text: Latest News Special counsel Mueller working with NY Attorney General connected to George and Alex Soros Special counsel Mueller brings in NY Attorney General who is friends with Soros family. Published 1 year ago on September 1, 2017 By Alex Christoforou 2,535 Views Share Tweet Special counsel Robert Mueller is bringing onboard New York Attorney General, Eric Schneiderman, who is connected with the Soros family. Connections to anything Soros raises huge red flags, given George Soros' funding of various groups specifically charged with inciting revolution against the Trump administration, but Schneiderman's beef with Trump goes much deeper, as he has sued Donald Trump and his son. George Soros' son Alex Soros met Eric Schneiderman in August 2016 before the national election. The younger Soros posted a photo of the two on Instagram, where he called Donald Trump a fraud and congratulated Schneiderman for taking him on. Great to meet with #newyork attorney general @ericschneiderman who recognized that @realdonaldtrump was a fraud way before many and has courageously taken him on! A post shared by Alexander Soros (@alexsoros) on Aug 27, 2016 at 12:23pm PDT The Gateway Pundit reports… Schneiderman led a lawsuit against Donald Trump that was filed after Trump announced his run for president. Schneiderman alleges Donald Trump scammed Trump University participants out of tens of thousands of dollars. In June of this year New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman launched an investigation of the Eric Trump Foundation over allegations the organization funneled money through charity golf outings which raised millions for St. Jude's Children Hospital. Robert Mueller has hired a stable of liberal attorneys and former Obama officials to investigation Donald Trump's alleged collusion with Russia. Now Mueller is working with the anti-Trump New York Attorney General to take down the president. Joel Pollak at Breitbart.com reported… Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reported to be working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on his inquiry into alleged Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. If the report, first published in Politico, is true, it would be the latest fact undermining the integrity and impartiality of Mueller's inquiry, which Democrats hope will result in the president being impeached and the results of the 2016 election forever called into question. Mueller has already hired Democrat donors and an attorney who worked for the Clinton Foundation. Schneiderman is one of the most partisan state attorneys general, and has been one of President Trump's most vociferous public opponents. He helped lead the fight against Trump's executive order suspending travel from terror-prone countries, calling it "just a Muslim ban by another name." He also sued Trump for fraud in the Trump University case, and announced in 2016 — during the height of the presidential campaign — that he was investigating Trump's charities. USA Today noted at the time that Schneiderman and Trump "have been involved in a years-long public feud." In April, Schneiderman reportedly hired a liberal, Bernie Sanders-linked consulting group to help generate lawsuits against the Trump administration. Schneiderman also has a history of politically-charged litigation, including an effort to cover up emails that former Attorney General Eliot Spitzer sent from a private account while in office. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Related Topics:George SorosAlex SorosRobert Mueller Up Next James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton months before interviewing 17 witnesses Don't Miss BUSTED: Proof that James Comey investigation of Hillary Clinton was a complete sham Advertisement You may like Zuckerberg Clings To Power While Sandberg Claims Ignorance After Damaging NYT Report Mueller Has Begun Writing "Final Report" On Trump-Russia Amid DOJ Shakeup Soros Partners With Mastercard To Hand Out Money To Migrants Click to comment Leave a Reply This comment form is under antispam protection This comment form is under antispam protection Subscribe Notify of new follow-up comments new replies to my comments MemberAM HantsWhat I do not understand is why does Trump not shut down the investigation, based on conflict of interest? Why does he appear to like all the drama and negative headlines, when, he could easily shut it all down or even change the Special Adviser, owing to his obvious and easily proven conflict of interest? Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 13:00GuestHave a cigar!Straight answer would probably be – The Show Must Go On! Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 14:16GuestcolumBecause it'll undermine Trump in the eyes of his enemies. The shitty truth is he has to face (among many) trial by fire. The fact he is being tried by a kangaroo court actually plays in trumps favour if he can gather enough against the court. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 14:19MemberAM HantsWill they allow him to prepare his defence? Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 14:22GuestcolumThey have to. They'll likely pot shot his defence to rule out as much as they can get away with to leave trump on a whim. If Trump is wise he'll prep two defences and play the cooler and weaker defence first to see what Meullers antics are, then come swinging. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 14:30GuestJetsTwo defences! Nice one, hadn't thought about it :-)) Two thumbs up for a brilliant idea! Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 18:38GuestJohn R. NolanTrump IS Illuminate, he is doing what he is told, and, rest assured, there is no possibility of redemption for Amazia, the land of the slaves, the home of the sleaze. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 2, 2017 02:38Guestdave3200I believe Trump is playing-out as much rope as he prudently can in anticipation of a serious "hanging event" sometime in 2018. We need to keep in mind that there's a lot of stuff happening in DOJ that we know nothing of. DOJ has a $30 billion annual operating budget. A lot of lawyers doing a lot of things. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 1, 2017 19:35Guestpogohere"sometime in 2018" I'll take the last week in Sept, first week in October, this year. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 2, 2017 06:50GuestKubrickianSoros invest in creating civil wars and political unrest in countries they want to break down. They are enemies of Americans and fund groups like Antifa. They should be treated like Saddam or Bin Laden and taken out. Vote Up0Vote Down ReplySeptember 2, 2017 14:46 Latest Theresa May survives another week in ongoing Brexit fiasco (Video) The Duran – News in Review – Episode 153. Published 17 hours ago on November 20, 2018 By Alex Christoforou The Duran's Alex Christoforou and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Mercouris discuss Theresa May's Brexit survival, as the UK Prime Ministers appears to be heading to Brussels so she can coordinate with EU technocrats in order to meet a November deadline to move the unpopular agreement through all channels of British government. It is still a very fluid situation. May has made it through a tough weekend where support to oust her never materialized, but the week ahead is anything but certain. For now May's Brexit position looks secure. Remember to Please Subscribe to The Duran's YouTube Channel Follow The Duran Audio Podcast on Soundcloud. "Brexit. A Deal That Pleases No One," authored by Daniel Lacalle via dlacalle.com… The agreement announced between the British government and the European Union has been received in the United Kingdom with criticism from all sides. The defenders of staying in the European Union consider it very negative, of course. However, and this is the most important part, it is unlikely that the conservative party itself will support this agreement in parliament. Jacob Rees-Mogg has called the agreement "a failure of the negotiators and a failure to deliver Brexit." Boris Johnson has said that it turns the United Kingdom into a "vassal state" and Nigel Farage has described it as "the worst agreement in history". Including the entire United Kingdom in the customs union and maintaining the payment of 10 billion pounds a year to give the European Union veto rights to the most important decisions is something that most conservative members of parliament will reject and that does not satisfy the Labor Party – which is also not pro-EU, let's be clear – nor the liberal-democrats. That is the great problem facing the government of Theresa May. That not even the government as a whole supports this agreement. The resignations that have been registered prove it. Even if the rest of the government decides to accept this agreement as a lesser evil, it is very difficult for the parliament to approve it. At the centre of the controversy is a negotiating process that the European Union has left as a United Kingdom issue. But by letting the United Kingdom deal with its own divisions and problems, the EU also lost the perfect opportunity to offer British citizens and the rest of Europe a refreshing, leading and exciting project. And that is the big problem. That Brexit has been seen in many circles in Brussels as an opportunity to advance in the political and interventionist project, instead of moving towards a union in freedom for global, economic and political leadership. The problem of the UK government is that it is led by a person, Theresa May, who must present a proposal to leave the EU when she has always been an advocate of remaining (Theresa May initially campaigned for the "Remain"). Thus, it is not surprising that the parliament arithmetics in favor of this agreement is not at all clear. The British Parliament has more members in favor of Brexit than against, but it cannot be THIS Brexit. Boris Johnson and the pro-Brexit hardliners may see an opportunity to weaken Theresa May and force a change of leadership that will bring a new leader more committed to a better deal. Moderate Labour, who have been terrified for months with the radical drift of the Corbyn team, may also see an opportunity to weaken the leader who tries to take Labour to the far left. My perception is that if there were a second referendum the result would probably be the same. In the United Kingdom there are no voices with political weight and real popular support to defend the European Union project. In the United Kingdom, the debate is either seeing the European Union as an annoying partner or as an impossible danger to solve. Citizens in Europe see Brexit with sadness, logically. In the United Kingdom, news arriving from the European Union do not encourage a remain stance. High unemployment, unresolved immigration problems, lack of global leadership, high taxes, the specter of a new debt crisis in Italy and other risks. Pro-Europe UK leaders offer no other argument to citizens than the so-called Project Fear, a massive economic risk. However, British citizens see UK unemployment at 75-year lows, while in Europe they see the slowdown of the eurozone and the budget crisis of other countries, and do not find an unquestionable reason to stay in the club. The UK citizen who votes for Brexit does not seem convinced that the only solution is to belong to a union that demands more control but offers less growth and employment. The reactions to the agreement have not been very euphoric in any case. It seems something that was presented to fail. The pound and stock market did not react as the EU negotiators would think once the deal was seen as unlikely to pass parliament. In the bond market, Gilts strengthened as UK bond spreads fell while eurozone peripheral yields soared. The opposite of what would be seen as an EU victory. Reaching an agreement that benefits everyone is difficult, but not impossible The problem in the United Kingdom is that the agreement that would satisfy the pro-Brexit is impossible, and that the agreement that would please the pro-EU is impractical. That the message of economic ruin is not bought by Brexiters and not even the Remainers see the marvels of the EU membership. Economically, it has been a mistake to present British citizens with the idea of "either the EU or the chaos", because it does not work when there is not a clear, exciting and global leadership project. The United Kingdom, one of the voices that defended economic freedom and open markets in an increasingly bureaucratic European Union is an essential partner to advance in Europe. Reaching an agreement that benefits everyone is difficult, but not impossible. I have never bought the "EU or chaos" argument. I believe that both parts can benefit from a mutually beneficial deal. I am convinced that, even if this agreement is not approved, the British government will reconsider and present a solid plan for its citizens. