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Who could resist a precious kitten such as this! Especially when she is sitting inside a Christmas stocking while wearing a Santa hat. So cute! If you have any friends or family members who just adore cats, then they are going to absolutely love this Christmas card. This holiday ecard will also wish them much peace, laughter, and happiness for the holiday season. Send this kitty on its way to wish someone a Merry Christmas today!
Who wouldn't want to receive a cute puppy such as this for Christmas. With that in mind, you should send this sweet Christmas card to all your family and friends this year! It showcases a beautiful holiday puppy surrounded by traditional seasonal items such as a Christmas tree, a snow covered pine cone, tree ornaments, and ribbons! This wonderful greeting card will brighten the day of the people you care about this holiday season.
This lovely contemporary Christmas card showcases a unique reindeer scene that will be sure to grab anyone's attention! An all-white reindeer leaps across the sky followed by wonderful abstract shapes of blue, white, and bronze. This contemporary Christmas card's message contains thoughtful words that will wish the recipient joyful memories that last forever. The beauty of this Christmas card will certainly brighten someone's day.
Puppies make everything better! Send your paw-liday greetings with this Santa Puppies Christmas Card! The two fluffy white puppies wear charming red Santa hats as they rest on the snow-covered ground and play with red, gold, and white ornaments. The bright blue background and fresh falling snow finish this adorable scene. Say "We wish you a Merry Christmas" with this Christmas card today!
Meowy Christmas to you and yours! Let the adorable, fuzzy gray kitten on this Santa Cat Christmas Card send your holiday wishes this season. This Christmas cat is wearing a fluffy Santa hat as she nestles in a red and white knit stocking and the Christmas tin underneath is surely full of yummy Christmas cookies to share! Use the cheery green message on this card to say "Merry Christmas" to your loved ones!
What a great ecard to put someone in the mood to celebrate Christmas! Send this greeting to everyone you know and you might just lifted their spirits even more this holiday season.
The snow is falling, and there is just one thing on everyone's mind! Christmas is almost here! This cute snowman and reindeer sharing a scarf and smiling to spread Christmas joy this holiday season. Wrapped up in the blue scarf and sparkle, this card is sure to warm your heart.
The charming village on this Christmas card sleeps quietly as they wait for Christmas morning and snow falling gracefully. Show your Christmas cheer by sending this cheery holiday greeting to your friends and family this holiday season!
Santa Claus is coming! Get on his nice list when you send this bright Christmas greeting to someone special. Rudolph is leading the sleigh. As the song goes, "May your days be merry and bright, and may all your Christmases be white!" The chimneys speak of toasty fires and cozy stories told indoors, while the snow blankets the town in quiet beauty outside.
If you want to make someone smile, you can't go wrong with cute. Whether it's a picture of baby animals or the cuddly, stuffed kind, they are nearly always a good bet. Take these cuties on this Christmas card, for example. Maybe they'll remind someone of how wonderful Christmas is!
Wow, Rudolph is really turning it up this year! Instead of relying on just his shiny red nose to light Santa's sleigh this cute reindeer has strung colored Christmas bulbs from his antlers. Send the Lit Rudolph Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Card to wish all your friends or coworkers a fun holiday season of parties and good times!
This warm and festive card features a strand of lights and stylish metallic ornaments shaped in some of the most recognizable symbols of the season. What a wonderful way to wish family, friends, any special person in your life happiness during the holidays and straight through the year. Whether you're spending Christmas and New Year's together, or thinking of them from across the miles, they're sure to feel loved and remembered when they see this greeting, one that will bring them a brightness to their spirit all throughout the year.
A golden, sparkling reindeer is seen jumping in the air in this outstanding Merry Christmas and Happy New year ecard! Plus, it also features a fabulous golden background! This card is eye-catching and very festive, along with a big reminder of how magical the holiday season really is! Be sure to send this ecard out to all your friends and family members this year!
This adorable holiday card will make anyone feel the excitement of Christmas, just like they did when they were kids! How could they not when they see these cute traditional icons. Santa and his reindeers hold a special place in our hearts during this time of year. Plus, it's when we have a chance to ring in the new year with friends and loved ones. Send this charming holiday ecard out to the person you are thinking about today!
Some cute cartoon alpacas wearing matching striped scarves (and one in a Santa hat!) decorate this fun Christmas card. And who is this joining their little group? A reindeer! Much like the reindeer on this card, your sister's family stands out in the community! They need the One of a Kind Merry Christmas Card cause they do things their own special way. And you can't wait to see what fun they get up to this year!
A pair of prancing golden reindeer are joined by snowflakes, gift boxes and boughs of holly on this unique Christmas greeting. The cool blue and green colors add a modern touch, while the message is a classic reminder of the many wonderful things there are to be joyful about this time of year, from dashing displays to festive celebrations. It's the perfect card for anyone this holiday season.
This Christmas card is super cute, and your mother-in-law will think so too. It displays three adorable cats decked out in their Christmas attire and they are ready to meet your mother-in-law! Beautiful holiday decorations fill the top border of this ecard and a thoughtful message makes it complete! Send these amazing Christmas cats on their way to wish your mother-in-law a Merry Christmas today!
Chances are, you grew up celebrating major holidays in the presence of your cousins. You guys stayed up late into the night together. Excitedly discussing what you were hoping Santa was bringing you and wondering if he'd eat the cookies you left out for him. Send the Santa's Sleigh Merry Christmas Card to deliver a hefty dose of nostalgia to your favorite cousin!
Three round, cheerful cartoon animals grace the cover of this adorable Cozy Penguins Merry Christmas Card. One penguin is dressed as a Christmas tree, one is a reindeer with Christmas lights in its antlers, and the third is simply cozy in a red winter hat and matching woolen mittens. Send this card to your cutest cousin to encourage them to stay warm this winter!
Who's the life of every holiday party or family gathering? If you answered: Your Son. Then—hot dog—do we have the card for you to send that fellow! It's a photo card of a young man wearing a silly Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer sweater and Christmas Tree glasses! The Life of the Holiday Party Merry Christmas Card tells your son how excited you are to see his sweet signature style again this holiday season.
An adorable pug with a to-go cup and wearing a red beanie hat graces the cover of this Puggin' Cool Merry Christmas Card. Send this charming card to your son—the coolest kid in your book! Somehow he just grows cooler with each passing year. You hope he enjoys this holiday, so why not drop him a fun reminder to get into the yuletide spirit?
Your son can't resist a themed holiday party. He's the guy who always "wins" ugliest sweater at the Ugly Christmas Sweater Party. He isn't shy about busting out the classics during karaoke. Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer—he knows them all! Send that festive son of yours the Ugly Sweater Party Merry Christmas Card to wish him plenty of holiday fun!
Dogs and cats are so great, and they look totally adorable in Santa hats, right? They don't always get along because of their many differences, but when they're friends—it's a beautiful thing! You and your friend may differ, but it just makes you an even more awesome duo. Send the Opposites Attract Merry Christmas Card to wish your amazing fur-iend a very Meow-y holiday season!
A nerdy reindeer wearing glasses, a bow tie, and a pair of suspenders is the perfect way to wish your favorite uncle a Merry Christmas. He's even wearing a Christmas sweater and has hung some ornaments from his antlers (with care)! Send the Nerdy Reindeer Christmas Card to let your own stylish uncle know you're pulling for him to get everything he wants this year!
There's nothing like a fun-loving uncle to light up a family gathering. He organizes the best games, pours a stiff drink, and isn't afraid to bust out the latest dance moves. Send him the Lightbulb Reindeer Merry Christmas Card to wish him warmth and love this holiday season. The classy reindeer on the card is rocking a tasteful Christmas sweater and has strung his antlers with lightbulbs!
Candy canes, antlers, and snowmen—oh my! Which hat or headband would you choose to rock during the yuletide season? This Merry Christmas Card features all the most festive headgear: elf hats, Santa hats, Christmas trees, top hats, gifts, and cakes! Send your awesome uncle and his fun family the Festive Headgear Merry Christmas Card to get them in the holiday spirit!
