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We just got back from an incredible trip to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico. This was exactly the kind of vacation I needed right now—a rented house in the mountains overlooking the whole city and ocean that came with a house manager and cook, a beautiful outdoor pool/lounge, five bedrooms each with its own bathroom, an open-air living room and kitchen (plus flat-screen TV), and just the right amount of charm and quaintness you'd want in a massive Mexican villa (the owners are friends of my mother's so we got a great deal on it). But the best part: The hardest decisions we had to make on this trip were what we wanted for breakfast, lunch and dinner; what, if anything, we wanted to do each day (in-house massages for the girls; golfing for the boys; sailing for everyone, see photo); and whether or not we needed more beer from the store (yes and lots of it). I haven't been that relaxed and pampered in…well…maybe ever.
I hate to admit this, but even though I missed him I didn't worry about Preston while we were gone—probably because I knew he was in good hands with my parents, who kept him very busy. I also didn't, or tried very hard not to, worry about my current state of unemployment—I made my husband a promise before we left that I wouldn't let any concerns or uncertainties I had ruin the trip. I promised him I would not obsess over my unknown future, or the obvious implications our new circumstances have on our childcare situation, and anything else related to my quandary over this fork in the road of my career that I mentioned last week.
We both really needed this vacation, and we both deserved it after the difficult year we've had.
But I'm a notorious worrier; it's genetic, my dad's a worrier too. I wish I knew how to take things day by day. It didn't take long for me to settle into relaxation mode—it was almost impossible not to vacate your life at a place like this—but it was always there, lingering in the back of my mind: What the hell am I going to do with myself when I get back?
I'm so used to being "too busy" to think, much less do. Being "too busy" is my reason for everything—too busy to make and send out holiday cards; too busy to buy gifts ahead of time so I pay the extra fee for overnight delivery; too busy to remember to schedule (and keep) a dentist appointment; too busy to clean out my closets and donate clothes to Goodwill; too busy to cook healthy dinners; too busy to work out; too busy to call friends back; too busy to take care of myself, and certainly too busy for anything that doesn't involve Jay and Preston.
Today marks my first official day of not being "too busy." And it just hit me that I've been leaning on that crutch for as long as I've been too busy working, since I graduated from college in 1996. Come to think of it, that excuse has been my "out" for a lot of things—a legitimate out, but still an out. When I was a busy nightlife reporter running around town attending fancy celeb-studded parties, charity events, and bar/restaurant openings, I was way too busy for anything else then too (including a boyfriend). I was juggling a day job at Playboy and a night job at Chicago magazine, and several freelance writing gigs, pulling double or triple duty like some kind of Superman/Clark Kent character. I routinely brought my "going out" clothes to work and changed in a bathroom stall before hitting the party circuit at night—even Clark Kent had better accommodations than the coed bathroom at Playboy. My apartment was merely a place to sleep, not that I allowed much time for that either.
In the last couple years my life slowed down but my juggle didn't: I traded in my party shoes for poopy diapers, but still had the demanding full-time job, this weekly blog, a new monthly writing gig for [shameless plug] Michigan Avenue Magazine, and—oh yeah—my husband and son and our family expansion. "Too busy" doesn't even come close to describing the mayhem that comes with being a working mom. I dreamed of free days like the ones I have right now. I dreamed of having the time to run errands; take Preston on playdates; go on walks to Starbucks with him; cook dinner; write at my leisure; maybe even read a book. I dreamed of having this simple thing called time. Time to do all the dozens of things I've been accumulating over the years. Time to be as productive in my personal life as I've been in my professional life.
But now that I have the time? I don't know what to do with it. While I sit here trying to figure out what it is I want to do with my life, I find myself almost paralyzed by all this new-found free time I have. A busy, demanding career is all I know, so the obvious fear is: Will I feel complete without it? I've been on constant overdrive for so long now I don't know how to not be "too busy." It's actually a bit unnerving.
The smart thing to do would be to make a list of all the things I've wanted or needed to do, and work my way through it while I have the time; the problem is, I'm so not a list person. I've never had time for lists. I always thought the people who kept them had too much time on their hands—I guess I'm one of them now!
Do you find it harder to balance your time the more you actually have of it?


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Vittorio DeSica's Shoeshine (Sciuscia) is a must-see example of Italian neorealist cinema, ranking with such other neorealist classics as DeSica's Bicycle Thieves (1948) and Umberto D. (1952) and Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945). Using nonprofessional actors, DeSica and co-screenwriter Cesare Zavattini, also one of neorealism's leading figures, paint an uncompromising picture of the lives of Italian street children abandoned by their parents at the end of World War II. The film concentrates on two such children, Giuseppe (Rinaldo Smerdoni) and Pasquale (Franco Interlenghi). With no one else to turn to, the boys form a solid friendship, as well as a corporation of sorts: they eke out a living shining the boots of American GIs. The boys' hope for a rosier future is manifested in their dreams of owning a beautiful white horse. This, along with all their other aspirations, is eradicated when the boys are inadvertently shipped off to a reformatory. A failure in Italy (director DeSica noted that postwar Italian audiences preferred the glossy escapism emanating from Hollywood), Shoeshine was a huge success worldwide, as well as the winner of a special Academy Awards. Like Bicycle Thieves, it combines DeSica's frequent focus on children with his emphasis on post-war social problems.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Director: Vittorio De Sica
Writer: Sergio Amidei and Adolfo Franci
Cast: Franco Interlenghi, Rinaldo Smordoni, Annielo Mele, Bruno Ortenzi and Emilio Cigoli
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One of the nation's foremost experts on the prevention and treatment of substance use and addiction among girls and women will address the June 4 kick-off luncheon for Niagara Falls Memorial Medical Center's Project Runway.
Susan E. Foster, vice president and director of Policy Research and Analysis at CASAColumbia, is responsible for multiple studies of substance use and addiction among girls and women. Those studies culminated in the publication of CASAColumbia's first book, "Women under the Influence," in 2006 by The Johns Hopkins University Press.
"Project Runway is based on research directed by Ms. Foster, and we are excited and honored that she will help us introduce this initiative to educators and human services partners here in Niagara County," said Memorial Vice President and COO Sheila K. Kee.
Project Runway is a community-based program that employs gender-specific strategies to heighten awareness and prevent drug and alcohol abuse among young women ages 14-24 who reside in Niagara County.
It is being funded through a grant by The Peter and Elizabeth C. Tower Foundation.
Foster has a master of social work degree in social policy from Rutgers University. Prior to joining CASAColumbia, formerly The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University, she served in local and state government human services positions in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Illinois, and was a deputy undersecretary for intergovernmental affairs in the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare.
She is responsible for a broad range of health and policy research documenting the science of addiction, including effective prevention, treatment and disease management strategies, and is credited with developing collaborations, tools and practice guides to translate research results into health care practice and public policy.
The Project Runaway kick-off luncheon will be held June 4 at noon in the Memorial Medical Center Auditorium. For information about Project Runway, call 716-278-4516.


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Ten years ago, organizer Samuel Keller persuaded Miami Beach to welcome a crowd of Swiss art freaks to town, transforming overnight a city derided as a cultural desert into the contemporary art world's version of Vegas.
It's hard to believe Art Basel has already been landing in the Big Mango every December for a decade. The tenth-anniversary edition, which runs Thursday through Sunday, is bigger than anything at MGM Grand or the Bellagio, with 250 of the world's top galleries packing the Miami Beach Convention Center and more than a dozen satellite fairs across town — from Wynwood to the Design District to South Beach and points in between — luring hundreds of others.
As the Magic City's only full-time art critic, I've survived every edition of Basel except the inaugural event. The fair's anniversary is the perfect hook to revisit a decade of my fondest Basel memories — and most lingering art fair nightmares — and to hear the recollections of Miami's top artists, dealers, and curators who have lived through the past eye-opening, debauched, frantic years of high-art madness.
While we look back at the best and worst of Basel, don't forget to check out the guide to this year's best events on page 10 or online at bit.ly/baselevents.
