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Anderson Silva is the greatest fighter in UFC history, and Chael Sonnen almost beat him. Will he be able to pull of the upset this time and snatch the belt from the long-reigning champ?
As we get ready to find out at UFC 148 on Saturday night, check out Countdown to UFC 148: Silva vs. Sonnen below…
Lets not forget Sonnen cheated the first time and had 16-1 testosterone.
Sonnen did get permission to cheat this time- but can only have 6-1.
Silva had a fractured rib the first time. This will be a totally different fight. I don't think it will be a first round KO as I think Silva is going to play with him so he can do as much damage as possible.
And for the slow kid Pubekagel; Condit Condit Condit Condit Condit
Bobby boy, still think Diaz beat Condit? LOL!!!
It's no secret that Chale's weak point is BJJ. The guy's been submitted 9x(sherdog record) in his career. Mostly by Armbars and Triangles. Anderson didn't get lucky. He found an opening and capitalized on it perfectly. That's a true champ in my book. Always looking for openings until the last bell… and he got it. Can't say the same for chale. The guy believes he doesn't need to work off his back. That'll be his downfall if he ever faces another world class grappler like Maia. He better hope he faces strikers if he gets that belt, because it'll go away quick once another world class submission grapplers makes his way to MW.
8 submission losses not 9. Also Chael is now working with Magalhaes. If you think he's going to get submitted, think again.
"I would never wrap my legs around a mans head and feel good about myself"- Chale Sonnen
Because it's usually other men wrapping their legs around his head and tapping him out.
(Anderson Silva, Paulo Filho, Demian Maia, Babalu, Forrest Griffin). Call me a keyboard warrior…these are just facts. The guy is delusional and has had a fair share of nuts in his mouth(i.e 5 guys). You would think he would've learned to defend a triangle by the time he got to Anderson.
Filho didn't triangle Chael, get ya facts straight fool.
You think by the time Anderson Silva got to Ryo Chonan, he'd learn to defend a heel hook.
That was the first time Anderson silva ever got Heel hooked. Chael has been triangled multiple times. After being submitted once by a heal hook and a triangle..Anderson never made the same mistake again…fool
Sonnen is donkey
If Sonnen couldn't finish silva in the first fight after 23 minutes of doing what he did, he needs a decision to win, like always. I don't see this fight going 5 rnds. Silva by tko, or he might even reverse tea bag Sonnen again just to prove either his sub defense still sucks or he loves gargling on testicles.
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Kale is a curly, leafy green vegetable which tastes like something between spinach and cabbage. It is very rich in vitamin K, vitamin C, beta-carotene, Calcium and is known for its anti-cancer properties. In German Christmas markets you can find various kale-stands ("Grünkohl"), which spread a delicious and characteristic scent. That's why I start craving for this veggie when it gets cold and winterish.
Try this simple vitamin-boost with baked codfish. I made this version with roasted pine nuts and some lemonjuice, inspired by Aggie's Kitchen.
Type: "Secondo" Second Course, Main Course, Side dish
Servings: 2
Preparation Time: 5 Minutes
Cooking Time: 20 Minutes
Difficulty: Easy
ProPoints (per serving): 5
Kcal (per serving): 250
- 2 codfish filets (each circa 100g)
- 2 teaspoons of breadcrumbs
- salt, pepper
- 450g kale (frozen)
- 1 clove of garlic
- 1/2 onion
- lemon juice
- 2 teaspoons instant vegetable broth powder
- 2 teaspoons pine nuts
Bring the frozen kale to boil in a small pot with 250ml of water. Add vegetable broth, salt, pepper, a whole garlic clove and the onion (uncut) and let it simmer for 20 minutes.
In the meanwhile preheat the oven up to 180°C. Place the codfish on baking paper on the tray and season with salt and pepper. Top the fish filets with one teaspoon each of breadcrumbs and place the tray in the oven for 15 minutes. Depending on your oven you might need to place the tray for the last 3 minutes on the highest level, to get a golden crust on the fish.
Now roast the pine nuts without any oil in a little pan for a few minutes. Take out the garlic and onion of the kale-pot. Arrange the fish and vegetables on a plate, drip some lemon juice on the kale and top with roasted pine nuts.
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Actually Clinton never had a surplus. That was a clever accounting gimic done by what is known as intra government holdings. basically the government borrowed money from itself. In all eight years of the Clinton the national debt was increased how can that happen since we pay all interest on the debt if there was a surplus?


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Trilogy of movies. After the film was finished the farm upon which the Hobbit village was created asked if some of the hobbit homes could remain to serve as an additional tourist attraction to the area.
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...And so it was. However, it does look as if the sheep have discovered a new home and evicted the previous hobbit owners. A shame in some ways. However, the structures were never built and then fully furnished - all the scene's inside of Bilbo's house were shot in a studio far away.