So…your grandson? Is he what one would call a prankster? Or perhaps a practical jokester? Show your support of his style of humor with the Holiday Hijinks Funny Christmas Card. The cartoon shows a reindeer snapping a silly selfie with Santa in the background stuck upside down a chimney! Wish your favorite goofy grandkid a safe and Merry Christmas while making him smile.
While the holidays aren't the easiest time to "save a buck," you can still send one! Send the Reindeer Games Merry Christmas Card to your suave grandson. A well-dressed reindeer in a festive bowtie holds a carefully wrapped Christmas gift on this fun card. Wish him well while also reminding him that it is the season to rack up new memories!
For a special granddaughter who loves the magic of Christmas, this card is a warm reminder of how seeing the holidays through her eyes brings you so much joy. Featuring a little girl watching out the window as Santa and his reindeer fly overhead, it's a whimsical greeting that lets her know she should never stop believing in the wonder of the season, no matter how old she gets.
A snowman, a Santa Claus, a fully-decorated Christmas tree, and Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. Each nestled inside their own snowy Christmas ornament. Send this darling card to your wonderful grandson and his family to wish them a season of New Holiday Memories. A festive card is always a good way to wish a very Merry Christmas to those you love most!
When you're making a list of who to send Merry Christmas Wishes to, be sure and check it twice! Send some giggles to your sweet grandson and his precious family with The Nice List Funny Christmas Card. The card message jokes that Santa Claus already clued you in on the good news—his family made the "Nice List" once again this year!
A cartoon mama dog and her little one wearing reindeer antlers decorate this cute, snowy Christmas card. Send the Time for Family Merry Christmas Card to your daughter to wish her and her entire family a happy holiday season. Perfect for a dog or animal loving daughter, this card sends out the warmest of wishes to those you love most.
If your son loves dogs, then he will really think this Christmas card is great! The festive puppy is posing for his Christmas photo and he is just too cute! In addition to this, your son will read that you are thanking him for being such a fun, caring, and thoughtful person. He will certainly be touched. Let this cute puppy meet your son and wish him a Merry Christmas!
Is your grandson a big deal? Does he wear the trendiest glasses and the fanciest sweater vests? Can he tie his own bow tie? Or maybe he's just amused by reindeer pretending to be people? Either way, have we got the perfect Christmas card for you to send that cool guy! The Reindeer in a reindeer sweater merry Christmas card is a guaranteed hit!
This cute pup is just as excited to open his festively wrapped present as anyone at Christmas! Decked out in his adorable Santa hat, he's here to wish a special granddaughter all the joy and cheer this time of year brings. After all, she's your favorite gift and deserves to be reminded of that, not just during the holidays but every day.
Two cute reindeer are here to let a special granddaughter know how dear she is to you during the holidays! This sweet Christmas card will bring a smile to her face and remind her how much joy & cheer she brings to you each & every day.
This cute holiday kitty is here to wish your sweet granddaughter a Merry Christmas! With her playful paws on a mini tree, complete with little gold ornaments on the ground below, it's an adorable card to send your happiest holiday wishes as she celebrates during this magical time of year.
If your mother-in-law likes dogs, then she is going to just adore this charming Christmas card! It contains two sweet puppies that are posing for their holiday photo. So adorable! A perfectly decorated Christmas tree can be seen in the background, as well as colorful gifts with beautiful bows. So send these holiday puppies over to meet your mother-in-law in time for Christmas day. She will certainly appreciate it!
Send this adorable holiday puppy over to your father-in-law to wish him a Merry Christmas. He will certainly appreciate it! This fantastic Christmas card displays wonderful holiday gifts that are perfectly wrapped and a cute puppy wearing a Santa hat. The best part of this Christmas card is the fact that it expresses that you could not have asked for a better father-in-law than him. It will touch his heart and make him thankful you are in his life this holiday season.
This Christmas card was designed with an adorable kitten wrapped in a sparkling red Santa hat as it sleeps. It's too cute! It also features an exceptional glittery green background, and a Christmas tree with red sparkling ornaments. It looks fantastic! The message will make your mother-in-law smile when she reads you are wishing her a purrrfectly wonderful holiday. Send this sweet holiday card over to her today to wish her a Merry Christmas!


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"The trouble isn't that Obama 'wants to pull the plug on grandma.'"And, let's face it... it isn't just Grandma we have to worry about.
"It's that under socialized medicine (which I happen to live under, and you don't)... Grandma might not get plugged in in the first place."
Now, I'm just spitballin' here... but the next time I walk into an emergency room with a sick fevered child... it'd be nice to not spend seven and a half hours waiting to see a doctor.
That's when I'll start singin' the praises of government-run healthcare.
FROM THE COMMENTS: Ask an actual doctor
"Then in the kids less than 3 months, or just sick looking kids it can be meningitis, encephalitis, or sepsis all of which can be treated and have a decent chance of preventing permanent damage if treated rapidly. The only way to prevent it is by immediate treament with antibiotics or antivirals."*
"When I see a fevered kid on the chart rack I take him first. If it is a simple viral thing he goes home fast and I don't have to listen to screaming."
"If it is a serious issue then I either save someone's life and/or prevent permanent damage."

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Ice-Watch hour is definitely worth 60 seconds of your time...
Time has never quite been the same since the arrival of Ice-Watch on the watch market in 2007. A watch whose colourful fashion-focussed and accessible concept would lead to an international, intergenerational and intercultural brand that's ticking along nicely. Since then it has been constantly ticking away, changing and inventing new collections, with complete transparency. This value is conveyed by its name: ICE.
Its stroke of daring – transforming a watch into a fashion accessory but a chic one at that – could have melted like ice in the sun. On the contrary, it has become one of the coolest successes on the planet. At a time when every minute counts, the Ice-Watch brand ensured its world domination by going out and getting the skills wherever they are. It was a matter of finding the right pace. Its limitless creativity is supported by talented designers based in Belgium and reliable Belgian services, the quality of Japanese movements (Miyota), Chinese expertise in production and assembly, and Hong Kong organisation for the logistics and distribution. It is said that a tree can be judged by its roots: they remain firmly planted in Belgium thanks to the efforts of the Ice-Watch brand's founder and CEO, Jean-Pierre Lutgen. Marketing, communication, legal aspects and web campaigns are shared between Brussels and Bastogne, where the local presence was boosted in 2014 with the construction of a 6,000 m2 European storage centre. From one cog to the next, from solid teams to dynamic partners, from superb designers to committed distributors, the Ice-Watch brand has given itself the means to constantly grow its presence on an international scale.
As flexibility and responsiveness are encouraged at each level, it's easier to understand how a simple idea could be transformed into a trendy accessory worn all around the world. Multiple styles: minimalist, sporty, urban, colourful, glamorous, romantic. Multiple materials: Ice-Ramic, silicone, metal, leather. Multiple audiences: men, women, kids and juniors. Multiple desires: 8 to 10 new collections per year, fitted with a screwed back, making them waterproof to 10 ATM. Collector's models and more targeted models are released thanks to partnerships and prestigious co-branding arrangements (BMW Motorsport, Pantone Universe, Vendée Globe Race). The wide range of Ice-Watch timepieces can adapt to the lifestyle and activities of those who wear them. It's more than a marketing strategy, it's the commitment of a brand that's a legitimate leader in its sector.
The Ice-Watch brand enjoys high visibility, whether on the wrist, in the 'BeCubic' presentation box, on social media (4,500,000 Facebook fans) or through the vast network of Flagship Stores, Ice-Stores, kiosks and retail points of sale. Ice-Watch collections have generated many different product placements on the international music scene: Black Eyed Peas, Jennifer Lopez, David Guetta, etc.
Their vibrancy has attracted great sportsmen who have acted as ambassadors: world cycling champion Philippe Gilbert, the swimmer Florent Manadou and the DTM championship driver Marco Wittmann behind the wheel of his Ice-Watch BMW M4. The Ice-Watch brand can now boast incredible viewer ratings thanks to the best weather girl on TV: Tatiana Silva, the beautiful Belgian who now presents the weather on TF1, France's channel 1.
The worldwide Belgian brand has thus become an enduring household name and will continue to do what it does best: shake up the watch market with affordable prices (from €59) and unfailing energy, innovation and the will to boldly go where no other watch brand has gone before...


