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One Irrefutable Reason That All B2B's Should Use LinkedIn
Are you STILL putting off creating a LinkedIn profile? Really?
Did you know that every single one of the Fortune 500 companies is represented on LinkedIn? Not only that, 499 of them are represented by director level and above employees. Those guys aren't in the Fortune 500 because they're bad at business, and if 100% of them think it's worthwhile being on the network then there's a fair chance it's got some merit right? Not convinced? Okay, here's the irrefutable reason your business should have a presence on LinkedIn.
A bunch of potential clients are there waiting
It's as simple as that. Whatever industry you're in, you're guaranteed to find hundreds or even thousands of your target market on LinkedIn. With 135 million users in 200 different countries, and the user base growing by 5 every 10 seconds, you can see why I'm so confident that you'll find a lot of prospects there. If you want to check it yourself, simply visit the site and perform a search for targeted prospects (feel free to leave a comment with how many you find). So, now that you understand joining LinkedIn is a 'must do' and you've gone ahead and created a profile, here are some tips for getting in touch with those prospects you're so keen to turn into clients/customers.
Tips for connecting with prospects on Linkedin
Use advanced people search: Utilizing advanced people search is the best way to find targeted prospects on LinkedIn. In addition to searching by industry, you can also search on parameters such as job title. Very hand if you're trying to get in touch with the chief procurement officer.
Use targeted ads: The network's advertising option allows you to get your ads in front of very high quality prospects. However, to get the most out of them, be sure to make them very targeted. Define your ads for people with specific variables such as geography and interests, doing this will ensure much higher response rates than ads targeted at a generic group.
It's not 'set and forget': Like all the social networks, you can't just set up a profile and expect prospects to start beating on your door. It's all about human interaction, so you need to be prepared to do the hard yards if you want to build profitable relationships with prospects. It's a bit like networking in real life, if you don't turn up to the events you're not going to make any connections. Except you don't have to dress up to network on LinkedIn, you just need to log in and start getting involved in the various options for interaction such as: answers, groups, and discussions.
Create a good profile!
Now that you've decided to take the important step of getting on board with LinkedIn, don't hamper your prospecting efforts with a half baked profile. If you need some tips for getting the most out of your profile, check this post out.
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While organizations may understand the benefits of a diverse workforce, finding immigrant talent often can be a challenge. You can overcome this by:
- Tapping into a ready and qualified pool of skilled immigrants in Canada with the support of your local immigrant serving agency or immigrant employment council.
- Broadening your recruitment strategy by participating in networking and coaching events as well as participating in mentoring programs.
To hear more about how to source a diverse talent pool watch the webinar – Right in your Back Yard: Sourcing Immigrant Talent Faster featuring the Ottawa Job Match Network, Hire Immigrants Ottawa, an immigrant employment council and the Canadian Bureau of International Education, who has effectively used the Job Match Network to improve their company's talent recruitment efforts.


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Let's see....where was I? Oh, yes, that's right. I was planning on making some slippers from a vintage pattern I found amongst my great-grandmother's things. I fully intend to do so, it is just that.....well, I've gotten distracted!
You see, most of the crochet hooks that I own belonged to my great-grandmother and she was using this old, tube thing that if I were to hazard a guess, used to house a small embroidery kit. It just has not been working for me, as I continually knock the silly thing over and spill the hooks and tapestry needles onto the carpet....which by the way is a thick awful mess that seems to swallow anything small. The only way to find things is to step on them and do the "hopping-on-one-foot-curse-real-loud-boogie". But I digress. Back to the dilemma of what to do with my crochet hook collection.
After finally feeling strong enough to clean my closet(I herniated a disk in my lower back...but that is another story altogether), I came across a long lost travel wipes case, empty of course. I honestly don't think I've seen that thing since early February when I began watching my nephew regularly and how it ended up buried under a pile of stuff in my closet I will never know. Next to the case, I unearthed a storage tote, another item I had forgotten about, that was filled with some old tablecloths and random fabrics that I had purchased at a thrift store some time during the summer. I must have stared at the stuff in that tote for an hour, and I STILL don't have a clue as to why I needed those things, or what the sam-hill-of-beans I had intended to make with any of it.
That is when the little light sparked, flared and burnt out in my head. I decided to make myself a little "clutch" to put my hooks and such in! I suppose I didn't do to bad of a job, and in my defense I couldn't sleep and had just taken my pain medication. Did I mention it was 1 A.M.? I get these crafty urges at the strangest times....I'm just lucky my husband sleeps like a rock and I have a room dedicated to my hobbies! So I grabbed some fabric, the spray adhesive, some felt, some yarn and that little case and set to work!
Now, as I said, it was 1 AM and I had just taken my pain medication, so it didn't occur to me that I might want to take a photo of the "before". The original plan was to hot glue the crochet inserts into the case, but they stay pretty well without having done so, and I like that I will be able to change them if I really want to! It is a little rough around the edges, but it is working out beautifully! :0)
But, wait! That's not all! I also got distracted by the small crochet hooks that belonged to my great-grandmother....and I mean small. I had no idea that there was such a small hook, size 14! I also found some handkerchiefs with hand-tatted and crocheted edges in great-grandmother's things. I got to wondering what I might be able to make with such small hooks and I had no idea what to use for "yarn". Then I remembered that along with all the yarn my mother-in-law gave me, she also gave me a small tub of embroidery floss, so I gave it a whirl, and this is what I came up with!!
The pattern for the flower can be found here: http://crochethealingandraymond.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/pointy-petal-flower/
The tiny butterfly was made using the same pattern as the flower, except I made the second and third "petal" by using a DC in place of the Half-Treble and then stopping with the fourth "petal". I used only 2 strands of embroidery floss for the smaller items, and 4 or more for the bigger ones and then put them together for a 3D effect. Just a quick note....the button in the photo is just an extra large one, I'm not that talented to make such small things and I don't think I have the eyesight for it either!!
So, hopefully I will be able to get to those slippers....if I can keep from getting distracted anymore!! :0)


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Published: 2009/03/01
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- Emerson Lake and Palmer : Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shout Factory)
Emerson Lake and Palmer : Live at the Royal Albert Hall (Shout Factory)
The Groundhogs : Live at the Astoria (Eagle Vision)
It's official: the DVD is the new CD.
Brand new CDs can now be had for twelve bucks on Amazon, digital downloads are even cheaper, and DVDs that used to retail in the $30 and up region can now be had for prices lower than new CDs were two years ago. This situation, which is a reflection of decreasing production costs, has also lead to something of a glut in cut price reissues, which brings us to these two releases.
After breaking up in the late 1970s, following the disastrous disco-tinged album Love Beach, and presumably after Palmer had forgiven Emerson and Lake for touring as ELP while sneakily inserting drummer Cozy Powell into the lineup (a smart move that required no retooling of the ELP merchandise line), the original Emerson, Lake, and Palmer trio reunited in 1992 for the frankly sub par Black Moon. Instead of warming up for their first tour in over a dozen years with a few low-key gigs, ELP launched their comeback in the grand surroundings of London's historic Royal Albert Hall. They've certainly gotten their money's worth from this show because apart from this DVD, originally released on video, they also turned out a live CD of the gig with a very different track listing. This DVD mostly sticks to a "greatest hits" approach with thankfully just two tracks from the new album, and it really isn't bad at all.
The boys have obviously lost a step or two from their heyday, and they are an easy target for mockery. Greg Lake used to have a carpet roadie back in the 70s, but judging by the tightness of the leather pants he wears at this show, he probably needed a trouser roadie to get those suckers off after the show. And there's definitely something Spinal Tap-like about Emerson wandering into the audience, waving something resembling a light saber, alternately making screeching noises with it and making fire shoot out the end. However, there's no denying that they are terrific musicians, and they really do jam like crazy in spots, especially on the closing medley of "Fanfare For the Common Man->America->Blue Rondo A La Turk," which is actually quite thrilling. I watched this with a diehard ELP fan who pronounced it "awesome," and I can't disagree with that assessment.
The Groundhogs have been around for 30 years and are an old-fashioned power trio led by Tony McPhee, a candidate for the title of "best guitarist you've never heard of." Unfortunately, he has a singing voice only a mother could love, not to mention a stage presence best described as "bemused," which may explain The Groundhogs' lack of success outside their native England. Truth be told, the first few songs here, all straightforward blues numbers, are pretty tough to sit through because of McPhee's vocals, but the middle section of this 80 minute performance is absolutely stellar. The band pulls out some of their most famous early 70s material, including "Split parts 1 and 2" and "Cherry Red," and McPhee simply shreds his way through the songs, piling up mind-blowing solo after mind-blowing solo. This four-song segment alone makes this DVD worth getting and is a must-see for guitar aficionados unfamiliar with McPhee.
Both of these releases have their technical faults. The audio on the ELP is inexcusably quiet, and the Groundhogs release is obviously a poor video-to-DVD transfer that has problems with color bleeding and a general fuzziness. Nevertheless, when considering that you can pick these up for the price of a couple of decent beers, it would be churlish to really complain.