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Rise of the Western Dissidents The only reason Assange is being targeted is that he tangled with the highest levels of the western establishment. He is far from alone. Published 24 hours ago on November 20, 2018 By The Duran Authored by Allum Bokhari via Breitbart: We're used to Russian dissidents, Chinese dissidents, Iranian dissidents, and Saudi Arabian dissidents. But those who rightly believe the west is superior to authoritarian regimes must now contend with a troubling trend — the rise of the western dissident. Chief among them is Julian Assange, who for a half-decade has been forced to live in the tiny Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he has claimed political asylum since 2011. Assange claimed that he would be extradited to the U.S. to face charges over his work at WikiLeaks if he left the embassy, and was routinely mocked as paranoid for doing so. This week, we learned that Assange was right and his critics were wrong. Thanks to a clerical error by the U.S. attorney's office in Alexandria, Virginia, reporters were able to confirm the existence of sealed criminal charges against the WikiLeaks founder. Because the charges are sealed and the evidence is unknown, it's impossible to say if the case has merit. But it likely relates to WikiLeaks' release of unredacted diplomatic cables in 2011, which forced the U.S. to relocate several of its foreign sources. Some allegations are more serious. While he was alive, neoconservative Senator John McCain maintained that leaks provided to WikiLeaks by Chelsea Manning, which included the diplomatic cables, caused U.S sources to be murdered. Those who see Assange as a villain will end the story here. What is typically left out is that WikiLeaks originally released the diplomatic cables in piecemeal form, with names redacted to prevent loss of life and minimize harm. It was only after a Guardian journalist's error led to the full unredacted cables leaking to third parties on the web that WikiLeaks published them as well — and not before Assange attempted to warn the office of Hillary Clinton, then U.S. Secretary of State. In other words, WikiLeaks behaved precisely as any responsible publisher handling sensitive material should, redacting information that could cause harm. The redactions only stopped when they became pointless. Assange is unlikely to have won more than a dozen journalism awards if he were completely reckless in his publications. The Pentagon later admitted under oath that they could not find any instances of individuals being killed as a result of being named in Manning's leaks to WikiLeaks, contradicting Sen. McCain's allegations. At worst, Assange and WikiLeaks can be accused of negligence, not deliberate recklessness, in the way it handled sensitive material. But as Breitbart Tech reporter Lucas Nolan points out, a far stronger case can be made against Hillary Clinton for the way she handled State Department emails — yet we see no criminal charges against her. It's hard to escape the conclusion that the only reason Assange is being targeted is that he tangled with the highest levels of the western establishment. In that, he is far from alone. In the late 2000s to early 2010s, western governments targeted all manner of individuals associated with Assange and the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, including Laura Poitras, Glenn Greenwald's partner David Miranda, and The Guardian newspaper. This was the early growth period of the internet, when the web had become a truly popular medium but had yet to be censored by pliant social media corporations. It was a time of profound unease at the power of the internet to undermine authority, both through the dissemination of information as in the case of WikiLeaks and Snowden, and in the new mobilization of political forces, as in the case of Occupy Wall Street and the SOPA/PIPA protests. Heavy-handed crackdowns against individuals and groups that were seen, rightly or wrongly, as symbols of the web's early anarchic tendencies, like Kim Dotcom, Aaron Swartz, Anonymous, and LulzSec, were not uncommon. These days, however, a new class of western dissident has emerged — the populist dissident. Populist Dissidents Who would have thought that the highest court in Europe, home of the enlightenment, would uphold a case in which a woman was prosecuted for blasphemy against Islam? Who would have thought that Britain, the birthplace of liberalism and the free press, would ban an independent journalist from its shores for satirizing the same religion? Who would have thought that Germany, whose living memory of the totalitarian Stasi is just three decades old, would put its largest opposition party under surveillance? Just a few years ago, all three would sound far-fetched. But cases like these have become common as elites in virtually every western country mount a panicked attempt to contain the rise of populism (the goal, in the words of a Google executive, is to render it a "hiccup"in history's march towards progress). Look at the case of Tommy Robinson, the British critic of Islam who was dragged through Britain's courts on fuzzy contempt-of-court charges. Sentenced to an astonishing thirteen-month imprisonment, Robinson was eventually freed after a successful appeal and now awaits a final trial before Britain's Attorney General. Shaky charges that have been successfully appealed were exploited to persecute a British citizen who was inconvenient to the establishment. And there's still a further trial to come. Then again, Britain is a country that routinely bans foreign politicians and media figures from the country for being too right-wing. Michael Savage, Geert Wilders, Lauren Southern, Pamela Geller, and Robert Spencer all enjoy this dubious distinction. Theresa May, who was responsible for internal affairs and immigration when Spencer and Geller were banned, is now the Prime Minister. But it's not just Britain. Not only has Trump's White House, supposedly an ally of populists, failed to publicly intervene on behalf of the American citizens banned from the U.K. for expressing populist viewpoints, but it hasn't even investigated allegations that far-left Antifa activists were able to stop conservative Rebel Media personality Jack Buckbyfrom entering the country by spreading false criminal allegations. Julian Assange, a left-libertarian may share little ideological ground with right-wing critics of Islam. But they all share at least one thing: persecution by western states coupled with anti-establishment political speech or activities. They are also targets of the security establishment — Assange because of leaks that have exposed their secrets, and the populists because they refuse to censor themselves to avoid angering Muslims. (The UK justified its attempted ban of Geert Wilders by arguing that his presence in the country could lead to "inter-faith violence.") We also see attacks on free speech, with governments and politicians across the west pressuring Silicon Valley to suppress its critics. An unaccountable, unelected elite can sweep away a person's livelihood in minutes, and cut their political message off from millions of American citizens. As I wrote in my column two weeks ago, the overarching trend is the gradual destruction or delegitimization of every tool, digital or otherwise, that non-elites use to express their preferences. Does that sound like a free society, or a controlled one? You don't have to agree with any of the individuals or groups listed above to see that surveilling political parties, blocking journalists from entering countries, jailing critics of religion, upholding blasphemy laws and censoring the net is the behavior of authoritarian nations, not liberal democracies. Yet this is the disturbing pattern we now see in the west. Worse, foreign authoritarian regimes now provide safe harbor for western dissidents, in the same way that the west does for foreign dissidents. Edward Snowden, accused of violating the U.S. Espionage Act of 1917 for blowing the whistle on the NSA's mass surveillance of Americans, has for years resided safely in Russia, a country that persecutes and even kills its own journalists. Before that, he sought refuge in Hong Kong, a "Special Administrative Region" of the People's Republic of China, an even more terrifyingly totalitarian state. Will there now be a quid pro quo, with Russia and other authoritarian regimes protecting our dissidents while the west protects theirs? Or will western countries remain true to their liberal traditions, and stop its alarming attempts to surveil, suppress, and persecute a growing number of its own citizens? On present trends, a dark and dystopian future seems to loom on the horizon. Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. You can follow him on Twitter, Gab.ai and add him on Facebook. Email tips and suggestions to [email protected]. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading Latest Zuckerberg's "War Face" Has Driven Key Executives Away, Stoked Tension With Sandberg About a dozen senior or highly visible executives disclosed their resignations or left Facebook in 2018. Published 24 hours ago on November 20, 2018 By Tyler Durden Via Zerohedge… Earlier this year, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg gathered around 50 of his key executives and told them that the company was at war – more specifically, under siege from lawmakers, investors and angry users over the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal and Russian influence on the platform. Zuckerberg, according to the Wall Street Journal, told his top lieutenants during that June meeting that while executives can move more slowly and methodically on key decisions during "peacetime," he would be acting more decisively going forward, said people familiar with the remarks. The result? Tension which has boiled over to the point where several key executives have left the country – as well as friction between Zuckerberg and longtime COO, Sheryl Sandberg. The 34-year-old CEO believes Facebook didn't move quickly enough at key moments this year and increasingly is pressing senior executives to "make progress faster" on resolving problems such as slowing user growth and securing the platform, said people familiar with the matter. Mr. Zuckerberg also at times has expressed frustration at how the company managed the waves of criticism it faced this year. On Friday, that tension was on display when, during a question-and-answer session with employees at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, Calif., he blasted a fresh round of critical news coverage as "bullshit," according to the people familiar with the remarks. –WSJ One Facebook employee at the Friday session asked if the company could mitigate leaks by publishing internal reports on how frequently offenders are found and fired. While Zuckerberg said that Facebook does fire leakers, the root cause is "bad morale" thanks to negative press coverage. And while the WSJ notes Zuckerberg has taken on ambitious annual goals, such as learning Mandarin and reading 25 books, this year his biggest challenge is fixing Facebook through his tougher management style, according to a person familiar with his thinking (so says the WSJ). Perhaps the Facebook CEO hired a drill sergeant to coach him on bringing out his inner-Alpha? According to the