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Qompendium is an evolving and ever-changing platform for philosophy, art, culture and science, represented by a series of print publications: magazines, books and monographs. Furthermore, it is enriched by a gallery concept, a work shop and a fast-moving online portal.
Always be Closing.
Watch Alec Baldwin performing one of the best scenes in the movie Glenngarry Glen Ross in his role as Blake.
A-B-C. A-Always, B-Be, C-Closing. Always be closing, always be closing.
Britsh Knights
British Knights is a shoe company founded in 1983 by Jack Schwartz Shoes Inc, based in New York City. In the 1980s, British Knights distinguished themselves as an inner-city and music driven brand, appealing to the predominantly male youth in urban communities.
Every Butoh performance itself is an ultimate expression... If Butoh dancers were content with less than the ultimate, they would not be actually dancing Butoh, for real Butoh, like real life itself, cannot be given rankings. — Iwana Masaki
Butoh is the collective name for a diverse range of activities, techniques and motivations for dance, performance, or movement inspired by Ankoku-Butoh (Dance of Utter Darkness) movement. It typically involves playful and grotesque imagery, taboo topics, extreme or absurd environments, and is traditionally performed in white body makeup with slow hyper-controlled motion, with or without an audience. There is no set style, and it may be purely conceptual with no movement at all. Its origins have been attributed to Japanese dance legends Tatsumi Hijikata and Kazuo Ohno.
P A N D R O G E N Y : 0 3 Communication
The third installment in a series of ongoing "micro-films", presented by The Young Never Sleep studio.
More information on: www.theyoungneversleep.com
Das Triadische Ballet
Das Triadische Ballet (The Triadic Ballet), is a ballet developed by German painter, sculptor, designer and choreographer, Oskar Schlemmer. It premiered in Stuttgart, on 30 September 1922, with music composed by Paul Hindemith, after formative performances dating back to 1916, with the performers Elsa Hotzel and Albert Burger. The ballet became the most widely performed avant-garde artistic dance and while Schlemmer was at the Bauhaus from 1921 to 1929, the ballet toured, helping to spread the ethos of the Bauhaus.
In 1970, Margarete Hasting, Franz Schömbs and Georg Verden recreated the performance which is the film you see here.
Daisies (Sedmikrásky) 1966
Věra Chytilová (born 2 February 1929) is an avant garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her controversial Czech New Wave film, Sedmikrásky (Daisies).
Daisies is known for its un-sympathetic characters, lack of a continuous narrative and abrupt visual style. Chytilová states that she structured Daisies to "restrict [the spectator's] feeling of involvement and lead him to an understanding of the underlying idea or philosophy". The film was banned within Czechoslovakia upon its initial release in 1966 until 1967 due to its depictions and imagery of wasting food, but in 1966 the film won the Grand Prix at the Bergamo Film Festival in Italy. Daisies cemented Chytilová's career both nationally and internationally.
Love is Only Good When It Hurts Baden Powell and Vinícius de Moraes – Canto de Ossahna
Ossanha is an spiritual entity, one of the Orixás worshipped in African and Afro/Brazilian religions such as Candomblé and Umbanda. Ossanha is the Orixá responsible for the ritual and medicinal leaves and plants. The music tells about a very common use in Brazil, the witchcraft for love.
Craft In The Anthropocene
How will the Anthropocene era redefine raw material and craft ?
Artist, designer & "material teller", Yesenia Thibault-Picazo searches for the answer with a research led project, "Craft In The Anthropocene", that investigates the future of geology and interrogates our evolving relationship with nature.
The Anthropocene era is a new geological epoch evidencing the impact of global civilisation on Earth. The term was coined a decade ago by Paul Crutzen and suggests that humankind has become over time a global geophysical force intertwined with the most powerful forces of nature.
Through our collective actions, we spread specific elements in nature, rare in the pre-human era, which will become prevalent sediments, building up the future planetary strata.
Aldo Tambellini's BLACK (1965)
The Black Film Series, a sequence of seven films made between 1965-69, is a primitive, sensory exploration of the medium, which ranges from total abstraction to the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War and black teenagers in Coney Island. This first installment, simply entitled BLACK, was created entirely without the use of a camera. Tambellini physically worked on the film strip, treating the emulsion with chemicals, paint, ink and stencils, slicing and scraping the celluloid, and dynamically intercutting material from industrial films, newsreels and broadcast television. Abrasive, provocative and turbulent, the series remains relevant even today and is a rapid-fire response to the beginning of the information age and a world in flux.
La Vitesse Et La Pierre
"La Vitesse Et La Pierre" is an epic short film created with audio and still images. A film about the restrained Iris and the fleeting Bernard and the solitude that unites them. It is a fun, poetic, melancholy and a highly visual voyage. "La Vitesse Et La Pierre" was created by film director Igor Zimmermann and photography duo Frode Fjerdingstad and Marcus Palmqvist. The film was produced by B-Reel Films in collaboration with Whyred.
Why I am not a Christian
Bertrand Arthur William Russell, born in 1872, Trellech, United Kingdom. The mathemetician, philosopher, logician and essayist engages in a brief yet compelling discussion questioning the practical necessity for religion and theist dogma.
Russell described himself as an agnostic, "speaking popularly" and "in regard to the Christian God", and also "speaking to a purely philosophical audience". For most of his adult life Russell maintained that religion is little more than superstition and, despite any positive effects that religion might have, it is largely harmful to people.