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Xin's paper on prion-like polymerization of MAVS and ASC in cell signaling was recently published by Cell.
Pathogens and cellular danger signals activate sensors such as RIG-I and NLRP3 to produce robust immune and inflammatory responses through respective adaptor proteins MAVS and ASC, which harbor essential N-terminal CARD and PYRIN domains, respectively. Here, we show that CARD and PYRIN function as bona fide prions in yeast and that their prion forms are inducible by their respective upstream activators. Likewise, a yeast prion domain can functionally replace CARD and PYRIN in mammalian cell signaling. Mutations in MAVS and ASC that disrupt their prion activities in yeast also abrogate their ability to signal in mammalian cells. Furthermore, fibers of recombinant PYRIN can convert ASC into functional polymers capable of activating caspase-1. Remarkably, a conserved fungal NOD-like receptor and prion pair can functionally reconstitute signaling of NLRP3 and ASC PYRINs in mammalian cells. These results indicate that prion-like polymerization is a conserved signal transduction mechanism in innate immunity and inflammation.
Congrats to Xin, Randal, James and all those involved in the project.


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This morning on my run, lots of ideas were popping into my head, which is why I love running so much. I felt an overwhelming emotion of thanks but the thanks I felt was actually directed towards myself.
I was thanking myself for practicing patience over a situation that happened months ago. The scenario had just popped into my head…I guess that was my subconscious telling me that I needed some sort of closure or reckoning. It was a small situation I had with someone that really challenged me to remain neutral and not take the actions of the other person so personal and be offended. It was a conversation that challenged my ongoing conscious effort of having a peaceful, patient and compassionate heart. Clearly it's not easy, as it took me a couple of months to calm down and to realize not reacting was the right thing to do. But I can assure you that had I reacted, I would have felt tremendous guilt because eventually, I would have had time to think about the fact that we are all fighting our own demons and although I may have a bit of a head start on mine, we are all not at the same pace or place in our journey.
So, just as I should have patience for myself in my growth, having patience for those around me is also important as they too are fighting demons.
I don't think anyone consciously wants to sabotage their own future and the relationships around them, but it is an obstacle some of us are fighting in our journeys. So, when I really think about it, that small disruption in my day, was not about me, it was about that person and their ongoing journey. The best that I can do, is to let it go and keep myself on my own path of progress.
Choosing to keep someone in your life who continually chooses to make decisions that keep them in a downward cycle of life(when they themselves admit this) is another topic of discussion. The world is filled with angels, and some are strictly gifted in lifting others up. It's not an easy job and we all have our strengths, but at the very least, we can provide a bit of patience and compassion to those around us and just opt to remain quiet until we have the strength to respond in a better way.
Patience is one of the best gifts we can teach ourselves and it is also one of the best gifts we can give to others.
Images above were taken at the John Gilbert Trail in St.Simons Island, GA. I added a cooling photo filter for a moody affect in photoshop!


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TVXQ's Changmin Drops Short MV and Making Film for Solo Title Track "Into the Water"
TVXQ's Changmin gave a sneak peek at "Into the Water," the title track of his upcoming solo mini album, "Close to You"!
On October 30, Changmin's Japanese management company, Avex, uploaded the short music video of "Into the Water" as well as a short clip of the behind-the-scenes video. "Into the Water" is a beautiful ballad with emotional lyrics that are sure to warm up a cold autumn day. The melodic song showcases Changmin's voice perfectly.
"Rock With U" is the soft rock track that accompanies the beginning of the behind-the-scenes video. In the clip, Changmin interacts with staff as he engages in the photoshoot for his first solo album ever.
Meanwhile, Changmin will release his first solo mini album "Close to You" in Japan exclusively for official Bigeast fan club members.
Watch the videos below!


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Donut Days : Emma's life is a mess. Her best friend isn't talking to her, and the boy she's known forever and dismissed has turned into a hottie. As if that weren't enough, her preacher parents have decided not to pay for college unless Emma goes to a Christian school, something she will never do. Enter the Crispy Dream - a new donut franchise where people camp out waiting to be the first ones served. The local paper is running a scholarship for the person who writes the best feature story about the donut camp. Joining the camp could be Emma's big chance at taking control of her future. But it's going to take a lot of faith in the human spirit - and a few donuts - to change her life.
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Joe Walsh has released the lead single off his first solo album in twenty years.
The track, "Analog Man," premiered on Rolling Stone this morning. It's the rock equivalent of Jay-Z's "Death of Autotune," an anti-digital manipulation screed that features Walsh railing against everything from LCD TV screens to e-mail.
"Welcome to cyberspace, I'm lost in a fog," the 64-year-old sings. "The whole world's living in a digital dream / it's not really there, it's all on the screen."
Walsh has one of the most commercially successful careers in rock and roll, doing stints in not one but three popular bands. The guitarist was a part of the James Gang, Barnstorm, and, of course, the Eagles. On Analog Man, Walsh is joined by Ringo Starr (Walsh's brother-in-law) on drums.
Paul McCartney enlisted Walsh to play guitar at his 2012 Grammy Awards Show performance of "My Valentine," off McCartney's album Kisses on the Bottom. Walsh later joined Springsteen and McCartney on stage for a medley performance.
His last solo effort, Songs for a Dying Planet, was released in 1992. "Vote for Me," a single off the album, reached the tenth spot on Billboard's Mainstream Rock chart.
Take a listen to "Analog Man" below and let us know what you think in the comments. Analog Man, the album, is due in stores June 5 on Fantasy Records/Concord.
LISTEN: Joe Walsh - Analog Man
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The European Philosophy of Science Association subscribes to the British Philosophical Society / Society for Women in Philosophy (BPA/SWIP) Good Practice Scheme.
The EPSA is pleased to announce its subscription to the BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme. The Scheme aims to assist philosophy departments, learned societies, and journals in ensuring that they have policies and procedures in place that encourage the representation of women in philosophy.
The EPSA is fully committed to Good Practice in all of its activities, including:


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Working at Meridian Business Support is very much about being part of the family. A healthy balance of work and play is important to us here at Meridian Business Support, and as we're a friendly bunch there's always plenty of social events to enjoy throughout the year.
Whether you're into keeping fit, staff nights out, family fun, or just doing daft stuff to raise money at our charity events – there really is something for everyone!
Here's a taste of what we enjoy together:
- Charity fun day activities including baking sales and fancy dress
- Football tournaments
- Go-karting
- Team away days to places like Alton Towers
- Giving something back to the community through charity activities such as three peak challenges, sky diving and much more
- Annual Meridian Awards Conference and Dinner
Star of the Month
Our Star of the Month award celebrates an employee who has best demonstrated our behaviours and values, employees are nominated by their colleagues and voted for by the Senior Leadership team. The Star of the Month is taken out for lunch with their Business Unit Director as a thank you.
Employee Surveys
In order to improve, Meridian Business Support commit to a constant process of internal review and analysis. We conduct employee surveys biannually to listen to your views on a broad range of issues and to ask you how well we are performing.
In addition, we take part in the annual Best Companies to Work for external survey to benchmark ourselves against the marketplace, to ensure we are doing everything we can to have a truly engaged workforce. But you don't need to wait until the employee survey to give us good feedback or a suggestion that you feel we need to know about. The Senior Leadership team are always happy to hear it.


