spent all winter working with Canalillo Films,to record Escalada Sotenible video. We are proud to participate in projects we believe, and we are sure that both Canalillo and ESZC we´ll bring good news in few months. We hope you enjoy the film.
Qué es la asociación de escalada sostenible en la zona centro from Canalillofilms on Vimeo.
We could lie like scoundrels and say that climbing the Utah desert towers a breeze. A holiday destination with the same adventure as Orlando, but no. Approximations road, with real risk of crushing the door against a rock in the dry bed of a river, talus that takes an hour to climb, sun, heat, lack of water, very athletic rockclimbing on rock sometimes dubious and incredible summit. To successfully complete a trip of this kind it is mandatory to find tougth friends, those ones that remain humorous when a tire is flat on a deserted dirt road and can take many days without having a shower. Apart from all these little inconveniences climbing in Utah is an absolute blast.
After many summers going to Galayos, virtually every weekene, it is important to ha a gook list of well-considered resons. So when you are asked by a friend, a coworker, a mother, a boss or a girlfriend you can get by gracefully and you will not look silly to go many times to the same site on which there is not a shred of comfort. A place inhabited by people who can not take a shower, because there is no running water, and supplies should be carried in a backpack because it cannot get even a donkey. So for a whole summer has been dedicated to asking people we met there: What is your reason for goint to Galayos?
Have a few days and enough energy to visit the kingdom of off-widths and chimneys? Vedauwo is your place. Upon arrival it is striking that all climbers are hanging from the pack a friend's number six. Some even have two. And that's not counting the heavy artillery that's in the backpack, which may include one or more "Big Bro". To complete the team well taped hands and a few others with the subject of trouser with a few turns of tape. Disguised in this manner will escalate any delicate plates strips, but they will do bad things, putting half body inside a crack and dragging it all the way to the top.
Complete change of direction. No exotic travel or sleep in a tent in the middle of a desert. While in the middle of Old Europe things are not done this way. You have to rent a house, a car, sleeping on a bed and sometimes dinner at a restaurant. Just park your car seems that the guide has deceived you, because there is no climbable feature in sight, but after a five minute walk through the forest and a sandstone tower suddenly appears through the trees. All efforts have been worthwhile.
What bigger disappointment! When going to Rock & Block at Buñol, we thought everything was going to end up with a fabulous mini-tomatina. Nothing at all. There were only world-class climbers really struggling. There were even prizes and a podium. We refuse to return to a so serious event.
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it is Sputnik Climbing sending "El Matador" at full speed. It's hard to condense a place like this in a handful of phrases and a few photos. Always misses some image or some anecdote. But once again when you see on paper you are satisfied. A very personal look of great site that will hopefully encourage someone to visit.
clownclimbingvideoreflection nº6:
Family and climbing life are not always easy to connect.
It is called Bulder King, but its name does not matter at all, as there are plenty of places like this everywhere. Usually a local garage or basement that after a few months of sawing and drilling, becomes climbing gym. From that moment and on amazing things begin to happen down there. For regular visitors is just routine, but anyone coming from the outside world think he just found a group of Aliens. Hands full of magnesium, shouts and people jumping from side to side or by suspension or pull ups.
But are not extrange people at all: They are your neighbor, your office mate or your children's teacher. At first they felt the distrust of people in the outside world, but now look at everything with the confidence to be a companion training.
You can read in any climbing guide:"Climbing in Rockies is a serious business". And it's not false. Long routes, 4.000 meter high, and so far from the camgrounud. If that's not enough, it will start raining al 12.00 every day. Hallett Peak, Petit Grepon and of course the Diamond in Longs Peak are trully a "serious business"
Photogallery of Rocky Mountains
Devil's Tower was built by Martians. Sure, so extrage place can not appear by chance. It is not yet clear what was its function: a communications antenna, an UFO landing place or a positron cannon. Fortunately, since it was out of service, climbers have been able to use it. Clearly, ther must be extraterrestrial emanation remaining there, that makes this place so absurd as fun.
Cómo cada verano, Hoyamoros se convierte en el refugio perfecto para los bloqueros mas motivados. Este año parecía estar todavía mas lejos…
Para celebrar el fin de la temporada, sumamos unas cuantas fotos a la galería de fotos. Y de regalo,nueva video-reflexión de Clownclimbing,"la posteridad es hoy"
Like every summer Hoyamoros becomes the perfect place for the most motivated boulder fanatics. To celebrate the end of the season, here you have some new photos in our photo gallery. And our last video-reflection: "future is today".
Mr.David Zapata "El Niño" just been he-himself
"Uhhhhhhh. Such a lovely place…"
Attention! question:
A place where you can climb in summer, long routes, short, sport and block. Where you can choose sun or shade, plaques and fissures. One, two, three …Say it again!
