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Russell Beattie / Russell Beattie's Weblog:
The end of Mowser — It's been a year since I launched Mowser at April 2007's Mobile Monday, so it's time for a progress report. Sadly, the news isn't good. — Mowser is at the end of its life in its current form. We haven't been able to raise funding, and as a site …
Daniel Langendorf / last100: The mobile web isn't dead. It's just starting.
Donna Bogatin / STARTUP CHATTER: Mowser Meltdown: WHAT Silicon Valley Startup Heaven!
Alexander van Elsas / Alexander van Elsas's Weblog …: Forget about mobile web browsing, think interaction!
John Koetsier / sparkplug 9: TURNS OUT THE MOBILE WEB IS JUST ... THE WEB
Amit Agarwal / Digital Inspiration: Looking for an Alternative to Mowser ? Switch to Google Transcoder
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch: Hungry Founder Puts Mowser In The Deadpool
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb:
Is the Mobile Web Dead? Some Mobile Entrepreneurs Say Yes — Former Yahoo! Mobile evangelist turned startup entrepreneur Russell Beattie announced today that he's calling it quits for his company Mowser because the market for mobile browsing is taking a fast turn for the worse.
Discussion: ReviewSaurus, Venture Chronicles, techno.blog and Mashable!
Jeff / Venture Chronicles: Mobile Web Dead?
Dion Almaer / techno.blog: The future of the Mobile Web is strong
Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins / Mashable!: Investors Phone In $5.7 Million for Mobango
Larry Dignan / Between the Lines:
Mobile Web: Over before it began?
Mobile Web: Over before it began?
Discussion: The Blog Herald
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
AOL Buys Sphere's Blog Content Engine — Tomorrow AOL will announce the acquisition of San Francisco-based Sphere, a blog content engine that launched in 2006. The price is not being disclosed, but sources are suggesting it's in the $25 million range, or possibly a little more. More details from Om Malik
Discussion: Webware.com, VentureBeat, ben barren and Quintura blog
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: AOL acquires Sphere for content, ad networks
MG Siegler / VentureBeat: AOL snaps up Sphere
Redbarren / ben barren: aol pays $25m to own the 'sphere.
Tony Conrad / Sphere Blog:
Our New Address @ AOL.COM — Unlike the rumor that Sphere has reserved the Wrigley Field bleachers for Game 7 of the 2008 World Series, the conjecture about Sphere being acquired by a larger platform is officially true. AOL has acquired sphere. More information is here, here and here again for the curious detail seeker.
Discussion: AOL Press Releases, paidContent.org, Toni's Garage and SEO and Tech Daily
Susan Timcheck / AOL Press Releases: AOL Acquires Sphere
Toni / Toni's Garage: AOL buys Sphere
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Checkmate - AOL acquires Sphere !
Om Malik / GigaOM:
Personal Note: Conrad Got Mailed. — My buddy Tony Conrad, co-founder & CEO of Sphere just called to let me know that he had sold his company to AOL for an undisclosed amount of money. The details of this announcement are on TechCrunch and also on the Sphere blog.
Discussion: Photo Matt
Exclusive: Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2 — One of the biggest criticisms of Google's App Engine have been cries of lock-in, that the applications developed for the platform won't be portable to any other service. This morning, Chris Anderson, the Portland-based cofounder …
Discussion: TomsTechBlog.com, Webware.com, Got Ads?, Slashdot, techno.blog, O'Reilly Radar and Google Blogoscoped
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: Google App Engine meets Amazon EC2
John K / Got Ads?: Google App Engine on Amazon EC2
Dion Almaer / techno.blog: Keys to the Google App Engine
Marc Hedlund / O'Reilly Radar: Waxy: "Google App Engine ported to Amazon's EC2"
Philipp Lenssen / Google Blogoscoped: Show Off Your Google App Engine Apps
Tim O'Reilly / O'Reilly Radar:
Is Google App Engine a Lock-in Play?
Is Google App Engine a Lock-in Play?
Discussion: Daytime Running Lights
AOL's Platform-A Ranks as Top Ad Network in March, Reaching More Than 9 Out of 10 U.S. Internet Users — Niche Ad Networks Emerge to Help Advertisers Target Specific Audiences — comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today released March 2008 data on online ad networks …
Discussion: Internet Marketing …, Traffick, WidgetBucks and Brier Dudley's blog
Saveproduction / Internet Marketing Observations: What's your reach? Who cares? Why reach is terribly antiquated
Andrew Goodman / Traffick: Burst Media, That Old Thing?
Team WidgetBucks / WidgetBucks: WidgetBucks Cracks comScore's Ad Network Report
Brier Dudley / Brier Dudley's blog: Widgetbucks' comScore debut
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Not A Misprint: AOL's Platform A Is The Top Advertising Network By Reach
Not A Misprint: AOL's Platform A Is The Top Advertising Network By Reach
Discussion: Tech Beat
Catherine Holahan / Tech Beat: comScore crowns AOL King of all Digital Advertising
Duncan Riley / TechCrunch:
Twitter Testing Advertising In Twitter Streams — Twitter was down tonight, nothing really unusual for the San Francisco based startup (to be fair though downtime has improved since they dumped Joyent), but what was different is some reports of users spotting ads in their Twitter stream during the service difficulties.