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In other words, don't go to Matamata's Hobbiton expecting Disneyland. Yet while you may be enticed to this rural community by the ghosts of Peter Jackson's movies, there is more to the place than Hobbiton, even though it is still a quaint remnant of a supreme series of movies.
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still has a charm all of its own. OK, you may need to squint a little to imagine a populated village, with smoke rising from the chimneys. Yet the New Zealand countryside here is at its most stunning and the farm on which Hobbiton sits offers tourists a tour, showing you how sheep are shorn (for breaking squatting laws, perhaps) and the opportunity to pet the lambs.
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PHOENIX -- The hot weather and the lure of a cool pool can lead to danger for many children, especially infants.
The owner of a Valley swim school said there are things parents can do to make sure infants can survive in the water.
At the Hubbard Family Swim School in Phoenix, parents can let their infants experience the water.
"When you're working with a child, one of the first things you want to do is ingrain the habit of, when they get in the water or fall in the water, to roll over," said owner Bob Hubbard. "Roll over and float on their back is one of the safest things they can do."
Another key is to teach the infant how to hold their breath.
"You can have a child jump in the water, and if their breath-holding is good and they're comfortable, they're going to float up," Hubbard said. "As long as they stay calm and they're not drinking the water or having spastic arm movements, they're going to be safer."
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The Fight For The Fifth Screen (Fifth Screen!?) In Your Life
Essentially, the fifth screen represents a paradigm shift in advertising as much as it represents a change in the way we use computers on the move. It means ads everywhere, and different kinds of ads too—something TV advertisers are beginning to wake up to, now viewers use their iPads and phones while watching TV… "Every single piece of advertising now has as its goal behavior change. Understanding how to change behavior, and what people will choose to interact with is key for advertisers. Expect to see more science, more psychologists, and more behavioral data informing advertising in the future."
Man, do Swedes really know how to make great pop music.
Miike Snow just released Happy to You, and it's one of the most interesting releases you'll hear all year, but definitely one that will have you busting a move. Also, in even cooler news, Miike Snow, along with a bunch of the other extremely talented Swedish indie artists, banded together to form a brand new record label called INGRID.
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VertiCrop Processes 10,000 Plants Every 3 Days Using Vertical Hydroponic Farming
forget outdoor farming people, this is the future!!! skyscraper farms is the way to go…controlled environments, no heat, no cold, no bugs, no sprays!!!
Vertical farming is one of the most innovative solutions for lowering the amount of energy, space, and water needed to grow food, but Valcent Products has taken the practice to a whole new level with their revolutionary VertiCrop technology. By applying Henry Ford's super-efficient assembly line concept to vertical hydroponic farming, the Vancouver-based firm can produce the same amount of produce on a standard sized residential lot that most farmers would be able to grow on a 16-acre plot. Their stacked, mechanized, produce-laden plastic trays are already a hot commodity, with orders coming in from every corner of the globe. Step in for a closer look at how this technology is completely changing the way we grow food.
The VertiCrop system consists of a series of mechanical 123 plastic trays stacked 8 high that can be placed on urban rooftops and other tight spaces. They contain vegetables and herbs that are grown hydroponically with just 8% of the water and 5% of the space required by standard farms. Energy efficient LED lights are on standby to supplement waning natural light when necessary.
VertiCrops are climate controlled and use absolutely no harmful herbicides or pesticides. What's more, they are incredibly easy to manage. A staff of just 3 people can handle 4,000 square feet of plants and 2,000 square feet of germinating, harvesting, and packing space, and they can process as many as 10,000 plants every 3 days! Valcent's COO Christopher Ng told the Global Commodities Report, "this is what farming has to develop into."
Apps must now have explicit approval before accessing address book data
Under pressure from U.S. legislators, Apple Inc moved Wednesday to quell a swelling privacy controversy by saying that it will begin to require iPhone and iPad apps to seek "explicit approval" in separate user prompts before accessing users' address book data.
Apple's move came shortly after two members of the U.S. House Energy and Commerce committee requested the company to provide more information about its privacy policies. Bloggers, in recent days, have published findings that some of the most popular software applications in Apple's App Store have been able to lift private address book data without user consent.
"Apps that collect or transmit a user's contact data without their prior permission are in violation of our guidelines," an Apple spokesman told Reuters. "We're working to make this even better for our customers, and as we have done with location services, any app wishing to access contact data will require explicit user approval in a future software release."
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Mission Goal 3. Public Use and Enjoyment
Our citizens and guests have the opportunity to understand and participate in the conservation and use of fish and wildlife resources.
