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Wednesday, February 13, 2013
Obama hints in his 2013 State of the Union address that he might approve the pipeline; Greens promote the 'Green New Deal' and say environmental groups must stop allowing Dems to take support for granted; Obama's "executive action" to curb climate change won't work if he keeps promoting more oil and gas production
Green Party response to the 2013 State of the Union, with 2012 presidential nominee Jill Stein (Green Party Livestream) http://livestre.am/4l4JE / http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus / http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0wUkBNWOBc
Green Party members and friends will gather 11:30 a.m. on Sunday at the carousel in front of the Smithsonian Institution Building (Castle) on the south side of Mall, at 1000 Jefferson Drive; #ForwardOnClimate Rally begins on the Mall (northeast corner of the Washington Monument) at noon: http://act.350.org/signup/presidentsday
Green Party Speakers Bureau: Greens available to speak on climate change http://www.gp.org/speakers/speakers-GlobalWarming.php
WASHINGTON, DC -- The Green Party of the United States has formally endorsed a protest outside of the White House planned for Sunday, February 17, against the Keystone XL Pipeline. Greens from all over the U.S. plan to travel to Washington, DC, to participate in the event.
The demonstration has been initially proposed and planned by 350.org and the Sierra Club (http://350.org/en/stop-keystone-xl). The goal is "for thousands to form a massive human pipeline, and to tell the President that we expect leadership on climate change, beginning with a rejection of the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline." Arrests for civil disobedience have already been reported at the White House (http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2013/02/13).
The Keystone XL tar-sands pipeline would carry 800,000 barrels a day of the dirtiest oil on earth to U.S. ports for export. Green Party also opposes the proposed Enbridge pipeline, which would carry Canadian tar-sands oil to the coast of Maine.
The resolution was introduced by the Green Party of New York and passed by the Green Party's National Committee on February 10 (http://gp.org/cgi-bin/vote/propdetail?pid=695). Both the Canadian and U.S. Green Parties are on record opposing the pipeline:
President Obama hinted in his 2013 State of the Union speech on Tuesday that he may be willing to approve the Keystone XL Pipeline, when he promised safer pipelines: "I'm also proposing a Partnership to Rebuild America that attracts private capital to upgrade what our businesses need most: modern ports to move our goods; modern pipelines to withstand a storm..." (The mention of ports is also relevant, since the pipelines' destinations, along the coasts of the Gulf of Mexico and Maine, indicate that the oil is meant for export to foreign markets rather than for domestic energy independence.)
"While President Obama addressed climate change in the speech, he advocated market-based solutions, with continuing profits for industry and more growth. The U.S. will not be able to address the climate crisis adequately as long as the White House and Congress keep insisting that corporate profits and unrestricted growth must come first. Any effort to prevent climate disruption will be undercut by President Obama's 'all-in' energy policy, which means more fossil-fuel production and consumption," said Darryl! LC Moch, co-chair of the Green Party of the United States.
"There are ways to boost the economy while reducing the climate threat -- such as the job creation program laid out in the 'Green New Deal' (http://www.jillstein.org/green_new_deal) advanced by 2012 Green presidential nominee Jill Stein and other Green candidates. Until such a program is enacted, and until environmental groups stop allowing Democrats to take their support for granted, no such solution will be possible. Instead of praise for President Obama's delays in announcing a decision on the pipeline, we need increased public pressure and a promise of political consequences if the pipeline is approved," said Mr. Moch.
Tar Sands Blockade is a coalition of Texas and Oklahoma landowners and climate justice organizers using peaceful and sustained civil disobedience to stop the construction of TransCanada's Keystone XL tar sands pipeline (http://www.tarsandsblockade.org). On October 31, 2012, Dr. Stein was arrested in Texas for trying to deliver food and supplies to Blockade participants.
The proposed multi-billion dollar 1,700 mile Keystone XL pipeline would connect the tar sands oil fields in Alberta, Canada, to refineries in the U.S. The pipeline would pose a threat to the Ogallala Aquifer, water source for many millions in the US.The tar sands deposits are the second biggest pool of extractable carbon on the Earth.
Northern Alberta, the region where tar sands oil is extracted, is home to many indigenous populations. Important parts of their cultural traditions and livelihood are coming under attack because of tar sands operations.
See also:
"Green Party urges national protest against the proposed Keystone XL and Trailbreaker pipelines"
Green Party press release, January 31, 2013
"Five Executive Actions Against Climate Chaos: What the President Should Announce in State of the Union Speech"
Center for Biological Diversity press release, Common Dreams, February 11, 2013
"Pipe Dreams? Jobs Gained, Jobs Lost by the Construction of Keystone XL"
Report by Cornell University Global Labor Institute
Green Party of the United States http://www.gp.org
Green candidate database and campaign information: http://www.gp.org/elections.shtml
News Center http://www.gp.org/newscenter.shtml
Speakers Bureau http://www.gp.org/speakers
Ballot Access Page http://www.gp.org/2012/ballot-access.html
Video Page http://www.gp.org/video/index.php
Green Papers http://www.greenpapers.net/
Discussion Forum https://secure.gpus.org/secure/GreenPartyForum
Google+ http://www.gp.org/google
Twitter http://twitter.com/gpus
Livestream Channel http://www.livestream.com/greenpartyus
GP-TV Twitter page http://www.gp.org/twitter
Facebook page http://www.gp.org/facebook
Green Pages: The official publication of record of the Green Party of the United States
The Green Party of the United States :: PO Box 75075, Washington, DC 20013 :: email@example.com :: 202.319.7191

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Video: Sennheiser MM Series Headphones
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Eric from Sennheiser dropped by to take us through the Mobile Music series of headphones. The MM series offers a wide variety of headphones for listening on the go.
Video Transcript
Hi. Eric with Sennheiser. I'm here at Crutchfield with the industry's best and brightest talking about our new Mobile Music series of headphones. Let's take a closer look.
This series is comprised of the on-the-ear designs and around-the-ear designs, but also noise-canceling and non noise-canceling variants. All these models have a few things in common, and that's the integration of Bluetooth. You can use these headphones wired or wirelessly, but when using them with Bluetooth, such as with your mobile phone, you can stream music, carry on a phone conversation, and also manage your playlist, start stop music, answer in a phone call, all from the ear cup.
Now the MM 400, which I have in my hand, is an on-the-ear foldable design with a rechargeable battery that you can charge anywhere in the world, or via USB. It has a sister called the MM 450. Again, you can use these wired or wirelessly. So this one cancels noise and also streams audio and does phone calls as well. Again, foldable compact size — perfect for your next trip or for use at the office.
So this is the MM 550. It has an around-the-ear design, but also features the noise-canceling circuit and Bluetooth functionality we just talked about. There's a version of this without the noise canceling called the MM 500.
Now all of these models have a designation of "X" at the end of them. The "X" stands for the apt or aptX codec. This is a great way to get audio over Bluetooth that sounds a lot like a wired connection. In fact, for most people it will be indistinguishable. It's hi-fi sound over Bluetooth.
That's the MM series, or Mobile Music series from Sennheiser. You can control your music over Bluetooth. You can stream audio over Bluetooth in stereo. Plus, you can carry on a phone conversation and be hands free from a smart phone. Thanks for checking it out.


