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I say we leave it up to the kids. More below.
Writing in The Nation last week, Katha Pollitt threw some love at Julie and Julia, the feel-good foodie movie about Julia Child and Julie Powell, the 20-something blogger who tried to channel Child by cooking her way through "Mastering the Art of French Cooking." What Pollitt liked most about the movie was the fact that it was about adult women finding meaning through work:
What I loved most of all, though, was that Julie & Julia is that very rare thing, a movie centered on adult women, and that even rarer thing, a movie about women's struggle to express their gifts through work. Not a boyfriend, a fabulous wedding, a baby, a gay best friend, a better marriage, escape from a serial killer, the perfect work-family balance, another baby. Real life is full of women for whom work is at the center, who crave creative challenge, who are miserable until they find a way to make a mark on the world. But in the movies, women with big ambitions tend to be Prada-wearing devils or uptight thirtysomethings who relax when they find a slacker boyfriend or inherit an adorable orphan. Among recent films, Seraphine, Martin Provost's biopic about an early-twentieth-century French cleaning woman and self-taught painter, is practically unique in its curiosity about a woman's creative drive. More usually, a woman's cinematic function is to forward, thwart, complicate or decorate the story of a man. As Joseph Gordon-Levitt's elusive girlfriend in (500) Days of Summer, Zooey Deschanel has all the external trappings of individuality–aloofness, a sly smile, vintage clothes and indie tastes–but she has no more inner life than Petrarch's Laura. She's there to break the hero's heart and rekindle his ambitions. What will she become? Someone else's wife.
I read this piece after a long Sunday afternoon of a breakneck email back-and-forth relating to Marcus Buckingham and the happiness gap, which Shannon wrote about so eloquently yesterday. Much of the backchat centered around sexism: Why on earth would we look to a male to define, understand and proffer solutions for our own particular brand of angst? The answer was the obvious. We're still living in a man's world. Or, if you prefer the loaded term, a patriarchy, where most of the social structures were set up by men — to benefit men. Men dominate for the simple reason that they can.
Which made me wonder: some 50 years after Betty Friedan ignited the second wave of the women's movement by writing about the "problem that has no name", why are we still pleasantly pleased to find a movie about grown-up women who have lives apart from their significant others? Why do we let men (and the editors who publish them) take our conversations away from us? Why were we shocked and amazed that Hillary made it so far into last year's primary season — all the while secretly acknowledging to ourselves that she could never win the presidency? Why do we still earn 71 cents on the dollar — and then come home and do the laundry? Why, in fact, do I still use terms like "Why women" (just hit search) in my posts?
No wonder we are undecided.
I came of age during the bra-burning era — which, by the way, never happened — at a time when I was known as a "women's libber." That dates me, yeah? At my first job out of college, my co-workers (mostly women several years older than I) were almost all involved in consciousness-raising groups, and brought those conversations into the lunch room and break rooms. There was momentum: we were prepped for change, and by god, we were going to make it happen.
But see above. We didn't. And having been along for most of the ride, I'm frustrated that the movement seems to have stalled.
Why are words like "patriarchy" still part of the lexicon? Why, after Pat Shroeder broke ground in 1973 by becoming the first woman from Colorado to be elected to the U.S. house of representatives – and the first woman to make a legitimate run for president — why are women so woefully underrepresented in the House and, primarily, the Senate? Why are we tempted to use the same loaded rhetoric of 50 years back without realizing that, just maybe, we need to change strats?
Back in the day, feminism was fueled, to a certain extent, by anger. And it was appropriate: Wake up, women! Embrace your oppression! Fight the patriarchy! That, we got. But moving from anger to constructive action? Seems to me the movement might have gotten so stuck in the rhetoric that it not only closed the tent, but couldn't pull the trigger.
(As an aside, these are questions for the next generation: What was the last thing you read about NOW? What do you know about EMILY's list — and do you even know what EMILY stands for?)
One of my friends who was part of Sunday's bang-a-thon is from Sweden, where this type of conversation is probably close to obsolete. In her country, where there is both gender parity and equality, she suggests, it may be due to their social-democratic-ness: "It's normal to look at society as a structure and ask yourself who will benefit — and how it can be changed to benefit other groups."
Why didn't we think of that? Is it possible that the anger that was so successful as a wake-up call ended up immobilizing us as much as complacency might have? Rather than building a coalition, as President Obama, who achieved the impossible last November, was able to do, did we end up alienating those we needed as allies?
I have no answers. Which is why I'm hoping the twenty and thirty-somethings might pick up the mantle and go forward with some fresh ideas. Third-wave feminism has been dubbed by some "do-me feminism" or "Sex and the City feminism." I have to wonder: do we need a fourth wave?
I vote yes.


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Might Go Daddy have to sign up another attractive, underachieving female athlete for its next round of Super Bowl advertisements this February? That might be the case, as it appears Danica Patrick and the controversial web hosting provider look to be on the outs at the moment.
USA Today has the details:
Patrick, 30, has starred in more Super Bowl spots – 10 – than any other celebrity, including Michael Jordan and Cindy Crawford. Overall, she's appeared in 22 Go Daddy commercials since 2007 and is believed to earn upwards of $1 million annually for those commercial efforts. But Patrick has not appeared in a Go Daddy spot for months, and the company says it has no current plans to feature her in any spots at least through January.
"The question at hand is: Is she in the Super Bowl or not?" says Barb Rechterman, chief marketing officer at Go Daddy. "What we're trying to do is redefine sexy to be a small-business owner running a successful business. So we want to explore options of how we make our advertising new." Go Daddy also has had recent management shake-ups, and its sky-high growth rate has come down to earth.
Danica Patrick in limbo with Go Daddy [USA Today]


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Montana Scarf Take Two
When I finished my first Montana scarf I asked my brother if he would wear it. He replied with a very enthusiastic "yes" thinking it was going to be his but I had to tell him it wasn't…I just needed a dude's approval since the recipient was going to be a dude.
I felt really bad. A few days later he said he'd love to have one of my scarves so when people ask him where he got it he could say his sister made it (AWWW cute).
I had already purchased a gift for him but decided a second one wouldn't hurt so two days before Christmas I ran around like a mad woman looking for yarn. I hit four stores before I finally found one that had a color he could wear.
