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Berlin. Germany's would-be coalition partners have agreed to drop an ambitious plan to lower carbon dioxide emissions by 40 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, two sources told Reuters on Monday (08/01) -- a potential embarrassment for Chancellor Angela Merkel.
Negotiators for her conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) told Reuters the parties had agreed in exploratory talks on forming a government that the targeted cut in emissions could no longer be achieved by 2020.
Instead, they would aim to hit the 40 percent target in the early 2020s, the sources said, adding that both parties are still sticking to their goal of achieving a 55 percent cut in emissions by 2030.
The deal would represent something of a u-turn by Merkel, who has long presented herself as an advocate for climate protection policies on the international stage.
The parties also agreed that the share of renewable energy in Germany's electricity consumption should rise to 65 percent by 2030 from roughly a third currently, the sources said.
Currently, the government plans to raise the renewable energy quota to between 45 and 55 percent by 2025.
The two sides want to stick to an already-agreed climate protection deal which foresees a commission to submit plans for an exit from coal-fired energy by the end of the year, the sources said.
Tax Cuts
Merkel's conservatives and the SPD also agreed to raise the threshold for the top income tax rate of 42 percent to 60,000 euros ($72,000) a year from a current 53,700 euros, another source said.
Her Christian Democrats (CDU) and their Christian Social Union (CSU) Bavarian allies promised tax relief during campaigning for September's election and the initial agreement to raise the bar indicates the SPD is willing to compromise.
Sealing a deal with the SPD to renew their "grand coalition," which has governed Germany since 2013, is Merkel's best chance of securing a fourth term in office after the election weakened both parties.
Monday's compromises mark a small step in the talks, however, as the would-be partners still have to bridge major differences on immigration, the future of the European Union and the economy.
Second Time Lucky?
Merkel, whose first attempt to form a coalition -- with the Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) -- failed in November, said on Sunday at the start of five days of talks with the SPD that the negotiations could succeed.
Members of her party sounded similarly upbeat on Monday.
"Yesterday, we worked very factually and we did well," said Julia Kloeckner, a senior member of the CDU. "We are aware of the fiscal limitations and we are optimistic."
SPD leader Martin Schulz has vowed to put any agreement with the conservatives up for a vote by party members, many of whom are opposed to another coalition of the two largest parties in parliament.
The SPD want to improve the rights of workers and scrap Germany's dual healthcare system of premium private care and more widely accessible public care, replacing it with a single "citizen's insurance."
They also oppose a plan by the conservatives to extend a ban that expires in March on family reunifications for some asylum seekers.


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Kota Bharu, 25 August 2017 – In an effort to raise awareness on kidney disease and encourage organ donation, the National Kidney Foundation Malaysia (NKF) has launched the Regional Unit in Kota Bharu, Kelantan.
NKF's public education department healthcare professionals are stationed at the unit to provide easily accessible information which includes mobile health screening, health talks, health exhibitions, road shows and activities.
The guests of honour present at the launch ceremony were YB. Dato' Dr. Ramli Bin Mamat, Exco of State Government cum Chairman of the People's Wellbeing, Health, Environment and NGO Committee, and Y Berusaha Mr. Maniam Raman Chettiar, Member of NKF Board of Directors-cum-Acting Chairman Patient Selection & Welfare Committee, NKF.
"I am very proud to be given the opportunity to officiate the launch for the public, not only in the city of Kota Bharu but also the entire state of Kelantan. I understand the workforce is prepared to provide public talks at conferences, schools, colleges, mosques and other public places to spread information on the cause of kidney disease, prevention and detection measures. We want to play a big part in reaching out and helping those in need for easy access on information that they require," said YB. Dato' Dr. Ramli.
"As the regional unit is now in Kota Bharu, we hope to do our part towards increasing public awareness on kidney disease, organ donation and improving the quality of life for kidney patients here in Kelantan," said Mr. Maniam Raman Chettiar.
During the launch event, there were various activities to engage closely with kidney patients and visitors such as free health screenings, colouring competition for children, fruit preparation and lucky draw.
The public can get from the unit first-hand information about kidney disease through health screening and health talks.
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PHOTO: View from our hotel window
The snow arrived! At least there isn't alot on the road,but am going to have to dig out some warm clothes for today.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Day 6- What We Woke Up To This Morning
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Support Women Artists Sunday: Lianne La Havas
La Havas was born in London, England to a Greek father and Jamaican mother. She was raised in Tooting and Streatham, spending the majority of her time with her grandparents following her parents' separation as a child. La Havas began singing at seven and cites her parents' diverse musical tastes as having the biggest influence on her music. Her mother played with Jill Scott and Mary J. Blige, and her father, an accomplished multi-instrumentalist, taught her the basics of guitar and piano. Lianne wrote her first song at the age of 11, but did not learn to play the guitar until she was 18 years old. Lianne attended Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls in Croydon, where she studied art A-level, and planned to take an art foundation course; however, she left college to pursue a career in music full-time. Although born Lianne Barnes, her stage name is an adaptation derived from her Greek father, Henry Vlahavas's, surname.
While attending sixth-form in Croydon, a friend of La Havas', singer and songwriter Allan Rose, (who attended the Brit School) introduced her to other musicians who assisted La Havas in the recording of her first demos. Through that same friend, La Havas was also introduced to British singer, Paloma Faith; she later sang backing vocals on tour for Faith. La Havas was co-writer and performer in 'The Paris Parade' alongside Christian Pinchbeck (who designed the artwork for Lost & Found) and also is now part of the duo 'Elephant' (Memphis Industries). They had a short career but it began La Havas' career in commercial music. In 2010, Lianne signed to Warner Bros. Records, spending two years developing her songwriting skills before releasing music publicly. At the end of 2012, Is Your Love Big Enough? was named iTunes Album of the Year.
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Xerox is one of the leading vendors helping companies manage their documents. Managing documents is more than just scanning documents, but it also includes workflow, permissions, and being able to integrate paper documents in the normal "digital process" of communications in a company. This includes employees, partners, customers and any others.
David Smith, vice president, DocuShare Business Unit, Xerox Corporation shares his insight about document (or content) management.
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Discussion in 'Domain Names & Parking' started by J0kerz, May 3, 2010.
What do you guys think?
I would definitely get Cocaine.co (sounds catchy as well)
Back to serious, .co is the cctld of Colombia and besides that, they should do a lot of marketing to outbid such a big .COM (commercial)
There is likely to be a huge opportunity here for typosquatters if large brands don't sunrise register their brands.
The percentage of people meaning to type apple.com and instead type apple.co is likely high all things considered.
