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° ° ° ° ° - - - - - - - | 9 9 . 3 7 | - - - - - - - | <nettime> announcer | a | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - b << | - - - - Andrew Forbes <andyf {AT} j15.com> : net-art99 - call for nominations | 1 2 | - - - - Alan Sondheim <sondheim {AT} panix.com> : trAce Online Writing Community | 1 3 | - - - - Eric Kluitenberg <epk {AT} xs4all.nl> : new media projects - Kunst NRW.NL | 1 4 | - - - - Eric Kluitenberg <epk {AT} xs4all.nl> : Permanent Flux Rom - The Launch! | 1 5 | - - - - Ed Osborn <edo {AT} curve.to> : Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art | 1 6 | - - - - Valery Grancher <vgranger {AT} imaginet.fr> : artwork for BAM/PFA web site | 1 7 | - - - - J. Salloum <JSalloum {AT} aol.com> : WTO protest | 1 8 | - - - - Faith Wilding <fwild+ {AT} andrew.cmu.edu> : CYBERFEMINISM, Next Protocols | 1 9 | - - - - Richard Barbrook <richard {AT} hrc.wmin.ac.uk> : Cybercommunist Manifesto | 2 0 | - - - - | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | delivered each weekend into your inbox | | mailto: nettime-l {AT} bbs.thing.net | | - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 2 | - - - - vintage '99 at http://www.net-art.org call for nominations for net-art99 The 'net-art99' event opens for viewing, vetting and voting at http://www.net-art.org on September 13th. Running till 01/01/00, this wide ranging listing of publicly nominated 'net-art' projects follows from last year's event in bringing to the web-wide arena a single site from which to visit some of the best of 1999 - and then to return and give one's reaction. Registered site visitors can give points from 15 to -5 per listed site that they have visited (and revise vote on subsequent visits), whilst on the site forum more in depth reactions can be given and taken. For those of us wanting to get their work (or that of your heroes/enemies) exposed and reacted upon, there is still ample time to nominate projects. They must meet the definition of 'net-art' given on the site and cannot have appeared (unless substantially developed) in net-art98 (http://www.net-art.org/98). Any marginally net-arty sites will go before the 'nominations panel', any plugins etc allowed but please list from nominations form on site, really long downloads may get the brush off cause it spoils things for the rest of us. Who will follow along the path blazed last year by master-pioneers such as Superbad, Olia Lialina, jodi and David Oppenheimer? Check out http://www.net-art.org and leave your mark. PS you need Flash 4 to get in this year. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 3 | - - - - Press Release: Alan Sondheim - New trAce Virtual Writer-in-Residence ALAN SONDHEIM http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sondheim/ Brooklyn-based cyber-theorist Alan Sondheim is the latest writer to join the growing band at the trAce Online Writing Community http://trace.ntu.ac.uk He is taking up the virtual baton from trAce's first Virtual Writer-in- Residence Christy Sheffield Sanford, and will be available on the site until March 2000. Sondheim is a poet, critic, and theorist who writes on and about the Internet. His books include Disorders of the Real, and the anthology Being on Line, and during his time with trAce he will be working on a series of collaborative pieces including 'Love and War and Jennifer' as well as running a group of other online projects and conferences on topics like programming code, avatars, cyborgs and experimental writing. In 'Love and War and Jennifer' he urges writers to get involved. "Add your own segments to the story backbone, or add your own webpages on the theme. I imagine a huge accumulation of texts grounding this millennium in the next, working and reading and creating new experiences on the way." Alan is enthusiastic about his new post with trAce. He says "I'm extremely excited to work in an environment that is in the forefront of online culture. The opportunity to work with writers and artists engaged in cultural activity around the world is incredible and amazing to me." Director of trAce, novelist Sue Thomas, is delighted that Alan will be working on the site. "Alan Sondheim lives at the sharp edge of cyberculture today. He digs deep into the net and is never afraid to confront some of the most profound psychological challenges the web can sum up. I'm sure trAce writers will find it fascinating to join him in his explorations." BACKGROUND In 1997 trAce received an Arts Council of England 'Arts for Everyone' Award of Ł365,000 to establish this online community for writers and readers in real and virtual space, and since then the organisation has attracted attention from around the world. Its most successful ventures to date include: Community: - WebBoard email conference open 24 hours a day http://hum-webboard.ntu.ac.uk/~trace - weekly online meetings at 21:00 hrs Sydney and again at 21:00 hrs London every Sunday http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/online/moo.htm - Incubation International Conference on Writing and the Net 10-12 July 2000 http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/incubation/ Writing Projects: - "My Millennium" curated by Virtual Writer-in-Residence Christy Sheffield Sanford http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/sanford/my_millennium/presents.html - Bernard Cohen, Writer-in-Residence http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/writers/cohen/front.htm - Writers' Online Journals http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/journals.htm - frAme Journal of Culture and Technology http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/frame/ - trAced Resources for Writers http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/traced/traced.htm - the Noon Quilt http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/quilt/index.html - the Eclipse Quilt http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/quilt/eclipse/scripts/eqQuilt_test.pl - Kids on the Net, the junior section of trAce http://trace.ntu.ac.uk/kotn/gokids.htm __________________________________ The trAce Online Writing Community Nottingham Trent University Clifton Lane Nottingham NG11 8NS ENGLAND Tel: ++44 (0)115 9486360 (direct line) Fax: ++44 (0)115 9486364 http://trace.ntu.ac.uk trace {AT} ntu.ac.uk - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 4 | - - - - Announcement: The new media projects of Kunst NRW.NL - A cultural co-operation project of Nordrhein-Westfalia and The Netherlands The Netherlands will host a cultural exchange and co-operation project with Nordrhein-Westfalia during the months October and November of this year, entitled "Kunst NRW.NL". In the framework of this program a series of cultural and art projects in the field of new media will be realised. These projects have emerged from a unique co-operation between artists, institutions and cultural initiatives from both countries. The series of projects is co-ordinated by De Balie, Centre for Culture and Politics (Amsterdam), and the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, with V2_Organisation (Rotterdam) and Montevideo TBA (Amsterdam) as the most important partner organisations. This co-operation project underlines the close ties that exist between both countries, and stresses the great importance this co-operation already has today, and which it increasingly will have in the context of the further European integration in the future. Culturally as well as in the field of media and new media, both The Netherlands and Nordrhein-Westfalia in many ways take a leading role in Europe. Especially in these two countries attempts are made to establish a relationship between the new media development as such, and its social and cultural impact, that transcends its economic and technological significance. Both countries, moreover, have a rich cultural tradition and history, as well as a very lively and a highly diverse contemporary cultural live. It is foremost this diversity that informs the new media program. The Projects: * Full Play: A spectacular multimedia dance performance on site in the gasometer, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam. * reBoot: A floating media laboratory on the Rhine, from Cologne to Rotterdam & Amsterdam + a telematic club event at 4 locations simultaneously. * Sphere & Memory Arena: New projects by the artist duo David & Ulrike Gabriel {AT} V2_Organisation in Rotterdam. * I0_Dencies - Questioning Urbanity: A project by Knowbotic Research and V2_ about urban development in the Ruhrgebiet and the Randstad. * Film & New Media: A film program featuring young and experimental film from NRW, in the cross-over territory of cinema and new media. * Masterclass '99: A masterclass guided by well known media artists that results in exhibtions in Amsterdam and Cologne. * Conference: A working conference on cultural policy and new media in NRW & NL. * New Media Logbook: A logbook as navigation tool; collecting program details and background information on all projects (release: October 1st). A special page with short descriptions of the individual projects and many links to specific web sites about the various projects, can be found on the Balie web site: [ http://www.balie.nl/nrw.nl ] For further information, please contact: De Balie Eric Kluitenberg Kleine Gartmanplantsoen 10 1017 RR Amsterdam Tel. 020 - 553 51 51 Fax. 020 - 553 51 55 