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Mordekaiser Build
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Mordekaiser - The Master of Metal
"This is a Tanker build, I would check out Master of Doom for Fighting"
I may have a fetish for Sunfire Capes but trust me, this is by far the best build I've ever gotten on Mordekaiser. You'll farm faster than everyone by simply using Siphon of Destruction + Creeping Death, and walking around the creeps. You will also become a huge threat with your AoE-DoT stacking and you'll have a ton of survivability with the huge amounts of armor combined with Ironman. This build is very beneficial when you find yourself being forced or just want to tank for your team. Out of all the other builds out there, I can assure you that this is the best build for keeping threat, abusing Ironman (e.i survivability), and wrecking your opponents in clashes, but you have to keep in mind that unlike other tanks you can not save your allies!
1. Great Survivability
2. Amazing Farming Potential
3. Excellent Tank, easily focused
1. No natural Crowd Control.
2. Lack of early Magic Resist.
3. Constant QQ'ing for being OP.
Summoner Spell: Ignite
For once, go ahead get it, I see a lot of people get ignite for no reason at all! But that's mainly because they want to get kills, I mean a Soraka with Ignite? You however, need it for burtsting power to finish off people with your Ultimate. Also, there is nothing worse than seeing your Target get healed after Children of the Grave.
Summoner Spell: Exhaust
This will help you gank a target, or possibly first blood. will disable another enemy champion, this can save both you and your teammate and you'll be able reach your target. With the added magic & armor Penetration makes it easier to kill them for the three seconds you need to kill them.
Summoner Spell: Flash
One of my favorite spells at the time when Mordekaiser got releashed, it allowed you to surprise your target by popping up right next to them and do a full DoT combo and kill them just like Annie. This still works, but the range is too small too be worth it. Other than that it can be used to get over cliffs, trees, and bug abuse.
Summoner Spell: Ghost
Ghost is a hell of a lot better than flash, especially on a more tanky character. Most of the time it will be used to flee, which will decrease the amounts of death you sometimes get. Other than that we always have the chase mechanism within Ghost, just rush your enemy with DoT's and it can be done just as easily.
Acceptable Runes: Click here
Greater Quintessence of Health
Greater Glyph of Scaling Magic Resist
Greater Seal of Evasion
Greater Mark of Magic Penetration
Core-Item Build: Click here
These are the primary items I get no-matter what, but of course we do have exceptions just like getting Regrowth Pendant instead of Doran's Shield. The core in this build are the Sunfire Capes, and the whole idea is to deal an insane amount of DPS in AoE combined with Creeping Death. And so, to enhance this power you will need Magic Penetration, why? Because you scale like **** and the Sunfires don't scale at all in the first place, this is why Magic Penetration is the only way to go on a more caster based Mordekaiser. This makes Sorcerer's Shoes primary, but you still got the option of Mercury's Treads, just not as frequently or perhaps not at all. Then we got the wards, unlike other supports I think you are one of the most suited to bring this into the arena. Why? Because you farm like crazy and I think everyone should contribute to this matter of map awereness, I mean this might very well win you the game! The Elixir is my final tocuh, you should only purchase it to finish the game! It has no other purpose, the boost is somewhat wasted to do well early-mid game.
Late-Game Items:Click here
As you can see I put up two Sunfire Capes in the core item build, that is because you need at least two Sunfire Capes every match! However, Inbetween these two capes you will need some magic resist. In the form of a simple Magic Mantle which later is upgraded to either Guardian Angel or Aegis of the Legion, or a Nullifying Cloak which is combined with a Regrowth to form Force of Nature or simply upgraded to Abyssal Scepter for more damage. Out of these four items you will have to know what to get when, primarily you will start with Doran's Shield and I can tell you right away that Abyssal Scepter is more of a fun item that is only used if you are owning it up. Therefore you usually buy Guardian Angel if you want to make it seem hopeless to kill you or as a newb-ward. Or if your team is filled with squishes and you are going vs. Fiddlesticks then I think Aegis of the Legion will better your team. Once you've gotten the second Sunfire Cape you can sell Doran's Shield and buy a slowing item, mostly I just replace it with Randuin's Omen to get AoE slows and to both movement and attackspeed. Then we have the Trinity Force, Hextech Gunblade, Frozen Mallet, and Rylai's Crystal Scepter all depending on personal preferances!
Doran's Shield: I recommend this item if you are new to Morderkaiser, having trouble staying alive, having a bad day, or just like to start with Doran's Shield cause you're Pro. Now I see alot of high ELO players using it for some odd reason, but I guess that's only to get the best start as possible, I've used it myself and I think it's not a bad choice comparing it to runes and such.
Regrowth Pendant: This is by far my favourite starting item, Doran's Shield is slightly better in some cases. But in the long run you'll benefit more from this item than all the Health Potions. If you get harassed beyond Ironman you can try to stay out of harms way by avoiding using your spells and just stay within Experience range, this will get you back in the game.
Health Potions: I recommend getting 3 of these after you got Boots of Speed, they will ensure that you can stay in the lane long enough for you to purchase your very first Sunfire Cape. They will become useless once you reach got a lot of Health, they should only be used when you got Health under 2k.
Sorcerer's Shoes: Well It appears that your AoE-DoT stacking will get more damage from Magic Penetration, that's why I also added Insight Marks in the rune build. You should get them if you want to do more damage, and have no problem with CC.
Mercury's Treads: If you fight someone with a huge stun that might just ruin your day, I'd go for these instead of Sorcerer's Shoes. You know those stuns that just **** up everything, Ashe's Arrow, Morgana's Binding, Annie's Tibbers, etc.
Sunfire Cape: The Key item in this build, once you got 2x Sunfire Capes early on, and level 5 Creeping Death you will know the extreme farming potential of Mordekaiser. This will allow you to purchase an even greater Item build late-game, but adding three sunfire capes is a bit overkill imo.
Guardian Angel: If you are able to purchase this item it's all over for your opponents if your team can deal the DPS and are able to stay alive with some support. As a late-game item I have to say that this is absolutely necessay if you want to win the game. It can be annoying when everyone runs around with this item but you just have to deal with it.
Aegis of the Legion: If you want to contribute to your team you can always get Aegis of the Legion as your Magic Resist item, unless someone else already got one. As one of the cheap items you can get more regulariy I think this one should be taken most of the time unless you don't feel like dying, it's cheap and it protects your squishes, what more can you ask for?
Force of Nature: Since I lack of HP/5 regeneration, Magic Resist, and by the fact that a little Movespeed is always good on Mordekaiser. I find this Item to be just perfect once you got 3k health. This will allow you to do whatever you want and you'll never have to return to your base because of the lack of health.
Abyssal Scepter: Just like Guinsoo's Rageblade is to Taric, Abyssal Scepter will help you pwn nabs with ease. This should be taken as your magic resist item if you are having no challange what-so-ever to boost your damage, remember it's the magic penetration we want, the AP is just a defect! But by all means, try it in more serious games and see how it works out for you.
Thornmail: If your opponents are all auto-attack ftw, or just got one annoying Twitch, you should get this while initiating. Trust me, when someone has feeded the entire match they can turn the tables if they get one of your squishes and starts to get fed. Once that happends it's GG if your team sucks, little to nothing you can do with Madred's Bloodrazor and Last Whisper.
Randuin's Omen: Since this is more of a teamplaying Mordekaiser I think Frozen Mallet and Rylai's Scepter is a bit overrated, this is my CC item of choice. I mean your team should be able do enough CC for you to work so there's no hurry in you getting this, but for the love of god: Don't forget to use it!
Trinity Force: I consider this item more viable than Frozen Mallet for two reasons, It will make your Q hit like a truck and it will boost your movement speed significantly. Since it scales with base AD you don't need to worry about not using it to it's full potential, the only thing that is wasted on this item is the mana from Sapphire Crystal.
Rylai's Crystal Scepter: Personally I've never liked this on Mordekaiser, but it could help you improve your main damage output while adding a bit survivability. What we want out of this is the slow, but personally you could always just use Frozen Mallet but in a way that's actually more of a preferance.
Frozen Mallet: If you just can't seem to win the game, this item will fix that. All you have to do is get a ranged pet and can easily Ace the other team. This also allows you to keep another champion locked to you, which means that you can use Sunfire Capes + Creeping Death to your full potential.
