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Volleyball Uniform Requirements to Change in 2016
In addition, some changes were made to the responsibilities for referees.
In Rule 5-3-4d, prior to a deciding set, the second referee shall conduct the coin toss at the officials table. The second referee shall then confirm with the first referee the result of the coin toss. Formerly, the coin toss would take place at center court, and the first referee had the option of conducting the coin toss or passing it off to the second referee.
"This rule change will give the second referee some extra responsibility," Oakes said, adding that the committee believes that the change will be a much more efficient procedure.
Referees now will be required to carry a watch, per a change to Rule 5-2-2, to serve as an alternate to the visual timing device in the event of a malfunction with the on-site device.
The final rule change comes with the increasing presence of electronic media in high school sports. Rule 11-2-3 now allows state associations to determine the number of electronic media time-outs transmitted for matches and to have the option to reduce the number of charged time-outs.
A complete listing of all rules changes approved by the committee is available on the NFHS Web site at www.nfhs.org. Click on "Athletics & Fine Arts Activities" on the home page, and select "Volleyball."
Volleyball is the third-most popular girls sport and 13th-most popular boys sport at the high school level according to the 2010-11 NFHS High School Athletics Participation Survey. There are 409,332 girls at 15,479 high schools and 50,016 boys at 2,078 high schools participating nationwide.
This press release was written by Alex Swenson, an intern in the NFHS publications/communications department. He is a junior at Franklin (Indiana) College majoring in broadcast journalism and public relations.
About the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS)
The NFHS, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, is the national leadership organization for high school sports and performing arts activities. Since 1920, the NFHS has led the development of education-based interscholastic sports and performing arts activities that help students succeed in their lives. The NFHS sets direction for the future by building awareness and support, improving the participation experience, establishing consistent standards and rules for competition, and helping those who oversee high school sports and activities. The NFHS writes playing rules for 17 sports for boys and girls at the high school level. Through its 50 member state associations and the District of Columbia, the NFHS reaches more than 19,000 high schools and 11 million participants in high school activity programs, including more than 7.6 million in high school sports. As the recognized national authority on interscholastic activity programs, the NFHS conducts national meetings; sanctions interstate events; offers online publications and services for high school coaches and officials; sponsors professional organizations for high school coaches, officials, speech and debate coaches, and music adjudicators; serves as the national source for interscholastic coach training; and serves as a national information resource of interscholastic athletics and activities. For more information, visit the NFHS Web site at www.nfhs.org.
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"The New F Word" campaign evokes a strong message of self-empowerment by literally giving bullying "the bird," while encouraging youth to stop using words like fatty, freak, and faggot by choosing to be a friend instead.
Friend Movement has an impressive goal of shooting 10,000 photos in 90 days across 40 cities in hopes of raising global awareness of the antibullying cause. Many stars have already participated in the campaign, including Adam Lambert, Tim Gunn, Darren Criss, and more.
In addition to the campaign, the organization has also planned the Friend Movement Benefit Concert scheduled for July 1 featuring headliner LeAnn Rimes.
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Arkansas Travelers Playoff Preview
Corey Smith was drafted by the Cleveland Indians in the first round of the June 2000 draft, was traded in 2005 to the Padres, and spent 2007 with Newark in independent ball before joining the Angels organization in spring training 2008. He finished 2008 with 26 homers for Double-A Arkansas.
Once upon a time, minor league teams could hire, trade and release their own players. About 20 years ago, all that changed, although it was an evolutionary process. These days, a minor league team affiliated with a major league operation must only use players assigned by that parent club.
Arkansas Travelers Chief Operating Officer Bill Valentine, about as "old school" as they come, has openly advocated the Los Angeles Angels signing independent league players to supplement his roster when deficiencies arise. In past years, the Angels resisted for the most part, preferring to assign to Arkansas players already in the organization. Independent league players, by and large, are talent released by other organizations or not talented enough to be offered a contract by a major league club.
For whatever reason, that philosophy changed in 2008, as the Angels signed several players from independent ball to supplement the underachieving Travs. Corey Smith was signed during the winter and hit 26 homers for Arkansas. Outfielder Adam Greenberg joined the Travs on May 10 and finished with an AVG/OBP/SLG of .271/.361/.347. Outfielder Brian Stavisky joined the Travs at the end of May and finished with .312/.408/.522.
Add minor league free agents Jordan Czarniecki (.284/.379/.433) and pitcher Dan Denham (9-10, 4.44 ERA, 146 IP in 25 starts) and you have a group of players who came from outside the Angels organization to provide enough support for the Travs to win the Texas League North Division first-half title at 36-34. The Travs were an abysmal 26-44 in the second half, and 62-78 overall, but nonetheless they qualified for the playoffs.
The Travs swept state rival Northwest Arkansas (75-65 overall) three-zip in the North Division title series, thanks in part to two power bats added from Rancho Cucamonga, Mark Trumbo and Hank Conger. This really isn't all that unusual in the minor leagues, due to the split-season schedules used at Double-A and lower levels. The teams that go to the post-season may not resemble at all the roster that won the first half.
Arkansas won Game #1 tonight of their best-of-five series against Frisco (84-56 overall), 3-0. Conger delivered a bases-loaded double in the bottom of the 8th to clear the bases. Veteran lefty Daniel Davidson pitched seven shutout innings, Barret Browning a scoreless eighth and Rafy Rodriguez got the save in the 9th.
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The photo shows red sandstone façade of Basels City Hall (known as Rathaus, literally means "council house").
This is a five hundred years old building dominating the famous Basels Marktplatz. Every day except Sunday, fresh vegetables, fruit and flowers are on sale here.
The City Hall houses the meetings of the Cantonal Parliament as well as the Cantonal Government of the canton of Basel-Stadt.
The City Hall has been located in this place since the 14th century, well away from the seat of the former ruler of the city, the Prince-Bishop, who resided on the Cathedral Hill.
This separation shows that the burghers of the town, with their growing economic strength in the 14th century, sought independence from the bishop. It was also the craftsmen organised into 15 guilds who, in 1501, carried through the council's decision to join the Swiss Confederation. Do not miss this place when are you in Switzerland.
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daddo (28656) 2014-02-25 1:58
hi Miro. The building must be much loved a sit is in excellent condition, Wonderful details, a rich "canvas". Great light and perfect sky accentuate the finesse of the building. Regards. Klaudio.
subhendu_bagchi (26091) 2014-02-25 2:02
wow! What a shot! I like the razor sharp image quality and those vibrant colours in it. Great presentation with perfect light. Superb one. Tfs.
lousat (104563) 2014-02-25 2:08
Hi Miro,the style of your capture is the same of your last post from Bolivia,and the result too,truly beautiful with the best POV and light to take the best details and colors of this very rich facade full of decorations,great and interesting work,i like it! Have a nice evening and thanks,Luciano
snunney (115333) 2014-02-25 2:16
Hello Miro,
The colours really jump out of this one! Splendid capture of this magnificent building. Superb colours and clarity. Very well done!
npecanhuk (79319) 2014-02-25 2:29
Hello Miro!