Best Basel Bargains: Vodou Steals and Shepard Fairey
Last year the art world was stunned when a California man learned that two boxes he had purchased for $45 at a garage sale were worth $200 million. Rick Norsigian, a commercial house painter, had accidentally bought 65 glass plates of Ansel Adams's photographic negatives — the wet dream of any Antiques Roadshow addict.
Steals like that might seem as realistic as unicorn sightings amid the million-dollar sales at Basel, but believe me, they do happen. Six years ago, I hit the jackpot for less than the $35 cost of a Basel ticket.
I was slumming in Wynwood when I stopped outside Grubstake Good Works, a nonprofit thrift shop, to grab a bite from a hotdog cart. In the window, I spied what appeared to be the work of local artist Edouard Duval-Carrié, whose works are in the permanent collections of the Miami Art Museum, the Bass, and the Frost.
The asking price was $30, but short on funds, I yakked owner Heather Klinker down to $20. Later I took the piece down the road to the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. "It's one of Edouard's sculptures of the vodou god of the sea," Steinbaum said, adding it was worth at least $500. "Boy, you did great!"
Afterward I asked Duval-Carrié how he felt about his work being sold at a thrift shop. "I was wondering where that thing went. One of them was missing from my studio and I thought maybe a delivery person or one of the creepy characters around here might have walked off with it," he cracked.
Klinker later told me the sculpture came from the estate of an elderly woman in North Miami Beach.
I'm not alone in finding good fortune amid the craven overspending. Local dealer Anthony Spinello nabbed a nifty Shepard Fairey piece at the Blueprint for Space show at ArtCenter/South Florida in 2009.
"I bought one of his amazing silkscreen-on-wood pieces called Defiant Youth, with a picture of Martha Cooper," he says. "It was one of an edition of two, and the image had been displayed outside Deitch's last exhibit in New York. I paid $1,500 for it."
Spinello doesn't know what it's worth today, but the image has become one of Fairey's best-known works after being plastered on T-shirts. The dealer's copy is one of only two original images.
Price aside, sometimes Basel's mind-blowing array of works yields the right gift for Miami collectors. Take Grela Orihuela, co-originator of Miami's Wet Heat Project, who found just what she needed to hearten partner Bill Bilowit one year when he was too ill to attend Basel.
"I saw a drawing by Miami's Beatriz Monteavaro with a little guy and a lizard creature and knew it would cheer him up," she says. "I paid several hundred dollars for the drawing, and Bill fell in love with it."
Best Satellite Fair Debuts: Blow This Mother Fucker Up
With renegade street projects mushrooming from every nook and cranny during Basel week, the highlights often aren't actually inside the Miami Beach Convention Center but at the dozens of satellites. Some of those fair's debuts have laser-engraved themselves in our memory.
Take 2007. Wynwood was bursting at the seams. Art Miami had thrown in the towel, abandoning its traditional January date to join the Basel fray.
And Primary Flight, a curated mural project by more than 20 local and visiting artists, had its breakout edition. The idea of graffiti artists taking over Wynwood has in many ways shaped the district to this day, says Primary Flight's founder, BooksIIII Bischof. "It was like five guys showing up with their parents' car and a ladder, and now fast-forward five years later and every bomber and tagger wants to paint here."
Spinello, the local dealer, meanwhile, raised eyebrows the same year with his freshly minted Littlest Sister 07, a microfair version of Basel replete with booths created by the same folks who outfit the Miami Beach mega-edition. The dealer also hijacked Basel's colors and branding and featured tons of small-scale works by local talent that quickly flew off the shelves. "It was a pain in the ass to organize but turned out very successful," he says.
My favorite debut also happened in 2007, right down the street from Primary Flight: the inaugural, "guerrilla-style" Fountain Fair.
When I first walked inside, artists Melissa Lockwood and Rachel Hoffman were shimmying in their scanties to a Madonna tune. Lockwood dangled inside a silvery cocoon suspended from the ceiling on heavy chains. In front of her, Hoffman, clad in a red bikini and pointy devil horns jutting from her breasts, swayed hypnotically.
As Hoffman whirled like a dervish, North Carolina artist Sean Pace stared at her from across the room. The stupefied Pace was standing in front of his Super Natural, a Louisville slugger with a sawed-off shotgun affixed to it. "I wish I would have brought my machine-gun sculpture that shoots rubber chickens into walls at 90 miles an hour," he croaked.
Suddenly Greg Haberny pulled me over to his booth to show me a rejection letter from New York's Museum of Modern Art, pooh-poohing his proposal for an installation called Blow This Mother Fucker Up.
The letter was authentic, signed by a MOMA trustee who rails against Haberny's plans to piss on a Monet masterpiece and paint a "hairy beaver" between the legs of Lautrec's The Seated Clowness and then declines to accept the artist's offer to pay for booze and hookers for museum janitors. Haberny pointed to the line calling his project "revolting" and beamed.
Worst Exhibits: Norwegian Hand Thieves and Ghetto Cruisers
Amid all the eye-poppingly amazing work on display, there is always an exhibit (or two or three) that makes your eyes bleed instead.
"The weirdest thing I've seen was this taxidermy sculpture of life-size horses having crazy sex," recalls Chris Oh of Primary Projects.
I've seen weirder. Take 2006, when I encountered Norwegian artist Morten Viskum dressed in full Catholic priest regalia at Edge Zones. When I asked him if he was a real priest, Viskum said he had dressed that way to attract people to his show. Then Viskum told me he had become famous in Norway for emptying olive jars and replacing the contents with dead baby rats before returning them to grocery shelves. The pseudo holy man went on to crucify rodents as part of his bizarre oeuvre.
The conceptual kook led me over to a series of sinfully horrid abstract works that looked like preschoolers' messy finger paintings. Viskum sidled up to me and whipped out a picture of a severed hand. "Ten years ago, I found a human hand and started making abstract paintings with it," he whispered.
Creepy? Hell, yeah. But guys like Viskum also annoy the more serious practitioners at Basel. "The hoopla, artists looking for that moment of fame, those artists desperate to find spaces to become part of Art Basel Week... it's sad to see," says Adalberto Delgado, cofounder and curator of the alternative space 6th Street Container in Little Havana.
Another classic catastrophe came in 2007 with a car-wreck-cum-jungle installation by local artist Maitejosune Urrechaga called Mind the Snails. Urrechaga took a 1995 Mazda MX-3, planted ficus, ferns, and palms in the jalopy's trunk, and slathered on copious coats of acid cranberry, cobalt, and lemon-yellow hues. Then she unceremoniously plopped it next to Gallery Diet and across from the much-trumpeted Wynwood debut of Art Miami.
The only people who embraced her project were the homeless who encamped in it overnight, leaving the car full of empty beer bottles and the smell of urine. When Diet's owner, Nina Johnson, found the piece, she begged Urrechaga not to leave the wreck in front of her gallery. "It was out here for a couple of nights, and homeless people were sleeping and doing drugs inside," Johnson protested.
Three squad cars soon arrived and a crowd gathered. Artist Beatriz Monteavaro, who has a studio next to Diet, shook her head. "It's becoming a free-for-all here. This is unacceptable. It's like someone taking a shit in front of your house. You know it's funny, yet sad," Monteavaro said.
The cops were also unimpressed. They ticketed Urrechaga's tagless rattletrap and had it impounded.
Worst Money Woes: College Tuition for Hotel Rooms
If Art Basel had a theme song, the O'Jays' "For the Love of Money" would be a frontrunner.
When a half-billion smackers are up for grabs during the fair every year, artistic ambition often takes a back seat to cutthroat capitalism gone wild.
That financial madness starts at the top; if you've ever wondered why so many satellite fairs have emerged or why dealers jack up prices into the stratosphere inside Basel's main fair, here's the answer: A booth inside the Miami Beach Convention Center commands at least $30,000 for about 540 square feet. That's beyond Tokyo-real-estate pricey.