Hextech Gunblade: Like some foreign technology you should take this into consideration if you just feel like it, it mostly works like exhaust to severly slow a target while dealing somewhat a moderate amount of damage to it. The rest is just the icing on the cake, however there is one paticular component of the Gunblade, Spell Vampirsm: makes all your spells free.
Early Game: Click here
The so called laning phase, now that pre-game is pretty much taken care of and you know what to do and how to build, as well as what to get. I guess a little strategy and some key points in my strategy or well, not entirely mine but compared to the 5 minute guide I'll give you a more thorough explanation.
Choosing your lane partner:
This is actually not that hard, you can pretty much lane with anyone you want. Seeing as how Mordekaiser can lane against and with anyone, but I do have a couple of favorites that I want add, basically all the healers. But there it's sometimes also smart to lane with a ranged DPS that can help you DPS and lasthit, anything goes. Healers will allow you to go all in without thinking about recovery, but even so you should still be careful around turrets and avoid getting harassed beyond Ironman's limits.
(Kayle, Nidalee, Soraka, Taric)
The Laning Phase:
Now that you are laning, you will want gold and experience as well as making sure that both you and your teammate survives, while your opponents dies. You can start by last hitting minions and make sure that you do not get harassed severely beyond ironman by using the minions to your advantage. Siphon of Destruction should be used on as many minions as possible, while Mace of Spades will fill up the rest. Don't underestimate Creeping death, if you cast it on yourself and stay inbetween all the enemy minions you can actually deflect all the auto-attacks of an Ashe early game! Once you have gained control over ironman and your own health you can start getting control over the lane by simply using Siphon of Destruction to hit the ones you are laning against. The thumb rule here is "Fill up Ironman -> then harass". If you're going for the kill, you will want them to be as far away from their tower as possible, you can do this by only last hitting and hiding in the bushes. Once they are within your grasp and they've been harassed properly you can Exhaust + Ignite while auto-attacking and following them to the end of their tower will getting as many spells off as possible. Keep Flash, Cleanse, Ghost, and Heal in mind while not overextending as Exhaust + Ignite at the tower will **** you up as well. Once you've gotten the kill or they have recalled you are free to auto-attack the tower down. After destroying the tower in your lane, you are hereby free to assist everyone else by defending or downing another tower as well as helping other ganks. One last thing to add is miss calls, make sure to call them and always keep an eye on the map if they don't do!
Mid Game: Click here
You should return to your base by recalling and buy Boots of Speed, 3x Health Potions, and Heart of Gold. Once you got these items you should start looking towards a Sunfire Cape, this is the whole point of the build! After that you should either go down one of the lanes if they need to be defended, if not I would grab an Ancient Lizard Buff to help ganking.
Avoiding & Setting up Ganks:
After destroying the first tower in your lane, or the current lane you're in you will see that anything can happen and if you push too far without teammates you will be backdooring which is not good! Mordekaiser has very few abilities to escape and shouldn't really be bothered with them. If you got backup you still need to be careful, you should only push the tower down if you've recently killed someone, know the position of all your opponents or just know that you will survive because you're roflstomping some noobs. The thumb rule here is to trust your judgment, and always keep an eye on the map. When you are trying to gank someone you should only lend them Exhaust and Ignite + CotG, you don't really fit for this kind of job since you lack of CC so leave it to other but if it turns out ugly you should go in there and help out your teammates.
Keeping up threat in teamfights:
Tanking, it's a job that requires sacrifice; I mean you basically sacrifice yourself for the greater good of your team. This means that even if you die, you took all the damage and CC so that your team may finish of everyone else. Now most of the time you will find that the tanker spot or initiating spot is always being given to the champion with the survivability, which makes them able to tank but they are not really good tanks. A good tank stays with his team and makes sure that everyone attacks him instead of the others. That's why I use the term, Threat, which determines if whether your opponents will attack you or not. Now most good tanks, who are meant to tank, will do this with CC: (Cho'gath, Rammus, Amumu), but since Mordekaiser lacks significantly of CC you'll need to get someone else to add that up. The factors that help here are AoE-DoT stacking, Decent Nukes, and your ability to DoT people down with Ignite + CotG and then revive them as your Pet. This is why, if you go in first that you will be focused and by keeping Ironman up you will fulfil your purpose within the game and own them. The best part is that you're able to farm like Crazy, and still survive if you get fed. Remember that if you get fed, you will get a huge bounty on your head which will make them want to kill you even more!
Grinding & Pushing:
After your first Sunfire Cape you will be able to grind like crazy, and I'm talking about the boring WoW grind. I'm talking about just walking around the mobs; because that's basically all you have to do. The reason you become so great is because you get the best gear, mostly because of all your farming & pushing. I mean with the Sunfire Cape + Creeping death I usually get all the bounties from every creep wave. With you being kept busy tanking in teamfights and initiating towers you will see that it won't be long before you win the entire match and even score an whole ace by yourself, you might even try to reach Penta kill, but the closest I've been is Triple kill. Now your Achilles heel is HP/5 regeneration, so you'll have to return to your base a couple of times, that's one of the con's to this build but it's worth it. Once you've gotten the Inhibitor, or they have gotten yours late-game has started and you'll see who's the leading team. This usually happens because either one you managed to score an Ace or just managed to backdoor all the towers. Remember you need to push, to win! Never forget the purpose of the game.
Late Game: Click here
Now that the Inhibitor is down you should start taking down the other towers and finish of the game, but be careful and stay with your team at all times. Trust me; you do not want to get caught alone at this stage of the game. You could also got for Baron Nashor, if your team agrees with it. Remember that you are the tank so you should always initiate or stay really close to the initiator. Don't forget to use Randuin's Omen!
Tips & Techniques:
1. Make sure that Ignite + CotG combo will kill your target
2. Pay Attention to summoner abilities, watch out for Cleanse
3. Make sure to get a Lizard buff, it adds the same potential as Frozen Mallet.
4. Don't forget that the use of CotG defensively when fleeing, this can save your life.
5. Get a hold on your rotation, and keep in mind that creeps are important for your survival.
6. Teamwork is very important; you don't want to die in vain so make sure they back you up.
7. Ironman management, use Siphon of Destruction and Mace of Spades and watch that grey bar.
8. If you use Mace of Spades when you have your pet, both of you will have the charge until one of you attack.
Finishing the Game:
This will be fun, I would consider Mordekaiser a hard carry because he is basically unstoppable during end-game. But that is if your team is winning, otherwise you will be dealing with too many fed champions and possibly an organized team which is difficult to deal with because of all the CC. Like any Death Knight in WoW, you can even finish off a double kill all by yourself. This is only possible if you can make them chase you and then pop your Ultimate while easily executing both of them. Now if you want to finish the game you'll have to gather your team, get all the buffs that are necessary, and Push mid FTW! It's really simple, but make sure everyone's ready to blow their OP's on everyone. After living up to your name I would just go in there and wreck the one or all of the Inhibitors, or go straight for the heart. But I would spam /b/ in the chat if all of them respawn, unless you're really fed. I mean this is an overall guide but there's really not much to cover except for how good you actually are at tanking and playing with Mordekaiser. Finally I want to say that you should not fuzz about K/D/A, I can assure you that it will always be in plus as long as you make sure everyone dies, your team survives, and by getting all the towers down. If you need more guidance then read: Condons MFing Thread, trust me it's worth it!
Things to watch for:
Cleanse - No longer counters Ignite or Children of the Grave!
Black Shield - Blocks any debuff like Ignite and Children of the Grave!
Spell Shield - Blocks any debuff like Ignite and Children of the Grave!
Banshee's Veil - Blocks any debuff like Ignite and Children of the Grave!
Enemy Minions - Don't fight without them, they are like food!
Have fun, and feel free to ask questions and add suggestions.


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March 1, 2007
Foss Maritime to build hybrid tug
Foss Maritime Company announced that it plans to build the world's first true hybrid tug boat, a "green" vessel that will significantly reduce nitrogen oxide, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide and carbon emissions. It will also consume less fuel and be quieter than its conventional predecessors.
Officials of the Seattle-based marine services company, say the project must still gain final board approval. But the decision to move forward with the hybrid tug got a boost earlier this week as the Port of Los Angeles pledged $850,000 to the project, in association with the South Coast Air Quality Management District, and the Long Beach Board of Harbor Commissioners preliminarily approved a $500,000 contribution to the vessel's construction.
The ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach have expressed interest in funding the tug as part of their San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Air Action Plan.
In exchange for funding, Foss would agree to homeport the new hybrid tug in Southern California for five years.
The Foss hybrid tug is scheduled to go into production later this year and will be delivered to Foss' Southern California operations in 2008.
It is a new-build project, a continuation of the Dolphin-class tug boat series built at Foss' Rainier, Oregon shipyard.
The Foss hybrid tug will look almost identical to its sister Dolphin-class tug boats, but will be quieter, cleaner and more fuel efficient, using proven hybrid technology.
The hybrid tug's drive units will be powered by batteries coupled with diesel generators and feature a modified engine room accommodating two 670 horsepower battery packs and two 335 horsepower generators. Although the main engines in the hybrid tug will have lower horsepower than the existing Dolphin engines, overall the tug will have the same total horsepower as its sister tugs.
The 5,000 horsepower Foss hybrid tug will be primarily used for harbor assist services.
"This is exactly what the Clean Air Action Plan was intended to do--challenge companies operating in the ports to come up with better, cleaner ways of doing business. And Foss has come up with a great plan that benefits all of us," said Geraldine Knatz Ph.D. executive director of the Port of Los Angeles.
There are many environmental and health-related benefits to building a hybrid tug, including:
The hybrid tug will be introduced in the Los Angeles/Long Beach market, as hybrid tug technology is best suited for harbor tugs that need high amounts of power for short periods of time.
While performing tug assist jobs in this Californian harbor, tug boats spend little time at peak RPM, rarely utilizing each tug's full horsepower. Tugs in Los Angeles/Long Beach spend up to 50 percent of their time idling, with the main engines on and ready to respond, but with no power actually being used for propulsion.
With Foss' hybrid tug, energy is produced only on demand, so that idling of the main engines will no longer be necessary.
The hybrid tug design will make it adaptable for retrofit of existing harbor tugs. The flexible design of the tug also has the ability to take advantage of emerging technologies such as improved battery and fuel advances. The tug could also take advantage of cleaner, less expensive shore power to charge the batteries.
"Foss is proud to be working with the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles on such an important project as the hybrid tug," said Gary C. Faber, president and COO of Foss. "This is just the latest example of how Foss sits at the leading edge of maritime technology, engineering and shipbuilding. As a company, we're committed to maintaining our natural environment. Foss anticipates there will be a growing market for our 'green' tugs in the years to come."

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May 9 through August 9, 2018
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Paintings executed over the past few years. They cover subjects Mulbry returns to again and again: piles of books balanced on the edge of a shelf, swimming pools with the swoosh of a floating noodle, and landscapes viewed through shutters.
January 22 – April 22, 2018
Opening: February 15, 2018, 6 to 8pm
Susy Pilgrim Waters is often restless and ready for adventures in paint. Working in large bold shapes she enjoys creating tension on edges, both figuratively and literally. Her inspiration is the boldness of nature with a nod to urban architecture interpreted into the abstract shape and diverse color.
She creates multi surfaced panels of color and texture, as she layers in tones and line completely intuitively. Exploration is the goal within a personal pallet of intentional marks.The result is a 'bank' of panels. Single or grouped, the works stand alone or in groupings, which constantly evolve.
This installation consists of wooden canvases ranging in size from 4 inches square to 4 feet square. A large printed linen placement print, 185 x 52", illustrates how her painting influences the everyday functional products the PilgrimWaters company makes for daily life.
s u s y p i l g r i m w a t e r s
Olive moss boulder
Happy. Scratchy
Seasoned buckwheat
Lemons. Smoked salmon
Arches. Horseshoes. Air
Black tissue. Tea. Doubtful yellow
Petal. River
Ephemeral. Undecided. Generous
Little left. Payne's grey.
Evolving. Chaos
Happy. Random
October 9, 2017 – January 9, 2018
A collection of paintings; calm, comfortable and motionlessly basking in self contemplation, energizing, waiting warmly for the curious view to approach out of wonderment. www.nick-zaremba.com
April 13, 2017 through
July 13, 2017
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 13,
Growing up in and around a small industrial city that was surrounded by rural landscapes, mixed media artists Josh Falk has always been influenced by the juxtaposition of these two worlds and the often subtle ways in which they overlap. As if the city itself was a living terrarium, Falk would learn and respect the ways in which two opposites could naturally coexist and complement one another throughout his life.
Highlighting the intricate beauty of plants and nature, "Small Worlds" is an ongoing macro-photo series shot with the intent of not only showcasing the subtleties of what we often take for granted in nature, but to also create new abstract landscapes through manipulation of depth of focus and segmentation of the larger picture.
As if the photos themselves and their glass-like finish are windows into a brief moment of time, Josh Falk invites the viewer to look out, or perhaps in, to a new and reimagined world of nature and its complex beauty.
December 21, 2016 through
March 21, 2017
Opening Reception:
Wednesday, December 21,
Crowley's paintings depict a future with catastrophic possibilities but at the same time convey a sense of hope that the human race will address environmental, social, political, and economic challenges on a world wide scale and start to work on turning things around.
October 3, 2016 – December 15, 2016
Opening Reception:
Thursday, October 13, 7:00–9:00pm
People and Places reflects artist and animator Amy Baxter MacDonald's interest in motion, and her respect for the immediacy and honesty of the gesture or first impression. She uses a wide variety of materials, but traces of the piece's beginnings usually remain regardless of whether her subjects are drawn or painted. Also evident is MacDonald's love for the materiality of traditional media, which are generally not part of her digital animation work.
Most work is done from either direct observation or from sketches that were done on location. Apple Cottage, Graveyard, and Gold Creek are most recent, from this summer's working vacation in Plymouth, VT. The chairs are from the artist's former studios in Fort Point and Provincetown. Fighters were sketched at The Club in Fort Point, Eli in Robe was painted at the artist's residence at 249 A Street, and Neighbors are from Boston Magazine's photo of a Fort Point event. The artist does paint portraits, but the figurative work shown here celebrates gesture, line and surface more than the likeness of the sitter.
May 10, 2016 – August 28, 2016
Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 16, 7:00–9:00pm
Closing Reception:
Thursday, August 25, 6:00–8:00pm
These eco-friendly works are layers of horizons, clouds and soft sea storms. Being environmentally conscious has always been incorporated in Wendy's art. By using Greenguard gold certified (for low chemical emissions UL 2818) acrylic paint in this series she continues this practice. Wendy hopes the viewer takes a moment to imagine taking a step into each piece and visualize what the infinite horizon is today and will imminently be.
Worn driftwood found in the Boston harbor area is intended to enhance the vision with a sculptured piece from the natural world, which she feels is continually taken for granted.
January 21st – April 21st, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 21st, 6–8pm
"With these paintings I am interested in liminal states, waking states, fictions, hallucinations or outlands. The shapes in these paintings are under influence of each other, they change the nature of the space between them. If one shape changes, the whole gesture changes. These relationships are mathematical or musical. The sum of the parts, I hope, are transportative. metaphoric or poetic.
"Working in the studio, drawings, paintings, and wooden constructions inform each other. Paintings happen alongside drawings, alongside collages and constructions. Their development is non-linear but integrated.
"When jumping off a swing as a child there is a moment where one seems to hang in the air. When one is between moving up and falling down. The experience is as close to flight as I could imagine being. Movement and time seemed suspended, as if a second in time could last hours. Neither completely here nor there. I think about this when trying to clarify my ideas in these paintings." — Matthew Murphy
Matthew Murphy is a Boston-based painter who teaches painting and drawing at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, MA. He studied painting and received his MFA from University of Washington in Seattle and a BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and he has shown work at Massachusetts College of Art, Laconia Gallery in Boston, University of Arkansas, U Mass Boston, Emanuel College, and in Richmond, VA. In January his work will feature in a group show, "Idle Trades," at the New Bedford Art Museum in New Bedford, MA, and a solo show at FP3 Gallery in South Boston. He once hit two back-to-back inside-the-park home runs in D-league Softball.
View more of Matt's work at Matt-Murphy.com.