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The current pandemic has disrupted the world of higher education and work as we know it. Many thousands of international students and professionals can no longer travel internationally at will and must now learn how to effectively study and work remotely. To excel in American online learning and work environments, international students and foreign-born professionals need to know how American universities and companies use the Internet to organize study and work, develop and execute projects, communicate ideas, collaborate, and solve organizational and technical problems. By taking this course, you will learn how to enhance your cultural knowledge and assess potential skill gaps that may hinder your online experience or negatively impact your performance in U.S. virtual learning and work environments. Throughout the course you will systematically review competencies required for online work, come to better understand common barriers for non-native students and professionals, learn how to detect and overcome competency gaps, and develop plans for self-improvement and success. We believe that you will find the course useful and gain new knowledge and skills to become more successful in your remote study/work in the U.S.
The course was previously offered as iMOOC101 and iMOOC102 "Mastering American e-Learning". We have updated it to reflect the new realities of the Post (well, not yet!)-COVID era. We will be glad if you could share your own experiences in navigating the new world of remote teaching, learning, and work.


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A List Apart No. 183
In a triple issue of A List Apart, For People Who Make Websites:
Dynamic Text Replacement
Let your server do the walking! Whether you're replacing one headline or a thousand, Stewart Rosenberger's Dynamic Text Replacement automatically swaps XHTML text with an image of that text, consistently displayed in any font you own. The markup is clean, semantic, and accessible. No CSS hacks are required, and you needn't open Photoshop or any other image editor. Read about it today; use it on personal and commercial web projects tomorrow.
Dynamically Conjuring Drop-Down Navigation
Creating Liquid Layouts with Negative Margins
by Ryan Brill
Two- and three-column, liquid page designs with header and footer are easy to dash off using old-school HTML table layout methods. Designing them in CSS is trickier, and can sometimes even require you to structure your page's content elements in a specific (and undesirable) order. Negative margins to the rescue! Ryan Brill whips up two quick CSS layouts to demonstrate the power of negative thinking.
New publishing schedule
Note for compulsive calendar watchers: A List Apart has always published on Fridays, but we now publish on Tuesdays instead. Discuss amongst yourselves.
- In today's Report:
- Best of the Moll
- Blogs We Love. Number 423 in a series.
- My OB/GYN
- Daddy Dada.
- A study in contrasts
- Do not adjust your television.
- The sixteen year gap
- Crawling from the wreckage.
Best of the Moll
Of late, for pleasure, I often find myself turning to Cameron Moll's Authentic Boredom. On the strength of its useful how-to articles alone, Moll's blog is worth any web or graphic designer's time. The author knows his subject, approaches it in fresh ways, and writes in an engagingly natural voice. The site would repay your time even if it were lacking in visual distinction.
But I keep returning to it mainly because I just like looking at it.
The layout is simple and uncluttered yet it is also ornate, filled with small touches that create a strong sense of "place" and visual brand identity. Call it Minimal/Gothic.
It looks like other blogs, yet it looks only like itself. It subtly echoes elements of other designers' work (for instance, its design alludes to Todd Dominey's What Do I Know and Shaun Inman's personal site) yet it achieves its own visual "voice."
Which is no easy thing to do when creating a site whose structure necessarily resembles the structure of thousands of others. All blogs present the latest content and a means of viewing older content; most use two columns because a two-column format just works; most have simple navigational menus at the top or side, again because such formatting simply works. To achieve originality under such circumstances is no mean feat.
The site's monochromatic color scheme makes article-specific visual elements pop in a way that is cunning, helpful, and pleasurable: cunning because it teases you into reading instead of scanning; helpful because the small visual elements guide you through the reading experience; pleasurable if you have a working pair of eyes.
The little inset demo graphics not only guide you by demonstrating what is being discussed, they also reward you for having read thus far — like little bon bons or puppy treats.
Experiencing good design is a lot more fun than reading about it, so do yourself a favor.
My OB/GYN
My wife is six months pregnant, yet I am the one who seems hormonally strung-out and mentally challenged. I can't remember names, dates, or what we were just talking about. Small frustrations feel like insurmountable obstacles; the most calculated or hackneyed story lines provoke a deep emotional response. I can sit through Notting Hill and not mind it. In the baby store, a tiny bottle of baby shampoo imprinted with a tiny teddy bear logo makes me burst into happy idiot tears.
Every day some baby-related task presents itself. Many are medical. I'm getting check-ups for things I never checked before. Today The Wife and I went for skin cancer screenings (we're fine). I'm sitting there in my little paper gown, answering the doctor's questions about moles and blotches and blackheads, and I quote the opinion of my OB/GYN.
I mean my chiropractor but it comes out "my OB/GYN."
About sums it up.
A study in contrasts
In response to reader requests, I've adjusted this site as follows: the default setting is now higher in contrast; an optional "darker" setting provides even more contrast; and an optional "lighter" setting reproduces the low-contrast former default setting. All three settings are available on the updated contrast-o-meter page. Most browsers will show the changed styles immediately, but a few require you to manually load and refresh the style sheets.
The sixteen year gap
There are 16 years of my life that I can barely remember. On this date eleven years ago, propelled by a power greater than myself, I began crawling up out of the abyss.
Previously in The Daily Report...
- Ninth anniversary
- This site is nine years old. Soon they'll let us take off the bib.
- The Andy Kaufman Effect
- On the web, nobody knows you're not the dog you pretend to be.
- Hot socks from Reboot
- Three favorites from the May 1st Reboot. These sites might stimulate your creativity.
- Blog This
- Now anyone, at virtually any experience level, can own and manage an attractive and standards-compliant personal site. With input from Adaptive Path and Stopdesign, Blogger reinvents itself (and we lend a hand).


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Tap of a button: Uber approved to launch in Kelowna, Victoria
Passenger Transportation Board approved Uber's license transfer application on May 10
Regulator denies Uber expansion across B.C., 'not convinced' of need outside Lower Mainland
Financial effect on taxi companies also taken into account
Uber Canada workers oppose company's new pitch to provinces, say it lacks fair pay
Gig workers say Uber's proposal allows company to continue to avoid treating its couriers and drivers fairly
Uber Canada seeks labour model allowing it to provide benefits to drivers, couriers
Uber is calling their pitch Flexible Work+ and marketing it as a step up from independent contractor model
Taxi companies lose court bid to quash Uber, Lyft approvals in British Columbia
Uber said in a statement that the ruling of the justice is clear and speaks for itself
Uber unveils Canadian commitments to reach goal of being emission-free by 2040
Uber's commitments come as the ride-hailing business has slumped in several markets during the COVID-19 pandemic
Uber to require that passengers provide face-mask selfies
Pandemic caused the number of trips on Uber during its most recent quarter to plunge by 56% from previous year
Uber, Lyft unveil COVID-19 protocols requiring masks for drivers, passengers
Sanitizing cars, washing hands and no front-seat passengers for ride-hailing services
Northwest B.C. company denied approval for ride-share licence
Victoria ride-sharing company is approved licence for Northwest B.C. region
'You're my first female driver': B.C. women hit the road in male-dominated ride-hailing sector
Women driving for Uber and Lyft open up about safety, licensing and why they're in the minority
Ridesharing company with province-wide licensing to start in Metro Vancouver
The company is the first to be approved to operate province-wide
First ride-hailing company approved in B.C.'s north
Kabu Ride Inc. approved to operate province-wide
No injunction for B.C. taxi industry against Uber, Lyft pending judicial review
Vancouver Taxi Association failed to establish that an independent regulator used an uneven playing field, judge says
B.C. launches talks with taxi industry about fees to aid disability services
Cabbies will also soon be able to buy same kind of insurance available to ride-hailing drivers
Taxi association asks B.C. Supreme Court to stop Uber, Lyft from operating
Petition alleges Passenger Transportation Board did not take taxis into account
B.C.'s first ride-hailing app to launch in Tofino, Whistler in February
The Whistle! app will be available in Tofino on Feb.1 and in Whistler Feb. 6.