Side costs, meanwhile, have ratcheted up every year to match, peaking in the years before the real estate bubble popped in 2008. In December 2005, for instance, one night in the Ritz-Carlton's Lanai Room ran $989; a penthouse during Basel weekend, meanwhile, went for a staggering five grand a night — a $2,000 markup from normal weeks; and a bungalow at the Shore Club cost $3,500 per night, with a four-day minimum stay. Yes, that was a $14,000 bill for the mini art break.
(The recession hasn't killed the madness. A standard ocean-view room at the Ritz runs $1,300, with a four-day minimum this year. A Sky Terrace Suite at the Mondrian costs $5,100 per night. Hotels on the Beach are already sold out.)
Beginning in 2006, those prices ignited a mad dash to the cheaper rents of Wynwood, where a rapid gentrification left its own casualties behind. I saw it firsthand that year.
I lived in an apartment on NW 23rd Street, around the corner from the Fredric Snitzer Gallery and down the block from Locust Projects. Two months before Basel, my landlords told me that someone was purchasing their building to convert one of the apartments into a gallery.
For weeks, workers hammered and drilled around the clock to ready the space, called Lemon Sky Projects. The new owner was a budding artist who bought the building for more than $500,000 — twice the amount the previous owners had paid a few years earlier.
It turned out Lemon Sky's one and only exhibit next door to my pad was a decent show called "Toffee Armistice." I even enjoyed seeing a work by Banksy outside my window for a while.
But the art reverie was shattered the week before Basel when my landlady told me a French dealer was desperate to rent my place. Apparently she had been offered enough cash to ask if I would stay at a hotel during Basel and have my belongings placed in storage. She added she would give me two months of free rent if I agreed.
I refused.
The problem of rising rents and the onset of gentrification have also affected dealers such as Spinello, who has undergone several relocations. Instead of letting the local art scene evolve organically, the explosion of Basel wealth has let one-and-done carpetbaggers jack up rates, buy up neighborhoods, and then abandon the scene.
"They ended up cutting the strings too soon," Spinello observes. "You had these people unaware of the local landscape thinking they would make money because of Basel's presence here."
Best Local Artists to Emerge: FriendsWithYou
Is it possible for a local artist to rise above the sheer cacophony of Basel? Look no further than 2006's "Skywalker Parade," when the Magic City's biggest Basel breakout stars, FriendsWithYou, burst onto the national scene.
They weren't the first to smash the Basel ceiling. Locals such as Hernan Bas had rocketed to international stardom at earlier fairs. And they haven't been the last. Just last year, street artist Typoe drilled eye sockets with his sculpture of a skull vomiting confetti, which earned him a spot alongside artists such as Damien Hirst, Andy Warhol, and Jean-Michel Basquiat in a new book titled Skull Style.
But it was FriendsWithYou's conceptual tag team — Sam Borkson and Arturo "Tury" Sandoval III — that made my favorite Basel ascent with their procession of 18 hot-air balloons, some as large as 60 feet long, along the shoreline on South Beach. Their "Skywalkers" included a towering volcano, a fanged 20-foot rabbit, and a constellation of cosmic shapes that looked like wacky black beans.
Borne aloft by art collaborators, family, friends, and tourists who jumped in at the last moment, the duo's parade was led by the Hialeah Senior High School marching band blaring a tune composed by Tury's father, jazz saxophonist Arturo Sandoval.
"I love seeing Miami heads getting shine, especially in these supersaturated art happenings," local street artist Ahol Sniffs Glue says. "FriendsWithYou represent pretty hard every year for this town."
Borkson and Sandoval's parade nearly didn't come off, though. The pair was left scrambling to fill their balloons with gas after one of the few helium outlets in the nation folded that year. "It was a crazy mission," Borkson recalls. "We found out that the helium supply is mostly reserved for hospital use, and what was available had almost been used up for the Macy's parade." At the last moment, they found a company willing to sell 20,000 cubic feet of the gas.
Borkson and Sandoval started Friends-WithYou in 2002 when they made a line of plush toys with names like Bubble Gump, Malfi, and Albino Squid that they created as "amulets to bring people luck."
But since moving into the realm of interactive installations, they've taken off. "They are inventive and playful and continue to intrigue me with their interventions into everyday life," says the Museum of Contemporary Art's executive director, Bonnie Clearwater, who gave them their first museum show.
Their trajectory shows that the Magic City's homegrown talent can use Basel to grow their audience, Spinello says. "When you have put at least 10,000 hours of work into doing what you love to become successful, part of it can be credited by Basel's presence here, but we work hard year-round in Miami."
Best Celebrity Sightings: Porn Midgets and Keanu
Although the 305 can be as snooty as invading Eurotrash when it comes to the tide of poseurs lapping up on our shores every December, Miami is a starfucker at heart. Deep down, seeing the likes of Russell Simmons, Jay-Z, the Beastie Boys, and Adrien Brody buying art gets the most cynical paint-slinger's blood pumping. Exhibits, artists, and owners every year swap sightings of celebs — from Sly Stallone and Jennifer Flavin to Pharrell Williams and Brad Pitt.
"Isabella Rossellini came to my show at Dorsch," brags local experimental filmmaker Clifton Childree.
Adds Kevin Arrow, a Miami artist who has worked at the Museum of Contemporary Art for 15 years: "Last year I was wandering through the Miami Beach Convention Center and I bumped into Mike D of the Beastie Boys. We spoke for a minute, and I gave him a copy of my zine."
Keanu Reeves is the star who most impressed the Wet Heat Project's Orihuela, "just because he was genuinely interested in the art, not just going through for the photo op."
My pick for Basel's single greatest celebrity moment, though, goes to porn star Bridget the Midget, whom I literally stumbled upon at Crobar during Basel 2003.
Bridget is famous for starring in movies such as Mechanical Elf, Little Fuckers, Pint Size Pussy, and Only the A-Hole 7. Her claim to fame is squirting eggs out of her rump.
I was out on the town with local performance artist Jasmine Kastel, who was costumed in her "Montos 3000" getup, consisting of a Mexican wrestling mask and a ballet tutu. Earlier in the day, Kastel had ventured into the Bass Museum of Art in the garb inspired by luchador El Santo. A Russian TV crew followed her while she put chokeholds on unsuspecting collectors until, red-faced, they begged her to let them go.
After a surreal, drunken evening winding from Miami Beach to Wynwood, we ended up at the now-defunct South Beach nightclub Crobar. At one point, a certain local artist who demands to remain unnamed stuck her hand up Bridget's skirt and screamed, "Look, I can make my puppet talk and dance!" while a moaning Bridget hopped onto the bar with her eyes bugged and legs kicking out like a frog's.
Ten Most Memorable Exhibits: Sweatshops and Hickeys Galore
Distilling a decade of art into ten pieces is impossible. So the following aren't the best exhibits ever to visit the Magic City — just the ones that stuck most firmly in my brain:
1. In 2003, not only did Miami artist George Sanchez Calderon's "Midnight Midtown Midway" convert the Buena Vista rail yard into a carnival-esque playground replete with a giant Ferris wheel, performances, and a dazzling fireworks display, but also he proposed to his wife on one of the rides that night — all while presaging what a circus Art Basel would become.
2. At OmniArt in 2004, Tania Bruguera's Autobiografía was a sound installation comprising a solitary microphone dangling over a platform in a spare room. Spectators were invited to speak into the mike, while on opposing walls, speakers blared excerpts of speeches by Fidel Castro, creating a moving commentary on the illusory aspects of power.
3. The same year, Kader Attia at Galerie Kamel Mennour created a stir at Basel's shipping container space with his working sweatshop called "Illegal Studio Hallal," delivering a Muslim riff on capitalism's garment-industry model by employing Hispanic seamstresses to crank out trademarked "Hallal" urban gear inside a stifling metal container.
4. In 2005, Cuban conceptual duo Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla flipped the script on Basel with their piece "Download," for which they simply flattened an Art Positions shipping container until it looked like a sardine tin put through a trash compactor.