He believed that religion and the religious outlook (he considered Communism, Capitalism, Secular Humanism, Socialism, and other systematic ideologies to be forms of religion) serve to impede knowledge and foster fear and dependency, and are responsible for much of the war, oppression, and misery that have beset the world.
Gerhard Richter at Work
Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Richter has simultaneously produced abstract and photorealistic painted works, as well as photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.
Lunette: The Cup
Maybe a tabu theme or maybe categorized as boring? Maybe it is only for women? If we can go to cloth diapers for babies we can also rethink menstrual cycles and tampons.
In average a woman uses up to 17.000 pads or tampons during her lifetime. The resulting waste amounts to a global annual of 45 billion feminine hygiene products and it creates not only an ecological but also a health problem: bacteria, imbalance of vaginal flora and bad odor to name a few.
The first reaction to the word "menstrual cup" is usually something between disbelief and repulse. But it shouldn't be. This little invention dates back to the 1930s. Now it makes a big come back by the Finns. Lunette is biodegradable, healthy and sin free.
More information on www.lunette.com
Listen to this short interview with Petro Wotkins on his motif and advice to the directors of the museum.
Brad Pitt Debuts as New Face of N°5
A legendary bottle, its very own signature. An abstract fragrance with visionary composition that breaks with the times. A communications campaign that is endlessly renewed, ever bolder, forever anchored in the dream.
Koudlam Brother
Directed, shot and edited by Frederik Jacobi
"Last night I took in French recording artist Koudlam at the Austrian Cultural Forum on 52nd. Koudlam describes his music as electronica/tropical/psychobilly; duly apt. The vibe was very Easton Ellis party piece; first scene of The Informers moody or alternately Less Than Zero coke-fete-montage creepy jubilance. Maybe it was the sunglasses. While sucking on an imported bottle, Koudlam crooned (think time-stretched "Bela Lugosi's Dead"), virtually motionless in front of a laptop. All told, the performance and vibe added up to a sort of Vangelis featuring Jim Morrison collaborating on a cocktail of Adderal and THC vibe." By The Silent Flute.
Described by Interview magazine as a "hip hop infused electro pop" genre, Cookies is a band from New York City specializing in popular music.
Qompendium likes their approach of a physical representation of music in 2012 and, after making a couple 10" vinyl singles for their early work here they come with a new single "crybaby", and a crybaby pillowcase - hand-sewn pieces, in different colors and sizes. In an an invisible, mp3 era, why not mark a musical work by a pillowcase rather than a CD, or tape, or record. Clever people. We love.
Geometric Porn
Tango & Hawaii is collaboration between two visual artists, Luciano Foglia and Anrick Bregman. Working from their studio in Hackney Wick, they create sound and visuals which explore the interplay between the randomised mathematical unpredictability of code and the tangible textures and nuances of real life.
GeometricPorn is a project by Luciano Foglia, a multidisciplinary visual artist. He has been working in the design industry for over ten years focusing on interactive design, code based animations and music. His personal time is spent exploring new ways of expression in music and art, working from his studio in London, Hackney Wick.
Raquel Welch in a rare video: The Sci-Fi Dance
The Sci-Fi Dance, 1967 with Raquel Welch, born September 5, 1940, is an American actress, author and appointed sex symbol.
Dirty Dick
Edward Salem asked Mithajibat women in Paris to wash the filthy windows of a brothel in Pigalle, Paris' red light district (Muslim women who cover their hair are known in Arabic as Mithajibat). The French government has outlawed the burqa and attempted to ban the hijab from public schools on the pretext that these garments oppress women. That these proscriptions are motivated by xenophobia masquerading as concern for women is evidenced by the government's protection of the Pigalle brothels, where women are degraded in a way not even comparable to the wearing of a headscarf. In the context of a simple and voluntary act of service and protest, the condition of the Muslim women is contrasted with that of the prostitutes, whose debasement is perhaps the truest measure of the French government's concern for women.
Film by Edward Salem
Beard Burn
Mohamed Bouazizi was a 26-year-old Tunisian whose self-immolatation in front of a local government building became the catalyst for the Tunisian Revolution. Bouazizi's act of protest was also the first in a wave of eight self-immolations in the Arab world that inspired and emboldened activists in the region, sparking revolutionary protests in several other Arab countries.
Film by Edward Salem
No Nonsense Panty Hose
Pantyhose advert from the 80ies with Nicolette Sheridan.
Epic Panasonic Advertisement
Panasonic Corporation (パナソニック株式会社, Panasonikku Kabushiki-kaisha?), formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. (松下電器産業株式会社, Matsushita Denki Sangyō Kabushiki-gaisha?), is a Japanese multinational consumer electronics corporation headquartered in Kadoma, Osaka, Japan. Its main business is in electronics manufacturing and it produces products under a variety of names including Panasonic and Technics.
Maxell Hi-Fidelity
Hitachi Maxell, Ltd. (日立マクセル Hitachi Makuseru) commonly known as Maxell, is a Japanese company which manufactures consumer electronics. The company's notable products are batteries – the company's name is a contraction of "maximum capacity dry cell" – and recording media, including audio cassettes and blank VHS tapes, and recordable optical discs like CD-R/RW and DVD±RW. But the company also sells electronics and several kinds of accessories, ranging from CD and DVD laser cleaners to storage boxes. On March 4, 2008 Maxell announced that they would no longer manufacture their optical media, but would start contracting other companies to manufacture Maxell media.