http://www.balie.nl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 5 | - - - - Official Launch of the CD ROM Permanent Flux - past, present and future of multimedia art De Balie, Amsterdam, Friday September 17, 1999 In the CD-ROM Permanent Flux four multimedia insiders (Laurie Anderson, Siegfried, Paul Garrin and Frans Evers) render their perspective on past, present and future of multimedia art. A favourite and crucial episode from the history of multimedia art is the starting point for each presentation. Their lectures, originally spoken in front of a live audience, are supported by audio fragments, radio broadcasts, absolute film, technotrance clips and many other examples and highlights. The texts are accessible as linear text, but also as a semantic architecture in which a lecturer picks up a subject where the other one has left it. From the musical and theatrical innovations between 1850 and 1917 to experimental film and radio during the twenties, from Fluxus, video and synthesisers from the sixties and seventies to Laurie Anderson talking about her performances and computer art in the nineties, Permanent Flux offers a wide range of perspectives on the various explorations of multimedia artists during the last century. It shows what has remained the same and what links for example Wagners Gesamtkunstwerk to the VJ's of our days: the desire for new worlds, new ways of expression and experience. Among the examples from the history of multimedia that are presented on Permanent Flux are works by Nam June Paik, Knowbotic Research, Andrej Skriabin, Luis Bunuel, Fernand Leger, Oskar Fischinger, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Dziga Vertov and Richard Wagner. The CD-ROM Permanent Flux is, however, much more than a mere documentation of the lectures and the historical materials, presented here in image and sound. Permanent Flux is above all an investigation into the dynamics of multimedia-interfaces. The design team explored four different trajectories of how the information flow contained within the CD-ROM can be navigated. On Friday September 17th the CD-ROM will be launched with a special public program at De Balie in Amsterdam. During the evening a series of multimedia reviews of Permanent Flux will illustrate the opinions of Jaap Drupsteen, Heiner Holtappels, Ine Poppe, Edwin van der Heide, Willem de Ridder, Willem Velthoven, and others, about this production. Permanent Flux was made for De Balie by: Yariv AlterFin, Bastiaan Lips, Marjolijn Ruyg, Jaap Verdenius, Nirit Peled, Dave Hemminga, Alfred Rademakers, Nobby van Grinsbergen, Peter Kroon and many others. About our protagonists: Laurie Anderson: multimedia artist Siegfried Zielinski: media-archaeologist and founding rector of the Academy for Media Art in Cologne Paul Garrin: media artist & activist, and former assistant of Nam June Paik Frans Evers: professor at the Royal Music Academy in The Hague Permanent Flux, past, present and future of multimedia art Laurie Anderson, Siegfried Zielinski , Paul Garrin , Frans Evers ISBN 90 6617 220 7 NUGI 912 Cd-rom (Mac & Windows) Price: DFL 39,95 ------------------------------------ Tickets and reservations for the Launch: ------------------------------------ By phone: 020 - 5535100. Mo till Thu v14.00 - 20.00 hrs., Fri. 14.00 - 22.30 hrs and Sat 17.00 - 22.30 hrs. Ticket-price: ź12,50 (ź 10,00 CJP/PAS65/Stadspas/Collegekaart) De Balie, Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen 10, Amsterdam. http://www.balie.nl/ e-mail: balie {AT} balie.nl - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 6 | - - - - Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art Containing excerpts from the first 10 years of an ongoing project the sounds of visual culture, Audio Recordings of Great Works of Art explores the Aural Aura of Masterworks? as found in the sounds in the immediate locations of highly regarded paintings, sculptures, and other artworks. The piece examines by turns museum culture, the acoustic life of silent objects, and the space left to the ear while the eye is engaged. Featured recordings include DaVinci's Mona Lisa, Rembrandt's Nightwatch, a Mercedes W196 Strolimnenwagen, and the Big Merino. Now online at <http://curve.to/auralaura>. Ed Osborn Box 9121 Oakland, CA 94613 USA edo {AT} curve.to http://curve.to - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 7 | - - - - I have the pleasure to announce this new show hereafter the press release, Valéry Grancher An artwork for the BAM/PFA Web site October 4 through January 31 French artist Valéry Grancher has conceived an original interactive artwork for the museum's Web site which will be launched on-line October 4. Twenty-four UC Berkeley students from a variety of departments-from Art Practice and Art History to Molecular and Cell Biology-are working with the artist, the curator, and the museum's Information Systems Manager, Rick Rinehart, to realize the work. Every hour of one entire day, the students will make a photographic portrait according to their own criteria for subject, composition, setting, and lighting, asking the subjects to describe in one word their state of mind at that precise moment. All of the images will be scanned into the computer's memory and represented on the screen by a grid of numbers from 1 to 24, each number corresponding to a photograph in the order it was taken. Above each number will be the time the image was taken and a word corresponding to each subject. The site navigator (the viewer) will be able to participate via a computer terminal in the museum or by accessing the museum's Web site (http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu). There will also be a computer terminal in the Practice of Art Department's Worth Ryder Gallery from October 19 to 29. The viewer will randomly choose one of the twenty-four horizontal lines that correspond to a single photographer's twenty-four portraits. The navigator may next click on a vertical column to view all the photographs that were taken at a given hour of the day. Or, by mixing and matching, the navigator can create a personal story or sequence. Grancher has devised an elegant structure in which the creative role of the student collaborators is matched by that of the site visitors. The site promises to be engaging and amusing but also touches on several significant issues, including how one defines fiction and truth and how one operates in a space that is simultaneously virtual and real. An on-line catalog featuring an interview with Valéry Grancher will accompany 24h00. Grancher will describe the interactive Web project created for Berkeley as well as other works he has created using digital technology in UC Berkeley's Art, Technology, and Culture Colloquium on Wednesday, October 27, at 7:15 p.m. in 160 Kroeber Hall. Admission is free. During the week of October 25, Grancher will be in residence at UC Berkeley, participating in a number of student-focused activities, including working with the museum's New Media Team and giving classroom presentations in library information technology and engineering. This artist's residency is a project of The Time of Your Life: Enhancing Student Engagement with the Arts. Constance Lewallen Senior Curator 24h00 is part of Cote Ouest: A Season of French Contemporary Art and is made possible by the support of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs through AFAA (Association Française d'Action Artistique) and its "programme á la carte," and French Cultural Services. Étant Donnés, the French-American Fund for Contemporary Art, and the UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts have provided additional support. The Time of Your Life: Enhancing Student Engagement with the Arts is supported by a grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts. The assistance and encouragement of Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley Professor of Engineering; Shawn Brixey, Professor of Art Practice; and Charles Altieri, Professor of English and Director of the UC Berkeley Consortium for the Arts, have made this exhibition possible. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 8 | - - - - \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ September 15th International Day of Action Against the WTO! ///////////////////////////////////////////////// Join the opposition to the World Trade Organization and it's non-democratic agenda of economic globalization and corporate domination! Forward this message to all appropriate listservs, then come on out for the following public events! -----Tuesday Sept. 14th, 7-9 pm-------- PUBLIC EDUCATION FORUM: A PANEL AND DISCUSSION ON THE WTO Britannia Community Center, 1661 Napier St. (just off Commercial Dr. north of Grandview Park) Room L2/L3 (above the library) -----Wednesday Sept. 15th, 4-6 pm-------- !!!PROTEST: CREATING A WTO-FREE ZONE!!! Vancouver Stock Exchange 609 Granville at Dunsmuir Call Lili (261-6657) or Mia (433-4789) for more info. Organized by the Vancouver Grassroots Alliance Against the WTO and Simon Fraser Public Interest Research Group. >>>>>>>>VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! >>>>>>>>Come out for a work party 5 o'clock Monday night - meet in front of La Quena - bring materials for banners, posters, etc. >>>>>>>>Pick up posters at La Quena and plaster 'em all over town! Feel good about yourself! __________________________________________________ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 1 9 | - - - - CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO A BOOK The OLD BOYS NETWORK calls for contributions to its new editorial project, provisionally titled: CYBERFEMINISM, Next Protocols - a BOOK with new and controversial approaches to Cyberfeminism. Why? We are in need of a book which reflects the actual (and future) state of the art of thinking about, and inventing, the digital medium in its capacity to subvert cultural practices which a cyberfeminist perspective can provide. Verena Kuni (Germany), Claudia Reiche (Germany), Yvonne Volkart (Switzerland), and Faith Wilding (USA), as the editorial group are looking for feminist modes of accessing, queering, transgressing, rethinking or using information based technologies--electronic communication (including command and control), word or image processing, every form of virtuality and simulation, biotechnologies, body politics ... To start the discussion, the OLD BOYS NETWORK offers an outline of some utopian reflections on contemporary Cyberfeminisms, which indicate our special fields of interest, and may suggest debate topics. With the publishers of Autonomedia Books (New York) we hope to create a network of contributions to be published in 2000/2001. We wish to consider a broad variety of texts, as well as non-textual projects, from experimental to theoretical, activist, poetic, polemical, fragmentary, philosophical, and the like. If you call yourself a woman and are interested in the communicating and debating potential of this CYBERFEMINIST project you are invited to submit proposals. New, unpublished work is preferred. Please email your proposals: 300-500 words, in English by the 30th October, 1999 to the OLD BOYS NETWORK. Contact: boys {AT} obn.org Visit: http://www.obn.org. Please include your full name, postal address, telephone, email address, and a two line biography in your proposal. READ.ME FIRST: invitation to contribute to cyberfeminism. next protocols 1.0 Old Boys Network (Ed.) CYBERFEMINISM Next Protocols THE OLD BOYS NETWORK is especially interested in texts which address the following: <Paradoxes of the digital medium> How do we judge the changes that the medium of the computer has introduced in a historical way? And in the way it has changed how we understand and use history? What are the every-day embodied conditions of women's lives as they are being altered by the new technologies and communications networks? What are new forms of oppression and of liberation? Has the digital medium--starting with the undecisiveness of the Turing test, and in its latest form when calculation-tasks have become autonomous data processing--taken the place of the subject? Can you tell: Where do you or the machine 'end'? <Paradoxes of the body> ...there is an instability at the very heart of sex and bodies, the fact that the body is what it is capable of doing, and what any body is capable of doing is well beyond the tolerance of any given culture." (Elizabeth Grosz) What is the experience of gender and femininity in the virtual medium? How do we describe these strange new bodies, these body doubles of virtuality and flesh? What are the effects of the biotech revolution on social constructions of gender, and on women? The manufacture and control of fertility/infertility and the medicalization of women's body processes are vital subjects for cyberfeminist scrutiny, critique, and activism. We need to examine the increasingly close links between medical and military technologies and the implications of these for women. <Paradoxes of the cross-breed: Net-condition> Cyberfeminism is not simply an evolution of historical feminism created as a more adequate answer to meet the changed conditions of the Information Age. Cyberfeminism can perhaps best be described as a feminist intervention into these new conditions, and an exploration of how they challenge the political and social conditions of feminism. What is the net-condition of women? What could cyberfeminist subversions and uses of the net consist of? What are the possibilities of the so-called networked body or the body on-line? In thinking beyond gender and gender discourses we find ourselves in the territory of the post-human, the cyborg, or the hyper-cyborg, the territory of the monstrous and the unrepresentable. With the advent of advanced biotechnology and genetic mapping, the field of teratology has acquired whole new meanings in medical and agricultural realms. How do things look in the physical and non-physical realms of virtual teratology? READ.ME: IF/ELSE invitation to contribute to cyberfeminism. next protocols 1.0 IF you would like to know more about the ideas THE OLD BOYS NETWORK isconcerned with while going deeper into next protocols THEN read this alternative invitation: Old Boys Network (Ed.) CYBERFEMINISM: Next Protocols IF Cyberfeminism" is a powerful label for some vague ideas..... Can a word express a widespread intimation of something not yet articulated? Yes, condensations of some vague ideas have been a part of every genuine invention; for example, the digital computer emerged independently and in different places at about the same historic moment. Since about 1992 this has also been the case with CYBERFEMINISM. Yet the success story of this word seems unprecedented. As technical as the media named above, CYBERFEMINISM indicates a diffusion through the hitherto thinkable and possible--a permeable membrane. Two masterpieces in male western cultural tradition: the woman" and the machine", worshipped in endless - mostly male - fantasies of mechanical women-automata or as female robots or cyborgs have in the meantime met elsewhere under strange new conditions: Not only the male authors of these subjects have disappeared from the stage of history, but authorship, stage and history may themselves have disappeared, or at least have changed their recognizable forms... Cyberfeminism" does not indicate the necessary return of the repressed" in the male psyche of history, but a feed-back loop in a space-time named post-human. Like IF, the basic element of programming languages for case differentiation and ramification - Cyberfeminism" indicates an operation. The feed-back loop: if x then a else b" sets an unpredictable future for the machine's actions. Who would seriously trust such autonomous operations? Since the war-decision programming of the 40s, almost everybody (preferably without knowing) trusts IF-THEN commands as a means to prophesy the immediate future. Reported errors will already have predicted the unknown message, as a message is the transmission of certain calculable probabilities. Metaphorically (and incorrectly) spoken, a feminist bet could engage in the finding of some less predictable errors - one step beyond coding - in order to trigger a change in the immediate future of the machine's universe. Making a mess of the message? Count differently? Change the alphabet? Calculate faster? Rearm the hardware to devices capable of all of the first four rules of arithmetic? Transmit viruses? Put the data of your genetic fingerprint in an Artificial Life environment to parody literary origin myths? Live new or ambiguous genders? The potential of this situation has not yet been realized in relation to patriarchally coded cultural systems: yet posing unresolvable decision problems, like the halting problem, sometimes turning into infinite feedback- loops ... ELSE IF Cyberfeminism is a simulation.... What will we have been wanting to say? We: some sort of strange new feminists, trying to work out this question theoretically and politically with the foreseen result of changing or even demolishing feminism", or ourselves" in the way we conceive feminism" and ourselves" now. So: Cyborg Feminisms? Cyberfeminism? With a Difference? Weaving automatic Feminism like Jaquard's loom? Tinkering with split or second selves? We think: IF you don't make your bets, THEN rien ne va plus... or worse: continues in a way called progress. For IF the bet on what becomes reality is made by women with machines (they'll both win), THEN history can be deciphered in the mode of future perfect - and what will perhaps still be called women" continues to simulate. At least that's what we are working with: the utopian space opened up between the meaning and the letter, between the different lectures and practices, between desires and facts - that is working in a zone of passage between informational noise and modes of simulation. Coming out of the vague. ELSE IF Cyberfeminism is not a teleology ... If ideal and final concepts of history in cyberfeminist visions are not supported, there'll be alternatives to statements like the following : ...as machines get more autonomous, so do the women." or It's not happening because people are trying to make it happen - or even because feminist politics are driving these changes (...), but changes are occurring almost as an automatic process. (...) It's beautifully effortless, it's an automatic process!" (Sadie Plant) Why should cyberfeminism identify with philosophies of history that lead to any kind of historic fulfillment? No genuine simulation under the sign of women" would corrupt its open structure, like proposing quite a thermodynamic end of history as a law of nature. ELSE IF Gender is not obsolete... Despite suggestions that one should put hope in a "monstrous world without gender" (Donna Haraway) why not stick to the intimate monstrosities of sexual difference in an analytical, critical