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Weekly food rail, this week with an emphasis on traditional New Year's food, including a recipe for Hoppin' John.
Some New Year's food traditions from around the world, courtesy of www.fabulousfoods.com: - Eating noodles at midnight is customary at Buddhist temples in Japan. - A German/Pennsylvania Dutch tradition is to eat pork and sauerkraut on New Year's Day for good luck. - It is the tradition of Bosnia and Croatia to eat what is called "Sarma" -- beef wrapped tightly in cabbage -- to bring good luck in health and wealth for the upcoming year. - It is a Cuban tradition to eat 12 grapes at the stroke of midnight. The 12 grapes signify the past year. - German folklore says that eating herring at the stroke of midnight will bring luck for the next year. - Eating pickled herring as the first bite of the New Year brings good luck to those of Polish descent. - In the Southern United States, it is believed eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Eve will bring luck for the coming year (see recipe below). - Also from the South comes the custom of eating greens such as cabbage, collard greens, mustard greens, kale or spinach to bring money. - One more from the Southerners: Eating cornbread will bring wealth. - In the Philippines, it is important to have food on the table at midnight in order to insure an abundance of food in the upcoming year. - Boiled Cod is a New Year's Eve must in Denmark. - Olie Bollen a donut-like fritter is popular in Holland for New Year. - Black-eyed peas, fish, apples, and beets are eaten for luck at the Jewish New Year's celebration (not celebrated on Jan 1). Easy Recipe: Hoppin' John Hoppin' John is traditional favorite dish to serve on New Year's Eve in the South. Here's a recipe from www.fabulousfoods.com: 1 lb. dried black-eyed peas 1/2 lb. salt pork, cubed 1/2 lb. cooked ham, cubed 1 large onion, chopped 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 ham bone 1/4 tsp. (more to taste) crushed red pepper Pepper to taste 3 C cooked rice Rinse peas and pick over, removing any small stones or foreign particles. Cover with cold water in a large pot, bring to a boil for a minute, remove from heat cover and let sit for one hour. In a large skillet, saute the salt pork to render fat, add onion and garlic and cook until onion is soft, about 5-6 minutes. Add the onion mixture along with the ham bone and seasonings to the pot with the peas. Add enough water to cover the ingredients and bring to a simmer. Cover and cook for about 1- 1 1/2 hours or until black eyes peas are tender but not mushy. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Serve over hot cooked rice. Serves 8. Wine Tips Here are the best types of cheese to serve with Champagne, courtesy of www.wineintro.com: - Brie is a soft, creamy French cheese that is best served very fresh. This goes wonderfully with a gentle Champagne, something light and fruity. - Cheddar is an English cheese that most people have tried at some point. The French and the English may not get along all too well, but the cheeses certainly do! Choose a mild, young cheddar; it will go well with some of the sharper, brighter Champagnes. - Chevre is the French word for "goat cheese." Make sure it's fresh, and it will have a mild but tangy flavor to it. Use this with the stronger Champagnes that have a bit of kick to them. - Colby is a hard, mild cheese often associated with Port. It's originally from Wisconsin, and does go very well with Champagne as well. Try this with a medium-bodied Champagne. - Edam is a semi-hard, creamy cheese from Holland. It's slightly nutty, so it's a great pairing with the many Champagnes that have that nutty undertone to them. - Gouda is another Dutch cheese, this one hard and smooth. As it also has a nutty flavor to it, it also pairs wonderfully with the nutty Champagnes. Critics Cupboard: Chocolate Chex cereal From General Mills, the toasted rice and corn cereal is flavored with chocolate. A 3/4-cup serving has 130 calories, 8 gram of sugar, 2.5 grams of fat, 1 gram of dietary fiber and 12 vitamins and minerals. A news release says the cereal provides a nutritious breakfast while allowing people to satisfy their love of chocolate. The testers thought the cereal was too sweet and wondered whether chocolate belongs in a breakfast cereal. "It's very crunchy." "It's not necessary to have chocolate in cereal." "It tastes like Chex mix with chocolate." Would they buy it? No, they said. -- State Journal-Register Number to Know: 112.5 Per-capita liters of beer that Germans drank in 2007, a drop of 3.5 liters, the eighth decline in the past nine years. Germany used to be the world's leader in beer consumption, but no longer – the Czech Republic and Ireland now top them. – Source: Reuters Wise to the Word: Spoom A frothy type of sherbet made with a light sugar syrup mixed with a liquid such as fruit juice, Champagne or Sauternes. Halfway through the freezing process, the mixture is combined with uncooked meringue, which gives spoom its airy texture. The Italians call this frozen specialty spuma, which means "foam" or "froth." -- www.epicurious.com GateHouse News Service


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LOS ANGELES (AP) - A judge has granted Miley Cyrus a three-year civil restraining order against a man convicted of trespassing at her home in Los Angeles.
The stay-away order was granted Friday against Jason Luis Rivera by Superior Court Judge William D. Stewart.
The 40-year-old Rivera was convicted in October of trespassing at the singer's home and sentenced to 18 months in jail.
He is scheduled to be released in May. Authorities said at the time of Rivera's arrest in September that he was carrying scissors and ran into the wall of Cyrus' home as if trying to break in.
Rivera did not respond to Cyrus' petition.
The 20-year-old former star of 'Hannah Montana' did not attend the hearing. Her attorney Bryan Sullivan declined comment.


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Parkway shooter sentenced
The man who fired upon two strangers and terrorized the Blue Ridge Parkway in April 2010 was sentenced June 9 in federal court in Harrisonburg.
Ralph Leon Jackson, 57, previously had pleaded guilty to one count of murder in the slaying of Tim Davis, a DJ at WNRN, one count of assaulting Christina Floyd with intent to murder, and two weapons charges for using a 20-gauge shotgun to blast the couple as they were taking in the sunset at Rock Point Overlook on April 5, 2010.
Jackson already had agreed to a life sentence for the murder charge. To be served consecutively with that, he picked up 35 years on the weapons charges and 240 months for assaulting Floyd.