Calvin Klein Jeans: Survival of the Fittest
Vintage Calvin Klein Jeans with Miss Brook Shields - we are in the year 1980.
Russian Lipstick Advertisement
Epic vintage video from 70ies. Thanks to our contributor Serge Sns.
How to Pronounce Ayn Rand
From Ayn Rand to Qatar and Hermés this channel has it all. One of our all time favorites.
How to Pronounce Paradigm
The word paradigm has been used in science to describe distinct concepts. It comes from Greek "παράδειγμα" (paradeigma), "pattern, example, sample"from the verb "παραδείκνυμι" (paradeiknumi), "exhibit, represent, expose"and that from "παρά" (para), "beside, beyond" + "δείκνυμι" (deiknumi), "to show, to point out".
How to Pronounce Pseudo
The prefix pseudo- (from Greek ψευδής "lying, false") is used to mark something as false, fraudulent, or pretending to be something it is not.
The art in tattoos and the artists behind
Artists Thomas Hooper and Chris O'Donnell collaborate on full back tattoo. Session one.
Music: This Will Destroy You.
Collaborative Tattooing - Saved Tattoo NYC from Taylor Toole on Vimeo.
Anatomy of a Computer Virus
An infographic dissecting the nature and ramifications of Stuxnet, the first weapon made entirely out of code. This was produced for Australian TV program HungryBeast on Australia's ABC1
Direction and Motion Graphics: Patrick Clair, www.patrickclair.com
Alec Baldwin performing one of his best roles as Blake in the movie Glenngarry Glen Ross.
Blake: You see this watch? You see this watch?
Dave Moss: Yeah.
Blake: That watch costs more than you car. I made 0,000 last year. How much'd you make? You see pal, that's who I am, and you're nothing. Nice guy? I don't give a shit. Good father? Fuck you! Go home and play with your kids. You wanna work here - close! You think this is abuse? You think this is abuse, you cocksucker? You can't take this, how can you take the abuse you get on a sit? You don't like it, leave. _I_ can go out there tonight with the materials you've got and make myself ,000. Tonight! In two hours! Can you? Can YOU? Go and do likewise. A-I-D-A. Get mad you son of a bitches. get mad. You want to know what it takes to sell real estate? It takes BRASS BALLS to sell real estate. Go and do likewise gents. Money's out there. You pick it up, it's yours. You don't, I got no sympathy for you. You wanna go out on those sits tonight and close, CLOSE. It's yours. If not you're gonna be shining my shoes. And you know what you'll be saying - a bunch of losers sittin' around in a bar. 'Oh yeah. I used to be a salesman. It's a tough racket.' These are the new leads. These are the Glengarry leads. And to you they're gold, and you don't get them. Why? Because to give them to you is just throwing them away. They're for closers. I'd wish you good luck but you wouldn't know what to do with it if you got it. And to answer you question, pal, why am I here? I came here because Mitch and Murray asked me to. They asked me for a favor. I said the real favor, follow my advice and fire your fucking ass because a loser is a loser.
Lipstick Enigma
Janet Zweig is an artist who lives in Brooklyn, NY, working primarily in the public realm. Her most recently installed public works include a moving light sculpture for a library in Washington, a sentence-generating sculpture for an engineering school in Orlando, a memorial in the lawn of Mellon Park in Pittsburgh, and two sculptures for a bridge in St. Louis.
More on Janet Zweig
Freaks don't come for free by Julien Love
Freaks don't come for free
In excerpts from a 1988 archival recording, Leon Levinstein talks about his work.
Leon Levinstein (American, 1910 to 1988), an unheralded master of street photography, is best known for his candid and unsentimental black-and-white figure studies made in New York City neighborhoods from Times Square and the Lower East Side to Coney Island.
Courtesy of the www.metmuseum.org.
Ina Yamaguchi and Moritz Firchow
The official German–Japanese relations started with first ambassadorial visits in 1860. Ina Yamaguchi and Moritz Firchow followed history and founded deutsche & japaner creative studio in 2008. Both partners are not only ambitious in the fields of graphic design, product design, illustration, scenography and branding strategies but also well known for their platform for young and aspiring creatives: Arcademi.


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By Alex Dobuzinskis
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The embattled Los Angeles County sheriff, whose department has been plagued by allegations of civil rights violations and corruption, said on Tuesday he will retire at the end of the month rather than seek re-election.
Sheriff Lee Baca's announcement came about a month after federal prosecutors accused 18 current or former sheriff's deputies of beating or wrongly detaining inmates, as well as visitors, at two downtown Los Angeles lockups and trying to cover up the abuse.
"I'm not going to seek re-election for a fifth term as sheriff and I will retire at the end of this month," the 71-year-old Baca told a news conference. He expressed gratitude to the people who elected him and said he wanted to go out on his own terms.
Among the factors he said contributed to his decision was concern about the "negative perception" the campaign for sheriff was bringing the department. He described the department as the "greatest law enforcement agency in the world," to applause from officers.
Baca joined the Sheriff's Department as a deputy in 1965 and was elected in 1998 to lead the 10,000-member department that oversees the largest county jail system in the United States and its roughly 18,000 inmates. He won a fourth term in 2010, but has faced mounting criticism as a June vote approached.
The recent arrests stemming from the probe of inmate abuse came more than a year after a commission blamed Baca for failing to halt what it determined was a persistent pattern of excessive force against inmates by his deputies, dating back years.
Baca embraced a series of reforms recommended by the panel but declined to resign from his post, as some critics had urged.