as well as an utopian sense? Assuming that the borders between humans and information processing machines, as between the physical and the non-physical world and some other identity granting convictions will have been shifting or down for quite a while - all this does not necessarily trigger wishes of getting rid of gender, including the most interesting monstrous female sex - the vanishing point probably even of the perspective construction of a world without gender". So - if gender is not obsolete, there is a stake in reformulating it under contemporary conditions. How? Cyberfeminism encloses "Fem" in its very center -"fem" that promising syllable which hints at gender, yet exceeds and eludes it. ELSE IF Cyberfeminism is a monster.... We think: Cyberfeminism is a monster born of net-condition and cultural traditions; a hybrid concept of the strange new bodies of genetechnology and the new forms of simulation in the age of virtuality. If gender is not obsolete, but in process of changing, then how to describe these monstrous new sensibilities, identities, bodies - literally, conceptually, politically...? How to perceive and create the new skin of the hybrid new existences, both physical and non-physical? As we live in a time of crass power consolidation through pancapitalism, as the gendered power formations and dominating structures are being spread to all corners of the earth by this globalization, and as information technologies are profoundly changing lives, all this can trigger women" to muster all their knowledge and cunning to find ways of creating active nodes of subversion and alternative processes on however tiny a scale. If cyberfemininsts use the Net as a strategy and a medium for political, cultural, and social action within decentralized information and communication networks, what could the monstrous consequences be? THEN send your proposal to the OLD BOYS NETWORK! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | 2 0 | - - - - Hiya, For those who enjoyed my recent provocation, there are some American comments on the piece on these sites. The Cybercommunist Manifesto - Andrew Leonard: <www.salon.com/tech/log/1999/09/10/cybercommunism/index.html> Cybercommunism and the Gift Culture: <slashdot.org/articles/99/09/10/157243.shtml> Later, Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Richard Barbrook Hypermedia Research Centre School of Communications, Design & Media University of Westminster Watford Road Northwick Park HARROW HA1 3TP <www.hrc.wmin.ac.uk> +44 (0)171-911-5000 x 4590 ------------------------------------------------------------------- "While there is irony, we are still living in the prehistoric age. And we are not out of it yet..." - Henri Lefebvre ------------------------------------------------------------------- If you would like to keep in touch with what is happening at the HRC, you can subscribe to our Friends mailing list on: http://ma.hrc.wmin.ac.uk/lists.friends.db - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - | | | | # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: majordomo {AT} bbs.thing.net and "info nettime-l" in the msg body # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime {AT} bbs.thing.net


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If God did not want us to eat animals, why did He make them out of meat?ReplyDelete
- Anonymous31 Mar 2009, 22:48:00
oh my! someone should send this to Jay Leno's Headlines before he's off the air in June. scary world out there.ReplyDelete
I enslave chickens and make them lay eggs that I steal and either sell, eat, or incubate into more chickens. If they don't lay eggs, I wring their necks, dip them in hot water, pull all their feathers out, scrape out their guts, and throw them in the freezer. I also take helpless plants, boil them alive and imprison them in jars.ReplyDelete
Umm, isn't the article almost certainly a joke? Kinda fun maybe to think people are that ignorant, but I doubt this one is for real.ReplyDelete
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Tech's Batch overcomes one more obstacle to play
Published 7:00 pm, Friday, September 4, 2009
By Oscar LeRoy
Sports Writer
LUBBOCK — Texas Tech junior running back Baron Batch said faith and the work of the Red Raider training staff helped in his recent quick recovery.
By all indications earlier this week Batch sounded like he was ready to play in today's 6 p.m. season opener against North Dakota at Jones AT&T Stadium. A few weeks ago, though, it didn't appear the Midland High graduate would be ready to go after suffering what at the time was thought to be a serious left elbow injury during a football practice on Aug. 11.
The injury occurred when Batch was hit by defensive tackle Chris Perry and then landed awkwardly on the arm. The original prognosis was that Batch would be out three to six weeks.
"It's been a long wait since the Cotton Bowl, and I'm just ready to get back on the field," said Batch during phone interview. "(The elbow) is good. I'm wearing a brace on it and I guess God was looking out for me. I've got to thank all the people that were praying for me and the work of the training staff for getting me healed up in a hurry."
Although Batch didn't specify the severity of the injury, he admitted that he got back five weeks in advance. He was back to practice about a week and a half after the injury and is now ready for the start of what he is hoping to be another promising 2009 season for the Red Raiders.
But when it comes to recovering from a n injury, Batch is pretty much used to it. Back in 2006 as a true freshman, Batch suffered an Achilles injury and then a subsequent staph infection, which almost put an end to his playing career.
"I guess it comes with the territory," said Batch about going through adversity. "You've just got to push through it and be tough."
That certainly was the case last year during his bounce-back season. Batch teamed with Shannon Woods to form one of the best running back tandems in head coach Mike Leach's decade-long tenure at the school. Despite Tech having a pass-happy offense, Batch rushed for seven touchdowns, 742 yards and had an average of 6.7 yards per carry. He also had 442 yards receiving and one TD on 43 receptions.
Thanks to the kind of season Batch had, he is one of 45 candidates for the 2009 Doak Walker Award, which is given to the best running back in college football. That honor sort of took Batch by surprise.
"I guess since Mike Leach has been here, the running backs have been kind of overshadowed," he said. "It's kind of crazy that people are finally recognizing what we're doing here.
"It's nice to get recognition because God has blessed me with so much I give him all the thanks."
This year Batch again won't be alone in the backfield as he's got some talented backs joining him in redshirt sophomore Aaron Crawford, who sat out most of last season with a nagging turf toe injury, promising redshirt freshman Harrison Jeffers and possibly true freshman Eric Stephens, a solid recruit out of Mansfield Timberview. Because Batch is now the veteran of the group, his role as a leader is expected to grow this season.
"Guys are looking up to me more this year than last year," he said. "Now I'm the one who's teaching the younger guys what to do on the field. I guess I'm one of the old guys on the team."
But even Batch is amazed that just a year ago that wasn't the case. He was still learning and wasn't even sure if he was going to have an impact on the team. Fast forward to today and Batch is now viewed as a key piece in Leach's wide open offense loaded with playmakers.
Despite the accolades and a strong season in which he helped the Red Raiders to an 11-2 record and climb as high as No. 2 in the BCS standings, Batch is not letting it get to his head. He almost sounds like his head coach when he said he's just taking it, "one game at a time."
"I don't think it's a much different mindset that I had last year," Batch said. "Football for me never changes. It's the same game I've been playing since the seventh grade at Goddard Junior High. And since then the coaches have always hammered in me to not let the game become bigger than me. It's just football. It's still 11 guys going against 11 guys. The stadiums might get bigger but the game stays the same."
And maybe because in part to that approach Batch always has the ability to bounce back. He always seems to, no matter what obstacle is in his way.


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I am standing, or better said, paralyzed on a steep mountainside in the Chilean Patagonia. To the west in the distance, the Torres del Paine (the three granite towers from which the park takes it name) are shrouded in dark, threatening clouds.
We are already a couple hours into this trek and it's only been pura subida. An icy wind whips against our backs. Gazing up at the summit, our progress feels like we are inching along. There's no path here. Just loose stones, gravel, and boulders with patches of snow and ice.
Daniel, our guide, suggests zigzagging compactly in this last section as it becomes more vertical. I look below and see our hotel, Awasi Patagonia, nearly 1,000 vertical meters below. We are almost at the top of Sierra Contreras, the mountains rising directly behind the hotel. Somehow, those mountains didn't look quite so tall from the lodge. A strong wind gust rips again, making me wobble and almost I loose my balance. I slide and catch myself.