5. Also in 2005, at Miami Art Central, William Kentridge's sprawling solo show featured a broad range of the South African's work dating from 1979, including drawings, animated films, sculptures, and animated videos transferred to DVD. The piece transformed a first-floor gallery into a virtual cineplex, reflecting the tumultuous events he experienced following apartheid.
6. If only because she got under the skin, Marlene Haring makes the grade for her "Sucking Marks" performance at Scope Miami 2006, where the Austrian blonde gave hickeys to anyone willing to perch on her stool, pony up ten bucks, and swap DNA.
7. At the Freedom Tower in 2009, "Invasion 68 Prague" was an eye-opening exhibition of the photography of Josef Koudelka, who documented the 1968 invasion of Prague by Soviet and Warsaw Pact forces. The arresting photos captured Koudelka's street-level perspective of a seminal 20th-century moment and featured 60 images, many of which had never before been publicly displayed.
8. That year was also memorable for "Dark Night of the Soul" at OHWOW. The collaboration between Danger Mouse and Sparkle Horse showcased visuals by director David Lynch. It struck a discomfiting chord with brain-searing images such as Lynch's take on a Norman Rockwell-like Thanksgiving feast featuring an Eisenhower-era family gorging on a human head.
9. At the Frost Art Museum last year, Arnold Mesches's 15 large-format canvases, called "Selections From Anomie 1492-2006," combined surreal juxtapositions of disparate symbols and historical figures against dark, brooding landscapes. One of his garage-door-size nightmares, Anomie 1980: Nancy Reagan's Dream, depicted a downward-spiraling autopsy of the former first lady's dreams of governing the nation by supernatural force.
10. Also in 2010, Bert Rodriguez, Miami's inimitable conceptual quipster, knocked art off the altar and delivered it to the masses when he graced the cover of Miami New Times with his re-creation of W magazine's "Art Issue" — which featured a nude, spray-painted Kim Kardashian — by painting his own, less voluptuous ass silver for a photo shoot.
Basel's Worst Feuds: Graffiti Wars and Selection Envy
Miami artist, curator, and critic Gean Moreno hit the nail on the head in 2004 when he described the "Kafkaesque machinations" of dealers and artists desperate to catch on with Basel's deep-pocketed cognoscenti. Blood pressure levels rise across the 305 during the fair, leaving many a palm sweaty over fears of missing out on the $500 million swapped each year.
Take 2004, when local dealer Gary Nader was miffed about Basel handing him yet another rejection letter for a display space. "Art Basel is great for the city," Nader said at the time. "My problem is... the whole process is arrogant and unfair. They can't just come to our city and insult us like the Mafia."
Then Nader went rabid on competitors such as Fredric Snitzer, a member of the Basel selection committee, snarling that "people go to war for oil and they go to war for art."
Snitzer objected that "the only criterion is the quality of work," but the fair threw gas on the fire the next year by dropping Bernice Steinbaum — one of the few locals awarded a spot in the convention center during Basel's early years and famous for wearing bedroom slippers while greeting collectors visiting her booth.
Nader thumbed his nose at Basel by opening his own massive, 50,000-square-foot bunker in a former brick factory in Wynwood to house a collection he claims is worth $100 million. Steinbaum, meanwhile, had her revenge by handing out slippers stamped with her gallery name to fairgoers.
More sniping broke out that year, when Edge Zones' Charo Oquet accused gallerist Marina Kessler of sabotaging her operation by purposely misprinting her phone number on the Wynwood Arts District map for a second year in a row. "This has become like an art war, and we are under an enormous invasion from outsiders opening spaces and outside artists coming here to compete," Oquet fumed.
Kessler, meanwhile, called Oquet a "deadbeat who bounced a check on us for the listings. She is just upset over not having any sales."
By 2008, the feuding spilled onto the pavement when street artists such as Shepard Fairey arrived to paint murals for Primary Flight. As Basel week came to a close, a crew of New York graffiti rats vandalized Fairey's mural and filmed their act in a desperate stab at street cred.
"They destroyed it that Sunday before leaving," Bischof, Primary Flight's organizer, says. "Shepard's people asked us if the paint they covered it with was still fresh and said that he had put a protective coat over his work. We ended up working all night to remove the paint and restore his mural."
The dolts put their film on the Internet and ended up looking like idiots instead. "When these people have beef, it's hard to contain the culture of the street," Bischof says.
Local Artists' Favorite Memories: Cat's Balls and Neon Chairs
Who better to remember a decade of Basel than the artists who have lived it? In their own words:
Clifton Childree, an artist known for his carnival-esque installations: "I was helping a friend hang work at his gallery booth at NADA one year, and a gnarly street cat with huge nuts came into the fair and wandered around. No one confronted him because of how mean he looked, so people followed him around hoping he wouldn't spray any of the artwork that was still on the floor. Later, at the same booth, when my friend left the area, I hung a horrible painting I found in a thrift store early that morning and then watched people looking at it. [The friend] came back and was beside himself and couldn't do anything until all the people left."
FriendsWithYou's Sam Borkson: "We performed with Ben Jones from Paper Rad [a Rhode Island collective]... one year. We made crazy fake instruments and we all went crazy, drunk off of joy and hysteria. There were a few major injuries, but definitely it was a seriously funny highlight."
Adalberto Delgado, owner and curator of Little Havana's 6th Street Container: "My funniest memory was when I put together the dumpster project. Five dumpsters were placed strategically around Wynwood, having been worked on by five Miami artists. Cat Dove and Kyle Chapman dressed up theirs to look like a general. Their dumpster was covered with tassels and wearing a purple robe. To everyone's surprise, all the fabric adorning the dumpster was first tagged with graffiti and then stolen by the second day."
Chris Oh, one of three partners at Primary Projects: "I met [graffiti artist] Mr. Brainwash and told him he sucked in 2008, the year he did the Obama Superman poster. The look of disappointment on his face was priceless."
Kevin Arrow, Miami experimental artist: "When MOCA was exhibiting work at the Goldman Warehouse, there was an exhibition called 'Artificial Light' which had two beautiful purple neon chairs by Chilean artist Iván Navarro. These were very dangerous-looking, buzzing, and crackling chairs fashioned out of neon gas and glass. One of the visitors to the exhibition climbed up on the platform on which they were displayed and attempted to sit on one of the chairs, thereby crushing it and falling down hard on her ass! It was both hilarious and infuriating."
Basel's Best Parties: Penis Cannons and Versace Bacchanalia
When the notoriously conservative Swiss first parachuted into town in 2002, they thought they would teach us a thing or two about high culture. As it turned out, we educated Baselites on how to transform party into a verb.
In 2003, Casa Casuarina on Ocean Drive (the former Versace mansion) put on a Miami-style clinic on the art of partying. At the unofficial Basel bash, themed for the Hieronymus Bosch painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, revelers watched nude, snake-entwined Adam and Eve models serving canapés and decadent desserts, enjoyed an aphrodisiac raw bar, and slobbered over scantily clad dancers writhing to tribal beats.
By 2004, seeking street cred with locals, the motto for Basel's happy hour at the Art Positions installation officially became Fuck Art, Let's Drink .
"I love the anything-goes mentality that Basel brings, the street-drinking mania. It's like a more socially accepted Calle Ocho without the baby chongas," says local artist Alouishous San Gomma, AKA Ahol Sniffs Glue.
Perhaps the most amazing recent party — a fete at the Raleigh last year featuring a jaw-dropping live LCD Soundsystem show — is recounted by the Wet Heat Project's Grela Orihuela: "Yes, we throw the best parties... but it's about the art. Even after the fair packs up and goes, Miami will be making art."
Hands down, my favorite Basel party was the Fredric Snitzer Gallery's 30th anniversary fiesta in 2007.
Snitzer had splurged on a pig roast, and the band Ache Caribe was entertaining hundreds with a raucous guaguanco. Smartly attired women swayed their hips and ripped up divots of grass with their spiked heels in a fenced-off lot. Outside on the curb, an unwashed and smelly Jacquelyn Jackson Johnston was selling "nickel bags" of art. She held a cardboard sign that read, "Will trade art for beer." At her feet, Phluffy Danger, her Doberman pinscher, was destroying a stuffed toy.