Journal, Zuckerberg and Sandberg have had confrontations over his new management style, after she had long been afforded considerable autonomy over the company's teams which handle communications and policy. This spring, Mr. Zuckerberg told Ms. Sandberg, 49, that he blamed her and her teams for the public fallout over Cambridge Analytica, the research firm that inappropriately accessed private data on Facebook users and used it for political research, according to people familiar with the exchange. Ms. Sandberg later confided in friends that the exchange rattled her, and she wondered if she should be worried about her job. Mr. Zuckerberg also has told Ms. Sandberg she should have been more aggressive in allocating resources to review troublesome content on the site, said one person familiar with the matter, a problem that the company still struggles to fix. –WSJ Meanwhile, Zuckerberg seems to be pleased of late with internal improvements, telling reporters last week that Sandberg is a "very important partner to me, and continues to be, and will continue to be." Privately, Zuckerberg has told executives that some of the fallout from the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal was just "hysteria," to which Facebook simply didn't mount an effective response. Clash of the tech titans Zuckerberg famously has butted heads with the co-founders of photo-sharing app Instagram, over his desire to share user location data on the main Facebook platform in order to help better target ads. The now-resigned Instagram founders strongly opposed the idea, and abruptly left the company in September. The founders of WhatsApp similarly bailed on Facebook after disagreements over how to best extract revenue from the messaging service, according to people familiar with the matter. And most recently, was the departure of Oculus VR co-founder Brendan Iribe, who was forced out by Zuckerberg in part due to a disagreement over the future of the virtual-reality handset, the people said. The decision to leave was reportedly "mutual." All told, about a dozen senior or highly visible executives disclosed their resignations or left Facebook in 2018. In May, Facebook announced a major reshuffling of top product executives in a way that helped free up Mr. Zuckerberg to oversee a broader portfolio within the company. This turmoil at the top of Facebook has made it difficult for the company to execute on some product decisions and shore up employee morale, which has been sinking over the last year along with the stock price, which has fallen 36% since its peak. Many employees are frustrated by the bad press and constant reorganizations, including of the security team, which can disrupt their work, according to current and former employees. –WSJ Doing whatever it takes Facebook has come under fire recently – most notably after a New York Times report that the company used GOP operatives to smear the company's detractors and promote negative news about competitors Google and Apple. When the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal broke – the resultant rebukes from Apple CEO Tim Cook and Google executives sent Zuckerberg ballistic. The Facebook CEO "later ordered his management team to use only Android phones —arguing that the operating system had far more users than Apple's," according to the Times. Facebook then went on the offensive against the fellow tech giants. On the advice of Joel Kaplan – a well-connected Republican friend, Bush administration official, and former Harvard classmate of Sandberg, Facebook began to go after Google and Apple. Mr. Kaplan prevailed on Ms. Sandberg to promote Kevin Martin, a former Federal Communications Commission chairman and fellow Bush administration veteran, to lead the company's American lobbying efforts. Facebook also expanded its work with Definers. On a conservative news site called the NTK Network, dozens of articles blasted Google and Apple for unsavory business practices. One story called Mr. Cook hypocritical for chiding Facebook over privacy, noting that Apple also collects reams of data from users. Another played down the impact of the Russians' use of Facebook. The rash of news coverage was no accident: NTK is an affiliate of Definers, sharing offices and staff with the public relations firm in Arlington, Va. Many NTK Network stories are written by staff members at Definers or America Rising, the company's political opposition-research arm, to attack their clients' enemies. –NYT Facebook has responded, initially saying they didn't put out "fake news" against their competitors, and they had no idea what their marketing department was doing. On Friday, however, Sandberg said she took full responsibility for the actions of the communications team. Facebook has tried to move forward following its various scandals; spearheading efforts to reign in data harvesting, and looking for someone to oversee its corporate, external and legal affairs. Hopefully whoever is ultimately in charge of oversight won't be scared away by Zuckerberg's war face. Liked it? Take a second to support The Duran on Patreon! Continue Reading JOIN OUR YOUTUBE CHANNEL Your donations make all the difference. Together we can expose fake news lies and deliver truth. 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How To Become A Robotics Engineer in Alaska
In order to qualify for Manufacturing Automation jobs in Alaska, you should compare all available technical schools in your target area, as well as consider taking some of your robotics engineering courses online. Check with each engineering school below for assistance with certificate program requirements, degree prerequisites, and class registration. You may request information from several different schools below, without making a commitment.
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To prepare for Manufacturing Automation careers in Alaska, you need to complete a technical education in your specialty area, as well as consider taking part of your required courses online. Which college degrees give you the best chances of finding employment after graduation? Completion of an accredited engineering program can qualify you to enter the workforce as a paid intern immediately. Check with the robotics engineering department for course registration deadlines, and engineering program requirements.
Manufacturing facilities around the world are increasing adoption of industrial robots to increase automation and maintain competitiveness. In both the US and China particularly, application of industrial robots is on the rise. Sales of industrial robots grew by 66 percent in the past 5 years alone in the USA. Robots all have some kind of mechanical construction, a frame, form or shape designed to achieve a particular task. For example, a robot designed to travel across heavy dirt or mud, might use caterpillar tracks.
There must also be electrical components which power and control the machinery. For example, a robot with caterpillar tracks would need some kind of power to move the tracker treads. Autonomous robots are well-suited to perform tasks that are dangerous and often repetitive, as well as to function in extreme environments such as space, under the oceans, or at high altitudes. NASA tests robots for exploration in areas called analogs. Analogs are places where the environment is similar to locations like Mars or the moon, where a robot may be used. Beyond major requirements within the robotics engineering department, you may consider UM Flint online mechanical engineering degree as a complementary elective.

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Prescription drug research is not new for Uncle Sam
Have you read the article in The New York Times about the "new" institute Obama and the federal government have created called the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences? It's going to have a $1 billion budget its first year of operation, and its reason for being is that private drug companies aren't coming up with new prescription drugs fast enough, so the government wants this institute to do that.
This is a very complicated subject; one that I'm sure I won't do justice to because the levels of it are almost unfathomable. However, there are a few things I know, a few things that made me go, "Huh?" when I read the story in the Times, and I will share those things with you.
First of all, it's important to know that the National Institute of Health had a budget in 2010 of $31.2 billion. Almost all of that money – about 90 percent – is spent on basic science research in the form of grants to institutions of higher learning and its own labs in Bethesda. What is basic science? Basic science means finding the connection between A and B. It means identifying a single protein on a single gene. Why identify the protein? The hope is that with the protein identified, an enzyme produced by that protein will also be identified and then tied to some disease or another.
All of that research takes a long time (and millions and millions of dollars), and private companies generally don't take part in it. What they do is they wait until something is discovered (by a federally funded institution) and then one way or another they get a hold of the research – through less than honorable means because the researcher didn't patent his discovery in time, or they bring the researcher on board, enticing him away from academia. Either way, the private company makes use of the millions of dollars the federal government has invested.
My first point being, this announcement of this new center makes it sound as though Obama's administration is just now getting involved in the research for and manufacturing of prescription drugs. That is soooooo not the case. The federal government has been funding drug research for more than 80 years.
My second point has to do with genetic patents. When the Human Genome Project revealed the sequencing of our DNA, there was a gold rush by many private companies to identify and then patent genes (there are 30,000 of them) as well as the proteins produced by the genes (there are about 300,000 of those). These patents were issued – by the FDA – without anyone knowing really what any of those genes and proteins did. It was simply, "I found it. I claim it. Because, by God, if there's any money to be made off of it, I want my chunk." Well, those patents last 20 years.
New drugs can't be discovered before the basic science of the genes and proteins are understood. Who owns a bulk of the patents that have been issued? Private companies. Who does (or funds) the majority of the basic science behind new drugs? You do. I do. The federal government does. Are they talking to each other? They don't like to.
My last point, which I guess just sums up what I've been talking about, is that this new center (IMHO) isn't needed. In order to get this center up and running by October, one of NIH's existing institutions has to be eliminated. The government is aiming that arrow at the National Center for Research Resources. Over 1,000 people have commented on a complaint blog about this closure, and many (if not most) of them are doctors and researchers who have benefited from grants issued by the NCRR and who wish for their research to continue, even if the NCRR is dismantled. The NCRR's annual budget for 2010 was $1.308 billion. The administration plans to transfer some of its functions to the new center. Does that mean some of its budget will go to the new center as well? Will we continue to fund the research being done by the NCRR to the tune of $1 billion-plus as well as the new $1 billion budget for the new center?
My biggest problem with the whole thing is that Obama's administration is putting this new center out there as something that's never been done before – the government's finally getting into the search for new prescription drugs! – and that's malarkey. I'm also confounded by what is actually going to take place at this new center. And I'm fearful that it's just more money being taken from our pockets to fund things already being done, to pay people to do jobs other people are doing. More government, but nothing more to show for it.
