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How will you spend your time and/or make a living between ages 60 and 100?
As improved medicine and machinery continue to expand our lifespans in the developed world, the current model in which we work until age 65 +/- and then "retire" seems sadly outdated. New questions begin to arise, though, when we reflect on how we will each make a living and how we will make a life. I am excited to see what kind of ideas you all come up with.
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Hilal HalilJul 20 2012: If i can live 60 years, i will probably want to be the primeminister. I want to impact the world. I want to make people meet with honour, freedom, democracy, justice, and needs like them. I want to improve the education, want to make people think, teach them philosophy, and teach them how to start running their mind and heart, not only the words. I want people to know the history and their language well. I want to teach them how to use foreign languages as vehicles (not the aim). I'm from Turkey, i want to improve my country. I love it, and have already dedicated my life to it. I want to improve and clean Turkish language, too.
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What is the Priest's role in the world and in the game specifically? Are there plans to better formalize or change it?
As it is now, priests seem to suffer form a lack of real purpose in the world. Paladins are supplanting priests as the primary holy healers in battle (as was their original purpose, admittedly), and Warlocks and Death Knights are designed around the shadow spells and diseases that Shadow Priests seem to dabble in. This leaves damage mitigation as the sole unique role for priests to play in the world, as there are few instances of church business or outreach to which priests would be well suited.
It is, perhaps, more confusing as priests are the only class to have an armored analogue that can replicate every traditional power of the priest (healing, resurrection, and actually have a much wider selection of buffs) but has much greater combat utility and survivability (for example, there is no Gishy, armored spell slinger that can blast as well as a mage, and I suspect that creating such a class would cause an uproar).
As the Paladin has moved from a holy warrior that could sometimes focus his faith to heal to a primary battlefield healer, and the Death Knight has been given powers that actually appear to be Shadow Priest powers to any outside observer, there is less and less reason for the Priest to ever venture outside of their cloisters, and it becomes more difficult to explain their continued existence at all. Perhaps it's time to relegate them to an NPC only class, like merchants and trainers, and allow damage mitigation to be the pervue of the Protection Paladin.
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Nagy, Gábor and Salhi, Said (2007) Location-routing: Issues, models and methods. European Journal of Operational Research, 177 (2). pp. 649-672. ISSN 0377-2217 . (The full text of this publication is not available from this repository)
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This paper is a survey of location-routing: a relatively new branch of locational analysis that takes into account vehicle routing aspects. We propose a classification scheme and look at a number of problem variants. Both exact and heuristic algorithms are investigated. Finally, some suggestions for future research are presented.
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BrainCoach Paulette tells us four ways that traveling during the holidays can be beneficial for the brain!
1. Change of routine When we change our daily routine, we stimulate our brain in new ways. According to neurobiologist Lawrence Katz, when we present the brain with non-routine activities that incorporate our physical senses, we promote the growth of new neural pathways and the creation of neurotrophins. Neurotrophins are brain nutrients that make neural cells stronger and more resistant to the effects of aging.
2. New Places If you are someone who likes to travel to new places during the holidays, you get to experience many brain benefits. If you use the low-tech method of navigation, a map, you are strengthening your visual spatial and visual memory skills. Foreign travel that involves learning and speaking a new language is a workout for the whole brain. And learning new information about the culture or history of a place can help to sharpen your memory.
3. Physical Activity. Exercise is great for the brain and many people are more physically active on vacation than they are normally. Even though the weather may not be ideal during the holidays, you can still find fun ways to be active. Some people have a tradition of playing football on Thanksgiving Day not just watching it. When it snows, there are fun winter sports that can be incorporated into your holiday travel like skiing, ice skating and sledding. Even playing in the snow can get your heart rate going. And if you prefer to stay indoors, shopping often requires a lot of walking.
4. Playing Games. Down-time and time spent getting to and from your destination is often filled with reading, doing puzzles or playing games with your family or travel companions. These are all great ways to strengthen your cognitive skills. We have lots of fun and challenging games that are great for travel, social gatherings and family get togethers.