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The shindig was amped up further when Brooklyn's Black Label Bike Gang showed up on custom wheels. After climbing down from his mutant bike that looked like a rolling praying mantis, Doyle Shuge, sporting a Frankenstein T-shirt and a chapeau, ambled over. He then torched a joint laced with hash, quickly attracting a crowd.
As Shuge's spiked butt was passed around, Moss Nowheir of the Black Label crew removed a four-foot carved-foam penis, which he called "the Squizzer," from his bike. Scooping up the cotton guts from Phluffy's mangled plush toy and adding a mixture of beer and oatmeal whipped into a sticky gruel, he stuffed the phallus's end.
Nowheir used a bicycle pump to fill his bizarre pink contraption with air before offering me the honor of pressing the trigger and launching the contents over the partygoers. A gallery attendant emerged from the sudsy fog, smiled at me politely, and then turned to ask the bikers to zip it up.
"We just got shut down because we didn't ask first," Shuge laughed before sparking another bone and taking a puff.


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How To Wear Striped Shirts For Fall
As such, we've collected a group of women that have illustrated this transition in an easy and fashionable way. Whether your style is Parisian chic, or east coast preppy, we promise these 12 looks will fulfil your striped shirt inspiration quota well into fall.
What better place to break out your favourite Breton stripe than at the airport? Huntington-Whiteley's Alexander Wang top was the perfect complement to her Burberry hat, Brian Atwood boots, Saint Laurent Classic Duffle Bag ($1990), The Row Motorcycle Pants ($1950), and Chanel sunglasses.
Christina Caradona of Trop Rouge
We just can't get enough of Christina Caradona of Trop Rouge's style (did you see her behind-the-scenes at BCBG on our blog?). We love how she jazzed up her Express Striped Fitted Crew Neck Sweater ($50) with an Express Zippered Marled Boucle Mini Skirt ($50). A look perfect for lasting into the night!
Julie Sarinana of Sincerely Jules
Who said a striped shirt has to be black and white? Not us. Julie Sarinana of Sincerely Jules exhibited just this when she stepped out wearing a T by Alexander Wang Stripe Torquing Sweater ($106). She chose to pair it with 3.1 Phillip Lim Leather Jodhpur Pants ($1430), Vincent Ankle Strap Mules ($525), and the Ryder Calf Hair & Leather Satchel ($1095) — excellent pairings, indeed.
How Palermo managed to wear stripes on stripes and come out not looking like an inmate is beyond us. Nevertheless, we adore her Tibi jacket paired with the covetable Louis Vuitton Sofia Coppola satchel, YOiM furfur shoes, and AG Adriano Goldschmied Leggings ($215).
We love a downtown ladylike version of just about anything, and the striped shirt is no exception! Catliff stepped out in Paris in a French Connection Tim Tim Striped Raglan T-Shirt ($48), textured Sandro jacket, 3.1 Phillip Lim bag, and Kurt Geiger flats.
Lisa Dengler of Just Another Fashion Blog
There are few things we admire more than an (almost) all-black outfit combined with a couple strategic standout pieces. Case in point: Lisa Dengler of Just Another Fashion Blog. She combined an H&M Trend peacoat with Zara jeans, Office London shoes, a Marc by Marc Jacobs bag, and an Otte New York Alexis Hat ($125). She selected a Callixto necklace and Cos stripe tee as her standout pieces.
Blair Eadie of Atlantic Pacific
Sadly, the Who What Wear staff hasn't had the opportunity to break out their rain gear yet, but if you're in a region that has full-fledged weather, please take note of this look, courtesy of Blair Eadie of Atlantic Pacific. She wore her Ann Taylor Striped Long Sleeve Tee ($69) over a Denim and Supply cargo skirt. She accessorized with Karen Walker Super Duper Sunglasses ($280), a Cuyana Leather Tall Tote ($150), and, of course, her Rag & Bone X Hunter Tall Boots ($295).
Andy Torres of Style Scrapbook
In need of a new weekend errands look? Well, we think this will do quite nicely. Style Scrapbook's Andy Torres wore an American Apparel t-shirt with a Mango trench coat, Jose Sanchez leather pants, a Givenchy bag, and Dr Martens boots. She threw in a Kenzo Silver-Laquer Tiger Bracelet ($214) for a touch of fun, too!
We love how the model let her Velvet by Graham & Spencer Pearl Stripe Sweater ($74) steal the spotlight and kept the rest of her ensemble in a neutral hue. She accessorized with Isabel Marant boots, a Louis Vuitton bag, and Oliver Peoples Benedict Aviator Sunglasses ($400). That insanely cool coat, you ask? It's Rag & Bone's Turner Coat ($1395).
Mixing multiple colours in one look can be challenging, but also delightfully rewarding when done well. We love how this off-duty model chose different shades of brown and grounded them with a black and white striped shirt and black oxfords.


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42 U.S. Code § 7237 - Priority placement, job placement, retraining, and counseling programs for United States Department of Energy employees affected by reduction in force
§ 7237.
Priority placement, job placement, retraining, and counseling programs for United States Department of Energy employees affected by reduction in force
(a) Definitions
For the purposes of this section, the term "agency" means the United States Department of Energy.
(2) For the purposes of this section, the term "eligible employee" means any employee of the agency who—
(A) is scheduled to be separated from service due to a reduction in force under—
regulations prescribed under section 3502 of title 5; or
procedures established under section 3595 of title 5; or
(B) is separated from service due to such a reduction in force, but does not include—
an employee separated from service for cause on charges of misconduct or delinquency; or
an employee who, at the time of separation, meets the age and service requirements for an immediate annuity under subchapter III of chapter 83 or chapter 84 of title 5.
(b) Priority placement and retraining program
Not later than 30 days after September 30, 1996, the United States Department of Energy shall establish an agency-wide priority placement and retraining program for eligible employees.
(c) Filling vacancy from outside agencyThe priority placement program established under subsection (b) shall include provisions under which a vacant position shall not be filled by the appointment or transfer of any individual from outside of the agency if—
there is then available any eligible employee who applies for the position within 30 days of the agency issuing a job announcement and is qualified (or can be trained or retrained to become qualified within 90 days of assuming the position) for the position; and
the position is within the same commuting area as the eligible employee's last-held position or residence.
(d) Job placement and counseling servicesThe head of the agency may establish a program to provide job placement and counseling services to eligible employees. A program established under subsection (d) may include, but is not limited to, such services as—
(Pub. L. 104–206, title III, § 301, Sept. 30, 1996, 110 Stat. 2999.)
Section was enacted as part of the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1997, and not as part of the Department of Energy Organization Act which comprises this chapter.
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Thread::Signal - Start a thread which runs signal handlers reliably
use Thread::Signal;
$SIG{HUP} = \&some_handler;
Thread::Signal module starts up a special signal handler thread. All signals to the process are delivered to it and it runs the associated
$SIG{FOO} handlers for them. Without this module, signals arriving at inopportune moments (such as when perl's internals are in the middle of updating critical structures) cause the perl code of the handler to be run unsafely which can cause memory corruption or worse.
This module changes the semantics of signal handling slightly in that the signal handler is run separately from the main thread (and in parallel with it). This means that tricks such as calling
die from a signal handler behave differently (and, in particular, can't be used to exit directly from a system call).


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The Eagles were one of 20 teams on hand to see BYU running back Harvey Unga work out last week.
And according to one report, they were among four teams who seemed to show the most interest in him.
Unga withdrew from school last year for an honor code violation, which reportedly was for having pre-marital sex with his fiancee, a women's BYU basketball player.
"I made a mistake. I am dealing with it, making the most of the situation I am now in," he told the Salt Lake Tribune. "I have no regrets."