B.C. MLAs call for no caps, no boundaries for ride hailing drivers
Minister Claire Trevena says Class 4 licence requirement will stay
B.C. MLA should step down from ride hailing committee, opposition says
Ravi Kahlon says his father's taxi licence in Victoria isn't a conflict
B.C. taxi app gets set to launch before ride-hailing allowed
Kater plans to link cab companies to customers province-wide
B.C. ride hailing regulation battle to carry on into 2019
Green MLAs vote against allowing ordinary driver's licence
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text: A Colorado man has been ordered to pay $6 million in damages and legal fees for spamming thousands of MySpace.com users.Scott Richter of Westminster, Colorado, must pay MySpace $4.8 million in damages and $1.2 million in legal fees, a court-appointed arbitrator ruled on Thursday.Richter, who was once accused of pumping out more than 100 million spam messages per day, had been sued by MySpace in January 2007 in connection with an August 2006 campaign in which MySpace members were hit with unsolicited messages promoting a Web site called Consumerpromotionscenter.com. The messages were sent from phished MySpace accounts, according to the findings of Philip Boesch, the court-appointed arbitrator in the case.The messages were sent to a MySpace community that was ill-equipped to deal with any security problems. At the time, "MySpace only employed two relatively junior staff employees to deal with these issues," Boesch wrote. The company's security staff has now grown to about 40, he added.MySpace had been seeking a court ruling in the case, but in August 2007, U.S. District Judge George King of the Central District of California granted Richter's request to assign the matter to arbitration. Terms of the award were made public on Monday.In a statement, Richter said that he and his company, Media Breakaway, were happy to have this matter behind them, noting that the arbitrator's award was 95 percent less than the amount sought by MySpace."We respect the decision of the arbitrator and we're not going to appeal it," said Steven Richter, the president and general counsel of Media Breakaway and father of Scott Richter. "We're going to pay the money he awarded."This is not the first time a Scott Richter company has had to cough up millions of dollars to fight spam charges. In 2005, his previous company, Optinrealbig.com, paid $7 million to settle similar charges brought by Microsoft.Scott Richter was removed from anti-spam organization Spamhaus' list of known spammers that same year.Media Breakaway, which has no other spam cases pending, is doing everything it can to build a compliance team and make sure it is acting within the law, Steven Richter said.MySpace said the Richter award was the latest in a series of steps it has taken to combat abuse on its Web site. In May, the company was awarded a $230 million antispam judgment against Sanford Wallace and Walter Rines."This award reflects MySpace's continued momentum and holistic approach to ridding the site of spammers and phishers," MySpace said in a statement. "We will continue to do our part in cleansing the Internet of this invasive onslaught of spam."


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Art In Conversation
MICHELLE GRABNER with Barry Schwabsky
On the occasion of her recent exhibitions at Green Gallery, Milwaukee, and Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois, Barry Schwabsky took a road trip with Michelle Grabner during which they discussed her paintings as well as the curatorial projects she runs with her husband Brad Killam, The Suburban in Oak Park (formerly the garage behind their house) and the Poor Farm in Little Wolf, Wisconsin. The conversation concluded over tea in Michelle's kitchen.
Barry Schwabsky (Rail): All right so here we are, we're on the road from Chicago, about how long do we have to go until Milwaukee?
Michelle Grabner: At this point we're going around Kenosha. We are just over the state line, so we're looking at 40 minutes.
Rail: When I first knew you, you were teaching in Milwaukee, isn't that right?
Grabner: That is right. Before taking a tenure track position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison I was teaching high school art at a prep school in Brown Deer, one of Milwaukee's affluent northern suburbs. It was a K-12 school, so as faculty, my kids could attend this private school receiving tuition remission, dodging Milwaukee's perpetually struggling public school system.
Rail: So you're attached to this Milwaukee art situation in some way?
Grabner: I was born in Oshkosh and grew up in the Fox River Valley. After high school I headed to the big city, attending the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where I received my B.F.A. and then stuck around for an M.A. in art history. After graduate school at UWM, I went to Northwestern, completing an M.F.A. in 1990. Almost immediately my husband, Brad Killam, and I moved back to Milwaukee. I was pregnant with my second child so Milwaukee seemed manageable in terms of supporting a young family and starting careers as artists. Here we could arrange our life so that part-time teaching could sustain dedicated studio practices while raising two young kids. Chicago is vastly more expansive and more expensive so we thought that Milwaukee was the better option for us coming out of graduate school. It was a great decision. I regret moving to Chicago seven years later, and thinking that was our only viable option as artists living in the Midwest.
Rail: Let's step back for a minute. When you went to college, were you already going with the idea of becoming an artist?
Grabner: I went to college with the idea of being an artist and a teacher. I recognized that sustaining a relatively conventional lifestyle—family, kids, a mortgage—needed financial and emotional stability so I always kept teaching in the fore as an obvious means to integrate art and family life. An M.A. in art history was a strategy to land a college teaching job at some small liberal arts school were I could teach art appreciation, studio classes, and art history surveys, giving me an edge over the competition who only sport M.F.A. degrees. It still took seven years to land a full-time teaching post. Ironically, I am now Chair of the Painting and Drawing Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a program that rejected my graduate school application.
Rail: As a kid, what were your experiences that led you to think about being an artist, what was your idea about what an artist was and what art was?
Grabner: I had an extraordinary high school art teacher who made the idea of being an artist real for me. And although I never knew a working artist growing up, art was not a novel concept. My dad owned a set of oil paints that he used to paint his taxidermy fish. And on occasion he would paint landscape and wildlife pictures. My grandfather made sculptures out of tree roots in addition to carving decoys, hooking rugs, and quilting. He was quite the crafter. I never considered my dad or my grandpa artists, but I also never imagined living life without making aesthetic things with my hands. However, the fact that this could be one's sole work was a thrilling revelation to me thanks to the worldliness of my high school art teacher.
Rail: So we fast forward to the present and this young person who had this idea that maybe she could teach art appreciation and also make some art and have a family and so on, does have a family and is making art, and in my view giving an incredible example of how to work in a, let's say, second-tier city in terms of the art market and connecting to an international art circuit, and doing it on your own terms in a really non-provincial and very conscious manner. Now how did that all come about?
Grabner: Yes, that's well-articulated. I simply refuse to participate in Chicago's provincial disposition.
Rail: Maybe I should also say that one of the things that's made me think about that is I've just been starting to read an anthology that's been published of writings from the New Art Examiner, and I'm reading right now the early ones from the '70s. The sense of the embattled provincial, I have to say, is very strong in that writing. The New Art Examiner really did reach out to national and to some extent international scenes, but at the same time there is that sense of being embattled.
Grabner: That battle rages on today and I find it exhausting. It is hugely frustrating and culturally wasteful. This is why I have no esteem for Chicago and prefer the social and cultural landscape of Milwaukee. Great amounts of creative energy are still being wasted on promoting and reinforcing outdated cultural hierarchies or on criteria of success adapted from New York. I work very hard not to get caught up in that very real "second city" or "fly-over" psychology. Instead I work within the freedoms and resources that this city provides. To maintain a rigorous art practice here, artists need to set their own criteria, continuously measuring and contextualizing their work. And this is more difficult than one might think because, unlike New York, Chicago is shockingly slight on critical, economic, and professional support.
Rail: Although there are plenty of big collectors in Chicago.
Grabner: And they go to New York to buy the majority of their work, as they should. But back to your question, "how I'm able to do it?" By foregrounding the alternative and reveling in its off-center potential instead of succumbing to Chicago's unremarkable and fraught identity as a cultural center.
Rail: So tell me how The Suburban fits into that, how it came about.
Grabner: Initially it came from a place of youthful idealism. But our friend David Robbins—and his research in the contemporary imagination, specifically his claim that the suburbs are an over-looked site for avant-garde activities—was also a driving force behind The Suburban. When we were living in Milwaukee, we knew we had to step it up so as not to fall out of the conversations we left behind in graduate school. So while in Milwaukee I started writing for Frieze and curating exhibitions. We moved from Milwaukee back to Chicago in 1997 and some of that attitude just came with us. A year after moving back to Chicago, Brad and I, along with the Danish critics Lars Bang Larsen and Jacob Fabricius, curated Bicycle Thieves, a citywide exhibition of contemporary Danish art including work by Peter Land, Elmgreen and Dragset, N55, Superflex, Tal R, Ann Lislegaard, Annika Ström, and many others who made projects at museums, galleries, and artist-run spaces during the summer of 1998. Opening The Suburban in 1999 continued to bring the international art world to us. Since then we have worked with 200 artists from Sydney to St. Louis.