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A live action film was announced for the popular horror rpgmaker game Ao Oni, and the film is set to hit cinemas on July 5th.
The cast of the upcoming film features AKB48's Iriyama Anna playing the female lead, as well as Suga Kenta, Jinnai Shou, Seiya, Furuhata Seika, and Ozeki Riku.
Heyo! I have been crazy busy lately (started a job, yay! money to afford cons!) and I missed sending out any notices about attending ACen, so here is my report! ACen went great and I got to meet so many new people! My Guertena's Gallery panel went alright except for some technical difficulties >.< but I still had a full room and people still enjoyed the panel, so that was pretty rad. And omg, the line for my bento panel wrapped all the way around to the bathrooms even though it was Sunday. That's freaking awesome. Maybe this will mean a bigger panel room the next ACen that I attend? That would be pretty awesome.
I am going to Colossalcon this weekend! Unfortunately, I only had one panel accepted, so I will be running Guertena's Gallery on Saturday from 3-4pm in Event Room 6! Maybe I will see you there?
I will also be presenting Guertena's Gallery. I wasn't going to do any of my panels at JAFAX this year because the schedule is super jam packed that I didn't need to add in my own programming, but because of the video game theme this year, Guertena's Gallery really fits! So, it will be on Sunday June 22nd from 10:30-11:30am in Panel Room 4. In case you don't know about JAFAX, it's a FREE anime convention on Grand Valley State University's Campus in Allendale, MI on June 21st and 22nd. It's a lot of fun, plus I'm staffing it, so please come check out all our hard work this year~!
The other cons I plan to go to (and thus submit my panels to) include S.S. Kaizoku Con, Midori Con, and Youmacon~! I hope to see you there! :)
Hello! Here are my panels for Shuto Con 2014:
How to Make Bento
Friday 1-2 pm in Panel Room 1
Hentai Out Loud
Saturday 2-3 am in Panel Room 3
Guertena's Gallery: A Guide to RPG-Style Horror Games
Saturday 4-5 pm in Panel Room 1
I'm going to also be helping out with:
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Sunday 10-11 am in Panel Room 4
(I'm excited to premiere my Flame Princess cosplay, I will also be hosting one of the Battle Arena tournaments)
AND I'm going to be premiering a new panel at Shuto Con this year:
Panelception: A Panel about Running Panels for Panelists
Saturday 11pm-12 am in Panel Room 1
I hope to see you there! :D
In other news, I have submitted How To Make Bento and Guertena's Gallery to Anime Central and Colossal Con. After I find out if my panels are accepted and when they are, I will let you all know! :)
I'm going to be starting work on a new panel to unveil this year. Here's hoping it's as popular as my other panels, and even if it's not, it's a subject that I love!
I have to thank my boyfriend, and soon to be co-panelist, for the idea. I actually shot it down at first "I don't know enough about that to run a panel… well, except ____, ____, and ___. But that's it! I swear…. oh and did you know ____? Gosh darn it, you're right! I do know a lot on this subject!"
I'll announce the title after it gets accepted at a convention. For now, the only clue you get is: BISHOUNEN!
The Diary of Ellen is a book by Fummy based on his RPG Maker horror game The Witch's House. It tells the story of Ellen prior to the game.
This is the Prologue and Chapter 1, "Back Alley Meeting." There are five chapters in total.
I encourage you to buy the book for yourself. (Amazon) Supporting Fummy is always good, and there are some really nice illustrations by Oguchi, who did the cover.


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Yeesh, I'm glad my SO plays, and has always played games with me. I'd hate to run into a situation like this, because it'd be sadly a tough choice. Though most likely, I wouldn't get involved with someone who didn't have similar interests (such as gaming, as that's the one of the biggest interests in my life) as I do.
Great advice from the Drama mama's though :)
Good luck Aggrowifed
I agree, I wouldn't date someone that I had nothing in common with.