The nation's ability to sustain ecosystems, and the natural heritage of fish and wildlife resources within them, will increasingly depend on the public's active participation in the stewardship of these resources. A growing number of our citizens lack the first-hand experience with fish and wildlife resources in their natural settings that past generations enjoyed. The growing diversity of the nation's population introduces many new population groups to this country that also lack first-hand experience with American fish and wildlife resources. These factors and others offer a challenge for the Service to provide environmental information in a manner that the public understands how their well-being is linked to the well-being of fish and wildlife populations and their habitats. This environmental information must be accessible to all our citizens and guests in order to foster their responsible stewardship of these valuable resources.
The results of a knowledgeable public should be improved conservation of fish and wildlife in habitats throughout the country. The Service plans to continue its tradition of excellence in interpretative programs and exhibits throughout its National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatchery System. The Service is also committed to continuing its off Service lands information programs when and wherever the sustainability of fish and wildlife or their habitats is jeopardized.
Public acceptance of responsible stewardship is necessary to sustain ecosystems. Public stewardship of fish and wildlife resources should reduce pressure to include habitats only in federal reserves, and should minimize threats to species causing their listing as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act. Public stewardship of fish and wildlife resources will become increasingly important in this era of declining government budgets. If the public takes an active role in maintaining its natural resource heritage, federal dollars can be more effectively used to conserve fish and wildlife resources.
An informed and involved public understand the decisions of resource
management agencies. Traditionally, policies ranging from endangered species
protection to prescribed burns and refuge predator control have not always
been viewed as positive actions because these concepts have not always
been well understood. Improved interaction between our citizens, guests
and Service staff should increase the communication among our partners
and supporters which, in turn, will increase the effectiveness of public
participation in Service programs on refuges and hatcheries. Private citizens,
whose voluntary participation in fish and wildlife protection efforts have
laid a foundation on which the Service operates today, have much to contribute
to the continuing conservation of fish and wildlife resources.
Long-Term Goals
3.1 Greater Public Use on Service Lands
By 2003, interpretive, educational, and wildlife dependent recreational visits to National Wildlife Refuges and National Fish Hatcheries will have increased by 10%.
The National Wildlife Refuge System and National Fish Hatchery System offer our citizens and guests the opportunity to gain direct experience with the natural world and wildlife management concerns. Visitors to refuges and hatcheries represent a broad range of constituents including hunters, anglers, wildlife and plant observers, and photographers. As users of these systems, they are a critical public audience for the Service and will benefit most directly on-site messages about fish and wildlife conservation. The Service is taking an active role in interpretive educational and wildlife dependent recreational opportunities for National Wildlife Refuge and National Fish Hatchery visitors.
The Service is developing better methods to measure public understanding of the relationships between fish and wildlife, sound land management practices and the quality of the human environment. We will work with nonfederal partners to measure progress before 2003. The Service will use these results to better shape its efforts to increase public understanding, reach diverse ethnic and minority groups, and more carefully target efforts to improve public access to its facilities and programs.
Service actions to deliver this long-term goal focus on increasing refuge and fish hatchery educational programs, with Regions emphasizing specific target groups, such as school aged children or local fish and wildlife group members. Some Regions are also emphasizing broad interest groups through existing or newly forming "Friends" initiatives. Also, the Service will develop and improve public use facilities, such as developing learning centers, increasing access to otherwise remote areas, and providing new and better wildlife dependent recreational opportunities in refuges and fish hatcheries.
3.2 Opportunities for Participating in Conservation On Service Lands
By 2003, volunteer participation hours in Service programs is increased by 50% and refuges and hatcheries have 91 new friends groups from the 1997 levels.
Public interest in participating in Service programs and visiting Service facilities continues to exceed staff capacity and is expected to continue to do so. Volunteers provide essential services to augment staff efforts. By interacting with Service resource professionals and working in Service programs, volunteers learn more about the natural world and pass on what they learn to visitors. Efforts are made to find the right number of volunteers to perform the high quality volunteer work the Service needs to meet its overall mission goals. To extend these efforts, the Service will implement cooperative agreements with private groups and academic institutions to make information about volunteering and its benefits more readily available to individual citizens and guests.
Opportunities for members of the public who wish to take active roles in the conservation of fish and wildlife through support of Service programs and activities such as the refuge friends groups will be provided. Messages will be delivered through exemplary use of educational practices and technology, including interpretive signs, brochures, and programs designed to promote public understanding and participation in an ecosystem approach to conservation.
In delivering this long-term goal the Service, as it grows more familiar with the contributions of volunteers, is integrating volunteer activities into its management planning. Volunteers conduct fish and wildlife surveys, lead school hikes, help stock fish from hatcheries, maintain equipment and facilities, and staff information desks in visitor centers. Also, the Service will host workshops and training sessions for volunteers and prospective partners to increase the effectiveness of volunteer partnerships, to strengthen ties with local communities, and to assist in improving existing and initiating new "Friends" organizations.