Says U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy in a release, "Today's sentence ensures that the defendant will forever remain where he belongs– inside of a federal prison."Attached Documents:Read more on: blue ridge parkwayRalph Leon Jackson
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How did this guy get such a speedy trial and sentencing? Anyone heard when the lacrosse murderer is going to get his day???
Ralph Leon Jackson was sentenced for a horrible crime that is somewhat similar to the Colonial Parkway Murders, I hope the authorities have fully explored the parallels between these cases.
Bill Thomas
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An Analysis of Highest Diurnal Precipitations Changes and Their Related to Annual Precipitations in Iran
- Mehdi Heshmati Jadid
- Ghasem Azizi
- Hasan Zolfaghari
- Mehdi Fashi
- Sayied Dana Alizadeh
In this paper, in order to study of the highest daily precipitations of daily precipitations data in 46 synoptic and climatologic stations that almost covered all part of Iran have been got from the national weather organization and have been used after the extraction of necessary data for a 30-year period from 1976 to 2005. In concerning of data analysis, necessary statistical analyses like data homogeneity test, normality test, correlation test, simple and multiple regressions, variance analysis, Friedman's non parametric test and classification cluster analysis have been used. The results showed that the average of the highest precipitations in all the studied stations during the statistical period of the research, except in two stations of Boushahr and Khoy, don't have any significant difference. Investigation of the changes of the highest annual precipitations in the statistical period in each of these stations showed that these changes are significant in Sanandaj station and in the other stations no significant change is observed. The results also proved that there is a positive and significant relation between the highest daily precipitation and annual precipitation in all the stations which means increase in the annual precipitation the highest daily precipitation of stations growth. Finally climatic classification of the stations displays 5 layers in terms of the proportion from highest daily rain to annual rain in the country.
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June 2013:
Imitating Mary: Ten Marian Virtues for the Modern Mom
By Marge Fenelon
In her book Imitating Mary (Ave Maria Press, 2013), author Marge Fenelon gives advice to mothers around the world from one of the most admirable role models for mothers ever—Mary, the Mother of God. By digging deeply into ten stories from the Bible about Mary's life and the virtues she possessed, Fenelon shows how Mary can offer her wisdom, companionship, and support for the modern mom.
Common Sense Faith
By Patrick J. Brennan
Patrick Brennan offers an opportunity for readers to approach God and spirituality through common sense and the vantage point of human experience in his book Common Sense Faith (Orbis, 2013). The reflections he writes are split into six sections: Jesus, Conversion, the Church, Prayer and Sacraments, Relationships, and Mercy and Justice. By connecting contemporary issues, scripture, and psychology, Brennan preaches what following Jesus in the modern world truly means.
Rock-Bottom Blessings: Discovering God's Abundance When All Seems Lost
By Karen Beattie
Rock-Bottom Blessings (Loyola Press, 2013) is a personal account in which author Karen Beattie shares her inspiring story of how she found strength through God in times of difficulty. The serious challenges she faced were overcome by trusting in the Lord and finding God's presence and grace in the drawbacks of her life. Through her accounts, she proves that God's love for us is truly the most abundant when we need him the most.
The End of Sex: How Hookup Culture is Leaving a Generation Unhappy, Sexually Unfulfilled, and Confused About Intimacy
By Donna Freitas
Through thousands of interviews with college students from religious, public, and private schools, Donna Freitas discovered that many who participated in the hookup culture of today are deeply unhappy with their social and sexual intimacies. The End of Sex (Basic Books, 2013) is an honest picture of the challenges faced by young adults when they fall victim to pressures from peers, the media, and sometimes even their parents. Freitas helps students find the romance and intimacy they deserve.
There have also been a large number of books written about the life and works of Pope Francis. Here are some that we'd like to highlight:
Pope Francis: His Life in His Own Words, Conversations with Jorge Bergoglio
By Francesca Ambrogetti and Sergio Rubin
(G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2013)
Francis: Man of Prayers
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Gamespot Score: 6.0 (Fair)
My Score: 7.0
(+)Pros: - Great first impressions and starting few hours, - Maneuvering your Warframe around the maps with creative ways is fun and entertaining, - Plenty of weapons that you can add to your arsenal, - Mod customization is addictive and can power up your Warframe in many ways, - Diverse variety of select-able Warframes, each with their cool looks, abilities and specialties, - 4 player co-op is thrilling for some of the more challenging maps.
(-)Cons: - Severe lack of map and enemy types, - Lack of PvP mode is a huge wasted potential, - Hunting for ingredients to craft better items is highly repetitive.
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Ever want to run around walls like a badass space ninja? Wield katanas, hammers, great swords and kunais in space? Shoot at your enemies with dual sub machine guns, shotguns and snipers? Or how about conjuring forth elemental powers to scorch, freeze or electrify your enemies? Warframe seems like a really cool game to have all this things in them, and in reality, it actually is. You get to do all those things and more, this is a game PACKED with content. There's a lot to do, a lot to craft and there's sure as hell a lot of things to kill to satisfy your lust for battle as a badass space ninja. Warframe makes players feel badass by infiltrating massive enemy ships with just their lonesome selves, taking out every single enemy in their path with their skills alone. As a co-op game, having your fellow space ninja join you makes the experience all the more rewarding, and Warframe brings out the best of its arsenal to please its players there.
In Warframe, you play as the Tenno, a group of descendants of an ancient mystical art. The Tenno have great ability in each and everyone of them, using those abilities they complete all missions given to them with unmatched precision. They have been asleep for centuries, only to awaken to fight against warring factions that pose a threat to them. The Tenno, being the strong, self centered group they are, fight to repel all their enemies, trusting only each other, they work as a powerful, coherent force that can destroy anything in their path, to bring an end to their opponents.
|Space ninjas use guns too, because f**k you
When you first step into the game...you're going to be wowed, that's for sure. When you first take control of your Warframe, everything feels just right. You're going to be shooting enemies, killing them with your katana, and blasting them away with your Tenno abilities. Your mobility feels off the charts and you feel like you can do everything. That's just the wonderful first impressions that you're having. The first few hours of the game feel great, exploring everything you can do as a Warframe and executing all these tiny little maneuvers and abilities just makes you feel like a badass. You're going to have a very fun first few hours into the game.