If games are a big part of your life and your lifestyle, you need to get that out on the table on the first date or so. Sure the chick might be "hawt" but really, after you get all you can out of that arrangement... you're going to be sad when she doesn't "like" games and is intellectually stunted.
Also the women of the world need to start evolving a tad, both ourselves and when raising girls of the next gen. We are living in a different world than the one our mothers were raised in, this isn't Barbie land anymore. Slap that dolly out of your kids hand. Cancel the tea party and give her the same darn computer keyboard you just put in little Timmy's hand with the SAME games (none of this stupid vet tech, ride-a-pony, bake-a-virtual-cake fluff game crap) Parents need to stop raising girls in such a sexist moronic way, and then there would be more confident, competent tech savvy girls out there. :(
I am so thankful my parents did it for me when I was a little girl. My boyfriend who games with me, is thankful as well. :)
Stormscape said...
Cowy is completely right.
I also think that this guy in the article was kind of stupid for marrying this girl in the first place. I mean, its not really about WoW at all. The whole refusing to even look at ANY media if its branded "Warcraft"? Or claiming that this guy is "addicted" when he plays a single-digit number of hours per week and is clearly trying to work with her on this?
IMO this shows a deeper problem in the very nature of her person. These are clear signs that in her truest self, this woman is selfish, bigoted, and judgmental. Not to mention a control-freak.
Now, maybe its her parent's fault as Cowy suggests, or maybe she's just incurably pig-headed. Either way, "Aggrowifed" was probably foolish to marry her.


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Personally I started photography about a year ago from somewhat zero and I have found studying stuff from internet to be a great help, along with books and magazines. I've gathered here some websites that I've been using myself that I find beneficial or have found while trying to help other people and finding good links for them (I've been gathering these slowly during last year while learning myself). There are some basic guides and something a bit more advanced. Hope you can find something beneficial from here.
This list naturally doesn't contain all possible sites and might even miss some excellent site (please, if you know some good sites, inform me, perhaps I can republish this list later with updates) but the ones that I've read during last year and found useful. If you type "photography" to google, you'll be floaded with loads of sites, so this should narrow it down at least a bit. I've gathered these links from different locations. Part I have found myself and part are from photography-forum or other forums.
Really basics:
Don't know where to start, just got your first SLR? Just the really basic things, explained quick and dirty.
www.berniecode.com/writing/pho… Bernies Better Beginners Guide to Photography
Basic terms explained quickly with few photos.
www.photonhead.com/beginners/ Beginners guide to photography.
Just some basics, good quick article about shutter and aperture.
www.pbase.com/wlhuber/the_basi… The Basics of Photography
Again really basics, explained with nice illustrations.
photo.net/learn/making-photogr… Photo.net making photos
A guide to basics of photography from photo.net learning section.
www.digicamhelp.com/index.php Digital Camera Help
Some different articles, also about post processing.
reviews.cnet.com/4520-7603_7-6… CNet Digital SLR buying guide.
Want to buy a dSLR since all your friends have one and you just need one even though you don't know what it is? At least read this first. And remember that the camera doesn't take the photos, you do.
General links:
General photography links.
www.photo.net/learn Photo.net
Basic tutorials covering some basics and wide variety of different photography categories.
Few different tricks and tips. Includes explanation of flashmeter from string (quite handy).
www.luminous-landscape.com/ Luminous Landscape
Different guides, includes perhaps a bit advanced guides. Landscape, nature and documentary photography.
digital-photography-school.com… Digital photography school - composition
Basic rules of composition explained quickly with photos.
www.kenrockwell.com/index.htm Ken Rockwell
I really depated with myself if I would take this site to this list. But here is it anyway. I just warn everyone that you really shouldn't take these things literally or even read this site before you have a bit better understanding about photography. As someone in photography-forum said "Ken Rockwell is an idiot, don't listen to him".
cambridgeincolour.com/tutorial… Cambridge in Colour
Excellent guides to several quite often overlooked areas of photography. Read at least about levels and curves.
www.cs.duke.edu/~parr/photogra… Digital Photography FAQ
Quite long FAQ. If you have a question, check this one first, then ask questions.
photonotes.org/articles/beginn… Canon EOS Beginners' FAQ
You're a newbie and bought a Canon dSLR? Read this site! Might be useful even for some more experienced people.