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Rockstar Games announced today that Max Payne 3 will be ready this winter. The "Success" of the movie has seemingly brought this franchise back to life. The last Max Payne was release in 2003 with a Metacritic review of 73% on PS2, 84% on XBOX, and 86% on PC. This is what Sam Houser had to say about the game:
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Danish municipality cancels supply contract over Western Sahara ties
The municipality of Gladsaxe, Denmark, has terminated a supply contract for de-icing salt due to its connections to Western Sahara.
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When the winters and snow hit the Danish roads, the municipalities need de-icing salt. The imports of salt from Western Sahara to Denmark has for a few years caused headlines in the country.
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Now, the municipality of Gladsaxe has announced terminating a contract with the controversial supplier, Dansk Vejsalt A/S. The full text of the decision of the municipality of Gladsaxe can be found on the
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The decision is translated to English by Western Sahara Resource Watch:
"13 January 2016, the municipality of Gladsaxe has canceled the contract of road salt deliveries from the company Dansk Vejsalt A/S. The termination takes place on the basis of a request from the association Afrika Kontakt, in which they informed that Dansk Vejsalt A/S had delivered road salt from Western Sahara and that the named road salt had possibly ended up in the municipality of Gladsaxe. Based on that request, the procurement department asked for an explanation and documentation from Dansk Vejsalt A/S. Despite Dansk Vejsalt A/S having presented documentation that the road salt would have originated from the Moroccan part (slightly north of the border to Western Sahara), it was upon the signing of the agreement essential for the municipality of Gladsaxe that the road salt in no way was to be associated to Western Sahara. Therefore, an extra payment was introduced into the contract so that the road salt was to originate from Sardinia. Dansk Vejsalt A/S has during the entire period of the agreement expressed that the deliveries originated from Sardinia, and has at no point in time during the agreement period contacted the municipality of Gladsaxe to ask for permission to have the road salt delivered from anywhere else. This applies also to the transports themselves, which the municipality of Gladsaxe have not been notified about, which constitutes a prerequisite in the agreement. In that regards, it is clear from the documentation that the road salt for the municipality of Gladsaxe has been shipped out from a harbour in Western Sahara. Furthermore, it is the same Moroccan leadership which has given permission for exloitation of sea salt on both sides of the border (Morocco and Western Sahara). Both these aspects show that the connection to Western Sahara is maintained".
The municipality follows other similar decisions in Scandinavia. A Norwegian state owned engineering company in 2014
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Issue 2 of Super8 out now and free, to those living in Milan.
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Avraham Cornfeld from Israel recently got in touch with some gorgeous work.
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New Intermediate Workbook Helps Readers Build GIS Analysis Skills
Redlands, California— June 08, 2009 —With the release of GIS Tutorial II: Spatial Analysis Workbook, ESRI Press has expanded its instructional workbook offerings to benefit geographic information system (GIS) users at the intermediate level.
Building on the basic skills taught in GIS Tutorial: Workbook for ArcView 9, GIS Tutorial II teaches readers how to perform spatial analysis using the tools in ArcGIS Desktop. Detailed, step-by-step procedures are included to guide them in a number of spatial analysis methods including comparison, overlay, density, proximity, statistical, temporal, distribution, pattern, cluster, autocorrelation, and hot spot.
Observes David W. Allen, author of GIS Tutorial II, "Spatial analysis is what distinguishes GIS from other forms of digital map representations. It's the problem-solving aspect of GIS, whether it's done in the viewer's brain or worked to a full conclusion on the map. The tools seem very basic—buffers, overlays, selections—but when combined in the correct sequence and symbolized sufficiently, they can reveal things about the data that can't be seen in a spreadsheet or chart."
Allen is the GIS manager for the City of Euless, Texas, where he designs data structures and custom applications from scratch. He has used his knowledge of GIS as an instructor at Tarrant County College for the past eight years, during which time he assisted in the development of a GIS degree program and worked to establish a state standard for GIS degree programs in Texas.
The exercises in GIS Tutorial II also provide practical application to the concepts presented in The ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis, volumes 1 and 2, which are previous ESRI Press publications written by Andy Mitchell. Says Mitchell, a senior technical writer at ESRI, "David Allen has produced an excellent volume to complement the ESRI Guide to GIS Analysis series—one that has long been needed. David's experience as a GIS practitioner, as well as an instructor, has led him to include exercise scenarios based on spatial analysis tasks that GIS analysts working in government and industry perform every day. The data used in the workbook is derived from real-world GIS datasets—with all their complexity—adding yet another level of realism to the exercises. GIS Tutorial II will be invaluable for anyone wanting to expand their knowledge of the extensive spatial analysis capabilities of ArcGIS."
Exercise data and a 180-day trial of ArcGIS Desktop 9.3 software accompany the book on two separate DVDs. GIS Tutorial II: Spatial Analysis Workbook (ISBN: 9781589482012, 424 pages, $79.95) is available from online retailers, at www.esri.com/esripress, or by calling 1-800-447-9778. Outside the United States, visit www.esri.com/esripressorders for complete ordering options or contact your local ESRI distributor. For a current distributor list, visit www.esri.com/distributors. Interested retailers can contact ESRI Press book distributor Ingram Publisher Services.
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BUFF® Trail Tour Finland is a series of seven most prominent trail running events in Finland. Its overall winners are regarded as the best trail runners in Finland. Results can be found here.
BUFF® Trail Tour aims at promoting trail running in Finland, building Finnish trail running culture, attracting new people to trail running and encouraging those who already enjoy running on trails to expand their pathways to new locations. Finland is such a beautiful country with thousands of kilometers of wonderful running trails that deserve to be run more frequently.
The main partner and long-time supporter of the series is BUFF®. Each event has a different Buff scarf every year. They have become real collectors' items that have to be earned through participation.
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6.5. Bodom Trail 21km
27.5. NUTS Karhunkierros, 53km
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15.7. NUTS Pallas, 55km
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7.10. Vaarojen Maraton / Marathon of Dangers, 43km
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The heart wants what the heart wants, yet somehow we're supposed to force relationships with the "right" people and stay away from the "wrong" ones.
Whatever that means!
It's taken me most of my adult life to stop apologizing for something that I do not control. I have no control over the connection I feel to some people and not to others, yet for some odd reason I'm supposed to feel guilty or feel like a bad person when I can't just force my heart to love.
I have a hard time with relationships. My problem is that I have this great big loving heart and I find it more painful to hurt others than to experience rejection myself. Many people would disagree, saying that I have no heart. Those are the people with whom I do not click…
I am a firm believer in "the click". I don't believe in love at first site. However I do believe in "clicking at first site". You know those people that you meet and instantly there is a connection, a kindred spirit so to speak.