October 7th, 2015 – January 1st, 2016
Opening Reception: Friday, October 16th, 6-8pm
"This latest body of work focuses on the line, and how it interacts with color and space. Creating patterns on top of color fades, other patterns, and flat color, I explore the relationship between composition, structure, and color. Much of my past work has revolved around flat color and the use of negative space, The line work is an homage to my love of Op-Art, architecture, and graffiti.
"The result is series of throwback imagery, invoking the 80's and the early digital age of computers. My intent was to recreate these looks by hand, while adding an organic feel through fades and atmospheric backgrounds." — Mike Hammecker
Mike Hammecker is a painter who currently lives and works in Boston. He grew up in the Northwest suburbs of Chicago with a family that liked to travel often. At a young age, he developed an appreciation for architecture (through frequent vists to homes and buidlings designed by Frank Lloyd Wright), Japanese woodblock prints, graffiti, Art Noveau and more. After years of experimenting with graffiti art, zine production and more, he decided to focus his attention on fine art, and in his first ever show was included in an exhibit at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. He has since shown his work in spots like Brooklyn's Galapagos, Boston's Bernard Toale Gallery, New England School of Art and Design, and Boston's newest gallery, Lot F.
View more of Mike's work at www.mikehammecker.com.
July 10 – September 10, 2015 at FP3 Gallery
Gallery opening: Wednesday, August 5, 6:00–8:00pm
Lisa Lindman has been taking photographs for more than twenty years. For her, the act of photography is a means to access an internal stillness and, through it, a connection to the natural world. She connects most strongly to water in all its forms – still, flowing, mist, and ice – and many of her images focus on the interplay of water and light.
Photography is deeply personal to her, and it is only in recent years that she has brought her images into the public view. In the past two years, several of her images have been selected for inclusion in juried exhibitions. To the extent her images evoke in viewers an echo of the numinous experience that produced them, she is extremely pleased.
February 27 – May 27, 2015
Gallery opening:
Thursday, March 5, 6:00–8:00pm
Fish & Chicks at FP3 is from two series of work.
The Sardine Can images came out of a month-long residency at StudioWorks at the Tides Institute & Museum of Art in Eastport, ME this past September. Eastport and the surrounding coastal towns were once known for the abundant sardine fishing and canning industry. The Tides have hundreds of labels from the local canneries in their collection. The prints for this show Joanne made on aluminum, an homage of sorts to the can.
The CoverGirl series come from Joanne's ongoing interest in classic, stylized female advertising images. These 1930's–40's covers are from French Marie Claire and a film magazine called "V." These pieces are layering experiments about form and composition—and have no grand statement about women or femininity attached. Joanne finds that the viewer often brings their own story or meaning to this work.
FP3 Gallery is pleased to present Making Waves, an exhibition of recent works by Lisa Knox. Making Waves is a series of paintings inspired by the mesmeric quality of wave-forms. Gestural line, pattern and broad planes of color emerge and dissolve, mirroring the ever-changing beauty of wave-forms as they perform their timeless and dangerous dance upon the sea. Opening Reception Wednesday, November 5, 2014, 6:00-8:00pm.
March 8th - June 7th, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday March 13th, 6:00-8:00pm
FP3 Gallery is pleased to present Worlds Collide, an exhibition of recent paintings by Adam O'Day. In this exhibit, Adam explores how two worlds come together as a body of work: one world is as we see it, the other is how it feels in our souls. Recently, Adam started to focus on painting what a scene feels like, not necessarily what it literally looks like. There are elements of reality, mixed with elements of other worlds, dreams and nightmares. When painting a landscape, he sketches from life, uses pictures and then works from memory. Things look familiar, but they seem like a memory, because he puts the finishing touches on a piece without focusing on what it looks like. Come see the worlds that Adam has created!
November 14th, 2013 - February 20th, 2014
Opening Reception: Thursday November 14th, 6:00-8:00pm
FP3 Gallery is pleased to present Distorted Memories, an exhibition of recent paintings by Nick Ward. Nick's paintings are often described as realism. However, these paintings stop quite short of – and in some areas just past – photo realism. Instead of capturing visual reality, his portraits attempt to describe his memories – real or imagined – of these subjects. Equal attention is given to long relationships and fleeting glances; actual experiences are treated the same as invented encounters. The portraits combine exaggerated characteristics with occasional use of text or vivid color as a counterpoint to the familiar forms of the human face and body.
July 25 - October 25, 2013
Opening Reception: July 25, 6:00-8:00pm
FP3 Gallery is pleased to present To the Heart of It, a solo exhibition of new works on paper by Elisa H. Hamilton. In this autobiographical exhibition Elisa Hamilton explores the challenges and discoveries that come with beginning again. This new collection of artwork takes viewers through the ordinary moments of Hamilton's domestic experience and the metaphors that unfold. The pieces are personal, but the concepts are universal: recovering from loss, finding the balance between independence and vulnerability, and the continual quest for that proverbial silver lining. Hamilton considers every piece in this show to be a form of self-portrait. She literally depicts the sharp edges that we are sometimes forced to contend with, but she also gives us a vision of the beautiful softness of possibility—and all of it with a sense of humor, in vibrant palette that exudes hope.
Elisa H. Hamilton is a Boston-based multi-media artist whose work explores the inherent beauty of our everyday places, objects and experiences. Recent projects include Dance Spot, an interactive public art project that transformed the sidewalks of Fort Point into dance floors, An Apple A Day, a one-day installation of 365 apple drawings, and Everyday Thanks, a project in which Hamilton created and distributed 150 blank Thank You cards for participants to use to give thanks to somebody else.
Hamilton is a member of the Fort Point Arts Community and a proud graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design where she is just finishing her term as Chair of The Alumni Leadership Council.
April 9 – July 9, 2013
Opening Reception
Thursday, April 18, 6–8 PM
The current pace of today's viewer is tied to their daily rush and fleeting glances, never really slowing down to observe the elements around them or the discarded objects underfoot. As a mediator, Ian Kennelly stops or slows down the pace and approach of the subjects that are typically ignored and seldom seen as beautiful. Through lush oil paint application, color and tonal relationships are explored in otherwise mundane vignettes of daily urban life. Within these paintings, the grace in the brut is exposed.
In this exhibit, Jerry maximizes three-dimensional illusion in the context of a painterly background. We see through the object floating in space juxtaposing foreground and background. Push-pull becomes heightened and exited. Polymer Resin is the vehicle driving the construction and the illusion of deep space allowing images to be impregnated, floating between layers of resin and acrylic painterly ground.


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Broadway is one of the most popular Cotswold towns and has a reputation for being one of the prettiest too.. simply because it is just that!
This picture perfect Cotswold village is full of great quality shops, eateries and galleries, very much worth a visit when you're in the Cotswolds.
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The Obama administration is considering Deputy Ambassador James Cunningham to replace Mr Crocker when he leaves the post as early as this month, sources told the Reuters news agency.
It was not immediately clear why the widely respected diplomat was leaving.
Mr Crocker, who came out of retirement to become ambassador in Kabul in July 2011, has led diplomatic efforts in Afghanistan at a time when the White House has focused on reducing the US presence there – and on doing so without letting the country slide back into civil war.
He was one of the high-level officials discussing Afghanistan's future at a Nato summit that concluded on Monday in Mr Obama's home town of Chicago. There, Western leaders refined their plans to pull most of their troops out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and put local forces in charge.
At the core of Mr Crocker's job has been maintaining a difficult, and at times openly hostile, US relationship with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and overseeing civilian efforts to combat corruption and poverty in Afghanistan.
Mr Crocker has anchored the US diplomatic presence at a time when Western sites – and even the American embassy building itself – have been the target by Taliban militants. Mr Crocker has also urged the Afghan government to make reforms that could help it secure billions of dollars in future outside aid.
The appointment of a diplomat of Mr Crocker's stature in 2011 was seen as another sign of Mr Obama's desire to turn around a campaign that was received insufficient attention and resources for years – and of his determination to steer the US mission there toward a conclusion.News of his departure comes only weeks after Cameron Munter, the US ambassador in Islamabad, informed his staff he would be leaving his post in coming months.
In yet another diplomatic departure as Mr Obama's current term enters its final stretch, Jeffrey Feltman, Hillary Clinton's top diplomat in the Middle East, will soon leave for a top post at the United Nations.