Rail: Given what you said about the lack of a market here, how has The Suburban supported itself?
Grabner: The Suburban operates within the economy of our household. Brad and I are fortunately privileged to be full-time art faculty at two very different kinds of institutions here in Chicagoland. The Suburban has never entertained any commercial ambition. And on that rare occasion when somebody's interested in buying a Walead Beshty glass FedEx box, we will direct that interested party to Walead, or to his commercial gallery. We support a lot of things at The Suburban but negotiating a commercial sale is not something that interests us.
Rail: I've heard that it was Luc Tuymans who sought out The Suburban to exhibit, rather than the other way round, is that true?
Grabner: It is true. And it is a good story about generosity and alternative thinking. Luc and his artist wife Carla Arocha attended an opening at Suburban. I believe it was an opening for an exhibition by David Robbins. They were in town because Carla just opened a show at a commercial gallery here. A couple of weeks later Luc emailed from Antwerp and asked if he could show one painting at The Suburban. Initially we were hesitant because we didn't carry art insurance for our little space. But after discussing this, we determined that hosting a Tuymans painting in our concrete block gallery in the yard of our suburban house would be an exciting critical gesture for all parties. Needless to say we purchased an insurance rider. The painting went to an American collector and Luc's Antwerp gallery, Zeno X, saw fit to donate a percentage of that sale to The Suburban. We put that generous gift into erecting another building on our property in Oak Park that includes two more exhibition spaces.
Rail: What's in the spaces now?
Grabner: The small gallery features a project by Pam Lins, a New York-based artist, and the larger space hosts an exhibition curated by MINUS SPACE that includes paintings by Mark Dagley, Gabriele Evertz, and Gilbert Hsiao. The MINUS SPACE show is unusual as we typically present one-person exhibitions. The third gallery here on our corner property in Oak Park is used by Shane Campbell Gallery as a project space.
Rail: And then, that wasn't enough, so you had to start the Poor Farm, too?
Grabner: We're getting old and isn't that what city-dwelling, middle-age couples do: buy a property in the country? We already had a little cottage and studio in Wisconsin when we purchased the Poor Farm. On Memorial Day weekend in 2008 we were heading home to Chicago when I turned to Brad, reminding him that my survey show that had been touring university galleries in the heartland was coming to a close and that all those crates of art were going to be returned. I asked him where he thought we should store them as we drove past the old Waupaca Poor Farm, the huge old institution located directly across the highway from our cottage. The place was ours by August.
Rail: What does it mean, the old poor farm?
Grabner: The history of the poor farm is interesting. This particular poor farm and hundreds like it are part of the American Poor Farm System that arose in the 1850s. It was a progressive social movement. Prior to the American Poor Farm or Poorhouse System, if someone became destitute they were likely to be sold into servitude. The American Poorhouse System is based on the 19th-century English almshouses. If you were assigned to a poor farm or a poorhouse, you were an inmate who labored for room and board. Our poor farm was built in 1876. It has a jail cell in the basement and a graveyard in the back field. Originally it was a 97-acre working farm. Often insane asylums were built in proximity to the poor farms and poorhouses, ganging the institutions that accounted for the societal misfits. When the American Social Security Act came into play in the 1930s, many poor farms became state-run old folks' homes. Not such a good idea for running 97 acres of rural property. Eventually they were sold off into private hands. It's a fascinating, little-known part of American history. The poor farm cemetery accompanying our poor farm has a suicide row that lies just outside the hallow delineation of the cemetery proper. Life was hard. Approximately 280 people lived and died at our poor farm over the course of its history. And records indicate that these were mostly men, the majority of them immigrants from Northern Europe.
The result is a solid, unadorned institutional building that looms sturdy among the pastures and farm fields. Over the years, add-on buildings were necessary to house the growing number of destitute. The large building attached to the back of the main structure functions as a dormitory where artists stay. We shy away from the idea of a proper artists' residency and opt for something more informal and flexible. This has included hosting classes from the University of Minnesota and Columbia College. And each summer we host Summer School, a free school comprised of a mix of students and faculty from colleges in and around the Twin Cities. But back to your question, yes, as middle-aged, mid-career artists, we build art practice and discourse into everything that we do. So the Poor Farm is nothing more than The Suburban's rural cousin with large amounts of exhibition space.
Rail: Okay, and what's going on or coming up at the Poor Farm, then?
Grabner: Something truly exciting. The past couple of years our programming has been quite organic. We've had artists from Baltimore to Auckland stay and make exhibitions, films, and performances at the Poor Farm. Last summer we hosted Guillaume Leblon, a French artist who pulled large slabs of concrete and earth from around the Poor Farm property, installing them in the main gallery. This upcoming summer we are working with New York artist and curator Philip Vanderhyden on a Gretchen Bender survey exhibition that will feature her large-scale video installations. Bender died in 2004. It is puzzling that no other institution has embraced her critical contribution to art and media. There is a good chance that this exhibition will travel to the Kitchen in NYC and then to the Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina after that. We're producing a catalogue as well. This Bender project is hugely exciting and I take great pride in the fact that a scrappy kunsthalle in northeastern Wisconsin is developing historical content as well as supporting experimental projects and exhibitions by contemporary artists. In 2010, the Poor Farm was dedicated to the art historian Moira Roth. The project took the contour of a festschrift that included contributions by Annika Marie, Janet Kaplan, Chuck Mobley, and David Horvitz, Linda Nochlin, Suzanne Lacy, Dinh Q. Lê, Slobodan Paich, and many others who have been impacted by this extraordinary scholar and educator.
Rail: It's interesting to me that basically a lot of the art that was very much in the air when I was first in New York and first becoming interested in art is now up for historical reexamination. It makes me feel old. I must be historical, too, then. But Gretchen Bender's work and then a lot of the other work out of the same milieu, seems to be such a quintessentially urban work and it carries something of the atmosphere of the New York of that time and of the grittiness of the rather depressed and alienated ethos of the time, which was articulated first through punk rock and then through some of the visual manifestations that followed. I can't help but wonder what that's going to be like in the middle of rural Wisconsin and how it will look different or feel different or how it will speak differently there.
Grabner: That's exactly right and this is why her work is striking renewed interest. And yes, Bender's theater-scaled video performances will seem profoundly incongruent set within a context of rural space. Hopefully this will set up an ideal space to understand and reconsider her work. To be perfectly honest, the Bender project sprang from a curatorial project that I'm working on for Marianne Boesky Gallery that will open at the gallery's 64th street location on May 2. The show is titled 25 Years of Talent and uses David Robbins's renowned photo composition "Talent" as a curatorial conceit. "Talent" was made in 1986 and is comprised of 18 black and white headshots of the artists who are familiar to Nature Morte and early Metro Pictures. The artists featured include Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Robert Longo, Michael Byron, Ashley Bickerton, Robin Weglinski, Allan McCollum, Jennifer Bolande, Jenny Holzer, Clegg & Guttmann, Joel Otterson, Alan Belcher, Peter Nagy, Larry Johnson, Steven Parrino, Tom Lawson, and David Robbins. Gretchen Bender was also one of the "talented."
Rail: One could easily be very surprised that someone who does the kind of work you do as an artist, a rather meditative form of painting, is particularly interested in the work of someone like Gretchen Bender. Is there an interrelation or is it simply that you have multiple interests and they're not all manifested through your own work?
Grabner: Indeed, I have multiple interests, but it is also worth noting that this work and its criticality imprinted on me when I was in graduate school in the late '80s. My master's thesis was titled, "Postmodernism: A Spectacle of Reflexivity" and included many of those orbiting in Bender's world, like Richard Prince and Sherrie Levine. In my studio, appropriation and critique indirectly weave through my work as I deal in found compositions and unoriginal methods of composition and production. The fact is that The Suburban, the Poor Farm, curating, writing, and teaching are super social endeavors and they often evoke various critical positions. But yes, my studio is not social.