Those people that make you feel like the air is being sucked out of the room, heart catching in your throat, knees getting a little shaky, that "oh my gosh I hope he can't sense my nerves" feeling that signifies you could be more than just friends. The ones you want to get to know better. The ones that might finally fill the void.
I trust my gut implicitly because it has yet to fail me. Anyone with whom I've had initial reservations has always proven in the end that I should've just stayed away. I think I'm strong because I trust my instincts. When a relationship ends, I can always look back and see where I ignored the tail tingling telling me it was best to walk away. And yes, I absolutely ignore it at times, but my tingly tail has never been wrong.
I have a different take on fate. I believe in fate, in the sense that it puts people into our paths. However, I don't believe that fate has anything to do with choosing to allow people into our lives. We're only fated to choose those whom we would allow in our hearts anyway. In a hundred lifetimes, there are those that I would find and I would choose anyway. Kindred spirits, soul mates will always find each other.
Moreover I believe with an enormous amount of conviction that we are only at peace in our souls when we are connected with the right person.
…and we don't choose who it is that brings that peace. Our hearts choose.
Until our hearts find that person we will be lonely, not necessarily alone, just lonely. I may be alone in this, but I'd rather be lonely waiting for the right heart, than feeling worse about my loneliness because I know I'm with the wrong one.
I'm not alone in my life. I could absolutely be in a relationship right now. I get offers frequently from absolutely wonderful men. I hesitate even to become friends because it often gets to that uncomfortable place where I need to say that the heart wants what the heart wants and I can't explain why my heart doesn't chose him. I don't want to cause anyone to hurt even if it's just for a moment, but trust me…
If my hands aren't shaking, my breathing isn't more shallow and my laugh isn't sounding a little more nervous, there's no click for me…
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"We had about as good a weekend as you can have," the San Diegan said after posting a 5.79-second, 254-mph qualifying run, then winning the title with four runs between 5.77 and 5.81 seconds in the eliminations.
"All our runs were also over 250 (mph)," White said. "Chuck Neal did a great job putting the engine together."
"The Reunion is the Indy of nostalgia drag racing," White said. "Winning this event for the first time is one of the highlights of my career."
Nostalgia drag racing is one of the NHRA's fastest-growing divisions, with cars built to classic designs. White's Top Fueler is a front-engine car built in 2006.
"We run smaller blowers and do other things to keep costs down while giving the fans a touch of drag racing history," White said.
San Diegans Ken Rappaport and Ely Safford were eliminated in the third round of Nostalgia Eliminator I at Bakersfield. Rappaport finished second in the final season standings.
Amidon finished second in the season's final race in his '34 Ford Sedan. Santee's Matt Hicks was third in the race.
Santee's Fred Chavez finished third in the final standings with Catania fourth and Brian Tyczki of El Cajon seventh.
In addition to winning the Orange Show title, Amidon finished eighth in the Legends standings at Toyota Speedway despite running a limited season. He had six top-five finishes in 10 starts on the Irwindale oval.
San Diego's Eric Gunderson finished second in the final Legends standings at Irwindale and won three races with two second-place finishes during the season.
Fleming was fifth in the Late-Model Stock division, where he had one win and one runner-up finish during the season. Hebner finished fifth in the King Taco Super Trucks division, where Poway's Joe Herrold finished 11th with two wins and three seconds despite missing five races.
Santee's David Beat and Hicks finished 11th and 13th, respectively, in the featured Super Late-Model division. Former Santee resident Stephen Peace finished fourth in the final standings.
Santee's Dalton Kuhn finished seventh in the Pro Truck class with a win and a runner-up finish in four of the six races he started.
El Cajon's Dee Cable is fifth and former track champion John Manke of Ramona is 14th after run-
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Billy Franks was the lead singer and songwriter for "The Faith Brothers", whose two albums and six singles all made the UK chart. Billy has since released six solo albums to critical acclaim. Last summer he released a charity single in partnership with his friend, Prince Harry, to raise money for the Prince's African charity Sentebale.
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Billy Franks lifetime dedication to his craft says it all. "Billy has devoted his entire life to song writing. He has given so much to others through his music. Dedicating ourselves to a project that would honor him was a no brainer on our part," said Mick McCleery. (Director of Tribute This!)
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Under new management and a new name the Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park is open for business and getting ready to host its first national event.
More than half a million dollars worth of improvements has gone into the track so far and there's more to come. The new management team says they've got a vision for what the facility can be and they're excited to bring it to life. Since April of 2013 the track has received a new PA system, a new drag strip, new seating for spectators, and soon there will be a new scoreboard.
The improvements haven't gone unnoticed. When Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park opened for Friday night drag racing this month they broke a record with nearly 500 cars in attendance and 1,500 spectators.
"With Speedworld closing last year we became the only drag strip in the Phoenix-metro area," said Paul Clayton, managing partner for Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park. "With both tracks closing, which was the rumor last year, a lot of people were extremely relieved that we were able to put this team together."
Gila River Indian Community's Sun Valley Marina Corp. has hired Coppertrain Development to oversee the motorsports park. The team includes Dick Hahne, former Daytona Motor Speedway vice president, as track president and Bill Schneider, who has owned and operated drag strips in the Midwest in a management position.
"I have a little bit of experience in drag racing — about 50 years," Schneider said. "I was fortunate enough to be drug out of retirement and help create what I think is going to be the premier track in the country. We've been given a wonderful opportunity… We've spared no effort and no cost to make this the best track we could possibly make it. We're doing well."
Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park will receive national attention Feb. 21-23 when it hosts the National Hot Rod Association Nationals (NHRA). Racers were invited out to test the new track during a press conference on Feb. 4.
"Our team is ready to go and what an exciting time to come out to the beginning of a new track on the Gila River Indian Reservation," said Allen Johnson, former Pro Stock world champion. "It's exciting to watch what they're doing with the track. We've always wanted this track to come to a different level and I think it's going to do that and has already made a lot of progress. I can't wait to get here in a couple weeks and compete for the title."
The NHRA event is unique in that all spectators have access to the locker room and the pit to meet the drivers. The event also showcases several different types of cars.
The track was formerly known as Firebird Raceway and is located at 20,000 S. Maricopa Road in Chandler. For more information on the track or to purchase tickets to the NHRA event, visit www.racewildhorse.com.
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Left Behind . . . Forever?
Marvin Moore
An airline pilot relaxes in the cockpit
as his Boeing 747 flies over the Atlantic toward London's Heathrow airport. But at
the moment his mind isn't on flying. It's on his gorgeous senior flight attendant, for
whom he feels a powerful physical attraction.