A separate report released by the American Civil Liberties Union in 2011 cited the department for a number of abuses, including a finding that some deputies had formed gangs that encouraged assaults against inmates.
In another case, the U.S. Justice Department said last year that a probe had found sheriff's deputies in towns north of Los Angeles illegally engaged in a pattern of "intimidation and harassment" of African-Americans in the area who received benefits from the federally funded Section 8 affordable housing program.
Baca, whose voice at times shook with emotion during the news conference, said he began thinking about retirement only three days ago. He did not say whether his retirement was directly tied to the federal probe of his jail system.
In announcing his move, Baca called out two assistant sheriffs, James Hellmold and Todd Rogers, as "highly qualified to run" for sheriff but stopped short of formally endorsing either of them for the post.
A spokesman for U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr, who in December announced the charges against the 18 current and former sheriff's officials, declined to comment on Baca's retirement.
Peter Eliasberg, a spokesman for the ACLU of Southern California, told City News Service the organization welcomed Baca's pending departure and had called for him to step down.
"We believe that the major reform that is necessary for the Sheriff's Department can't happen with him at the helm," Eliasberg said.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will need to appoint an interim sheriff to fill in for Baca from the time of his retirement until the newly elected sheriff takes over.
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Oil crisis looming: Australian Greens
Spiralling oil prices would force an economic crisis in Australia within 15 years if authorities failed to act now, the Australian Greens said today.
Senate candidate Drew Hutton said if Australia had any chance of weathering the shockwave caused by the ballooning oil prices, it had to stop building bigger road systems, switch to hybrid electric cars and upgrade its woeful public transport systems as soon as possible.
"If we keep going on as we are believing that this stuff (oil) is never going to run out or it's never going to get too expensive for us to use, then we're living in a fool's paradise," he said.
Mr Hutton's warning followed news that the price of oil had risen above $US40 a barrel and would continue to rise.
He said experts predicted the world had now reached its peak oil reserves with all major wells now tapped and nowhere else to look for another substantial find.
"It's not as though oil is going to run out in the immediate future, but oil is going to get more expensive," he said.
Mr Hutton said the economies of most civilized nations were heavily dependent on oil and the countries which would deal with this impending crisis best were those that had set themselves up with a quick and efficient public transport system and allowed for bicycle and pedestrian travel.
A spokesman for Deputy Prime Minister and Transport Minister John Anderson said to link current spiralling prices with oil reserves was ridiculous, given the instability of the oil-rich Middle East.
"The Greens like the idea of catastrophe, it didn't happen in the 1970s (when they first predicted one) and it won't happen now," he said.
The spokesman said the government would announce a new land transport plan on June 7 called AusLink, which would be updated every five years, based on projections 20-years ahead to deal with approaching issues including oil prices.
He said Australia's interstate rail system was also on track for an $872 million upgrade over the next five years to provide a viable alternative to car travel.
The spokesman said the Australian Government, along with the United State government, was already taking the issue of depleting oil stocks very seriously and examining alternatives including ethanol and hydrogen.
A disturbing, but I guess predictable, response from the the Australian Government. Note that the Australian Greens did not exists in the 1970s, as suggested.


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The mythical TMAX has truly exceeded all limits…
Last year, Yamaha asked some of the world's most renowned motorcycle customizers to transform the TMAX into something that would fully express their personal style: The "TMAX Hyper Modified" project was born. With the creation of three unique and revolutionary vehicles – made by Roland Sands, Marcus Walz and Ludovic Lazareth – the TMAX had started into new and uncharted territory.
This year, the Hyper modified journey continues – now entering its fourth, and most astonishing chapter.
A team of Italian customizers brought together by the monthly lifestyle magazine Riders Italian Magazine (www.riders-online.it) have created what is perhaps the most astonishing and provocative version of this scooter we have ever seen.
The Yamaha TCROSS Hyper Modified is a radical version of the TMAX that has been fully stripped of its original superstructure and transformed into a vehicle with off-road style and spirit.
Working closely together, Riccardo Girardelli and Rodolfo Frascoli started by carefully analysing the standard Yamaha TMAX before launching the first phase of the project – stripping. They removed everything, only leaving the chassis, the engine and the forks on the workbench. The guidelines they established for building the new TMAX involved using the superstructure, fork and steering yoke from the Yamaha YZ450F motocross model, as well as off-road style wheels and tyres.
The next step was to place the YZ450F body onto the TMAX base. To combine the two bikes together they decided to lengthen the swinging arm in order to replace the 15-inch wheel with a 17-inch wheel. And to resolve the steering angle problem the steering head was disassembled, the steering angle reduced and the assembly re-welded. After this, a sub-frame had to be build to support the fuel tank and the seat. Finally the brakes, the exhaust (that uses the end piece from theYZ450F) and the big, spoked wheels were designed, giving the unit a real enduro look. And to finish off the unit, all plastic parts were painted brown, which has never been seen on an off-road bike, but contrasts sharply with the white parts on the standard model.
"It was time to start the engine and see if our extensive and exciting work would give the expected results. Everything worked fantastically, and each component functioned perfectly. The engine started without hesitation, with a muffled sound that hinted that even the slightest bit of throttle would have it change its tone. And that's what happened", explains Girardelli.
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Rarely does the genteel card game of bridge merit both a news story on the front page of the arts section and an editorial in The New York Times, but that's what happened recently during a raging controversy over free expression.