Discussion: The Last Podcast and The Blog Herald
Thord Daniel Hedengren / The Blog Herald: Ads Coming To Twitter?
John Cook / Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
Farecast sold in $75 million deal — Farecast has been sold in a deal that values the online travel search startup at more than $75 million, according to a source with knowledge of the situation. — The buyer was not known, and Farecast Chief Executive Hugh Crean declined to comment late Sunday.
Discussion: ReadWriteWeb
Marshall Kirkpatrick / ReadWriteWeb: Farecast: Travel Nerds Rumored to Have Been Bought
Danny Sullivan / Search Engine Land:
Hitwise: Google Hits New High; Microsoft & Yahoo New Lows — Last week, Hitwise released the latest statistics for search engine share in the United States for March 2008, showing Google at an all-time high while Microsoft and Yahoo hit all-time lows. — The four major search engines stack up as follows:
Discussion: John Battelle's Searchblog and Valleywag
John Battelle / John Battelle's Searchblog: GOOGLE'S SHARE KEEPS CLIMBING
Apple IIgs Original Hardware Laptop — As many of you know I grew up during the 80's and spent a lot of time with the fun 8-bit computers of those days. One of my favorites was the Apple IIgs, and when someone requested I build a portable version of it I jumped at the chance.
Discussion: Gadget Lab, Gizmodo, Cult of Mac, The Unofficial Apple Weblog, Engadget and Insanely Great Mac
Charlie Sorrel / Gadget Lab: Apple ][ GS Laptop From Ben Heckendorn
Adrian Covert / Gizmodo: Ben Heck Mods Apple IIgs into a Bright, Shiny Laptop
Leander Kahney / Cult of Mac: Amazing Apple IIGS Original Hardware Laptop
Jesus Diaz / Gizmodo:
Latest iPhone Firmware Saves Pictures from Safari — At last! The latest beta version of Apple's iPhone 1.2.0 firmware gives you the possibility of saving pictures straight from Safari and into the Photo Album. We tried and it works: just hold your finger against an image for a longer …
Discussion: AppleInsider, The Boy Genius Report, Engadget, Infinite Loop, Tech Blog and Digg
Chris Foresman / Infinite Loop: iPhone firmware beta saves pics from Safari
Yahoo! Search Blog:
Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 — Over the past few weeks, we've been preparing for the latest version of the Yahoo! Search crawler with some infrastructure updates, which recently caused a variance in our crawl behavior. — With everything now in place, the rollout has officially begun.
Kevin Heisler / Search Engine Watch Blog: Yahoo! Slurp 3.0 Replaces Yahoo! Slurp Search Engine Crawler
Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land: Yahoo Updates Crawler: Introduces Yahoo Slurp 3.0
Arnold Zafra / Search Engine Journal: Yahoo updates search crawler with Slurp 3.0
David A. Utter / WebProNews: Yahoo Slurp 3.0: Crawler Revised And Rolling Out
Stephen Shankland / Webware.com: Yahoo moving to new Web-crawler software
Burtonator / Kevin Burton's NEW FeedBlog: New Version of Yahoo Slurp
Charlie Anzman / SEO and Tech Daily: Yahoo moves right along ?
David Cohn / DigiDave:
What I Hate About the Internet - Everyone is a "Social Media Consultant" — Already you can tell this will be a different kind of post for me. Before I begin my curmudgeoned polemic, let me state for the record: Overall I LOVE the internet. I love how it empowers, entertains, enables, etc.
Discussion: WinExtra
Steven Hodson / WinExtra: From the Pipeline - 4.14.08 — I'm still in the process …


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Montparnasse : the spirit of the beginning of the 20th century.
The heart of Montparnasse is more specifically, the area around Vavin Metro Stop
Montparnasse often gets bypassed when visitors come to Paris. At first sight : not a touristic place, no highlight spots, nor renown buildings. But culturally, it is a central neighborhood, rich by its history. And a very Parisian and nice place to live in.
Montparnasse is loved by so many Parisians … and unfortunatly missed by so many visitors… !
Surely a neighborhood where to find the spirit from the beginning of the 20th century. A wonderful mix of new and old. An area where you have the feeling of a real neighborhood. And without hesitation, the area where I would choose and love to live if I had to move (unless I chose Saint Germain des Prés !).
Location : Montparnasse is located on the Left Bank of the river Seine and covers parts of the 5th, 6th,14th and 15th arrondissements. It's bordered by the Luxembourg garden to its north.
Some history
Montparnasse reached its heyday in the 1920s and 30s, between WWI and WWII. Montparnasse became the heart of intellectual and artistic life in Paris. It's called "Les Années Folles" (= the Roaring 20s"). and Vavin (Metro Stop : Vavin) was the center of the neighborhood.