What you just read is a summary of the opening
scene in a Christian novel that has now been turned into a film. Both the book and the
film are called Left Behind. And both have been making waves in conservative
Christian circles in recent months. 1
These two verses describe Jesus coming in the
clouds "with power and great glory." His appearance at that time will be visible
to the entire world, including the wicked, because "all the nations" will see
Him and the wicked "will mourn." His coming will also be audible: He will come
with a loud trumpet call. This is the time when God's people all over the world will be
gathered together to live with Jesus. There is no way this can be anything other than the
Second Coming.
For an event that's not supposed to be audible
or visible, what 1 Thessalonians describes is very noisy: "a loud command,"
"the voice of the archangel," and "the trumpet call of God."
1While the hook Left Behind was published several
years ago, interest in it has surged as a result of the recent release of the film and the
publicity associated with it.
· Marvin Moore is editor of Signs of the TimesMarvin Moore is editor of Signs of the Times®.
http://www.signstimes.com/ · March 2001 · Signs of the Times® p. 8, 9.
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40. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Keisersozze Apr 28, 2012 12:22 PM (in response to Benjamin Warde)
Still having problems unfortunately with RC2 using Nikon D90.
When set to Raw+jpg I only get Raw imports. If set to only Raw or only Jpeg formats(fine, normal, basic) files are imported without problem. I tried different sd cards after formating them again.
41. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Jim Wilde Apr 28, 2012 1:37 PM (in response to Keisersozze)
What setting have you selected in your Preferences for "Treat JPEG files next to raw files as separate photos"? It sounds as though you have it unchecked, which means that only the Raw half of a Raw+Jpeg 'pair' will be imported (Lightroom will know about the Jpeg, but just references it as a sidecar file to the Raw). You need it to be checked if you want to be able to see and process both halves of the pair.
42. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Keisersozze Apr 28, 2012 2:03 PM (in response to Jim Wilde)
Thanks Jim! That solved it. Strange that it came unchecked.
43. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4grw001 Apr 29, 2012 8:04 PM (in response to Benjamin Warde)
I just imported 523 images with the RAW + Fine JPEG setting on my D700's selected. No issues, all photos imported. I feel the undocumented feature has been corrected.
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44. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Benjamin Warde May 31, 2012 12:19 PM (in response to nvsravank)
This issue has been fixed in Lightroom 4.1, which is now available. To download the 4.1 update, go to the Help menu in Lightroom and choose "Check for Updates".
45. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4dudeeg Sep 10, 2012 2:32 PM (in response to Benjamin Warde)
I cannot import raw files directly from 5D mkII to LR4.1 ([829322]). LR only offers to import the jpg files, but the raw files are not there. I have some pictures shoot in jpg, and some in raw (but not like jpg+raw)
Canon's software imports them without any problem.
So the workaround works (downloading with eos utility first), but this is not really convenient.
Any ideas?
46. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Boompapa Nov 19, 2012 11:59 PM (in response to Benjamin Warde)
I have a hard drive reaching capacity. Before I realized I should have done this using LR, I used Finder to move roughly half the files (about 22,000) to a different drive. I then imported those files and folders into LR. Everything looked good, until I looked and saw anywhere from 1-250 files in the dozens of folders, when there should be more like 200-700 files in each folder. The files exist on the drive, but I can't get LR to import them.
I use the Synchronize function on a test folder, which indeed detects that there are hundreds of files to import, so I click OK. Synchronize does its thing for awhile, and then I get the error window "No photos or videos were found to import."
I click the Import button and direct it to the proper folder...I see the images checked that are missing from the catalog and need to be imported...I click Import. Import does its thing for awhile, and then I get the error window "No photos or videos were found to import."
FYI, I did go into the preferences and clear the cache.
The files are there; LR sees them; LR will not import them. What gives?
47. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4SingerGeza Nov 20, 2012 12:14 AM (in response to Boompapa)
I am reacting to your post without dooing any research. However just intuitively am wondering if this might work. I would test it on just a number of pics instead of thousands.
Try creating a new catalog from the missing lot. The try imprting from the new catalog to the old one.
Hope it works.
48. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Victoria Bampton LR Queen Nov 20, 2012 1:12 AM (in response to Boompapa)
Boompapa wrote:
I have a hard drive reaching capacity. Before I realized I should have done this using LR, I used Finder to move roughly half the files (about 22,000) to a different drive. I then imported those files and folders into LR.
Take a step back. You don't want to import them into LR as fresh photos. Since they're already in your catalog at the previous location, which should now have question marks against them, you now need to 'find missing folder' on those previous folders and point them to the new location. If you remove and reimport fresh, you'll lose all of your settings.
So look at the Folders panel and find the 'old' location of those photos. Are there question marks? If so, great. If not, why not - perhap they're still on the old drive.
Assuming there are question marks and all of your old settings are still attached to the old location, we're all set. You can remove the newly imported photos on the new drive, and then right-click on each of the old missing folders and find missing folder to the new drive.
If anything doesn't make sense, please ask. And back up your catalog first, just in case you make a mistake.
49. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Boompapa Nov 20, 2012 12:07 PM (in response to Victoria Bampton LR Queen)
I removed the photos from the catalog after moving them to the new hard drive, so no, they're not showing up as images with question marks.
I moved them to a new hard drive, and them did a mass import so LR could see that drive and the files on it. LR seems to have imported all the folders, but only imported random smatterings of images. When I try Synchronize, it sees the images missing from the catalog, I click OK, it works and works, and then I get an error message saying no images or videos were found to import. Same thing happens when I use the Import button.
FYI, I did go into the Prefs and clear the cache.
I do have a Catalog backup, but it's six days old (I know, I know) and it won't suffice to re-load that and lose all the work I've done since.
50. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Victoria Bampton LR Queen Nov 20, 2012 12:15 PM (in response to Boompapa)
Ok, when you go to Synchronize, check the Show Import Dialog checkbox - and then in the Import dialog, uncheck the Import Suspected Duplicates checkbox. Don't actually import them, but see if they become available at that point. If they do, the photos are still in the catalog but at a different location - which would be good news.
When you remove the photos from the catalog, you lose all of their settings and any work you've done on them. That's obviously bad news! I'm pleased to hear you have a catalog backup, as we may need it to rescue all of the metadata for the moved photos. The work you've done since - which photos does that affect? The moved ones or a different set?
51. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Boompapa Nov 20, 2012 5:29 PM (in response to Victoria Bampton LR Queen)
First, Victoria, Thank you for your help :-)
I'm going to use one photo session (and its folder) as our example. Right now, LR shows the parent folder for this session, as well as the "Edited" subfolder. The "Captures" subfolder is missing entirely. When I attempt to Synchronize or Import, it does see the missing files. At first, after I uncheck the box about suspected duplicates, it shows 655 files to be imported. The PSDs and JPEGs (the edited images located in the Edited folder) are grayed out so I cannot select them, and only the CR2 files are checked.