Very beautiful façade details!
Very attractive picture!
Special regards to the colors, exposure and composition!
TFS - congrats,
Subhogen (4067) 2014-02-25 2:52
Hello Miro,
What a nice view of this vividly coloured building. Like the many details you have captured for us to admire and enjoy. The ornate clock and the gleaming tower is perfectly placed in the frame. The contrast between the red and the blue is so eye-catching looks like the jersey of FC Basel :-). Excellent shot with vibrant colours and superb clarity, thanks for sharing.
Sergiom (98754) 2014-02-25 3:42
Bonjour Miro,
J'ai bien peur de l'avoir raté lors de mon séjour à Bâle.Mes amis Suisses m'avaient bien dit qu'elle valait le détour. Vraiment une architecture remarquable sous une très belle lumière.
abmdsudi (65331) 2014-02-25 5:13
Hi Miro
Good effort Miro, it's marvellous looking building with the unique architecture and design with myriad of detail and delicious colours. The brilliant side lighting & blue sky has further accentuated the effect so immensely which you've captured the subject superbly, a smashing image!! Congrats
Best regards
carlo62 (63061) 2014-02-25 5:35
Ciao Miro
magnifica facciata, un cielo perfetto per ammirare al meglio il suo colore e le tante pitture.
Bello scatto, non conoscevo questo palazzo, proprio bello.
adramad (53434) 2014-02-25 7:28
Hello Miro.
A strong attraction of this splendid the building, with its red color, paintings and decorative elements in its facade, captures our interest throughout, lovely tile-roof with geometric designs, and ideal small tower, along with the clock, are elements wonderful in the set.
A beautiful job very well done.
With good lighting and sharpness.
Have a nice day.
Best regards.
ikeharel (86464) 2014-02-25 8:18
Hello Miro,
What's inside?
See this pic. for an inside view of the entrance to this beautiful building.
fabulous shine under the bright daylight, stunning red tone and golden decorations, well shown here.
Good evening,
cornejo (52158) 2014-02-25 11:06
Hi Miro, very good picture of this interesting town hall of the city, very well captured in this interesting image, with good sharpness, nice color and light. Very good and interesting job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good night and happy week.
Warm greetings from southern Spain.
No_One (4) 2014-02-25 13:22
Hi Miro,
What a striking picture! An amazing building, and the paintings are a beautiful touch to its already detailed facade. I could not picture any sky better to present this than that deep vibrant blue. A beautiful place to learn of, and a beautiful picture to show it. Many thanks for sharing.best wishes
jcpix (14024) 2014-02-25 15:32
Hi Miro,
I found this a challenge to photograph, there never seemed to be a decent angle or perspective which would encompass it's size and intricate beauty. I guess I just needed a better idea of what I was doing at the time, because I think you've found a terrific way to present this building! The strong red and blue combination jumps off my monitor, and there's a good balance between the two. The shimmering light on the golden spire is the "icing on the cake" and compliments the softer yellow tones throughout the facade. Mighty fine composition with excellent detail and light, you've done Basel's City Hall proud! I like too that you included the small portion along the right side of the frame, giving a hint that there's even more to behold...leaves me curious (even though I know.) :) Have a great day ahead. Take care.
Friendly wishes,
Corry (4508) 2014-02-25 20:56
Bonsoir Miro
Très belle façade colorée de cet édifice avec ses peintures murales, son horloge et son clocher doré. Belle lumière qui permet d'apprécier les détails. Bien fait.
Apurba20 (984) 2014-02-25 21:09
Hi Miro
This is sharp and neat.
The colors and the the murals are excellently captured.
pierrefonds (77609) 2014-02-26 17:20
Hi Miro,
The point of view is showing with precision the details and the colours of the architecture of the city hall. The good luminosity is making the colours to stand out. It is an impressive building. Have a nice day.
mcmtanyel (37003) 2014-02-26 21:40
Hi Miro,
I love those rich, deep colors, TFS!
Fis2 (117187) 2014-02-28 7:01
Witaj Miro!
Curious fragment of building.
A very interesting windows ;)
Good frame and superb colors.
I like turret.
Well done.
Have a nice wekend
Nicou (162316) 2014-02-28 8:48
quelle belle façade sueprbe quel dessin et le tons les couleurs merveilleuse compo avec le cantons Suisses au sommet ces contraste merveilleux.
Belle soirée
Cricri (135404) 2014-02-28 10:36
Hello Miro
Une façade attirante par ces couleurs et ces décorations, une architecture pleine de détails sous une belle lumière , belle présentation
Belle soirée et bon WE
kato (11630) 2014-02-28 18:35
Hello Miro,
You're capturing well this architecture by a good angle and very excellent tone/clarity, so it's interesting and impressive to see the remarkable facade of Basels City Hall with the red outer wall, many windows and the tasteful painting/statue in medieval times. It harmonizes well with blue sky, so it looks like the masterpiece of medieval architecture.
Kind regards,
Wahclellaspirit (4125) 2014-03-06 9:01
Bonjour Miro,
Yes, Basel is a beautiful city, and the Old Town along the river is quite interesting also. Your image is well captured, the lighting allows the great colorful hues to pop out for the viewer. My favorite street to walk from the Banhof Station was St. Albontallstrasse to where I visited many times my friend before returning to the States.
Excellent shot...
adores (46467) 2014-03-24 16:34
Hi Miro!
It's surely a very beautiful building, with nice paintings, colours and details. I like the way you framed it, it's very nice with such a beautiful blue sky.
jmdias (74725) 2014-03-27 6:38
very nice façade shown here, lots of elements and adornments so beautiful and curious. I liked the contrast between the colors. TFS this amazing detail of basel, curiously I knew a girl from here last year.
fritzi007 (13716) 2015-11-09 5:18
Hallo Miro,
interessantes Bürgermeister haus von Basel, architektonisch und künstlerisch große Klasse, sehr gut fotografiert, sehr guter Farbekontrast, gratuliere!
Viele Grüße
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At an official ceremony held in Brussels' historic "Grand-Place" today, the CEOs of the Star Alliance member airlines welcomed Brussels Airlines to the family.
Brussels Airlines is the Belgian airline offering the widest choice of flights to and from the "capital" of Europe. With a fleet of 51 aircraft the airline operates some 200 daily flights to 55 European airports and 14 African destinations.
With the addition of Brussels Airlines, customers on the Star Alliance network can now choose from more than 19,700 daily flights to reach 1,077 destinations in 175 countries. New to the network are more connections from Brussels Airport, which has now become a Star Alliance hub. These include four destinations in Africa which are presently not being served by other Star Alliance member carrier: Bujumbura, Burundi; Conakry, Guinea; Kigali, Ruanda and Monrovia, Liberia. Eleven Star Alliance member carriers serve 81 destinations in 40 countries across Africa.