Unga worked out in Provo, Utah on Thursday and measured in at 6-1, 244 ounds. He finished his college career as BYU's all-time leading rusher with 3,455 yards. In 2009, Unga piled up 1,087 yards and 11 touchdowns, averaging 5.2 yards per carry. He also caught 102 balls during his career there.
Per the Salt Lake Tribune report, scouts from the Eagles, Bucs, Saints and Seahawks seemed to show the most interest, but I wouldn't put too much stock into that. The observation is based on the fact that Unga talked to those teams after his workout and before he met with the media.
Unga bench-pressed 225 pounds 19 times and ran the 40 in the 4.64 range.
The supplemental draft will take place on Thursday. Any team that makes a pick has to forefeit a corresponding pick in April's draft. In other words, if a team uses a fourth-round pick in the supplemental draft, it forefeits that pick in the 2011 NFL draft.
I'll be honest - I wouldn't recognize Unga if he sat down next to me. But here's a scouting report from Tommy Lawlor over at Iggles Blog. And draft analyst Chris Steuber said via Twitter that Unga would be a "great fit" for the Eagles, explaining that he can move the chains and has reliable hands out of the backfield.
The way I see the Eagles' running back situation is that LeSean McCoy will be the primary back, but Mike Bell figures to play a pretty prominent role. Leonard Weaver will get some touches as well.
Beyond that, there's uncertainty. Will Eldra Buckley make the roster? And what will sixth-round pick Charles Scott show at training camp?
Plus, you have to account for injuries.
We know that Andy Reid likes his BYU guys. He joked on ESPN during the draft in April that he was going to try and pick a BYU player up before all was said and done. We'll find out Thursday just how much Reid and the Eagles like Unga.
As the guys over at Birds' Eye View point out, there's an NBC -10 report that Michael Vick has been ordered to stay in Pa. and is currently being denied traveling privileges.
And Charles Robinson of Yahoo Sports is told by a high-ranking source within the Eagles organization that the option of cutting Vick is "absolutely" on the table.
If you don't care about my vacation, stop reading now.
But since so many of you checked in with things I should do/see while in Colorado/Portland, I thought I'd provide an update.
Denver is pretty nice. Easy to get around. Seems like there's plenty to do. I checked out Rockies-Padres at Coors Field Saturday night. The crowd was impressive. They were into the game and packed the place. The stadium was solid as well. Great view of the Rocky Mountains behind left field. Not as nice as the view at PNC Park in Pittsburgh, but still worth a couple Blackberry pics.
As a sidenote, I think I'm the only man in America who has tried the veggie burgers at four different MLB stadiums: Citizens Bank Park, Camden Yards, PNC Park and now Coors Field.
You know, annually, how CBP is voted the most vegetarian-friendly ballpark in the majors? I can verify that so far through my travels. Phillies officials, if you need a guy to help taste-test the vegetarian menu options in the coming years, I'm your man.
The streets of Denver were filled with strange characters once the sun went down last night, but I'll fully admit to being out of my comfort zone whenever I leave the northeast. Other than them, I've found the people friendly. Ran into a pair of Penn State grads and a Phillies fan from Glenolden yesterday.
Later today, it's off to Grand Junction. That's where I'll check in from next, assuming of course that the town of 55,000 has wireless internet.
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July 16. 2013 10:54AM
Pedestrian shoots passenger in car on Somerville Street
By MARK HAYWARD
New Hampshire Union Leader
Man charged in random Manchester shooting gets lower bail
Somerville Street shooting victim: 'I thought I was going to die'
Man charged in Somerville Street shooting had permit for pistol
MANCHESTER — A Manchester man faces charges of first-degree assault after he allegedly approached a car of strangers and shot a handgun into the vehicle, striking the passenger in the leg.
A responding officer applied a combat tourniquet to control the bleeding of the 25-year-old passenger, whom police found at the Queen City Avenue 7-Eleven after the driver sped away from the shooting.
Police said the shooting took place late Monday night on Somerville Street.
After speaking to the victim, police said they quickly located Thomas Landry, 25, on Somerville Street. He matched the description of the shooter, police said.
Police said Landry told them he had been robbed and became increasingly agitated as police questioned him.
"He began to yell and shout at people in the area and became aggressive towards them despite warnings to desist," police said in a statement.
Landry, who lives at 759 Somerville St., was initially charged with disorderly conduct and eventually charged in connection with the shooting. Those charges include first-degree assault, criminal threatening and reckless conduct.
Arraigned Tuesday morning in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division, Landry's bail was set at $50,000 cash or surety. Landry, who told police he suffers from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from military service, could enter no plea to felony charges of first-degree assault, criminal threatening and reckless conduct.
A probable cause hearing on the felonies and a status hearing on a disorderly conduct charge were set for July 30 at 11 a.m.
Police said the investigation remains active. The motive remains unclear, and there appears to be no connection between Landry and the two women.
Police first received word of the shooting about 11:23 p.m.
They said 23-year-old driver of the car was traveling east on Somerville Street past Wilson Street when a man on foot entered the roadway. The driver stopped, expecting the person to cross the street in front of her.
Instead, the pedestrian approached the driver's side of the car and pointed a handgun into the driver's open window, the women told police. He fired the gun within feet of the vehicle, striking the passenger in the leg.
The driver reported feeling the concussion of the fired shot and immediately drove away, ultimately traveling to the 7-Eleven where they sought help from a clerk and customers.


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49ers sign rookie linebacker Lemonier
Jun. 10, 2013
SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — The San Francisco 49ers have signed rookie outside linebacker Corey Lemonier to a four-year contract.
The deal was announced Monday, a day before the reigning NFC champions open a three-day minicamp.
San Francisco made a trade with the Packers to move up five spots and choose the Auburn standout with the 88th overall selection in April's draft.
Also Monday, San Francisco signed fullback Jason Schepler to a three-year contract after waiving him June 3. Fullback Alex Debniak was waived Monday to clear roster space.


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World Cup 2018: England cannot be trusted to overcome bad results and Gary Neville is part of the problem
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Bolt, Ulrich (16th century)
Ulrich Bolt was a brother of the Anabaptist Eberli Bolt, of Lachen in the Swiss canton of Schwyz, first a Catholic priest, then joined the Zwinglian Reformed party by 1524, was made pastor at Fläsch near Maienfeld in Chur, and in the course of 1525-1526 apparently joined the Anabaptists. His first appearance in the records as an Anabaptist was in Basel in the spring of 1526, from which he was expelled and went to Grüningen and joined the Brethren there. Arrested by the magistrate of Grüningen, he must have recanted, since he was soon appointed pastor in the parish of Niederhasli in the canton of Zürich, where he remained at least until 1530, although he showed some sympathy for Anabaptism here also.
Muralt, Leonhard von and Walter Schmid. Quellen zur Geschichte der Täufer in der Schweiz. Erster Band Zürich. Zürich: S. Hirzel, 1952: 230, 231, 255.
Zwingliana 1 (Zürich, 1897 ff.): 141-143, 178-180.
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Bender, Harold S. (1953). Bolt, Ulrich (16th century). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 20 September 2018, from http://gameo.org/index.php?title=Bolt,_Ulrich_(16th_century)&oldid=75842.
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Baltimore Comic-Con through the years
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Inside Washington President Obama's State of the Union and the Republican response by Sen. Marco Rubio. A call for an increase in the minimum wage. D
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Shakespeare Uncovered "Henry IV & Henry V with Jeremy Irons" Jeremy Irons (who stars as Henry IV in the upcoming new GREAT PERFORMANCES film adaptation) uncovers the enduring appeal of Shakespeare's "history plays," from the facts of English history to the father-son drama that Shakespeare created. He discloses what Shakespeare's sources were - and how he distorted them. He invites the viewer behind the scenes at the filming of some of the most important sequences in the new GREAT PERFORMANCES adaptations of both plays, starring Irons, with Tom Hiddleston as Prince Hal. D
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A passion for research
Fulufhelo Nelwamondo is an electrical engineer by training. He holds a bachelor of science degree and a doctoral degree in electrical engineering in the field of computational intelligence from the University of the Witwatersrand. He has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the graduate school of arts and sciences at Harvard University.