Rail: Yeah, I think a lot of that work from the '80s really had to do with the overload of noise to signal, to use the terms of information theory. With the way that the noise of society was, in a way, impinging on and decreasing the space of individuality, rationality, clarity. In your painting you're also working with things that are found in the culture at large and are common things rather than necessarily highly individualized things. But there's a sense of clarity there which communicates that to me through those common things. You've found a place where you can be yourself and not be pushed aside by the noise of the media.
Grabner: That's exactly right. It is so interesting that you bring up alienation and the loss of self in a lot of the '80s work by the fact we are still faced with profound alienation, ironically amid vast fields of social networking. It's the space of rearticulation, of repetition, that happens in the studio that gives clarity to my social-oriented endeavors.
Rail: Also interesting is that when a tool is new, it's not clear yet what can and can't be done with it, and it's also not clear yet how to control and channel from above what can be done with it. I think we're still in that early stage with a lot of social networking and other new media. I don't think they're inherently liberatory, but I think that they have more liberatory potential when they're new, and what they can do is relatively unknown, than they will later on.
Grabner: Perhaps that is why I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the necessity for creating a studio scenario built on situational boredom. I am finding confidence in David Foster Wallace's belief in boredom as a necessary human condition. Of course I am not talking about the crippling, existential kind, but boredom that recontours our relationship to time and social networking, a condition absent of distraction, or as Dave Hickey puts it, absent of static. I am interested in how ideas emerge, grow, and sustain themselves within this condition. Positive boredom is contentment. I am positively content in the studio but endlessly unnerved and anxious in my other work.
Rail: So here we are at the Milwaukee Art Museum. We'll continue this later.
Rail: Alright, bye-bye Milwaukee. Now we're here in Oak Park, in your living room. It's been a real pleasure to see your shows at the Green Gallery in Milwaukee and here in Oak Park with Shane Campbell Gallery, and to see in a way what looks like a real expansion of your project as a painter. I think you're using the metaphor of fabric and taking it in a lot of different directions. It's a big change from the white dot on black ground paintings that I last saw a few years ago.
Grabner: These two shows are a resolute return to the ideas shaping the work I was making 20 years ago when I was painting patterns pulled from my domestic environment: crocheted blankets, paper towel patterns, etc. In the early '90s I was attracted to these familiar motifs for their order and predictability. I was not very interested in them as domestic middle-class signifiers. I started receiving a great deal of critical response to these paintings in terms of the politics of "women's work," and how that was intertwining with ideas in contemporary abstraction. But it was really Platonic ideals of routine and orderliness I was seeking to find by rearticulating my domestic backdrops.
Rail: So did it disappoint or disturb you that people were finding, or emphasizing different ideas in your work than the ones that you thought you were putting in?
Grabner: This was very early on in my career, so to some extent I was just pleased to be part of a conversation about abstract painting. Yet because I had explored these political issues in graduate school, it seemed especially odd that these academic concerns reemerge just when I was developing my own conceptual course and painting vocabulary. So slowly, I abandoned the domestic referent and my search for systems of order in the daily life, turning instead to simple math and counting formulas, Archimedes spiral, and basic radial compositions.
Rail: What's the Archimedes spiral?
Grabner: It is a spiral where the distance between the arms or the windings is constant, unlike a Fibonacci Spiral or a golden spiral that grows wider every quarter turn. So with the black tondo paintings, I start with a point just off center and then keep rotating outward until a point falls off the canvas face. Then the work is finished. These paintings appear as if they are comprised of concentric circles but this is not the case. They end up being extraordinarily optical, and I find them vulgar. Anyway, the new work that is currently on view in Milwaukee and Oak Park is a revisiting of domestic motifs, especially gingham. Some of my interest in rethinking that work has a lot to do with the fact that my domestic environment has changed. Our two boys are off at college and Ceal, my seven-year-old daughter, is still all sweetness and light. I have tenure and more resources. Those tropes culled from a domestic frame don't unnerve me the way they did in the '90s. Now I can bring them to the fore and embrace their low-brow cliché with abandon.
Rail: The new gingham patterning is still very optical, still.
Grabner: Yeah.
Rail: You say "yeah" with some ruefulness.
Grabner: Well, they don't have the dizzying quality that the 80-inch round canvases exhibit. Yet you are right, especially in tight juxtapositions such as in the hanging at the Green Gallery. But I hope the physicality of the paint curbs some of the optical play. The gingham work is painted without employing tape, thus lacking hard edges. And the paint itself has a viscous enamel-like quality to it—it has body yet it also levels.
Rail: They're very tactile.
Grabner: Yes, but it's not a tactility that mimics fabric. It's corporeal and it's a grid. Clearly I have perennially struggled with the unintentional variants and subtexts in articulating systems of repetition, systems of mark-making, and pattern-construction. So with the gingham patterns I need the imprecision of my hand and the body of the medium to reaffirm abstract value in this clichéd vernacular motif.
Rail: The very pale pink one that's here, I think because of its paleness, doesn't have the optical bounce that, let's say, the red one, the red and white one does. To me it doesn't matter how non-strict the line is, there's still a very sharp contrast between the red and the white that you're working with that just inevitably produces these after-effects—
Grabner: That is right. The retina can't avoid making the optical bounce the painting's main event. And as you can tell I am unsettled by the prominence of these effects. The pale painting you are referring to gets its atmospheric quality from the literal transfer of fabric ink into wet gesso. Unlike the gingham work that employs painting as a means to simulate weaving, the transfer paintings are more true to the indexical process I was using in the '90s where I would spray through those domestic backdrops, get an image, and then carefully fill in the positive or negative patterns with glossy enamel.
Rail: And then the white paintings—you're taking fabric and pricking out some of the threads? Is that right? And then, as it were, collaging that to the surface of the painting?
Grabner: I'm taking found scraps of burlap and linen, and removing some of the warp and weft material to create pattern. I then embed these weavings under layers of gesso, hopefully confounding painting and weaving, subject and support. Again, I create allover pattern from the fabric's intrinsic grid structure but the result of embedding them in gesso makes them akin to a static plaster relief. This work is influenced from weeks in Switzerland looking at too many Paul Klee paintings. But I also see these paintings in relationship to the work of Eleanore Mikus, Anni Albers, and Sheila Hicks. Last summer I was in a three-person show at Southfirst in Williamsburg called Women and Weaving that included work by Polly Apfelbaum and Ariel Dill. The show, organized by Maika Pollack, was sparked by the Sonia Delaunay exhibition at Cooper Hewitt. Anyway this work is my attempt at actually handling and manipulating warp and weft structures instead of re-representing it via painting or drawing.
Rail: And are you sanding back into the gesso, then?
Grabner: In some of the tight weaves I am sanding through the gesso to reveal color and the topography of fabric.
Rail: So really it's a kind of painting in which the support becomes the figure of its own ground, or something like that? I can't quite wrap my head around how! Some distinctions are being collapsed there that we would normally make, I think.
Grabner: That's right. These works are firmly grounded in the now defunct tension between painting and weaving, crafts and the fine arts. I hope to reinvigorate some of the power struggles between burlap and linen, the loom and the stretcher, and concepts of labor and work, dichotomies most recently leveled by the free market's objective to bring diversity to market.
Rail: How domestic is too domestic? What is that dividing line that one wants to maybe come close to but not cross over?
Grabner: Being mid-career, middle-aged, and loving the liberties that come with this location, I'm willing to explore ideas and motifs that may fall flat. But thinking about the possibilities gets my heart racing. I'm glad you brought it up because that's where I'm most interested in situating the new work.
Rail: So do you identify yourself as an abstract painter? If someone asked you what you do, is that what you would say?
Grabner: I am committed to painting and its ideas. But I prefer thinking about it as a language in relationship to contexts outside itself. With that, I feel most comfortable being identified as a conceptual artist.
Rail: And have you ever felt any identification with the so-called pattern and decoration painters of the '70s?
Grabner: There's a kind of showy beauty, saturation, and density to that work that I was never able to appreciate. I understand it intellectually but it is too indulgent for my taste. Perhaps I am too middle class. A colleague and neighbor here in Oak Park, Judy Ledgerwood, expertly aligns herself with this movement, its lurid taste, and lifestyle. Roberta Smith aptly wrote in the Times last summer that Judy is singlehandedly taking on this movement.