Welcome to Cavallers, granite extra quality in all its forms.
Galayos is in the cutting' edge. Parking is full every week end and The Torreón rap down is jammed from mid day. What is happening in Galayos? Why people is changing Rodellar by Aguja Negra? Our reporters are now there, looking for answers.
It is always a joy to see the work printed on paper, especially when you're a dinosaur that has not adapted completely to digital. The script does not change: climbing, travel and take to heart as much as possible ourselves, but it seems that some would have liked it: some pictures in Desnivel nº 300 and an article from our walk through Needles in the number 301. So you want to work!
Two months of careful planning for the Italy climbing trip are, suddenly, in danger. It rains, but not a couple of showers. Hole week! Don't panic. The cousin of a friend of my mechanic had told me the close to Roma there is a great cave, where it is possible to climb even in the rain. And it is fully true. A great place to climb in the rain, plenty of every grade routes, and of course of tufas.
A glacial valley lost into the mountains. A heavenly spot with its own creek and boulders. It sounds like a promised land, but all that is good has a price to pay. There is a huge walk to get there.
To get there with your pack full of food, sleeping bag, mattress, burner, camera, flashes and also the crash pad is something almost rather more suitable for alpinists than for mere mortal boulderers. But there is an strategy that never fails: to deal goods with your friends. And as any good boulder plan, the more we are, the funnier.
So you know
Get together a good gang, trickle them, deal your things and gift yourselves a trip to paradisePhotogalery of Hoyamoros
We wanted to go climbing at Needles even before knowing its name. Now that we have climbed there, we are sure it has been a success. Pictures of climbers in yellow rock did not lie at all. Color is so intense that it does not seem real and routes are so vertical give vertigo. Even now, seeing photos, are putting me the creeps. Full quality!
Point the nose of your brand new racing car to Yosemite National Park and you floor the accelerator. The wheels chirped in all curves up to Olmsted Point. No time to lose! But maybe a better idea to take it easy. Respect the speed limit lest you end up starring in a chase like movies. And no one is happy having a portrait of the front and side holding a number. But once you've installed it's time for action. Willing to enjoy everything and have fun every single day. These "domes" of perfect granite are ideal for people just looking to have fun.
Click, click, click, click (shoot camera), tac, tac, tac, tac, (typing keyboard), discussions about points of view, angles, styles, phrases and expressions. Lot of phone calls, meetings and many, many emails to obtain the result: eight pages of text and photos. A little, very personal, view to a very unique place: Casal Pianos.
Climbing in Kalymnos is very easy. You live in a flat just 20 minutes walking from the climbing crag. Every day eat good things for dinner, swim in the sea and island people is very agreeable. And of course, the routes: long, great and very well bolted. But be advised: Not every route have tufas! In so a great ambiance you only have to worry about climbing and resting.
Technology dominate our life. An e-mail full of information on a new crack crag in Portugal, with plenty pictures of course. Another e-mail asking for information to Isabel Boavida, who answers with very valuable links to other websites. And just another e-mail to prepare a "Kebabmeeting" at the offices of Clownclimbing: to decide when, how and what to do in Portugal. Final decisions taken in the course of an e-mail string and it is time to take action… It is time the Portuguese cracks.
Why a trad guy like me is in Albarracín? The longest climb is 21 feet, the rope is not needed and at the top of no boulder you can see the horizon at infinity. I came here to do what everybody does: jump, cross, heels, jam, mantle, forward somersault, back somersault, fall on the mat, laugh and finish the day with both your arms aching from climbing. As a friend described it: "This is an amusement park". But better, I never get tired of comming here. The roller coaster is different every day and is hidden among the pines. And the crash pad is much more comfortable than the rope for a nap! Comming back to Albarracín? for sure.
Clownclimbing leaves the rope at home and carry the pads and all photographic gadgets to go to cold Albarracín. Here is the Making off em> of the gallery we will publish in the coming days.
ClownClimbing Albarracín from clownclimbing on Vimeo.
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Heres a little handy app that works quite well. Specific to Macs with Dual Graphics cards, normally the only way to change cards is to log out and log in again, after changing the preference under Power Settings. You have one for Power Saving and one for High Performance graphics.
Cody Krieger (@codykrieger) wrote a handy little App that will let you change Graphic Cards without having to logout, quite handy if you want to just muck about for a bit and then open up Team Fortress 2, or do some Video work.
So I present today gfxCardStatus.
As the Author writes:
gfxCardStatus is a menu bar application for OS X that allows users of dual-GPU 15" and 17" MacBook Pros to view which GPU is in use at a glance, and switch between them on-demand.
Most of the time it spends all its time just in my Task Bar sleeping showing which card I have enabled (i for the power saving low powered card, and d for the high-powered card).