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Serro provides intelligent network solutions for the world's largest service providers by creating custom development software to complement critical NFVi feature sets like DSCP for multi-tenancy, DPDK enhancements, and SRiOV enhancements.
We specialize in delivering dynamic, intelligent network infrastructure solutions that can meet today's business demands and seamlessly scale to meet tomorrow's next-generation business needs.
Companies understand the value of managed services as it ensures efficiency, accountability and alignment between business strategies and enabling services while reducing costs and minimizing risks.
When we talk about automation, we're talking about advanced infrastructure automation—custom orchestration, NFV, NFVi, SDN tool kits. With an automated network infrastructure, IT managers are fully in control of their infrastructure without the complexity and with minimal maintenance
Our Software Defined Networking (SDN) framework and design, alongside the Open Daylight controller, enables real-time communication from anywhere in the world to the data center, via Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites.
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Betty Ann Bass, 65, of Ewa Beach, a homemaker, died in Ewa Beach. She was born in Honolulu. She is survived by son Paul Pinero, daughters Lisa Viluan and Patricia Freitas, eight grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. No services.
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For Al Secord, no news is bad news.
The 32-year-old left wing-the only Blackhawk other than Bobby Hull to score more than 50 goals in a season-now is a free agent without compensation. Along with two other veterans-35-year-old defenseman Bob Murray and 30-year-old right wing Duane Sutter-Secord wasn`t offered a new contract by the Hawks before the National Hockey League`s deadline Sunday.


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Now everyone is an insider!
In order to provide an open forum for ALL of the museum's collection and activities, the Paper + People blog is being renamed SCMA Insider. With its expanded focus, SCMA Insider will act as a go-to place for sharing information on the diverse collections and many voices and visions that shape SCMA.
If you want to contribute to the blog, please contact the Brown Post-Baccalaureate Curatorial Fellow, Shanice Bailey, at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thursday, June 6, 2013
Thomas Cornell's French Revolutionary Portraits
Guest blogger Jennifer Guerin is a Smith College student, class of 2014, majoring in American Studies and History with focuses in Public History and Social Movements. She is a Student Assistant in the Cunningham Center for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.
The SCMA's Cunningham Center for the Study of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs has in its collection a set of etchings that artist Thomas Cornell completed for the Northampton-based Gehenna Press, run by Leonard Baskin, in 1964. The book for which they were produced, The Defense of Gracchus Babeuf Before the High Court of Vendôme,is a French text from 1797 translated by John Anthony Scott, a professor of History at Amherst College. The works were donated to SCMA by Scott and his daughter, Elizabeth.
François-Noel Babeuf took the name Gracchus as a reference to Roman tribunes Tiberius and Gaius Gracchi, famous for advocating land redistribution. As his choice of name suggests, Babeuf was the leader of a radical left wing faction of French revolutionaries who believed in policies such as division of lands, progressive taxation, and free and equal public education. These revolutionaries opposed the Directory and the government established by the Constitution of 1795, wanting instead to return to the more democratic-minded Constitution of 1793, and they attempted to foment a rebellion. Babeuf's defense was given over the span of three days, and though it did not prevent his execution, it is particularly interesting because it does not attempt to deny the accusations, but instead argues that their action could not be considered conspiracy because they operated under the principle that opposition intended to remove an unjust government is always legitimate. Additionally, it is worth noting that Gehenna Press's choice to publish a text which praised a socialist figure was a fairly radical move in Cold War America. Cornell's twenty-one illustrations represent the major players in the trial, as well as other important figures of the Revolution. During his professional career, much of Cornell's work focused on social justice issues, and these etchings are the predecessors of that work.
In creating these French Revolutionary portraits, Cornell referred to previous representations of the individuals but did not hesitate to reinvent the images. For instance, his portrait of Jean-Paul Marat works to present an alternative to the idealized images of Marat, most notably Jacques-Louis David's famous painting The Death of Marat.While in David's painting, Marat's physical deformities and debilitating skin condition are only hinted at by his bandaged head and the bathtub he sits in, Cornell's Marat is clearly deformed and appears grotesque. In his portrait of Diderot, Cornell's transformation goes in the other direction— the Diderot shown in portraits becomes an idealized figured seemingly modeled after a Roman emperor. This allows the portrait of Diderot to represent not only the inspiration that the revolutionaries drew from Enlightenment figures, but also the huge influence of Greek and Roman history.
Finally, Cornell's images of Danton and Robespierre, two of the most controversial figures of the Revolution, depart from the conventional, neoclassical portrait to show two very human and conflicted figures. While Robespierre is nearly always show wearing a powdered wig, which was mocked by opponents as too aristocratic, Cornell's image eliminates the wig, thereby making him appear more vulnerable and closer to the common people. In the portrait of Danton, Cornell's use of light surrounds Danton with a sense of power and emotion, and his facial expression suggests an intense personal conflict.
Thomas Cornell (1937-2012), professor and artist, devoted much of the early years of his artistic career to drawing and etching, though he is generally well known for his paintings. Following his undergraduate work at Amherst College (B.A. 1959) and graduate work at the Yale School of Art and Architecture (1959-1960), Cornell explored the field of bookmaking, completing illustrations for Apiary, the Smith College student press, as well as Gehenna Press. He also founded his own publishing house in 1964, Tragos Press, through which he produced a number of publications relating to the Civil War, abolition, and the Civil Rights Movement. In 1962, Cornell was hired to establish a visual arts program at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, and he would continue to teach there until he retired in June of 2012, shortly before he passed away in December.
Thursday, May 30, 2013
Degas Doppelgängers: SCMA Lithographs From Same Series as Gardner Heist Drawings
Guest blogger Maggie Kean is a Smith College student, class of 2014, majoring in Art History with a concentration in Museum Studies. She is the Student Assistant to Maggie Lind, the Associate Educator for Academic Programs.
French Impressionist Edgar Degas is regarded as one of the greatest painters of the nineteenth-century, producing an inspiring body of work thematically divergent from that of his predecessors, which earned him a posthumous reputation as the darling of the movement. A prolific draughtsman as well as painter, Degas's vast output of drawings dynamically rendering his iconic dancers, bathing nudes, and jockeys are as distinctive as his paintings. Yet while many conceive Degas as the master of tulle and soft, luminescent flesh—daubed onto canvas in rich jewel-tones or lustily marked out with pastels—few realize that Degas was also a closet printmaker of great mastery.
Though his printmaking record indicates that his pursuit of the medium was patchy, extant works span Degas's career from his nascent aspirations to history painting in the 1850s through to his late and most expressive works of the 1890s. His prints ranged in medium from etchings and lithographs pulled by professional printers to monotypes that he executed himself. A largely underappreciated and thus neglected form of printmaking, Degas is recognized for pioneering the monotype medium, which conflates painting with printmaking through the painterly application of ink directly onto a plate that is then pressed onto paper. While his printed subject matter did not vary much from his standard repertoire of women and horses, the works themselves reveal Degas's virtuosity in a breadth of mastery unknown even at the time—only a handful of such prints were ever displayed during his lifetime.
The SCMA has two such prints in the works on paper collection at the Cunningham Center—a set of lithographs from 1884 entitled Program for the Soirée Artistique des Anciens Élèves du Lycée de Nantes(Program for the Evening for Former Art Students of Nantes Secondary School). One of the former students of the Lycée was a friend of Degas and asked him to create the program – a process that yielded four black chalk drawings, four etchings, and the final lithographs. Two of the drawings, which are a clear precedent to our lithographs, are among the works stolen in the famous heist of the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. With the recent efforts of the FBI to again publicize the crime and recover the works, we thought we'd highlight the parallel works in our collection in solidarity with the Gardner (To view the Gardner drawings and more information on the theft, please visit the FBI website: http://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2013/march/reward-offered-for-return-of-stolen-gardner-museum-artwork/image/hi-res).
The Programwas directed toward a broad audience, and as such, the visual language Degas utilizes is straightforward in its reference to the entertainment promised for the Soirée, with some marginal imagery symbolic of the town of Nantes. The print was clearly thrown together quickly, a somewhat compositionally ambiguous and sketchy image; in 1891, when the École des Beaux-Arts displayed one of the lithographs in an exhibition surveying contemporary lithography without Degas's permission, he was outraged that his body of printed work should be represented by such a poor example.
Nevertheless, the Programand his opinion of it offer a glimpse into the ways in which Degas's work reached the general public. His major works were typically displayed at the Salon for an audience comprised primarily of the bourgeoisie, artists, and academics. A colloquial document such as Programnot only enjoyed a wider viewership, but also illuminates how Degas consciously adjusted the quality of his work based on the audience he created it for.
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Munio Makuuchi
Artist/poet Munio Makuuchi (born Howard Munio Takahashi) was a third-generation Japanese-American born in Seattle. From 1941 to 1945, he and his family were confined in an internment camp for Japanese-Americans in southern Idaho. This pivotal childhood experience became the basis for a lifetime of visual and poetic works. After their release from the camp, the artist and his family settled permanently in Idaho. Makuuchi studied art education, printmaking, and painting, and taught both in the U.S. and Africa. He retired from teaching and returned to Seattle in the mid-1980s.
Like all of Makuuchi's visual works, On Boy's Dayrelates directly to his life history. The twin images of Mount Rainier and Mount Fuji are visible in the background of this print, alluding to his dual Japanese/American identity. The central image of the print is a school of leaping fish bisected by a bamboo pole bearing a flag. The pole and flag are part of the rituals celebrating the Japanese festival "Boy's Day" (Tango-no-sekku),in which paper carp (one per male child) are flown in celebration of the healthy growth of sons. The carp, a symbol of resilience and determination, is seen as an embodiment of male virtues. Makuuchi replaces the traditional carp with an image of salmon, a fish native to the Northwest coast, which he felt had more resonance with his past.
In the poem referred to in the title of this print, Makuuchi mourns what he saw as the cultural assimilation of many Asian Americans during the post-War period.
On boy's day I I.D.
with slant/Sockeyes of
Steelheads/hearts of the
Rocky Mountains rather
than flying paper Carp...
They tagged and released us
after four years
in a USA reeducation camp.....
They tried to drum out the drums of the Afro/Americans.....
And the Latino still speak
and eat Spanish
500 years later.....
We went 1000 miles
up inland Rocky Mountains
with special long enduring
genes and chromosomes
only to be watered down
Only a few are reaching
the headwaters
When it comes to our kind soul vittles -
"No you can't take that away from me!"
Munio Makuuchi
This work is on view in Collecting Art of Asia until May 26, 2013.