Mr Crocker earned respect in his earlier role as U.S. ambassador to Iraq from 2007-2009, when a surge in U.S. forces was credited with helping to calm a country convulsed by sectarian violence. The post in Baghdad when suicide bombings and mortar attacks were a daily occurrence appeared to tax Crocker's health. He has also served as ambassador to Pakistan, Syria, Kuwait and Lebanon.
As a young diplomat, he worked at the US embassy in Beirut when it was bombed in 1982 and when an American Marine barracks was attacked the following year.
He retired from the government in April 2009, becoming dean of the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
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BALTIMORE SYMPHONY Orchestra audiences -- no surprise to anyone -- are largely white, middle- and upper-class gatherings listening to mostly white music for two hours in the warm cocoon of Meyerhoff Symphony Hall.
How to get more people of color, less money and differen backgrounds and tastes in the hall and bring the BSO closer to where they live remains an acknowledged major challenge for the BSO, corporate Baltimore and patrons.
One step for five years has been the annual "All-Baltimor Concert," financed by a $1 million grant from the Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. Selected local non-profit groups sell all the tickets and get all the proceeds.


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Asking for space for one's trigger
Guest Blogger // 30 October 2012
Guest blogger Rebecca recounts an episode where she felt sensitive to her triggers. To what degree can we ask for space for our triggers?
Last night a taxi company refused to provide me with a female taxi driver. I was told a female driver was available, but it would be inconvenient to send her because she was too far away from where I was.
The first woman who took the call seemed taken aback by the request and asked me to hold. Another woman, who was possibly a supervisor, then asked me why I wanted a female driver. When I explained it was for reasons of safety she acted annoyed and said that all their drivers were safe. I hadn't been expecting hostility so I attempted to justify my request.
I told her that I would feel safer with a female driver, as I was a young woman heading home alone late on a Friday night. I said I had been drinking and felt vulnerable. She dismissed my concerns in a way where I felt she was trivializing them. After she repeated that it wouldn't be possible to send the female taxi driver to me I hung up humiliated.
I wanted a female taxi driver because I was raped a couple years ago and had been badly triggered that evening. I'd had a rough day, but had arranged to visit a male friend of mine so wanted to honour the arrangement. When I arrived I explained about my day and how sensitive I felt, but about half an hour later my friend said, "Oh, here's a video I think you'll like," and showed me a video about rape in video-games. The content of the video would usually not have been a problem for me, but my friend gave me no warning and just pressed play without telling me a thing about it. I sat frozen on the side of his bed, thinking, "But I just told him about my day. Why would he show me this?" When it ended he launched into his own personal summary, which revealed a staggering amount of ignorance to the trauma rape victims feel and the way rape is dealt with in the mainstream media. I cut him off and excused myself, escaping to the bathroom, but not before telling him to Google the term 'trigger warning'.
Once I'd recovered myself a little I went back to his room and apologised for my behaviour. I referenced the rape a couple years ago and how lately I'd been getting more sensitive about it. I've been doing a lot of feminist activism, writing about the sex industry, and nude modeling and I was seeing rape culture more clearly and feeling a lot less safe because of it. I had, at the time, considered my assault an isolated incident by an individual man. But I was starting to view it as a consequence of a culture of permissiveness: from casual jokes to street harassment. My friend was clearly uncomfortable so I tried to laugh it off and change the subject, requesting that we watch an episode or two of a show I knew had few, if any, triggering moments in it.
By the end of the second episode I'd calmed down. Unfortunately I'd also missed the last bus home. Usually I would have stayed at my friend's house, but I wanted to be in my own bed in my own flat. That's when I called the taxi company.
My friend was uncomfortable that I wanted to ask for a female taxi driver. He didn't consider it justified and I was still a bit too upset to explain it to him. It is unfair to label all men as potential rapists and intellectually I know that is not true.
However, whenever a strange man knocks on my door, I feel my palms sweat, even though I know it is probably the postman. When I walk home alone a man engaging me in conversation may be a possible introduction to an assault. I will brush him off and walk away rudely, aware that he might merely be being friendly and that my behaviour is probably upsetting for him. It is not nice to be the source of fear in other people. I know that, but it doesn't stop me feeling afraid.
Trying to explain this to my male friends is difficult. Trying to explain it to taxi-companies at one in the morning is just too much. After stressing a little and a bit of a cry I let my friend phone a different company and order a taxi without trying again to specify a female driver.
The man who drove me home was perfectly nice and didn't leer, or make inappropriate jokes, or do anything to make me feel uncomfortable. I have had some lovely male taxi drivers and many more that I could take a little teasing and flirting from. But that night I couldn't have dealt with it. I felt let down and vulnerable and silly, like my assault was an inconvenience that I was being rude for bringing up.
Surely this is a reasonable justification for wanting a female driver? Or maybe I have no right to force others to accommodate my trauma. When I got home my friend text me to see if I was okay and I told him I was. But I'm not. I'm not okay at all.
The photo above illustrates a taxi driving down a street. The yellow taxi has the words Yellow Cabs printed on the side. The photo is used courtesy of the creative commons license is copyright by Moyan Brenn.
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Laura // Posted 30 October 2012 at 4:35 pm
Hi Rebecca,
I'm sorry you were treated this way by the taxi company and that your friend wasn't more considerate. I think you were wholly justified in wanting a female driver and the taxi company should have accommodated your request, or at the very least let you down in a respectful and apologetic manner.
You have every right to ask for the support and understanding you need as a survivor and people need to learn to listen to your voice and the voices of others who have been raped. Society ignoring your feelings and experiences is part of the rape culture you mentioned and it's wrong. I'm really glad you've shared this story with us so we can help educate people and hopefully create a more caring, compassionate society.
The Goldfish // Posted 30 October 2012 at 5:40 pm
I'm really sorry you went through this – what a truly horrible day!
As far as the taxis are concerned, I would recommend preparing some scripts for these scenarios, because at the time you're never going to be on best form to work out what to say. The woman you spoke to almost certainly took your initial explanation of "safety reasons" as a slight against her male colleagues, and may have felt your more honest explanation about how you were feeling was back-tracking.
The easiest tactic I've found when talking on the phone is to pretend to be your own friend or representative. So you can say, "I'm calling on behalf of my friend, who is feeling very fragile, and I wondered if it would be okay to have a female driver. She's quite upset because today…[insert whatever explanation] and I think it would be much more comfortable for her to have another woman take her home."
You can give whatever explanation you like, and it's easier because you're not talking about yourself. So you could tell the truth, once removed, "She was raped a few years ago and today all that's been stirred up again." or you could say she's had a row with her boyfriend or father, or she had a bad experience at a party, or even make up something medical that might leave someone feeling horribly self-conscious. It's much easier to argue your corner if you pretend to be arguing someone else's – it's even easier to talk about traumatic events if you do so in the third person.
As far as your friend is concerned, this is a really tough one. I have found that some people respond to the discomfort of other people's trauma by pretending you're fine and almost going out of their way to prove you're fine. After he learnt that I had been abused by my ex husband, one male friend seemed compelled to joke about domestic violence, and violence generally. It wasn't that he wasn't sympathetic, I think he was just absolutely desperate to see me laugh about it, to see the subject neutralised. It was a crappy way to behave, but I'm pretty sure it came from a position of panic.
Unfortunately, my only suggestion is to steer clear of people who are this clumsy when you're feeling vulnerable. Talk to your friends and family when you're feeling stronger, so they know this isn't ancient history and is still effecting you. But observe who gets it and who is a slower learner and go to the friend who gets it when you're feeling unsafe.
I hope this phase is short-lived and you're feeling much stronger very soon.
Shadow // Posted 30 October 2012 at 7:20 pm
You had every right to demand a female taxi driver but because you are female this supposedly means we must always presume men are safe and trustworthy unless proven otherwise. Too many male sexual predators use the strategy of seeking to engage in casual conversation with women in order to 'test their female victim to see if she will be compliant when he begins to test her boundaries.' One of the most common methods male sexual predators use is to tell the woman/girl 'you're not frightened of me are you?' These male sexual predators know we women are trained as girls to accept the lie that men are trustworthy and we must never, ever upset men's fragile feelings by saying 'get away from my space' or 'you are sexually harassing me.' Direct language to men is not allowed because we women are expected to massage men's overblown egos 24/7.
So, you are wholly within your rights to demand a female taxi driver and furthermore that jerk of a male friend who like innumerable men believes the world revolves around him, proved once again innumerable men are selfish self-centered creatures who think they know and understand the after effects of what innumerable women experience whenever a male sexual predator rapes them.