Many artists came from Montmartre to settle there in search of low rents (lodging and workshops).
Others from around the world (from Europe, including Russia and Ukraine, from the U.S., Canada, Mexico, central and South America, and Japan) came to stay in Montparnasse, looking for a place they could freely work and create. Between 1921 and 1924, the number of Americans in Paris swelled from 6000 to 30000.
Some of the artists in Montparnasse in the 20s and 30s
I'll take you where Hemingway and Scott Fitzgerald first met.
Painters, writers, sculptors, poets, photographers, composers... And most of the Paris artistic community settled in Montparnasse neighborhood.
Pablo Picasso, Samuel Beckett, Joan Miro, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, Tsugouharu Foujita, Diego Rivera, Modigliani, Guillaume Apollinaire, Salvatore Dali, Man Ray, Marc Chagall, Eric Satie, Zadkine, Degas, Hemingway, Scott Fitzgerald, Henri Miller, George Braque, Jean Cocteau, Chaim Soutine, Blaise Cendrars, Fernand Léger, André Breton, Giacometti, Dos Passos…
In Montparnasse are the iconic cafés of the Roaring 20's (and of the following decades too !)
Those which were the haunts of so many artists and writers such as Hemingway, Picasso, Fitzgerald, Desnos, Sartre, Beauvoir, Miller, Anaïs Nin, Braque… They frequented the cafés along Boulevard Montparnasse, such as La Closerie des Lilas, La Rotonde (photo above), Le Dôme (photos below), Le Select, La Coupole…
Beautiful architecture :
Welcoming and historic cafés
Kiki de Montparnasse : the Montparnasse's muse. She was the model of many artists : Man Ray, Fujita, Modigliani… She was the lover of Man Ray.
Nowadays, young students from around the world, come around the art supplies shops and arts academy of the rue de la Grande Chaumière.
Traditionnaly, Montparnasse is also "home" to Parisians coming from Brittany (Western France), because trains from Montparnasse station travels back and forth to Brittany.
More recently, since the 70s, Montparnasse neighborhood has become more upscale and many old ateliers have been converted into upscale housing. Nowadays. But the cafés of the 20s and many others, restaurants, many crêperies (as crêpes are traditionally a Breton meal… !) still there
My personal story linked to Montparnasse :
Many Breton people came to settle in Paris from the mid 19th century to the 1960s.This is what my Breton grand Parents did in the 30s. They came from Brittany when they were very young (one of my grand father came on his own, knowing nobody in Paris and around… and he was only…. 13…. didn't speak very well French and was feeling so lonely when he arrived….)
My 2 grand mothers and 2 grand fathers came from Brittany by train, arrived at Montparnasse train station and lived the rest of their lives in Paris
I live 10 minutes walk from the heart of Montparnasse and I've been studying during my secondary school years in Montparnasse. This is a place where I very often go : to the cinema, to meet friends, to read at one of the iconic cafés (or less renown cafes) or to eat buckwheat pancakes. This is the place where I used to dance Breton dances very regularly a few decades ago (Remember : Montparnasse is the Breton neighborhood of Paris !)
Walk in the footsteps of the great artists and writers with Ann Jeanne in Paris. Don't hesitate to contact me !
More photos at the bottom of this page
My advice :
- Get out at the Metro Stop Vavin (not Metro Stop : Montparnasse) which is the center of the real Montparnasse neighborhood.
- Enjoy a drink at "La Coupole" or at the café "Le Vavin" (rue de Vavin) to let you have a feeling of a real neighborhood.
- Rue Vavin (a small and short street), you'll find one of the best Paris "Chocolatier" (Jean Paul Hevin). Also nice small shops.
- After your Montparnasse visit, you can enjoy the Luxembourg garden, just nearby (end of rue de Vavin)
- You can choose to have a nice meal (pricey) at Le Select, Le Dome (for fish meals), or a nice restaurant in a small street rue Jules Chaplain.
- Lots of crêperies rue de Montparnasse for a nice meal (cheaper) and delicious.
Meet the soul of Montparnasse with Ann Jeanne in Paris,
Walk in the footsteps of the great artists and writers who first found inspiration there : Hemingway, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, Modigliani, Man Ray, Picasso, Modigliani,… You'll see the place where Hemingway and Fitzgerald first met, the place where Hemingway wrote "The Sun also rises", some the streets where most of the theaters and cabarets of the area were located (some are still there), the art supply shops and academies of art where the artists used to go, the iconic cafés of the 20's and of the following decades (still very renown and appreciated cafes-brasseries), the place where you can enjoy the best crêpes of Paris, one of the best and chic art fair of the left bank (depends on the day of the visit), a very lively open market (depends on the day of your visit), wonderful building façades.