Artificial lighting:
Want to be in full control of lighting for your photos? Sites with guides for artificial lighting and studio shots.
www.photoflexlightingschool.co… Photoflex lighting school
Excellent guide covering lots of different studio setups (people and objects).
www.professionalphotography101… Lighting names
Portrait Lighting basic setups.
strobist.blogspot.com/ Strobist
Excellent off-camera lighting site using flashguns. (also check Lighting 101 while in there)
planetneil.com/tangents/catego… Planet Neil
Contains the best on-camera flashgun photography guide I've read, a must for everyone who is new to using flash.
www.lighting-essentials.com/in… Lighting essentials
Several different portrait setups explained with diagrams and few videos too.
Zone system:
Exposure metering system called Zone system explained. Developed by Ansel Adams. I also would recommend reading the book "The Negative". It's a good exposure metering system if you really want to have control over the exposure in your photos.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_sys… Wikipedia article
Quite good article about the system.
www.normankoren.com/zonesystem… Simplified zone system
Simple explanation of zone system. Should be enough at least to get you started.
hannemyr.com/photo/zonesystem.… Digital zone system tutorial
A tutorial using Zone system on digital camera.
HDR photography:
Some hate it, some like it (personally I'm in-between, sometimes I hate it, sometimes I like it). But it's here and here's few guides.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dyn… Wikipedia article.
Don't know what HDR is? Then read this article first.
hdr-club.deviantart.com/journa… HDR-Club links
Link list by HDR club here in dA.
www.great-landscape-photograph… Camera filters
I always prefer filters over HDR. Here's one guide. If you like landscape photography, learn to use filters (or I'll find you and bite your ankle).
Other specific guides:
Other guides that go into specfic areas of photography. Something to read if you're interested and want to go a bit deeper.
www.all-things-photography.com… Professional Wedding Photography tips
Promised to photograph relatives wedding and you only have entry level dSLR and kit lens? Well, you're screwed and this site doesn't save you, but it's still good guide to wedding photography.
www.great-landscape-photograph… Great Landscape Photography
Some landscape photography guides. My favourite category within photography.
Other misc links
www.dpreview.com/learn/?/Gloss… Dpreview glossary
A glossary of different terms related to photography. Loads of interesting terms explained. Knowing these propably won't make you better photographer but you'll sure sound like one.
www.digicamhistory.com/ DigiCamHistory
A history of digital cameras. Some nice-to-know stuff. If you're really interested or again just want to sound like you know something about photography.
Got a problem and don't know where to ask help? Don't go for the Art Scene forum in dA forums, look for place where photographers hang out.
forum.deviantart.com/galleries… dA photography forum.
Don't go to art scene -forum with photography questions, come here. It's where I can be found from.
www.dpreview.com/forums/ Dpreview forums
Quite active forums. Source for many (usually false) rumours of upcoming cameras and lenses.
www.luminous-landscape.com/for… Luminous landscape forums
Luminous landscape forums, just like the title says.
www.nikonians.org/ Nikonians.org
Contains a forum aimed for, yes you guessed right, Nikon users.
Link sites:
Sites containing longer link lists than here. See if you can find anything more useful yourself.
www.prosphotos.com/links/ Photography Websites
Misc links
www.nationalgeographic.com/pho… National Geographic Recommended Photography links
As titles says. I used to respect National Geographic untill they said that there are polar bears in Finland.
www.dpreview.com/misc/links.as… DPReview links.
Links from DPReview
photography.explainthatstuff.c… Explain that stuff...