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Show # 100!!! Way back on Groundhog Day, Feb. 2006, Seedlings began a podcast, which soon became a webcast. The show tonight is a look back and a fuzzy look into the future. Without edtechtalk and worldbridges we wouldn't be here.Join us as we have a conversation with Maria Knee and Wes Fryer and walk down a virtual memory lane.
The Links: Geek of the Week
Our first podcast:
Join Alice, Bob and Cheryl as we chat with Larry Ferlazzo. All his wonderful links are included in Geek of the Week! Thanks to the chat room, there is plenty of information to support Larry's chat, and all that is happening in the world of our PLN. Have a great Thanksgiving for all who celebrate. We will be back with show 100, Wes and Rachel Fryer, Dec. 2, 2010!
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The Geek of the Week:
Hello to show 98 with Kelly Tenkley from Colorado, talking with us about how she stays connected with her students now that she is out of the classroom!
Alice, Bob and Cheryl are all involved in the conversations with Kelly. You will be impressed. Oh, the chat room was on fire with some new folks here checking us out.
Tweets about "edtechtalk"
Do you have your EdTechTalk stuff yet? Did you know there are T-shirts, hats, coffee mugs, buttons, magnets, and tote bags available? They're all based on Wordle interpretations of the EdTechTalk Delicious tags.
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Russian spaceship with 3 aboard successfully docks with International Space Station
MOSCOW – A Soyuz capsule carrying three astronauts has successfully docked with the International Space Station, bringing the size of the crew at the orbiting lab to six.
Chris Cassidy of the United States and Russians Pavel Vinogradov and Alexander Misurkin traveled six hours in the capsule before linking up with the space station's Russian Rassvet research module. It was the first time a space crew has taken such a direct route.
The incoming crew will spend five months in space before returning to Earth.
Their mission began with a late-night launch from the Russian-leased Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan.


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I've been in the reading phase of internet sewing. I mean, I've been busy at reading your blogs but having no time to write. You around the world have so many interesting things to tell! I'm trying to avoid staying forever in front of my computer though, it takes so much time for even just checking all my big RSS list each day. Yes, it's lovely to know that there are many like-minded people on our planet indeed. However, maybe it's time for me to know that I shouldn't try to find them all. The thing is, I knew that for long. But it's a bit difficult to behave.
I've finished some small sewing projects. I like these two and I hope you find them interesting.
Venus skirt
pattern: Venus bustle skirt, from Tamanegi-kobo
fabric: off-white lace and pale grayish green wool jersey, layered as single fabric
Hatoto bag
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Janice Galloway
Janice Galloway lives and works in Glasgow. Her books include the novels The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1989), Foreign Parts (1994) and Clara (2002). She is also the author of three collections of short stories. This is Not About Me, a memoir, is published by Granta Books.


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A forthcoming paper (grateful nod to ICCI) in PNAS from Olivier Mascaro and Gergely Csibra presents a series of experiments investigating the representation of social dominance relations in human infants, and it's excellent news: we're special.
Social dominance can be inferred in a couple of ways. Causal cues such as age, physical aggression and size can tell us about the dominance status of an individual quite intuitively, so we can make a sensible decision about whether or not we get into a scrap with them. Another way we can establish this is to look for direct realisations of dominance, such as who gets the banana if two hungry chimps both want it; chances are, little Pan Pipsqueak isn't going to get a look in. In order to be useful, we also have to use this information to expect certain things from the individuals around us, so those representations have some property of stability across time that allows us to have those expectations. The question being explored in this paper is whether the representations we have are about the relationship between the two agents who want the banana, or the individual properties each of them has.
In a series of experiments using preferential looking time as a dependent measure, human infants (9 and 12 month olds) were exposed to videos of geometric figures exhibiting similar goal-directed behaviour. Then they would watch, say, a dominant triangle picking up the last figurative banana when the nondominant pentagon also wanted it. For expository purposes and posterity's sake, I have constructed an artist's impression of a dominant triangle and a subordinate pentagon in MSPaint (below, right):
I'm not just showing off my extraordinary artistic talent here; the good thing about these agents is that there are none of the cues like size or aggression that can give rise to the assignment of individual dominance properties. The task also doesn't indicate anything similar; it's just about who gets the desired object when there's only one left. In other words, the goal-directed actions of two agents are in opposition. After seeing a triangle beat a pentagon to an object of 'banana' status, 12 month olds looked for longer when they were then presented with an incongruent trial where the pentagon gained over the triangle. 9 month olds (understandably?) couldn't care less. So, on the basis of this social interaction alone, the 12 month olds were able to notice when something unexpected happened.
To rule out the possibility that this was just the result of some simple heuristic such as "when triangle and pentagon are present, triangle gets the object" and make sure the infants really were assigning some dominance, another experiment (with 12 and 15 month olds) showed the same test video of the two agents collecting little objects. This time, however, the preceding video was of the triangle dominating a little walled-in space that the pentagon also wanted to inhabit. The 12 month olds had no idea what was up, but the 15 month olds generalised from the first "get out of my room" interaction to the "I get the last banana" interaction. So, 15 month olds can extract, just from watching a social interaction, the dominance status of agents and can generalise that information to novel situations. So if a 15 month old watches you lose your favourite seat in front of the TV, they'll also expect you to miss out on the last slice of pizza, because you're a loser.
What we still don't know is whether they think your belly is inherently yellow, or if you're just a pushover when interacting with a particular person. Is it the relationship between the triangle and pentagon that the babies are tracking, or do they just give each agent some sort of dominance score? This was addressed in experiment 4, where infants were presented with two interactions: one between A and B, where A wins, and then another between B and C, where B wins. If the babies are assigning an individual value to each agent, they should have some sort of linear, transitive representation of dominance like A > B > C. If they're then presented with a novel interaction between A and C, they would have the expectation that A will beat C. So if they stare in surprise at a trial where C wins, we know it's violated that kind of expectation, and that they're representing this stuff linearly – I.E. each agent has a dominance value. In contrast, if the infant is tracking the relations between agents, they can't really have an expectation of what will happen when A and C both want a banana, because they've never seen C before. The results find that the infants look preferentially when they get an incongruent trial using agent pairs they have seen before – as we'd expect from the previous experiment. When they're presented with a new "I get the last banana" interaction between A and C, however, there's nothing startling about it when C wins – which means their expectations are not based on something like A > B > C.
The only tiny little harrumph I have about this result is that all it does is falsify the linear representation account. Though I think their account is absolutely right, it'd be nice to see something more predictive come out of the relation-representation hypothesis that is a little more falsifiable. But this result is pretty huge, and stands in contrast with what we know about social cognition in other animals like baboons (Cheney et al, 1995; Bergman et al, 2003), lemurs (Maclean et al., 2008) and even pigeons (Lazareva & Wasserman, 2012), who seem to employ this sort of hierarchical, transitive inference when presented with novel interactions. It may also muddy the waters a little when we want to make the appealing claim that, since language surely emerged in order to enable communication as we navigated a social environment, hierarchical social cognition gives rise to the processing of languagey things like hierarchical syntax or our semantic representation (Hamilton, 2005), which can be characterised as hierarchical (e.g. hyperonym > hyponym). If we consider the nature of the human social environment, though, it should seem more intuitive that something more reliable than simple transitive inference is necessary in order to successfully navigate through our interactions. Due to our prolific production of (and reliance on) culture, humans have a much more diverse range of social currencies, which correspond to values for things like money, intelligence, blackmail information, who your friends are, ad infinitum. That means it's pretty reasonable that our social cognition needs new strategies in order to get by; we have a little more to consider than just who's big and angry enough to get all the bananas.
Bergman, T., Beehner, J., Cheney, D. & Seyfarth, R. (2003) "Hierarchical Classification by Rank and Kinship in Baboons" Science 14(302), 1234-1236.
Cheney, D., Seyfarth, R. & Silk, J. (1995) "The response of female baboons (Papio cynocephalus ursinus) to anomalous social interactions: evidence for causal reasoning?" Journal of Comparative Psychology 109(2), 134-141.
Hamilton, D.L. (2005) Social Cognition: Key Readings (p. 104) Psychology Press
Lazareva, O. & Wasserman, E. (2012) "Transitive inference in pigeons: measuring the associative values of stimulus B and D" Behavioural Process 89(3), 244-255.
Maclean, E., Merritt, D. & Brannon, E.M. (2008) "Social complexity predicts transitive reasoning in prosimian primates" Animal Behaviour 76(2), 479-486.
Mascaro, O. & Csibra, G. (forthcoming) "Representation of stable dominance relations by human infants" Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences


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The New Standard – Nissin Air10s
An advance 2.4Ghz wireless TTL strobe commander
Nissin Japan Limited (Chairman Mr. Goto Chikara) proudly announces the Air10s, an advance NAS (Nissin Air System) 2.4Ghz Wireless TTL commander for Fujifilm, Sony, Micro Four Thirds, Canon and Nikon cameras, available in April 2017.
The Air10s is an advanced strobe commander in the N.A.S., Nissin Air System*1. The simple and clear dial layout with Color LCD display allows the user to seamlessly and quickly control a large group of strobes from a dark indoor studio, to a bright outdoor environment. It can control the NAS Ready strobes (i60A and Di700A) and the receiver Air R wirelessly.
Sustainable performance – easily updated via a Micro SD card slot
The Air10s has been equipped with a Micro SD card slot that allows users to update the device easily by themselves. Nissin plans on putting a Micro SD card slot on all future strobes and commanders.
Expand the creativity boundary – Control your strobes up to 100 meters*2
The device's range of use has been greatly extended (when compared to older models) to a maximum distance of 100 meters, and the TTL Mode, high speed sync (FP sync) supporting up to 1/8000 High- speed shutter speed, rear curtain, and other functionalities can be controlled remotely.
Finest adjustment – supporting 1/3EV step in TTL flash exposure correction, and the smallest output down to 1/256*3
Used under the TTL mode, minimal adjustments are possible with just 1/3EV step. In addition, under manual mode, the device supports the lowest power adjustment down to 1/256, which comes in handy for highly sensitivity shoots.
Instant strobes setup – Manual output power instantly transform from TTL exposure data
The device has a "TTL Memory Function", which memorizes the exposure during a TTL Mode shoot, and allows for a one-touch switch to manual mode. You can save time during the strobes setup as the device takes the TTL exposure data, calculates the individual output internally, and transforms the exposure data into manual mode for advance adjustment.
Set your group of strobes free – The Open Mode*4 allowing multiple Air10s to pair with the same group of strobes
The "open mode" allows for multiple Air10s units to pair with the same group of strobes. This means, the need to re-pair devices is eliminated, and even if cameras are changed, the same settings can be used as the shoot continues. This convenient functionality allows multiple cameras and commanders to share a same group of NAS strobes.
Crossover control – Full Control of Different versions of NAS Strobes
Even if your Air 10s is for Sony Mount, it is possible to pair it with Canon, Nikon and other differing version of NAS strobes (i60A, Di700A), and you can retain use of all the functions, including TTL Mode (Applies to the other type of Air10s versions as well).
*1 NAS stands for Nissin Air System, a proprietary wireless TTL communication system developed by Nissin for 2.4GHz radio transmission that allows for stable operation of slave strobes in outdoor or environments that may have other disturbances.
Devices are paired beforehand to ensure stable communication with each other, and to avoid signals from getting mixed up, 8 channels have been set up, providing a secure communication environment.*2 For Canon Mount devices that are set to Mode II, the rear curtain sync function cannot be used.*3 Only supported on i60A. When the device is paired with Di700Aor Air R, the TTL is -2.0~2.0EV, 1/2EV step, in Manual it is 1/1-1/128, 1EV step.*4 When using in Open Mode, the NAS strobe's firmware needs to be updated.
【Product Information】
Product name: Nissin Air10s SRP: 170USD
Release Date: Different versions of Air10s will sequentially introduce to the market from April 2017
The Air10s specification and model design are subject to change before the release date without prior notice. Type For Canon, Nikon, Sony, Four Thirds and Fujifilm Systems
Compatible Strobe I60A, Di700A
Compatible Receiver Air R
Wireless system Radio category
Radio specifications 2.4GHz ISM band (Obtaining technical standards conformity certification) Communication Pairing is needed before the use of Air10s
Channel 8 channels
Flash Groups A, B, C, D & Ȧ, Ḃ, Ċ, Ḋ(total 8 Groups)*5
(Group control and a specific group can be choosen to stop transmitting)
Power Source 2 x AAA batteries Continuous shooting speed 10 shots/sec
Number of flashes per charge Approx. 3,000 flashes
Transmission distant Max. 100m( Depending on the environment)
Mode [TTL] i-TTL (Nikon) / E-TTL II / E-TTL (Canon) [manual]/ ADI/ PTTL (Sony) / TTL (Fujifilm) / TTL (Micro Four Thirds/ Four Thirds)
Manual zoom Manual adjustment ( 24/ 35/ 50/ 70/ 85/ 105/ 135/ 200 mm)
EV compensation on flash [TTL] -2.0 ~ + 2.0,1/3 EV step, each group can be adjusted independently or synchronized
Synchronization modes Color LCD with dial control
Manual mode power ratio 1/256- 1/1 with 1/3 step selection, each group can be adjusted independently or synchronized
Synchronization modes Canon: 1st- Curtain synchronization, 2nd- Curtain synchronization, High-speed synchronization, FE Lock and FV Lock (set on camera).
Nikon: 1st- Curtain synchronization, Rear Curtain synchronization, High-speed synchronization, Red-eye reduction, Slow synchronization,
Sony: 1st- Curtain synchronization, High-speed synchronization, FEL Lock (set on camera)
Four Thirds/ Micro Four Thirds: 1st- Curtain synchronization, 2nd- Curtain synchronization, High-speed synchronization, Slow synchronization, Red-eye reduction (Olympus only)
Fujifilm: 2nd Curtain synchronization, Slow synchronization, Red-eye reduction Other functions Micro SD card slot (For firmware update), Remote shutter release socket,
Modeling light control*5
AF-assist beam range 0.7 ~ 5m
Operation panel LCD color panel and select dial
Dimensions 65(L) x 60 (W) x 60 (H)mm/ 2.6(L) x 2.4(W) x 2.4 (H)inch
Weight 73g / 2.5oz (without batteries)
*5 "8 groups" and "modeling light" are functions prepared for Nissin products to be released in the future. It does not correspond to the current model.