Private walking tours : You only, or you and the person you choose. I'll show you around in Montparnasse. Don't hesitate to contact me
Montparnasse is one of my most favorite neighborhoods. This is the neighborhood where I've been studying several years at the secondary school, the neighborhood where I've always loved meeting my friends, going to cafes. So many wonderful cafes which such a great history…
YOUR Private walk, with Ann Jeanne in Paris, native Parisian
- Feel like a Parisian ! No lectures, but an encounter, and a personal and intimate walk while you share the Paris I love and see places you may not have seen on your own. See Paris in another perspective and know more about Paris lifestyle and daily life too
CONTACT me for a private walking tour and EXPERIENCE PARIS like a true Parisian
- You only, or you and the person you choose.
- Duration of the tour : half day tour or full day tour, but it can be adjusted to your wishes It includes a coffee in an authentic Paris cafe. The tours can be customized according to your preferences and interests For more details : The tours – Booking and Pricing – Don't hesitate to contact me
More details :
- Close access to major centers (a few minutes walks to Luxembourg garden, 15-20 minutes walk to Saint Germain des Prés and the Latin Quarter, 15 minutes by subway to the Eiffel Tower, lots of restaurants, an open market 3 days per week, many cafés (La Rotonde, Le Select, Le Dome, La Coupole…)
- The renown Montparnasse cemetery (the second largest burial ground in Paris) : graves of many of the neighborhood's most illustrious residents (Baudelaire, Beckett, Bartholdi – (who designed the Statue of Liberty), Maupassant, Man Ray, Samuel Beckett, Sartre, Beauvoir, Jean Seberg, Ionesco, Saint Saëns, Satie, Soutine, Zadkine, – Entrance on Bd Edgar Quinet – Paris 14 – Metro Stop : Edgar Quinet
- La Closerie des Lilas : a Left Bank institution – A chic Piano Bar with a bronze plaque with Hemingway's name. a Brasserie and a restaurant (pricey). An article about Closerie des Lilas coming up soon. – 171 boulevard Montparnasse – Paris 6 – Metro Stop : Port Royal or Bus n°38 – Vavin (5 minutes walk)
- Edgar Quinet Market : An excellent street Market every Wednesday and Saturday (fresh food and clothes). A crafts market on Sundays. – Boulevard Edgar Quinet – Paris 14
- Bourdelle Museum : a heaven of peace for lovers of art, sculpting. museum dedicated to the life and works of the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle. – Metro Stop : Montparnasse
- La Fondation Cartier for exhibitions of contemporary art (a building designed by Jean Nouvel)
- Numerous crêperies in the neighborhood (Metro stop : Vavin or Montparnasse) : a nice and affordable break (salted wheat flour crêpes and sweet crêpes). Crêpes = thin pancakes.

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Hi all,
I want to create a website to expose a really nasty politician
who is now a judge, but has high political aspirations. This
guy makes Fred Phelps seems liberal.
I know it will make he and his cronies go ballistic and
want to retaliate and use their power to make our lives
miserable, so to make it harder to learn who the site owner
would be, someone suggested an offshore domain registrar,
and host. Suggestions? I am in the U.S.
I would most appreciate any input and information on how
difficult it is to track down a U.S. Based website owner if
said site it registered and hosted in the U.S. or, conversely,
Thanks so much.


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Back in September, when I was visiting my friend Christy in Portland, in addition to stopping by the Flock & Fiber Festival, I went to Farmhouse Knit Shop. I bought my first skein of Socks that Rock there a few years ago (before I even knew how to knit socks!). Love this store. The one skein of yarn that I purchased in September was a bit pricey, but well worth it. Blue Moon Fiber Arts De-Vine, 100% Merino Wool, Handpainted in the color Falcon's Eye (please don't ask me why I didn't think to take a picture of the skein before I knit it up!). So when Snowboarder requested another hat to match his green jacket and goggles, I thought this yarn would be perfect! However, it made it sooooooo hard to part with.
Pattern: Snowboarder Hat that Rocks! by Irishgirlieknits (ravelry link)
Please note this was one of my very first designs and soon will be reformatted and published with the rest of my Irish Girlie Knits Designs for consistency across my pattern line. As soon as it is available, I will update this page and the ravelry project page.
Happy Knitting!
xoxo Irishgirlieknits


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Today, I have the honor of representing ten members of the United States House of Representatives in challenging the constitutional basis for the Libyan War — and the underlying claims made by President Obama. These members include Democrats and Republicans from across the political spectrum. They share a belief that Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution expressly requires the authorization of Congress before a president can commit the nation to war. The lawsuit will be heard in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. We filed this afternoon and held a press conference with the members in front of the courthouse. A copy of the complaint (which will be heard by Judge Reggie Walton) is below.
This challenge goes beyond Libya and challenges the claim by the Administration that the President has the inherent authority to order combat operations without the approval or declaration of Congress. The Plaintiffs in this action include the second most longest standing member of Congress, John Conyers, as well as leading members from both parties. The members are Representatives Roscoe Bartlett (R., Md); Dan Burton (R., Ind.); Mike Capuano (D., Mass.); Howard Coble (R., N.C.); John Conyers (D., Mich.); John J. Duncan (R., Tenn.); Tim Johnson (R., Ill.); Walter Jones (R., N.C.); Dennis Kucinich (D., Ohio); and Ron Paul (R., Tx).