3.3 Greater Public Use Off Service Lands
By 2003, 100% of all Federal Aid state grant monies are used consistent with the enabling legislation.
The Service currently administers seven state federal financial assistance programs. Each program has legislated requirements defining eligible activities. The Service assures grant proposals fully meet legislated requirements. After the Service awards funds to a state, the state has full responsibility and authority to implement funded actions. The Service maintains a federal fiduciary responsibility to ensure that Federal Aid grant funds are used in compliance with the enabling legislation and that the purposes of the project are accomplished. The program is unique for the success and strength of the partnerships it develops between federal and state fish and wildlife agencies. It is important to success of the fish and wildlife conservation that federal and state personnel share training and knowledge of program accomplishments.
Significant responsibilities for providing opportunities for use of fish and wildlife resources lie with the states, North American Indian tribes, other federal agencies and private organizations. Through its Federal Aid grants program, the Service has many years of experience in working with states to improve opportunities for the use of fish and wildlife resources.
Service actions in delivering this goal include reviewing all state grant applications to ensure that eligible activities are funded and that proposed projects are substantial in character and design. Periodic field reviews are conducted in concert with state agencies to ensure funded projects are implemented in accordance with applicable statutes. Performance reports are reviewed to ensure that grant funds are used for project purposes and that purposes are accomplished. Irregularities are identified and corrected consistent with governing laws. All reviews are coordinated and shared with grant coordinators and resolutions to recommended changes are discussed and resolved cooperatively.
3.4 Greater Opportunities for Participating in Recreational Fishing
By 2003, 100% of mitigation hatchery production requirements are satisfied related to federal water development projects.
The Service, in its efforts to increase wildlife dependent public recreational opportunities, provides aquatic resources to offset the loss of fishing opportunities, usually on native fishes, as the result of impacts of federal water projects. While mitigation is primarily the responsibility of a federal action agency, the Service has been committed, either by statute or agreement, to compensate for lost habitat and public recreational use related to that habitat for as long as the modified habitat exists.
As federal water projects were proposed and completed, fishery habitat was often adversely and pervasively impacted. Examples include creation of reservoir environments from stream environments, blockages of migratory patterns, changes in streamflow patterns and changes in ecological structure and biodiversity. The Service has a longstanding and generally accepted Federal policy to prevent adverse impact or, if such impact is unavoidable, to assure that the affected fishery resources are replaced in-kind or by acceptable substitutes. Such "mitigation" must be continued for as long as habitat losses are sustained, (e.g., for the life of the project, and as long afterwards as the effects of the project persist). Thus, many adverse impacts and efforts to mitigate them may continue in perpetuity. In the past, Service fulfillment of mitigation requirements has consisted primarily of supplying hatchery-produced fish. The Service now recognizes its responsibility to utilize its broad-based capability, not generally available to other Federal agencies, to ensure that mitigation actions are meeting intended purposes and avoiding unintentional ecological harm.
The long-term nature of federal water project mitigation activities contributes to a stable and healthy economic base in large regions of the nation. This clearly creates broad support for continuation of effective mitigation efforts. Other ancillary benefits also result. Mitigation is a broad, geographically-distributed activity resulting in partnerships contributing to coordination and cooperation in areas of national concern such as genetics, fish health (e.g., whirling disease, phisteria) and spread of nuisance non-indigenous aquatic species.
The Service is uniquely qualified to deliver this goal through its 100-year history in fish culture and fisheries management. The Service maintains a system of hatcheries, fish health centers, fish technology centers, and fish and wildlife management assistance offices that provide the broad range of expertise and experience to create success. The Service has all the necessary skills and facilities to meet these specialized needs, and has broad support by user groups and management partners to fulfill this responsibility.
External Factors Affecting Mission Goal 3
There are several key factors external to the Service and beyond its control that could significantly affect the achievement of this goal.
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Is China's success a wake up call for the United States?
Americans have long assumed that in spite its faults the United States has the best overall system in the world. The success of China has cast doubt on that premise. Like it or not, we are in a serious competition with China. What is at stake is the role of the US Dollar as the dominant reserve currency. Power shifted from the British Empire to the United States when the Dollar beat the Pound Sterling. The Chinese Yuan is not yet even a secondary reserve currency but expect that to change.
How should we respond the Chinese competition? Should we view this as a matter of survival and prepare for the inevitable fight, or should we take this opportunity to learn from the Chinese to improve our system?
The first challenge is the Global Climate Change crisis. The world is looking for a country to provide leadership to solve this crisis. If China acts and we continue to be politically deadlocked, China will win the competition for international prestige. The world would be more willing to accept the Yuan over the Dollar.