Some more links, quite a list here too.
www.rit.edu/~andpph/webpages.h… List of Photo Websites
Some more links.
digital-photography-school.com… Post processing tutorials
Yes, you can use Photoshop for post-processing, it's not cheating. People saying it's cheating are either newbies who don't know much about photography or bitter arrogant old men who are dissapointed that there are lots of more talented young photographer than they are, and they'll get it all easier! So here's few post processing tutorials.
Lens reviews:
Not really learning guides, but since so many always ask "Is lens xx any good or would yy be better?". First try to read yourself.
www.photozone.de/ Photozone.de
Contains several quite nice lens reviews.
www.fredmiranda.com/ Fredmiranda.com
User reviews, lots of them.
www.naturfotograf.com/lens_sur… Lens Evaluations
Some Nikkor lens evaluations.
Other sites:
Again, not guides but still good idea to check these.
www.dpreview.com Ppreview.com
This site again? Well, it contains loads of detailed camera reviews. So if you're wondering that should you buy a certain camera, before asking, read the review if you can find it here.
www.imaging-resource.com/ Imaging Resources
Haven't read myself that much but heard that it should be a good site.
www.steves-digicams.com/ Steve Sanders
Again, reviews etc.
Well, there's my list. Hope you find some useful sites from this list.


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In addition to the course requirements, each student in the Ph.D. program is required to have formal teaching and/or research experience in an institution of higher learning before receiving the Ph.D. degree. Serving as a teaching assistant in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology satisfies this teaching requirement. Collecting original data also fulfills this requirement.
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Excel is a spreadsheet program, though you can set up a datbase using it, here is a site
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You might be better off using Access (another componant of the MS office suite) there are training videos here:
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The Struggle Continues for Memphis Sanitation Workers
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As events continue in Memphis for the 45th anniversary of the 1968 Sanitation Workers' Strike and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s death, here is a new video which shows how AFSCME Local 1733 members are continuing their struggle for fairness and respect.
Dr. King traveled to Memphis to support the workers who were on strike to protest unfair wages, discrimination and unsafe working conditions. Forty-five years later, conditions for those sanitation workers are surprisingly similar. The city is threatening to privatize their jobs, workers are not earning a living wage, and working conditions are hazardous and unsafe.
Herbert Parson is a Local 1733 member who was working for the City of Memphis during the strike in 1968 and is still on the job today. "It took Dr. King coming here to change things," said Parson.
But the struggle continues.
"Now they're not only trying to take what they fought for in '68," says Keith Johnson, a Memphis sanitation worker and member of Local 1733 for 28 years. "Now they're trying to take the job completely."
"What they're trying to do is just make everything private sector, get rid of all public sector," Johnson adds. "Because they're busting unions. Basically that's it, they're trying to bust the unions up."
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Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was a watershed moment in cinema history. It was one of the most meticulously conceived movies depicting humans in space. The movie was released in 1968, before NASA had even landed men on the moon. The interplanetary spaceship, Discovery is perhaps one of the most iconic spaceship designs in cinema history. While it deviates from Clarke's description in the book, it is quite similar to a Leslie Carr drawing in form. Here was one of the first interplanetary ships to deviate from the V2 or "flying saucer" forms.
Nuclear space ship – Leslie Carr – from "Interplanetary Flight" by Arthur C. Clarke
Part 1 The Centrifuge
Prior to 2001, astronauts either floated around in their ship, or walked about as if full Earth gravity was keeping them oriented to the desired floor. The Discovery was different. It had a centrifuge withing the crew area that generated a force, simulating gravity. This is dramatically shown with the opening scene on the ship showing Frank Poole jogging around the centrifuge.
It isn't clear from the movie how much artificial g was experienced by the astronauts, but the book 2001: The Lost Science indicates that the it was 0.2 to 0.3g. It must have been guesswork as to whether this was sufficient for optimal health, and may have reflected Clarke's hopes that low gravity would improve health.