What on earth did I sign up for?!
I momentarily curse my decision to have embarked on this full day "adventure" trek. This is supposed to be fun? Surveying my options, there's no easy way up nor down. The only solution is that I have to get a handle on this situation. NOW. I collect myself and focus. I follow Daniel by stepping in his footsteps. I concentrate on taking that one step with all my intention. I don't look up nor down. I stay totally present. I breathe deep and have some faith that I can do it and I will (eventually) get there.
After what felt like an eternity on that mountainside, we arrive at the summit of Sierra Contreras and are rewarded with a stunning 360-degree panoramic vista of Sierra Baguales, the Torres, the Horns of Paine, Sarmiento Lake, rolling valleys and the golden prairie of estepa extending towards El Calafate, Argentina. I feel like the last woman on earth. A lone condor circles low overhead keeping a cautious eye on us. In reality, this was only the half point of the trek (getting off the mountain proved to be equally harrowing), but it was the mental tipping point of the excursion for me. I had conquered myself. During this trip to Patagonia, our sixth time (if I haven't lost count…), I would conquer myself again…and again.
We returned to our villa at Awasi in the late afternoon with our private, wood-fired hot tub heated up and bubbling away with a dry sparkling wine in an ice bucket. I could have hardly imagined a better set up after the severe thumping my quads had just taken. Awasi is remote. Very remote. From our home in Santiago, it had taken us nearly 12 hours to get there, door-to-door. Entering their reserve, partitioned off from the Tercera Barranca Estancia, the sensation is perhaps the same isolation and grandeur of nature that the European settlers felt when they arrived in these far-flung lands over a century ago.
Remoteness is the big draw and reason why people make the journey. The twelve luxury yet eco-friendly villas (860 sq. ft. each) were built with native lenga (beech) wood and each has a sweeping view of the Torres del Paine. The view of those granite towers and the Paine Massif is haunting. Inside the villas are planked with the same wood to mimic the surrounding beech forest with handsome, warming touches like sheep's wool skins on the floor and blue oversized armchairs. The villas are discreet and blend into the surroundings of the reserve. Here it's not uncommon to see guanacos (Patagonian llamas), rheas, foxes, condors, and according to guides, even Puma tracks. I sincerely hoped not to have a close encounter with a Puma walking back from dinner that evening.
The main lodge sits slightly above the villas with picture windows framing that bewitching view. Awasi Patagonia is now a Relais & Chateaux property and is the most intimate and exquisite of all the properties in Chilean Patagonia today. With a staff-to-client ratio of 3:1, the service is outstanding as is the cuisine, headed up by the dynamic duo of Federico Ziegler and his sous chef Víctor Vilugrón. Every evening, after a hard day of excursions and being exposed to Patagonia's fickle climate, you sit down to a Michelin-star level restaurant with a tasting menu that creatively incorporates indigenous ingredients, local flavors and often foraged foods. Everything is made from scratch on-site: the bread made daily from a collection of different sour dough starters to the exquisite desserts, including a chocolate cake scented with pines from the property. The cuisine is refined yet experimental, pushes the envelope yet is sufficiently familiar, and most interestingly, channels the rugged Patagonian landscape outside the window onto your plate.
The next morning I awoke very sore. Sore as in getting up or sitting down from any position was near impossible. A day of restoration was in order. Plus, we wanted another afternoon to relish that view from our villa, followed by another hot tub / sparkling wine session and, most likely, a long siesta. We went to ride on the far side of Sarmiento Lake in an ancient lenga forest. Many of these native deciduous grow to be huge, like redwoods, and date back hundreds of years. They possess a particular elegance and presence that I find very zen. Tragically during the fire in late December 2011, which burned over 40,000 acres of forest, many of these trees perished. Somehow, though, this particular forest had been spared.
Our gaucho was a quiet, pensive guy who was very at one with his horses. It was exactly the energy we needed that morning. He silently led us across crystalline babbling streams, weaving the horses through the lenga forest covered in old man's beard. Many trees bore clusters of pan de indio, a sweet, spongy funghi found only in the Patagonian region. This local delicacy foraged by Natalinos and the cooks at Awasi was prepared as a pickle for dinner that night. We rested up because the next day we had a very long trek ahead of us. A trek that I had been putting off for over 18 years to repeat.
We arose to blue skies, not a single cloud, and no wind. The Universe was providing the perfect opportunity to tackle the hardest trek in the park to the base of the Torres del Paine. I had done the trek many years before as a study abroad student in Chile in 1998. On that first trip as an ill-prepared, non-camping backpacker in the park, our group had set off in not the best of conditions: high winds, no guide, non-sufficient food and water, no map, and zero idea of what to expect. Even in the greatest conditions, this trek is quite demanding. On that trip as a student, in the "Valle de los Vientos", a windy pass, we had encountered nearly 90km wind gusts. Mind you this is a narrow stretch of the trail with a sheer drop off (no guard rails) thousands of vertical feet below. Then, towards the end to reach the base of the towers, scaling the vertically stacked boulders proved to dizzying. Not being much of a hiker at the time, compounded with no guide, I nearly lost it. I came home unscathed but mentally traumatized. I was acutely aware of the real danger you could get in trekking. It had been one of the longest days of my life. I swore I would never do it again.
My husband on the other hand, a real mountain goat, had been lobbying for this hike for years during many trips to the park. With the Awasi set-up of a private (experienced guide), an appropriate amount of food and water (that the guide even carries, how wonderful!), hiking sticks, proper shoes, and no wind, I finally caved. Deep down, I knew I had prove to myself it could be different. It could even be a wonderful experience.
The trek is the longest in the Torres del Paine at 19 kilometers round trip. Keeping a good pace, that means eight full hours of hiking. Even if you just walked leisurely (not considering several serious climbing/cardio parts), that's nearly a half marathon on your feet. It's also a trail that you do twice: you ascend and descend the same valley. More than the stamina, which I knew I had, my challenge would be in facing my fear of the Wind Valley, that vertigo, and those big, scary boulders.
I decided to employ the same strategy as on Sierra Contreras. As we got to the first hairy section, the Valle de los Vientos, I just took a deep breath and moved through it.
"Don't look down. Don't look up. Just concentrate on where you step. Daniel knows what he's doing. Francisco (my husband) is behind me. All cool, Liz, all cool."
And like that….it was over. Not a single breeze blew through that valley the entire time (I gave a nod of gratitude to Mother Nature). We hiked peacefully for a long time alongside the river and then through the forest. As the terrain became rockier and higher approaching the base of the Towers, I knew what was coming. The boulders still had snowpack melting which formed gushing streams diverting around the stones. It was muddy, slippy, and even icy in parts. We had to crisscross back and forth over the water, leaping at times. The guys naturally read the best line to follow so I let them show me the way: where and how to step. When unsure, I stopped to assess and accepted a steady helping hand. My walking stick was my BFF. Near the top, I didn't look down at the huge rock pile hundreds of feet below. I was too busy figuring out my footing in knee-high snow on an edge. Once again, the summit felt so close yet so far away. We arrived to those magnificent granite towers stretching 3,000 vertical feet into the blue sky above, like they had for millions of years. Nature like this is so incredibly humbling. We often forget that in our modern lives where we look more at our phones than at the sky. At that moment, human life felt so small and fragile against something so large and eternal.
Daniel set up a delicious lunch on an improvised "table", a large boulder, complete with a checkered table cloth. The warm sweet pea soup was incredibly nourishing. We absorbed the sun's warm energy and our weary feet were grateful for much needed rest (only 10km to get "home" afterwards). After a noisy Brazilian group left, the silence became deafening. Occasionally a boulder would shake loose and barrel with a hollow echo towards the frozen lagoon. As it hit the water (or ice), it sounded like a loud clap of thunder.