Here are the bones of it. A seven-member team of American women, winners of the Venice Cup, displayed a sign reading, "We did not vote for Bush" at an awards presentation concluding the recent world bridge championships in Shanghai. Did they act inappropriately? Many Americans will argue that people representing their country shouldn't use the occasion to blast its leader. On the other hand, foreign players were hammering Americans about the war in Iraq and torture, and they may have felt compelled to respond.
Some players sent e-mails accusing the Shanghai Seven of treason and sedition, which according to the Department of Justice "carries a range of penalties from a mandatory minimum sentence of five years in jail to a maximum sentence of the death penalty."
Three of the seven players apologized for the sign. The United States Bridge Federation, which selects players for international competition, proposed penalizing the other four with a one-year suspension from play followed by a one-year probation and 200 hours of community service unless they too expressed regrets and disclosed whose idea the sign was. The USBF commissioned a panel that was supposed to conduct a hearing over the matter on Nov. 29 at the Fall Nationals, an American Contract Bridge League tournament, in San Francisco.
"This isn't a free-speech issue," USBF president Jan Martel told The New York Times, adding that the display could cost the federation its corporate sponsors. "There isn't any question that private organizations can control the speech of people who represent them."
Player, teacher and columnist Danny Kleiman disagreed. "If the USBF wants to impose conditions of membership that involve curtailment of free speech, then it cannot claim to represent our country in international competition," he e-mailed The New York Times. The editorial agreed, and the French team also supported the American players.
Legally, the federation may have been within its rights, since the First Amendment, with some exceptions, only protects individuals from abuse by the government. Rule IV.A.10 of the USBF's Grievance, Appeals and Disciplinary Procedures proscribes "actions unbecoming a member of the USBF . . . including, but not limited to, improper actions at the time and site of a tournament."
However, as five prominent players stated in a letter to the USBF board, "What precisely does this mean, even if we narrow the inquiry to personal expression? Does this rule prohibit all forms of personal expression or only written expression? Does this rule prohibit all statements wherever made or only statements made on the victorypodium? Does it prohibit all statements — political, religious, civic and commercial — or only political statements or only political statements that are anti-American? And, perhaps most importantly, who decides what is 'political' and/or 'un-American'? Is a sign that says World Peace political and un-American because it arguably and implicitly condemns the Iraq War? The fact that so many people — USBF members, other bridge players, and regular people — have such strong feelings, pro and con, as to whether the Shanghai Seven's conduct was unbecoming underscores the fact that the current rules and regulations of the USBF are too ambiguous a standard to support the sanctions sought by the USBF Board against the Shanghai Seven."
Why did the incident stoke such fiery passions in the first place? As one of the letter signers, Marty Fleisher says, "It wasn't as if they held up a sign reading, George W. Bush is a war criminal."
The case recalled the embarrassing example of the Baseball Hall of Fame rescinding an invitation to Bull Durham stars Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon because of their leftist political views. And while we're discussing national pastimes, should the Red Sox have sanctioned Curt Schilling because he inappropriately campaigned for President Bush's re-election in the clubhouse while his teammates celebrated Boston's first World Championship in 86 years? But back to bridge. A simple tut-tut would have sufficed for the USBF. Instead, it stood accused of unAmerican censorship.
The story has a happy ending. On its Nov. 20 Web page, the USBF announced a joint settlement with the Shanghai Seven. The federation dismissed all charges, and the Venice Cup winners agreed to accept their medals without staging political protests in the future. Isn't it nice when sanity prevails in public life?
Jim Kaplan is the Gazette bridge columnist and author of the weekly newsletter Bridge in the 21st Century.


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A diagnosis of cancer means you will have to deal with issues and situations that may be very frightening and challenging.
Common fears and thoughts about cancer include:
- 'I don't want to lose my independence and freedom'
- 'I don't want my family or friends to treat me differently'
- 'I don't know how I'll cope financially'
- 'I might miss out on a promotion or lose important work contacts'
- 'I may have to make big changes to my lifestyle'
- 'I may die'.
These are likely to be very real concerns for you and those close to you. When life feels uncertain, it can help to talk about your hopes and fears. It's fine to worry about and be upset by them. And it's fine to cry and say how you feel when things get tough.
There are many benefits of talking about your feelings and organisations are available to offer support.
Most people feel overwhelmed when they are told they have cancer. There is no right or wrong way to feel – reactions vary and people have different emotions at different times.
You will probably have a variety of emotions, which may cause confusion and frequent mood swings. These changing emotions are part of the process many people go through when dealing with their illness.


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The Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland together with the Abilis Foundation will co-host the Global Action on Disability (GLAD) Network meeting in Helsinki, Finland, from 31 January to 2 February 2018. More than 90 important international partners and donors engaged in development cooperation and humanitarian aid will gather in Helsinki.
"Finland wants to highlight the rights and the needs of persons with disabilities in the context of humanitarian crises. There has been a dramatic growth in the need for humanitarian assistance in the recent years.
Persons with disabilities are disproportionately impacted by disaster and conflict. They face particular barriers in accessing life-saving assistance and are often exposed to targeted violence and exploitation", says Kai Mykkänen, Minister of Foreign Trade and Development, who will open the meeting.