I learned a lot about this from reading a book for my freelance job called The $800 Million Pill. If you're interested in learning more about how private drug companies benefit from publically-funded research, about how it's another bit of malarkey when the drug companies tell you they have to charge excessive amounts of money for their medicines to help fund further research, pick up that book. It's very scientifically written, but it's an eye-opener.


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Ohio man arrested in national child-porn sweep
COLUMBUS (AP) — Federal authorities say an Ohio man was arrested as part of a national child pornography sweep that rescued 123 victims of sexual exploitation.
U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement said today that 31-year-old Mickell E. Close of Quincy, in western Ohio, was arrested Nov. 8 and faces federal charges of child pornography production.
Agents said they identified and rescued three children who Close secretly recorded in a bathroom to produce video and still images that he traded on the Internet.
Close's public defender did not immediately respond to a phone message today.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security and other agencies arrested 245 people during "Operation Sunflower," which was conducted from Nov. 1 to Dec. 7.
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1982 Michael Jordan Signed North Carolina Basketball and Cap
Starting Bid - $400, Sold For - $705
This collection of rare and extremely early Michael Jordan signed North Carolina items features a 1982 commemorative basketball and a baseball cap. The basketball, displaying alternating panels of white and "Tar Heel" blue, is lettered "Tarheels - 1982 National Champs" and has been inscribed "Michael Jordan #23" in black marker (grading "6/7") on a white panel. (The signature is boldly penned, but the dimpled surface makes writing difficult.) The regulation-size ball displays light surface wear and is in Excellent condition. The blue-and-white baseball cap features the North Carolina name and logo on the front and has been signed by Jordan in black marker (grading "8") on the top of the brim. The adjustable cap displays moderate wear and is in Very Good to Excellent condition. Both of these items display early examples of Jordan's signature and may have been signed during his college years, or very shortly thereafter. The items themselves, particularly the 1982 North Carolina basketball, are significant and rare items dating from Jordan's days as a college star. Jordan starred at North Carolina for three seasons before embarking on one of the greatest careers in NBA history. Jordan's college career began on a high note as he helped lead the Tar Heels to the 1982 NCAA Championship as a freshman. He closed out his career in equally spectacular fashion. Jordan was named the Naismith College Player of the Year in 1984 and was also awarded the prestigious John R. Wooden Award. Jordan-signed items of any kind dating from his college days are very scarce. These two early signed Jordan items are very rare and unusual. The signed basketball in particular is a very substantial item, and would be worthy and significant additions to even the most advanced collection. LOA from James Spence/JSA. Reserve $400. Estimate $800/$1,200. SOLD FOR $705
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|Jason Kokrak
|6' 4"
|225 lbs.
|May 22, 1985
|Xavier University
|Turned Pro:
|Warren, OH
Jason Kokrak was raised in Warren and played high school golf at JFK High School in Warren where he twice led his team to the Ohio Boy's state championship as Division III medalist. He went on to play college golf at Xavier University in Cincinnati and graduated in 2007. During his college career, he won both the 2006 and 2007 Ohio Amateur titles. Kokrak turned professional after graduation.
During the 2007 U.S. Amateur, Kokrak led all players with a score of 137 during the 36 hole match play qualifier at the Olympic Club in San Francisco. That same year, he made an appearance in the U.S. Open at Oakmont Country Club, when he successfully came through sectional and regional qualifying.
In 2011, he exploded onto the pro golf scene over the second half of the Nationwide Tour season — winning two events and nearly capturing the season-ending Tour Championship. It allowed him to finish 4th on the Nationwide money list, which earned him 2012 PGA Tour membership.
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Humble, texas
Jason Kokrak didn't have much luck with his driver on Saturday.
He's still in the driver's seat, though.
Kokrak shot a 1-under 71 in the third round of the Houston Open and sits just one shot back of co-leaders Stewart Cink and Bill Haas entering today's final round.
"We didn't really put it in the spots like we did the first two rounds in the fairways but we got the ball around, made a couple key putts and made a couple good iron shots out there," said Kokrak, a Warren native who shot a 66 on Thursday and a 69 on Friday. "Hopefully we saved that low round for [today]."
Seven players who are within four shots of the lead have never won on the PGA Tour and 12 them still aren't in the Masters, including Kokrak.
One of them includes a journeyman who had to qualify Monday just to get a tee time at Redstone Golf Club.
In a tournament loaded with so many possibilities, one of the big surprises is a major champion.
Stewart Cink has not been heard from very much since that summer day at Turnberry in 2009 when he beat Tom Watson to win the British Open. His highest finish since then was third, and that was in the four-man field at the PGA Grand Slam of Golf. He has plunged to No. 272 in the world ranking.
"Tomorrow is a great learning opportunity for me to get out there and be nervous and perform and try to stay in the moment and let it happen," Cink said. "I can't wait."
Kokrak's round included three birdies and two bogeys. He also made a crucial putt on No. 17 to save par, one of the few putts that rolled in.
"We couldn't get too many," he said. "A lot of them [putts] were rolling over the edges and I couldn't match up the speed with the line I was taking.
"Hopefully [today] we'll match both of them up and make them all."
Kokrak tees off at 12:17 p.m. today with Steve Wheatcroft, who only got into this tournament through a Monday qualifier, got off to a good start and fell back with an embarrassing finish.
Wheatcroft was tied for the lead when he shanked a shot from the greenside bunker on the 18th, the ball coming out at a 45-degree angle, over the green and almost into the gallery.
He made a 15-foot putt to salvage bogey for a 72.
Cink finished off another solid round Saturday by saving par from the bunker on the 18th hole for a 4-under 68, giving him a share of the lead with Bill Haas.
Haas, the co-leader after 36 holes at Bay Hill last week, made seven birdies over his last 13 holes for a 67 and joined Cink at 11-under 205.
Now comes the hard part, 20 players separated by four shots on a course where birdies are available, but the slightest miss can prove costly.
"Tomorrow you're going to have to play very well," Haas said. "You can't just hang on and hope everybody else will fall back."
Nine players were only two shots behind, a group that included former British Open champion Louis Oosthuizen (65), former world No. 1 Lee Westwood (67), former PGA champion Keegan Bradley (67) two-time major champion Angel Cabrera (69) and Henrik Stenson (68), who is one round away from playing his way into the Masters through being top 50 in the world.
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text: Aging crooner Tom Jones has insured his chest hair for nearly $7 million. That must be like, $100 per strand. • Velvet Revolver frontman Scott Weiland is back in rehab. The singer battled a heroin addiction back in the 90s. We're pulling for ya! • Ashton Kutcher's 30th birthday party raged last night in NYC. Attendees included wifey Demi Moore, Salma Hayek, Kate Hudson, Bruce Willis, and Madonna. [NYDN, Rolling Stone, Us]


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January 17 -
February 19
Are Mirrors/The Path of Conflict through Afghanistan and Iraq:
Photographs by Tyler Hicks
January 17 -
February 19
A Reading by David Rees
January 17 -
February 18
Buddha of Compassion
Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala
Sharpie Drawings and Prints by Alicia Giuliani
April 13 -
June 6
Common Threads: Textile Production
in India
Photographs by Alexander Verron '05
Salang Pass, Afghanistan, November
9, 2001
Northern Alliance
soldiers face the onset of winter at the mountainous front-line
in the Hindu Kush. The Salang Pass is about sixty miles
north of Kabul, less than a mile to the Taliban forces.
Before 9/11, I had never photographed an American
war of the magnitude we've seen in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The conflicts I had covered were other people's wars, far
from home, in unfamiliar cultures and countries. Although it was
the United States that bombed the Milosevic regime, where we photographed
the peacekeeping mission that followed into Kosovo, the stakes
there were ultimately European. Afghanistan and Iraq were about
us, and I can't pretend the stakes didn't matter to
me. Emotions were higher and more immediate, and the pictures and
stories that came out of the war reflect that feeling….
It is the tendency of every nation to cast its wars in terms of
good and evil, and the war in Afghanistan was no different. Our
side, the white hats, won, but this only demonstrated the complications
of victory. I was traveling with one of the first groups of Northern
Alliance soldiers to reclaim Kabul from the Taliban, when the soldiers
captured a wounded Taliban prisoner. Without remorse, with something
strangely like joy, they quickly executed him before continuing
their mission south. In that moment, the fact that they were soldiers
did not seem relevant. I saw our shocking lack of humanity. They—like
me, like the man they shot—were all human beings. Those who
died and killed there did so, not because of their passion to fight,
but because they had been ordered to. And the real enemies, the
masterminds with bank accounts who put pen to paper, the men who
had started the terror, some of those fled east to the tribal areas
at the border of Pakistan or south to strongholds in Kandahar,
while others were in Washington. I wondered who had been defeated
and what the conflict had cost all those it touched. In the end,
perhaps good and evil exist in constant, fluid exchange, running
into each other as we move beneath the pressures of the world….
Najaf, Iraq, August 21, 2004
Tyler Hicks was born in São
Paulo, Brazil, in 1969 and graduated with a degree in journalism
from Boston University in 1992. After working for a number of
years as a news photographer, he traveled to Kosovo in 1999 and
in 2000-2001 on contract for The New York Times. Hicks traveled
to Afghanistan after 9/11 to document the war against the Taliban
for The Times and Getty Images. The recipient of the 2001 International
Center for Photography Infinity Award for Photojournalism for
his coverage in Afghanistan, he has also received awards for World
Press and Pictures of the Year. As a Times staff photographer
2002, Hicks has traveled to Iraq on several occasions to document
the ongoing conflict.