This is an action for injunctive and declaratory relief. In addition to challenging the circumvention of express constitutional language, it will also challenge arguments that no one (including members of Congress) has "standing" to submit this question to judicial review. These members will ask the federal district court for review of the constitutional question and for recognition that the Constitution must allow for judicial review of claims of undeclared wars under Article I.
I am being assisted in this case by a team including Jodie Cheng, David Fox, Kyle Noonan, Eric Sidler, and Geoff Turley (no relation to Professor Turley).
We are deeply honored to represent these courageous members of Congress in their defense of important constitutional limitations on executive power. While there are many uncertain questions under the Constitution, this is not one of them. The Framers spoke repeatedly and forcibly of their desire to bar presidents from committing the nation to war without congressional authorization and inserted an express limitation into Article I. The last few years have vividly demonstrated the dangers that the Framers sought to avoid in dividing the war powers between the Executive and Legislative branches. Despite their sharp ideological differences, these members are bond by deep faith in the Constitution and a sense of responsibility in defending its provisions. We shall their concerns and are eager to advance their claims in the Judicial Branch in this lawsuit.
As in past high-profile cases, I will have to be circumspect in my public comments once the case is filed.
Here is the filed complaint: Libyan Complaint;pdf
Jonathan Turley


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In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day, here are a few pages from RED SKULL INCARNATE and MAGNETO TESTAMENT that depict some key events during the rise of the Nazis.
Never forget. Never again.
To learn more about the rise of the Nazis and the Holocaust, please visit the United States Holocaust Museum website, https://www.ushmm.org/
MAGNETO TESTAMENT pages were drawn by Carmine Di Giandomenico with colors by Matt Hollingsworth and letters by David & Natalie Lanphear.
RED SKULL INCARNATE pages were drawn by Mirko Colak with colors by Matt Wilson and letters by Clayton Cowles.


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Our favorite reality TV stars cannot get enough of the spotlight during their regularly scheduled time slots, so they take to social media to share even more of their lives with us. And we would not have it any other way. Here's a roundup of some of our favorite snapshots and selfies from this week. Enjoy.
Real Housewives of Atlanta star Kenya Moore shared the "beatless" selfie above, adding, "I'm a Nubian queen. It's in my blood to adorn myself. But I'm definitely comfortable not wearing makeup too. But no woman is going to tell me "I need to remember what makeup is for." Beauty is from the inside out, and even if you don't wear makeup, don't judge others who do or make them feel bad for wanting to present themselves however they want. I have a few freckles hehehehe and yes bushy eyebrows. #beatlessbeauty"
Below you'll find photos from Heather Dubrow, Jeff Lewis, Teresa Giudice, Peta Murgatroyd, Yolanda Foster, Christina Aguilera, Sonja Morgan, and more.
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Messrs. H. Vernon Eney, William C. Walsh, and [308 U.S. 21, 22] William L. Henderson, all of Baltimore, Md., for petitioner.
[308 U.S. 21, 26] Mr. Robert H. Jackson, Sol. Gen., for respondent.
Mr. Chief Justice HUGHES delivered the opinion of the Court.
The Home Owners' Loan Corporation brought this proceeding in the Baltimore City Court for a writ of mandamus requiring the Clerk of the Superior Court of Baltimore to record a mortgage executed to the Corporation upon the payment of the ordinary recording charge and without affixing stamps for the state recording tax. Demurrer to the petition was overruled, the Clerk did not avail himself of the opportunity to answer, and mandamus was granted. The order was affirmed by the Court of Appeals of Maryland. 175 Md. 512, 2 A.2d 689. We granted certiorari. 306 U.S. 628 , 59 S.Ct. 787
The Maryland statute imposes a tax upon every mortgage, recorded or offered for record, at the rate of 10 cents for each $100, or fraction thereof, of the principal amount of the debt secured by the mortgage. 1 As the Home Owners' Loan Corporation is expressly declared to be an instrumentality of the United States, Home [308 U.S. 21, 30] Owners' Loan Act of 1933, c. 64, 48 Stat. 128, 12 U.S.C.A. 1461 et seq., and the mortage was acquired in that capacity, the Court of Appeals held the tax as thus applied to be invalid.
The court relied upon our decision in Federal Land Bank v. Crosland, 261 U.S. 374 , 43 S.Ct. 385, 29 A.L.R. 1. The question there related to a tax imposed by Alabama as a condition for the recording of a mortgage executed to a Federal Land Bank. The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 provides that first mortgages executed to Federal Land Banks shall be deemed 'instrumentalities of the Government of the United States, and as such they and the income derived therefrom shall be exempt from Federal, State, municipal, and local taxation'. 39 Stat, 360, 380 26, 12 U.S.C.A . 931. We held that the state tax, as distinguished from a reasonable fee to meet the expenses of the registry, constituted a general tax on mortgages, using the condition attached to registration as a practical mode of collecting it, and that the tax on the mortgage in question was beyond the power of the State.