This is the second meeting of the international GLAD Network of donors. Its membership consists of states, representatives of the private sector, foundations, UN agencies and civil society organisations that are committed to promoting the position of persons with disabilities in connection with development cooperation and humanitarian action. The following organisations will be represented in Helsinki: European Commission, UNDP, UNICEF, UN WOMEN, WHO, World Bank, International Committee of the Red Cross and World Federation of the Deaf. Also the Australian Minister for International Development Concetta Fierravanti-Wells, who co-chairs the meeting, will be present.
The network aims to promote the rights of persons with disabilities and the implementation of the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), to reduce inequality, and to ensure that the rights of persons with disabilities are a central part of global sustainable development goals (SDGs). The Helsinki meeting will focus on education, humanitarian action and social security.
For the past three decades, Finland has pioneered in international work aiming to improve the position of persons with disabilities through development cooperation and humanitarian assistance. Finland supports not only the GLAD Network but also other international actors, such and the UN Partnership to Promote the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNPRPD). Finland is the biggest single contributor to this partnership.
Addressing the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in Finnish Development Cooperation (PDF)
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Two favorite Sennelier colours
I am rather boring when it comes to using new colours. Once i find my niche, I am happy for a long time. Probably not the way to be an artist. But I want to believe that it is me, the artist and not the tools that produces the masterpiece (which I'm still working on!!). And so my palette is always very limited to only a few well used colours.
This past week I cleaned out my palette, boutght a new Sennelier palette box and impulsively added some new colours. I am in love, but totally in love, head over heels! Two new colours on my palette..Sennelier grey and warm grey, both from Sennelier.. Absolutely beautiful and perfect for my new search of more faded colours. They will work great this winter…they have mystery, are cool to push you bit back, but then exposes a warmth which draw you closer. I use them clean and pure to have them shine their own star..I think they deserve it. Well, they definitely deserve a permanent place in my palette.
I worked on a thick pad of Canson mixed media paper, which is only meant for exercises, since it doesn't allow for very wet work and the paper is rather fragile, even though it is 300g.
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A beautiful American Thanksgiving to you and your family. You may not be eating turkey, but we all are wishing for a world that works towards peace and unity.
Love the two colors. I don't have them, will have to order….they are PERFECT for your work. I understand staying with a certain palette, but oh it is fun to branch out….hmmm your colors will be perfect for branches. The best to you. smiles: sharon
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November 21, 2012 at 11:30 pm
I so agree – there are favorites that I have used over and over. Alizarin crimson is one 🙂 I must look for these new greys – they are beautiful!
November 27, 2012 at 4:03 pm
Your watercolors always make me smile! Your color choice and touch of ink work are so perfect. I love your relaxed style. Looks like you found some nice new colors. Yeah!
January 20, 2013 at 11:23 pm
New to sketching, but I've fallen hard. Love looking at your sketches. Will come back frequently. Thanks.
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Working in New York City, WK Interact is inspired by the fast pace, pressure, and constant movement of contemporary urban life. He makes site-specific wheatpaste posters, large-scale murals, and monochromatic paintings on canvas that depict distorted figurative imagery. His brushwork is expressive, using broad smears, splatters, and blurring effects to create the illusion of explosive motion. In 2009, WK created "12 Angry Men," a series of monochromatic portraits on canvas that focused on the frozen faces of twelve grimacing men.
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Africa occupies about one-fifth of the global land surface and contains about
one-fifth of all known species of plants, mammals, and birds in the world, as
well as one-sixth of amphibians and reptiles (Siegfried, 1989). This biodiversity
is concentrated in several centers of endemism. The Cape Floral Kingdom (fynbos),
which occupies only 37,000 km2 at the southern tip of Africa, has 7,300 plant
speciesof which 68% occur nowhere else in the world (Gibbs, 1987). The
adjacent Succulent Karoo biome contains an additional 4,000 species, of which
2,500 are endemic (Cowling et al., 1998). These floristic biodiversity
hotspots both occur in winter rainfall regions at the southern tip of the continent
and are threatened particularly by a shift in rainfall seasonality (for instance,
a reduction in winter rainfall amounts or an increase in summer rainfall, which
would alter the fire regime that is critical to regeneration in the fynbos).
Other major centers of plant endemism are Madagascar, the mountains of Cameroon,
and the island-like Afromontane habitats that stretch from Ethiopia to South
Africa at altitudes above about 2,000 m (Mace et al., 1998). Montane
centers of biodiversity are particularly threatened by increases in temperature
because many represent isolated populations with no possibility of vertical
or horizontal migration. Several thousand species of plants alone are potentially
The broad patterns of African zoogeography also are climatically linked, but
the location of concentrations of biodiversity and endemism, at least in the
higher animals, is located in the savannas and tropical forests. World antelope
and gazelle biodiversity (more than 90% of the global total of 80 species) is
concentrated in Africa (Macdonald, 1987). Changes in climate of the magnitude
predicted for the 21st century could alter the distribution range of antelope
species (Hulme, 1996).
This biodiversity forms an important resource for African people. Uses are
consumptive (food, fiber, fuel, shelter, medicinal, wildlife trade) and nonconsumptive
(ecosystem services and the economically important tourism industry).
For a sample of 39 African countries, a median 4% of the continental land surface
is in formally declared conservation areas in southern Africa (MacKinnon and
MacKinnon, 1986). The fraction of landscape that is conserved varies greatly
between countries (from 17% in Botswana to 0% in four countries), as does the
degree of actual protection offered within nominally conserved areas (MacKinnon
and MacKinnon, 1986). A very large fraction of African biodiversity occurs principally
outside of formally conserved areas (especially in central and northern Africa),
as a result of a relatively low rate of intensive agricultural transformation
on the continent. This will no longer be true if massive extensification of
agriculture and clearing of tropical forests occurs in the humid and subhumid
zones, as is predicted to occur in the next century by some land-cover change
models (Alcamo, 1994). Patterns of human pressure, including grazing by domestic
stock, also will be altered and intensified by climate change. Land-use conversion
effects on biodiversity in affected areas will overshadow climate change effects
for some time to come.