Histories Are Mirrors
is a traveling exhibition organized and circulated by Umbrage
Editions (see www.umbragebooks.com for
more information).
Special thanks to Nan Richardson, curator, and Launa Beuhler,
director of exhibitions.
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A Reading by David Rees
…[The] confusion is all there in the debut of
David Rees's Get Your War On, in the October 9 edition that
started the strip. From panel to panel, our clip art cousins
and doppelgängers veer from wrath to self-loathing,
ricochet from manic jingoism to giddy despair. They get high
on the idea of carnage and then get down with the whiskey
in the bottom drawer of their desks. Whether describing the
comic or tragic, their expressions never change. They learn
nothing from one installment to the next—in fact, [they]
only wade deeper into the morass of absurdity, lured in by
the latest catastrophic news report. Frozen in ignorance.
Paralyzed by helplessness.
Of course, Rees's characters are more than cookie-cutter
people uttering cookie-cutter phrases: they are numb like us.
The first strip in Get Your War On is a transcription of a
conversation Rees had with a friend. Along with many of their
neighbors, Rees and his pal had retreated into language. Relief
Effort, Heightened Awareness, Enduring Freedom—these
were the syllables we used to keep the world at bay. Like George
Carlin with a modem, David Rees has a knack for pointing out
how we abuse words, distort and torture them toward petty ends.
The slang of hip-hop kids strides forth through television
and radio, the bloodless inanities of politics trickle down
through teleprompters and talking heads, and this sentence
is born: "Operation: Enduring Freedom is in the house!" And
this sentence makes sense to us, we recognize this monstrosity
as our own.
Rec room, board room, war room, news room—it does not
matter, they all rely on the same useless phrases. What we
see and appreciate in Get Your War On is David Rees's
attempt to make the words work again—to make us accountable
for our avoidances, our ellipses. As the link to his Web site
was passed on, e-mail by e-mail, his comics reinvigorated the
community. We had been atomized by television, separated from
each other. Isolated first by images of horror, then brainwashed
by the latest code words for brutality, banality, and other
sorts of human nonsense. Forward this link, pass on this message.
It will make you smile. Shit is pretty fucked up at the moment,
the e-mails said, but at least we are not alone. It's
called comfort. Take it where you can get it.
from the introduction to Get Your War On, 2002
A display of seven prints by David Rees from Get
Your War On will be presented in the gallery from January 17
through February 19, 2005, in conjunction with the exhibition
Histories Are Mirrors: The Path of Conflict through Afghanistan
and Iraq by photojournalist Tyler Hicks.
It is estimated that up to 300 people are injured or killed by
landmines in Afghanistan every month—the highest rate in
the world. More than 800 square kilometers of residential area,
commercial land, roads, irrigation systems, and primary production
land are littered with mines and unexploded ordnance. All of
the royalties from Get Your War On (Soft Skull Press, 2002) and
Get Your War On II (Riverhead Books, 2004) help support the Mine
Detection & Dog Center Team #5 as they continue to work on
clearance projects in western Afghanistan in the first and vital
steps towards reconstruction. See www.mnftiu.cc for more information.
David Rees is also the author of My New Fighting Technique
Is Unstoppable (Riverhead Books, 2003) and My New Filing
Technique Is Unstoppable (Riverhead Books, 2004).
Special thanks to the Carlyle and Betty Barnes Endowment Fund.
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Chenrezig Buddha of
Tibetan Buddhist Sand Mandala
From Friday through Sunday, January 21-23, 2005,
the Venerable Tenzin Yignyen will construct a Tibetan Buddhist
sand mandala at the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence
University. He will also present a "Teaching and Meditation
on Compassion" in the Gallery on Saturday, January 22
at 7:30 p.m.
For three weeks in the spring of 1999, Tenzin constructed an
elaborate Kalachakra Mind mandala at St. Lawrence University.
This year, for three days only, he will construct a Chenrezig
mandala based on the Tibetan Buddhist deity of compassion.
Also known in Sanskrit as Avalokiteshvara, Chenrezig is the
manifestation of the infinite compassion of all Buddhas. His
Holiness the Dalai Lama is understood to be the living incarnation
of this deity.
A sand mandala is a complex, symbolic representation of the
cosmos and is used as a tool in meditation and visualization
in order to attain enlightenment for the benefit of all sentient
beings. According to Sidney Piburn and Tenzin Yignyen, "each
mandala is a sacred mansion, the home of a particular deity
who represents and embodies enlightened qualities such as wisdom
or compassion. Both the deity, who resides at the center of
the mandala, and the mandala itself are recognized as pure
expressions of a Buddha's fully enlightened mind."
Matthieu Ricard, a Tibetan Buddhist monk and scholar, writes
that mandalas "transform our ordinary perception of the
world into a pure perception of the Buddha-nature which permeates
all phenomena. Compassion is born from the realization that
both the individual 'self' and the appearances
of the phenomenal world are devoid of any intrinsic reality.
To misconstrue the infinite display of illusory appearances
as permanent entities is ignorance, which results in suffering.
An enlightened being—that is, one who has understood
the ultimate nature of all things—naturally feels boundless
compassion for those who, under the spell of ignorance, are
wandering and suffering in samsara [the endless cycle of existence].
From similar compassion, one does not aim for one's own
liberation alone, but vows to attain Buddha-hood in order to
gain the capacity to free all sentient beings from the suffering
inherent in samsara."
Tenzin Yignyen was born in Phari, Tibet, in 1953. He is an
ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk who received a Master of Sutra
and Tantra Studies in 1985 from the Namgyal Monastery of His
Holiness the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, India. After two years
in Mongolia in 1993-94, Tenzin taught Tibetan Buddhism, sacred
and ritual arts, and language at the Namgyal branch monastery
in Ithaca, New York. He has since created sand mandalas in
museums and educational institutions throughout the United
States, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Natural
History Museum of Los Angeles, the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery,
and the Asia Society in New York City. Tenzin is currently
a visiting professor of Tibetan Buddhist art and philosophy
at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York.
These Tibetan Buddhist programs are co-sponsored by the University
Chaplain's office as part of a "Fortnight of Non-Violent
Events" from January 17 (the commemoration of Martin
Luther King, Jr.'s birthday) through January 30 (the
anniversary of Gandhi's assassination and the date of
the upcoming elections in Iraq). During this two-week period,
a series of lectures, films, discussions, and other activities
are scheduled to highlight nonviolent ideas and actions from
a variety of disciplines and faiths.
At 10:00 a.m. on Friday, February 18, 2005,
Tenzin will conduct a dismantling ceremony which will be followed
by a walk to the river. For more information, please contact
Cathy Tedford, Gallery Director,
at 315 229-5174.
"The mandala is dismantled in order to
demonstrate the truth of impermanence and so that the sand,
which as been made sacred, might be distributed to onlookers
and put into the environment (typically, a body of moving water)
as a blessing. The monks lead a procession, which may be a
pond or lake, but in order that the blessing of the sand extend
as far as possible, the ocean, or a river leading to the ocean.
The monks ask the protective spirits of the water to accept
the blessed sand and to protect the inhabitants of the local
-Daniel Cozort, The Sand Mandala of Vajrabhairava
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Drawings and Prints by Alicia Giuliani
Where Are My Ruby Slippers?, 2004,
Sharpie drawings on Solarplate prints
Upon graduation from St. Lawrence University in 2004 with a degree
in fine arts, Alicia Giuliani is the program director at the Adirondack
Lakes Center for the Arts in Blue Mountain Lake, New York, where
she organizes rotating exhibitions, concerts, and other events
and activities. As a student, Alicia approached most every task
or project, even the most unlikely Web site ("I LOVE www.orangecountychoppers.com!"),
on a continuum somewhere between enthusiastic and obsessive, documenting,
for example, in all her favorite Sharpie colors—pinks, reds,
black—each of the 24 hours of her recent 21st birthday, as
well as a whirlwind trip to New York City (highlighted by a "really
good" honey chicken dinner at Applebee's in Times Square)
to return a Tibetan Buddhist monk to his brother.
One late winter night, the three of us spent a few hours googlewhacking,
playing a variation of the online game where we entered three disparate
terms on the search engine in order to come up with results that "did
not match any documents" (einstein-cattywampus-google; hefner-eyelash-hepatic;
and endometriosis-heinous-mandala). It's harder (or easier?)
than you think. "Curious," Alicia would say, like an
all-knowing Cheshire cat.
Her most recent work depicts icons of girlish femininity: tiaras,
diamond rings, a princess in a burning castle, flippy evening dresses
and fancy shoes, bras and underwear—images (and content)
she culls from the unreality of women's fashion magazines.
Her process is fast and sure; she doesn't waver in this weird
juxtaposition of aggressive girlie-ness. Yet despite her unflinching
self-assurance and feisty self-awareness, Alicia explores deeply
personal issues in her life with humor and humility.