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Removing an autumn olive tree is a complex process that can take several weeks, depending on the severity of the growth. In order to remove an autumn olive tree, you need gloves, goggles, glyphosphate herbicide, a hatchet, a limb lopper and a manual sprayer.Continue Reading
Wait for the leaves of the small plants to develop. Once you are able to see them, use your manual sprayer to coat all of the leaves with the glyphosphate herbicide. Make sure you saturate both sides of each leaf with the spray.
Use your limb loppers to cut the saplings all the way down to the ground. This exposes a fresh stump. Spray the surface of the stump with the herbicide pump. After the herbicide has killed the upper growth, begin cutting the olive hedges and thickets down to the ground. You should wear gloves and goggles during this process to keep yourself safe from sharp extensions.
Examine the earth surrounding the olive seedlings. When the soil is moist, put on gloves, and remove the seedlings by hand. Pull carefully to ensure you are able to get rid of the roots. If any roots survive, the plant may regrow.
Take your hatchet and hack away a 2-inch strip of bark that wraps all the way around the bottom of the tree. With your herbicide pump, apply herbicide directly into the fresh cuts.


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Linda Lewis – a great friend of NAWG, a tutor at the festival of writing, judge for our open competitions, has just published a new book.
The Writer's Treasury of Ideas by Linda Lewis
£12. 242 pages. ISBN 978-1-908691-11-8. Available in paperback from all good bookshops, on Amazon Kindle and all other ebook formats.
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Linda Lewis started her writing career by joining a Writing School Correspondence Course. To try out her newly found skill, she sent her first article to Aquarist and Pondkeeper magazine, which was accepted, so now she was hooked – on writing!
Linda Lewis is a full time writer, concentrating mainly on short stories. Under the pen name of Catherine Howard, she has been published in Fiction Feast, Best, Chat, That's Life, Woman, Yours, Take A Break, Woman's Weekly, My Weekly, The Weekly News, Ireland's Own, as well as magazines in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Australia. Her first novel, The Magic of Fishkeeping was published in 2011, but she has a clutch of non-fiction works, mainly practical guides to help other writers fine-tune their skills and successfully get published.
Linda regularly lectures and runs courses on writing around the country. She also has the distinction of winning the television show The Weakest Link, which in itself must have been a source of many ideas! Based in Leeds, today she spends time helping new authors to develop their craft by organising writing workshops and summer schools.
She also writes for Link, the magazine of the National Association of Writers Groups (NAWG).
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On 18 December 2001, Arsenal lost to Newcastle 1-3. It was their last loss of the season as they went on to win the title.
The two teams started the day in second and third, with Arsenal ahead only by virtue of a better goal differential. They hosted Newcastle at Highbury on a Tuesday, and took a 20th-minute lead with a goal from Robert Pires. But two minutes before the break, referee Graham Poll ejected Arsenal midfielder Ray Parlour, who received his second yellow card of the day for tripping Newcastle's Alan Shearer.
Newcastle made their advantage pay off in the second half, with Andy O'Brien equalizing in the 60th minute. Then, in the 85th minute, Poll awarded a penalty to the visitors for Sol Campbell's foul on Laurent Robert and Shearer converted the kick to put Newcastle up 1-2. Robert scored in stoppage time to extend the final margin to 1-3, giving the Toon their first win in London since 1997 and sent them to the top of league over Liverpool.
Arsenal regrouped, however, and went undefeated for the remainder of the season. They won their last thirteen matches, including an away win over Newcastle, to win the league seven points clear of runners-up Liverpool with a record of 26 wins, 9 draws, and only 3 losses.