Given this value, and the radius of the centrifuge as 16 feet, it must have been rotating at 6 revolutions per minute to generate approximately 0.2g at the centrifuge floor in the Discovery. Which is interesting, because Frank's jogging would have had very different effects depending on the direction he took.
The rotation rate of 6 rpm gives a speed of about 7 mph, a fast jog or run. If Poole ran at that speed in the same direction as the spin, he would increase the effect or artificial g to about 0.8g. He would feel distinctly heavier. Another effect would be that his body would tend to rotate forward towards the floor, forcing him to try to lean back to correct this.
If however he ran in the counter-spin direction, he would experience some very strange effects. If he ran at 7mph, he would negate the effect of the spin and his feet would experience zero g. he would lose traction and start to drift away from the floor. Furthermore, as he accelerated to 7mph, any rotation that his body experienced would generate very different g in different parts of his body. Frank probably needed to exercise before meals, just in case. The video below shows such a simulation of a very similar situation by NASA. Note how the subject tries to keep himself oriented and his drift off the centrifuge wall when running in the counter-spin direction.
While the centrifuge in the Discovery is probably too small to be very comfortable, none of the space agencies has done any serious work to date to determine what level of g we need to generate, nor what centrifuge radius would be comfortable enough to be worth the extra mass and complexity of a spaceship.


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My project life post is a little late this week because went to Austin to start house hunting. Still no luck yet, but we are keeping our fingers crossed. The market is really tough out there right now. Anyway, back to PL.
This week: We took a trip to Hill Country with my parents after Nandini's birthday. My mom wanted to do the beach, but it is still too cold. We played Holi again at home like three more times. Avi had the week off of school for Passover, so we also played a lot at home. So fun to see Avinash and Nandini playing together more and more.
What I used: Most of my cards are from a digital kit at One Story Down by Two More Days. This kit is really graphic and fun. I thought it paired well with my bright Holi color pictures. My go to embellishments are still thickers, wood veneers and enamel dots to add texture.
First side: Love that big picture of Nandini covered in color.
And the photo of Avinash and Nana roasting s'mores. I added text to it (font: Silverfake) and a make magic Ormolu flapper. Love those little things.
I also added a little digital stamp from Two More Days to our bluebells photo.
I took a piece of cardstock outside on one of our Holi days and let it get covered in color. I let it dry and then trimmed it down to fit in a pocket. Then I wrapped it in clear OA washi tape so the powder wouldn't leak out all over the place. I found the days of the week washi worked well with my "play Holi everyday" theme.
The black glitter thickers were added on top of the pocket. I find that foam thickers are very sticky and adhere well to the plastic.
The little heart on the photo is a fabric flapper from BG.
Chic tag Love note triangle to this TMD journaling card.
I love that picture of Avinash and Nandini in front of the old barn. As soon as I saw it at the hotel I knew it was perfect mini-photo shoot material. I cut apart that little banner from some SC printables. That cute little notebook paper bag is from Whisker. I tiny attached a little die cut and added the date to the photo (my only one of the spread I think).
I used an Amy Tangerine stamp on this journaling card. How cute is the hand drawn chevron? I am so blown away by it. I added a MS label sticker to the picture of me. It turned out a bit dark, but I still like it. I layered an SC sundrifter wood veneer over a BG sticker.
white on kraft to make this sticker. I added a cork arrow from SC and this BG button. It looks really Indian I think.
I cut this circle out from another TMD journaling card and stapled it on to the photo. I could have added it on digitally, but I don't always plan ahead. I just journaled right around it.
On a side note, in my Etsy shop I am offering free domestic shipping on all orders over $10 to celebrate spring, just type in RAINBOWS at checkout. If you are international, email me and I can send you a slightly different code (kumar.niru at gmail.com). Thank you everybody!
Let me know if you have any questions. Linked up with The Mom Creative for Project Life Tuesday. The PL kits I am using are the Seafoam kit and Clementine kit, with multi-pack page protectors, and grid journaling cards. Thank you so much to everyone in this wonderful community. I love all the feedback and looking at everything people do each week. It definitely keeps me motivated. Also, please include a link to your projects below so we can check them out too!