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Gerrit Dirksz (d. 1553)
Gerrit Dirksz (Gerrit Wevers or Gerrit the Weaver), an Anabaptist martyr, was sentenced to death at Amsterdam on 16 January 1553. He was a native of "Raesdorp," probably a town in Münsterland, Germany, rather than Ransdorp near Amsterdam. He had been (re)baptized and confessed that he had heard Gillis van Aken preach twice. Because he recanted he was not burned at the stake, but beheaded.
Grosheide, Greta. Bijdrage tot de geschiedenis der Anabaptisten in Amsterdam. Hilversum: J. Schipper, Jr., 1938: 162, 309.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. "Gerrit Dirksz (d. 1553)." Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. 1956. Web. 22 Jan 2020. https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gerrit_Dirksz_(d._1553)&oldid=127521.
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Zijpp, Nanne van der. (1956). Gerrit Dirksz (d. 1553). Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. Retrieved 22 January 2020, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Gerrit_Dirksz_(d._1553)&oldid=127521.
Adapted by permission of Herald Press, Harrisonburg, Virginia, from Mennonite Encyclopedia, Vol. 2, p. 503. All rights reserved.
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Let $X$ be an alphabet, $u,v,p,q,r,s$ be words in the alphabet $X$. I am looking for four elements in the free associative ring $R$ (i.e. four linear combinations of words in $X$) $x,y,z,t$ such that $$u-v=x(p-q)y+z(r-s)t.$$ Is this problem decidable?
The problem is motivated by the need to define an analog of Dehn functions for associative rings. In groups, the Dehn function is recursive iff the word problem is decidable. The question (asked by E. Zelmanov) is whether the same is true for rings.
Update: An easier problem: is there an algorithm for solving the equation
$$u-v=x(p-q)y$$ (one summand)?


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"Goblins and Ghosts and Creatures of Fright,
Don't Miss the Call of Halloween Night."
Halloween used to be all about pumpkin carving and trick-or-treating around the neighborhood for sweets, but now it's about freaky, spooky, sexy parties running throughout the city.
With Halloween falling smack, dab in the middle of the week, there will be events taking place all week starting this Friday through the end of next week.
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Before founding Lakeland Boating, then called Lakeland Yachting and Motorboating, Vic Schoen was an avid boater. Schoen was piloting a 36' 1925 wooden Burger dubbed Sea Toy II. A great fan of his boat, Schoen also knew it represented the capital he needed to start a new magazine about boating on the Great Lakes.
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1963: Mid-America's Freshwater Yachting Magazine
Only five issues of Lakeland Yachting were published in 1963, and after the first issue of 1964 ownership of the magazine was passed from Schoen to Larry Prakken and Dave Kitz. Prakken took over as publisher, and Kitz assumed the editorship. Along with this change in ownership came a new slogan: "Mid-America's Freshwater Yachting Magazine." They also moved the offices to Ann Arbor, Michigan.
While Schoen kept things light and breezy, Kitz set forth his new editorial mission: First, to report for you the interesting boating activities of the past, present, and future; and second, to raise its voice to help protect and preserve this delightful boating area from the ravages of deterioration that all too often accompany the growth of metropolitan areas.
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In 1972, Kitz bought out Prakken to take sole ownership of the magazine.
Instead of publishing their normal pre-boat show issue in 1975, Kitz instead published his "Clean Water" issue, calling on government to stop Reserve Mining's spoiling of Lake Superior, while also lauding the City of Detroit for its work cleaning up the Detroit River, then one of the worst cesspools in America.
Kitz saw boating not as the culmination of one's life, but as a worthwhile hobby, once writing, "All too often, the boat is misappropriated and used as a status symbol or an experience with the IRS in mind. It could have anything but a wholesome influence on young people."
For fun with the family, he said, boating, "is still one of the best ways to do interesting things together."
Kitz again moved the magazine's offices to Adrian, Michigan, in 1977.
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Kitz sold Lakeland Boating to Peterson Publications in 1980.
Peterson Publications specialized in niche-market magazines and planned to turn Lakeland Boating, which, at this time, was considered a small-circulation magazine, into a national giant. Peterson quickly tripled Lakeland Boating's circulation to a high of 60,000.
Peterson Publications folded its own Sea magazine into Lakeland Boating, growing the magazine from 40 pages per issue to 130 pages.
Kitz, now an associate publisher for the magazine, continued writing his "View from the Bridge" column until the magazine dropped it upon sale to its current publisher.
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Walter "Bing" O'Meara and David Brown purchased Lakeland Boating in 1983. O'Meara learned magazine publishing in the food service and lodging trade journal industry.
Pleasure boating had been on a downturn since the gasoline crisis in 1974, when President Carter suggested fuel sales should not take place on weekends. Owing to this, Peterson Publications found its efforts to go national stymied and re-focused on the regional aspect of the magazine.
Upon O'Meara's purchase of the magazine, however, boating began an upturn in popularity that would continue for quite some time.
O'Meara moved the business office to Highland Park, Illinois, and brought original owner Vic Schoen back as a correspondent. In June of 1985, O'Meara bought out his partner, David Brown, and moved the offices to Chicago, Illinois. Offices moved to the Fountain Building in Evanston, Illinois in 1988, then to Chicago's historic Printer's Row in 2003, and back to Evanston in 2015 with offices in the Chandler's Building.