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The profusion of medieval churches in Norfolk not only provides examples of beautiful church architecture, but also records life in their communities and offers an insight into the history of medieval England. Previously published as a three-volume series, this invaluable and straightforward guide to the living medieval churches of Norfolk has been re-written to help the visitor to understand both the general features and the unique of those in different areas. The guide is generously illustrated with new photographs, line drawings and a detailed map to aid in locating each church within the county. It also includes a substantial reference section in encyclopaedic form, designed to answer a host of questions which may tease the church visitor. For example, what symbols are used to represent particular saints? Why do so many Norfolk churches stand isolated from their villages? And why does the pagan Green Man find a place in our Christian churches? This book provides the answers to these and other questions. Written by enthusiasts for both the churches and the county in which they stand, the great appeal of this guide is that, once the code of church architecture has been broken and the language learned every church, be it ever so humble, is shown to be unique, with its own story to offer. This guide provides the key. With a foreword by the Countess of Leicester.A waggon-type parish chest stands under the tower and, above the arch, the old sanctus bell window was blanked off in ... of Leicester he was, like him, an assiduous and discerning collector a the Narford majolica was famous for its quality. ... The position of the recess would have made it suitable for use as an Easter Sepulchre later, bearing in mind that the floor levels have been raised significantly.
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Mrs. Sharon Yess, a longtime nursery teacher at Beis Rivkah of Montreal, passed away. The levaya will be on Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Sharon Yess, a beloved longtime nursery teacher at Beth Rivkah Academy girls school in Montreal, Canada
She was 66.
She is survived by her children Zev Yess, Tali Yess, Yosef Yess, Rikvah, Devorah and Shoshana; and grandchildren.
The levaya will take place today - Tuesday at 11:30 AM from Chesed Shel Emes - 935 Ave Beaumont in Montreal.
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Novebmer 23, 2012 (CHICAGO) --Illinois Secretary of State Jesse White is on the prowl looking for motorists illegally parking their vehicles in disabled parking spots this weekend.
Friday afternoon Secretary of State police officers issued tickets to motorist illegally parked in disability parking spaces near Water Tower Place in Chicago.
Officers are conducting enforcement sweeps at popular shopping malls state-wide throughout the holiday shopping season.
"I think that with operations like this we are making a difference and making sure that these spots to those who truly need them," said Secretary of State spokesman Bill Bogdan.
The Secretary of State's office says people who are caught illegally parked in a disabled space face fines up to $350.