Belgium has now become a home market for the Star Alliance network, thereby improving the customer proposition for both business and leisure customers. Hence, Star Alliance can now offer an enhanced portfolio of flight connections from Brussels, including a large increase in nonstop flights, to the advantage of many multinational companies as well as the various political institutions residing in Belgium.
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Diminutive and demure, the New York gallerist has made a career of bucking trends. This fall, she becomes the latest dealer to open an outpost in London
NEW YORK GALLERIST Marian Goodman is one of the most powerful art dealers in the world, and also perhaps the most enigmatic. On a glorious summer day in London, her inscrutability is on full display as she stands amid a noisy Soho construction site, casting a careful eye over the Victorian warehouse that will soon contain her third gallery.
At 86, Goodman has been involved in the art business for nearly half a century. Yet she possesses few of the hallmarks that signify great dealers today—multiple outposts, such as Larry Gagosian, with 15 galleries in seven countries; palatial, starchitect-designed spaces like the ones David Zwirner and Hauser & Wirth operate in New York's Chelsea neighborhood; or entire departments dedicated to making money by peddling secondary market, or resale, work. Instead, Goodman is renowned for her artists, who span multiple continents and eras, among them conceptual icons John Baldessari, Dan Graham and Lawrence Weiner; photographers Jeff Wall, Rineke Dijkstra and Thomas Struth ; installation artists such as Annette Messager and Danh Vō; and painters Julie Mehretu and Gerhard Richter, possibly her most illustrious talent.
In many ways, Goodman made her name by bucking trends—opting for anti-market conceptualism when market-friendly Neo-Expressionist paintings were the rage, and refusing to relocate from uptown to SoHo or Chelsea when everyone else was doing it. But with her London gallery, designed by the in-demand London-based architect David Adjaye and set just off Golden Square, Goodman seems to be falling in line with the other New York lodestars who also have branches there, including Zwirner, Hauser & Wirth, Pace and Gagosian. As with most of her decisions, her reasons for doing so are not immediately apparent.
Weeks of cleaning have transformed the building's formerly grim facade into a glowing expanse of sandstone-colored brick. Sunlight streams through its newly refurbished windows and skylights, lighting up the cast-iron columns, the sinuously curving staircase and the vaulted ceiling of the upper floor. But as Goodman, wearing a cream Chanel-style jacket, surveys her new 11,000-square-foot domain, she concedes few clues about her impressions.
At first she mostly frets over details others have missed, such as the prominence of a ledge beneath the windows or a sign of moisture on a northern wall. Andrew Leslie Heyward, who directs Goodman's small Paris gallery and will run this one, too, walks alongside her, taking note. "So is it what you expected?" he asks. Poker-faced, Goodman responds, "I didn't know what I expected."
It's only when Leslie Heyward talks about art that Goodman softens. He points through a corner window to the park outside, where a sculpture by South Africa's William Kentridge, a longtime gallery artist, will be installed, and her face brightens. He explains that art movers will be able to drive a forklift straight through the front doors. "Enough room to lift a Jeff Wall in a crate 15 feet in the air!" Goodman says, relishing the possibilities for the Canadian photographer, whose work must be hoisted by crane into the windows of her fourth-floor gallery in New York.
Finally, passing by a generously windowed room on the upper floor, Goodman remarks that "Gerhard likes a lot of space," referring to the German painter Richter, whose show of new and recent work will inaugurate the gallery when it opens on October 14. (She consulted Richter, and many of her other artists, throughout the gallery's planning and design.)
By the time Leslie Heyward finally blurts out, "It looks so great," Goodman is smiling broadly. And even though the space is already drenched with light, the power of Goodman's approval is so strong that it's as though a second sun is shining.
Two days earlier, Goodman and I were talking over coffee in an empty dining room at her hotel in Basel, Switzerland. It was the day after Art Basel's VIP opening (Goodman has participated in the fair since 1970, its first year), and I asked her how she transformed herself into an art-world powerhouse. After all, she entered adulthood as a housewife—albeit a well-educated, progressive one—and now she stands at No. 14, and fourth among dealers, on ArtReview's "Power 100" list. Goodman gazed at me awkwardly then ducked her head and said, "I don't know."
For the nearly 50 years she's been in the business, Goodman has been renowned for her counterintuitive shyness, seriousness and reserve. In an article for the New Yorker, Peter Schjeldahl once reported an acquaintance describing her as someone "who backs away while saying 'hello.' " She's about the last person you'd expect to become a dealer, a profession normally associated with glad-handing salesmanship.
Yet by now, Goodman's standing is such that even her competitors sing her praises. "What's so extraordinary about Marian is, number one, the sure head with which she picks great artists," says dealer David Zwirner, "and again and again in different decades. And number two, the loyalty she has brought to those careers" by making sure "the artist is noticed through institutions and letting the market follow." When he opened his first gallery in New York in 1993, Zwirner adds, Goodman's was "a model that I aspired to."
"If you'd only bought work from Marian Goodman over the last 40 years," says Tom Eccles, the executive director of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, "you would have one of the best museums in the world today. I don't know if there's any other gallerist you could say that of. Every one is a winner."
At a time when the role of museums is changing drastically, from scholarly repository to social-gathering spot, Goodman still regards public institutions as the most important home for her artists' work. (During the fair, her artists aren't on view only in her booth, but in exhibitions all over town.) Goodman's annual Basel dinner, held this year in a 14th-century castle just outside the city, is thick with directors and curators, including Neal Benezra, director of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Sir Nicholas Serota, who runs Britain's Tate museums. Because of Goodman's pint-size stature—she's barely five feet tall—all must stoop to talk, and throughout the evening she is often referred to, only half-jokingly, as "the queen." With her blend of grandmotherliness—she often arrives at meetings bearing cake and beams indulgently when a toddler crosses her path—and imposing authority, the comparison is not far off.
Yet because Goodman and her employees routinely refuse to discuss sales, the gallery is hardly mentioned in press about the fair. (The hot Art Basel news was the sale of a 1986 Andy Warhol self-portrait for more than $30 million by Skarstedt, another New York gallery with a London branch.) Goodman herself is also notoriously chary of interviews, rarely agreeing to them and often regretting her cooperation. "Everyone at the gallery, including Marian, tries to tone it down," explains Roger Tatley, who was recently hired as a director for Goodman's London branch. "Artists should get the press."
GOODMAN DIDN'T open her first full-fledged gallery until 1977, less than a year before she turned 50, though her engagement with art began much earlier. Raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side, and educated at the Little Red School House, one of the city's first progressive schools, she grew up visiting galleries with her father, Maurice P. Geller, a first-generation Hungarian-American accountant who avidly collected the work of the mid-century American modernist Milton Avery. "When my father first started collecting, I thought he was mad," Goodman says. "But I came to really appreciate his passion."