-Cathy Tedford and Carole Mathey
(a.k.a. "The Art Ladies")
Chameleon, Sharpie drawings on paper
"What I'm interested in at the time
is what my work is about" is a comment I wrote in my
journal last spring that applies to my recent drawings and
prints. The work in this exhibition is comparable to a visual
journal, inspired by and made for specific people in my life,
in which I challenge the probability of normalcy in personal
relationships. I attempt to fabricate tangible statements and,
through the use of layering and multiples, form more nuanced
meanings. A monochromatic palette is vital, and I use the color
pink specifically to suggest notions of happiness, delight,
love and passion. Upon closer inspection, however, the color
pink can also elicit feelings of annoyance, confusion, humiliation,
resentment, anger, jealousy, or even aggression, and I like
seeing seemingly innocent subjects turn malicious. I use Sharpies
exclusively because they are so consistent, allowing me to
create the same types of marks throughout a body of work. They
can also be used on a wide range of materials such as packing
tape, bubble wrap, metal, Plexi, and mirrors.
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Incongruent: Contemporary Art
from South Korea
Kim Yong-tae (rephotographed by Kim Young-soo,
from the Dongduchon Photograph Salons, 1984, digital print
Incongruent brings together nine artists from South
Korea, with the exception of Yong Soon Min, a Korean-American artist
based in Los Angeles. The participants include two artists closely
associated with Min Joong (people's art), a cultural and
political movement of the 1980s. They are juxtaposed with five
younger artists who work in conceptual and performance-based photography,
videos and Web-based projects. The link between the generations
lies in the artists' investigations of the visible and pervasive
forces of modernity in Korea and in their critical reception of
western cultures, as they examine the presence of the United States
and scrutinize the division of the Korean peninsula. The works
in this exhibition present South Korea's hybrid material
culture as a direct result of international politics related to
the Cold War and globalization, or more appropriately, what is
known as glocalization.
In terms of strategy, the artists share an understanding
of the importance of everyday experience and conceptual apparatus
the studio. For example, Kim Yong-tae's photographs of U.S.
soldiers and their Korean spouses were found in commercial photo
salons near the U.S. Army base in Seoul. Kim's rearrangement
of the photographs reveals how they operate on a personal level
based on the concrete pursuit of happiness, just as they testify
to the power dynamics between two nations and their peoples, and
how the complex is often situated in the mundane.
Through his paintings Spring Rain Descending a Staircase and Mondrian Hotel,
Joo Jae-hwan criticizes the tendency among South Korean artists
to imitate western
modernism. Deviant yet aligned with the iconoclastic gestures of
Duchamp and Warhol, Joo's work parodies a South Korean social
hierarchy determined by military power, material wealth and elitism.
Just as the work of these senior artists is subversive
in nature, there is also something oddly incongruent in the other
artists' work.
Koh Seung-wook's performance-based photographic project is
an absurd, ephemeral, seemingly insignificant happening, but it
addresses the fundamental nature and values of artistic activity
and industrial production. In his series Playing in the Vacant
Lot, Koh digs a hole in frozen ground and plays naked in it,
sometimes with a swimming tube, other times drinking alcohol. He
at odds with the Korean national fervor to work hard, produce and
achieve in a never-ending struggle for economic prosperity. Koh's
performance is not a reflection of hedonism; rather, his mundane
routine is actively anti-art and anti-commodity. In an empty piece
of land sitting idle, his intervention questions the global frenzy
of economic development.
Among the participants, Yong Soon Min is
the only artist who can legally travel to North Korea. In her video
she portrays
North Korean women dancing to celebrate the "victory" of
the re-election of Kim Jung-Il to the parliament. They are superimposed
onto the portraits of die-hard communists appropriated from North
Korean stamps, individuals who were imprisoned in South Korea for
their refusal to renounce their loyalty to the North Korean leader
Kim Il-Sung. The joyous movement of the dancers evokes a funereal
commemoration of these victims of ideologies.
Jo Seub, No Title
4, 2003,
still frame from single-channel video with sound
Jo Seub, through his re-enactment of violence and
repressed adolescent sexuality, interrogates the uncomfortable
collective memory of
his generation who grew up during the oppressive military regime
endorsed by the United States. Yoon Joo-kyung makes a futile
attempt to claim the Wild West by holding a red flag at Monument
Arizona, the backdrop of John Ford's movies. Kim Sang-gil
presents images that are simultaneously calm and confident, yet
sharply disturbing. In one picture, a man talks on his cellular
phone at a traditional gazebo in Seoul, precariously balanced
atop a rocky hill with a vast view of the urban landscape. Other
reveal private Internet communities who gather to flaunt their
Harley Davidsons, Burberry dresses, and mobile homes.
Kim Sang-gil, Anycall, 2001, C-print
In his video Power Passage, Park Chan-kyong investigates the disparity
in the power and ideology during the Cold War era by juxtaposing
the much-publicized, spectacular linkup of the U.S. Apollo and
the Soviet Soyuz spacecrafts in 1975, along with North Korea's
underground tunnel across the DMZ to invade South Korea. Finally,
in his Web-based projects, Roh Jae Oon demonstrates the notion
of incongruency through the dissonance between narrative voice-over
and image, as well as the disjunction between what is addressed
and what is implied. In Three Open Up, for example, the voice narrative
describes a South Korean delegation's tour of North Korean
pig farms, while shots from U.S. satellites reveal North Korean
nuclear weapons construction and launching sites.
-Young Min Moon
assistant professor of fine arts and exhibition curator
Special thanks to a grant from
the Freeman Foundation to St. Lawrence University's Asian
Studies Initiative and to the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment
for Fine Arts.
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Barnes Endowment Annual Juried
Student Art Exhibition
All St. Lawrence students are eligible
to enter up to four works of art in any media on Tuesday, April
5 from noon to 5:00 p.m. and on Wednesday, April 6 from 10:00 a.m.
to 5:00 p.m. The exhibition will open on Wednesday, April 13 at
7:00 p.m. featuring live music with Blue Clover. Please join us!
The exhibition is juried by Ana Rewakowicz, a Montreal-based
artist and researcher who works with inflatables and explores relations
between temporal, portable architecture, the body, and the
The exhibition is supported by the Carlyle and Betty Barnes
Endowment and the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for Fine Arts.
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Common Threads: Textile Production in India
Photographs by Alexander Verron '05
Rug production at Anandwan leprosy community, 2004
During the fall of 2004, I traveled by bus, train,
moped, horse, bicycle, camel, elephant and rickshaw across India
to conduct a photo documentary research project on textile production.
From the glacial source of the Ganges River in the Himalayas to
Muslim neighborhoods in Varanasi and commercial districts in Jaipur
in the middle of the desert near the border of Pakistan, I photographed
textile workers in rug factories, cotton mills, power loom production
sites and private homes. I was conscious to photograph people at
their own physical level, often sitting on the floor right next
to them in order to avoid creating images that would present any
perception of superiority on my part. I also found it ironic that
in a country radiating with sunlight, I typically photographed
in dark, cramped spaces using minimal natural light.
The Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for Fine Arts provided film
and equipment for this project.
Gallery Hours
Monday-Thursday 12-8 p.m.
Friday-Saturday 12-5 p.m.
All exhibitions and related educational programs
are free and open to the public. The
Gallery welcomes individuals and groups for guided tours; please
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text: Teenage girls who view themselves as "attractive" are 35% more likely to be indirectly bullied, according to a new study from the University of Alberta. ("Indirectly bullied" is shorthand for being gossiped about or being placed in "emotionally damaging scenarios.") Girls who are sexually active are also more at risk for this kind of indirect victimization. Teenage boys, on the other hand, are 25% less likely to be bullied if they perceive themselves as attractive. Note to researchers: this behavior doesn't necessarily stop when high school is over. [EurekAlert]


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Happy Valentine's Day! Here's one way to celebrate—new goodies for your sweetheart or yourself! We currently have several great sales running, so there are lots of ways for you to save.
If you're looking for heart-themed tops, some of my personal favorites include:
Dickies V-Neck Top in "Red Awareness": Made of 100% cotton, this comfy shirt is decorated with hearts and red ribbons. The red ribbon is a universal symbol for HIV/AIDS awareness. This top would also be perfect to wear on World AIDS Day, which is December 1st every year. Only $13.49 as it is our featured Deal of the Day!
WS Gear's Women's Mock Wrap Print Top in "Wild Thing": This colorful top is also made of 100% cotton and is terrifically eye-catching. The bright hearts remind of those classic Sweetheart candies, so I absolutely love this design. The adjustable tie belt is a nice addition as well.
If you're looking for more subtle ways to spruce up your work outfit for the holiday, I'd recommend:
The Littmann Classic II S.E. Stethoscope: We offer a variety of colors for this popular stethoscope. I'm fond of the Burgundy color for Valentine's Day. Littmann is known for its improved sound quality and comfort, making it a top notch choice for anyone in the medical field. On sale for only $62.99! Also, our entire stock of Littmann products are on sale, be sure to check it out here.
The Prestige Medical Retractable ID Clip: For a limited time, our diagnostic tools are up to 40% off, including this cute ID clip. It has a retractable cord that extends up to 23", so if you often need to swipe an ID card it makes it super convenient. It comes in various shapes and colors, including a red heart design.
Enjoy all our great sales on Valentine's Day over at allheart.com!