The best part about playing Warframe is feeling the insane mobility you have for yourself. All Warframe types have different speeds, but their methods of maneuver still feel ridiculously good. You can sprint, jump, do back flips, jump on walls, climb UP walls, run ON walls, do a jump kick and much more. On many occasions when you're running through hallways without enemies, you can't resist but do a trick or two, to earn style points and get to places quicker. Creative maneuvers will quickly reveal many shortcuts around maps, and you'll feel like a badass on top of everything. Feels like a parkour game at times.
|Customize your load-out to make yourself feel like a boss
You may be a space ninja, but even space ninjas need weapons. Fortunately, there are a ton of them available for your selection. There are 4 weapon types available for each and every Warframe. Your primary weapon branches out to stuff like shotguns, assault rifles, snipers or even bows. Your secondary weapons are your pistols, your third weapons are melee weapons, which come in a variety as well. Katanas, swords, fists, hammers or pole sticks....take your pick. You also have a sentinel to take along, a little floating robot that acts as your ally, either helping your defensively, or attack enemies offensively. You can take 4 weapons to the field at once, and using them grants them EXP, helping them level up. Leveled weapons get stronger and gain more mod slots.
Mod slots are the capacity which your weapons can store....I'm talking mods of course (this sentence made no sense). The higher your capacity, the more mods you can store. Mods are little cards that you pick up throughout stages, they drop as you beat enemies. Different weapons have different mod types, and each weapon can be equipped with their own set of mods. Some mods increase damage, others bullet capacity, firing rate or even armor piercing to deal damage to armored enemies. Some mods even grant elemental damage to your weapons (fire, ice etc), while others let you shoot THROUGH enemies to hit enemies behind. Since there are tons of different mods for each sub category, you can easily spend a lot of time on this. And what if you can upgrade mods by fusing it with other mods? It adds a whole new level to the depth of mod management and customization.
|Mod time bitches!
Throughout the game there are plenty of Warframes for you to pick from, and this is easily my favorite part of the game. Each and every Warframe looks incredibly different from one another, and all are cool as f**k. You can choose one of three Warframes from the start, Excalibur (a melee, tank focused Warframe with powerful melee abilities), Loki (a fast, balanced Warframe with stealth and deception abilities) and Mag (a weak, shield focused Warframe with a mix of defensive and offensive abilities). Each Warframe you choose plays differently from one another, and they have their own unique skills. There are other Warframes that you may also choose to craft after getting sufficient ingredients from elsewhere.
I described the 3 starter Warframes up above, but there's so much more you can make! Ember is a fire elemental based Warframe that comes with tons of fire abilities to burn up enemies. Volt is a lighting based Warframe with tons of supercharging self buff and offensive abilities. Rhino is a super tank Warframe with the ability to stun lock enemies (great against bosses). Nyx is a Warframe that thrives on disruption of regular enemies, using mind control. Ash is a stealthy, assassin type Warframe specializing in taking out single targets and getting out fast. Trinity is a support Warframe with plenty of healing and defensive traits. Frost is a tanky, ice based Warframe with frost abilities and huge scale disruption. Saryn is poison based, with skills that inflict damage over time on enemies (great against bosses as well).
|An example of the bosses you will be facing in game.
What Warframe you choose affects how you play, and if also affects your role in a team. There are more Warframes than the ones I mentioned above (Banshee, Nova and others), but it means the same thing. What different types of Warframe you bring to a team changes how you take on missions. Embers are great against infested enemies, Rhinos are great against bosses. Things like this can always change how a mission can go, and the possible combination of Warframes in a team make co-op missions with others a thrill to play. Like weapons, your Warframes level up, and have their own set of mods, boosting health, speed and jump distance...among others.
The game lets you team up with up to 4 players, and its safe to say that co-op is the way to go for this game. Playing alone is fine, but some missions are incredibly difficult to tackle alone (you can still do it, you just have to be a f**king genius at the game). And when you do tackle these maps as 4, it becomes way more fun and has more structure to it. Sure some players are just scumbags overall, but if you play with friends the game quickly becomes more enjoyable, and you can see that Warframe was meant to be a team game. Tackling on bosses as a team makes you feel badass, as you flank him and hit from from different directions at once, plummeting him with an array of different skills.
|Here, have some space zombies!
With so much content, how can I only rate the game as decent (7.0-7.4 is decent in my books)? Well, to put it bluntly, the game is just a huge mindf**k of repetition. Throughout the game you'll be fighting 3 factions of enemies, the grineer, corpus and infested. Each faction of enemy has about 3-4 enemy types....that means that there are less than 15 enemy types TOTAL in this game. If you combine all the explorable areas in every solar system...there are easily over 90 stages in the game. 90 stages...spread out across 15 enemy types. Also, there are 90 stages and by the time I quit the game, there were only THREE stage types. F**KING, THREE. A cave, a spaceship and an ice map....AND NO, THE DARKENED SPACESHIP DOES NOT COUNT AS A SEPARATE MAP TYPE.
So you'll be seeing the same maps and same enemies throughout your entire journey through the game, that enough is BAD. The lack of a PvP mode is also a wasted potential. I mean you look at the game, and you think of the mechanics....PvP would be perfect here. A 16 player deathmatch would be f**king beast....and f**king chaotic at the same time. Also, when you go ingredient hunting, you will absolutely HATE yourself. It is soooo repetitive....SO repetitive. Visiting the same map 20 times to get f**king rubido is the worst shit ever, or having to kill the same boss 10 times to get all 3 ingredients to craft a Warframe can get INFURIATING.
So that's Warframe guys. It has tons of things that other FREE MMOs do not provide, but its also what we call "Repetition at its finest". Its one of the most repetitive games I have ever played, and also one of the most creative ones at the same time. There's a lot to like about Warframe, but at the same times there's a lot to hate as well. Its currently still in open beta, so you can go check it out, but if I were you I'd wait for the full actual release. The game is getting its own release for the PS4, which I will be looking forward to when it comes. The game has a good deal of potential to be good, but currently, the game really needs some diversity in its enemies and map types. Still a good experience for those looking for something different.
Enjoy some would be female faces of the female Warframes!
Happy gaming!