It works quite well, sometimes you request a change and your machine won't honour it straight away, normally this is down to another application doing something graphics heavy, so locking the control out.
One useful feature built-in is the ability to auto switch the graphics card in use based on the current power source.
Which I don't personally use, but then I tend to hot swap between on/off PSU far too often.
I've a couple of options missing and some different settings available, but it depends on what model of Mac you have and the Graphics Card present in your machine.
All in all its quite a handy little app, and its Free. You can download it from http://codykrieger.com/gfxCardStatus and start using it straight away.


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Interdisciplinary. Community. Advocacy. Humor.
Rebecca Rose
want to collect my work?
2009 Lost Wax Casting, Maitland School of Art, Orlando, FL
2000-2001 Student Supervisor, NAU Jewelry/Metalsmithing Dept., Flagstaff, AZ
1999-2001 Student Supervisor, NAU Printmaking Dept., Flagstaff, AZ
1998-2001 Bachelor's of Fine Arts, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
Select Exhibitions
2013 Fabricated, Target Gallery/Torpedo Arts Factory, Alexandria, Virginia
2013 A Call to Arms: The Newtown Project, Charles Krause Reporting Fine Art Gallery, Washington D.C.
2012 Cream: Orlando's Best Artists, Mother Falcon Gallery, Orlando, FL
2012 Master Blasters of Sculpture IV, The Hive Gallery & Studios, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Zombies III, Mother Falcon Gallery, Orlando, FL
2012 HoneyLove, 423 West Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Art Takes Times Square, Artists Wanted & Chasama, New York, NY
2012 About Face, City Arts Factory, Redefine Gallery, Orlando, FL
2012 Paint the Town, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL
2012 Nude Nite 13, Church Street Exchange, Orlando, FL
2012 Sculpture: The Ultimate Process, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2011 Monster Factory, City Arts Factory, Orlando, FL
2011 Muppets and Puppets II, Gallery at Avalon Island, Orlando, FL
Guest Curator: Heather Henson, The Jim Henson Co.
2011 Zombies II, Mother Falcon Gallery, Orlando, FL
2011 No. 19 National Juried Group Show, Phoenix Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY Juror: Renee Vara, Vara Fine Art, NYC
2011 Cityscape, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2011 Fashionista, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2010 The Swiss Formula, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2010 International Juried Sculpture, Rogue Space Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY Juror: Willard Boepple, Sculptor
2009 Just Paint, Climate Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Never Think Small, Climate Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Rocktober, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
2004 The American Experience, Santa Cruz Art League, Santa Cruz, CA
Juror: Karen Kienzle, Curator, De Saisset Museum
2002 Ink and Clay 28, Keith and Janet Kellogg Gallery, Pomona, CA
2001 Unabridged Paper Doll Diner, Beasley Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
2001 Solo Exhibition, Sun Scenes Gallery, Flagstaff, AZ
2001 Bon Appetit, The Art House, Oak Park, IL
2001 Sketch an Etch, Tri Lakes Center For the Arts, Palmer, CO
2001 National Small Print Show, Colorado Creed Council, Creed, CO
2011 Finalist, No.19 National Juried Group Show, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Dick Beasley Memorial Full Tuition Art Scholarship, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ
2001 Most Outrageous Ring, 1st Place, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
2001 Dean's List Fine Arts, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
1998 Full Tuition Music Scholarship, Classical Cello, NAU, Flagstaff, AZ
2012- Present Caradoc Ehrenhalt, Maximillian Gallery at the Sunset Marquis, 1200 Alta Loma Road West Hollywood, CA 90069 (310)881.6025
2011- Present Julie Schaefler-Dale, Julie Artisans Gallery, 762 Madison Ave New York, NY 10065 (212)717.5959
2011- Present Brad Biggs, Artists Hub, Orlando, FL 407)247.4552
Bronze Collection Representation
2012- Present Paul Mataresse, The Andy Warhol Museum, 117 Sandusky Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15212 (412) 237.8300
2012- Present Steve Parker & Peter Van Flores III, Redefine Gallery, Orlando, FL (407) 648.7060
2012- Present Marci Siegel, Co-Op 28 Handmade, 1728 N. Vermont Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027 (323) 669.2828
2012 Julio Benez, Cake Artisan LA, 4649 Russell Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90027 (323) 644.5699
Professional Organizations
2012- Present Paddle8
2012- Present Crafthaus
2011- Present American Mensa
2011- Present Society of American Silversmiths
2011- Present Society of North American Goldsmiths