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Pierre Balmain was born in 1914 in St. Jean de Maurienne, a small village not far from Aix-les-Bains a fashionable resort in the Savoy Mountains of France. His family owned a wholesale drapery business. His mother Fracoise, worked at a boutique managed by her two sisters. Balmain's father died when he was only 7 years old and his happiest childhood memories were of playing in the shop where his mother and aunts made dresses. He played with the fabrics and set his heart on becoming a couturier. Balmain studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, but did not complete his studies. He spent his spare time designing dresses and took some of them to show Robert Piguet, who bought three. He went to Molyneux who promised to give him a trial and when he was accepted, he left his architectural studies. From 1934 to 1939, he worked for Molyneux. In 1936 he was called up for compulsory military service. When he had completed this in 1939, he joined Lucien Lelong and worked there during the German occupation of Paris. In 1945 he opened his own house, showing long bell-shaped skirts with small waists – a line which later became popular as Dior's New Look. In 1947 he launched a perfume and gave it his telephone number Elysees 64-83. In 1951 he opened branches in the USA selling ready-to-wear clothes. His success in the USA has been attributed to the fact that he was able to translate French fashion into clothes for the American woman's generally larger frame, without compromising style. Balmain designed many sportswear collections for this ready-to-wear market. During the 50's, the "bouffant" skirt remained high fashion for evening wear, accompanied by the boned strapless top. His talent as a designer lay in his ability to make simple, tailored suits as well as grand evening gowns, in the same slender, supple and elegant lines. During the 50's he popularized the stole for day as well as evening wear and created a vogue for sheath dresses beneath jackets. His coats were generously cut to give a full back and we sometimes half belted. In the same period, his cossack like wraps and capes were tend-setters. Balmain was noted as a designer for the international set. In addition to his couture work, Pierre Balmain's designs were greatly in demand in Hollywood. Between 1951 and 1972, he designed costumes for 16 films, starring such stars as Vivien Leigh and Mae West. His elegance was also in demand for the off-screen clothes of Hollywood stars. He also designed for French films, including the famous film "God Created Woman" which introduced Brigitte Bardot to the world. Several designers worked under Pierre Balmain, who have gone on to become famous in their own names, including Gerard Pipart from 1948, Jean-Baptiste Caumont briefly, John Cavanagh from 1947 to 1951 and Karl Lagerfeld from 1955 to 1958. In 1964 Pierre Balmain wrote his autobiography, entitled "My Years and Seasons". The book is a little difficult to find since such a long time has passed, but it sometimes comes up on Amazon.com "used" section. Look out for it. He died in Paris in 1982. His house was continued by Erik Mortensen, a Danish designer , who had been Balmain's right hand man. Subsequently the house has been run by other designers including Herve Pierre from 1991.
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BRUSSELS — The European Union on Saturday was poised to impose new sanctions against Russia as Ukraine's president warned the conflict with Moscow threatens peace and stability for Europe as a whole.
Petro Poroshenko said before a summit of the EU's 28 leaders that a strong response was needed to the "military aggression and terror" facing his country.
"Thousands of the foreign troops and hundreds of the foreign tanks are now on the territory of Ukraine," Poroshenko told reporters in English. "There is a very high risk not only for peace and stability for Ukraine, but for the whole peace and stability of Europe."
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French President Francois Hollande and Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said upon their arrival for the summit in Brussels that the leaders will ask the EU's executive arm to finalize the legal fine print of new sanctions.
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European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso said "sanctions are not an end in themselves," but a means to dissuade Russia from further destabilizing Ukraine.
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"The opening of new fronts and the use of Russian regular forces (on Ukrainian soil) is not acceptable and represents a grave transgression," Barroso added.
NATO estimates that at least 1,000 Russian soldiers are in Ukraine even though Russia denies any military involvement in the fighting that has so far claimed 2,600 lives, according to U.N. figures.
Conceding ground in the face of a reinvigorated rebel offensive, Ukraine said Saturday that it was abandoning a city where its forces have been surrounded by rebels for days. Government forces were also pulling back from another it had claimed to have taken control of two weeks earlier.
The statements by Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the national security council, indicate that Ukrainian forces face increasingly strong resistance from Russian-backed separatist rebels just weeks after racking up significant gains and forcing rebels out of much of the territory they had held.
Poroshenko said Ukraine would welcome an EU decision to help with military equipment and further intelligence-sharing.
Barroso provided no specifics about which sanctions the heads of state and government might adopt to inflict more economic pain to nudge Russia toward a political solution. "No one's interest is served by new wars on our continent," Barroso said.
The U.S. and the EU have so far imposed sanctions against dozens of Russian officials, several companies and the country's financial industry. Moscow has retaliated by banning food imports.
Grybauskaite said the EU should impose a full arms embargo, including the canceling of already agreed contracts. France has so far staunchly opposed that proposal because it has a $1.6 billion contract to build Mistral helicopter carriers for Russia.
New EU sanctions have to be agreed unanimously — a requirement that has in the past blocked or softened decisions since some nations fear the economic fallout. Russia is the EU's No. 3 trading partner and one of its biggest oil and gas suppliers.
Barroso said that the EU — a bloc encompassing 500 million people and stretching from Lisbon to the border with Ukraine — stands ready to grant Kiev further financial assistance if needed. The bloc will also organize a donors' conference to help rebuild the country's east at the end of the year, he added.
Ukrainian forces had been surrounded by rebels in the town of Ilovaysk, avout 20 kilometers (15 miles) east of the largest rebel-held city of Donetsk for days.
"We are surrendering this city," Ukraine's Lysenko told reporters. "Our task now is to evacuate our military with the least possible losses in order to regroup."
Lysenko said that regular units of the military had been ordered to retreat from Novosvitlivka and Khryashchuvate, two towns on the main road between the Russian border and Luhansk, the second-largest rebel-held city. Ukraine had claimed control of Novosvitlivka earlier in August.
Separately, Ukrainian forces said one of their Su-25 fighter jets was shot down Friday over eastern Ukraine by a missile from a Russian missile launcher. The pilot ejected and was uninjured, the military said in a brief statement.


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Actresses Marcia Gay Harden and Ellen Burstyn discuss Harden's new memoir.
Marcia Gay Harden knew at an early age that her life would be anything but ordinary. As one of five lively children born into a military family, she found herself moved around often, eventually ending up off the coast of Japan. It was here that her mother found calm in her hectic and child-filled life in Ikebana, the Japanese art of flower arrangement. Marcia had by then founder her role as a mischief-maker and storyteller, yet was also drawn to the flowers.
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Iraq Disaster Rebuilt al-Qaeda
After four years of fighting Saddam Hussein's inner circle and a whole slew of insurgents, what could we expect? So on July 12 a top CIA analyst anonymously states in an official document that al-Qaeda is at it's strongest since 9/11 and significantly stronger than a year ago. The five-page brief even has a familiar title: "al-Qaeda better positioned to strike the West�
Last week there were news reports that the world's number one terrorist organization al-Qaeda, was back to pre-9/11 strength.
After four years of fighting Saddam Hussein's inner circle and a whole slew of insurgents, what could we expect? So on July 12 a top CIA analyst anonymously states in an official document that al-Qaeda is at it's strongest since 9/11 and significantly stronger than a year ago. The five-page brief—part of a much longer document that took two years to compile—even has a familiar title: "al-Qaeda better positioned to strike the West"—much like the August 6, 2001 Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) that was produced by former counterterrorism expert Richard Clarke called "bin Laden Determined to Strike inside the US."
Recently I received some email from MoveOn.org and they gave some brief possibilities of a Bush 3rd term in office and what a mess the world would become. Of course US presidents don't get a third term, but some of Bush's destructive agenda would continue on within the various persona's of other republican candidates, depending on who you vote for: "President Giuliani would support a 2nd escalation of the war on Iraq. President Romney would double the size of the Guantanamo Bay prison. President McCain would bomb, bomb, bomb, Iran. President Fred Thompson would have offered Scooter Libby a full pardon."
With all due respect to MoveOn.org I'll add one more possible future president scenario; President Condoleezza Rice would blow off all intelligence warnings of an impending domestic attack—yes the possibility still remains she'll announce a run, it's still early yet. If you think just because Bush can't get re-Selected means all of this white-male-testosterone war mongering will end, then think again.
This is not the 1st update on al-Qaeda capability. Back on September 9, 2003, Paul Rogers, a Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in England was quoted by News24 saying that US efforts in Afghanistan and Iraq had "failed to crush al-Qaeda's structure or stem its recruitment." Rogers added that ousting the Taliban from Afghanistan and Saddam from Iraq were hollow victories and that al-Qaeda "and it's associates have managed to plan and often undertake a remarkable range of activities with these collectively showing a capability that exceeds that existing before the 9/11 attacks."
Rogers' words were part of a report to an arms control think tank (Oxford Research Group). As recently as this past May US intelligence has Osama bin Laden and other al-Qaeda leaders hiding out in Pakistan. While you and I judge war victories on military strength, these analysts say you can only fight terrorists with intelligence. At least the July 12 report warns us ahead of time; just think of Bush, Rice and Co., and remember we weren't informed of the August 6, 2001 PDB until after 9/11; make that on May 6, 2004.
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When Barack Obama talked about a "pivot to Asia," many in Saudi Arabia saw it as the U.S. turning its back on the Middle East. As he prepares to make his second visit to Riyadh, Saudi leaders are looking for Obama and the U.S. to help quell the region's upheaval. Photo: Associated Press.
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Angry MLB players wanted to kick Alex Rodriguez out of union
Several members of the Major League Baseball Players Association are so furious about Alex Rodriguez's decision to sue the union they want to kick him out, according to a report in Yahoo Sports.
But union leaders told the outraged players that expelling A-Rod from the MLBPA was not a legal option they could pursue.
The exchange took place during a conference call Jan. 13, the day the embattled Yankees slugger sued Major League Baseball and the union, seeking to overturn a season-long suspension imposed by an arbitrator who ruled there was "clear and convincing evidence" he used three banned substances and twice tried to obstruct the sport's drug investigation.
"Following a roll call of players present on the line, according to one participant and another familiar with the call, the first player to speak asked bluntly: Can we kick him out of the union?" Yahoo reports.
"Not a single member defended Rodriguez, one player said, in a forum where there are frequent disagreements," according to the report.
Rodriguez in his suit claimed the MLBPA "completely abdicated its responsibility to Mr. Rodriguez to protect his rights" and "this inaction by MLBPA created a climate in which MLB felt free to trample" on Rodriguez's confidentiality rights.
Rodriguez asked for the court to find MLB violated its agreements with the union, that the union breached its duty to represent him and to throw out arbitrator Fredric Horowitz's decision, which shortened a penalty originally set at 211 games last August by baseball commissioner Bud Selig for violations of the sport's drug agreement and labor contract.
Horowitz, who technically chaired a three-man panel that included a representative of MLB and the union, trimmed the penalty to 162 games, plus all postseason games in 2014.
The union will incur costs of defending the lawsuit. It retained Michael Rubin and Barbara J. Chisholm of the San Francisco firm Altshuler Berzon to defend it, according to a court filing Tuesday.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.