The return trip was easier. I visualized the complicated parts and moved with more assurance. I actually was, wow!, enjoying myself. On the last downhill stretch, in the bliss of the nearing the finish, I gained too much speed gawking at the stunning view of the shiny turquoise Nordensjkola lake below. I took one distracted step and rammed my hiking boot at full speed into a very large rock. Mierda!!! Pain, pain, pain in my right big toe. I did the "OMG that hurt" jig and tried shake it off, keeping the pace. It was throbbing. Back at the hotel, peeling off my socks, I was relieved that nothing was broken, but definitely some damage had been done. I had stunned (rather, killed) my toenail from the blunt hit. It was already turning deep purple from the trauma. A couple of months later, it would completely fall off as a new one grew in. I had to laugh at my souvenir–a physical reminder of having conquered myself on those Patagonian mountainsides. The good news: the toenail would grow back. The slight pain and discomfort was worth it for the huge breakthrough I had experienced on this trip.
We bid farewell to Awasi the next day and started the long journey home to Santiago; our toddler was anxiously awaiting our return. As we crossed kilometers of golden estepa, I reflected on the few past days . I didn't have anything to show for it (other than my purple toenail) but what mattered was what I had proven to myself; what I was capable of doing.
Isn't this what we seek when we travel? Besides a little adventure, we want to push ourselves beyond our comfort zone, no? We have to stretch to grow and believe in what we can achieve. This is an analogy that applies not just to trekking but to life in general. It is a way of approaching everything. It is a way of being. Patagonia had simply been the catalyst to help me reconnect with my inner confidence and knowing that I can succeed at whatever I decide to commit to. It was profoundly empowering.
Back in the civilization, I continue to keep conquering myself, again and again. The process is pretty simple: focus on the goal, stay present, and always take one step at a time.
Chupe de Centolla (Creamy King Crab)
This dish appears on the permanent Awasi Patagonia lunch menu. Chef Federico agreed to generously share his recipe with us as we loved it. Chupe in Chile can often be synonymous with a gloppy, heavy casserole-type dish. This version was light and succulent with a copious amount of king crab meat and the addition of savory vegetables. King Crab is in season during the spring and summer months in the southern waters of Magallanes. While this chupe can be served family style in a single dish, I prefer the individual ramekins. It's too yummy to share.
3 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup fresh red bell pepper, minced
1 clove of garlic, minced
1 medium onion en pluma, thinly cut with the grain
1 teaspoon paprika
1/2 cup fish or seafood stock (if neither available, use vegetable stock)
3 tablespoons heavy cream
½ cup fresh (white) bread crumbs
½ cup good quality grated Parmesan
1 teaspoon leaves of fresh oregano
3 tablespoons fresh chives, minced
1 ¼ pounds (500grs) cooked king crab
Juice of half a lemon
Sea salt and fresh black pepper to taste
Pre-heat the oven to 190C / 375 F.
Heat a fry pan and melt the butter. Add the garlic, red pepper, and onion, sweating until they are cooked but not browned. Add the paprika and fry for 1 minute. Incorporate the stock and cream, whisking. Reduce to low heat and cook for five minutes. Remove from heat and let cool slightly.
Add the bread crumbs, most of the Parmesan (reserve a little for the topping), and let sit for 10 minutes to absorb some of the liquid while the flavors develop. After, gently fold in the fresh herbs. Combine with the crab meat, lemon juice, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
Divide among four deep ramekins or in greda (Chilean clay pots). Sprinkle the remaining Parmesan on top. Bake for 20 minutes, or until the cheese on top is melted and bubbling. Serve hot, ideally with a crisp Chardonnay.
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tourist traps, we steer clear of those areas &
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The editorial features Russian supermodel Sasha Pivovarova and a young male model frolicking on a sunny beach. It is the embodiment of what young love is—a love that makes the world go round for sure.
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Print-management software security starts with a private IP address
Print-management software shouldn't provide a great risk to a company provided it uses a private IP address, says expert Mike Chapple.
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Generally speaking, there is no reason to single out print-management software as a risky service to run using a Web-based protocol. I don't think there's anything particularly sensitive about printer information that would constitute a greater risk to your organization than many of the other services you have already enabled for the Web.
There is one phrase in your question that I'd like to focus on: You said your security managers aren't comfortable "having their printer info out on the Web." If you mean accessible to the world, I agree wholeheartedly. There's no reason that a printer should have a public IP address or be visible from the Internet. Your printers (and most of the devices on your network, for that matter!) should be using private IP addresses that are not routable from the Internet and are shielded by a firewall. If an administrator needs to remotely access the Web interface of a printer to perform configuration work, they can do so on a virtual private network.
The bottom line is that there's nothing too concerning about Web-based printer interfaces. As with anything connected to your network, keep the printer patched and watch for security bulletins that might cover components of the Web interface. If you're particularly worried, consider running a Web application vulnerability scanner against the management interface of your printer. If you find vulnerabilities, report them to the printer manufacturer and hope for the best!
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WASHINGTON — Union members spent much of Wednesday hounding Gov. Bill Ritter as he attended high-dollar fundraisers here. They were hoping to hit the Democrat where it hurts as he gears up for re-election in 2010.
A group of about 40 firefighters and grocery workers, angry at Ritter's recent veto of a pair of pro-labor bills, started the day by picketing the capital offices of the BGR Group, an influential lobbying firm, shouting slogans as startled commuters walked past.
Ritter never appeared, apparently arriving through another entrance. The event was hosted by, among others, Jonathan Mantz, the former finance director of Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign.
Union members were at it again around midday, picketing a luxury hotel in the capital's Chinatown district. Donors were asked to give as much as $1,050 apiece. This second fundraiser was hosted by Richard Sullivan, a high-powered Washington lobbyist and Democratic rainmaker.
Facing what is likely to be a tough re-election in 2010, Ritter was in full fundraising mode, and the workers hoped to disrupt what was meant to be private events by shouting through bullhorns and handing out fliers on the streets outside.
"We're a little upset," said Aurora firefighter Steve Clapham, complaining that Ritter recently vetoed a collective-bargaining bill for the firefighters. Clapham was one of six Coloradans flown in by local unions for the picket. (Ritter also vetoed a bill that would have made it easier for workers to receive unemployment benefits if they were locked out during a strike.)
"It's a matter of integrity as far as we're concerned," Clapham said.
David Kenney, Ritter's campaign manager, said the governor supports workers but that "sometimes leadership means saying no to your friends."
"When (Ritter) makes decisions, he acts in what he thinks is the best interest of the entire state of Colorado," Kenney said.
Angry unions have proved that they could be a formidable foe to a sitting governor with whom they disagree. A California nurses union hounded Arnold Schwarzenegger for months in 2004 over a decision about staffing levels in hospitals, heckling him at event after event.
Kenney said he doesn't believe that's likely to happen with Ritter.
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In this latest episode of our web video series, we chat with Louisa Harding, knitwear and yarn designer.
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- Louisa Harding Cardigans book at Yarnmarket.com
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- During Interview: Ishbel shawlette by Ysolda knitted with Tili Thomas Beaded Plie American Beauty
- In the chair:Concert in the Park – Two Old Bags made with Jaggerspun Zephyr wool-silk blend. Completed January 2004
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Meet Dr. Sarah Jeon
Dr. Si Eun (Sarah) Jeon is originally from South Korea and immigrated to the U.S when she was 10 years old. She has been residing in North Carolina since 1999 and graduated from Broughton High School in Raleigh, where she first met her husband. She attended NC State University and graduated with Magna Cum Laude in Microbiology and has minors in genetics, psychology, health, medicine & human values.