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St. John's, a colourful place with colourful encounters: Laura Higenell's Story
Posted By Lauren Saunders
October 19, 2012
St. John's is full of colourful characters; People who always have a story to tell. Laura Higenell, is one of those characters. I met with Laura when I first visited the Quidi Vidi Village Plantation. Her artistic, spirited personality exudes a passion for art and Newfoundland. I was surprised to discover that someone who was so passionate for this place wasn't actually from here. That's when I got curious. What drives someone to come here and hone their craft? Was there something special about this place that lured her? I had to learn more about her and I'm really glad that I did. Hers is a story I am eager to share.
Meet Laura
Laura is a potter and ceramic artist who first encountered her craft a few years ago in St. John's, NL. Hailing from Fonthill, Ontario, and always anticipating a new opportunity or adventure, Laura moved to St. John's to experience the eastern edge of Canada and it's laid back way of life. It was this slower, more relaxed pace in St. John's that made Laura finally turn to a pottery class with the Craft Council of Newfoundland and Labrador. Growing up, Laura had a persistent artistic itch to find her creative outlet. She tried creative mediums like painting and graphic design but it wasn't until her experience with pottery that she felt the void had been filled. After taking a few pottery classes and volunteering her time with the Craft Council, Laura, on persuasion from loved ones decided to take the Ceramic Certificate Program at the Haliburton School of The Arts in Haliburton, ON. "It was at that time that I really thought once I finished the program, I would stay home in Ontario and open my own studio. But, while I was away from St. John's, all I could talk about was how amazing it was. I was known at school for talking about Newfoundland and convincing everyone to come visit." All of this talk made it pretty clear that there was something about St. John's that was luring her back. "For me, Newfoundland represents a shift in my life. I was pushing for a career in commerce and tourism, but now, I'm an artist. This path I've found for myself, in St. John's, is serendipity."
St. John's is the right place to start as an emerging artist
"I've never been more confident about being in the right place at the right time in my life." With a massive wave of support from family, friends, and the local arts community, Laura feels that St. John's is a great place to start for an emerging artist. Although small in population, St. John's famous AIC area code has one of the highest concentrations of artists per capita in Canada. It's the tight knit community of artists and their support that create an incubator for artists to thrive.
Her Work
When I asked Laura what living in St. John's meant for her in terms of artistic growth, she insisted that Newfoundland had a profound impact on her craft. She recalled a project in her program where each individual had to create a 20-photo collage. "My photos were all waves and water. Calm forms. I was drawing on my life in Newfoundland. My work is very much about place and the comfort I have with that place."
Laura's passion for ceramics is driven from an emotional connection – a sensual love affair that she has with clay due to the uncommon contact there is between artist and medium. Inspired by the natural beauty of Newfoundland, her work speaks of both the island's physical elements and the genuine people. "It's the water, the ocean, the flora/fauna, the humor, and the music of Newfoundland that inspire me. Whenever someone walks by the copper teapot I have on display at the Plantation they smile or laugh. I want to evoke the whimsical and light hearted way of life that I have found here."
With her current studio placement at Quidi Vidi Village Plantation, and endless possibilities in her future, there is no doubt that Laura's artistic journey in Newfoundland has just begun. I can't wait to hear about her next chapter.
To find out more about Laura, feel free to visit her at the Quidi Vidi Village Plantation to purchase her work and to see the happy copper teapot she mentioned above.
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His personality was reflected in the products he created. Just as the core of Apple's philosophy, from the original Macintosh in 1984 to the iPad a generation later, was the end-to-end integration of hardware and software, so too was it the case with Steve Jobs: His passions, perfectionism, demons, desires, artistry, devilry, and obsession for control were integrally connected to his approach to business and the products that resulted.
The unified field theory that ties together Jobs's personality and products begins with his most salient trait: his intensity. His silences could be as searing as his rants; he had taught himself to stare without blinking. Sometimes this intensity was charming, in a geeky way, such as when he was explaining the profundity of Bob Dylan's music or why whatever product he was unveiling at that moment was the most amazing thing that Apple had ever made. At other times it could be terrifying, such as when he was fulminating about Google or Microsoft ripping off Apple.
This intensity encouraged a binary view of the world. Colleagues referred to the hero/shithead dichotomy. You were either one or the other, sometimes on the same day. The same was true of products, ideas, even food: Something was either "the best thing ever," or it was shitty, brain-dead, inedible. As a result, any perceived flaw could set off a rant. The finish on a piece of metal, the curve of the head of a screw, the shade of blue on a box, the intuitiveness of a navigation screen—he would declare them to "completely suck" until that moment when he suddenly pronounced them "absolutely perfect." He thought of himself as an artist, which he was, and he indulged in the temperament of one.
His quest for perfection led to his compulsion for Apple to have end-to-end control of every product that it made. He got hives, or worse, when contemplating great Apple software running on another company's crappy hardware, and he likewise was allergic to the thought of unapproved apps or content polluting the perfection of an Apple device. This ability to integrate hardware and software and content into one unified system enabled him to impose simplicity. The astronomer Johannes Kepler declared that "nature loves simplicity and unity." So did Steve Jobs.
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For Jobs, belief in an integrated approach was a matter of righteousness. "We do these things not because we are control freaks," he explained. "We do them because we want to make great products, because we care about the user, and because we like to take responsibility for the entire experience rather than turn out the crap that other people make." He also believed he was doing people a service: "They're busy doing whatever they do best, and they want us to do what we do best. Their lives are crowded; they have other things to do than think about how to integrate their computers and devices."
This approach sometimes went against Apple's short-term business interests. But in a world filled with junky devices, inscrutable error messages, and annoying interfaces, it led to astonishing products marked by beguiling user experiences. Using an Apple product could be as sublime as walking in one of the Zen gardens of Kyoto that Jobs loved, and neither experience was created by worshipping at the altar of openness or by letting a thousand flowers bloom. Sometimes it's nice to be in the hands of a control freak.
Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions. If something engaged him—the user interface for the original Macintosh, the design of the iPod and iPhone, getting music companies into the iTunes Store—he was relentless. But if he did not want to deal with something—a legal annoyance, a business issue, his cancer diagnosis, a family tug—he would resolutely ignore it. That focus allowed him to say no. He got Apple back on track by cutting all except a few core products. He made devices simpler by eliminating buttons, software simpler by eliminating features, and interfaces simpler by eliminating options.
He attributed his ability to focus and his love of simplicity to his Zen training. It honed his appreciation for intuition, showed him how to filter out anything that was distracting or unnecessary, and nurtured in him an aesthetic based on minimalism.
Unfortunately his Zen training never quite produced in him a Zen-like calm or inner serenity, and that too is part of his legacy. He was often tightly coiled and impatient, traits he made no effort to hide. Most people have a regulator between their mind and mouth that modulates their brutish sentiments and spikiest impulses. Not Jobs. He made a point of being brutally honest. "My job is to say when something sucks rather than sugarcoat it," he said. This made him charismatic and inspiring, yet also, to use the technical term, an asshole at times.
Andy Hertzfeld once told me, "The one question I'd truly love Steve to answer is, 'Why are you sometimes so mean?'" Even his family members wondered whether he simply lacked the filter that restrains people from venting their wounding thoughts or willfully bypassed it. Jobs claimed it was the former. "This is who I am, and you can't expect me to be someone I'm not," he replied when I asked him the question. But I think he actually could have controlled himself, if he had wanted. When he hurt people, it was not because he was lacking in emotional awareness. Quite the contrary: He could size people up, understand their inner thoughts, and know how to relate to them, cajole them, or hurt them at will.
The nasty edge to his personality was not necessary. It hindered him more than it helped him. But it did, at times, serve a purpose. Polite and velvety leaders, who take care to avoid bruising others, are generally not as effective at forcing change. Dozens of the colleagues whom Jobs most abused ended their litany of horror stories by saying that he got them to do things they never dreamed possible.
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The saga of Steve Jobs is the Silicon Valley creation myth writ large: launching a startup in his parents' garage and building it into the world's most valuable company. He didn't invent many things outright, but he was a master at putting together ideas, art, and technology in ways that invented the future. He designed the Mac after appreciating the power of graphical interfaces in a way that Xerox was unable to do, and he created the iPod after grasping the joy of having a thousand songs in your pocket in a way that Sony, which had all the assets and heritage, never could accomplish. Some leaders push innovations by being good at the big picture. Others do so by mastering details. Jobs did both, relentlessly. As a result he launched a series of products over three decades that transformed whole industries.
Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius. His imaginative leaps were instinctive, unexpected, and at times magical. He was, indeed, an example of what the mathematician Mark Kac called a magician genius, someone whose insights come out of the blue and require intuition more than mere mental processing power. Like a pathfinder, he could absorb information, sniff the winds, and sense what lay ahead.
Steve Jobs thus became the greatest business executive of our era, the one most certain to be remembered a century from now. History will place him in the pantheon right next to Edison and Ford. More than anyone else of his time, he made products that were completely innovative, combining the power of poetry and processors. With a ferocity that could make working with him as unsettling as it was inspiring, he also built the world's most creative company. And he was able to infuse into its DNA the design sensibilities, perfectionism, and imagination that make it likely to be, even decades from now, the company that thrives best at the intersection of artistry and technology.