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Wanted man arrested after 'sharing' mugshot
Pennsylvania fugitive taken into custody 45 minutes after
A Pennsylvania man who shared his own wanted poster on Facebook was arrested just 45 minutes later by police.
Anthony James Lescowitch Jr. had been evading arrest on assault charges since November, the Times Leader newspaper reported.
It didn't take Freeland police long to find him after Lescowitch posted a department message about him to his own Facebook page.
"lol i f***** love it, A**HOLE," he wrote.
Posing as a woman who wanted to have a drink, police lured Lescowitch to another location and promptly took him into custody.
"CAPTURED!!!!!! SHARES OUR STATUS ON FACEBOOK ABOUT HIMSELF, CAPTURED 45 MINUTES LATER," the department wrote on its Facebook page.
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Sir Patrick Stewart in (not your grandfather's) "Macbeth"
Rupert Goold's production of "Macbeth," starring Sir Patrick Stewart in his Tony-nominated performance, comes to television next month. The updated version of the Scottish play looks at power and war in the modern world.
Airing on PBS' "Great Performances" on Wednesday, Oct. 6, the production was filmmed for TV at the end of 2009 at Welbeck Abbey in the U.K., after its run on Broadway. Kate Fleetwood plays Lady Macbeth.


text: Page Content The research teams headed by Prof. Johanna Ivaska (University of Turku and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland) and Prof. Marko Salmi (University of Turku and the National Institute for Health and Welfare) have discovered that the SHARPIN protein regulates human cell activity. Published in a leading journal, the study concludes that SHARPIN regulates the movement and activity of inflammatory cells and of lung and prostate cancer cells. It is likely that the discovery will also have significant implications for other conditions such as Crohn's disease, psoriasis, rheumatism and even MS.The hypothesis that there must be a protein that inhibits cell activity was posited as far back as in the early 1990s. Researchers have now shown that SHARPIN is the hypothesised protein. Juha Rantala and Jeroen Pouwels, members of Prof. Ivaska's research team, discovered the role of SHARPIN using a cell chip screening method developed at VTT. Using this method, the impacts of all genes in an entire genome can be examined in a single test.The study was the cover feature in the November issue of Nature Cell Biology, the most distinguished journal in the field of cell biology.Article: Nature Cell Biology


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When a gasoline tanker catches fire at a gas station in Turkey's Izmir province, badass Engin Koçak jumps in and moves it away from the storage tanks to prevent a major explosion. Get this guy an agent.
Yes, it kind of looks like he just set off a trail of burning gasoline that incinerated everything in its path. According to a report, some cars were burned as a result of the trailing fireball, but Koçak — a father of two — did drive the tanker about a half-mile away from the gas station, out of harm's way.
It took 60 firefighters to put out the ensuing blaze, and six people were injured, but none seriously. (Hat tip to m2m!)


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Don't Copy the Call Stack
Some runtimes claim to provide first-class continuations, but implement this by copying the entire call stack. This implementation strategy makes continuations totally unusable in production code, and it should be outlawed. Or maybe such runtimes should be required to call them "shitty continuations" instead of just "continuations".


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Welcome to INDICSER
Indicators for Evaluating International Performance in Service Sectors
Service Sector Performance and its contributions to the Europe 2020 strategy: Results and policy implications arising
from the SERVICEGAP and INDICSER projects
29 and 30 January 2013
Welcome to all those who have attended the conference, and thank you - your input was very much appreciated! The papers that the presentations draw from can be found on our Discussion Papers page, Review Papers page, and Policy Briefs page. The papers from the SERVICEGAP project can be found on SERVICEGAP publications pages (Discussion papers, Review papers and Policy Briefs). Please feel free to send us your thoughts on the work!
Understanding the economic impact of market services on aggregate economic growth in the EU, and its comparative performance relative to competitor regions, e.g. the US, is of vital importance when formulating effective EU policies in this area. The SERVICEGAP and INDICSER research projects have been working on these issues since 2010, and are now presenting their results at a workshop to be held on Tuesday 29 January and Wednesday 30 January 2013. The workshop includes two lunchtime sessions focussed on the relevance of the findings to policymakers, comprising a short summary of the research findings and time to debate the implications for the Europe 2020 strategy. In addition there are two sessions presenting policy relevant research papers arising from the projects.
The workshop is open to all, with each session designed to be stand alone so you can choose which to attend (there is no need to pre-register, just turn up!). You can download the Programme here, and presentations will be made available as soon as possible after the meeting, so please check back.
The INDICSER project
What was INDICSER?
The objective of the INDICSER project was to develop indicators which provide information on the performance of service sectors in the EU. At the heart of the project were concerns that such indicators should be valid in terms of concepts, measurement methods and feasibility but should also have value in terms of their usefulness for policy. Therefore the approach adopted was to include both an EU-wide application of existing concepts and develop and experiment with new concepts. This was carried out within an overall coherent structural framework designed to address the key issues of productivity and value for money.
Who was involved?
The project work was divided into a number of workpackages (WP), carried out by academic researchers in a range of European institutes and universities. The co-ordinating institution was Birmingham Business School, University of Birmingham, UK.


text: An official court painter of King Philip IV, Diego Velázquez is regarded as one of the greatest Spanish artists. He transformed his keen observational powers into faithful portraits of Spanish royalty and, at the height of his career, Pope Innocent X. Famed for the vital likenesses of his subjects, Velázquez used free, efficient brushstrokes to conjure heavily atmospheric scenes pierced by dazzling color and ornamentation. His masterpiece is Las Meninas. A classic baroque example, the large painting captures a young princess and her attendants watching her parents, the King and Queen, pose for the artist. Velázquez died four years after its completion, but his influence resonated well into the 19th and 20th centuries: he had a particularly formative effect on Edouard Manet, and drew the recurring fascination of Pablo Picasso.