Her initial goal was to attend medical school to become a physician, but after working at a dental office for one year as an office intern/DA I, it was clear that her real passion was in dentistry. She was accepted into the UNC School of Dentistry and graduated in 2012 with a D.D.S degree. After working as an associate dentist at a private office and in corporate dentistry for 3 years, she is excited to have found a perfect match she has been searching for in Dr. Morehead's practice in Wake Forest.


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Largest Chocolate Sculpture: Qzina Specialty Foods sets world record (PICS)
IRVINE, Calif., USA -- To celebrate their 30th anniversary, Qzina Specialty Foods has broken a Guinness World Record for building the largest chocolate sculpture; the sculpture models an ancient Mayan temple and weighs 18,239 pounds - setting the new world record for the Largest Chocolate Sculpture,
according to the World Record Academy: www.worldrecordacademy.com/.
Photo: The World's Largest Chocolate Sculpture is modeled after an ancient Mayan temple and weighs 18239 pounds. (enlarge photo)
The Guinness world record for the largest chocolate sculpture weighed 4,870 kg (10,736.5 lb), measured 1.5 m (4 ft 11 in) in height, 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in width and 1.2 m ( 3 ft 11 in) in depth and was created by Mirco Della Vecchia (Italy).
Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the tallest chocolate sculpture, set by a 10-metre-tall (32 ft 9.7 in) Christmas tree created by Patrick Roger (France) in Sceaux, France. The sculpture weighs 4,000 kg (8,818 lb 7.84 oz) and took a month to create.
Qzina's Corporate Pastry Chef, Francois Mellet, was the lead architect on this massive project and MOF Stephane Treand (Meilleur Ouvrier de France or Best Craftsman in France) lent his artistic touch to the sculpture's intricate design elements.
Mellet, together with his team, spent more than 400 hours constructing this magnificent structure of solid chocolate that was created using an assortment of Qzina's leading chocolate brands.
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"Breaking a Guinness World Record for building the largest chocolate sculpture will be Qzina's greatest masterpiece yet," said Richard Foley, founder and CEO of Qzina.
"We studied Mayan pyramids at great lengths to create an exact replica of the Temple of Kukulkan at Chichen Itza to honor the original chocolatiers. It was important for us to create something memorable in celebration of our 30th anniversary and the grand opening of the Qzina Institute of Chocolate & Pastry."
The chocolate pyramid will be displayed at the Qzina Institute of Chocolate & Pastry, located in Irvine, California, and will be available to view beginning June 4, 2012 when the institute and product showroom is officially open to the public (Monday - Friday, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.).
Qzina plans to destroy the chocolate sculpture on December 21, 2012 when the Mayan calendar comes to an end. The method for destruction is yet to be determined.
Related world records:
Longest ice cream sundae: Lake Forest sets world record (PICS & VIDEO)
Longest rice cake: Bauang residents sets world record (PICS)
Longest ice cream sundae: Napoleon High School set world record (PICS)
Longest Ice Cream Dessert: Webster University set world record (PICS & VIDEO)
First chocolate printer: The Choc Edge printer sets world record (PICS & HD Video)
Most Expensive Chocolate Egg: William Curley sets world record
Largest chocolate coin: Carphone Warehouse
Most expensive chocolate pudding: Chef Marc Guibert
Largest chocolate bar: Thorntons breaks Guinness world record (Video)
Largest Chocolate Bar: 12,000-pound chocolate bar (Video)
Largest Chocolate Bar Billboard: Meiji Seika Kaisha Ltd.
Tallest Chocolate Christmas Tree : Patrick Roger
chocolate bar - Grand Candy factory
chocolate coin - Science World sets world record
chocolate sculpture - Mirco Della Vecchia
chocolate bunny - Harry Johnson for Duracell
slab of chocolate fudge - Lansing Community College
chocolate eclair - The Swallow Bakery
Chocolate Crepe Cake - Gus Kazakos
chocolate castle - Krunoslav Budiselic
box of chocolates - Thorntons Moments
Largest Artichoke Display: Ocean Mist Farms and Rouses Supermarkets set world record (PICS)
Largest canned food structure: Can combine sets world record (HD Videos)
Largest Can Pyramid: Worlds of Fun (HD Video)
cheese sculpture: Cheez-It
Cookie Tower: Girl Scouts
monument to the onion: Pericei
Canned Food Structure: Wellington
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The Scoop: An American Place to closeOctober 21st 03:10pm, 2010
Rumors had been swirling that An American Place would be closing and today, Sauce received confirmation from chef-owner Larry Forgione that indeed he would not be renewing the lease for his St. Louis restaurant. "It was a five-year renewable. I would have considered extending it a little bit, but not for five years," said Forgione.
The fine dining establishment, located downtown in the Renaissance Grand Hotel, will likely shutter its doors the first or second week in November, Forgione stated. Any hope that the "Godfather of American Cuisine" would open another place in the Gateway City? "No. I'm headed to Vegas," he responded. "But it was a nice run. I've been here for five and a half years. And it was fun being here."
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I hate to see a neighborhood business fail. But I must say, we had a very expensive, very poor dining experience at An American Place. It's a beautiful room, but the service was bad from the minute we arrived, and the portions were tiny (we had to take our guests out for burgers after a 5 course meal). After that, I couldn't recommend it to anyone, let alone return myself. We were so looking forward to it, I wish I had been left with a better impression.
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I'm the kind of person who never knows what to say when asked to describe myself. In other words, I'm like most people (in that respect anyway). However, seeing as I consider myself an expert on Chloe Snyder, I should be able to find enough things to say about myself, and hopefully give some clue as to what I'll be blogging about this year.
I'll dive right in. I'm very into music: listening, performing, and writing. I sing in choir and select choir at my school, play the alto saxophone and the bass guitar in a band with some of my friends, and am almost always doing a musical somewhere. I'm sure that music will be a big topic on many of my future blog posts.Another one of my favorite pastimes is reading. I read a lot of fantasy (I love Harry Potter!) and historical fiction. I also hang out with friends and work a lot, but I doubt I'll be blogging about that much.
Another thing to expect from me this year is local news. I'll be blogging my take on news in the Capital Region, and I'd love to cover stories in my town, Middleburgh, including local sports games. I was never good with the whole hand-eye coordination thing and don't play any myself, but many of my friends do, including my little brother. He's a three-season athlete, and many days after school I can be found in the bleachers or in a lawn chair watching him play.
I'll also be discussing world news and pop culture stories, and hopefully some politics as well. I'll be posting twice a week, so I'll definitely be looking for new topics all the time!
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April 23rd– April 26th 2012 in Berlin
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Excursion to Brandenburg Airport, April 26th
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Since Spencer had recently turned six months young, his parents graciously invited one of us over for a portrait session.
Often, people think of family portrait sessions as the boring "sit-on-the-stool-and-say-cheese" moments buried deep down in their own childhood recollections. Thankfully, this is exactly how Dreamlite does NOT allow their sessions to be. Instead, we are all about having our families hanging out, feeling comfortable, and spending quality time with each other. As all of this is going, we simply sit back and capture those beautiful moments as they occur.
This entire portrait session felt more like a family play date than anything else. Spencer's parents began the fun afternoon with the popular children's book, "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" by Eric Carle. Though Spencer can be seen reading the book alongside his parents, what really gave him a good laugh was all of the animal sounds his parents had added along with the reading. Spencer also had a good time showing me all of the toys he could put in his mouth. Between his books, rattlers, and stuffed animals, his definite favorite were the sea creatures. Other awesome activities included blowing bubbles and and peek-a-boo with the couch pillows.
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Skip to comments.Johns Hopkins Hospital to pay $190 million to settle suits over pelvic exam photos
Posted on 07/21/2014 11:43:54 AM PDT by jalisco555
Johns Hopkins Hospital has agreed to a $190 million settlement with more than 8,000 patients of a gynecologist who secretly photographed and videotaped women's bodies in the examining room with a pen-like camera he wore around his neck, lawyers said Monday.