All the XMP files were copied with the CR2 files onto the new hard drive, and I see them there in the folder using Finder.
Using catalog backup isn't a tenable route for me, as I'd lose all the work I've done in the past 6 days since backing up, and I have the working XMP files right here...I just need to figure out why LR doesn't want to play.
52. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Victoria Bampton LR Queen Nov 21, 2012 1:02 PM (in response to Boompapa)
So with 'don't import suspected duplicates' checked, the CR2's are unavailable?
If so, write down one of the filenames. Go back to Library module, select All Photographs and then do a text search for that filename. If it thinks it's a duplicate, they're in the catalog somewhere, so it would be good to find them.
And then some screenshots would really help, as I'm getting muddled between your cases and 8 other similar cases I'm currently working on.
53. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Paul SLS Nov 23, 2012 4:54 PM (in response to nvsravank)
I am using LR 4.2 on a Mac Pro, Lion OS. When I connect memory cards from my canon P&S or canon DSLR and try to import, the import dialoque automatically selects the card as the source. All looks fine in grid mode, but when I try to switch to the single image (loupe) mode, all I get is a TINY thumbnail - smaller than that shown in the grid mode.
A work-around for me is to go back to the source selection, click on the card, then click on the DCIM/folder that the images are in. When I do this and then go to loupe mode I get full size images. It seems like there are perhaps some thumbnails stored on the card the LR4 trys to open but cant - and it doesnt look in the proper folder to find the full-sized images.
54. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Boompapa Nov 26, 2012 12:48 PM (in response to Victoria Bampton LR Queen)
Hopefully this sheds some light:
Putting aside everything I said earlier, moving files and being LR not finding them. Here is something fresh that popped up, and I'm sure has to do with the overall problem I'm facing: I had a shoot this weekend, days after posting here. I saved some web-res images to a folder on my laptop's HD. LR doesn't see those web-res files until I Synchronize that folder. Now, with this new LR issue, when I click Synchronize Folder, it recognizes that there are files there, but then I get the same old error message, "No photos or videos were found to import." I can see the files there in my finder, and LR sees them there in the Synchronize window; but it just won't import them. When I try this using the Import button, I see the files, but they are grayed out and unselectable, even when I uncheck "Don't Import Suspected Duplicates." [AMENDMENT: I went back an unchecked the Don't Import Suspected Dupes box and saw that I was able to select and import the file that would not show up when I was using Synchronize. I clicked Import, and LR did indeed import the file, as it showed me in the Import window (you know, the temp folder it shows you for the files you recently imported, regardless of where they were imported to). However, when I navigate to the folder where the image should have been imported to, it is not there. In fact, I used Finder to search for that image, and it is nowhere to be found, either on my laptop, or my portable hard drive where it should be...this is making no sense whatsoever...]
To be clear, this is an incident that is independent (but related) to the issue I stated above, about moving folders to new hard drives and LR not recognizing them. I'm posting it because it's definitely related, and because this issue is happening without the whole "moving files to a new hard drive" snafu. This is happening with new files created with Photoshop and saved to my local HD, and LR seeing them but refusing to import them.
LR is failing me!!!
55. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Boompapa Nov 28, 2012 2:08 PM (in response to Boompapa)
And out of nowhere, Synchronizing starts to work...
56. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4areohbee Nov 28, 2012 2:53 PM (in response to Boompapa)
Boompapa wrote:
And out of nowhere, Synchronizing starts to work...
It's all made from dirt (with the help of air, water, fire, and human ingenuity of course) and there are still bugs in it...
I don't suppose this miraculous recovery could have been the result of:
1. Restarting Lightroom, or
2. Restarting Computer
could it?
57. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Boompapa Nov 28, 2012 5:42 PM (in response to areohbee)
Believe me, I did both of those things...I'm just glad it decided to work today...
Thanks for all the help everyone!
58. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4areohbee Nov 28, 2012 5:49 PM (in response to Boompapa)
I had to ask. - even with much experience, I sometimes forget to reboot when computer is acting wonky.
Anyway, Lightroom and computer can sometimes auto-correct when things gets too far out of alignment, whatever that means.
Only thing is: sometimes problems that go away by themselves, come back by themselves .
Glad it's working now,
59. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4dbvirago1 Dec 21, 2012 1:27 PM (in response to Benjamin Warde)
I am having this error in v4.3. I have never had the problem before, including previous 2,3 and 4.x versions. Mine is when I try to syncronise a folder where I have moved files from outside LR. When I click Synchronise folder, it correctly counts the number of images to import. When I click Import, I get the error, no photos found. These are all jpgs. I have restarted LR and am still getting the error.
Have also restarted computer and optimized catalog. Also tried a single jpg, a raw file, and a dng file, all same results.
60. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4katemac02 Aug 23, 2013 1:57 PM (in response to Benjamin Warde)
I have LR4.3 and I'm still having this issue. I go to sync a folder; LR sees what needs to be imported (e.g. 5 photos). I hit "ok" and then the next prompt says "No photos found". Any ideas how I can fix this?
61. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4dbvirago1 Aug 23, 2013 2:29 PM (in response to katemac02)
No still happening to me, and as you can see, support never responded. Hope it's fixed in LR5. It never happened in v2 or 3.
62. Re: Issues with Import in Lightroom4Victoria Bampton LR Queen Aug 24, 2013 12:05 AM (in response to katemac02)
Click Show import dialog before importing checkbox, and then uncheck the Don't show suspected duplicates checkbox in the File Handling panel of the import dialog and see if it'll let them import. The 5 that are showing up in the Synchronize dialog are probably before the duplicate checking has run.


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DJ Kittens, the hottest new turntable group, just turned out another banger on the faders. Check out the hit single entitled Cat Scratch Fever (Fleamix).
In an exclusive interview with LedgerNote, lead kitten MC Fluff-E-Nuff had this to say:
The inspiration for the Fleamix came when our roadie Tapeworm said "I'd rather rock a killer case of the fleas than have to wear and smell one more of those janky flea collars." It hit me like a can of wet cat food.
We immediately started assembling our gear, knocking the dust off the cross-fader and kicking the litter off of our paws. We knew DJ Kittens was back in the game.
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(This post got away from me a bit, but I was super annoyed…so enjoy the rant.)
Richard Dawkins kinda annoys me.
No wait, let me honest here.
I might find it really difficult to not punch him right in the face if I met him in person. I wouldn't do it, but boy would I be tempted.
Especially after this.
Fairy tales and believing in Father Christmas could cause children harm.