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A savage coastal storm powered by hurricane-force gusts slashed its way through Britain and western Europe on Monday, felling trees, flooding lowlands and snarling traffic in the air, at sea and on land.
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Like Britain, Denmark saw trains and ferries cancelled.
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NJ's Sick Leave Law May Be A Poison Pill For RestaurantsNovember 25, 2014 – Articles Law360
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New Jersey's sick leave lawseems to be gaining momentum after several New Jersey municipalities, including Passaic, Paterson, East Orange and Irvington passed paid sick leave laws in the last few months. In the November election, voters in Trenton and Montclair overwhelmingly passed ballot initiatives requiring the passage of paid sick leave ordinances.
Following their lead, New Jersey may soon mandate all employers provide their employees with paid sick leave. On Oct. 27, 2014, the New Jersey Assembly's Labor Committee voted 6-3 to approve New Jersey's proposed sick leave law (A2354/S785). The Labor Committee did make some minor amendments to the proposed law, the most notable being the exemption from the protections of the bill of construction workers who are covered by a collective bargaining agreement. If the bill is passed and signed into law by Gov. Chris Christie it would make New Jersey the third state in the country, after Connecticut and California, to require employers to offer paid sick leave.
If enacted, New Jersey employers of all sizes would be required to make available one hour of earned sick leave for every 30 hours an employee works. Employers that had, on average, fewer than 10 employees (including part-time and temporary workers) during the preceding calendar year would have to allow employees to accrue up to 40 hours of paid sick leave per calendar year. Employers that had, on average, 10 or more employees (including part-time and temporary workers) during the preceding calendar year would have to allow employees to accrue up to 72 hours of paid sick leave per calendar year.
Employees would be able to use paid sick leave for any of the following reasons:
- Time needed for diagnosis, care or treatment of, or recovery from, mental or physical illness, injury or other adverse health condition (including preventative medical care).
- Time needed to aid or care for a family member during diagnosis, care or treatment of, or recovery from, the family member's mental or physical illness, injury or other adverse health condition (including preventative medical care).
- Absence necessary due to the circumstances resulting from the employee, or family member of the employee, being a victim of domestic or sexual violence.
- Time during which the employee is not able to work because of a closure of the employee's workplace, or the school or place of care of a child of the employee, due to an epidemic or other public health emergency.
Many business groups have already expressed concerns about the effect that the bill, if passed, will have on businesses. Cited among the concerns is the financial burden that the Act will place on employers. Proponents of the bill not only will get a boost from the fact that now New Jersey's three largest cities have sick leave laws, but also from the recent panic over the Ebola virus. The public's response to health crises such as Ebola and SARS reignited beliefs by the public at large that they do not want "sick people" waiting on them at restaurants or providing other services. Interestingly, the proposed law may have some of the most significant impact on the food services industry.[1] The reason for this is, in part, because of the commonly held belief that sick people should not be around food. This belief can lead patrons to become very vocal about the fact that sick people should not be working. These types of comments can lead employees to take more sick days, which from a public health standpoint may not be a bad thing, but from an employment standpoint may lead to coverage issues and increased operating costs.
The main reason why the proposed law may have more of an impact on the food service industry is how large and small employers are defined under the law. The bill presumes that a large employer is one with 10 or more employees. As was noted above, large employers are required to provide up to nine days of paid leave per year. As with many other small businesses, it is not uncommon for restaurants, delis and other food service establishments to use a combination of part-time and full-time employees to serve their staffing needs.
This is especially true for smaller food service employers who have peak rush periods during meal times who may need to staff up only during those hours with part-time employees. It is not unusual for these part-time workers to be students, people with other full-time jobs, or parents who want to work during school hours. In short, these part-time workers are individuals with limited working hours and restricted schedules. As a result, a small restaurant may easily have upwards of 10 employees simply because certain employees may only be available a few hours per week or during limited windows of time.
In these same establishments, full-time employees may earn almost two weeks of sick leave. Accommodating nine days of sick leave per year is likely far easier for an employer with 10 full-time employees than an employer with five full-time employees and five part-time employees who can only work three or four hours per week.
Another reason that the food service industry may be more significantly impacted than other industries is the new minimum wage law in New Jersey. Thanks to a 2013 constitutional amendment passed by New Jersey voters, the minimum wage was increased to $8.25 at the beginning of 2014. The amendment also provides guaranteed annual cost of living increases. Beginning on Jan. 1, 2015, the new minimum wage will be $8.38 per hour.
According to the Pew Research Center, the vast majority of Americans who make minimum wage are in the food services industry. In 2013, 47 percent of Americans earning the federal minimum wage worked in the food services industry. Rising costs associated with the new minimum wage will be aggravated by the paid sick leave costs that will arise if the law is passed.
Further aggravating this issue for the food service industry is the "tip credit" that employers can take toward their minimum wage obligation for tipped employees. Currently, under federal and state law, employers must directly pay tipped employees at least $2.13 an hour. Employers can then take a tip credit for the difference between $2.13 per hour and the applicable minimum wage. Although the increase in New Jersey's minimum wage did not increase the minimum payment that must be made to tipped employees, there is a bill currently pending in the New Jersey Legislature (A857) that would increase that minimum required hourly rate and reduce the amount of the tip credit. If that bill is passed, in the second year after enactment, employers would be required to pay at least 69 percent of New Jersey's minimum wage to tipped employees. Currently, employers may pay tipped employees approximately 25 percent of the minimum hourly wage and possibly take the tip credit for the rest.
Even if bill A875 is not passed, the increase in the minimum hourly wage may increase payroll costs for tipped employees. This is because if the tips actually received by the employees do not equal the tip credit, the employer must make up the difference to insure that employees receive the applicable minimum wage.
It is far from certain that the proposed sick leave bill, even if passed by the Legislature, will be signed by Gov. Christie, as he has already expressed reservations about the law. It is also not yet clear if there might be additional amendments or political compromises that significantly alter the bill's provisions. Even if there are some amendments, it is unlikely that the bill's basic provision, that employees earn one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked, will be changed. This is because every sick leave law already passed in New Jersey provides for this accrual rate.
The amount of sick leave that must be offered annually under the proposed bill is different from the other municipal New Jersey ordinances, which generally provide that the maximum amount of leave that must accrue in a year is 40 hours not 72 hours as proposed in the bill. At this point, there appears to be no movement to alter the amount of the annual accrual under the proposed bill. This could change as the bill winds its way through committees.
If the bill is going to be enacted, employers should hope for at least one amendment to it. As it reads now, the bill does not preempt any of the eight municipal sick leave ordinances that have been passed in New Jersey. Employers would benefit from an amendment that explicitly preempts the local laws. The reason for this is not mere simplicity.
Under the proposed bill, leave may be used for four reasons, one of which is for victims of domestic or sexual violence. However, under all of the eight municipal sick leave ordinances, that is not a permissible reason to use leave. If the bill does not preempt the local laws, then employees in any of the eight municipalities with sick leave ordinances may be able to earn up to 14 days of paid sick leave.
This is because an employee of a "large" employer could use their nine sick days provided under the bill for reasons related to being the victim of domestic or sexual violence. That employee would still have time accrued under the local ordinances that could be used for his or her own illness or that of a family member. It is hard to imagine that legislators envision that employers with as few as 10 employees would have to provide nearly three weeks of paid sick leave.
Now that the Labor Committee has approved the bill, it is currently before the Assembly Budget Committee. It may take several months for the bill to come to full vote before the Legislature. In the meantime, employers should monitor the status of the bill to be ready if it is passed.
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Startups open door to interns from IITs
A motley bunch of students - from design schools, IITs, IIMs, master's degree programmes and even regional colleges - will spend their summers learning the tricks of trade at some of the hottest startups in the country.
The likes of TaxiForSure, ZipDial, CommonFloor, Yepme, Simplilearn, Wooqer, Limeroad and LocalBanya, among others, are scrambling to bring talent on board for summer internships and are paying anywhere between Rs 8,000- 80,000 per month.
Take TaxiForSure, for instance. Since the beginning of April, the online taxi aggregator has taken on 25 management interns for a stipend of Rs 50,000 each. These interns, who are mostly from IIM Bangalore and Lucknow, have been put to work on various critical projects, including designing loyalty programmes, gaining consumer insights to ensure repeat customers and even narrowing down the next markets to enter, and in what order.
"The number of internships has swelled five-fold from when we started offering them two years ago," says Aprameya Radhakrishna, founder and director, TaxiForSure. Meanwhile, social shopping platform Limeroad, for the first time, is opening up virtual internships, where even those from remote locations can apply.
Interns will work on community building, brand marketing and vendor development projects, collaborating with some of the best talent in the industry. "From Pearl Academy to NIFT from regional MBA and engineering institutes to IITs and IIMs, we are looking at everybody.
Since there is an opportunity to do a virtual internship as well, we are open to recruiting even 100 interns if they fit the bill," says Suchi Mukherjee, co-founder and CEO. The stipends offered are comparable to those offered by many leading corporates, but what makes students gravitate to them is the chance to work in a hierarchy-free environment, on live projects that directly impact business and gain the kind of experience that will be hard to get in any other industry.
Hardly surprising then that Amit Naik, CTO of e-grocery startup LocalBanya, says they were flooded with resumes, of them at least 30 from MBAs, for summer internships. They finally narrowed it down to three IITians: two from IIT Kharagpur and one from IIT Kanpur.
Of them, the marine engineer will be working in operations while the computer engineer will be with the tech team. The integrated masters in economics from IIT-K will be involved in econometrics and predictive modelling.
"Next year, we'll have a good middle-management in place and will take on even more people," adds Naik At online shopping company Yepme, which is taking on 10-15 interns in IT, product designing and digital marketing teams for stipends between Rs 8,000-15,000, the design interns would be researching global fashion trends to strengthen the start-up's men's and women's wear range.
Yepme co-founder and COO Sandeep Sharma says they'd be given exposure to actual design of products and good designs will be launched in the market as well. Bangalore-based startup Wooqer, which will have 8 interns in technology from IIT Roorkee and NIT Jaipur, is going to be mapping their interests/strengths in the first week, after which they are free to pick up from a list of ongoing projects where they'll work closely with an expert.
IIM-Bangalore's Pratik Gaonkar, currently interning at Taxi-ForSure, has worked earlier in a corporate structure and has experience of how hierarchy often filters out actions.
"Here, I'm getting to interact with the founder, so I know my suggestions are getting heard. Also, it's a great stepping stone for a future career in entrepreneurship," he says.
Even for those not looking to take up entrepreneurship in the short term, these internships are a route to bagging full-time jobs after graduation. That's because for these startups, internship programmes are an investment in creating a long-term pipeline of talent for the company.
"The whole idea is talent acquisition ," says LocalBanya's Naik. "Now that we have tripled our team size in the last two years, interns are an important part of the hiring process," says Valerie Rozycki Wagoner, founder and CEO of Zip-Dial, a mobile marketing and analytics platform for emerging markets.
The startup has, in the past, recruited two engineers from IIT Kanpur as well as a marketing manager who was earning her Masters in Economics, based on their performance as summer interns. This summer, ZipDial will have 5-7 interns in engineering roles, business development and marketing from ISB and IITs.
"We prefer people who have had some work experience. Stipends can range between Rs 20,000-80,000 per month based on the candidate and the role," says Wagoner.
Sumit Jain, cofounder and CEO, CommonFloor says the company will be hiring 5 engineering and B-school interns for 8-10 weeks for around Rs 15,000-30,000 per month.
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No work, no money: Without a job, most of us would be in the poorhouse. Consider what would happen if an illness or accident prevents you from working permanently. How would you survive a lifetime without income? In the prime of youth, it's tough to think about disability insurance, which essentially replaces your wages if you become incapable of working.
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Discover Wellness through Acupuncture, Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Holistic Healing in Santa Monica and Los Angeles
Find your path to wellness and longevity at Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Center. Whether you seek a healthier, more peaceful and balanced way of living, want to improve your fertility, or alleviate and manage your pain, we invite you to visit us at Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Center, with the most knowledgeable acupuncturists in the Los Angeles or Santa Monica area.
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With more than 30 years clinical experience, combining the best of modern science with the 3000 year-old healing tradition of Chinese medicine, our doctors at Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Center in Los Angeles, CA are dedicated to providing the best acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, and integrative healing therapies to optimize your bodys intrinsic healing potential and promote longevity and wellness. At Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Center, we support your choice to concurrently work with your M.D. or western medicine practitioner our specialized form of treatment will always enhance and complement your western treatment. Our doctors' deep understanding of both Chinese herbology and western medicine allows them to safely design individual and specific treatments targeted especially for your needs.
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Drs. Biao Lu, Shiaoting Jing, Florence Lim, and Kristel Hart are all highly compassionate and extensively experienced acupuncturists who received their integrated Western and Chinese medical training in Asia and the U.S. Dr. Jing and Dr. Lu both grew up in families with distinguished lineages in Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and herbology, and have graduated from Beijing University of TCM. They have spent the past 30 years in Los Angeles using acupuncture and Chinese herbal medicine to effectively treat pain, male and female infertility and fertility enhancement, autoimmune disorders, womens health issues, and respiratory disorders, among other things. Dr. Lu specializes in advanced acupuncture techniques, which are very effective for pain relief, as well as immunological and neurological disorders. Dr. Lim received her medical degree at Shanghai University of TCM and holds a clinical doctoral degree from Yosan University specializing in womens health and reproductive medicine. Kristel received her degree in TCM from Emperor's College in Santa Monica, CA. She also trained at the Mejij University of Integrative Medicine in Kyoto, Japan. Kristel specializes in fertility and womens health, pain conditions, gastrointestinal disorders, and autoimmune conditions. Our office walls continually display pictures of the beautiful babies of our patients a testament to the doctors talents and success. At Traditional Chinese Medicine Healing Center, you will find the best fertility acupuncturists in Los Angeles.
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Osiris Projects are to exhibit at Oceanology International 2014
Posted 16 January 2014
With registration now open for the largest ever Oceanology International, Osiris Projects have announced they will be exhibiting to showcase the latest company developments and emerging technologies.
Running from the 11th-13th March at ExCeL, London, Oceanology International is expected to host 520 exhibitors and thousands of visitors from the marine technology and ocean science global community. For 2014 organisers have introduced a new area named the Innovation Zone, featuring video product demonstrations and a dedicated presentation area, providing a platform for new technologies and solutions.
On their exhibition stand C250 Osiris Projects will detail progress on their latest custom build survey vessel Bibby Athena, as well as presenting their new R&D project which is designed to address the challenge of surveying subsea cables.