Dr. Nikita Levy was fired in February 2013, days after an employee alerted hospital authorities about her suspicions. Levy committed suicide 10 days later. Investigators discovered roughly 1,200 videos and 140 images in his home.
"All of these women were brutalized by this," said the women's lead attorney, Jonathan Schochor. "Some of these women needed counseling, they were sleepless, they were dysfunctional in the workplace, they were dysfunctional at home, they were dysfunctional with their mates. This breach of trust, this betrayal this is how they felt."
The agreement is one of the largest settlements on record in the U.S. involving sexual misconduct by a physician.
(Excerpt) Read more at modernhealthcare.com ...
Didn't the doc have an internet connection?
We live in a pornofied culture. This guy was making his own porn images. Maybe he was inspired by some of the stuff of amateur internet porn. Well never know. But with things like this pen camera he used, its easier than ever for people to do stuff like this.
did the guy ever do anything with the pics? i didn't get how the people were traumatized, was it just when the whole thing was revealed or was there some incident?
Astounding what can be done with tiny digital cameras. To hijack this thread a bit, this brings me to my last visit to the dentist. He has a whole set of tiny digital cameras he uses extensively in his practice to observe his patients' teeth, show what he's seen, and to enable him to get at the parts that need work. Really cool and great for his patients and his practice. He sold me on the need for a $1,200 crown several months ago just by showing me the image of a cracked tooth I had that needed the crown.
If you saw a huge cash settlement coming up, perhaps you'd be "traumatized".
But, yes, I agree with you. I'd tell the ladies, "GET OVER IT"!
It's unclear from the article what prompted the investigation or what was done with the pics. I suspect he kept them for personal consumption but it's only my guess.
I recall a book that came out in the 80's which purported to show data that the psych profiles of men who went into gynecology practice and rapists in state prisons were eerily similar.
Not sure about that, but as a guy I don't know how I could ever hope to do that job and be fair to my patient. Talk about zero frame of reference.
For sure this guy needs to be in a state prison cell.
This thread... nahh. I ain't going there...
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|Researching and trying to connect all the RONAN/RONAYNE families from all over the world. So far we are in all 50 of the United States, All over Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong, England and of course, Ireland. I am looking for any information out there on RONAN, RONAYNE, McLEAN, McDONALD, HIGGINS, McLEOD, anytime, anywhere. Specifically, looking for LEE, McGINTY, and HENNESSEY in Southern Ireland and Nova Scotia, Canada. Thank you!All correspondence should go to: Michael R. Ronayne, Ronayne Genealogical Research, 1127 Wellington Drive, Charleston, South Carolina 29412


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Source: Correspondence and Case Files of the Bureau of Pensions Pertaining to the Ex-Slave Pension Movement, 1892-1922. Microfilm M2110, 1 roll. Records of the Veterans Administration, Record Group 15. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Category: African-American
Slave Names Mentioned in Jones County Wills
Thanks to the work of a volunteer contributor, we now have on the site a list of slave names mentioned in Jones County wills from 1778-1868. The wills were abstracted by Zae Hargett Gwynn and published in 1998 in what is now a very important reference work for Jones County researchers.
The list has been added to our African-American Resources page and you can view it directly here.
Slaves of James Harrison
Today the UNC Library announced the launch of a new digital collection from the UNC Southern Historical Collection. The SHC has digitized 35+ of their collections w/ emphasis on African-American interests. You can read the announcement online here.
I've not had a chance to fully explore everything on the site (I'm sure that will take awhile!), but a collection I quickly located of interest was that of plantation owner James Harrison, of Craven & Jones counties. According to the collection abstract he died circa 1846. His 48-page ledger has been digitized and been made available online. Know what's on page 5 of that ledger? A list of 24 states belonging to his estate and their value. I'm not the best at reading handwriting from that era, but it appears as if the list is as follows:
- Silas – $500
- Mary – $450
- Harriett – $175
- Isaac – $400
- Sarah – $350
- Venus – $175
- Saunders – $400
- Eliza & child – $500
- Peny Sr. – $35
- Hagar & child – $450
- Eliza Jr. – $425
- Betty – $275
- Lewis – $400
- Grace & child – $350
- Rachel – $375
- Leah – $425
- Ellis – $275
- Jamina – $275
- Tim – $160
- Tener – $450
- Peny Jr. – $225
- Nathan – $140
- Serina – $200
- Sutton – $100
The ledger page also indicates to whom each slave went to. The ledger also includes pages describing plantation life and even details on the amount of cotton picked by several named workers. This is such a valuable resource for anyone working on their African-American history from this area. I can't even imagine what it would be like to find one of your ancestors listed here.
I have added a link to this collection from the Families page.
Added Freedman Bank Records
I've added a new section for African-American resources. While there is currently only 1 link on the page, I do hope to be able to add more over time.
The link that I have added is to a list of blacks who made deposits with the Freedman's bank between 1865-1874, along with their parents' names if present. The entire database of records is available online and hopefully this list will help you know at a glance who has records.
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Talk about coming down to the last minute! Yes! It's almost here! EMC World will be in full swing next week!
I don't know about you, but I'll likely be busy in various sessions, meetings, and who knows how many other things – all the while trying to Tweet, and Blog to the best of my ability – Oh, and doing everything in my power to meet every single one of you who I know so well and dearly.. and yet, we've not had the opportunity to meet in person!
So, what you might be saying is.. hashtags aside, how will we stay in touch? Sync up, get to know who is where, doing what, and so on?
Other than Len Devanna's great "Bloggers Lounge" breakdown which shows you who will be where and what not..
I've also created a List you can follow on Twitter! My simple list @cxi/emcworld2010 will enable you to follow all of us madness folks – Oh, and wait there's more! If you're on Twitter, and want to get yourself added to this list for mutual communication and collaboration.. Just let me know and I'll be sure to add you to this list! This is an opt-in sort of list, as I do prefer to respect your boundaries of sorts! So, follow along, be sure to hunt me down and say hi, and let's have an amazing time! Oh.. and learning stuff, yea learning stuff too! :)
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WASHINGTON – Colorado is among the first set of 10 states to receive some flexibility from the requirements of No Child Left Behind, White House officials confirmed to The Denver Post this morning.
Colorado applied for the waiver last year, saying in the application they can better handle holding schools accountable from a state level.
White House officials said Thursday that in order for the state to receive flexibility, the state must demonstrate that there was college and career-ready expectations for all students and there are principal and teacher evaluations in place, among other requirements.
States receiving flexibility no longer have to meet 2014 targets set by No Child but they must set new performance targets for improving student achievement and closing achievement gaps, White House officials said Thursday.
Federal officials say they like Colorado's controversial state law passed a couple years ago that bases teachers' performance on student growth and principal evaluations. The state law, Senate Bill 191, also gave the state the opportunity to build a sophisticated "growth model" to look at whether students were getting better at math, reading and science year after year.
Previous years of testing only looked at third-grade classes over the next year's third-grade classes without being able to tell specifically whether any of the individual students were getting better.
Sen. Mark Udall, a Democrat, who will be attending the announcement at the White House later today said early Thursday that No Child's goals were "laudable."
"But it has suffered from poor implementation and has been loaded with burdensome one-size-fits-all standards," he said. "I'll continue to work with my colleagues to improve the law, but until that happens, I'm glad the administration has recognized the reality that Colorado has developed a better way to hold kids and teachers accountable."
Udall has authored legislation that mimics Colorado's growth model at a federal level.
White House officials will hold an event later this morning, mountain time, to announce the waivers. At the event will be state and elected officials. Other states selected are Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
It was the first time Colorado was first in something related to education. It lost out on three rounds of "Race to the Top" money, and finally received $17 million in December.