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-40 x 55 pixels in Messages
The Client will shrink down your Avatar image but keep its aspect ratio.
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-40 x 55 pixels on Messages history in client
-33 x 43 pixels in friends online
Next takes your Avatar and crops to the top to give a circle. It will keep the aspect ratio but you will loose part of the image.
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-50 pixels in diameter in profiles and notifications
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The 'Discussions' area of IMVU crops AND compresses your avatar. You will keep most of the image (sans the corners; apparently IMVU thinks corners are overrated) but it will distort it to do so.
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We have almost all the UK-based Grand Prix scores in now, and what we have is up online, HERE (right click and chose 'open in new tab'). The results will update automatically as the rest of the scores - including all those of our friends overseas - as they are entered into Quest by proctors.
We were delighted once again to see such a good turnout for this, our third major quiz event in just 29 days, and in the run-up to Christmas! Just four weeks ago we had our first ever November GP and then a week later around 50 of our UK quizzers and administrators were in Zagreb for the European Quizzing Championships.
We were pleased to see so many good scores, with at least 40 through the magic "100 points total" barrier and, <drumroll>, our first ever MAXIMIUM score on a genre – Kevin Ashman managing to completely ace the Entertainment genre with a score of 30.10 (i.e. every one of the 40 questions). We congratulate Kevin on this amazing feat – the first such score since the 30+10 tiebreaker was introduced nearly 10 years ago. We also note the incredibly close, high finish in Lifestyle (traditionally the toughest genre in scoring terms), with three players reaching 26 and then separated by just three tiebreakers.
So, we heartily congratulate Kevin on his amazing Entertainment score and on his overall winning score of 134.7, ahead of Pat Gibson (133.5), and Didier Bruyère (130.2). Fourth place was taken by Steve Cook with what was, I believe, his best ever finish, scoring 127.6 (and taking the Physical World genre, 26.2) and in fifth place in a field of circa 170 was Mark Grant on 127.1. Well done all!
Here are the medal positions, by genre.
G: 29.5 - Kevin Ashman
S: 27.1 - Didier Bruyère
B: 26.3 - Ian Bayley
G: 28.1 - Scott Dawson
S: 27.4 - Mark Grant
B: 27.3 - Kevin Ashman
G: 31.0 - Kevin Ashman
S: 28.9 – Pat Gibson
B: 27.9 - Didier Bruyère
G: 26.7 - Pat Gibson
S: 26.5 – Dorjana Sirola
B: 26.4 – Clive Dunning
G: 26.2 – Steve Cook
S: 25.4 - Didier Bruyère, tied with…
S: 25.4 – Pat Gibson
G: 26.5 - Didier Bruyère
S: 25.3 - Dave Bill
B: 26.3 - Mark Preston
Many thanks to all competitors, and of course to proctors - for your continued support/help. We also send special thanks to question contributors Eric Kilby (Entertainment) and Keith Andrew (Sport & Games), and of course to Jane and Diana who as usual lent invaluable support with editing and verification. And as we approach the end of another calendar year, we say thanks again to everyone who has helped with the supply of questions this year, and to those who have helped out at events (and a special thanks and "get well" to Sara Head xxx).
You can view the results by following the link. Once again, thanks all for taking part and for supporting/facilitating the event. We hope to see you in Coventry/Edinburgh on 6 January 2018!
All the best
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The University and Careers Counsellors (UCC) guide students throughout their four years of high school on making informed decisions regarding their course selections, standardized testing, career options, and university applications. A UCC curriculum is in place starting in H1 (Year 10) with some lessons during CORE (social and emotional wellbeing classes) and finishing off in H4 (Year 13) with biweekly lessons and regular individual meetings. Students officially start to meet with their assigned UCC in January of their H3 year. A parent meeting is required in April to May to establish a university application plan for each student.
In addition to one-on-one meetings and UCC lessons, the university counsellors also host parent presentations throughout the academic year catered to parents of H1 to H4 students, and Parent Coffee Meetings for all secondary school parents. H3 year is the most crucial time for students as that is the time when students need to do research on different universities and systems, develop a reasonable university list, and take all necessary exams for university admission. H4 year is when students complete their applications and finish the process at the end by finishing strong in their courses and earning the IB grades needed for admission.
At TES, all students are set up with a MaiaLearning account as they enter the High School Section. MaiaLearning is a comprehensive, data-driven online resource that can be used to research and explore course options, research universities, write college essays, and manage university applications. Students can search for universities and areas of study and start to create a list of institutions they would like to explore in more depth.
Meet our UCC Team
Ms. Nancy Chien, Head of University and Career Counselling
Mr. Dwayne Zamora, University and Career Counsellor
Mr. Graeme McNaught, University and Career Counsellor
Scheduling your visit
TES will host visits from representatives from accredited college or university worldwide. We will not host agents or consultants. The best days and times to visit are 1) Monday, Wednesday, and Thursday during part of the students' lunch period: 1:00 -1:45 pm or 2) Friday during first break: 9:20 - 9:40 am. Please fill out this form if you intend to visit TES.
Please look at our calendar below and then complete the Google form to schedule your visit. We also have the 2020-2021 academic calendar for your reference. We ask that you schedule at least one week in advance of your planned visit.
Important Note: We are happy to have multiple university visits at the same time on the same day. Please feel free to request a date even if you see that other representatives are scheduled to come during your preferred date and time.
Travelling to TES
Take the MRT to Zhishan Station on Northern Bound (Tamsui / Beitou) red line, and then take a 15-20 minute taxi ride to the secondary campus up on Yangmingshan Mountain.
This is very important: Please make sure to let the driver know that the campus is the one up on Yangmingshan Mountain. We have two campuses and many drivers are more familiar with the primary school campus near the Zhishan MRT station than the one up the mountain.
Here is a taxi card in both English and Chinese for you to print out.
Visits to other international high schools in Taiwan
Here is a map of other international high schools and their contact information. This is not an exhaustive list of schools that welcome higher education representatives. There are many local and bilingual schools in Taiwan that are open to university visits.