John Worboys was a male taxi driver and no he did not go around with a sign on his head 'saying I am a male who has/will rape multiple women!' But this female supervisor claimed she knows her male taxi driver colleagues are 'trustworthy!' Really, just because she works with these men does not mean she knows them – men who commit rape are manipulative and cunning and their common personae is one of respectability.
Until such time as men invent an item whereby we women can instantly recognise the mythical 'deviant predator' then we women will not automatically assume all men are trusthworthy until proven otherwise. Reason is because male sexual violence against women is endemic and such men do not walk around with signs on their foreheads. The men most likely to be male sexual predators are those men who are known to their female victims. This includes your friendly male neighbour; the male work colleague; the male doctor; male dentist; in fact any male who is slightly known to a woman – because men do not wear signs saying they are 'trustworthy.'
Furthermore we women do not exist to constantly placate and massage men's egos and neither do we exist to respond politely whenever a male intrudes into our space or considers he has the right to start a conversation. If men want a conversation then talk to other men because I'm certain there are many males who would just love to have a strange man go up to them and say 'my you are looking very attractive today!'
Men can do something very simple – and that is – do not harass women whenever you happen to walk past a woman in the street. Do not presume just because you are male this means every woman you speak to exits to massage your overblown ego. Now this more difficult for men – cease talking over women and instead listen to women because you will undoubtedly learn far more than you will ever learn from talking to other men. But that of course means men accepting the fact women do not exist to be men's disposable sexual service stations but autonomous beings in their own right.
So for a start – men treat women as you would be treated – which means you men do not like other men intruding on your boundaries/space so cease intruding on women's boundaries.
nick // Posted 31 October 2012 at 9:50 am
shadow …….
are you arguing for complete segregation of males and females ? also , as a male ,am I guilty of every crime possible ? Are you saying that women can never trust any man ?
i am man , i am proud to be a man , just because i have a penis does not make me
better or worse than anyone else.
Rose // Posted 31 October 2012 at 5:55 pm
Not only is it perfectly reasonable to want a female taxi driver, it's actually quite a common request. There are now some all-female taxi companies.
I think that the situation is best resolved from the business perspective. When I want a cab, I want a female driver, so my business goes to the company offering female drivers. If there is no female driver available – thats not a problem, I'll phone another company. But it's important that the first company know why they lost a customer.
As for the compassionate friend issue, personally I'd apply the same technique. I'd take my friendship elsewhere!
Lynne Miles // Posted 2 November 2012 at 3:51 pm
Hi, Rebecca. I'm sorry you had such a truly crappy day.
I don't know where you are, but in London at least there's a company called Lady Cars who have a large number of female drivers and exist because they understand that some people for whatever reason would prefer a female driver. I think there are similar things elsewhere.
More broadly, you're within your rights to ask for whatever you like. To give a bit of self-protection maybe you could go a bit more on the offensive this time. If challenged just say (nicely but firmly) "I just would prefer it. Can you tell me whether you'll be able to accomodate this as if you can't I'll try another company". You're a customer, and you can make whatever requests you like and if they're not willing or able to meet them you'll just find someone who can. If they want your business they'll be a bit more polite and helpful.
Mr. Rude Word // Posted 2 November 2012 at 7:12 pm
@Shadow…Rebecca did not "demand" a female taxi driver, she requested one & it was a perfectly reasonable request that, in an ideal World, should have been granted. It really does not help anyone by using aggressive & deliberately provocative language to respond to this article. This is not about men…it is about considering the needs of others & honouring them. Playing devil's advocate, we need to remind ourselves that our own thoughts & feelings are, more often than not, unknown to observers…we shouldn't assume that others are inconsiderate, even if it appears that way. I'm sure the woman at the taxi place would be upset to discover that her apparent lack of understanding caused Rebecca distress.
No one wants to live in a society where men are feared…but by the same token we should recognise that for women who have been attacked by men, that fear is very real & should be acknowledged as such by honouring requests for female drivers without question.
SexierThanThou // Posted 7 November 2012 at 6:07 am
"…I was a young woman heading home alone late on a Friday night. I said I had been drinking…"
Victim blaming lingo?
Also, I have to question the comment moderating on this site. How does offensive vitriol such as Shadow's comment get a pass?
Also, having been the victim of serious racial assault, were I in the same position as the blogger, would it be acceptable to ask for non-black cab drivers? Sure, my fear would be acceptable, but so too would it be acceptable for the cab operator to deny my request point blank and even feel a little insulted.
Holly Combe // Posted 8 November 2012 at 3:15 pm
@SexierThanThou. I'm not sure if I've understood you correctly but I don't think Rebecca telling the company that she felt vulnerable because she'd been drinking is victim-blaming, as she wasn't somehow saying it was wrong for her to do so, merely that she had been. She also didn't suggest that a sexual predator would be any less responsible for his actions.
Obviously I don't know the details about the assault you mention but I'm a little confused by what you say about that as well. Without wishing to derail this thread with an ontological debate about which groups experience structural oppression, I'd suggest it's pretty obvious that black people as a group do not have a structural power that can be abused to attack others on a "racial" basis. That doesn't mean there aren't violent crimes committed by people in oppressed groups but switching wider power relations round in those circumstances to suggest that a violent person in an oppressed group would suddenly be exerting structural power in an area where s/he is normally oppressed is disingenuous (if I haven't misunderstood what you're describing).
Equally, there isn't a widespread problem with women committing sex crimes against men (note, I'm not saying women *never* abuse men) as there is with men committing sex crimes against women (note, I'm not saying all or even *most* men do this, just that there is a widespread problem). This means Rebecca was perfectly within her rights to ask for a woman driver and the person who took the call was being insensitive.
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Editor's note: This is an altered version of a blog that originally appeared on the Bipartisan Policy Center website.
During his presidential campaign, Donald Trump vowed to "dismantle" the Dodd-Frank Act and increase bank lending, but provided few specifics as to how he would do so.
An executive order issued earlier this month provides a better sense of where the White House intends to go on financial regulation. If policymakers put empirical evidence ahead of ideology, the order provides an opportunity to build on post-crisis improvements and address the unintended consequences of reforms.
The seven "core principles" laid out in the order — including preventing taxpayer bailouts; advancing American interests in global negotiations; and making regulation efficient, effective, and tailored — are generally not controversial. There is room for debate on whether the White House identified the right seven principles; consumer protection is not among them, for example. But the main debate will be about whether current policy is already achieving the goals the White House has enumerated.
The order directs the secretary of the Treasury to report to the president within 120 days on how existing laws and policies promote or inhibit the seven core principles.
Major policy changes never go entirely as planned. The Bipartisan Policy Center has found that Dodd-Frank and other post-crisis reforms made the financial system safer and better protected consumers from risky financial products. But the reforms have also produced some unintended consequences, including:
- A lack of coordination and unnecessary duplication of, and conflict between, rules.
- The migration of certain activities from banks to nonbanks or across borders, and the curtailment of other activities.
- Binding constraints on the business decisions of firms, sometimes resulting in "cliff effects" where regulations cause the provision of financial services or products to drop more steeply than would be expected from competitive market forces.
A formal review could serve as a comprehensive assessment of the post-crisis regulatory environment. For a model, U.S. policymakers should look at the European Commission's call for evidence on the impact of financial rules and regulations on the European economy, and whether there are unnecessary regulatory burdens, inconsistencies, gaps or unintended consequences.
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A major missed opportunity of Dodd-Frank was in not fixing the United States' fragmented regulatory structure. One can see visual evidence of this fragmentation at any Financial Stability Oversight Council meeting, which includes 10 voting members and five nonvoting members, several of which have overlapping or duplicative functions. Both former Sen. Chris Dodd and former Rep. Barney Frank – after whom the financial reform law was named – have said they would have made additional changes to the U.S. regulatory architecture had the votes been there to do so.
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- Creating a single, modern Capital Markets Authority to consolidate oversight of the fair and efficient functioning and competitiveness of U.S. capital markets.
- Giving FSOC real authority to focus its efforts on risky activities and products as an alternative to SIFI designation, while making the designation process more transparent and accountable.