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My Ghoul Friday
Walked into a Chapters store yesterday while celebrating Yetch's birthday. And what should I discover? The January/February issue of Rue Morgue magazine has hit the stores.
We quickly flipped to page 14 and there they were.
I laughed and said "I'm famous!", much to the confusion of fellow shoppers nearby. Ok, so I'm not really famous. I need a word that expresses kinda-sorta-famous-in-a-particular-way. I tried using "fermus" but I'm not sure it will catch on.
I snatched up three copies - one for me, one for a friend, and one for my mother if she can't find it at her local store - and happily carried them to the front cash. The woman behind the desk, as she was ringing them in, said - half stating, half asking - "you have...three of the same issue."
"Yes" I said. "I certainly do."
Now, of course, I just need to finish the next set of Plague Doctors. There are 12 in total at various stages of completion. I expect to have 4 ready by next week.
There is still one left in my Etsy store from a previous series.
Do I need to makes signs for my tables at shows that read "As seen in Rue Morgue Magazine" now? ;)
From a grand Halloween display in my office, I moved directly into tackling Christmas decorations in the living and dining rooms.
With the exception of one gift, I am done Christmas shopping.
I have one or two gifts to make, and then I'm free to create. This is important. It will be the first time in months that I will be able to create in an organized space, without distractions of other things I should be doing.
Not only do I look forward to the simple act of getting messy while making some monsters, but it's the last thing on my 'to do' list. In fact, I've been rushing like a mad woman to get the rest of the things done so I can get to creating.
Because you see, I have some news.
It's 99% confirmed. And being a pessimist sometimes, I generally like to keep news to myself until I know the good is going to happen. But I don't think I can keep it a secret any longer, and I don't think I can wait until January.
So here it is.
I'm going to be in the January/February issue of Rue Morgue Magazine.
Well, my Plague Doctors will, in their Needful Things section.
Everyone seems to be off to a convention this weekend. For those of us left behind, I offer a selection of creeptastic music.
The first is Rue Morgue's "Hymns From the House of Horror". You can download the music and the cover art until the end of the month.
If you're still not satisfied, head on over to Monster Spookshow Radio where the two year anniversary compilation has just been posted.
I don't need no stinkin' convention. I have ghoultastic grooves.
Now excuse me while I dance my pout away.
The best place to find current art and WIPs is Instagram
I'm also on Twitter but be prepared for political commentary
My self-published book is still available!
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Here are some sites to satisfy the hunger.
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B'nai B'rith International President Allan J. Jacobs and Executive Vice President Daniel S. Mariaschin were notable members of the mission, introducing key speakers in Europe and meeting with senior leadership in Israel.
Below is a recap of some of the news items to surface from the mission:
The Jerusalem Post:
Israel needs an influx of millions of Diaspora Jews, Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman told representatives of American Jewry during a speech Sunday.
"It is clear that today maybe it is time to take real decisions and the real decision is to make aliya and to come to Israel," Liberman told members of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on their annual Israel mission. "With all due respect to all Jewish communities, you know exactly what happens today with assimilation, not just with anti-Semitism and terror threats. I think there is only one place for all Jewish people: Israel."
Aliya is a personal choice and the centrality of Israel is paramount is the minds of all of the American Jewish leaders on the mission whether they make aliya or not, said Daniel Mariaschin, the Executive Vice President of B'nai B'rith International.
Baltimore Jewish Life:
The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations has represented American Jewry for six decades. This forum of 50 national organizations from diverse segments of the Jewish community deliberate on vital national and international issues.
After a fact finding trip in Europe, Conference leaders are meeting in Israel with government officials and seeing strategic sites.
Participating from Maryland, are Nathan J. Diament, Director of the Institute for Public Affairs of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America; Dan Mariaschin, Executive Vice President, B'nai B'rith International; William Daroff, Vice President for Public Policy and Director of the Washington Office of The Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA); Josh Block, CEO and President, TIP,The Israel Project; and Lenny Ben-David, Israeli conference organizer.