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Check out all the Web 2.0 Summit highlights: Click on the icons above for Twitter, Facebook, photos and other links. 2008 Keynote video has been posted and speaker presentation slides will also be available soon. Watch the Web 2.0 Summit in Two Minutes Video. We would also like to thank our music sponsor, MySpace (view the Web 2.0 Summit MySpace song list here).
Web 2.0 Summit has once again reached capacity for the fifth consecutive year.Thanks to everyone who requested an invitation to the 2008 edition.
The schedule for the 2008 edition of Web 2.0 Summit has just been unveiled. See the full list of innovators and issues that will be making an onstage appearance in just a few days. Recent additions to the speaker line-up include:
The commercial web is now a teenager—it's been fifteen short years since Marc Andreessen released the Mosaic browser. To put this in perspective, television as a commercial medium reached its fifteenth birthday in 1956—the year Elvis Presley made his first appearance on national TV. National news broadcasts were still in their infancy, "As The World Turns" debuted as America's first half-hour soap opera, and "The Price Is Right" began its dominance of the game show genre. Commercial grade videotape recorders emerged, portable black and white television sets were introduced, and the first local color broadcast aired in Chicago.
Fifteen years after television's birth, the contours of the new medium were just emerging. The idea that this revolutionary new phenomenon—one busily reshaping the very fabric of society—might one day become just another application on a vast web of computers, well that idea wasn't exactly in vogue.
In the first four years of the Web 2.0 Summit, we've focused on our industry's challenges and opportunities, highlighting in particular the business models and leaders driving the Internet economy. But as we pondered the theme for this year, one clear signal has emerged: our conversation is no longer just about the Web. Now is the time to ask how the Web—its technologies, its values, and its culture—might be tapped to address the world's most pressing limits. Or put another way—and in the true spirit of the Internet entrepreneur—its most pressing opportunities.
As we convene the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, our world is fraught with problems that engineers might charitably classify as NP hard—from roiling financial markets to global warming, failing healthcare systems to intractable religious wars. In short, it seems as if many of our most complex systems are reaching their limits.
It strikes us that the Web might teach us new ways to address these limits. From harnessing collective intelligence to a bias toward open systems, the Web's greatest inventions are, at their core, social movements. To that end, we're expanding our program this year to include leaders in the fields of healthcare, genetics, finance, global business, and yes, even politics.
Increasingly, the leaders of the Internet economy are turning their attention to the world outside our industry. And conversely, the best minds of our generation are turning to the Web for solutions. At the fifth annual Web 2.0 Summit, we'll endeavor to bring these groups together.
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In our recent article about Buying Mutual Fund? What Charges you pay after 1 August after SEBI orders, we had given you the details and an example of how the mutual fund charges be levied to an investor after the SEBI orders for Eliminating the entry loads for Mutual Funds. We had taken the example of ICICIDirect Mutual fund charges. Now, it appears that ICICIDirect has gone for a revision of charges it will take for investments of less than 8 Lakh Rupees.
You still dont have to pay any charges if your lumpsump investment or cumulative investment with ICICIDirect in Mutual Funds has been more than 8 Lakh Rs. The "cumulative value" will be taken as per Value at NAV of your entire MF holdings, at the time of order placement, as seen on your MF Unit Holdings page. Transaction charges will be applied as per the new fee structure, accordingly.
However, if your investment with ICICIDirect in Mutual Funds is less than 8 lakh Rs., then the following charges will apply:
For SIPs - Rs. 30/- or 1.5% whichever is lower
For Lumpsum investments - Rs. 100/-
The benefit will come to those who may want to invest in smaller amounts of SIP. So for example, if you want to invest Rs. 500 per month, then you will only need to pay 500 * 1.5% = 7.5 Rs. per transasction or Rs. 90 for the entire year 12 months) SIP investment.
Will this new scheme really help?
It actually depends upon you and your broker and his charges.
If your broker charges high amount, then you may be a looser on that. But if you can find a good broker who charges low rates, then you can save a lot of money. So you will have some choice. However, you will now have to face and evaluate various conditions set forth by the broker. For eg. For Zero charges, ICICIDirect requires a minimum of 8 Lakh Rs. investment. That is a big amount for any investor.
It is good because now you will know what charges you are paying for investing in Mutual Funds. It will give respite to investors in Mutual Funds who were not keeping a close eye on the Mutual Fund Charges, which can build up to a significant amount in the name of distribution charges, marketing charges, fund management charges, entry load, etc. Now, the cheque that you write for the Mutual Fund Investment will ensure that all your money value written on the check actually goes into your investment
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- muthu said...(on 20 August 2009 at 09:48 )
According to new ICICIDirect, if i invest 1000.00 rs i have to pay 100/- brokerage.
Earlier it was better 2.5% of 1000 = 25/- only.
Looks like previous is better if you invest lesser amount (not through SIP). I don't prefer SIP since we can not control date of buying MF.
What is your opinion ?
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Arshile Gorky (American, Khorkom, Armenia 1904 - 1948 Sherman, Connecticut)
The Plough and the Song, 1947
Signed lower right: A Gorky 47
Oil on canvas
50 1/2 x 62 5/8 in. (128.3 x 159.1 cm)
R. T. Miller, Jr. Fund, 1952
A landscape of fecundity and mysterious connection emerges from the sinuous lines, organic forms, and oscillating ground of The Plough and the Song. Although the work appears to have been spontaneously created, it belongs to an ensemble of works that exemplify Gorky's systematic procedures of drawing and painting.
The Oberlin painting is one of three surviving versions of The Plough and the Song, one of the most important themes of Gorky's later years.1 These three versions demonstrate the strikingly different paintings that Gorky was able to generate from a line composition by subjecting it to variations in hue, tonality, and mode of paint application: gliding the brush, dripping, staining, and rubbing down the canvas to reveal or obscure previous passages.
The Oberlin canvas creates a visual field of great transparency, light, and apparent flux, while the other two works of the same title (The Art Institute of Chicago; and New York, collection Milton A. Gordon) project a relatively dense, textural environment filled with decisive contrasts. The most thinly painted of the three, the Oberlin work clearly shows Gorky's practice of staining the canvas with pigment thinned with turpentine, a technique which gave Gorky's brushwork and color modulations an airy, improvisational character.2
At least three drawings exist for The Plough and the Song: a graphite and wax crayon study of 1944 (the Oberlin study),3 a graphite and crayon study of approximately the same size, squared for enlargement,4 and a full-sized cartoon in graphite, charcoal, wax crayon, pastel, and oil.5 The drawings are remarkably consistent in their forms and compositional organization, while the quality of line--thin, pointed, fluid--is nearly identical, and is carried over into the paintings.