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President Trump's executive order provides a basis for improvements to financial regulation if it is approached with a focus on evidence over ideology. The order directs Treasury and FSOC to develop a report, which is a good first step. A call for evidence similar to the one issued by the European Commission that was open to public comment would be better still. And Congress would be well-served to create an independent commission to study the impacts of financial regulation on financial stability, the economy and consumers.


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Hi, I am struggling to correctly refer to the following source:
It is a bundle of interviews and articles of various authors.
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Johnson, C. (Ed.). (2014). The Lean Management Enterprise. Retrieved from [url here]
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As a Workaround you could enter all of the following information into the Title field:
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The other option would be to edit the style and change either the Electronic Book template or Electronic Book Section template for use as your electronic bundle of interviews type or you could go a step further and make a custom Ref Type and then edit the style as well.
I would try one of the electronic reference types. maybe electronic book or electronic book chapter, or even Blog? You may need to tweak that ref type's template though.
See the editing style manual -but since you almost liked edited book, I took that - added the URL and put it in "Blog" ref type in the attached.
Hi Leanne,
What do I need to do with the file you provided? Looked at the manuals but couldn't find out.
Download it (it should open in Endnote) and "save as" -- you can tweak the name but don't make it the same as a default endnote output style, or it will confuse the program. -- then in your word document, click on the style box, and "select another style" from the top of the drop-down. -- you should see the new style listed there. -- select it, and it should now be listed on the dropdown to use elsewhere as well.
Thanks, I decided to go for the first suggestion of TMartin because otherwise it becomes too difficult (2 users for same EndNote database and company pc file moving restrictions).


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Yuuki Kei
Full: Kei Yuuki
Japanese: 結城蛍, Yūki Kei
Type: Human Character
Spellings: Yūki, Yuki, Yuuki, Yuuki- kunKun, (君 or くん) is an informal honorific placed at the end of a name. This is generally used when addressing younger males.
Manga Notes:
Sawaki's childhood friend. A sake brewer's son. (Ch 01) Hates Hiochi to death. (Ch 05) Has bad memories of Hiochi bacteria. (Ch 06) He is being influenced by graduate student Hasegawa. (Ch 07) He is slowly becoming Hasegawa's underling. (Ch 09) Because of Sawaki, he has to go through terrible experiences. (Ch 10)
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Yuuki is Sawaki Tadayasu's childhood friend. They grew up together in the same village and their parents relied on each other for business purposes as well. His parents run a sake brewery in their home town and use the yeast from the Sawaki shop.
Yuuki attends the university with Sawaki and later in the story decides to take a leave of absence. Sawaki does not understand what is going on with Yuuki until he discovers his secret, that Yuuki is gender dysphoricA controversial condition where an individual is not content with their birth gender.. He also expresses deeper feelings towards Sawaki than are first apparent.
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Voiced by: Mitsuki Saiga. Yuuki is a transvestite in addition to his gender dysphoric feelings. Both these attitudes/actions can be seen, not so much as a homosexual tendencies, but as a dissatisfaction with what he is told he must be and what he must do with his life. This is a very fundamental adolescent rebellion in a very controversial guise. Yuuki's transvestite dress of choice is a popular style in Japan called Gothic Lolita.
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As the attention span of the browsing population shrinks below that of your average goldfish, so the need to create razor-sharp, perfectly honed navigation systems increases. There's a demand on publishers to use whatever information they have to provide a more contextualized browsing experience.
That's all well and good, but have you ever looked at a recommendation and wondered what on earth was the system thinking when it picked it? You've spent months on the site exploring hardcore thrash metal so why on earth are you being offered a book on floral knitting patterns?
I just went onto Youtube and noticed that they have actually got pretty transparent with their recommendation engine:
Notice the 'because you watched'.
As we use more analytics systems to build interfaces, being explicit about how decisions are made becomes increasingly important:
Show what determined the recommendation: This answers the question of why on earth am I seeing this recommendation? In this instance YouTube bases this on what you have watched previously, but this could just as well relate to what others with similar interests have liked (the Amazon approach).
Allow you to interact with the recommendation: YouTube allows you to remove recommendations from the list that you don't think are appropriate. One thing it doesn't do is spell out whether that feedback is factored into future recommendations. Some systems (such as Pandora and Netflix) use a thumbs-up/down or rating system with the implicit understanding that this information will be fed into the calculations of future recommendations. As James Taylor, the Decision Management expert pointed out to me some years ago, recommendation engines have their limit. If I booked a once-in-the-lifetime trip to Bermuda last year, there's no point in showing me vacations to Antigua six months later. Allowing me to vote this kind of recommendation down can help systems disentangle one-shot whims from longer term patterns of behavior.
The question of privacy: Being transparent about analytics systems and and how exactly visitors are being tracked can go a long way to allay the growing public fears around the growing mountain of data produced by the internet in general and social networking sites in particular. Indeed, here in California there has been considerable press around a bill to increase the privacy of social networks. Justin Brookman, director of the Project on Consumer Privacy at the Center for Democracy and Technology has said, "I think the idea of telling people what is going on and giving them control over their information from the beginning is a good idea for social networks and others places as well". Privacy advocates are asking publishers to be more open about how data is being used.
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"I don't believe it," Bree said to her friend. There is no such thing."
"There is too!" Shelley replied. "I saw my mother using it last night. She didn't know I was watching her and she got herself off with it. I heard a buzzing noise and I heard her moaning. Her door was locked but when I looked through the keyhole, I saw her sitting on this black box with a big smile and as I watched, I saw her cumming. Afterward, she put it away in her closet and locked the door."
"I still don't believe you. She must have been using a vibrator. I've seen my mom use one of those and I used it too when she wasn't home. It got me off better than any boy ever did. A LOT better…"
"Bree, I've seen my mom's vibrator and it looks nothing like the fucking machine I'm telling you about. "Don't you think I know the difference between a vibrator and this thing?"
Shelley did know the difference and so did Bree. Although they were both only eighteen years old and seniors in high school, they had been sexually active for long enough to know about vibrators. Neither one knew as much as she thought she did but they did know that much.
"Do you think she would show it to us? Do you think she would let us use it?"
"No way. She'd never even let us see it, let alone use it. She keeps it locked in a closet. Mom thinks I've still got my cherry." Both young women pondered for a few seconds about how dumb mothers can be before Bree made a suggestion.
"My brother showed me how to pick a lock. All you need is a piece of wire like a bent paper clip. I'll bet I can get into that closet some time when your mom isn't home, and we can try it out. When will she be out?"
"She'll be working tomorrow. She leaves in the morning after she knows I am up and getting ready for school."
"Okay, then make her think you are getting ready for school but don't go. I'll cut school too and be over at nine o'clock with a paper clip. I'll bet this going to be fun.
Bree and Shelley giggled at the thought of the forbidden fruit they expected to be enjoying.
At nine o'clock the next morning, Shelley let Bree into the house she shared with her mother and led the way into her mother's bedroom. The closet was locked with an ordinary snap lock and, after a few minutes of fumbling, Bree was able to pick the lock with the bent paper clip. Shelley opened the door and, after some looking, found what they were after. It was sitting on the floor in a corner, somewhat concealed by a pile of clothes that needed ironing. She took it into the bedroom and set it on the floor where her mother had been using it two nights ago.
The fucking machine was a red box, made of a rather heavy plastic and an electric cord ran from one end. The base was flat, allowing the machine to be set on a chair or the floor or anywhere else, and the sides sloped upward like a pyramid, except the top was flat and five inches square. The main feature was a pink dildo protruding from a socket in the top. As they looked at it and thought about what the dildo could do for their young pussies, both women giggled.
After it was plugged in, they looked the machine over more carefully and found the control panel on one side. In the middle of the panel was a toggle switch marked "ON" and "OFF" and the function of that was obvious.
On either side of the toggle switch was a dial. One dial had "SLOW" written on one end and "FAST" written on the other, with apparent gradations in between. The two friends were sure they knew what that was for.
The other dial was more mysterious. On the left end was the designation "OSC" while the word "TURN was written on the right. At the top of the dial were the letters "THST".
On the side opposite the control was another handle. When Shelley pulled on it a drawer opened. Inside were varieties of dildos.
"That looks like Little Willy's little willie," she said, pointing at the smallest of the plastic cocks.
Little Willy was an object of some scorn among his female classmates but his family is rich and he drove an expensive luxury car and so was granted privileges he wouldn't have otherwise rated.