Rail: [Laughs.] I wonder. Somehow maybe it's the pattern that's O.K. but the decoration is where it—a lot of that also had a kind of strong figurative element, and a strong element of material richness. And, without wanting to put too much weight on these words, and also without even knowing which one you would identify with in terms of your background—I don't know—I would say one is kind of more Catholic and the other seems more Protestant.
Grabner: Ironically I was raised Catholic but unquestionably my work embraces a Protestant work ethic and emphasizes textuality over figuration.
Rail: And then there's a third type of piece you included in your show at Shane Campbell Gallery, which are black yarn embroidered works on unstretched canvas. And that seems like quite another thing altogether.
Grabner: Yeah, I've been working on these clumsy black circle stitcheries thinking about Gertrude Stein's interest in punctuation and her work Tender Buttons. These are works that I make in the car as we drive back and forth between Chicago and Wisconsin.
Rail: Always those kind of circular forms?
Grabner: Yes indeed, I start in the center and spiral out employing a very bulking backstitch. The accumulation of the black yarn and embroidery floss overtakes the linen support and pushes outward creating an absurd breast-like contour.
Rail: Well, I was going to ask if Duchamp's "Prière de toucher" was a deliberate reference.
Grabner: No, not a deliberate reference. Instead they look like something that was wrought from feminist art practice in the '70s so in that way your observation is oddly accurate, a "polite" Midwestern interpretation of Valie Export and Duchamp perhaps.
Rail: Any thoughts about the dichotomy that's been there in your work between centralized forms and allover grids?
Grabner: I was very determined when I moved from the grid to radial compositions 10 years ago. My recent return to the grid has more to do with taking on the mess of the material world and domestic motifs as signifiers. These references just so happen to be built from warp and weft structures.
Rail: One last question, about your referring to yourself as a conceptual artist. And just wondering what it means to say that because, you know, certainly not in the sense of John Baldessari who would hire someone else to paint or execute his concept, and not in the sense of someone who withholds from having a commitment to the medium of paint. As far as one can see when looking at your work or at the development of your work, it's very much involved with the practice of painting as an ongoing activity. Where do you locate the special conceptual dimension?
Grabner: A "conceptual" label gives me objective distance from the language. For example, I consider my silverpoint work paintings because they explore painting's purchase on flatness and spatial illusion. It also allows me to think of all the things I do as being interrelated. In other words, I am not that artist who wears "many hats" but instead someone who examines ideas in different ways, whether that is as a writer, curator, teacher, or studio artist. Besides, it is much more difficult to be a conceptual artist. All really good painters are.


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Challenge Basics:
Name: Off the Shelf 2012
Hosts : Bookish Ardour
Starts: January 1, 2012
Ends: December 31, 2012
Eligible Books: Books I own from any genre (2011 and older)
Levels: Seven. I am going to try for the second level 15 books
Link your reviews? Yes, HERE
Prizes? None that I see
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Why I'm Interested:
Because I'm always neglecting my own books and they're piling up fast!
My Unfair Godmother by Janette Rallison
How to Take the Ex Out of Ex-boyfriend by Janette Rallison
Haunting Violet by Alyxandra Harvey
Dust and Decay by Jonathan Maberry
The Lantern by Deborah Lawrenson
The rest of the Aubrey/Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian
Um, and that's just what's on the shelf right in front of me.
13. The Mauritius Command by Patrick O'Brian
12. Rogue's Home by Hilari Bell
11. Magic Can Be Murder by Vivian Vande Velde
10. Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo
9. The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielsen
8. Aphrodite the Diva by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
7. Everneath by Brodi Ashton
6. Cinder by Marissa Meyer
5. The Fourth Stall Part II by Chris Rylander
4. Athena the Wise by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
3. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins
2. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins
1. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
39. Poseidon and the Sea of Fury by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
38. Player's Ruse by Hilari Bell
37. Audrey's Guide to Witchcraft by Jody Gehrman
36. Zeus and the Thunderbolt of Doom by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
35. The Archived by Victoria Schwab
34. Crimson Frost by Jennifer Estep
33. Legend of the Ghost Dog by Elizabeth Cody Kimmel
32. The Darkest Minds by Alexandra Bracken
31. The Dark Unwinding by Sharon Cameron
30. Sir Apropos of Nothing by Peter David
29. Undead by Kirsty McKay
28. Outpost by Ann Aguirre
27. Claws by Mike and Rachel Grinti
26. Shift by Kim Curran
25. Girl of Nightmares by Kendare Blake
24. Amber House by Kelly Moore
23. All You Never Wanted by Adele Griffin
22. The Girl Games by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
21. A Conspiracy of Kings by Megan Whalen Turner
20. The King of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
19. The Queen of Attolia by Megan Whalen Turner
18. The Thief by Megan Whalen Turner
17. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
16. Something Strange and Deadly by Susan Dennard
15. Soulbound by Heather Brewer
14. The Queen's Vow by C. W. Gortner
13. Scary School by Derek the Ghost
12. The Assassin's Curse by Cassandra Rose Clarke
11. Tiger Lily by Jodi Lynn Anderson
10. Griffin Rising by Darby Karchut
9. Dark Frost by Jennifer Estep
8. Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein
7. Ordinary Magic by Caitlen Rubino-Bradway
6. A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont
5. Bourne by Lisa T. Bergren
4. Graceling by Kristin Cashore
3. Artemis the Loyal by Joan Holub and Suzanne Williams
2. The Hero's Guide to Saving Your Kingdom by Christopher Healy
1. Freshman Year and Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredith Zeitlin


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It had to happen I suppose.
I have begun o delete comments that attack one another and offer nothing whatsoever to do with the story at hand.
Earlier today I posted Scott Johnson's "Why I am here."
On that post, I asked Scott to explain why he comments as much as he does (He has over 1,000 comments – far more than anyone else).
Scott said he wanted – and encouraged everyone else to do the same- for or against him – or anything else. I will keep that post wide open to commenters in the future who wish to insult one another. If you want to insult each other and link to porn and give out each others' addresses, this is the link for you.
In all subsequent posts, however, I plan to take down comments that add nothing to the conversation and merely insult one another. I wish I didn't have to do this, but a blog has to be responsive to its readers. Overwhelmingly, readers ask that the comments section return to what it was for quite a while – a place to further the topic at hand and oftentimes provide valuable information.
By way of example, here are the comments I took down today:
[Fake] Scott Johnson
Hey Everyone,
I'm having a FREE AMWAY PRODUCT give away this evening. I will be giving away Amway Legacy of Clean products and Amway artistry face creams.
Starts at 7pm. If you are in the Plano, Dallas, or Richardson area.
3241 Portside Lane
Plano TX 75023
Ask for Scott
[Fake] Scott Johnson
Hey SNOWFLAKES! Eat my Schwartz.
My radio show broadcasts at 5am, weekdays ON FM 108.1. Next show, I will be having Tanster, Ben Szemkus, DB Cooper, and Sirhan Sirhan as guests.
Tune in, if you have THE GUTS. LOL
You can't handle the TRUTH.
[Real] Scott Johnson
in reply to Python Swoope.
Thanks for your input, Libtard. LOL
[Real] Scott Johnson
In reply to [Fake] Scott Johnson
Too bad everyone knows that clicking on the real @ScottTexJohnson's name goes to a link to his twitter account, where they can then visit my websites. Thanks for the free publicity, LOSER! LOL
[Real] Scott Johnson
In reply to [Fake] Scott Johnson
I help myself every time I comment, you just don't get it. LOL
[Fake] Scott Johnson
And here is the latest pic of Ben Szemkus taken today.
He is ALIVE AND WELL LIBTARDS! LOL
Viva Amway! Viva Scott Johnson!
The link above brings us to this picture:
Clearly, these comments have nothing to do with posts on Emiliano Salinas or Clare Bronfman's bail package – where they appeared. So I [reluctantly] deleted them.
Finally, I would like to say that I like Scott Johnson and when I appeared on his show, he was a true gentleman. We have spoken on the phone and when we don't agree, he is not rude in the slightest. I think he is an intelligent man and I am pretty sure the Fake Scott Johnson would like him if they met for a beer.