2011- Present Klimt02 Barcelona
2011- Present Independent Collectors
2011- Present Artspace
2011- Present Artnet
2010- 2011 Artist, BDR Entertainment, Orlando, FL
2009 Toy Development, Educational Insights, Los Angeles, CA
2005- 2013 Manager/Artist, Enjoy Your Face Inc., Orlando, FL
2002, 2008 Artist, Enjoy Your Face, Inc., Osaka, Japan
2003- 2005 Artist, Enjoy Your Face, Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Select Charitable Efforts
2012 Mercedes-Benz Championship Golf Tournament, NBRPA/NBA, Basketball for Life, Orlando, FL
2012 National Honeybee Awarness, Honeylove.org, 423West Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2012 Rock Pink for the Cure, Real Radio/Clear Channel Communications, Orlando, FL
2012 Guinness Book of World Records, Ninjago Spinner Battles, Lego Imagination Center, Orlando, FL
2011 Headdress Ball Under the Big Top, Hope and Help Center, Hilton Hotels, Orlando, FL
2011 Fashion Funds the Cure, Pediatric Association, Saks Fifth Avenue, Orlando, FL
2011 Red, White and Wild, Hope and Help Center, Orlando, FL
2010 Bandwagon Roadshow. Orlando, FL
2007 Volunteer, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
Press: Print
2013 Art Takes Miami Catalogue, Artists Wanted, Art Basel Miami Beach (in production)
2012 JewelBook, Stichting Kunstboek, Brussels, Belgium (in production)
2012 LA POP Magazine, Nov/Dec, Pages #40-41, R.K. Graphics/City Centric
2012 LA Centric Magazine, Oct/Nov, Pages #62-63, R.K. Graphics/City Centric
2012 Catapult Art Magazine, October, Issue #14, Pages 112-113, Cartwright Publishing
2012 Paint the Town, Orlando Magazine, Annual Art Showcase, March, pg. 58, Jason Jones, JoAnn Williams Publications
2011 Woolgathering Warhol, Watermark Magazine, Arts and Culture, September, pg. 32, Erik Caban, Aguas Publications
2011 Art of Animation Resort, International Promotions/Print Material, The Walt Disney Co./Yellow Shoes, Face Painter
2011 Orlando Weekly, Arts and Culture Section, June 2, pg. 32
2011 What's Happening Magazine, April, Vol. 5, Issue 7A, pg.28, Aguas Publications
2010 Star Wars Weekends Campaign, International Promotions/Print Material, Lucasfilm & The Walt Disney Co./Yellow Shoes
2005 International Travel Promotions and Brochures, Disney's Animal Kingdom, The Walt Disney Co./Yellow Shoes
Press: Film, TV, Radio
2013 "Art Attacks, Season 2", Eyesview Media, Tom Barile & Raymond Klecker Productions, Orlando, FL (in production)
2012 "Orlando Live", Estee Martin, City Arts Factory (in production)
2012 "Good Day LA", Fox 11 News, Los Angeles, Original Air Date December 18th, 2012
2012 Animal Kingdom Cast Member Mornings, Walt Disney World, Orlando, FL, The Walt Disney Company/Yellow Shoes
2011 "Phillips Phile", Real Radio, Clear Channel Communications, 104.1 FM, Orlando, FL
2011 "News 13", Fashion Funds the Cure, Saks Fifth Avenue, Orlando, FL
2008 USJ CastTv Face Painting Film Shorts, Universal Studios Japan, Osaka, Japan
2008 "Making Faces", The Walt Disney Company, Chief Magic Official, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL
2006 "iVillage Live", NBC/Universal, Islands of Adventure, Orlando, FL
2005 "Breakfast Television", Toronto, Canadian Correspondent: Jennifer Valentyne, Everest Grand Opening, Disney's Animal Kingdom, Orlando, FL
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2012 Ricki Lake, Talk Show Host, "The Ricki Lake Show", Bronze Sculpturing: Pioneering
2012 Mar Yvette, Reporter, "Good Day LA", Fox 11 News Los Angeles, Bronze Sculpturing: Pioneering
2012 Nathan Cartwright, Founder/Director, The Hive Gallery and Studios, Los Angeles, Sculpturing: Enduring
2012 Matthew Eck, Founder/Director, SELECT Art Fair, Art Basel Miami Beach 2012, Sculpturing: Inspiring 3/10
2012 Kat Von D, Actress/Tattoo Artist, "L.A. Ink", Bronze Sculpturing: Ringmaster
2012 Andrew Lincoln, Actor, "The Walking Dead", AMC Network, c/o Worton Rentals, Sculpturing: Devouring
2011 Kevin Williamson, Producer, "The Vampire Diaries", CW Network, c/o Worton Rentals, Sculpturing: Vampiring
2011 Carlos Cassanova, Fashion Designer, "Project Runway 8", "Project Runway All Stars 2", Bravo Network
2011 Todd Lattimore, Actor, Broadway Revival of "La Cage Aux Folles", NYC Sculpturing: Sugaring
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2012 http://www.thedailycity.com/2012/12/mother-falcon-art-show-cream-presents.html
2012 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKW3b5bTyKA- Adela Antoinette, Tuscon Taboo & Underground, Episode 12, shout out from 4:32- 5:39
2012 http://www.lacentricmagazine.com/ Oct/Nov, Pages #62-63, R.K. Graphics/City Centric 2012 www.nothingtonobody.com -Online Arts magazine, Australia, November Feature
2012 www.catapult-mag.com- Online Arts Magazine, October Feature, Issue #14, pages 112-113
2012 http://maximilliangallery.com/products/rebecca-rose-inspiring
2012 http://artruby.com -July, homepage feature
2012 http://groundarts.org/studio-spoken-2/