Married at 20 ("or 21," Goodman says, "I can't remember anymore") to civil engineer William Goodman, she organized her first show in about 1962, as part of a PTA fundraising drive for the Walden School, where her two young children were students. (Michael is now a heavy-construction photographer based in Los Angeles, and Amy is an herbalist in Vermont. "She's a very green girl," Goodman says proudly.) The show included work by Avery, as well as Stuart Davis and Franz Kline, and Goodman later published a portfolio of related prints. "I found that I just loved it, and that was that," says Goodman, who has lived since the early '70s in a Central Park West penthouse, not far from where she grew up. The minimalist, art-filled aerie can be accessed only by taking the elevator to the building's top floor, and then climbing a back staircase that doubles as a fire exit.
Goodman entered Columbia University as a graduate student to study art history, focusing primarily on African and pre-Columbian cultures—an education that later helped her "shape my attitude about taking a more long-term view," she says. She dreamed of working in a museum, but "it wasn't an easy time for women to become curators in New York." So in 1965, she joined forces with friends and founded Multiples (later incorporated as Multiples, Inc.), a publishing company that produced editioned prints and objects, otherwise known as "multiples." Pop Art was on the rise, and a handful of progressive publishers in America and Europe were similarly aflame with the idea of bringing art to the masses. After trying unsuccessfully to persuade the Museum of Modern Art to run a similar program, Goodman had decided to do it herself, starting a pattern that would define her career. "It was the '60s," she says. "There was a strong urge to do the right thing."
Although she had no business experience—or her own checkbook, either, until her divorce in 1968—Goodman soon became a preeminent editions publisher, working with Americans such as Claes Oldenburg, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Larry Rivers. In 1970, the year Multiples exhibited for the first time at Art Basel, Goodman published Artists and Photographs, a 19-piece portfolio that's now seen as seminal. Based on a show of the same name, it explored the way artists such as Ed Ruscha, Christo and Bruce Nauman were incorporating photography into their work.
Yet Goodman had sensed even broader vistas in 1968, when she visited West Germany for the first time to see the art exposition Documenta. "I realized there was a fully formed art world in Europe with major artists we didn't know much about," Goodman says. "It changed everything for me."
On that trip, she discovered Joseph Beuys, the shamanistic godfather of conceptual art, with whom she published several multiples. On another, she became enchanted by Marcel Broodthaers, a Belgian surrealist poet-turned-artist whose installations often critiqued museum displays. Her efforts to find him a New York gallery led to "a strikeout," Goodman says. So she did "the most irrational thing in my professional life for sure." In 1977, a year after Broodthaers's death, she opened the Marian Goodman Gallery with a show of his work. She was bent on exhibiting Europeans who might otherwise not be seen in New York.
At first Goodman, who supported the business with sales of editions, found it hard going. But "Marian was remarkably farsighted," says Serota, "in choosing to work with artists who would have the potential for a long career, to evolve and develop. And then she stuck with them." By 1985, the year after she moved into the building on West 57th Street that still houses her gallery, her program was strongly focused around post-minimalist, conceptual work, with Italian Arte Povera sculptors such as Giuseppe Penone and Giulio Paolini, and a lot of young Germans, including the installation artist Lothar Baumgarten, a former student of Beuys, and the then little-known painters Anselm Kiefer and Gerhard Richter.
'"Once she's made a commitment, that's it. She supports you 110 percent. Without her, I wouldn't have a film life." '
"If I had to say I have one gift," Goodman admits over tea in London, "it would be choosing well."
Goodman often talks about the struggles she encountered building a business as a woman in a man's world, and she didn't find much inspiration in the notable female dealers who had come before, like Martha Jackson and Betty Parsons, or even her relative contemporary Ileana Sonnabend. Instead, her model was Sonnabend's ex, Leo Castelli. "He was a very elegant man, and he conducted himself that way, too," Goodman says. "I learned about standards from him. I liked his kindness." (Indeed, Goodman is also known for being straightforward in her business dealings.)
During the 1980s market boom, when New York went crazy for Neo-Expressionist painting, Goodman set her sights on cooler, more conceptual work—preferring the multifaceted abstraction of Richter, for instance, whom she describes as "a modern man." When other dealers moved downtown, she stood fast on 57th Street. "I was watching people in SoHo proceed with great confidence and then choose the wrong artists," Goodman says. They would fight "over who was the best new find, and the winner would get the show. Then the next year, there was a new group and they'd start all over again. I didn't like it, I didn't respect it and I was always worried that it could be contagious."
In the late 1980s, she challenged herself by expanding her program. "There were new artists coming on the horizon, and I was terrified of making a choice. I finally said to myself, 'You have to do it.' Much to my amazement, I was lucky again"—this time with two new Germans, Struth and his Kunstakademie Düsseldorf classmate, the sculptor Thomas Schütte. Her winning streak continued even through the art market crash, with Gabriel Orozco, then a relative unknown from Mexico, and Kentridge, who focused on film made from drawings. Goodman soon realized that "for me, many of the best artists of the '90s generation were filmmakers"—a decision that led her to Pierre Huyghe and, more recently, Anri Sala and Yang Fudong.
Goodman also represents the British artist and filmmaker Steve McQueen, whose 12 Years a Slave took the 2014 Oscar for best picture. "Without her, I wouldn't have a film life," McQueen says. He likens his early encounters with Goodman—when she visited his shows and watched his work develop for more than a year—to a courtship. "I think her work is done right at the beginning," he says. "It's to choose the artists she really wants to work with, and she takes it very, very seriously. Once she's made a commitment, that's it. She supports you 110 percent."
Her management style, at least where artists are concerned, is surprisingly laissez faire. She doesn't micromanage or pressure them to contribute work to fairs. She speaks to them regularly by phone and spends much of her time on the road attending shows, making studio visits and just generally catching up. Weiner calls her "a family friend" and "part of one's existence." Wall, who has shown with her since 1989, says, "We're married. She's had about 20 other marriages, too."
THE ARTISTS Goodman chooses are often viewed as subtly political, such as Mehretu, whose abstractions are inspired by current events. But Goodman doesn't see it quite that way. "The humanity in the work is what's important to me," she says. "It's art about life. And people need to be connected with something larger than themselves." Still, her beliefs are obvious: Given half a chance, she'll segue into a discussion of America's financial and educational inequalities, and the excellence of France's public health-care system. (Providing health care is "good business in the end," she says.) In 1956, Goodman was one of a group of civically engaged mothers who successfully battled Robert Moses when he tried to expand the parking lot at Tavern on the Green, forcing him to build a playground instead.
"I think she sees her gallery as a gesture about what American culture needs to be," Wall says. "How do you keep a serious notion of culture alive in an era where there are huge forces moving in the opposite direction? That has a lot to do with the choices she makes."
Goodman's choices are also motivated by concerns for her artists' historical legacy. When the collector Mitchell P. Rales approached Goodman in the early 2000s, hoping to acquire a Baldessari, she wouldn't consider it until he'd agreed to buy six of the artist's works for the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., where the billionaire industrialist is a former board member, in addition to the six he purchased for Glenstone, his own private museum in Potomac, Maryland. "I had to convince Marian that we were worthy," Rales says, "so that she understood that this just wasn't somebody making a bet on whether John Baldessari's value would go up."