This is according to controversial biologist Richard Dawkins who warned an audience at the Cheltenham Science Festival about the dangers of make-believe.
In typically incendiary style, Dawkins suggested it was 'pernicious to instil in a child the view that the world is shaped by supernaturalism.'
The 73-year-old acknowledged that the appeal of fairytales lay in their magic but believes they may be causing more harm than we think.
He also questioned whether we should let children believe in the myth of Father Christmas at all.
'Is it a good thing to go along with the fantasy of childhood?,' he said. 'Or should we be fostering a spirit of scepticism?.'
I honestly do not know what I would have done with my childhood without fairytales and fantasy novels feeding my imagination. In fact I don't know where I would be today in my personal or professional life without these things.
I read voraciously as a child and a teenager, most of it fantasy and fairy tale based. I was never hugely interested in science or mathematics, but English and history classes, anything where the story of an event was the most important part, I excelled in. This was what kept me going to school and turned me into someone who loved learning, rather than someone who cut class and flunked out.
My love of fiction, fantasy and fairy tales especially, also taught me a great deal about right and wrong, ethics and morality, peer pressure, hope, and loyalty.
The fact that my parents read to me when I was a child and took me to the library as often as I wanted (where I devoured fantastical stories about fairies and knights and dragons) gave me a love of reading and writing that has made me a better student and a better person.
The point of fairy tales and fiction is not to lie to our children. The point is to expose them to ideas and other cultures, abstract ideas that a child is simply not equipped to deal with in reality until they are older, virtues that will help them grow into strong adults, and lessons that teach our children, early on, how to avoid the pitfalls of adulthood by showing them that actions have consequences.You can claim fairy tales are old fashioned, sexist, or too "supernatural" all you want, but takes a very narrow minded view of what the themes and ideas of these stories are, not to mention a really low opinion of children's intelligence. I have yet to meet an adult whose mind was so addled by fairy tales as a child that they could not differentiate between fantasy and reality as an adult. There is nothing wrong with fostering imagination and fanciful thought in a child. There is no reason why we must spend every second a child's formative years smashing their wonder and imagination and telling them they aren't allowed to believe in fairy godmothers or women with hair long enough to climb because it doesn't foster a spirit of skepticism. Where does this even end? If fairy tales are bad for fostering an acceptance of magic, then what of A Mid-Summer's Nights Dream or A Christmas Carol, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings? What of the dozens of pieces of classic literature, hailing from your country and the histories of a half dozen other empires? Are they not appropriate for children either? Childhood ends soon enough (and children who love reading, whether they love Hans Christian Anderson's Fairy Tales or A Brief History of Time, fair better than children who do not) and it takes a very sad person to want to end the magic of childhood early.
Look, Dick, I get it. You had a really screwed up childhood. I've read the stories about how a teacher molested you and how your prep school years were full of being bullied. Your childhood sucked and, even though it appears you can't see the damage it did, it did leave scars. I feel bad for you, all feelings of wishing to punch you right in the nose aside, I really do wish your childhood had been better.
No child deserves to have things like that happen to them.
But that doesn't give you the right to stomp all the joy out of other children's lives and try to smash every bit of wonder and imagination out of the world, because you think fairy tales are "pernicious lies".
I think maybe you don't have the frame of reference necessary to decide what is or is not harmful for childhood development. Perhaps, if you stopped thinking you are better and smarter than everyone else for a second and consulted a child psychologist or the parent of a child (or, better still, an actual child) on the importance of fairy tales, you might find you don't know everything and you might just be wrong about something.


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Kelly Chandler-Olcott is Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Education at Syracuse University. A former high school English and social studies teacher, she now teaches English methods and content literacy courses to secondary and K-12 education majors. With support from the National Science Foundation, the International Reading Association, and the Spencer Foundation, she has published five books and more than 60 chapters and articles, including in such venues as Reading Research Quarterly, Journal of Literacy Research, Journal of Teacher Education, and Teacher Education Quarterly. Her research interests cluster in three areas: classroom inquiry by teachers, literacy across the curriculum, and preparing professionals to teach writing in diverse, inclusive settings. In 2015, she began a six-year appointment as co-editor of Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.


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With first child set to arrive, Bo Levi Mitchell is putting down roots in Calgary
Decades from now, when you're reading a story about Ele Mitchell and her prowess on the LPGA Tour, it will mention how her father used to play professional football. Then you can say you heard it here first.
If Bo Levi Mitchell could imagine the future for his yet-to-be born daughter, it's as a champion golfer. The Calgary Stampeders quarterback would like nothing more than to be the second coming of Earl Woods and create a phenom in women's golf.
"I'm probably not as good as Earl Woods," Mitchell said with a laugh. "I will probably have to pay somebody to teach me.
"We're looking forward to whatever life brings us and whatever Elie wants to do once she comes of age. I'm going to nudge her towards golf."
This is a big month for Mitchell as he and wife Madi await the arrival of their first child. The reigning CFL most outstanding player also turned 27 on Friday, which now officially puts him into his late 20s.
It used to be that 27 was the time when a CFL quarterback started entering his prime years, but "Henry changed all that," Mitchell says, referring to the recently retired Burris, who went out on top as a Grey Cup champion at age 41.
Considering what Mitchell has accomplished already at his young age, it would be remarkable to think about what he could do if he was to emulate the likes of Burris or Anthony Calvillo and play until middle age.
Mitchell is following Burris' path in some respects though, as the franchise's leading passer started his family in Calgary a few seasons into his tenure as the team's No. 1 quarterback. Last season, Mitchell used Burris as inspiration to up the level of his fitness during the long CFL off-season, so the smiling one is a good model to follow.
With a newborn arriving in the next week (Madi Mitchell is due March 8), Mitchell's life will undoubtedly change drastically. He and Madi are already preparing for that though, and they vow the same amount of work will be put into football as there was in previous seasons.
If anything, there is even more drive and motivation behind Mitchell's work now. He has a family to provide for, and he knows the best way to do that is to keep working towards his goal of becoming one of the best quarterbacks in the history of the CFL.
"We have to work together in order to make sure we handle it," Mitchell said. "I need to lend a hand whenever I can. She's already said she understands I have a job to do and a lot of focus has to go into that. I will definitely be changing the first diaper when I wake up at 4 to go to the stadium.
"We will figure it out from there. Nothing is going to change in my football life. You can't do less preparation. I have always been a big believer that once you have a kid your main focus should turn to them and improving their lives as much as you can. That's going to come a little later when the baby is older."