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Amano-sensei's cover for Final Fantasy VI: Grand Finale, a collection of orchestrated versions of the OST arranged by Tsuneyoshi Saito and, more importantly, Shiro Sagisu (Eva + FF = preemptive win).
It's one of my favorite records of all time.
Peter Brötzmann's Art. It quite pleases me, albeit in a different way than with his music.
Paintings by 3 1/2 year-old Iris Grace.
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For those not so familiar with him, here's a nice interview http://www.awkwardmovements.com/2012/04/muslimgauze.html .
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Shigeru Tamura's works, static or animated, are works of minimalistic beauty. His landscapes evoke feelings akin to the great Ukiyo-e masters', such as Hokusai and Hiroshige.
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MILWAUKEE, Wis. (WTAQ) - About 75 people attended a candlelight vigil near Milwaukee Sunday night, to pray for Poland in the wake of the plane crash that killed most of the country's leaders. Foreign exchange student Alex Golec of Cedar Grove told the gathering to be strong and pull together. The 17-year-old Golec said Poland is the only nation that's had to rise and fall so many times – and they'll rise again. The vigil was held at the Polish Center of Wisconsin in Franklin.
The center's president, Janine Adamczyk, said 9 percent of Wisconsinites are of Polish descent – and for them, it's been a tragic weekend. Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others were killed when their plane went down in Russia, on their way to a Mass for the 70th anniversary of the deaths of thousands of Polish prisoners of war in Russia. Many war veterans and relatives of those killed by the Soviets died in the crash, as well as most of Poland's leaders. Golec's father is an attorney in Poland – and she said he lost his boss and several friends in the crash. There were no survivors.


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Lecture by Charlotte Cotton
Thursday, April 10, 2014 / 7pm
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street
San Francisco, CA 94107
As she approaches the end of her time as a visiting scholar at California College of the Arts, British writer and curator Charlotte Cotton will discuss how her experience working with CCA undergraduate and graduate students is shaping her ideas about photographic culture. The lecture will also focus on the scope of her recent exhibition – Photography is Magic! (2012) – and the books Photographicness (2013) and the forthcoming publication, Photographic, which takes a broad view upon contemporary image making culture.
Cotton is the author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art (2004) and founder of Words Without Pictures (2008-9) and Eitherand.org (2012). She has previously held positions including Creative Director of London's Media Space, Director of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photographs at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.
Michael Wolf, Architecture of Density #119, 2009.
German photographer Michael Wolf examines life in the layered urban landscape, addressing public and private space, anonymity and individuality, history and modern development. From 1972-1973, he studied at the University of California at Berkeley and earned a degree in Visual Communication from the Folkwang School in Essen, Germany in 1976.
In 1994, Wolf moved to Hong Kong where he worked as a photojournalist for the German magazine Stern for 8 years. While working on his final story for the magazine, he identified the seeds of his first significant body of work, at which point he withdrew from editorial photography in order to pursue personal projects. He is best known for his pictures of Hong Kong's highly compressed, often brutal architecture, in which he uses the city's sky-scraping tower blocks to awe-inspiring effect, eliminating the sky and horizon line to flatten each image and turn these façades into seemingly never-ending abstractions. Wolf continues to live and work in Hong Kong.
Wolf has won first prize in the World Press Photo Award Competition twice (in 2005 & 2010) and was shortlisted for the Prix Pictet Photography Prize in 2010. He has published a number of books including Hong Kong Trilogy; Toyko Compression; Real Fake Art; Hong Kong Corner Houses; and The Transparent City.
Wolf's work has been exhibited in numerous locations, including the Venice Biennale for Architecture; Aperture Gallery, New York; Museum Centre Vapriikki, Tampere, Finland; Museum for Work, Hamburg, Germany; and Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. His work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; and the German Museum for Architecture, Frankfurt.
Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel, Oranges on Fire, 1975.
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Philip Gefter is an author and photography critic. He was on staff at The New York Times for more than fifteen years, where as page one picture editor and then senior picture editor for culture, he wrote regularly about photography. Early in his career, Gefter was a picture editor at Fortune and an Assistant Editor at Aperture. In 2010, he produced the award-winning documentary Bill Cunningham New York. The recipient of a Museum Scholar residency at the Getty Research Institute, he has recently completed a biography of curator-collector, Sam Wagstaff.
Mike Mandel grew up in Southern California's San Fernando Valley during a period of expansion and transformation of the landscape that included the appearance of billboards, strip malls, and miles of freeways. This experience informs much of his work, which questions the meaning of photographic imagery within popular culture and draws from snapshots, advertising, news photographs, and public and corporate archives.
In 1977, Mandel and Larry Sultan collaborated on the seminal photographic book Evidence, comprised of file photographs from engineering, corporate and government agencies. Over a period of twenty-five years, Mandel and Sultan designed both temporary and permanent artworks specifically for public sites. Their collaboration has been documented in a recent monograph Larry Sultan and Mike Mandel (2012).
Since the early 1990s, Mandel has worked extensively on public art projects transforming photographic imagery into large scale glass and ceramic tile mosaic murals. He has been awarded several NEA grants and a Fulbright Fellowship. This spring, he will serve as a visiting lecturer on Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University.
Lecture by Anouk Kruitof
Thursday, February 6, 2014 / 7PM
Timken Lecture Hall, California College of the Arts
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San Francisco, CA 94107
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Dutch artist Anouk Kruithof considers photography a starting point for her interdisciplinary and often conceptual art practice. Interviews, temporary site-specific installations and performative interactions with unknown people and places form the basis of her photographs. These photographs appear in a variety of contexts including minimal installations and tactile artist-books.
She has published seven artist books including Becoming Blue (2009), Happy Birthday to You (2011), A Head With Wings (2011) and, most recently, Pixel Stress (2013). In 2011, she won the Grand Prix Jury as well as the School of Visual Arts' Photo Global Prize at Festival International de Mode et de Photographie à Hyères, France. In 2012, she received an Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography.
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Harris was appointed by former Governor Jennifer Granholm to oversee Benton Harbor's finances, but admitted he got off on the wrong foot with city officials and was never able to forge a good working relationship with the city commission.


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Shutdown freezes federal biz loans, creates backlog
If you recently applied for a business loan through the U.S. Small Business Administration, get ready to wait in line because of a backlog created by the government shutdown.
As of Oct. 1, all pending applications for the SBA's 7(a) and 504 loans were effectively frozen, said Michael Austin, senior vice president and commercial relationship manager at Fulton Bank in Virginia Beach.
"If the shutdown goes past another week, it will really start impacting our ability to provide SBA lending in a timely manner," he said in an Oct. 4 phone interview. "Any loan that was not approved prior to Sept. 30 has not been funded and has been put into an approval queue."
The 7(a) program provides up to $5 million for eligible businesses for working capital, equipment, real estate, construction and other purposes. Last year, the average loan amount was $337,730. Interest rates range from 2.25 percent to 2.75 percent, depending on the terms.
The 504 program provides financing for major fixed assets such as equipment or real estate.
Even loans that received SBA approval might still be stalled, as lenders require official proof of a borrower's income from the Internal Revenue Service.
"We have several that are kind of in this limbo state right now," Austin said.
There are alternatives, however. The Virginia Small Business Financing Authority offers several lending programs for small businesses, including:
* The Economic Development Loan Fund finances fixed assets such as land, buildings and equipment. Borrowers can receive up to $500,000 or $1 million depending on eligibility.
* The Loan Guaranty Program provides lines of credit for inventory and accounts receivable; loans for permanent working capital or fixed asset purchases; and restructured debt. The maximum guarantee is $750,000 or 75 percent of the loan amount.
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