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Last week, the big rumor was Adam Dunn to the White Sox. This week, it's Prince Fielder. The nonwaiver trade deadline is just over three weeks away, and you never know what GM Kenny Williams is going to do.
"If Kenny thinks we need somebody, he will get it," Ozzie said before Monday night's game against the Angels. "Believe me, he will get it." The popular thinking is Kenny will get a left-handed power bat if he decides to make a move.
Seems like only speculation.
UPDATE: Bruce Levine says Fielder would be the biggest gate attraction the White Sox have had since:
Adam Dunn, Lance Berkman and Luke Scott have been confirmed as possible trade prospects the White Sox would be interested in. However, if Milwaukee's Prince Fielder becomes available before the trading deadline the White Sox would certainly have interest.
Projecting Fielder at U.S. Cellular Field, the lefty slugger, only 26, would be a 50 -homer threat and, more importantly, a home-run producer who people would pay to see.
A case could be made that Fielder would be the biggest gate attraction the White Sox have had since Frank Thomas left the team as a free agent after the 2005 season.


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The Urgency, the new DVD release from Extreme Animals (Jacob Ciocci and David Wightman), is a "visual album," like Beyoncé by Beyoncé, but any similarity to Beyoncé begins and ends with format. Beyoncé is too serious, too straight—the wrong kind of urgency. Her hooks have never found their way into the pop-punk power ballads of Extreme Animals, which mix club disco, heavy metal, and chiptunes with maximalist, strobing montage.
If there's a diva who is muse to the duo, it's the fickle Katy Perry, whose songs are sampled on two of The Urgency's eight tracks. Inspirational Katy Perry, who dedicates a rousing anthem to everyone who has ever felt like a plastic bag. Party girl Katy Perry, who gets wasted every Friday night. Bisexual Katy Perry who kissed a girl and liked it and wants to see your peacock-cock-cock. Dom/sub Katy Perry who yearns to be poisoned by aliens and is also the tiger who you will hear roar.
The Unfinished Business of a Yugoslav Internet
Aleksandra Domanović, From yu to me (2014). Commissioned by Rhizome, Abandon Normal Devices, and Fridericianum.
Aleksandra Domanović used to own an international sampler of domain names: aleksandradomanovic.sk, aleksandradomanovic.rs, aleksandradomanovic.si, aleksandradomanovic.eu. It's usually enough for an artist or other public figure to claim their name on .com, and Domanović did, but by staking out real estate in the top-level domains governed by Slovakia, Serbia, Slovenia, and the European Union she reminded herself, and anyone else paying attention, about the friction of states and networks, names, and domains. Domanović was born in Yugoslavia, and when it was gone her citizenship drifted. If for some of its users the World Wide Web appears boundlessly ephemeral in comparison to the permanence of statehood, in Domanović's experience of recent history, states and domains alike are tools of control that can be surprisingly fragile and flexible.
Businesslike: DIS Magazine's Stock Database
Shawn Maximo, from Neighboring Interests, 2013
Last month, DIS Magazine made The Suzanne Geiss Company, a gallery in downtown New York, an open photo studio. Don't worry if you missed it. There wasn't much to see. The first time I went, the main gallery was empty, save for some dark bags on the floor. In the office, a few people chatted and looked at a laptop. "The photographer is on break," they told me. "Come back in an hour." I did. It was just as deserted. (Later, I learned that Frank Benson was taking photos in the dark back room, to avoid interference from the main gallery's skylight.) I returned a few days later, on a Sunday morning when the editors of DIS were there. One of them was polishing a prop fridge. An intern busied herself with a vacuum.
But the substance of the show wasn't what was happening in the gallery but the result of it: disimages.com, a fully functional online stock-photo database. The project received its initial funding in the 2011 cycle of Rhizome Commissions, and once DIS secured the rest of the necessary capital and set up the site's framework, they started production at Suzanne Geiss. disimages.com will continue to expand its offerings as the contributing artists finish retouching their work. For now, visitors can peruse Shawn Maximo's surreal interiors, where domestic spaces are enclosed by planes of sky and beach; Ian Cheng's 3D renderings of heads with the DIS Images logo mapped over their contours; and Katja Novitskova's insertions of safari animals and Powerpoint clip art in white-cube galleries.
Katja Novitskova, from Future Growth Approximations, 2013
DIS Images marks a significant shift in the way artists approach stock photography. Onlines image databases proliferated in the ...
Artist Profile: Jeff Baij
It seems like artists who were actively making and showing their work online a few years ago have either started making objects and pursuing the familiar career path of the artist—gallery shows, teaching engagements, studio assistantships, grants, and so on—or they gave up and went into another field, like programming or web design. You haven't done either of those things. You're still making internet art. What's that like?
its really weird brian
like really really weird
lemme give you a few reasons why my life has ended up like this, and also a few reasons why its weird
um i mean to be honest the first reason i dont show really is because being around gallery people for more than 5 or 10 minutes without being absolutely shitfaced is literally (Literally) in my top 3 least favorite things in the entire world.
teaching could be cool? i actually love the idea of molding (moulding?) young minds but how does one start this career path? maybe you can give me some pointers. even in an [ed.] if you'd like. [I think you'd have to get an MFA. But based on your answers I don't think you'd like being in an MFA program. – BD]
assistantships are the same deal as showing- artists are gross, both mentally and physically (trust me on this, i am one) and i like making actual money
which brings me to why i dont make objects: im poor
so maybe i should apply for grants? is that how artists get money to work? i have no idea im really bad at the art thing, except that my work looks really nice and makes a lot of cute girls super happy.
ok so its weird because when im at an opening or out with new people they always say OH WHAT KIND OF ART DO U MAKE and i always say UHH I TAKE OTHER PEOPLES SHIT OFF THE WEB AND CHANGE IT A LITTLE BIT AND CALL IT ART and its awk my g, so awk.
another reason why its weird is because i get super wasted with a lot of like "cool" and "up and coming" artists on the regs and being the net guy/ coolest person in the room is like, pretty exhausting u know?
i just wanna use this space to say plz dont remove any of the swearing from the interview, ive waited a very very long time for this
also plz dont correct any spelling or punctuation, they arent mistakes (im just that cool)
also please leave the above note in the interview (also this one)
The People Code
Installation view of pΓσ₠§§℩η⅁ at the Goethe-Institut Library. Photo courtesy of Jenny Jaskey
The mission of the library could be described as calibrating the optimal ratio of signal to noise, by eliminating as much noise as possible. This description would cover both shushing and the extensive cataloguing that eases readers' paths to the information they want. But what becomes of that mission when so many people carry a gateway to vast expanses of knowledge in their pockets (even if they mainly use that gateway to take selfies and play Angry Birds)? Does the library of bricks, mortar, and bound books effectively bracket the search for information by offering a specific set of physical resources, with a corresponding language of signals? Or is it yet another backdrop for selfies and Angry Birds—the constant noise of everyday life?