Mitchell is excited about what has happened with the team this off-season. The team resigned his favourite target for the past few years, Marquay McDaniel, and retained many of the core players while adding a few pieces here and there. After a 15-2-1 season, there was bound to be some losses, and the major one was left tackle Derek Dennis leaving for the Saskatchewan Roughriders in free agency. Mitchell wishes Dennis well, but now the Stamps are moving on without him.
"He deserved it," Mitchell said. "There's always going a guy or two each year that heads to free agency and has a big year before they hit the market. They are going to go out and get a paycheque. That's what some guys live for and what some guys play the game for.
"Other guys play to stay loyal and win games. That's what I'm looking to do and that's the same with the guys who are still here."
There aren't too many quarterbacks who come into the CFL and have the type of instant success that Mitchell has had. He has the record for best winning percentage to start a career, has an MOP, a Grey MVP and taken his team to a title. That all happened before he turned 27.
Only the likes of Ricky Ray or Warren Moon did so much early in their careers. Us on the outside can reflect on his accomplishments, but Mitchell prefers to look forward. And he would like nothing more than to continue the run the Stamps have been on the past few seasons, and play as long as possible in this same organization.
"I have so much more to go," Mitchell said. "It will come from the guys who are around me. If we keep adding to the group around me and allowing our offence to evolve, then our entire team will be dangerous for a lot of years. That's the hope and the plan.
"You want to start and end your career in one place. You look around and it doesn't happen for a lot of guys out there. The chips have to fall in the right place obviously."
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xoxoxoBruce Thursday Mar 18 12:23 AM
Mar 18, 2010: Freefall... 23 miles
That's right, 23 miles, over 120,000 ft, is what Felix Baumgartner is planning to do, with the help of Red Bull, Joe Kittinger (the current record holder), and a bunch of veteran NASA/USAF/Aerospace people.
This is very risky business, and takes more than big balls.
I wish him well.
gvidas Thursday Mar 18 01:03 AM
'Good Music on Youtube' crosspost: the track 'Dayvan Cowboy' by Boards of Canada has a music video which the first third or so of is built out of footage from Project Excelsior. Gorgeous and amazing.
xoxoxoBruce Thursday Mar 18 03:17 AM
Watching gvidas' video, I noticed there was a video of Joe Kittinger telling his story, with video of his jump.
Antimatter Friday Mar 19 05:30 AM
Is it just me or is somebody flicking Mr. Kittinger the bird @6:02?
Griff Friday Mar 19 06:54 AM


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News Archive
Comic updates
I'm sure everyone seen new rules in the profile and agree that they are reasonable.
Hopefully we'll finish demon arc by the end of june and move over to the next arc.
The next arc by popular demand is a beach/pool party so prepare your swim trunks :]. The arc may have to be prepared and may have a bit of twist XD,but that has yet to be fully decided.
Any new authors are advised to atleast prepare their intros as the next arc will start soon after the end of the curent one. Or they can join us at the new location :]
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Fall Juried Members Exhibition 2017
Exhibition: November 18, 2017 to January 27, 2018Reception: Saturday, November 18 from 2 to 4 pm
| Family Portrait (Three of Us #4),
Gagik Aroutiunian
The Whistler House Museum of Art is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition, the 2017 Fall Juried Members Exhibition. The show will run from November 18, 2017 to January 27, 2018. An opening reception will be held on Saturday, November 18, from 2 to 4 pm in the Parker Gallery.
The Lowell Art Association, Inc. (LAA) is the oldest incorporated art association in the country. In this year's Fall Juried Members Exhibition, see works from the artist members of the LAA in a range of subjects and mediums. The works of art featured in the exhibition represent both modernist and traditional methods and aesthetics.Through paintings, drawings, sculpture, fiber art, printmaking, and photography, experience the world through varying perspectives in this exciting new show.
Jack Holmes
Chrysanthemum and Maple Leaves,
Lynne Mehlman
Juror John Avakian selected 90 works from more than 250 submissions by over 110 artist members of the Lowell Art Association. The works will be judged on such criteria as technique, composition, perspective, and originality.
Avakian graduated from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (SMFA) and went on to obtain a BFA and an MFA from Yale University, majoring in painting and minoring in printmaking.
Avakian has taught graphic design and fine arts at the SMFA, Paier College of Art, and Northeastern University, where he received a letter of recognition for "15-years of dedicated and effective teaching". He is currently a member of the Monotype Guild of New England, Boston Printmakers, New Haven Paint and Clay Club, and the Whistler House Museum of Art.
In 1991, after a long hiatus from painting, John focused his energies on a new and exciting media: monotypes and monoprints as a means to reintroduce himself back into the art making process. This was accomplished by years of experimentation, combining various monotype techniques, inked materials as well as etching, drypoint, chine collé, and collograph methods, and finally a paper-litho method of transferring images and text to paper that is unique and rare in its usage in the printmaking communities, and unparalleled in its development of transferring images to paper.
The content of John's work covers a wide range of subjects, including a series of investigations in abstract experimental imagery sometimes combined with mythical forms, powerful sociopolitical and existential themes, family legacy, the Armenian Genocides, large-scale portraits, symmetry as beauty and mystery, and the infinite changing form of the cosmos.
Avakian's work has been shown in 37 group and 7 solo shows, and has been highly praised, receiving 15 awards and prizes. He most recently received the Weiss Sisters Prize for best print in the New Haven Paint and Clay Club in 2014. In 2016, he was awarded a lifetime honorary membership from the Monotype Guild of New England, of which Avakian has been a member of for 11 years and on the board for 5 years. In February of 2016, a catalog of his series of works on the Armenian Genocide was published by the Thompson Gallery, entitled John Avakian- If I Begin to Cry, by Todd Bartel.
"Every year we are getting more impressive fine works of art from the ever-growing artist membership of the Lowell Art Association, Inc.," says President and Executive Director Sara Bogosian. "Everyone should come and experience the wide variety of works that are a part of this new and exciting show."
|Stone Row House # 1,
John Brickels
The Portrait Experience: Lisa Kovvuri
Exhibition: September 9 to November 4, 2017
Reception: Saturday September 9 from 2 to 4 pm
Known for her portrait, figurative and still life works, Kovvuri's paintings are characterized by a direct painting approach that is carried through to a refined finish with sensitively considered detail. Skilled draftsmanship and a keen eye for subtlety have earned her a national reputation for rendering images with a genuine realism and feeling of natural poetic ease on canvas.
Lisa Kovvuri received her BFA degree in printmaking in 1991 from the Cleveland Institute of Art. She began to seriously pursue painting after moving to Sacramento, CA in 1999 where she joined a figure painting group and began exhibiting her work in juried exhibitions and
galleries in the area.