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Bromley Armstrong
Bromley Lloyd Armstrong, CM, O Ont, Black trade unionist, community organizer and activist (born 9 February 1926 in Kingston, Jamaica).
Bromley Lloyd Armstrong, CM, O Ont, Black trade unionist, community organizer and activist (born 9 February 1926 in Kingston, Jamaica). Bromley Armstrong is recognized as a pivotal figure in the early anti-discrimination campaigns in Ontario that led to Canada's first anti-discrimination laws. A self-described "blood and guts" ally of the working poor, Armstrong has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to the trade union movement and the battle against disadvantage and discrimination. For more than six decades, Armstrong has worked for human rights, helping to generate civic and government support for racial equality and advocating for human rights reforms in public policy.
Bromley Armstrong was born in Kingston, Jamaica, into a family with strong roots in the working class and passionate ties to the labour movement. He was the fourth of seven children (the other siblings were Esmine, Eric Jr., Everald, Olive, George and Monica). Armstrong was born at a time when the political atmosphere in Jamaica was rampant with the call "Better must come." His parents, Eric Vernon and Edith Miriam Armstrong (née Heron), instilled a strong work ethic and love of athletics that supported Bromley throughout his life.
Migration to Canada
Following the Second World War, a young Bromley Armstrong and his brother George decided to emigrate to Canada in search of education and employment. The economic hardships of the Great Depression and the untold human costs of the Second World War had left Jamaica in a state of turmoil, and employment opportunities were scarce. On 11 December 1947, Bromley and George boarded a plane at the Kingston airport bound for Toronto (via Miami; Washington, DC; Chicago; and Buffalo). They arrived two days later at Malton airport, which was later renamed Pearson Airport.
Trade Unionist
Motivated by his parents' example of hard work and community involvement, Bromley Armstrong aspired to success in his new home of Canada. Although he initially had difficulty finding work, he was eventually hired by Massey-Harris (later Massey-Ferguson), an agricultural equipment manufacturer. As Armstrong wanted to be a welder like his father, he enrolled in the Chicago Vocational Training School, attending classes during the day while working at Massey-Harris at night. Armstrong became a member of the United Automobile Workers (UAW) Local 439 and soon became a leader in the Canadian trade union movement, toiling as a shop steward to improve conditions for industrial workers.
Social and Human Rights Activist
In addition to his work as a trade unionist, Bromley Armstrong was committed to community-based social action. He founded many organizations, including the Urban Alliance on Race Relations, Black Business and Professional Association, Canadian Ethnocultural Council, Jamaican Canadian Association, and National Council of Jamaicans and Supportive Organizations in Canada. He has also served on the Ontario Human Rights Commission, Ontario Labour Relations Board, Toronto Mayor's Committee on Community and Race Relations, Ontario Advisory Council on Multiculturalism and Board of Governors of the Canadian Centre for Police-Race Relations. However, Armstrong is probably best known for his involvement in the "Dresden story" and the Toronto "rent-ins" of the 1950s and 1960s.
The Dresden Story
Although racism was not officially entrenched in Canadian society in the 1950s, in many ways its "unofficial" character made it much more difficult to navigate than in the United States, where segregation was the law in several states. Nowhere was this more dramatically revealed than in the history of Dresden, Ontario, a small, nondescript town close to the US border.
In the 19th century, Dresden was the home of Uncle Tom's Cabin and the terminus of the legendary Underground Railroad, which brought fugitive African slaves from bondage in the United States to the promise of freedom in Canada. By the end of the Second World War, Blacks constituted close to 20 percent of Dresden's inhabitants, but several restaurants and barbershops habitually refused to serve them. The irony of Dresden, Ontario — once a beacon of hope for Black people — turning into a bastion of racism wasn't lost on early human rights activists.
Since 1948, the National Unity Association (NUA) of Chatham, Dresden and North Buxton had been fighting for social justice and racial equality. The work of the NUA led to groundbreaking legislation that prohibited discrimination in hiring (the Fair Employment Practices Act of1951) and in housing and public places (the Fair Accommodation Practices Act of1954) in Ontario. However, they were less successful in persuading the Dresden town council to end discrimination against Blacks.
Bromley Armstrong participated in "sit-ins" in Dresden restaurants that refused to serve blacks. The sit-in "tests," organized by the Toronto-based Joint Labour Committee to Combat Racial Intolerance in conjunction with the NUA, were a classic bit of revolutionary street theatre. They were conducted in the presence of invited media and became a valuable tool of resistance for members of the early human rights movement in Canada, as well as civil rights supporters in the United States. In fact, the Canadian sit-ins predated those in the US.
In October 1954, Armstrong travelled to Dresden to join the resistance activities organized by Hugh Burnett and the NUA (Burnett was the plain-spoken African-Canadian carpenter who led the local resistance against discrimination in Dresden). Ruth Lor Malloy, a Chinese-Canadian who was secretary of the Student Christian Movement at the University of Toronto, and Armstrong accompanied Burnett to Kay's Café, where they were refused service, as expected. It wasn't the first sit-in at Kay's Café. Indeed, the owner, Morley McKay, was so upset about the frequent "tests" that Armstrong worried he might be attacked by McKay, who was angrily wielding a large meat cleaver and appeared to be having trouble controlling his notorious temper.
The Dresden story received prominent coverage in Toronto newspapers and ultimately propelled the nascent rights movement to success. Reinforced by delegations to the legislature, the incident convinced Ontario premier Leslie Frost to publicly affirm the province's commitment to anti-discrimination laws. It also contributed to the establishment of the Ontario Human Rights Commission in 1961, the first organization of its kind in Canada and one of the first human rights commissions in the world.
The Toronto "Rent-Ins"
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Bromley Armstrong and Ruth Lor Malloy also pioneered the first "rent-ins" in Canada by responding in person as a couple to advertised vacancies. When they were told the rooms had already been taken, a white couple — the other half of the "test" team — would arrive and be offered the very same accommodation. Armstrong, Malloy and the other members of their team built similar cases from their visits to Toronto restaurants and "private" clubs. Their efforts helped bring many establishments to the attention of the legal system.
From his early days as a trade unionist and active leader in United Automobile Workers (UAW) Local 439 to his more recent role in restructuring the National Black Coalition of Canada, Bromley Armstrong has been an outspoken labour and human rights activist working diligently for progressive social change.
Now retired, Armstrong and his photographer wife, Marlene, reside in Pickering, Ontario, and have a daughter, Lana Mae. In his retirement, he continues to organize conferences for youth, as well as mediate conflict situations and provide guidance and counsel to individuals and organizations.
Awards and Distinctions
Bromley Armstrong has received numerous awards and distinctions that recognize his lifelong social justice achievements, including the Order of Distinction in Jamaica, Order of Ontario, and Member of the Order of Canada (1994). In 1988, Toronto Life Magazine profiled Armstrong as one of the 50 most outstanding contributors. In 1998, he was recognized with the Harmony Award as "a man who has educated individuals, organizations and communities through his unselfish and unwavering commitment to human rights, race relations and labour relations in Canada for almost 50 years."
On 11 June 2013, Armstrong received an honourary doctor of laws degree from York University for his demonstrated dedication, passion and lifelong commitment to the battle against racism. In his acceptance speech, Armstrong said, "I see before me a gathering of wonderfully engaged and dynamic people, all poised for action. It is a pleasure to be here, not only to welcome this new generation of thinkers to the world but also to welcome what I believe is a community of activists.If you accept the role and become an agent of change, this is what you will be up against. But the rewards will be beyond measure."
Suggested Reading
BL Armstrong and SEA Taylor, Bromley, Tireless Champion for Just Causes: Memoirs of Bromley L. Armstrong (2000); John Cooper, Season of Rage (2005); Ross Lambertson, Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930–1960 (2004).


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Thank you for participating in the 27th Annual Tri the Rim, Durango's longest running triathlon. Fort Lewis College and the Department of Student Housing and Conference Services are excited to host this event on Sunday, April 12, 2015.
As you prepare for Tri the Rim please remember the following:
Regardless of your swim time, all participants MUST check in by 8:30 am on Sunday, April 12 at the Fort Lewis College clocktower. Check in opens at 8:30 am. There will be a short participant meeting immediately following check-in at 9:30 am in the Amphitheater that ALL participants are strongly encouraged to attend.
Please be sure to review the courses before arriving.
Tri the Rim is a RAIN or SHINE event. Check the forecast and come prepared!
Parking on campus is free and you do not need a parking pass. You are encouraged to park in the the Stadium/Visitor parking lot. Click here to view the campus map.
If your estimated swim time has changed by more than 30 seconds since you registered, please email us as soon as possible with your new swim time.
Lunch is provided to participants as part of the registration fee. Guests are welcome to purchase lunch for $13.00 per person on a limited basis.
There will be a short awards ceremony immediately following the race. Please join us as we celebrate your accomplishments!
All participants, volunteers and spectators are reminded that dogs are not permitted on the FLC campus.


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Mark, you did a really nice job. LAPACK is working with contributors as you know. Do you want to contribute with your webpages and quick reference guide. I will be my pleasure to put your webpages on the LAPACK netlib website and of course mention your contribution. Please, let me know Feel free to suggest / comment anything on the LAPACK library, we need input from users like you. Regards Julie On Mar 6, 2008, at 8:34 AM, Julien Langou wrote:
Sweet. Can you put a post on our forum about this, please: http://icl.cs.utk.edu/lapack-forum/ I'll move it as an announcment. Julien. On Thu, 6 Mar 2008, Mark Gates wrote:Hi, Just FYI, I compiled a version of the LAPACK list of routines organized by task, with a short note about what each routine does. This seemed a more useful organization of the list at http://www.netlib.org/lapack/explore-html/ See http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~mrgates2/docs/lapack.html I've also been working on BLAS and LAPACK quick reference guides. In particular I've tried to make them more readable and electronically searchable than the existing quick reference guide. The BLAS ones are more developed than the LAPACK ones. See http://www.ews.uiuc.edu/~mrgates2/ Thanks for the great software. -mark gates _______________________________________________ Lapack mailing list firstname.lastname@example.com http://lists.cs.utk.edu/listinfo/lapack_______________________________________________ Lapack mailing list email@example.com http://lists.cs.utk.edu/listinfo/lapack
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