Petitioner suggests that the Crosland case may be distinguished; that the Alabama tax was imposed on the lender, whereas the Maryland tax is on the privilege of recording the instrument and the statute is silent as to [308 U.S. 21, 31] the one who shall pay the tax; also that the Federal Farm Loan Act expressly declared the mortgages of Federal Land Banks to be instrumentalities of the Federal Government. The Court of Appeals thought these differences to be immaterial. As to the first, the court rightly observed that in the Crosland case the provision for the payment of tax by the lender was regarded as having no determining significance. We said that 'whoever pays it it is a tax upon the mortgage and that is what is forbidden by the law of the United States'. 261 U.S. pages 378, 379, 43 S. Ct. page 387, 29 A.L.R. 1. Here, also, the tax is imposed upon the mortgage and is graded according to the amount of the loan,2 and the condition attached to the regislation is a practical method of collection. The recording sought was for the protection of the interest of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation. In fact, the mortgage in the instant case was offered for record by the Corporation and the tax was demanded from the Corporation.
The second suggested distinction rests upon the terms of the Home Owners' Loan Act. That provides3 that the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, its franchise, capital, reserves and surplus, and its loans and income shall be exempt from all state or municipal taxes. The critical term, in the present relation, is 'loans'. We think that this term, in order to carry out the manifest purpose of the broad exemption, should be construed as covering the entire process of lending, the debts which result therefrom and the mortgages given to the Corporation as security. The Home Owners' Loan Act requires that the loans made by the Corporation 'shall be secured by [308 U.S. 21, 32] a duly recorded home mortgage'. 4 Both the mortgage and its recordation were indispensable elements in the lending operations authorized by Congress. We agree with the state court that there is no sound distinction which makes inapplicable the reasoning which was dicisive in the Crosland case.
Alive to this consideration, petitioner advances a broader contention, asking us to review and overrule the Crosland decision as being out of harmony with correct principle. Petitioner insists that the tax is not discriminatory; that it does not impose a burden upon the Home Owners' Loan Corporation; and that if the Act of Congress be construed as conferring an immunity, it went beyond the power of Congress, as Congress cannot 'grant an immunity of greater extent than the constitutional immunity'.
We assume here, as we assumed in Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, 306 U.S. 466 , 59 S.Ct. 595, 120 A.L.R. 1466, that the creation of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation was a constitutional exercise of the congressional power and that the activities of the Corporation through which the national government lawfully acts must be regarded as governmental functions and as entitled to whatever immunity attaches to those functions when performed by the government itself through its departments. McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, pages 421, 422; Smith v. Kansas City Title Co., 255 U.S. 180, 208 , 209 S., 41 S.Ct. 243, 248; Graves v. New York ex rel. O'Keefe, supra. Congress has not only the power to create a corporation to facilitate the performance of gov- [308 U.S. 21, 33] ernmental functions, but has the power to protect the operations thus validly authorized. 'A power to create implies a power to preserve'. McCulloch v. Maryland, supra, 4 Wheat. page 426. This power to preserve necessarily comes within the range of the express power conferred upon Congress to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution all powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States. Const. Art. I, sec. 8, cl. 18, U.S. C.A. In the exercise of this power to protect the lawful activities of its agencies, Congress has the dominant authority which necessarily inheres in its action within the national field. The Shreveport Case, 234 U.S. 342, 351 , 352 S., 34 S.Ct. 833, 836. The exercise of this protective power in relation to state taxation has many illustrations. See, e.g., Bank of New York v. Supervisors of New York County, 7 Wall. 26, 31; Choate v. Trapp, 224 U.S. 665, 668 , 669 S., 32 S.Ct. 565, 566; Smith v. Kansas City Title Co., supra, 255 U.S. page 207, 41 S.Ct. page 247; Trotter v. Tennessee, 290 U.S. 354, 356 , 54 S.Ct. 138, 139; Lawrence v. Shaw, 300 U.S. 245, 249 , 57 S.Ct. 443, 445. In this instance, Congress has undertaken to safeguard the operations of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation by providing the described immunity. As we have said, we construe this provision as embracing and prohibiting the tax in question. Since Congress had the constitutional authority to enact this provision, it is binding upon this Court as the supreme law of the land. Const. Art. VI.
The judgment of the state court is affirmed.
Mr. Justice BUTLER took no part in the consideration and decision of this case.
[ Footnote 1 ] The Act provides for a 'Tax on the Recordation of Instruments in Writing' as follows:
The same Act, in Section 214, provides for the affixing of stamps to cover the tax and makes it unlawful for any person to record any written instrument without providing for the payment of the tax, as stated.
[ Footnote 2 ] See Note 1.