2012 http://groundarts.org/2012/05/artist-of-the-month-rebecca-rose/
2012 www.saatchionline.com/rebeccarose
2012 http://www.hellocotton.com/rebecca-rose-sculpturings-1974098
2011 http://f7jewellery.com/blog/2011/11/rebecca-rose-sculpturings.html
2011 www.f7jewellery.com
2011 http://www.twelve21gallery.com/news/
2011 www.brinkmagonline.com April/May, Arts and Culture Issue, pg. 3
2011 http://issuu.com/brinkmag/docs/brink_issue15_april
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South Africa is a country in transition, and as a result experiences growing pains that reveal themselves in economic inequities, which result in high crime rates. Although the majority of visitors experience a crime-free trip to South Africa, it's essential to practice vigilance and extreme care.
Crime is a major problem in the whole region, particularly in large cities, and all visitors should take precautions to protect themselves. Do not walk alone at night, and exercise caution even during the day. Avoid wearing jewelry (even costume jewelry), don't invite attention by wearing an expensive camera around your neck, and don't flash a large wad of cash. If you are toting a handbag, wear the strap across your body; even better, wear a money belt, preferably hidden from view under your clothing. When sitting at airports or at restaurants, especially outdoor cafés, make sure to keep your bag on your lap or between your legs—otherwise it may just quietly "walk off" when you're not looking. Even better, loop the strap around your leg, or clip the strap around the table or chair.
Carjacking is another problem, with armed bandits often forcing drivers out of their vehicles at traffic lights, in driveways, or during a fake accident. Always drive with your windows closed and doors locked, don't stop for hitchhikers, and park in well-lighted places. At traffic lights, leave enough space between you and the vehicle in front so you can pull into another lane if necessary. In the unlikely event you are carjacked, don't argue, and don't look at the carjacker's face. Just get out of the car, or ask to be let out of the car. Do not try to keep any of your belongings—they are all replaceable, even that laptop with all that data on it. If you aren't given the opportunity to leave the car, try to stay calm, ostentatiously look away from the hijackers so they can be sure you can't identify them, and follow all instructions. Ask again, calmly, to be let out of the car.
Many places that are unsafe in South Africa will not bear obvious signs of danger. Make sure you know exactly where you're going. Purchase a good map and obtain comprehensive directions from your hotel, rental-car agent, or a trusted local. Taking the wrong exit off a highway into a township could lead you straight to disaster. Many cities are ringed by "no-go" areas. Learn from your hotel or the locals which areas to avoid. If you sense you have taken a wrong turn, drive toward a public area, such as a gas station, or building with an armed guard, before attempting to correct your mistake, which could just compound the problem. When parking, don't leave anything visible in the car; stow it all in the trunk—this includes clothing or shoes. As an added measure, leave the glove box open, to show there's nothing of value inside (take the rental agreement with you).
Before setting out on foot, ask a local, such as your hotel concierge or a shopkeeper, which route to take and how far you can safely go. Walk with a purposeful stride so you look like you know where you're going, and duck into a shop or café if you need to check a map, speak on your mobile phone, or recheck the directions you've been given. Don't walk while speaking on a cell phone.
Lone women travelers need to be particularly vigilant about walking alone and locking their rooms. South Africa has one of the world's highest rates of rape. If you do attract someone who won't take a firm but polite no for an answer, appeal immediately to the hotel manager, bartender, or someone else who seems to be in charge. If you have to walk a short distance alone at night, such as from the hotel reception to your room in a dark motel compound or back from a café along a main street, have a plan, carry a whistle, and know what you'll do if you are grabbed.


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Pele is a fire goddess according to the people of Hawaii. She is a savage and wrathful divinity who is said to reside in the crater of the volcano Kilauea. She is considered responsible for all the eruptions that take place in Hawaii.It is said that one day Kamapua'a, a pig god of Hawaii mythology, tried to woo the fire goddess. Kamapua'a had the face and body of a pig, but his hands and feet were human. Pele covered him with insults, but Kamapua'a was strongly determined in the pursuit of Pele's love. As a result, the two deities found themselves involved in a fight.