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Jul 4 2013: I know that Western countries despise Chinese. As a Chinese ,I want to say is that China has its own history, their government is developed in a specific historical stage. There are many different cultures between China and Western, but I think let the people live a happy life is a good government.I do not understand why you Westerner so like politics.China is still a poor country. But for one who is still famine, what are the ability to engage in political.Who tell me why???
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The Fragile Definition of State Fragility
AbstractWe investigate the link between fragility and economic development in sub-Saharan Africa over a yearly panel covering the 1999-2004 period. Beside the conventional definition of fragility adopted by the OECD Development Assistance Committee, we introduce the more severe definition of extreme fragility. We show that only the latter exerts a significantly negative impact on economic development, once standard economic, demographic, and institutional regressors are accounted for. As a by-product of this investigation we also produce evidence on the growth performance of the area. We find a tendency to convergence and no influence of geographic and historical factors.
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Saturday, May 31, 2008
Ankles and Limbs in Marble & Bronze
I have been at work all day manning an exhibition and have been thinking about ankles and limbs and things. Thought I would share a few with you!
Friday, May 30, 2008
New work of Art, Sculpture idea concieved, day one
I am so glad that Swallow and Museworthy have caused me to look again at Bernini's greatest master piece. This has crystallised an idea I have had for years but have postponed and put off and delayed, and considered and thought about and got concerned about and worried about and thought about again and lost confidence about and forgot about and and and. I am going to do it. It will take two years, major project. Not controversial, not been done before, not ugly (!), bronze and smaller version in parian ware. Wait out. Yes. Muumm, that Californian shiraz I have just had for lunch was very good!
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Michelangelo's Women and Men
These are some pictures to illustrate my answer to Swallow here:
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Monday, May 26, 2008
My Comments with Links, Bernini vs Michelangelo
I mean no disrespect for either of these two great sculptors. They, like Beethoven and Mozart, are pillars of our western art. Nevertheless I have reservations especially about Michelangelo. Neither an academic nor even well read in Art History I am a simple sculptor with strong but malleable views.
If you were an alien with no prejudices, no foreknowledge of these sculptors would you believe that Michelangelo's David and Pieta were by the same artist?
If you knew the story of David and Goliath and were asked which of the two Michelangelo was trying to depict; using reason only, who would it be?
If you did not know what the Pieta was meant to depict, honestly would you believe it to be a Mother and Son subject?
In the first I would argue that he is huge; facially very ugly and anatomically wrong (head and hands too big).
In the first, even if Mary had borne Jesus at the age of 16 she would have been approaching 50. The actress Sarah Barnhart was also a sculptress and produced this extraordinary work. Surly the great pillar of Renaissance sculpture could have come somewhat closer to the emotion framework Frank Lin mentions. I do not deny, it is very beautiful and moving but for a different story.
Now the first book of Samuel, chapter 16 vv 12 describes David 'of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look too.' Judging by the number of intimate relations he subsequently had with women, how could we possibly doubt that? How also could we think that Michelangelo would have missed this? He was well able to create beautiful male faces!
Michelangelo's attempts at sculpting women are a laugh, they are men with breasts.
Bernini's work, like Mozart seems to pour out of him, unlike his great predecessor he does not destroy his work (does he?), or even cross anything out! He is streets ahead of him in animated action. Who could miss St Theresa's passionate emotions either?
It is not so much a matter of who is best, the guy who comes after is always at an advantage, he or she knows what they have to surpass. In their own way they were both ground breakers of sorts.
(On a more technical point, I understand that Michelangelo believed in carving from one block of marble where Bernini used multiple blocks joined together facilitating more difficult poses.)
Friday, May 23, 2008
Rodin and the Cambodian Dancers
A blog directory has thrown up a gem! I hope to add this link to my list of Art related blogs.
The story of Rodin and the Cambodian Dancers can be found here
Thursday, May 22, 2008
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
Relief, Volubilis, Alfred Boucher
Same sculptor, same girl, same title but diferent work;
I have never been a great fan of relief but there are exceptions and here is one. Volubilis (a flower petals gradually unfurling ) by Alfred Boucher (1850-1934), he made a few variations of this study and here are two. I recommend a visit to Wikipedia on this it illustrates the development of an idea rather well.
Old Women in Sculpture
It seemed somewhat poignant after the last post on Rodin!
At the Paris Salon of 1893, the public was astonished to discover a scrawny, old female nude tangled in her long hair: Camille Claudel's Clotho.