I also think the Fake Scott Johnson has a good sense of humor and I get where he/she is coming from – trying to use ridicule to dampen the disagreeable comments.
But it just seems to be distracting from the important dialogue. So, I invite both of you to continue commenting but please try to stay on topic and if that is impossible, try at least not to be rude.


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The content below is taken from the original (Amazon releases Chime, a new cloud-based UCaaS), to continue reading please visit the site. Remember to respect the Author & Copyright.
Amazon today announced Chime, a unified communications as a service (UCaaS) offering hosted in Amazon Web Service's cloud.
Amazon is entering a crowded market of UC solutions, some of which are already cloud-based and others that run on customer premises. Nevertheless, analysts who track Amazon say the company has an opportunity here.
Chime uses a mobile or desktop application that is available across iOS, Android and Windows environments. It uses noise-cancelling wideband audio, which Amazon says allows it to deliver high quality audio and video experiences. When a meeting starts, Chime calls all the participants, who can join by clicking a button; there is no PIN required. Chime shows a visual roster of all attendees, which Amazon says eliminates the "who just joined" questions that can occur on conference calls. Any user has the ability to mute a noisy participant. Advanced editions of Chime allow IT to centrally manage users and settings, including integrating it with existing corporate directories.
Chime's pay-as-you-go licensing model is based on how much it is used in an organization. Many other UCaaS offerings require licensing contracts and seats. A Basic edition of Chime is free and allows users to attend meetings and make video and voice calls. A Plus edition is $2.50 per user per month and adds some user management features, such as linking Chime to an Active Directory and retaining up to 1GB of message history per user. A Pro Plan allows screen sharing for up to 100 users and includes unlimited Voice over IP (VoIP) for $15 per user per month. There is also a rate per minute for conference call dial ins, which in the U.S. is $0.003 or $0.012 for toll-free.
Anyone can download and use Chime, but Amazon partners Level 3 and Vonage will offer supported versions of it when it is generally released in the second quarter. In a press release announcing Chime, Amazon cited the retailer Brooks Brothers which deployed the offering in a pilot before its release. Internal adoption reached 90% of the company's corporate staff without any formal rollout or training, IT director Phillip Miller said.
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The UC market is fragmented into two major buckets: on-premises platforms, which have been the traditional deployment method and remain the most common. Cisco Unified Communications Manager (Unified CM), Avaya Aura platform and the Mitel MiCollab are some of the big vendors.
In recent years with the advent of cloud computing, the UCaaS market has evolved. Vendors like Cisco with WebEx, GoTo Meeting, Intercall and PGI offer cloud and application-based platforms in which organizations don't have to install hardware and software packages to run UC systems.
"It's a market that's continually in transition," says Bern Elliot, distinguished analyst at Gartner who tracks the UC industry. Gartner estimates the cloud-based UC market was $12 billion in 2016, growing at 15% to $22 billion in 2020.
But Elliot says Amazon's entrance into the UCaaS market should also be viewed in a larger context. In the broader cloud market, two of Amazon's biggest competitors are Microsoft and Google, both of whom have strong offerings across not only infrastructure as a service, but enterprise applications as well. Microsoft has Office 365 and Google has its G Suite of work apps. In the UC space, Microsoft has Skype for Business and Google has Hangouts. Amazon before Chime did not have a competing UC offering.
Chime is the latest in a series of enterprise applications offerings rolled out by Amazon in recent years. Amazon WorkDocs is a file storing and sharing service (competitive with Microsoft OneDrive and Google Drive). WorkSpaces is a virtual desktop offering, and WorkMail is an email and calendaring application.
"Amazon is slowly amassing a digital workplace portfolio," Elliot says, adding that Amazon's enterprise application offerings aren't nearly as well known or established as Microsoft or Google's, yet.
"If you take the long view, which Amazon certainly does, they want to position themselves as a broader enterprise partner and be able to talk to customers not only about their infrastructure, but applications too," Elliot explains. "Microsoft and Google can have those conversations, and Amazon would like to be able to too."


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Creator: Berkeley Free Church Date: 1970 Contributing Institution: Graduate Theological Union Description: Photo of members of the Berkeley Free church used as a handout to advertise the publication of The Covenant of Peace by Morehouse-Barlowe Co. Among those pictured are: Phyllis Smith, 3rd from left, key volunteer on the switchboard; then John Pairman (Jock) Brown, resident theologian; and Richard York, minister, director and guiding force. Brown described the founding of the church as "bringing hippies and the Peace movement together in a common format, giving radical Pentecostals and radical Catholics the common liturgy of finding housing, finding food, finding people." ("Toward a United Peace and Freedom Church," In The Underground Church, ed. Malcolm Boyd. New York: Sheed and Ward, 1968, p 41.) View Full Item at Graduate Theological Union


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TOKYO (AP) — Frustrated residents of Japan will get another shot at attending next year's Tokyo Olympics when organizers on Friday put more than 1 million tickets into the latest lottery.
Tokyo has generated unprecedented ticket demand inside and outside Japan. Organizers say 3.57 million tickets have already been awarded to Japan residents in two lotteries.
Organizers have repeatedly declined to say how many tickets have been sought. But demand is believed to be at least 10 times over supply— probably more — with widespread complaints about the scarcity.
"We have been doing our best to meet people's expectations as much as possible," Tokyo ticket director Hidenori Suzuki told Associated Press. "But unfortunately, we have a limited number of seats."
Suzuki acknowledged he's received repeated requests to disclose the level of ticket demand. He said he hoped to do that sometime after the latest lottery ends. It opens on Wednesday and runs until Nov. 26, with results announced in mid-December.
The demand has driven up hotel prices and even created concerns about how Tokyo's efficient train system will handle the July 24 to Aug. 9 games.
Organizers say 7.8 million tickets are available for next year's games. They say at least 70% will go to the general Japanese public, which would be about 5.5 million. The rest are sold outside Japan, or allotted to sponsors, national Olympic committees or the IOC, or international sports federations.
Suzuki was also imprecise about the number of tickets available this time.
"We haven't decided exactly how many yet," he said. "It's not going to be way above 1 million."
Jonathan Jensen, who studies sports marketing at the University of North Carolina, said Tokyo organizers have a reason to be vague about ticket numbers.
"It's about the potential embarrassment that very few tickets will actually be part of a public sale," Jensen said in recent email to AP. "And uncertainty around how many tickets need to be held back to ensure commitments to sponsors and others."
More than 60 companies have signed up as local Olympics sponsors, generating just over $3 billion and shattering all records for local sponsorship.
"When you have so many sponsors you have very large guarantees to deliver tickets to them as part of their sponsorship packages," Jensen wrote.
This is the last exclusive chance for residents of Japan. Another ticket offering in the spring will be open to Japan and non-Japan residents on a first-come, first-serve basis.
This is the first time tickets for boxing are included in the Japan lottery.
The International Olympic Committee stripped the boxing body AIBA of the right to organize the tournament, citing corruption in finance, refereeing, and judging. The IOC is now organizing the tournament after a long delay.
Tickets will be unavailable for the marathons. The IOC, citing Tokyo's summer heat, is moving that event to the northern city of Sapporo against the wishes of Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike.
It's unclear where the marathons will be run in Sapporo, and if people who bought tickets to see the finish inside Tokyo's new national stadium will get refunds.
Organizers hope to raise about $800 million in ticket sales. This revenue makes up a large part of the privately funded operating budget of $5.6 billion.
A national government audit report last year said Tokyo would spend about $25 billion to organize the Olympics, all of which is public money except for the operating budget funding.
Organizers dispute the figure and say it's half that much, part of a debate about what are — and are not — Olympic expenses.
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Glassine Sticky Note - Street Corner
Kaori, the founder of Yohaku, collects bits and pieces of old papers and creates her beautiful collage art work in a glassine sticky note. Yohaku means "space/blank" in Japanese, and the beauty of her designs appears in "yohaku" of the design. Enjoy the minimalistic beautify of her art work!
* Size: 7cm x 7cm (2.7" x 2.7")
* Quantity: 24 sheets
* Designer: Kaori Watanabe
* Made in Japan
* More Yohaku Items HERE