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Debates between 'Hayekian' and 'Keynesian' perspectives constitute one of the main conceptual fault-lines of the Eurozone crisis. In the first of two EUROPP articles covering this debate, Steven Horwitz discusses Friedrich Hayek's work and why it presents a compelling case against governments using increased public spending to solve Europe's economic problems.
As EU economies continue to struggle, economists like Paul Krugman are calling for another round of stimulus spending, believing that the size of the programmes adopted early in the global recession were insufficient. Desperate politicians may well choose to go in that direction, if for no other reason than that the arguments against doing so are often not very effective.
So why not another round? The most powerful argument against more stimulus comes from Friedrich Hayek and the Austrian school. The key to their view is their understanding that economic resources, whether capital or labour, are not fungible. That is, capital goods and human beings have a multiple, though not infinite, number of ways they can contribute productively to the value creation process.
The productive structure of an economy is like a jigsaw puzzle where the pieces of capital and labour must fit together in particular combinations. Only specific pieces can be linked with others. However, unlike real jigsaw puzzles, we don't have a picture of the pattern we are creating. Instead, we have prices, profits, and losses to inform us when pieces do or do not fit together appropriately. If those signals are working well, we will have success at fitting pieces together in ways that are orderly. The interesting thing about that orderly use of the jigsaw puzzle pieces is that we might not need to use all the pieces at any one time to generate a recognisable and desirable pattern.
One way of understanding the boom that produced the bust and the subsequent slow recovery is that artificially low interest rates generated by the central bank and government interventions in housing markets weakened the price and profits signals that inform us of whether the pieces fit. The result was a puzzle that used almost all of the pieces, but forced them together in ways that did not produce a recognisable pattern. In other words, the economy's productive structure was not sustainable, as we discovered in 2008. The recession is the dismantling of that puzzle and the recovery is the attempt to reconstruct it, but this time in such a way that the pieces actually fit together. Where we are now, in a world of high unemployment rates and low investment, is the equivalent of lots of puzzle pieces sitting around not being put together.
What advocates of stimulus are arguing is that we need spending, just any old spending, to jump start struggling economies. But this argument must assume that it does not matter which capital and which labour are brought out of idleness and into what sorts of activities. They must of necessity ignore the specificity of resources and their limited complementarity. It does us no good to try to force pieces together that don't fit, as that's what got us in trouble in the first place. And the point of doing a jigsaw puzzle of this sort is to get the pieces to fit in a way that forms an orderly pattern, not to simply use them all up.
The assumption in most stimulus spending is that there are projects just waiting to be pursued if only we would spend the money. What is overlooked is whether the capital and labour that are idle are the resources best suited to those projects, not to mention whether consumers and citizens even want those outputs in the first place. Just buying, hiring, and producing for the sake of "doing something" will create a structure of production that is quickly found to be unsustainable. A few projects may be "shovel ready," but most will require engineers and others to do the planning. If the unemployed are mostly construction workers and financial managers, these projects will not be able to find the engineers they need at wages they can afford, and unemployment will not be reduced.
Politicians and bureaucrats lack the knowledge to know which pieces fit with which pieces as they cannot know the nature of the idled resources and what consumers want. They are unable to know what is needed to create a sustainable recovery. One of the most fundamental insights of Hayek and the Austrians was that prices, profits, and losses serve as knowledge surrogates to coordinate the decentralised decisions of producers and consumers, themselves often based on knowledge that they could not communicate any other way.
Politicians who are structurally unable to know how best to allocate stimulus resources will inevitably distribute them to those persons and groups who will give them the most electoral support. The Austrian caution about the limits of politicians' knowledge suggests that no matter what is drawn up on the blackboard, the politicisation of stimulus spending is not an accident and cannot be avoided. Stimulus spending that goes to groups that will provide the most votes will ensure that the right combinations of capital and labour will not be formed.
So what can we do? The answer lies in the criticism: free up competition, prices, profits, and losses so that entrepreneurs and others can finish the process of tearing down the mistakes of the boom and figure out how to reallocate those resources to their new best uses. That process takes time, but if politicians cease meddling in it and start allowing market processes to do their job, particularly by allowing failed firms to go bankrupt and sell off their assets for more valuable uses, recovery will take place more quickly.
Before the advent of Keynesianism, most recessions were very short lived as producers were left free to shuffle the jigsaw pieces into better combinations. It is the very lack of trust in markets, and the misguided trust in the political process, that Keynesianism produced that now leads us to think stimulus spending is necessary and effective. Hayek and the Austrians give us good reasons to think otherwise.
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Steven Horwitz – St. Lawrence University
Steven Horwitz is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY. He is the author of two books, Microfoundations and Macroeconomics: An Austrian Perspective (Routledge, 2000) and Monetary Evolution, Free Banking, and Economic Order (Westview, 1992). He has written extensively on Austrian economics, Hayekian political economy, monetary theory and history, and the economics and social theory of gender and the family.