In the master's studio, three sculptors bluntly took up the theme of physical old age in women (specifically, osteology: the study of bone formation). First, Rodin created The Helmet-Maker's Beautiful Wife, completed in 1889. His collaborator Jules Desbois was working on Misery at almost the same time. Then, Claudel executed Clotho. A comparison of the three works shows how, in the same studio, new ideas take form and evolve differently, according to the individual viewpoints of the artists. "The only ugliness in art is that which has no character," Rodin said. In these works, Rodin and his studio broke with the nineteenth-century tradition of portraying idealized subjects.
Rodin unflinchingly observed the aged body. Desbois showed the nude old woman in an attitude of shamed propriety, letting the last tattered rags of poverty fall away. Claudel created a hallucinatory allegory of Fate holding the thread of Life.
19th and 20 Century European Sculpture
What a wonderful time of year, The Season: The Chelsea Flower show starts it off, but for some of us there are things like the 19th & 20th Century European Sculpture London, New Bond Street,
Thursday, 29th May 2008, 10:30 AM. At Sotheby's.
This is a feast for buyers and art lovers. There is an online catalogue and I commend it to you, whether you can afford it or not there is some beautiful work up for sale.
Important Note for Art Lovers
There is a vast amount of fine art in private hands and for most of us we only get to see it when it is sold! So do take this opportunity. (Even if you are lucky enough to be invited to a home with great works of art in it, it is rude to look too obviously at it. The reason I believe is that it can be miss-understood; you might be looking to see if it is real, a copy or a print! Very sad really especially if it is the real thing!)
Thursday, May 15, 2008
Isadora Duncan's missed opportunity.
One of my favourites of his, is this emotionally charged work at a time when his relationship with Claudel dies.
There are lots of wonderful stories about him a couple of which I will borrow here.
Martin Gayford reported this in the Telegraph review 18 months ago.
The dancer Isadora Duncan recalled an encounter with Auguste Rodin. She visited the Sculptors studio, where, she said, "He showed his works with simplicity of the very great. Sometimes he murmured the names of his statues, but one felt that names meant little to him. He ran his hands over them and caressed them." By and by, he took "a small quantity of clay" and pressed it in his hands. Breathing hard, in "a few moments", Rodin had made "a woman's breast that palpitated beneath his fingers". Next, they jumped in a cab and went to Duncan's studio, where she demonstrated a new dance wearing her customary Grecian tunic. At this point, the artist seemed to lose sight of the distinction between statue and woman. Soon, Duncan was given the same treatment as his works of art.
"He gazed at me with lowered lids, his eyes blazing, and then, with the same expression that he had before his works, he came towards me. He ran his hands over my neck, breast, stroked my arms and ran his hands over my hip, my bare legs and feet. He began to knead my whole body as if it were clay." She extricated herself, to her later regret, and sent him away "bewildered". Many others did not…….as Ruth Butler puts it, genius was "the ultimate aphrodisiac"……he was besieged by young women…..
(Gayford's article is well worth reading in full!)
Now some would suggest that he was just an old lecher…but….the other story I enjoyed was this one from Irene Korn's book Auguste Rodin Master of sculpture. ISBN 1-85501-887-x
In his later years, Rodin was often accused of being obsessed with women and with six. (intended typo). The British painter William Rothenstein recalls a conversation with Rodin in his 1931 book Men and Memories:
"During a walk Rodin embarrassed me by remarking: people say I think too much about women." I was going to answer with conventional sympathy, "but how absurd!" when after a moment's reflection, added, "Yet, after all, what is there more important to think about?"
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Victory and Progress Sculpture
Emil Gaudissard 1872- 1956 (Allegory of Victory and Progress) includes a relief of a horse and cart/carriage on the back. (It seems that girls have always been needed to sell cars, or is it that girls are attracted to fast cars as much as we chaps are!)
Comment on Clodion vs Rodin with links
I have not re-read Cindy's essay but concentrated here on your comment Chris.
Emotion illustrated; emotion engendered, I understand.
One point that I want to clear up in my own mind is your use of literary.
There are for me two ways I can interpret that word.
One – illustrating a person or subject from a written source such as a story or historical figure.
And Two – a 'style' of artistic expression.
The first I understand the second I do not.
For example let us take Eve here. (I have a beautiful picture of Eve which I have mislaid but when I find it I will add it to my 100 top). She is in a very strange and rather awkward stance, in fact not a very natural position and not dissimilar to your Adam here. If I was to be asked what emotion they were feeling, I would go for the feeling ones gets when in disgraced but only in retrospect because I know the story having read the Bible. If I hadn't then may be I would have said that Eve was cold (as in 'La Frileuse') and that Adam was about to throw the discus or perhaps on the run up to bowl (as in Cricket).
Now this may be heresy, or frivolity, or mockery, or you may consider me a Sassenach or just plain dumb, but when I actually look at the surfaces of Rodins' work and try and understand the relationship with the surrounding space I become even more at a loss, the fog descends around me.