The drawings' four main clusters of incident are repeated in the painting: the tall, perhaps skeletal structure planted on the left; the bulbous "slipper" that sprouts floral and genital shapes and terminates at the top in a long, funnel-like form or appendage; the cluster of oval shapes just to the right of center; and, finally, the form that suggests a seated female torso at the upper right. Gorky's systematic development of the Plough and the Song drawings into the paintings has been closely analyzed by William Seitz.6
During the 1940s the fertility of nature and humanity became a constant theme in Gorky's work. Since at least the '30s, Gorky's letters to his sister were filled with references to their father's garden in Khorkom and a deep longing for the Armenian countryside.7 Frequent stays in the Connecticut and Virginia countryside from 1942 until his death in 1948 intensified Gorky's memories of Armenia. In a letter to his sister dated 22 April 1944, for example, shortly before an extended visit to the Virginia farm owned by his wife's family, Gorky's anticipation merges with memories of Khorkom: "I dream of it always and it is as if some ancient Armenian spirit within me moves my hand to create so far from our homeland the shapes of nature we loved in the gardens, wheat fields, and orchards of our Adoian family in Khorkom."8
According to Ethel Schwabacher, the painter's former pupil and close friend, Gorky began the theme of The Plough and the Song during that nine-month stay in Virginia in 1944, and executed the Oberlin study and many other drawings out of doors.9 A letter of December 1944 to his sister contains what seems to be Gorky's earliest written (published) reference to the figure of the plow. He writes that he had been drawing Armenian plows, and that he had carved one from wood as a gift to his nephew: "You cannot imagine the fertility of forms that leap from our Armenian plows, the plow our ancestors used for thousands of years of toil and gaiety and hardship and poetry."10
A. Kurlander
Work (C) 1998 Estate of Arshile Gorky / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Arshile Gorky was born Vosdanik Manook Adoian in Khorkom Vari Haiyotz Dzor, a village in the province of Van, a center of ancient Armenian culture. From 1914, the Turks' systematic persecution of the Armenians drove the Adoian family and thousands of others out of Van, and eventually on an eight-day march to the frontier of Causasian Armenia. Gorky's mother died of malnutrition in December 1918, during a winter of severe deprivation for the Armenian refugees. In 1920, Gorky and his sister arrived at Ellis Island, and eventually moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where his father had emigrated earlier. Gorky moved to New York around 1925, and changed his name.
Until the early 1940s, Gorky thoroughly committed himself to the study (and imitation) of the great modernist masters, particularly Cézanne, Picasso, and Miró. In 1930 he exhibited three still lifes in the Museum of Modern Art exhibition, 46 Painters and Sculptors under 35 Years of Age. In 1933 he began a lifelong friendship with Willem de Kooning. His first solo show was held at Mellon Galleries, Philadelphia, in 1934. Gorky joined the WPA in 1935, and worked on various aviation murals (present locations unknown) until 1940. The Whitney Museum of American Art purchased Painting in 1936-37. Gorky's best known and final phase of work began shortly after his marriage to Agnes Magruder in September 1941, and a visit to the Connecticut countryside in the summer of 1942. Gorky's "breakthrough" painting (or paintings) were the later canvases of the Garden of Sochi series (1940-43), one of which was acquired by The Museum of Modern Art in 1942.11 The summer of 1943 began a series of visits to Crooked Run Farm, Hamilton, Virginia, where Gorky drew out of doors. Gorky met André Breton and the Surrealists in 1944, and first exhibited at Julian Levy Gallery, New York, in 1945, where he would have annual solo shows through 1948. In January 1945, a fire in his studio in Sherman, Connecticut, destroyed approximately twenty-seven works. Gorky had an operation for cancer the following month, and went to Virginia that summer and fall, where he produced about three hundred drawings. Eight paintings and two drawings were shown in the exhibition Fourteen Americans at the Museum of Modern Art in the fall of 1946. An automobile accident in June, 1948, broke Gorky's neck and immobilized his painting arm. On July 21 he hanged himself in his Sherman studio.
General References
Schwabacher, Ethel K. Arshile Gorky. New York, 1957.
Levy, Julian. Arshile Gorky. New York, 1966.
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implications of Symbols. Montclair, N.J., 1980.
Gorky, Jordan, and Robert Goldwater. The Paintings of Arshile Gorky: A Critical Catalogue. New York, 1982.
Waldman, Diane. Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective. Exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1983.
With Julian Levy, New York, from whom purchased in April 1952
New York, M. Knoedler & Company, Inc., 1954. Paintings and Drawings from Five Centuries: Collection Allen Memorial Art Museum. 3 - 21 February. Cat. no. 77.
Kansas City, Mo., William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art, 1957. Some Points of View in Modern Painting. 10 February - 17 March. Cat. no. 22.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. Some Contemporary Works of Art. 12 - 30 November. Cat. no. 21.
St. Louis, City Art Museum, and Unites States Information Agency, 1959-60. Twenty-Five Years of American Painting 1933-1958. Traveled to Naples, Palazzo Reale; Rome, Galleria Nazionale d'Art Moderna; Milan, Permanente Gallery; Berlin, Amerika Haus; Darmstadt, Landesmuseum; Sweden, Göteborg Konstmuseum; York, City Art Gallery. Cat. no. 22.
Venice, XXXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte, 1962. 17 June - 7 October. Cat. no. 25.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1962-63. Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies. 17 December - 12 February (also shown at Washington, D.C., Gallery of Modern Art). Cat. no. 112.
Albuquerque, University of New Mexico Art Museum, 1964. Art since 1889. 20 October - 15 November. Cat. no. 39.
London, The Tate Gallery, 1965. Arshile Gorky. 1 April - 2 May (also shown at Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts; Rotterdam, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen). Cat. no. 92.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1966. Treasures from the Allen Memorial Art Museum. 21 July - 11 September. No cat.