[ Footnote 3 ] Section 4(c) of the Home Owners' Loan Act provides: 'The bonds issued by the Corporation under this subsection shall be exempt, both as to principal and interest, from all taxation (except surtaxes, estate, inheritance, and gift taxes) now or hereafter imposed by the United States or any District, Territory, dependency, or possession thereof, or by any State, county, municipality, or local taxing authority. The Corporation, including its franchise, its capital, reserves and surplus, and its loans and income, shall likewise be exempt from such taxation; except that any real property of the Corporation shall be subject to taxation to the same extent, according to its value, as other real property is taxed'. 48 Stat. 128, 130, 12 U.S.C. 1463, 12 U.S.C.A. 1463(c).
[ Footnote 4 ] Section 4(e)(f), 48 Stat. 131, 12 U.S.C. 1463(e)(f), 12 U.S.C.A. 1463(e, f).
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chroot - change root directory
#include <unistd.h> int chroot(const char *path); Feature Test Macro Requirements for glibc (see feature_test_macros(7)): chroot(): Since glibc 2.2.2: _BSD_SOURCE || (_XOPEN_SOURCE >= 500 || _XOPEN_SOURCE && _XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED) && !(_POSIX_C_SOURCE >= 200112L || _XOPEN_SOURCE >= 600) Before glibc 2.2.2: none
chroot() changes the root directory of the calling process to that specified in path. This directory will be used for pathnames beginning with /. The root directory is inherited by all children of the calling process. Only a privileged process (Linux: one with the CAP_SYS_CHROOT capability) may call chroot(). This call changes an ingredient in the pathname resolution process and does nothing else. This call does not change the current working directory, so that after the call '.' can be outside the tree rooted at '/'. In particular, the superuser can escape from a "chroot jail" by doing: mkdir foo; chroot foo; cd .. This call does not close open file descriptors, and such file descriptors may allow access to files outside the chroot tree.
On success, zero is returned. On error, -1 is returned, and errno is set appropriately.
Depending on the filesystem, other errors can be returned. The more general errors are listed below: EACCES Search permission is denied on a component of the path prefix. (See also path_resolution(7).) EFAULT path points outside your accessible address space. EIO An I/O error occurred. ELOOP Too many symbolic links were encountered in resolving path. ENAMETOOLONG path is too long. ENOENT The file does not exist. ENOMEM Insufficient kernel memory was available. ENOTDIR A component of path is not a directory. EPERM The caller has insufficient privilege.
SVr4, 4.4BSD, SUSv2 (marked LEGACY). This function is not part of POSIX.1-2001.
A child process created via fork(2) inherits its parent's root directory. The root directory is left unchanged by execve(2). FreeBSD has a stronger jail() system call.
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To Enterprise
A poem by
William Wordsworth
Keep for the Young the impassioned smile
Shed from thy countenance, as I see thee stand
High on that chalky cliff of Britain's Isle,
A slender volume grasping in thy hand
(Perchance the pages that relate
The various turns of Crusoe's fate)
Ah, spare the exulting smile,
And drop thy pointing finger bright
As the first flash of beacon light;
But neither veil thy head in shadows dim,
Nor turn thy face away
From One who, in the evening of his day,
To thee would offer no presumptuous hymn!
Bold Spirit! who art free to rove
Among the starry courts of Jove,
And oft in splendour dost appear
Embodied to poetic eyes,
While traversing this nether sphere,
Where Mortals call thee Enterprise.
Daughter of Hope! her favourite Child,
Whom she to young Ambition bore,
When hunter's arrow first defiled
The grove, and stained the turf with gore;
Thee winged Fancy took, and nursed
On broad Euphrates' palmy shore,
And where the mightier Waters burst
From caves of Indian mountains hoar!
She wrapped thee in a panther's skin;
And Thou, thy favourite food to win,
The flame-eyed eagle oft wouldst scare
From her rock-fortress in mid air,
With infant shout; and often sweep,
Paired with the ostrich, o'er the plain;
Or, tired with sport, wouldst sink asleep
Upon the couchant lion's mane!
With rolling years thy strength increased
And, far beyond thy native East,
To thee, by varying titles known
As variously thy power was shown,
Did incense-bearing altars rise,
Which caught the blaze of sacrifice,
From suppliants panting for the skies!
What though this ancient Earth be trod
No more by step of Demi-god
Mounting from glorious deed to deed
As thou from clime to clime didst lead;
Yet still, the bosom beating high,
And the hushed farewell of an eye
Where no procrastinating gaze
A last infirmity betrays,
Prove that thy heaven-descended sway
Shall ne'er submit to cold decay.
By thy divinity impelled,
The Stripling seeks the tented field;
The aspiring Virgin kneels; and, pale
With awe, receives the hallowed veil,
A soft and tender Heroine
Vowed to severer discipline;
Inflamed by thee, the blooming Boy
Makes of the whistling shrouds a toy,
And of the ocean's dismal breast
A play-ground, or a couch of rest;
'Mid the blank world of snow and ice,
Thou to his dangers dost enchain
The Chamois-chaser awed in vain
By chasm or dizzy precipice;
And hast Thou not with triumph seen
How soaring Mortals glide between
Or through the clouds, and brave the light
With bolder than Icarian flight?
How they, in bells of crystal, dive
Where winds and waters cease to strive
For no unholy visitings,
Among the monsters of the Deep;
And all the sad and precious things
Which there in ghastly silence sleep?