In the medium term (~10-20 years), biodiversity of indigenous plants and
animals in Africa is likely to be affected by all of the major environmental
changes that constitute climate change. These include changes in ambient air
temperature, rainfall and air vapor pressure deficit (which combine to cause
altered water balance), rainfall variability, and atmospheric CO2.
Africalike the other continents, though perhaps to a greater degreeis
characterized by ecosystem control through disturbance, such as fire (Bond and
van Wilgen, 1996) and grazing regimes. Changing disturbance regimes will interact
with climate change in important ways to control biodiversityfor instance
through rapid, discontinous ecosystem "switches." For example, changes
in the grazing and fire regime during the past century are thought to have increased
woody-plant density over large parts of southern Africa. Ecosystem switches
are accompanied by drastic species shifts and even species extinction. Subtle
changes in species composition of rich ecosystems such as forests will impact
biodiversity resources. A significant reduction in rainfall or increase in evapotranspiration
in Angola would threaten the Okavango delta wetland in Botswana. Much larger
scale ecosystem switches (e.g., savanna to grassland, forest to savanna, shrubland
to grassland) clearly occurred in the past (e.g., during the climatic amelioration
dating from the last glacial maximum), but diversity losses were ameliorated
by species and ecosystem geographical shifts. The geographical range shifts
recquired to preserve biodiversity into the future will be strongly constrained
by habitat fragmentation and cannot realistically be accommodated by a static
nature reserve network with the low areal coverage evident in Africa.
Theory required to predict the extent and nature of future ecosystem switches
and species geographical shifts in Africa is lacking, and case studies are few.
The response of major vegetation types to changes such as rising atmospheric
CO2 are almost unstudied, although early evidence (Midgley et al., 1999;
Wand et al., 1999) suggests, for example, that these responses may increase
WUE in grass species significantly, which may increase grass fuel load or even
increase water supply to deeper rooted trees. Recent analysis of tree/grass
interactions in savannas suggests that rising atmospheric CO2 may increase tree
densities (Midgley et al., 1999); this kind of ecosystem switch would
have major implications for grazing and browsing animal guilds and their predators.
For southern Africa, between one-quarter and one-third of current reserves were
predicted to experience a biome shift (a major change in the dominant plant
functional types) under the equilibrium climate resulting from a twice-preindustrial
CO2 concentration (Hulme, 1996). In South Africa, increased aridity in the interior
Bushmanland plateau will introduce a desert-like environment to the country
(Rutherford et al., 1999). Analysis for South African conservation areas
(Rutherford et al., 1999) shows potentially large losses of plant species
diversity in this semi-arid region with low landscape heterogeneity.
Thus, the vegetation and animal communities that many reserves aim to conserve
will no longer be within their preferred bioclimatic region. Migration of animals
to conserved areas with more suitable climate (if these exist) will be constrained
by fragmentation of intervening ecosystems and potentially hostile landscapes.
The required rate of migration may be too rapid for unassisted movement of most
plant species, especially over relatively flat landscapes (Rutherford et
al., 1995). Without adaptive and mitigating strategies, the impact of climate
change will be to reduce the effectiveness of the reserve network significantly,
by altering ecosystem characteristics within it and causing species emigrations
or extinctions.
At particular risk of major biodiversity loss are reserves on flat and extensive
landscapes, those in areas where rainfall regime may change seasonality (e.g.,
the southern Cape), those where the tree/grass balance is sensitive to CO2 conditions,
and those where the fire regime may be altered. Species most at risk are those
with limited distribution ranges and/or poor dispersal abilities, habitat specialists
(soil specialists in the case of plants), and those that are responsive to specific
disturbance regimes.
Mitigation and adaptation strategies will be greatly strengthened by a risk-sharing
approach between countries, which could attempt to share the burden of conserving
critical populations in a collaborative way. Part of this risk-sharing approach
could include transboundary nature reserves, where this is appropriate for increasing
connectivity in areas projected to change significantly. The corridor approach
within and between countries would have the added benefit of increasing reserve
resilience to current climate variability and would increase attractiveness
to the tourism industry. Economic incentives, however, may differ across geographic
scales. For the moist tropical forests of Masoala National Park in northeast
Madagascar, economic incentives favor conservation at local and global scales,
although logging provides more profit at a national scale (Kremen et al.,
A high degree of uncertainty is associated with predictions of the biodiversity
effects of climate change. No systematic analysis of mechanisms of ecosystem
switches, or areas exposed to them, has been carried out. Although fire and
atmospheric CO2 seem to be important determinants of ecosystem structure and
function, little research is available to predict how these factors will interact
with other environmental changes. The effects of CO2 on grass water use may
be an important mitigator of negative effects on productivity for grazer guilds
in much of subtropical Africa. Effects of shifts of disease-prone areas on animal
populations are unstudied.
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Community InformationNorth Shore Place is an assisted living facility in Northbrook, IL. North Shore Place offers activities at their location for residents. These activities generally allow residents to maintain healthy lifestyles by encouraging movement and socializing with their peers.