Nelwamondo is currently a principal researcher and the competency area manager in information security research in the modelling and digital science unit of the Council for Scientific Industrial Research (CSIR). He is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and a visiting professor of electrical engineering at the University of Johannesburg.
At the young age of 29, Nelwamondo has research and practical experience in software engineering and in computational intelligence in various applications.
He is the youngest South African to be awarded the Harvard-South Africa Fellowship and has received many national and international research accolades from organisations such as the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers and the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers. He has received the National Science and Technology Forum award for outstanding research. Nelwamondo has interests in exciting emerging areas of software and technology applications including a biometrics-based system, data mining, modelling of complex systems, machine learning and mechanism design. He has presented his work in various countries, including South Africa, the Czech Republic, Canada, Hungary, the United Kingdom, Taiwan, China and the United States. Nelwamondo has also successfully co-supervised master's and doctoral degrees in electrical engineering. He was featured in the M&G's 200 Young South Africans.
Which school and university did you attend?
I attended Mbilwi Secondary School in Limpopo and Wits University.
How did you get to know about your current occupation?
When I was young I wanted to be a teacher because they were the highest status professionals in our village. However, when I started high school I changed my mind and wanted to be an aeronautical engineer. When I was in matric, I switched my interest to electrical engineering. The main reason was that there were more funding opportunities for studying electrical engineering than aeronautical engineering, and my passion for electrical engineering has grown by the day. When I was studying I noticed that there were many unanswered questions, and my passion for research grew so much that I pursued this career path all the way to a doctoral degree and beyond. Today, my focus is on computational intelligence and pattern recognition.
What does this entail?
We conduct research and development in the area of information security, focusing mainly on biometrics (specifically fingerprint, iris, face and signature verification), smart cards, network security and pattern recognition (for instance, fraud detection). One noteworthy achievement is the development of a fully home-grown biometrics system that can classify and match fingerprints that are only partially complete. We developed algorithms that improve the speed, accuracy and security of recognition. The research was developed into technology that is demonstrated to, and packaged for the world of commerce through our industrial partners. My work also entails developing post graduate researchers and students in various research topics in the field of electrical engineering and areas of pattern recognition and modelling. This includes the area that is mainly referred to as artificial intelligence. I have successfully supervised three doctoral students and six master's students.
Science is great because … It results in remarkable discoveries that lead to novel technologies, that can improve the quality of life.
What sparked your interest in science in general and in particular your current area of focus?
Even at high school I wanted to participate in solving unanswered problems and questions. In the CSIR, my passion was geared towards the mastery of science through purpose-driven and directed research that is aimed at improving the lives of South Africans. I am focused on assisting South Africa to gain strategic independence in areas of national security. I help to develop home-grown information security technology that we fully understand, and that is developed in the sole interest of the country. This helps to solve South Africa's specific challenges in a unique way and has great potential in strengthening our industries: not only will they sell new technology, but also technology that meets the country's specific needs.
Would you say there was a person who persuaded you to pursue a career in this field?
One person I can single out is Professor Tshilidzi Marwala, who became my mentor and, ultimately, my doctoral degree supervisor.
How can young people get involved in your area of specialisation?
There are many ways to nurture skills that are relevant to this field. Youngsters can study computer science, applied mathematics or engineering (for example computer engineering, electrical engineering, information engineering or bio-medical engineering). They can also follow scientific fields such as physics and applied mathematics.
They need to develop a passion for computing using mathematics and computer programming.
What do you do when you are not working?
I spend time travelling with family.
What is your message to science teachers and pupils?
Teachers need to stimulate pupils to think and ask the right questions to generate their interest in careers in science, engineering and technology in ways that are geared towards meeting the challenges facing the world. Pupils need to work hard, knowing that productivity is like compound interest. Of two individuals with the same ability, the one who works 15% harder will soon more than twice outperform the other one.


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WESTCHESTER COUNTY, N.Y. -- The single-engine plane crash in Purchase on Friday, June 13, that killed Richard Rockefeller, the grandson of financier John D. Rockefeller Jr., may have been caused by poor visibility, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released Saturday .
Rockefeller's Piper Meridian crashed shortly after takeoff from Westchester County Airport after slamming into trees and terrain. The NTSB said visibility was limited to a quarter-mile at the time.
"Preliminary information from the Federal Aviation Administration revealed that the flight departed (at 8:06 a.m.) 0806 and that the air traffic control tower was contacted shortly thereafter by the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control facility inquiring if the flight had departed," the NTSB report said. "The local controller responded that the flight should have departed but that 'visibility was so low he couldn't tell.' "
The 65-year-old Rockefeller was piloting the plane and was the lone person on board. He was en route to his home in Maine after coming to Westchester to celebrate the 99th birthday of his father, David Rockefeller, the only surviving son of John D. Rockefeller Jr., and only surviving grandson of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller.
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Walking in the body of being
In 1656, 23-year-old Baruch Spinoza, a Portuguese Jew in Amsterdam, was excommunicated by his community and formally cursed to the end of his days. The young man's supposed heresies were likely related to a burgeoning pantheism, which he would later develop more fully -- the idea of God as an infinite being who contains everything in the world. God is existence itself, the universe, Nature, what is. Spinoza believed we were all modes in this Body of Being. We live in the Mind and Body of God, which by definition is perfect. What we perceive as imperfect, as pain and suffering, is a problem of our limited human understanding.
Today, in the philosophy called scientific pantheism, the universe with all its laws and properties is an interrelated whole that we can rightly consider sacred. In this marvelous universe, we are connected to everything. We have a relationship with everything. I have come to suspect that some of my existential loneliness -- and my angst about the future of this planet -- comes from the fact that I focus on just a few of these relationships and ignore so many others.
Which brings me to the pinacate beetle, genus Eleodes, which has roughly 120 species in the Western United States. You know this guy, marching about on long legs with raised rear end and lowered front, at home in desert, shrubs and mountains. Eleodes comes from the Greek for olive-like, the insect's general shape, and "pinacate" stems from the Aztec pinacatl for black beetle. It's also known as the clown beetle, for its habit of raising its posterior in a kind of headstand, and as the stinkbug, for the chemicals it emits while in that position. The particular species I have grown to admire, the one I stop and greet -- sometimes out loud -- is about an inch long: smooth, shiny, elegant (that attractive pinched waist in the thorax region), with the jet-black of obsidian and a hint of Aztec grandeur. ...
But also a little comic. Trundling across the path. A little officious. Then that headstand! You have to smile. Could a beetle be more personable than this?
I should admit that some insects make me anxious. Soft pulpy larvae, the plump bodies of moths -- it's that squishy element, the possibility of insides unexpectedly becoming outsides. By contrast, the hard carapace of the pinacate is what one guidebook describes as "extremely durable-looking." Its carcasses can last for years in the desert, like the debris of old cars.
I also like the beetle's public nature, the way it goes out for a walk much like I do, active year-round, even in the day if the weather is cool. The insect is looking for food, bits of grasses and forbs. I'm looking for beauty, insight, exercise. Often enough in the rural West, I get all three.
The pinacate's defense against predators is what permits it to be so visible. Eleodes armata can spray a noxious brew multiple times and as far as 20 inches. For humans, these chemicals are painful if you get them in your eyes. Some animals have found a way around this, of course. Before eating them, skunks roll the beetles in dirt, letting them discharge their offensive fluids. Grasshopper mice simply jam the insect tail-end into the sand and start with the head.
Even so, the pinacate has a certain air of fearlessness. It's already come a long way, from tiny eggs to pupae and adult. In a laboratory, this development can take nine months. The miracle of metamorphosis. The constancy of change. Insects understand this.
Yes, I know. The sin of anthropomorphosis. It's absurd that I think, "Oh, a friendly face!" when I see a pinacate trundling along the path. Up close, the face of a beetle is hardly friendly, and in any case why would the pinacate be friendly toward me -- an impossible giant casting an enormous shadow? You're Eleodes obscures. I'm Homo sapiens. We don't have that much in common. Or do we?