When I look at Rodin I see a departure from his immediate predecessors and contemporaries. What he lacks in anatomical accuracy he gains in expressive vitality and freshness. He employs the viewer's natural ability to 'fill in' and makes it 'work' without loosing credibility. For me some of his poses are too 'natural' to capture real emotion (The Kiss) and others are just awkward and uncomfortable. But he is clever; I love this but this is even better and this is quite brilliant.
Nevertheless, I accept that Rodin was an important creator of fine sculpture and deserves his place in the history books and museums, I could even live with one or two of his works (this one for instance) but I do not get a feeling of much joy from him in fact quite the opposite. 'The Gates Of Hell' is just too successful! He was a great deal better at the female form that Michelangelo!
It is joy that I get from Clodion. The terra cotta texture of his 'flesh', the tickling of the 'male gaze' (as Amanda puts it) in his subject matter, the complexity of his decoration in the fashion of his time and the amazing success technically of an often very complex group adds up to fantastic works of real Art.
But I wonder if his work is profound? Does it need to be?
Saturday, May 03, 2008
Clodion vs Rodin: Sculpture
Cindy Jackson, on page seven of her essay entitled "Linear Form vs Organic Form" asks us to compare Rodin's figures with Clodion. She concludes, I think, that there is no emotional content in Clodion's anatomical master pieces where in Rodin's it is all about emotion.
Art is, for me, all about emotion; so does this mean that Clodion's work is not Art?
My wife felt she had had enough after room eight at the Royal Academy's Rodin Exhibition last year. Not too much emotion but too many bodies!
Here in lies the difference?
I did not enjoy Rodin's work as much as I thought I would. I was far too concerned that his feet and ankles were too big and thick respectively. It annoyed me in some cases, that he had left the mould joints and then there was so much dirty plaster. I really do hate the "Burgers of Calais", as for Balzac he is "gross". I think that is probably the emotion we are all talking about is it not? I find the Burgers stiff and lifeless, too short in the leg to be convincing; all in all rather depressing. Great stuff just what Rodin wanted me to feel? (Some bright spark pointed out the merit in the space between the figures. I think I agree with him!)
I would never however suggest these masterpieces should be forgotten, quite the contrary.
Now I do like the "Gates of Hell", though I was disappointed at the "uncrispness" of the casting, for me it was far too bland. He must be credited for originality with "The Thinker" and "The Kiss". The former is a great work with impressive "presence", blockish and powerful; the latter unconvincing and with little passion!
Clodion however has a completely different appeal! Beautiful young women comfortable and unashamed in their bodies frolic in the risqué fashion of a more decadent era. He can escape in to naughtiness with the use of mythical Males". True to his time Clondion is all about aesthetic beauty. One might compare Clodion with Mozart and Rodin with Tchaikovsky or Stravinsky.
We must never forget that artists have to eat and feed their families so occasionally they have to produce work that does sell in the contemporary market! Being true to your art can be very difficult if your offspring are about to become homeless and starving.
That said, let's get back to "Linear Form vs Organic Form"
The New York skyline might be breathtaking, even beautiful, but for me it is not Clodion or Rodin or Michelangelo or even Giacometti. Architecture is utilitarian; mud hut, Cathedral, office block. Sculpture is not, it is three dimensional, visual and kinaesthetic expression of human emotion.
Rodin once said "People say I think too much about women, yet, after all what is there more important to think about"? I am sure that Clondion did not bore of his work either. This is not some excuse for titillation but a passionate need to express emotion. (The full story about this quotation is much more fun and I will keep for another post.)
I am currently exploring the wonderful "new" world of women artist since the middle ages. The most interesting thing that struck me was how they see the same subject differently to male artists. Also how it is interpreted differently by their public.
Karen Petersen and J.J. Wilson's book "Women Artists Recognition and Reappraisal from the Early Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century" is my current bedtime reading. Although written in the late 1970s it is fascinating stuff. My only criticism is "the ones left out" especially the sculptresses but that is hardly their fault.
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Now farmers are getting in on the act.
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The problem right now is that it's not legal for them to do that.
Currently anyone flying a drone for business instead of as a hobby is actually breaking federal law.
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), which oversees U.S. airspace, says it plans to roll out rules for drones this year.


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Nine years is a blink of the eye on a court where justices can look back two centuries for legal precedents. But with an ascendant conservative majority, the high court in arguments Wednesday will weigh whether to limit or even rule out taking race into account in college admissions. The justices will be looking at the University of Texas program that is used to help fill the last quarter or so of its incoming freshman classes.


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Is it weird to ask a girl out?
Is weird to ask a girl you fancy out to coffee or breakfast even if you don't know her very well
What's Your Opinion?