"That sounds like Marian," Baldessari says when he hears this story. "She's very careful about who gets work." But with Goodman, he adds, "artists come first. If she's being assertive, she's doing it for the artist."
That's partly why Goodman's artists are so loyal, remaining with her for decades. With his skyrocketing resale market, Richter, 82, is perhaps her most hotly courted talent. (With a record of $37.1 million, he's currently the second-most expensive living artist at auction, just behind Jeff Koons.) Richter says he'd never consider going elsewhere. "In German, we say sympathisch," he says of their first meeting, speaking in heavily accented English. "She was in her way of thinking close to me. I liked everything. For me she was wise, more than clever." Although he is approached frequently, primarily by "this famous Gagosian, who showed me their interest many times," Richter says, chuckling, "there is no hope."
Preserving this low defection rate has also factored into Goodman's thinking about London. The idea began as a favor for Kentridge, who wanted a London office; Goodman set out to find him one, and before long, she and Leslie Heyward were looking for exhibition space. "If there has to be a center in Europe, it's clearly London," Goodman says. Earlier, she'd mentioned that some of her artists hadn't been happy with their representation there. "I felt I should provide a showplace."
Some say Goodman represents the tail end of the more intimate galleries of the past, whose founders were moved more by aesthetic considerations than market opportunities. But Goodman, with her long, forward-thinking view, doesn't really seem part of an older generation. She does seem jaundiced by the market-happy, mega-gallery trend that's ascendant, just as she was with the gallery competitions of the 1980s. "The whole system is bad for the art world," she says. "These guys should pay a lot more attention to the quality of the artists that they're running after, and a lot less attention to grabbing everything in sight."
With many New York behemoths now operating branches in Mayfair, her new gallery is clearly also a defensive move designed to protect territory she's staked out over decades. Many of her competitors "are all so famous for trying to poach everyone in sight," Goodman says. "So it kills two birds with one stone." And while the building she found was "more than we'd wanted," she adds, "there comes a time when you just have to act."


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And hello to you from Infosmack, here with a brimful of VDI. As per, hosts Greg Knieriemen and Marc Farley with the Diva of Disruptive Technologies, Christina Weil, get to do the talking, with special guest Don Bulens, former CEO of Equallogic and current CEO of Unidesk.
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- The challenge of persistent desktops
- Challenge of Application and OS virtualization
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Hearing you in the vicinity of the Data::Dumper namespace just reminded me that I'm long overdue in sending thanks for creating Data::Dumper::Simple. It's one of those modules that just happily motors into place when required, does its job without any fuss, and produces exactly what I want to see.
So... thanks,
Thanks you! It's always good to get feedback about what people do and don't like about my code (especially the "do like" bits). Since it's based on a source filter, I was given a bit of grief over its creation, but I'm pleasantly surprised by people's reactions to it. My favorite is woman back in the States who tells me that she can never hate me because she uses Data::Dumper::Simple so much that it would make her mad every time she programs
Ovid and the women…
Regrettably, any woman with even the remotest interest in me seems to be doomed to live in a different country. I want to find this "Fate" guy and put the boot in a few times.


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CONCORD, N.C. — Kurt Busch had a quiet offseason where he didn't have to worry about his future nor sponsor appearances.
In other words, a perfect offseason.
Busch will drive for Furniture Row Racing this year, the team he joined for the final six races of 2012.
MORE: Kurt vs. media | Bowyer-Gordon feud | Harvick-Childress | Danica happy
The 2003 Sprint Cup champion posted top-10 finishes in each of his final three races, giving him something to look forward to during the offseason.
That was a far cry from a year ago, when Busch spent December being released by Penske Racing and then scrambling to find a ride for 2012 while trying to convince people that his temperament would not be a liability as it was at Penske.
"It's been very relaxing and it's been very rewarding to finish the season like we did last year going into an offseason that was just calm," Busch said. "It was quiet — I guess the polar opposite of last year's offseason on how exciting it really was and how unsettled it was.
"So this year it was a lot of time with family."
For 2012, Busch eventually landed at underfunded Phoenix Racing but with the eyes of the sport watching him to see whether he would implode again and allow his temper to continue getting him into trouble.
It did. He was placed on probation in May for driving recklessly through Ryan Newman's pit stall at Darlington, and then suspended for one race for berating a Sporting News reporter. But his talent — he has 24 career victories — and ability to possibly boost the single-car Furniture Row operation was too great for the team to ignore.
Now the team and Busch are talking about a possible long-term contract. Busch said he could envision himself staying there beyond 2013, and team general manager Joe Garone confirmed those conversations already have started.
"I think we can (re-sign him)," Garone said. "It comes down to performance, how well the team works. … (Our experience so far) has been terrific to be perfectly honest. It has not been what people might think. It's been unbelievable.
"His dedication to driving the racecar and getting things right is truly incredible. I've worked with a lot of drivers, and there is not anybody in my world that I work with that is as focused and dedicated and talented as Kurt is."
For Busch, it could be the perfect situation with an owner who also is the sponsor (Barney Visser owns Furniture Row), giving Busch fewer people he has to worry about angering if he makes a mistake.
"For me, I've always committed and jumped in with the team that I'm with 100 percent and that's where I am in 2013," Busch said. "My name will pop up with free agency. It doesn't have to, though.
"We could stay right here at Furniture Row. These guys are committed. There could be something that comes down this summer that aligns Furniture Row Racing with Richard Childress Racing even more so."
One benefit for Busch would be possibly more calm offseasons.
"That was by design … to make it as peaceful and calm as we possibly could for Kurt," Garone said. "Being the owner and the sponsor for the car, we could cancel any sponsor appearances and commitments pretty easily.
"We tried to keep Kurt as work-free as possible to just relax a little bit."
Garone said they have primarily talked with Busch about competition rather than any sort of image makeover.
"Barney Visser says, 'Focus on the car. That's all I want you doing,'" Busch said. "So it's great to have the blinders on there and just sit there with the team and focus on nuts and bolts."
Busch knows what has gotten him in trouble in the past and knows he can change the way he reacts to things.
"I'm a passionate guy that has that desire to win and I won't cross the line to do things against protocol out on track," Busch said. "It's when those days happen and being able to absorb it and adjust to it. It's just that passion and desire shining through."
And how will he control that passion in tense situations?
"It would be like a vehicle going down the interstate and before if there were a situation that would come up, I would step on the gas pedal harder to get through it quicker," Busch said.
"Now I will actually ease off the throttle pedal, maybe even take an exit ramp, think about it and jump back on."
Garone believes that Busch can do just that.
"I know when we get six races into the season, depending on how things are going that can all change," Garone said. "That will be interesting to see. We're not wasting time worrying about it.
"It is something we've thought of … but the more that we've gotten to know Kurt and who he really is, we're not really thinking about it."


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Character Study
Kingsley Shacklebolt
A dedicated Auror. A hard worker. A doting husband?
Your task is to find a story, or a chapter, featuring Kingsley Shacklebolt and discover the roles and adjectives associated with this character. The questions you should ask yourself as you explore this character should be:
- What are his important characteristics?