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The difference that Jony has made, not only at Apple but in the world, is huge. He is a wickedly intelligent person in all ways. He understands business concepts, marketing concepts. He picks stuff up just like that, click. He understands what we do at our core better than anyone. If I had a spiritual partner at Apple, it's Jony. Jony and I think up most of the products together and then pull others in and say, "Hey, what do you think about this?" He gets the big picture as well as the most infinitesimal details about each product. And he understands that Apple is a product company. He's not just a designer. That's why he works directly for me. He has more operational power than anyone else at Apple except me. There's no one who can tell him what to do, or to butt out. That's the way I set it up.
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When Jobs gathered his top management for a pep talk just after he became iCEO in September 1997, sitting in the audience was a sensitive and passionate thirty-year-old Brit who was head of the company's design team. Jonathan Ive, known to all as Jony, was planning to quit. He was sick of the company's focus on profit maximization rather than product design. Jobs's talk led him to reconsider. "I remember very clearly Steve announcing that our goal is not just to make money but to make great products," Ive recalled. "The decisions you make based on that philosophy are fundamentally different from the ones we had been making at Apple." Ive and Jobs would soon forge a bond that would lead to the greatest industrial design collaboration of their era.
Ive grew up in Chingford, a town on the northeast edge of London. His father was a silversmith who taught at the local college. "He's a fantastic craftsman," Ive recalled. "His Christmas gift to me would be one day of his time in his college workshop, during the Christmas break when no one else was there, helping me make whatever I dreamed up." The only condition was that Jony had to draw by hand what they planned to make. "I always understood the beauty of things made by hand. I came to realize that what was really important was the care that was put into it. What I really despise is when I sense some carelessness in a product."
Ive enrolled in Newcastle Polytechnic and spent his spare time and summers working at a design consultancy. One of his creations was a pen with a little ball on top that was fun to fiddle with. It helped give the owner a playful emotional connection to the pen. For his thesis he designed a microphone and earpiece—in purest white plastic—to communicate with hearing-impaired kids. His flat was filled with foam models he had made to help him perfect the design. He also designed an ATM machine and a curved phone, both of which won awards from the Royal Society of Arts. Unlike some designers, he didn't just make beautiful sketches; he also focused on how the engineering and inner components would work. He had an epiphany in college when he was able to design on a Macintosh. "I discovered the Mac and felt I had a connection with the people who were making this product," he recalled. "I suddenly understood what a company was, or was supposed to be."
Steve Jobs
Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing.
At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, and when societies around the world are trying to build digital-age economies, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the imagination were combined with remarkable feats of engineering.
Although Jobs cooperated with this book, he asked for no control over what was written nor even the right to read it before it was published. He put nothing off-limits. He encouraged the people he knew to speak honestly. And Jobs speaks candidly, sometimes brutally so, about the people he worked with and competed against. His friends, foes, and colleagues provide an unvarnished view of the passions, perfectionism, obsessions, artistry, devilry, and compulsion for control that shaped his approach to business and the innovative products that resulted.
Driven by demons, Jobs could drive those around him to fury and despair. But his personality and products were interrelated, just as Apple's hardware and software tended to be, as if part of an integrated system. His tale is instructive and cautionary, filled with lessons about innovation, character, leadership, and values.
- Simon & Schuster |
- 656 pages |
- October 2011
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Reading Group Guide
In a clear, elegant biographical voice, Walter Isaacson provides an unflinching portrait of the most important technological and innovative personality of the modern era: Apple's founder and chief thinker, Steve Jobs. Through a series of unprecedented interviews with Jobs—as well as interviews with more than 100 friends, family members, colleagues, adversaries, admirers, and imitators—Isaacson documents the transformation of an ambitious Silicon Valley whiz kid into one of the most feared and respected business leaders of his generation and quite possibly of all time; arriving at some hard truths about a man who defined the intersection of art and technology for the digital age and the future to come.
Topics & Questions for Discussion
1. Discuss Jobs' harsh binary system of appraisal. Why do you think it worked so well in tangent with his style of leadership? Do you think there is merit in living to such high standards? Is it unrealistic or ultimately impractical?
2. Which do you think is more beneficial for the future of technology: end-to-end hardware and software integration or open and customizable systems? Do you agree with Jobs that good products can only come from closed, centralized environments? Why or why not?
3. Chapter 11 is titled "The Reality Distortion Field: Playing by His Own Set of Rules." Discuss this term and how it is used to bot see more


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Sun 31st Oct 2010 19:18 UTC, submitted by kvdman
Gutenprint has been ported to Haiku. "Michael Pfeiffer (wait, what?) intends on ironing out the configuration options and fixing any bugs that users experience. Please test out Gutenprint on Haiku with your supported printer and report back here, or file a bug report if you encounter problems. Anyone with a colour cartridge?"


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Katy Perry playfully holds up her two People's Choice Awards — Favorite Female Artist and Favorite Online Sensation — in this exclusive shot for JustJared.com taken backstage on Wednesday (January 5) at Nokia Theatre L.A. Live in Los Angeles.
The 26-year-old pop phenom will guest star on an episode of How I Met Your Mother, which will air later this season. USA Today reports K.P. will play Zoey's cousin, a beautiful and naive girl whom the gang decides to call "Honey."
Katy's hit song "Firework" is also back to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 — its fourth cumulative time at the top!
"I cried watching Katy Perry's music video for 'Firework'," One Tree Hill beauty Sophia Bush told JustJared.com. "It's so inspiring to have a song telling kids to be themselves!"
Also spotted backstage at the PCAs was Private Practice star Kate Walsh heading to the Ultimat Vodka-sponsored official after-party held at The Conga Room across the street. Kim, Khloe, and Kourtney Kardashian held up their Guiltiest Pleasure award and said, "We can't split this statue into three, so we're going to put it in our mom's house!" Taylor Swift was seen giving Ashton Kutcher a big hug and introducing him to Selena Gomez. Taylor and Selena later joked that each other were taking over the world. Selena said, "Taylor's albums are all over Target stores. Racks of them everywhere!" Pictures below!!!


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Listen To Bruce Springsteen's 'We Are Alive'
The 11th and final song from Bruce Springsteen's new album, 'Wrecking Ball,' has been released for today only, the uplifting 'We Are Alive.' You can listen to it below.
Many of Springsteen's classic albums end with a sense of uneasiness. Closers like 'My Hometown,' 'Wreck on the Highway,' 'Reason to Believe' or the title track to 'Darkness on the Edge of Town' leave the listener believing that there's little they can do to control their fate.
But 'We Are Alive' subverts his traditional formula by reminding us that the spirit of activism has carried Americans through the toughest of times. He speaks in the voices of those who have died in the labor, civil rights and immigrant movements to say that they are with those who are fighting for social and economic justice today.
Built around a musical quote from 'Ring of Fire' by Johnny Cash (no stranger to speaking out against injustice), 'We Are Alive' opens with Springsteen and his acoustic guitar. The song opens up after the first chorus into a hootenanny reminiscent of his 2006 'We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions' excursion into folk music, complete with banjo, fiddle, horns, and foot stomps.
'Wrecking Ball' will be released on Tuesday, March 6. Tonight (March 2), Springsteen will be the lone guest on NBC's 'Late Night with Jimmy Fallon' in the conclusion of that show's "Bruce Springsteen Week."
Hear Bruce Springsteen's 'We Are Alive'


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Because of a missed appointment, after we filed our Sporting News column last night, we spent the evening stranded at a cheesy Glendale sports bar, waiting for a cab that never came. (We literally spent four hours roaming around the greater Phoenix area doing nothing last night. We miss public transportation already.) The bar is the Fox Sports Grill in Glendale, right across the street from where Mike And Mike did their radio show this morning. Stagehands were setting up the stage for them last night.
The Fox Sports Grill is a rather depressing place on a Tuesday night, and it was just us and five other people, drinking and being quiet. Over in the corner were two moderately attractive women in, we'd guess, their early-30s. Two guys we didn't recognize but were clearly in town for the Super Bowl, walked up to the bartender.
"Hey, you know any bars around here where a couple guys could find some ladies to talk to?" one said.
The bartender did his best to suppress a frown. We were at a suburban sports bar; half the people in the restaurant were families.
"Dunno, man, it's not really getting hopping until tomorrow," he said.
The two men looked around and saw the ladies up front. "You think we could sit next to them? Or at least across from them? Make some eye contact?"
"Knock yourself out," the bartender said. He then turned to us. "Hey, might as well ruin those girls' nights too."
A couple middle aged locals sat at the bar and asked the bartender, "So, is that ESPN out there? Mike and Mike?" The bartender said yeah, "we're total celebrities this week."
"Mike and Mike, man," one local said. "Just down the road from my house. Super Bowl's crazy, man. It's crazy."


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Latest update : 2012-04-30
The World This Week - April 27th, 2012
While invectives fly on the French campaign trail over the far-right and its agenda, François Picard warns of the reality check to come when the presidential election's over and it's time to face up to Europe's economic mess.
- Paul TAYLOR. European Affairs Editor, Reuters;
- Craig COPETAS. Paris-based journalist. Author, "Bear Hunting with the Politburo";
- Sylvie KAUFFMANN. Editorial Director, Le Monde;
- Stefan DE VRIES. Paris correspondent, RTL4.
Produced by François Picard, Anelise Borges, Thomas Waterhouse, Paul Makaad.


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