Most Helpful Opinion
If this happened to me, I just wouldn't be able to take the guy seriously (after this happening to me several times) I'd assume he just wants to take me out simply because he's physically attracted to me and he'll probably end up ditching me. They are usually really nice guys who will take me out on 2-3 dates. After the 2nd or 3rd date, they suddenly ignore me, ditch me, and find another pretty girl to date. Doesn't matter if I slept with them or not. They ditch me regardless. Hope you don't turn out that way!
Because you sound like a pompous bitch :O
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Not at all, so long as you aren't creepy about it and come to her house or something.
no because your point is to get to know her so just be like "excuse me can I take you out to get a coffee or grab a bight to eat and get to know you a little better" something like that you know.dont try to come on to strong
its outrageously weird! you only are supposed to ask out animals lol
I find it cute :)
Just ask.
how long have you known her?
I don't think it's weird. It probably happens fairly often.
No go for it and do it...
not at all, that's why you ask a girl out, to get to know her better...just do it.
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Not weird. It's a way of getting to know her better.
well most girls expect you to have a few conversations with her first before you ask her out, which in my opinion is the hardest part, because we have to entertain her, make her laugh, etc.
It isn't weird... but the chance she says yes are much lower.Food is good bait =0 I'm such a bad guy for saying that ...
well I mean how not very well do you know her, cause if you barely talk then its gonna be weird but if you guys actually have conversations then it won't be weird at all
Take a chance, what's the worst she'll say? No? There's plenty of others out there who I'm sure would love to go out and you can't give up on one try. I say be yourself and keep it cool, ask in a respectful and confident way. Sound like you mean it and don't hesitate. Wish you the best of luck!


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Picture of Young Bruce Wayne and Selena Kyle from the upcoming tv show "Gotham" Is it just me or does young Selena Kyle kinda looks like Michelle Pfeiffer
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The Preventive Security Force (Arabic: الأمن الوقائي) or Preventive Security Services is the official security apparatus of the Palestinian National Authority. It was established in 1994 by President Yasser Arafat in accordance with the Oslo Accords.
The Preventive Security Service (PPS), is in charge of defending internal national security. It provides intelligence to the political level, and its main duties include counter-terrorism, counter-espionage, and defending national economy. Known for its high level of professionalism, its cadres are mostly university graduates who receive intensive training both domestically and abroad. Being on the forefront in the confrontation with Islamic and other radical opponents, the organization has been the subject of harsh accusations by Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated media that PPS resorts to abusive interrogation methods. Although some individual violations have indeed occurred, human rights organizations and other international observers report that PPS has made great reforms thereof.
PPS was also accused by Israel of playing a covert role in the Intifada that erupted in September 2000 after Ariel Sharon's visit to Haram al-Sharif (Temple Mount).[1] In 2001, it shelled the house of General Jibril Rajoub, then colonel, who at the time was the director of PPS. A number of PPS officers were also assassinated, injured and arrested. Confrontation continued to escalate, and reached its threshold in April 2002, when Sharon ordered the so-called Operation Defensive Shield, the largest Israeli military campaign in the West Bank since its occupation in 1967. All Palestinian cities were recaptured, placing its entire population under a curfew that lasted for 3 months, and a closure regime that continues to this day. Arafat was placed under a military siege in his headquarters in Ramallah until his death in November 2004. The Church of Nativity was also besieged. The main target of the Defensive Shield operation was to completely destroy the PA. PPS, which was relatively intact, was considered the PA's strongest line of defense. Hence, destroying the PPS was one of the main goals of the operation. The headquarters of PPS in Beitunia was placed under a military siege, with intensive shelling by tanks and Apaches, reducing the headquarters to rubble, and injuring dozens of officers.
Mohammed Dahlan led the Gaza branch from 1994 until his resignation in 2002. Jibril Rajoub headed the West Bank force until 2002, when he became National Security Adviser to the President.
In 2006, the Gaza and West Bank branches of the PPS were united under a single command, led by General Ziad Habalreeh.
On June 14, 2007 Hamas gunmen took over the central building of the Preventive Security Force in the Gaza Strip, which was considered the Palestinian Authority's main symbol in the Strip. Later 18 bodies of Fatah men were found in the Preventive Security compound. Later in the evening one more senior official of the Preventive Security Services was kidnapped and executed.[1]


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While Ford can rest easy till it makes the big move on pricing, let us concentrate on the hardware at hand and what it feels like in its real world deliverance. Sub-4 metre is the small car holy grail, especially given the tax-inducement in India and Ford's designers have worked to this paradigm measurement with great success and also very well disguised excess. It is all about having the right proportions without being overly muscular in some places and looking awry and ungainly in others but credit the Ford designers for doing a fabulous job on the visual aspect.
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