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Hello everybody, here we are today with WordBrain 2 (used to be WordBrain Themes), new exciting quiz for Android. After the undisputed success of Wordbrain, MAG Interactive has decided to develop another saga of the popular game with the name Wordbrain 2. Just like in Wordbrain official game, you have to guess correctly all the answers in the different levels of the game. While the first couple of levels are pretty simple the coming levels get harder and harder. In case something is missing please drop us a comment below and we will be more than happy to help you out! Just use the search form below to find your answer. Have fun.
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Each year, millions of Americans decorate their homes for the upcoming holiday season, namely Christmas. Are you one of those individuals? If so, which type of Christmas decorations do you plan on using? While you might not necessarily think that there is a difference in Christmas decorations, there is. This difference is often the overall quality, as well as the design. If you have yet to start decorating for Christmas, you may want to think about decorating your home with elegant Christmas decorations, you will find that there are a number of benefits to doing so.
As just mentioned, there are a number of benefits to decorating your home with elegant Christmas decorations. Before you focus on those benefits, it may be a good idea to further examine elegant Christmas decorations, namely what they are and where they can be purchased from. When it comes to elegant Christmas decorations, you will find that different individuals have different views. Despite these different views, you will most commonly find that elegant Christmas decorations look better than most other decorations. For instance, instead of using cardboard to create a table centerpiece, an elegant Christmas decoration would likely include a ceramic or glass centerpiece and so on.
In addition to the appearance of elegant Christmas decorations, you will also find that their cost is quite different. In most cases, you will find that elegant Christmas decorations cost more than most traditional decorations. Aside from the better quality, you will find that this has to do with where the decorations can be purchased from. Most elegant Christmas decorations can be purchased online, from specialty retailers, or from specialty Christmas stores. These retailers are almost always priced higher than most others. One of the reasons for that is because most elegant Christmas decorations are handcrafted. A large amount of time, skill, and money go into creating handcrafted Christmas decorations; thus the increase in costs.
Now that you know what elegant Christmas decorations are and where they can be purchased from, you can begin to start focusing on the benefits of using them to decorate your home. Perhaps, the greatest benefit of using elegant Christmas decorations to decorate your home is the feel that will be created. As you likely assumed, elegant Christmas decorations tend to create an elegant feel or environment. If you take great pride in your home, especially the design and cleanliness of it, you may also be proud with the results created by elegant Christmas decorations, as your guests will likely be as well.
Despite the fact that we often associate Christmas decorations with personal home use, that is not their only purpose. If you are planning having a Christmas party or dinner in your home, you and all of your guests can greatly benefit from having elegant Christmas decorations, especially if your party or dinner will be elegant or formal in nature. It is no secret that decorations are the key to any party. The decorations that you use will likely have an impact on the mood of your party; therefore, if elegant and formal is what you were going for, elegant Christmas decorations may do just the trick.
Although there are a number of benefits to decorating for Christmas with elegant Christmas decorations, you do not have to. Since your home is your home, your own personal space, you are advised to decorate with what makes you feel the most comfortable. If elegant Christmas decorations are that then great, but if they are not, you have an unlimited number of other Christmas decorations to choose form.


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Groupon on Friday became a publicly traded company, marking the first IPO in the daily-deal industry, which could ripple out into a more mature Groupon and fiercer competition from places like LivingSocial and Google.
Groupon's IPO has been a long-time coming, and Friday marks an era when things begin to get really interesting. The stock price (GRPN) opened at $20 per share, and has already risen to $28.50 as of press time.
The Chicago-based dealmaker recently expanded its footprint in California by opening a Palo Alto office and acquiring San Mateo-based Ludic Labs. The Palo Alto staff expected to grow from 25 people to more than 100 within the next year, according to Groupon.
Critics are coming from all circles to warn against buying stocks. Earlier this week, Howard Tullman enthusiastically praised Groupon for raising interest in Chicago business on the national scale, but advised and predicted many investors would -- and should -- wait until things die down on the IPO to sink money into it.
No one at Groupon was available for comment Friday; however a spokesperson said, via e-mail, "Today's a significant step in Groupon's journey, but it's not the finish line. We're committed to innovating ways to change local retail for consumers and local businesses. It's great to pause and recognize what we've accomplished, but we're focused on building a long-term business that really changes people's expectations of local commerce."