"I'll bet Jason Richards is hung like that," Bree guessed, pointing to an eight-inch dildo, the biggest of the set. Jason was the star of the basketball team. Neither Bree nor Shelley had any first-hand knowledge of his cock but they had heard a rumor that it was quite spectacular.
The other dildos ranged in size between Little Willy and Jason and the one on the machine was average sized.
Shelley plugged in the machine, after making sure the switch was turned to "OFF".
"Let's try it out," she suggested.
After carefully making notes of the settings of the machine so they could return it to those settings, Shelley set the dial to "SLOW" and to "OSC" and turned it on. The dildo started swinging slowly from side to side. As the dial was turned toward "FAST" , it swung faster.
"It's oscillating. 'OSC' must stand for oscillate," Bree deduced. She turned off the machine and set it back to "SLOW" and to "TURN". The dildo slowly turned in a circle when the machine was turned back on.
"Oscillate looks like it would be fun but turn doesn't look like much," Shelley judged. "Let's try the middle one."
THST apparently stood for "thrust" because the dildo thrust straight up and down when that was the setting. Further experimentation showed that it could be set to thrust up and down while either oscillating or turning.
Bree and Shelley both developed dampness in their pussies when they thought about the dildo fucking them, especially when the machine was turned to FAST and set to oscillate and thrust.
"I dare you to try it out," Bree challenged her friend.
"Do you think I should?"
"Why not?"
"Okay but you have to use it too."
"I will but, since it's your mother's, you go first."
"I think I'd better start with Little Willy. I can switch to something else later."
Little Willy had a hole in its base which apparently fit over a shaft on the machine. When Shelley pulled the dildo off the machine, a rubber ring came off also. The ring had a hard rubber spur on one side.
"I bet that's for your clit," Bree said.
Shelley put the ring on Little Willy and put the small dildo on the shaft that protruded from the middle of the socket and the machine was ready to fuck her.
The machine was ready but Shelley wasn't quite yet. Both girls were wearing the knee length uniform skirt of the school they attended and Bree tried to reach underneath and remove her panties, expecting to straddle the device still wearing her skirt and otherwise fully dressed. This exasperated Bree.
"For Chrissake, Shelley, don't be so damn modest. I'm gonna fuck myself after you get done and I'm gonna take off all my clothes. I'll do it now if it'll get you to hurry up." She started unbuttoning her blouse.
Shelley had to admit her friend was right. Minutes later, both were naked and she was on her knees straddling the machine. It was set for "Thrust" and the slowest speed but she expected to change the settings.
Lining up the spur with her clit, Shelly slowly lowered herself and let her pussy envelope Little Willy. A low buzz started when she flipped the switch to ON and the small dildo started slowly plunging in and out of her pussy.
"How does it feel?" Bree asked.
"Kinda funny. Nice, but not really a big deal; a lot like the real Little Willy."
Bree knew what her friend meant because she had felt their classmate's small cock in her pussy also.
"I'm going to speed it up and let it oscillate a little too," Shelly said, matching word to deed.
With the increased speed and changed motion, a smile spread across Shelly's pretty face and she started reacting to the fucking machine, her body squirming as the dildo drove in and out of her.
"That feels a lot better now but it's not big enough. Once I'm good and wet I'll put a bigger cock on."
A minute later, Shelley switched off the machine and raised herself, so the dildo was no longer in her. Her pussy was wet enough, with her juices running down both her legs. She selected a larger dildo, one size smaller than the one her mother had left on the machine.
"I'll call this one Eric," she said as she removed Little Willy, put the spur in place on the bigger dildo and attached it to the machine. "It's about the same size as his cock."
Shelley set the machine for THST and the slowest speed and lowered herself so the tip of the dildo was inside her pussy. After she turned it on, Shelley signed happily as Eric penetrated her pussy. She moaned as it fucked her slowly in and out. When the dildo was completely inside her, she couldn't help but groan.
"My God, Bree, this is the greatest. It's a lot better than the real Eric, he was always in such a hurry, I stopped fucking him!" She turned up the speed a little and set the machine so the dildo would oscillate inside her.
"Ahhh…" she exclaimed as the machine fucked her faster and with the new motion. "Oh! Oh! Oh! That feels good." As Shelley fucked down to meet the strokes of Eric, she leaned forward and the spur came into full contact with her engorged clit.
"Oh! Oh!" she cried out. "My clit! Fuck my clit!" Back and forth and side to side, she rocked, writhing on top of the fucking machine while it continued to plunge the dildo in and out of her pussy and the spur raked across her clit. For ten minutes she enjoyed the best fucking of her life and finally, "Yes…Yes! I'm cumming…Oh, my God!"
Shelley reached her climax in just a few more seconds of the relentless thrusts of the machine and slumped forward until Bree caught her and turned off the machine.
For a minute, Bree supported her friend until she had caught her breath. "C'mon now, it's my turn. Hurry up; I'm really hot to trot."
"Oh, my God, I'm weak from cumming. I've never had anything like that."
Bree helped Shelley raise herself and lie on the floor then got into position over the fucking machine. The dildo that had been named "Eric" waited to drive itself into her pussy.
"Aren't you going to start with Little Willy?" asked Shelley.
"No need. I'm dripping wet from watching you and listening to you and the cock is wet from you too." Bree turned the settings to THST and to a slower speed. She made sure the spur on the clit ring was properly positioned.
With her juices dripping all over the machine, she lowered herself until the head of the dildo was inside her pussy. While her friend was on the floor, resting after the best orgasm she ever had, Bree turned on the fucking machine.
"Ohhh…" she crooned, as the plastic cock stroked slowly in and out of her pussy. "That's really good."
For several minutes, she enjoyed the sensations of a slow fuck as she meet the toy thrusting inside her. The pleasure spread from her pussy all through her body, causing her to moan and sigh and for her toes and fingers to clench and unclench.
Afterwards, Bree reached down, turned the machine to a higher speed, and set it to oscillate inside her pussy.
The greater speed and the new motion of the dildo caused the pleasure to mount, pouring through Bree's body and causing her to thrash around on top of the machine.
She sighed and whimpered from the intense pleasure the fucking machine was giving her. Every time she leaned towards the spur designed to stimulate clits, she could feel the intensive pleasure coursing through her.
Every time she leaned back or to the side, the dildo found new areas inside her pussy to caress, sending more and greater waves of pleasure washing through her body.
Shelley had recovered and she watched her friend flopping around ecstatically.
"Good, isn't it?" she asked her friend.
Bree had lost control of some of her muscles and all she could do was happily nod her head. The fucking she was getting from the machine was like nothing she had ever known. Besides masturbating in various ways, her sexual experience had been entirely clumsy boys pawing her, then thrusting inside her who are mostly only using her for their own pleasure.
Although she would never admit even to herself that she had never had an orgasm except for those times when she was enjoying her little finger or her mother's vibrator.
She realized shamelessly that the fucking machine would do everything a vibrator would and much more. Moreover, it had no selfish interest for enjoyment. It was strictly designed to give women all the sexual pleasure they wanted. And she was getting all that and more.
"Oh!" she cried as she started cumming. This had happened to her only once with the vibrator. This time however, it was much more intensive.
All the pleasure that had been piling up from the surges of the dildo seemed to come crashing down, flooding her pussy repeatedly with waves of pure ecstasy until there was a sudden intense burst as she climaxed. After that, there was just the nice feeling of the dildo pumping in and out of her pussy.
Bree was too weak to do anything, even to turn off the machine or ask Shelley to turn it off. She gestured toward the switch and Shelley, with an unaccustomed flash of insight, knew what she wanted and turned it off.
This time, Shelley helped her friend off the fucking machine. She helped Bree to the floor to her strength.
Later that morning, after both women had fully recovered their strength and had cleaned themselves up, they put away the device. It had given them so much pleasure that they can't help discussing it.
"That is the best fucking I have ever had and the best orgasm too…bar none," Shelley told her friend.
Bree agreed. "The problem is that we will probably never find a man who can match it. Jason might have a cock as big as the biggest one with the machine but I'll bet he can't fuck like the machine can."
"Do you want to cut school again next week and use it again," Shelley asked Bree shamelessly.
Bree looked at her and she knew from the happy look of lust on her friend's face that she need not hear the words. It was enough confirmation that there'll be a next time for them and that wonderful machine.
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