- How does he react in different situations and what does it mean?
- What words would be used to paint his picture?
- How did the author help you draw your conclusions (ie, did the authors tone words/dialogue/descriptions play an important part in characterizing him)?
When giving your report, please include relevant quotes from the story you read to support your conclusion.
Do NOT use chapters from the Harry Potter series by J.K. Rowling. There are several stories on the Mugglenet Fan Fiction databases that feature this interesting character.
You may use outside sources, such as The Lexicon, for a guide if it helps you. (Heres the link to his rather short description)
Do not waste time giving us a physical description of Kingsley Shacklebolt unless there is some significant detail that helps in your conclusion.
A possible 20 points for a study of the character. One study per person please. Marauder by Midnight and myownmuggle will be the judges. We will look for:
- clarity
- creativity
- accuracy
- attention to detail
If a story already has a study done on it, to do a study on the same story, you must add more to your study. Because you have the ability to see which story already has a study done on it AND what that member has said about Kingsley Shacklebolt, find additional information and do not repeat what has been said.
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Originally Posted by #1(#2s report is what we like to see: more in-depth and more analytical)Originally Posted by #2
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Rangers stun Mariners with two-out pop
Murphy's three-run shot, Young's slam lead charge in Seattle
By T.R. Sullivan / MLB.com
SEATTLE -- Manager Ron Washington looked over his starting lineup several hours before Tuesday's game with the Mariners. He had Vladimir Guerrero and Josh Hamilton in the lineup together for the first time in four games. He had David Murphy starting in left field. "That's our offensive lineup," Washington said. "We need to get this offense going and score some runs." The Rangers did just that, all with two outs, and Murphy started the onslaught. Murphy smashed a three-run home run in a five-run fifth inning as the Rangers rallied for an 11-6 victory over the Mariners at Safeco Field. The Rangers had scored just five runs in their last three games. "It's only a matter of time," Murphy said. "This offense is too talented to be held down for long. We've faced some decent pitchers but we're going to have to beat those guys to get in the playoffs. Every offense goes through struggles but it was good to see us break out." The Rangers trailed, 5-2, going into the fifth inning before striking against Mariners pitcher Doug Fister. Michael Young, who is in the lineup every night, added a seventh-inning grand slam that helped the Rangers snap a two-game losing streak. "We made some adjustments, which is good to see," Young said. "Early on their starter was throwing the ball well. But we made some quick adjustments, which made me pretty happy. Now we've got to keep it going." The Rangers now have an eight-game lead over the Athletics and a nine-game lead over the Angels in the American League West. Scott Feldman, making his first relief appearance since being moved to the bullpen, earned his first victory since June 18 with two innings of work. The Rangers' fifth started when Elvis Andrus was hit by a pitch. He went to second on Young's single, to third on Hamilton's fly to center and scored on a wild pitch. With a runner on second, Guerrero blasted a drive to the deepest part of the park but Mariners center fielder Franklin Gutierrez reached over the wall to take away a two-run home run. The reprieve was only temporary. The Mariners, forsaking matchups, decided to have Fister, a right-hander, intentionally walk Nelson Cruz, a right-handed hitter, to face Murphy. The move backfired as Murphy, swinging from the left side, crushed a 1-2 fastball deep into the right-field bleachers for a three-run home run. "I guess I'm not going to lie, that lit a fire under me," Murphy said. "With your competitive nature, you never like to see a guy walked in front of you. If anything, it just locked me in a little more." Singles by Cristian Guzman and Bengie Molina off of Fister and a base hit from Mitch Moreland off of Chris Seddon brought home the fifth run of the inning. Rangers starter C.J. Wilson struggled through his shortest outing of the season, lasting only three innings. He gave up four runs on six hits and four walks while striking out three. Wilson walked three in the first inning and the Mariners took a 2-0 lead on a two-run single by Jose Lopez. The Rangers tied it in the third on three straight two-out hits: a single by Hamilton, an RBI double by Guerrero and a run-scoring single by Cruz. But the Mariners struck back on a two-run home run by Michael Saunders in the third inning. Wilson, trailing 4-2, didn't come back for the fourth.
"It was really two different ballgames for us," manager Don Wakamatsu said. "Early in the ballgame we did a lot of things right, especially getting the pitch-count up on Wilson. I think we had 109 [pitches] at the end of four innings."
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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How studying natural disasters can help us plan for future ones
Were you one of the many people who got stuck in an airport when the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull erupted in 2010? It wasn't a major eruption, and it happened a long way from the heart of Europe. But it cost society an absolute fortune by paralysing air traffic across northern Europe.
According to Felix Riede, an associate professor of prehistoric archaeology at Aarhus University and the project manager of the Laboratory for Past Disaster Science, global warming and the increasing frequency of natural disasters constitute a huge challenge to modern society, which has a heavy infrastructure and increasing population density. Until now the solutions have involved expensive state intervention and technology-aided approaches, but Riede believes that the past contains a wealth of unexploited resources which could also provide solutions.
"The problem facing research into natural disasters is that they are so infrequent that it's hard to get statistically significant samples and draw up any general rules about how such events influence society. But if we extend the scope of our chronological perspective to include the deep past, we can find far more samples and data material to study."
Felix Riede currently has a manuscript being reviewed by the journal "Natural Hazards", in which he outlines ways of using data from the past to predict future scenarios. He uses a novel comparative approach.
"Unlike much of the research done previously, which studies either individual events or many different societies and events, I propose a more formalised method known as 'natural experiments of history'. As in laboratory experiments, you try to keep your parameters identical so you can spot the influence of each individual parameter on the outcome of your experiment. We measure purely geological parameters, but we also measure vital factors such as economic, technological, religious and social parameters as well," explains Riede.
Three of the specific examples that he has compared are the volcanic eruption in Iceland in 2010, a volcanic eruption that took place in Central America around the year AD 536 (which also affected European society at the time), and a volcanic eruption 13,000 years ago near Lake Laach in Western Germany. The idea involves using the events of the past to produce a model of potential future events both in Europe and around the world.
"Combining data from the three eruptions enables us to develop a variety of scenarios. The Icelandic case shows us how much damage a relatively small eruption a long way from the heart of Europe can cause. What would happen if there was a new eruption in Central Europe like the Lake Laach incident? What would the consequences be for modern society? The Lake Laach volcano is still active, and it's right next to the Rhine, which plays a major role in the European economy. The region is also densely populated, and there are lots of nuclear power stations on both the French and German sides of the river. I doubt whether they are built to cope with this kind of worst-case scenario. There's only a small risk of Lake Laach erupting again, but the Icelandic eruption clearly revealed how fragile the system is in principle."
Volcanic eruption photo via Shutterstock.
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Discussion in 'General Pro Player Discussion' started by david aames, Mar 13, 2004.
or is it just that he doesn't know about Tournagrip XL?