This fall the Goethe-Institut Library, an outpost of the German cultural ministry in SoHo, enlisted curator Jenny Jaskey to organize "The End(s) of the Library," a year-long series of artists projects that rethink the library's mission. common room redesigned the floor plan to open up space and introduced a modular exhibition apparatus; David Horvitz established an electronic archive of artists' books—both scanned works on paper and ebooks—to supplement the Goethe-Institut Library's catalogs both here and in Europe. The latest project is pΓσ₠§§℩η⅁, a collaboration by Juliete Aranda, Fia Backstrom, and R. Lyon that directly tackles questions of signals and noise. They began by processing the library's raw database through Safari 5.0.5 and printing out the results, in which catalog entries are cluttered and stretched by symbols and glyphs—representations of the metadata that the computer needs to process catalog entries. A reading was held on January 5 where participants vocalized the print-outs, glyph ...
Rhizome Today: A critic, with opinions about postinternet art
Rhizome makes money from benefit auctions of postinternet objects whereas Artforum and Art in America do not
Displacement is the New Translation
DECENTER: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show
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The Abrons Arts Center of Henry Street Settlement is proud to present DECENTER: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show, curated by Andrianna Campbell and Daniel S. Palmer. Opening February 17, 2013 and on view through April 7, the exhibition celebrates the legacy of the Cubist paintings and sculptures in the historic 1913 Armory Show by featuring a group of 27 emerging and internationally recognized contemporary artists, who explore the changes in perception precipitated by our digital age and who closely parallel the Cubist vernacular of fragmentation, nonlinearity, simultaneity, and decenteredness. The show highlights the sponsorship of the 50th anniversary exhibition by the Henry Street Settlement in 1963, the occasion which announced the building of what is today known as the Abrons Arts Center located at 466 Grand Street, New York, NY, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
The exhibition commences on the 100th anniversary of the Armory Show, Sunday, February 17, with a 1913 Armory Show Centennial Event, which will feature panel discussions about the 1913 exhibition, as well as the theme of perception and art in the digital age, followed by an opening reception. The show exhibits a group of artworks in the gallery, and also features digital works displayed at www.decenterarmory.com. The site launches February 17.
At the 1913 Armory Show, the Association of American Painters and Sculptors showcased the "New Spirit" of modern art. A backlash of scathing criticism showed how baffled the general American public was by the seeds of abstraction in the Cubist artworks, which quickly became a shorthand expression for the structural changes precipitated by modernity. They not only redefined artistic practice, but also altered our understanding of the process through which we perceive the world. On its 100th anniversary, we will celebrate the Armory Show by posing the question: What is the legacy of Cubism in the hundred years since the Armory Show's radical display of modern art, and especially, how has this become relevant today?
Accordingly, this exhibition celebrates the centenary of the groundbreaking Armory Show by assembling artworks that analyze the digital revolution and the ways it has affected our perception of the world. Artists as varied as Sara VanDerBeek, Gabriel Orozco, Liz Magic Laser, and Abrons AIRspace residency program alumna Amy Feldman evoke the formal innovations of the historic avant-garde but differ through an embrace or flirtation with digital mediation. Artists today like Andrew Kuo, Tony Cokes, and Cory Arcangel are inspired by the inter-cultural circulation of images, ideas, and data in a worldwide network. While Pablo Picasso and fellow Cubists combined archaic Western forms and appropriated exotica to shatter inherited modes of representation, today ubiquitous computing and the digital image explosion create an intersection of the physical and the virtual, and in doing so, have decentered the locus of artistic praxis.
Although the far-reaching historical significance of the Armory Show was examined through a partial re-creation on its fiftieth anniversary in 1963 (sponsored by the Henry Street Settlement), even then, scholars acknowledged that the exhibition's social import could not be replicated simply by re-staging the show. In order to honor that "New Spirit," and the collaborative process through which the 27 members of the Association of American Painters and Sculptors organized this radical exhibit, the 2013 show will inhabit all available exhibition spaces at Abrons and also feature a corresponding online component of digital works. This web-based portion of the show, accessible at www.decenterarmory.com, will grow as artists invite others to contribute in a process that highlights the diversity and expansiveness of the 1913 show's legacy as it relates to our world today.
This event celebrates the 1913 Armory Show, exactly 100 years after its doors opened to the public. What is the legacy of the exhibition, and how has it been understood and misinterpreted? Is there a "new aesthetic" brought about by perceptual shifts in the digital era? How do these changes align with the formal innovations of the historic avant garde? These two discussion panels, organized in conjunction with Abrons Art Center's "Decenter: An Exhibition on the Centenary of the 1913 Armory Show," will address the legacy of the 1913 Armory Show, and the ways that perception and artistic practice in the last hundred years has been radically transformed by our digital era.
Panel Discussion: The Legacy of the 1913 Armory Show:
Charles Haven Duncan (Collection Specialist, Archives of American Art)
Franklin Evans (Artist, New York)
Andrea Geyer (Artist, New York)
Marilyn Satin Kushner (Curator and Head, Department of Prints, Photographs, and Architectural Collections, New-York Historical Society; Co-curator of The Armory Show at 100)
Mary Murray (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Munson Williams Proctor Arts Institute)
Panel Discussion: Perception and Art in the Digital Age:
Introduced by: Israel Rosenfield (City University of New York)
Ethan Greenbaum, Barbara Kasten, Andrew Kuo, Travess Smalley, Sara VanDerBeek
Moderated by: Brian Droitcour


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Mayfield to join Zucker and NShore at U.S. WJC camp
DU incoming freshman defenseman Scott Mayfield has been invited to the 2011 USA Hockey national junior evaluation camp August 6-13 at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, N.Y.
Pioneers sophomore forwards Jason Zucker and Nick Shore were among the previous 42 players to be invited to the camp that will help determine the 22-player roster for this year's U.S. World Junior team.
Mayfield, a 6-foot-4 bruising D-man from St. Louis, played for the Youngstown Phantoms of the USHL last season. In the NHL draft last month, Mayfield was selected in the second round (34th overall) by the New York Islanders.
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The Wheaton Symphony Orchestra will perform at LeTourneau University's chapel service at 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, March 7, at the S.E. Belcher, Jr. Chapel and Performance Center. Admission is free and open to the public.
The Wheaton Symphony was founded in Illinois in1959 by the longtime manager Donald Mattison, who plays in the orchestra, serves on the board and manages the day-to-day operations of the group.
The Symphony is made up of both older and younger players, many of whom have played for the symphony for many seasons. The total number of performers ranges from about 85 to 90. The Symphony performs about eight concerts a year and performs as an offering of worship as an act of service and witness to their community and others.
Wheaton Symphony has an audition process, but once musicians make it into the Symphony, they do not have to audition again unless they have been absent for more than one year or seek to gain a better chair position.
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