Call me an unrequited lover. But I claim this relationship. When I do, like Spinoza, I find myself walking through the Mind and Body of God, another mode in the Body of Being. Later in the day, I may also have a relationship with sacred datura or hairstreak butterflies. As a conflicted introvert, I need my solitary walks. Yet I don't want, really, to be alone.
The truth is: I'm not.
Sharman Apt Russell lives in Silver City, New Mexico. Her most recent book is Standing in the Light: My Life as a Pantheist.


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SOURCE: Apps Genius Corp
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Expands Market for Future Distribution of Apps and Games
Expands Market for Future Distribution of Apps and Games
RED BANK, NJ--(Marketwire - Aug 30, 2011) - Apps Genius Corp (OTCBB: APGS) (www.appsgenius.com), developer and publisher of social games and mobile apps, today announces a distribution agreement with Wizard World, Inc. (PINKSHEETS: WIZD), producer of Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America and the launch of its celebrity gaming division that will build mobile and social applications around celebrity branded personas.
"We are excited to launch our Celebrity Entertainment division and our through our agreement with Comic Con we will be able to reach a large existing market of loyal consumers for our games and social applications. Our new celebrity gaming division will allow celebrities that have large followings on Facebook and twitter to have a new way to monetize and expand their personal brand," stated Adam Kotkin, CEO of Apps Genius Corporation.
"Celebrity interaction has been an increasingly significant part of the Wizard World experience, both in our Comic Con events and on the Wizard World Digital platform," said Gareb Shamus, Wizard World CEO. "This partnership with Apps Genius is a great way to bring our fans closer to the talent."
For more information, visit www.appsgenius.com
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Apps Genius Corp. (www.appsgenius.com) develops markets, publishes and distributes social games and software applications that consumers can use on a variety of platforms. The platforms include social networks, wireless devices such as cellular phones and smart phones including the Apple iPhone™ and standalone websites. To date, we have released several applications including 'Bed Bug Alert,' an informational tool for the Apple iPhone™, 'My Mad Millions,' a game application for Facebook™, 'Slap a Friend,' a game application for the Apple iPhone™, 'Bruisers,' a game application for Facebook™, 'Angry Turds,' a game application for Apple iPhone™, and 'Crazy Dream' Application for Facebook™. Apps Genius Corp's goal is to develop and publish new titles on a recurring basis that are based on the same property and gaming platform. Examples of this franchise approach are 'My Mad Millions' and 'Rock The House,' currently under development, which both utilize the same underlying platform. A core focus of our Social Gaming and Mobile Application development is to allow users and players to reach across different networks into a virtual application or gaming environment such as Facebook, MySpace, iPhone and Android and be able to play games and use applications from all users no matter what environment they are using the application in.
About Wizard World, Inc.:
Wizard World, Inc. produces Comic Cons and pop culture conventions across North America that celebrate graphic novels, comic books, movies, TV shows, gaming, technology, toys and social networking. The events often feature celebrities from movies and TV, artists and writers, and events such as premiers, gaming tournaments, panels, and costume contests. Wizard World, Inc. also produces Wizard World Digital, an online publication covering new and upcoming products and talents in the pop culture world, is distributed on a weekly basis to online and iPad users worldwide.
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After Hard-Won Lessons, Army Doctrine Revised
"The American military's difficulty in securing Iraq has led to much soul-searching within the armed forces on how to prepare for future conflicts… The Army has drafted a new operations manual that elevates the mission of stabilizing war-torn nations, making it equal in importance to defeating adversaries on the battlefield…" READ MORE >
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Battle Company Is Out There
"I went to Afghanistan last fall with a question: Why, with all our technology, were we killing so many civilians in air strikes? As of September of last year, according to Human Rights Watch, NATO was causing alarmingly high numbers of civilian deaths — 350 by the coalition, compared with 438 by the insurgents... To find out, I spent much of the fall in the Korengal Valley and elsewhere in Kunar province alongside soldiers who were making life-and-death decisions almost every day — decisions that led to the deaths of soldiers and of civilians." READ MORE >
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Admiral William Fox: The Man Between War and Peace
"...while Admiral Fallon's boss, President George W. Bush, regularly trash-talks his way to World War III and his administration casually casts Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as this century's Hitler (a crown it has awarded once before, to deadly effect), it's left to Fallon--and apparently Fallon alone--to argue that, as he told Al Jazeera last fall: 'This constant drumbeat of conflict . . . is not helpful and not useful. I expect that there will be no war, and that is what we ought to be working for. We ought to try to do our utmost to create different conditions.' What America needs, Fallon says, is a 'combination of strength and willingness to engage.'" READ MORE >
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Disasters of War
So here we are, facing a global economic collapse and an election where both candidates represent the lesser of another evil. It's time to turn to Kurt Vonnegut, whose unique blend of bleak humor, genuine outrage, and dark surreality seems more relevant than ever, and more cogent than a cadre of political and economic analysts. Armageddon… READ MORE >
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Today in History
October 9
28 BC The Temple of Apollo is dedicated on the Palatine Hill in Rome.
1470 Henry VI of England restored to the throne.
1760 Austrian and Russian troops enter Berlin and begin burning structures and looting.
1779 The Luddite riots being in Manchester, England in reaction to machinery for spinning cotton.
1781 Americans begin shelling the British surrounded at Yorktown.
1825 The first Norwegian immigrants to America arrive on the sloop Restaurationen.
1863 Confederate cavalry raiders return to Chattanooga after attacking Union General William Rosecrans' supply and communication lines all around east Tennessee.
1888 The Washington Monument, designed by Robert Mills, opens to the public.
1914 Germans take Antwerp, Belgium, after 12-day siege.
1934 In Marseilles, a Macedonian revolutionary associated with Croat terrorists in Hungary assassinates King Alexander of Yugoslavia and French Foreign Minister Louis Barthou. The two had been on a tour of European capitals in quest of an alliance against Nazi Germany. The assassinations bring the threat of war between Yugoslavia and Hungary, but confrontation is prevented by the League of Nations.
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt requests congressional approval for arming U.S. merchant ships.
1946 Eugene O'Neill's play The Iceman Cometh opens at the Martin Beck Theatre in New York.
1949 Harvard Law School begins admitting women.
1950 U.N. forces, led by the First Cavalry Division, cross the 38th parallel in South Korea and begin attacking northward towards the North Korean capital of Pyongyang.
1983 The president of South Korea, Doo Hwan Chun, with his cabinet and other top officials are scheduled to lay a wreath on a monument in Rangoon, Burma, when a bomb explodes. Hwan had not yet arrived so escaped injury, but 17 Koreansincluding the deputy prime minister and two other cabinet membersand two Burmese are killed. North Korea is blamed.
Born on October 9
1837 Francis Parker, educator and founder of progressive elementary schools.
1859 Alfred Dreyfus, French artillery officer who was falsely accused of giving French military secrets to foreign powers.
1873 Charles Rudolph Walgreen, "the father of the modern drugstore."
1879 Max von Laue, German physicist.
1899 Bruce Catton, U.S. historian and journalist, famous for his works on the Civil War.
1909 Jacques Tati, French actor and director.
1940 John Lennon, English musician, one of the Beatles.
http://www.historynet.com/today-in-history/october-09Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes
And clever in their own sight! Isaiah 5:20-21 NASB
1866 - The Houston Direct Navigation Company was charted.
1871 - Governor Edmund J. Davis imposed martial law on Freestone County. This was done in response to reports of coercion and fraudulent voting in Fairfield during the elections on October 3-6. Martial law was lifted on November 10.
1983 - Roger Staubach was inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor.
1994 - Tony Dorsett and Randy White was inducted into the Dallas Cowboys Ring of Honor.
1999 - The Houston Astros played their last game in the Astrodome. They began the 2000 season at Enron field.It's not how old you are, it's how you got here.
It's been a long road and not all of it was paved.
. If you ain't havin' fun, it's your own damn fault
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