Trenton, New Jersey State Museum, 1967. Focus on Light. 20 May - 10 September. Cat. no. 32.
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1969-70. New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970. 18 October - 1 February. Cat. no. 94.
New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 1976. The Natural Paradise: Painting in America 1800-1950. Cat. no. 40.
Washington, D.C., National Gallery of Art, 1978-79. The Subjects of the Artist. 1 June - 14 January. Cat. no. 6.
The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979. The Spirit of Surrealism. 3 October - 25 November. Cat. no. 86.
New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1983. Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective. 24 April - 19 July. Cat. ill. 204.
Seitz, William C. "Arshile Gorky's The Plough and the Song." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 12, no. 1 (Fall 1954), pp. 4-15.
Schwabacher, Ethel K. Arshile Gorky. New York, 1957, pp. 114, 128.
Hamilton, Chloe. "Captivating a Captive Audience." The Palette (Spring 1958), pp. 12-15.
Twenty-Five Years of American Painting 1933-1958. Exh. cat., City Art Museum of St. Louis, USIA Traveling Exhibition, 1959-60, p. 15, cat. no. 22.
XXXI Esposizione Biennale Internazionale d'Arte. Exh. cat., Venice, 1962, cat. no. 22.
Arshile Gorky. Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962-62, p. 46, no. 112.
Art Since 1889. Exh. cat., University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque,p. 10, cat. no. 39.
Arshile Gorky. Exh. cat., The Tate Gallery, London, 1965, cat. no. 92.
Arshile Gorky. Exh. cat., Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1965, cat. no.127.Levy, Julian. Arshile Gorky. New York, 1966, p. 21.
Stechow, Wolfgang. Catalogue of European and American Paintings and Sculpture in the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, 1967, p. 66, fig. 206.
Focus on Light. Exh. cat., New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1967, cat. no. 32.
Geldzahler, Henry. New York Painting and Sculpture:1940-1970. Exh. cat., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1969, p. 160, cat. no. 94.
Johnson, Ellen H. "American Art of the Twentieth Century." Apollo Magazine 103, no. 168 (February 1976), p. 129.
Bourdon, David. "Gorky Translated through Tragedy." The Village Voice (1 March 1976), p. 99.
Henning, Edward B. The Spirit of Surrealism. Exh. cat., The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1979, pp. 144-45, 150, 173, cat. no. 86.
Rand, Harry. Arshile Gorky: The Implications of Symbols. Montclair, N.J., 1980, pp. 197-200.
Seitz, William C. Abstract Expressionist Painting in America. Cambridge, Mass., 1983, pp. 17, 62, 125.
Technical Data
The work was painted on canvas commercially primed with a smooth, thin ground. The design was drawn in a loose pencil sketch, visible mostly at the right. The oil paint was then broadly applied in thin washes, which sagged and ran freely. While still flowing, accents of bright color were added. Shapes were delineated with black ink, probably applied with a quill pen. In some areas, the washes were allowed to flow freely over the ink lines, blurring or covering the line indications.
The painting was originally unvarnished. A light coating of poly(vinyl) acetate was applied in 1962 after surface cleaning.
The support and paint structure appear sound and stable. Linen tape has been adhered (date unknown) along the stretcher bead, overlapping the front by approximately one-quarter inch. Stretcher creases are visible at the top and bottom edges, and there are minor abrasions scattered throughout the surface.
1. The extant works are: 131.8 x 155.9 cm, The Art Institute of Chicago; and 132.4 x 163.2 cm, New York, collection Milton A. Gordon; reproduced in Diane Waldman, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective (exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1981), pls. 203 and 205 respectively. Two others were among the twenty-seven canvases that perished in a fire in Gorky's studio in Connecticut on 26 January 1946.
2. "The Oberlin canvas shows Gorky's method of beginning--and often finishing--in line and turpentine wash. At first it may have been only a way of starting, but friends--especially the Chilean painter Matta, who also worked in line and thin paint--encouraged Gorky to stop, to preserve the first liquid freshness and continue on another canvas rather than bury successive revisions as he had earlier." William Seitz, Arshile Gorky: Paintings, Drawings, Studies (exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1962), p. 46. Gorky began working in this technique, which he had learned from Matta, in 1942, the year which inaugurates the period of his best-known work.
3. Study for "The Plough and the Song" , 48.2 x 64.3 cm, AMAM inv. 56.1.
4. Connecticut, privated collection; reproduced in William C. Seitz, "Arshile Gorky's The Plough and the Song," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 12, no. 1 (Fall 1954), fig. 2.
5. Approximately 124.5 x 155 cm, Washington, D.C., private collection; reproduced in William C. Seitz, "Arshile Gorky's The Plough and the Song," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 12, no. 1 (Fall 1954), fig. 3.
6. William C. Seitz, "Arshile Gorky's The Plough and the Song," Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 12, no. 1 (Fall 1954), pp. 4-15.
7. For a brief survey of Gorky's letters to his family, see Karlen Mooradian, "A Special Issue on Arshile Gorky," Arat: A Quarterly 12, no. 4 (Fall 1971), pp. 19-43.
8. Karlen Mooradian, "A Special Issue on Arshile Gorky," Arat: A Quarterly 12, no. 4 (Fall 1971), p. 32.
9. "Sitting before nature, Gorky dissected root, stem, insect, leaf and flower, studying genesis and process; out of these studies he created an alphabet of forms." Ethel Schwabacher, Arshile Gorky (New York, 1957), p. 97.
10. Karlen Mooradian, "A Special Issue on Arshile Gorky," Arat: A Quarterly 12, no. 4 (Fall 1971), p. 32. Gorky carved at least three Armenian plows between 1944 and 1946; these are illustrated in Diane Waldman, Arshile Gorky 1904-1948: A Retrospective (exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1981), fig. 250.
11. Garden in Sochi, 1941, oil on canvas, 112.4 x 158.1 cm; New York, The Museum of Modern Art, inv. 335.42. Compare with the later (ca. 1943) Garden in Sochi, oil on canvas, 78.7 x 99.1 cm; New York, Museum of Modern Art, inv. 492.69.


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