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Explanation: The clouds surrounding the star system Rho Ophiuchi compose one of the closest star forming regions. Rho Ophiuchi itself is a binary star system visible in the light-colored region on the image right. The star system, located only 400 light years away, is distinguished by its colorful surroundings, which include a red emission nebula and numerous light and dark brown dust lanes. Near the upper right of the Rho Ophiuchi molecular cloud system is the yellow star Antares, while a distant but coincidently-superposed globular cluster of stars, M4, is visible between Antares and the red emission nebula. Near the image bottom lies IC 4592, the Blue Horsehead nebula. The blue glow that surrounds the Blue Horsehead's eye -- and other stars around the image -- is a reflection nebula composed of fine dust. On the above image left is a geometrically angled reflection nebula cataloged as Sharpless 1. Here, the bright star near the dust vortex creates the light of surrounding reflection nebula. Although most of these features are visible through a small telescope pointed toward the constellations of Ophiuchus, Scorpius, and Sagittarius, the only way to see the intricate details of the dust swirls, as featured above, is to use a long exposure camera.
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The Debate: A Masterful Liar Defeats a Man Without Conviction (video)
Sr. Editor of The Real News Network Paul Jay invited York University professor Leo Panitch onto his show to discuss the first Presidential Election Debate, and why President Obama was virtually incapable of countering any of Romney's gross misrepresentations:
JAY: So my headline take on the debate was Masterful Liar Beats Man without Conviction. What was your take?
PANITCH: Well, I thought Romney said one thing that was absolutely true, and President Obama agreed with it. And that was when Romney said, high-income people will do well whether I'm president or you are. I think that was the truest thing he said all night.
That said, he was full of cant and hypocrisy, although he pulled it off well because Obama was unable to present any vision of his own. The hypocrisy was astonishing when he said that Dodd–Frank protects banks 'too big to fail'—these are known as systemically important financial institutions—and then in the next breath said this is going to harm middle-size banks. And, of course, would those banks fail, the whole point is they would bring down the middle-size banks with them. That's why they're systemically important.
It was astonishing that Obama was unable to respond to that. And he was unable to respond to it, because indeed he is so much in the pockets of the big banks and the banking system and is responsible for reproducing that system through this crisis. […]
JAY: The reason I say, man without conviction, and obviously I mean President Obama, is on the campaign hustings, at least when he is amongst working people, he sounds like this kind of rallying, rabble-rousing, Left-winger, and he's railing against the rich and all of this. In this debate he seemed to have no conviction about anything he said, except that he was trying to become more of a Republican than Romney, and then he got caught, because Romney was actually more a Democrat than Obama.
PANITCH: Yeah. It was such a weak defense of any alternative program, even the one that he stands for. It was an amazingly weak defense. And it was a constant attempt to stand on both sides of every issue. So when he said Clinton created 20 million jobs, in the same breath he said: and he created lots of millionaires in the process. So all along he was making this appeal to the middle class, hardly at all to those below the middle class.
And, of course, objectively what's happening is that more and more people are being thrown out of it and have no prospect whatever of climbing into it. And it was just amazing that he should be presenting himself in a way that is—not only doesn't offer a vision beyond the limited kind of Clintonomics, but a vision that is even defending what he has done. […]


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IATA appoints Marie Owens Thomsen as new chief economist
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Marie Owens Thomsen will join the Association as its chief economist effective January 4, 2022.
November 16, 2021: The International Air Transport Association (IATA) announced that Marie Owens Thomsen will join the Association as its chief economist effective January 4, 2022.
"Owens Thomsen will come from Banque Lombard Odier, where she has served as head of global trends and sustainability since 2020. Prior to that she was the long-time global head of investment intelligence (2011-2020) at Indosuez Wealth Management. Additionally, she has served in chief economist and related roles for Merrill Lynch, Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and HSBC. Her varied career also includes entrepreneurship and market development activities," reads the release.
Willie Walsh, IATA's director general, said, "Marie's work on macro-economic issues with a focus on sustainability will prepare her to address aviation's top issues—namely recovery from Covid and sustainability. Coming from outside the aviation sector, she will bring valuable new insights and perspectives. And I am confident that she will carry on IATA's reputation for objective reporting and analysis that is essential for explaining aviation's contribution to the global economy and advocating for the polices airlines need to be successful."
Owens Thomsen said, "I am joining IATA to contribute to the aviation sector which has been a formidable long-term driver of economic growth. I'll do this with a research approach that identifies causal factors for critical issues and their high-priority solutions. This is important as aviation begins the recovery from COVID-19 and continues the journey to net zero emissions. I look forward to a future where aviation can flourish within a sustainable global economy."
Owens Thomsen holds a PhD in international economics from The Graduate Institute in Geneva and an MBA equivalent from the University of Gothenburg in International Economics and Business. Holding US, UK and Swiss nationalities, she has worked in the UK, France and Switzerland and is fluent in Swedish, English and French.
Owens Thomsen succeeds Brian Pearce who retired from IATA earlier this year after serving as chief economist since 2004.