Kovvuri, a member of the Lowell Art Association Inc., has exhibited works nationwide. Her exhibitions include Oil Painters of America; Salon International; The Salmagundi Club, NY;
The Bosque Conservatory, Clifton, TX; Academy of Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA; and the
Massachusetts State House, Boston, MA. The Whistler House Museum of Art is pleased to exhibit this collection of beautifully crafted portraits.
Image: "Leslie", Lisa Kovvuri.
The Portrait Experience Through Photography: Adrien Bisson
Learning to expose, develop, and print photographs as a teenager, Adrien spent hours making photographs of his surroundings in rural New Hampshire. Before long, he was shooting for and getting published by two local newspapers. At the same time, he was developing an interest in music, eventually studying trumpet performance at Berklee College of Music. He received a Bachelor of Music degree, magna cum laude. Since then, he rekindled his interest in photography. He has built a commercial and editorial photography business and has maintained his passion for creating and showing his artistic work.
Artist Statement: "In my portrait work, my goal is to make a connection with my subject. Creating images of a person is a process; we collaberate to create something that is part them and part me. Ideally, my images will engender a feeling or a mood in the viewer, even if those emotions are a projection of their own. My work must have an esthetic quality that attracts me as well, so my photographic style and approach is fairly traditional, using both film and digital cameras."
Image: "Caity Pitts", Adrien Bisson.
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Brent crude oil hit a three-month high on Wednesday, reaching $115 a barrel after better-than-forecast European data spurred optimism over the global economy, despite disappointing U.S. economic growth figures.
The market held its gains after the U.S. Federal Reserve announced it would continue its $85 billion monthly bond buying, and hold interest rates near zero until unemployment falls to at least 6.5 percent.
Brent crude rose nearly half a percent to trade just shy of $115 a barrel on Wednesday morning, its highest since Oct. 16, 2012. U.S. oil also rose about half a percent to trade a hair below $98, in the wake of the U.S. Energy information Administration released data showing crude inventories rose more than forecast last week, as refined products fell.
(Read More: Economic Optimism Growing on Wall Street)
Euro zone economic sentiment improved more than expected across all sectors in January, rising for the third month in a row in a sign that the economy could be emerging from a low point in the fourth quarter of 2012.
U.S crude oil inventories jumped 5.95 million barrels in the week to Jan. 25, the EIA said in its weekly report. Analysts had forecast a 2.6 million barrel crude build.
Brent crude is up 3.5 percent this month, its biggest gain since August, but lagging behind equities, with the U.S. S&P 500 up about 5.7 percent.
The European Commission's economic sentiment index rose to 89.2 points in January from 87.8 points in December, against market expectations of an improvement to 88.2.
Brent crude is up 3.5 percent this month, its biggest gain since August, but lagging behind equities, with the U.S. S&P 500 up about 5.7 percent.
Filip Petersson, an SEB analyst in Stockholm, pointed to likely relative weakness for oil in coming months because of a fairly well-supplied oil market.
"Oil has followed risk assets higher, but we think it's strong versus the fundamentals, with production cuts needed from Saudi Arabia due to strong supply from OPEC," he said.
Investor sentiment received a boost on Tuesday after U.S. home price data showed prices in November rose more than 5 percent from a year ago - the biggest increase since August 2006, when the housing market was starting to collapse.
Tempering gains, the U.S. economy unexpectedly contracted in the fourth quarter, suffering its first decline since the 2007-09 recession as businesses scaled back on restocking and government spending plunged.
The focus, however, is now on the Federal Open Market Committee's (FOMC). The Fed stated it expects to keep short-term U.S. interest rates exceptionally low to support the economy.
The low rates have helped to push up oil prices, with investors pouring cash into riskier asset classes.
(Read More: Better Enjoy the Market Rally While You Can)
China Lift
The short-term oil outlook was also buoyed by optimism about growth acceleration in China.
January factory activity in China is expected to have expanded at its fastest pace in nine months, according to a Reuters poll ahead of official PMI data on Friday, adding to signs that recovery momentum is building as domestic demand strengthens.
The rebound in China's growth is expected to continue until the second quarter before fading in the second half, though an economic rebound elsewhere towards year-end is likely to sustain global growth rates for the year, said Jeremy Friesen, a commodities strategist at Societe Generale in Hong Kong.
Supply risks from the Middle East also supported oil prices after activists said at least 65 people were found shot dead with their hands bound in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Tuesday in the near two-year revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
U.S. crude stocks rose by 4.2 million barrels last week, the American Petroleum Institute (API) reported on Tuesday.
Crude stocks at Cushing fell by 15,000 barrels, according to the API, while gasoline stocks rose by 2.4 million barrels and distillate stocks fell by 1.8 million.
Analysts had expected U.S. crude stocks to rise by 2.6 million barrels, according to a Reuters survey ahead of weekly inventory reports from the API and the U.S. government's Energy Information Administration (EIA).
The EIA weekly inventory report is due later in the day on Wednesday.


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Normal systolic and diastolic values on a blood pressure chart read below 120 and below 80 millimeters of mercury, respectively, according to the American Heart Association. The systolic value measures arterial pressure as the heart beats, while the diastolic value is that of arterial pressure as the heart is resting.
Higher than normal readings on a blood pressure chart may indicate prehypertension, hypertension or a hypertensive crisis depending on their values, explains the American Heart Association. Doctors usually take several readings and, if the results confirm the condition, start the patient on a treatment plan that includes medication and lifestyle changes.


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The pencil roll, designed by Pink Chalk Studios, is categorized as a 2- to 4-hour project. Whatever! It's more like a 2- to 4-year project! Back then, I had a humble stash, virtually no scrap collection (an essential for creating a project like this), and zero confidence in selecting fabric. So I started from scratch, and it took a darn long time to come up with the necessary 24 colors to coordinate with the colored pencils. Like, it took so long that a project I intended for my niece and nephew became a project for my own son—by the time I curated the collection of fabrics, my niece and nephew were too old for a pencil-roll gift.
You, of course, would not have that dilemma. I know you've got a great stash and a burgeoning scrap pile—so there's probably no need to cut into your yardage anyway.
If you decide to tackle this project, may I make a suggestion? Crank out four or five of them assembly-line style. That's how I got mine. I made five of them for my son and his buddies. Recently, when going through my yet-to-be-gifted pile of projects, I came across the fifth one and knew I needed to hold onto it for myself. Glad I did. : )
In addition to finding it in Last-Minute Patchwork and Quilted Gifts, you can also get this pattern directly through Pink Chalk Studios (that one includes a smaller 12-pencil version, too).
I'm linking up this post to Finish It Up Friday and TGIFF!
Update: I'm also joining the fun over at Stitch by Stitch's Anything Goes Monday for the first time!


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