Lots of one-handers wrap that way. Saves on expenses, since you can get two wraps out of one grip. Then, even if they advance and make pro money, they stick with it because they're used to it from the days when money mattered.
Well why grip what you never touch anyhow.I did it years ago and stopped becuase I much prefer to keep leather cleaner.
Looks like Luxilon Big Banger Original to me...
And, I quit buying the XL. Why wrap what you never touch? It's cheaper to buy the regular 30-packs.
Just noticed that his PD+ doesn't have the writing of the stock model on the inside of the throat...
Rabbit, you're a good man. With your reasoning, America would be a better place (or at least one with less SUVs).
I think the main reason they do this is because it takes less time to unwrap it and re-wrap a new one on a change-over.
Corretja might be doing it again to cut costs, as the prize money isn't exactly rolling in these days...Oh yeah, the endorsement money, right.
Good point david. It's just one-handed backhand, he's been doing it for years, it's much quciker to rap, so why change.
And ya, Moya, Robredo, and Corretja all definately use Big Banger original. They never straighten their strings even though their spin is insane, and it's got the tannish whatever color that only original has to it.
Forget about the Tournagrip, what's the deal with wearing the wristband all the way up near the elbow? That just looks plain strange. Almost looks like a tennis elbow band. Maybe it's to counterweigh the half overgrip? :lol:
LOL Break, I think that's just more for the style. Also, why does he wear one of the left wrist when he has a 1 handed backhand?
It's all just style I think, and maybe he wears it higher up to not mess with his wrist movement if it was on top of the wrist lets say.
I think Corretja wears the one near his elbow on his hitting arm so it won't interfere with the wrist at all. It really does feel more normal for me to wear a wristband above my wrist instead of right on my wrist, it just feels very different. If you wear it above the wrist, you get the benefits without being hindered or feeling different. He also may just like the way it feels up there, let's face it not everything in tennis is logical.
@wright, this may really sound illogical but from experience wristbands around the wrist and forearm seem to trap heat. Like a tight sweater or wrap. They keep sweat from dripping down your arm but with tournagrip or those Yonex grips, are sweatbands necessary?
I'd say they are Ronaldo, because with too much sweat, the overgrip still can't absorb all of it and will take a moment or 2 to absorb it all and seem dry again. Also, with wristbands, you can use them to wipe the sweat off your face and out of your eyes much easier than going to the towel.
for starters i believe he uses the pure drive in standard length.
second, his racquets are completely custom. the only similarities between his racquets and the ones you can buy are the shape of the racquet the paint job(sort of), and string pattern(probably, hard to tell).
his racquets are rediculously heavy compared to an off the shelf model.
brijoel, that frame sure as heck looks a lot like a PD. It's got the big fat frame, skinny throat bridge, and rounded throat. It's obviously a PD, whether it's a plus or not, or a modern version or the old 1998 or whatever is u[ for grabs. I personally think that it is a pure drive plus due to the extreme length of the grip, and it's not wrapped up very high on the throat either.
He obviously adds tons of weight on the thing, probably in the handle and under the bumper, but otherwise it's a PD I bet. Moya uses a 1998 PD with just like a pound of lead hidden under the bumper.
just because it looks similar doesnt mean it isnt a custom frame still. i also never said it was a totally different mold, so dont put words in my mouth just yet.
take a look at that site. you can even contact them and ask if the shape of the frame changes when they make that particular frame heavier. ill bet you a whoooole lotta money it wont change the frame shape.
whether you believe many pros can get custom MADE racquets or not is of no concern to me because it's common knowledge they get it done all the time.
in terms of length...everywhere ive looked states it is the standard length model, but once again, that is not to say he doesnt have a custom frame.
the paint job is obviously from a current model, YET AGAIN....it's just a paint job!!!
The Babolat site have a list of the tour players using their frames and Corretja is listed using the PD+. And from the grip length I'd say it's a PD+
I know about custom frames and paintjobs but Babolat is usually credited for being on the conservative side of the fence on the matter.
Moya is know for playing the non woofer PD so this frame is definitely a paintjob but their other players including Roddick are supposed to use stock frames. The lead tape at 3 and 9 on Roddick's frame could be hidden by the paintshop if they wanted to enhance brand visibility for instance... and it's not.
I believe Susan, in a different thread was mentioning the fact that Nadal is now using a new Babolat model soon to be available in stores. It'd be interesting to see up close the difference with the old frame he was playing with (a PD if I remember well).
David aames is right, brijoel what are you trying to prove???I think we can all agree that it started life as a PD, + or not, and it is still a PD, albeit with the balance changed and lots of lead. We can argue all day about what "custom" means. To me, starting with the stock racquet and changing weight and balance are very acceptable compared to what most of the companies are doing. The PD is hard to fake one way or the other because it is so damn wide in the hoop and so narrow at the throat. It looks like a howitzer, and you can't take a .22 and make it look like a howitzer, just like you can't take a howitzer and make it look like a .22.
For young beginners, Alex uses the PD+
It does have the writing inside of the throat, it's just not on both sides.
I have writings on both sides of the throat of my 2003 PD+ frames.
I have 12 babolats. It's only on one side.
All PD right? The PD+ have writings on both.
Corretja uses the 27.5 inch version of the PD, that is fact. I used to be sponsored by Babolat and asked the team manager at that time what Alex uses, and you can also tell its 27.5 easily just by looking at it.
guys relax, lol..... for whatever reason i looked at the picture and thought MOYA.....dont ask me why, lol. yes, corretja uses the PD+, i apologize for that part in stating it was standard. my mistake!!!
i wasnt trying to PROVE anything, i was simply stating it is not a big deal for manufacturers to simply increase weight in a racquet without changing shape. i never once said he had the width, or shape changed, you all said that yourselves.
~hands out chill pills~
Seems like a whole lotta shtuff to try to prove that point....
Seriously dude "His racquet's are completely custom" is a lot different than "weight is added to change the weight and balance.
incase you didnt know stiffness can aslo be changed as well as flex in different areas, and IMO completely changing how a racquet feels is completely custom.
so if you are done barking up my a*s now..... relax man. i tried letting it go on a decent note but im sorry you have a different meaning than i did for one freakin term, sheesh.
Didn't mean to get all over your ass, but you made all these big claims before about how his racquet is like impossible for you or I to make, then just blew it off as adding weight to change balance, which can be easily done by almost anyone.
no no.....i meant the actual manufacturer increases the mass of the actual materials used into the mold. not simply adding lead tape....
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Funding mandatory full-day kindergarten
Senate Bill (SB) 469, which would make full-day kindergarten enrollment mandatory not later than the fall term of the school year in which the student becomes five years of age. Sen. Tallian says it is time to require and fund full-day Kindergarten in a way that is long-term and sustainable.
"Legislators have made early childhood education a priority for several years," said Sen. Tallian. "But until now, legislators have skirted funding full-day kindergarten. So it's about time we take that step."
The state currently provides funding for half-day programs and does not require students to attend kindergarten. SB 496 will finally require students to attend full-day kindergarten prior to entering first grade and allow pupils to be counted as full students for funding purposes.