Being able to chat with other residents becomes an important part of many peoples' lives and North Shore Place offers common spaces indoors to support that need. The benefit of living in an assisted living community is that making meals can be costly and time consuming process so North Shore Place provides meals for residents.
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Our choice was a good one.reviewed on: 04/20/2017 by Anonymous
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My dad is doing great with the independent care. His room and the great areas are much clean than his prior community. The staff are more to themselves, but they are warming up to my dad. The food... Read the full review.
They have done a nice job trying to acclimate my mom. I feel that she is really coming around and all the people are really friendly. She has to wear a Responder and sometimes it takes them a... Read the full review.
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The tour guide was very nice. He gave me a proper tour of the whole community. My questions were answered and i got a lot of information about the community. Meals are provided as well as some... Read the full review.
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Some of the paddlers at Saturday's seventh annual Paddles Up Niagara were novices making their first effort on the water at the signature event of the Niagara River Greenway Commission. Others, like the seven-man contingent from the Scajaquada Canoe Club that powered through the course in a long canoe, had vast experience.
Yuri Hreshchyshyn of the club said members are training every Sunday morning in preparation for the 90-mile Adirondack Classic, a three-day canoe race in the second weekend of September. They used Saturday's Paddles Up Niagara event as a good workout.
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Sometimes, it's not the dealer or the bank that costs you extra money. It's you. By ordering optional features that don't add much to the driving experience–or worse, interfere with it–and don't hold their value over time, many car shoppers end up with a car more expensive than it should be, one that depreciates even more quickly the minute they sign the paperwork and leave the dealer lot. That's money that could go directly to paying off that new car, truck, or crossover sooner.
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1. All-wheel drive–if you don't really need it. Some drivers in northern-tier states with regular sloppy weather and hilly unpaved roads will be well-served with all-wheel drive or four-wheel drive, which can distribute power more evenly when traction is dicey. Still, each year, hundreds of thousands of shoppers who live in the south and the southwest ante up for those heavy, complex add-ons that consume more gas and more cash, for little to no added measure of utility or safety. In almost all cases, a front-drive vehicle with good mud-and-snow tires will do the trick.
2. Expensive navigation systems. Technology is driving down the price of GPS in cars, but many drivers are already turning toward even less expensive solutions. Phone-based navigation is often cheaper; some safety-and-security systems like GM's OnStar and Ford's SYNC come with serviceable, turn-by-turn navigation that eliminates pricey hard-drive or disc-based databases and big LCD screens. Meanwhile, Apple's plan to integrate Siri voice controls in cars threatens to turn the whole in-car navigation market into a free-for-all, literally. Some in-house nav systems are inexpensive, like the latest ones from GM and Nissan. Before you spend a thousand and upward on a bundled nav system, consider more practical options–and what the future may hold.
3. CD players, especially changers. Compact discs are on their way out of cars, and most manufacturers have already deleted CD changers from their options lists. The single-slot CD or DVD player is still widespread as a base sound system, or as a premium system when it's coupled with a navigation system, but if you're streaming audio via Bluetooth or a USB port, there's no need to spend more on another media reader.
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6. Voice command systems–unless you're patient. A plethora of voice-command systems have flooded the market, led by Ford's SYNC and MyFord and MyLincoln Touch, followed by Kia's UVO and to some degree, GM's Intellilink system and the voice controls offered by German automakers. You could spend hours understanding the voice command chain that allows you to access music playlists, program navigation destinations, or set climate controls–or you could simply opt for a trim level of a vehicle that omits those complex, bleeding-edge systems. Of these, Ford's are the most advanced and have the steepest learning curve, and as such, have encountered the most criticism. If you're planning on buying a vehicle equipped with any of these, make sure to spend time before you buy, and after, re-learning how to accomplish basic tasks like choosing radio station presets–a former one-button affair that now can take three or four swipes and strokes and commands, depending on the brand.
7. Power-folding seats–and power-closing doors, trunks, and tailgates. It's a classic first-world problem: how to wrestle with a cart from a warehouse store with kids in tow, while trying to open and configure a large vehicle to truck it all home. More and more vehicles now offer power assistance for everything, not just windows, locks, and mirrors–everything from Chrysler's minivan tailgates to the trunk lid on the BMW 7-Series sedan. Some new crossovers like the 2013 Ford Escape omit a convenience like a power front passenger seat entirely–but offer a power tailgate that opens at the wave of a foot. Some argue, the fewer the power-operated conveniences the better, for maintenance's sake. For your wallet's sake, skipping power-folding third-row and second-row seats, and power-closing doors, trunks, and tailgates, could also save you thousands off the bottom line.
8. In-car internet service. Here, it's the hard-wired, accessory-option variety that makes no sense in an era of hotspot smartphones and dual USB ports in new vehicles. It's cheaper just to buy a new phone or to sign up for a 3G dongle, than to buy, install, and subscribe to an aftermarket or OEM-accessory system that grafts a permanent 3G networks into a new vehicle.
9. The 72-month car loan. The last unnecessary feature you can skip promises the biggest savings of all. As it's become more difficult to buy a new car that suits all needs, many shoppers have turned to longer car loans, to lower payments to an acceptable level. It's a trap: interest rates may be historically low, but you'll still end up paying thousands of dollars more on a six-year car loan than you would on the good old traditional 48-month loan. Find a car that suits you and also suits your budget–a budget that includes paying it off in less than four years whenever possible.
This story originally appeared at The Car Connection.


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