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Sen. Tallian has also filed a bill to increase insurance benefits for employees who are injured on the job. Worker's compensation is an insurance program in which employers pay a premium to cover benefits for employees in the event of a workplace injury. With worker's compensation, an employee gives up the right to sue an employer for "negligence" or "fault" in exchange for assured but limited coverage. Every state has some form of a worker's compensation program. SB 470 would increase the weekly amount of worker's compensation benefits accrued by an injured person from $975 to $1,170.
"The legislature raises the benefit level periodically, but this has not been done for years," explained Tallian. "Indiana now provides some of the lowest compensation benefits nationally."
Sen. Tallian has filled a version of this bill every year since entering the legislature in 2006, but the bill has never been heard in a Senate committee. She continued, "It's about time."
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SB 580 would lessen the penalties for possessing small amounts of marijuana in Indiana. Following extensive testimony and review during a 2011 study committee, the proposal's goal is to reduce criminal penalties for personal possession of small amounts of marijuana. The impact could also mean less state and local criminal justice resources spent on marijuana-related arrests, prosecution and sentences.
"We lock up our children. We give them criminal records. We waste valuable court time and a lot of state money to maintain this prohibition, " said Sen. Tallian. "As we all know, prohibition does not work."
The bill would make possession of less than two ounces of marijuana a Class C infraction, decriminalizing the possession. If a person possesses more than two ounces or has two or more prior marijuana convictions in the past five years, the person may be charged criminally, although, the penalties are reduced from current criminal statute. The also bill specifies penalties for driving while under the influence of marijuana and authorizes the licensed cultivation and production of industrial hemp.
"Whether we're talking full-day Kindergarten, worker's comp, or marijuana policy- it's about time for the legislature to seriously consider these proposals," continued Sen. Tallian.
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When I try installing from RH 6.1 pcmcia.img (the updated version), and I select NFS install and then look at alt-f4, I see this:
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The Texas Rangers did not reach an agreement with catcher Geovany Soto by tonight's 11 p.m. deadline and have non-tendered him. Soto is now a free agent, although the Rangers are still hopeful of bringing him back.
The Rangers also did not offer 2013 contracts to infielder Brandon Snyder and right-hander Jake Brigham. There is a possibility that the Rangers could re-sign both Snyder and Brigham to minor league deals.
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Texas acquired Soto from the Chicago Cubs at last season's trade deadline for Brigham. The Rangers and Cubs reworked the deal earlier this offseason by switching right-hander Barret Loux for Brigham.
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Zynq Design From Scratch
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"For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them." -- Aristotle
I've started a new blog series titled "Zynq Design From Scratch." I will tell you more about this in a moment, but first let me set the scene. I started blogging in 2006. The following is what I wrote in my very first blog:
I have decided to start my own blog. I have a lot of spare time after leaving my job at Ericsson, the telecommunications company. They gave me 18 months pay so I will stay afloat until I find something else to do. My plan is to start my own company and do consulting work in ASIC and FPGA design. I never wrote a diary in my whole life but the prospect of having hundreds of readers makes it more thrilling. I will write about everything that happens in my life from running the marathon to building my own wine cellar. I will write in English although my mother tongue is Swedish. I would like to make contacts all over the world not only in Sweden. That is why I named my blog "New Horizons". Welcome to my blog!
I started by writing some blogs about my private life, like a trip to Spain and running the New York Marathon, but I never really felt comfortable writing about myself and my family. I was too much of an engineer after almost 40 years in the electronic business. So I began to look for other subjects to write about and came up with idea of writing about FPGAs. I called my blog "FPGA design from scratch," and the following is what I wrote in my first entry:
I have been designing ASICs for more than 15 years. A few years ago I started to realize that there is another player in town and that is the FPGA circuit. With increasing NRE costs and with the long turn-around times, ASIC designs have become high-risk projects. At the same time FPGAs are getting bigger and faster and many companies have therefore decided to only use FPGAs. I also realized that I have to learn how to design using FPGAs, if I were to get any consulting jobs, especially here in Sweden. This is my story of how I hopefully will learn to use FPGAs in my future designs.
Meeting with Max
I was writing my FPGA blog throughout 2007. I spent hundreds of hours on it and started to get more and more readers. In August 2007, Clive Maxfield at EE Times wrote an article about my blog, and all of sudden I had 500% more readers. This was the beginning of a friendship that lasts to this day (in 2012, we actually got to meet face-to-face when Max was invited to give the keynote presentation at the FPGA forum in Trondheim, Norway. (See Just call me Max the Viking!) At the end of 2007, I got a job as an FPGA designer (thanks to my blog), with the result that I had no free time for blogging for the next few years.
Restarting my blog
Looking back, it seems like five years simply disappeared, but in August 2011 I restarted by blog with a new entry titled "FPGA design from scratch: Part 51." It probably won't surprise you to hear that it didn't take long for Max to find out about my new blog, and in September 2011 he wrote a new column about my blog in Tutorial: Designing an FPGA from scratch Its like déjà vu all over again!
And now, it is time for a new déjà vu (didn't somebody just say that?), because I have started a new blog called Zynq design from scratch. Almost a year ago I received a parcel by post from America. When I opened this parcel, I found the box shown in the following image:
The ZedBoard was a present from someone involved in promoting the new Zynq device from Xilinx, but with no strings attached. At that time, I was busy working as an ASIC designer and had no time to play with the board. It wasn't until December 2013 that I had a chance to unpack the box and power up the ZedBoard.
Fortunately, around the same time that I was powering up my ZedBoard, I received an email from Per and Andreas at Silica (Avnet) here in Stockholm, in which they offered a one-day hands-on training class on the Zynq-7000 using the ZedBoard (this was part of the Xilinx Speedway Design Workshops).
This training session gave me the head start I needed. I went home and started to play with my ZedBoard. As part of this, I decided to start writing my new blog, and here we are. If you've read my "FPGA Design From Scratch" blog then you will feel at home. I will follow the same overall concept and describe the whole design flow in an easy-to-understand fashion. So far, I have put together 20 sections, as shown below, and I will continue to add more in the coming weeks and months:
- Introduction
- Zynq-7000 All Programmable SoC
- ZedBoard
- Computer Platform
- Installing Ubuntu
- Fixing Ubuntu
- Installing Vivado
- Starting Vivado
- Using Vivado
- Lab 1. Create a Zynq project
- Lab 1. Build a hardware platform
- Lab 1. Create a software application
- Lab 1. Connect to ZedBoard
- Lab 1. Run a software application
- Lab 1. Benchmarking ARM Cortex-A9
- Lab 2. Adding a GPIO peripheral
- Lab 2. Create a custom HDL module
- Lab 2. Connect package pins and implement
- Lab 2. Create a software application and configure the PL
- Lab 2. Debugging a software application
I would very much like for my new blog to be interactive and not just a one-way document. Thus, I invite you to visit my blog, ask questions, make comments, and offer suggestions for topics you would like to see me cover.
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