Or, adverse tides and currents headed,
And breathless calms no longer dreaded,
In never-slackening voyage go
Straight as an arrow from the bow;
And, slighting sails and scorning oars,
Keep faith with Time on distant shores?
Within our fearless reach are placed
The secrets of the burning Waste;
Egyptian tombs unlock their dead,
Nile trembles at his fountain head;
Thou speak'st, and lo! the polar Seas
Unbosom their last mysteries.
But oh! what transports, what sublime reward,
Won from the world of mind, dost thou prepare
For philosophic Sage; or high-souled Bard
Who, for thy service trained in lonely woods,
Hath fed on pageants floating through the air,
Or calentured in depth of limpid floods;
Nor grieves, tho' doomed thro' silent night to bear
The domination of his glorious themes,
Or struggle in the net-work of thy dreams!
If there be movements in the Patriot's soul,
From source still deeper, and of higher worth,
'Tis thine the quickening impulse to control,
And in due season send the mandate forth;
Thy call a prostrate Nation can restore,
When but a single Mind resolves to crouch no more.
Dread Minister of wrath!
Who to their destined punishment dost urge
The Pharaohs of the earth, the men of hardened heart!
Not unassisted by the flattering stars,
Thou strew'st temptation o'er the path
When they in pomp depart
With trampling horses and refulgent cars
Soon to be swallowed by the briny surge;
Or cast, for lingering death, on unknown strands;
Or caught amid a whirl of desert sands
An Army now, and now a living hill
That a brief while heaves with convulsive throes
Then all is still;
Or, to forget their madness and their woes,
Wrapt in a winding-sheet of spotless snows!
Back flows the willing current of my Song:
If to provoke such doom the Impious dare,
Why should it daunt a blameless prayer?
Bold Goddess! range our Youth among;
Nor let thy genuine impulse fail to beat
In hearts no longer young;
Still may a veteran Few have pride
In thoughts whose sternness makes them sweet;
In fixed resolves by Reason justified;
That to their object cleave like sleet
Whitening a pine tree's northern side,
When fields are naked far and wide,
And withered leaves, from earth's cold breast
Up-caught in whirlwinds, nowhere can find rest.
But, if such homage thou disdain
As doth with mellowing years agree,
One rarely absent from thy train
More humble favours may obtain
For thy contented Votary.
She, who incites the frolic lambs
In presence of their heedless dams,
And to the solitary fawn
Vouchsafes her lessons, bounteous Nymph
That wakes the breeze, the sparkling lymph
Doth hurry to the lawn;
She, who inspires that strain of joyance holy
Which the sweet Bird, misnamed the melancholy,
Pours forth in shady groves, shall plead for me;
And vernal mornings opening bright
With views of undefined delight,
And cheerful songs, and suns that shine
On busy days, with thankful nights, be mine.
But thou, O Goddess! in thy favourite Isle
(Freedom's impregnable redoubt,
The wide earth's store-house fenced about
With breakers roaring to the gales
That stretch a thousand thousand sails)
Quicken the slothful, and exalt the vile!
Thy impulse is the life of Fame;
Glad Hope would almost cease to be
If torn from thy society;
And Love, when worthiest of his name,
Is proud to walk the earth with Thee!
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Power quality disturbances can be categorized into the following seven basic groups.
- An outage is a complete loss of power. A temporary outage lasts anywhere from 3 seconds to 1 minute. A long term outage would last longer than 1 minute.
Possible Causes
- Accidents, acts of nature, etc. which require the proper operation of utility equipment (like fuses)
- Internal short circuit resulting in the proper operation of a customer's breakers and fuses
- A momentary outage is a very short loss of power lasting from 1/120th of a second to 3 seconds. This is often seen as a "blink" in your lights.
Possible Causes
- Accidents, acts of nature, etc. which require the proper automatic operation of utility protective equipment
- An undervoltage or overvoltage is any long-term change (lasting more than a minute) below or above normal voltage.
Possible Causes
- Overloaded wiring or equipment
- Poor voltage control possibly due to large load swings or improper transformer settings
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- A sag or swell is any short-term (lasting less than one minute) decrease (sag) or increase (swell) in voltage.
Possible Causes
- Major equipment start-up or shutdown
- Short circuits
- Improper electrical connections
- Sudden load reduction
- A surge or transient is a sudden change in voltage up to several thousand volts lasting a few microseconds (a microsecond is one millionth of a second).
Possible Causes
- Lightning
- Proper operation of utility fuses, reclosers, and breakers
- Turning on or off large equipment
- Operation of welding equipment
- Noise is an unwanted electrical signal of high frequency that alters the normal voltage pattern (sine wave). An example of the result of noise would be the distorted picture you may get on a computer screen when a microwave is turned on.
Possible Causes
- Electronic equipment
- Radar transmitters
- Radio and television broadcasts
- Operation of welding equipment
- Heaters, thermostats, and loose wiring
- Harmonic distortion is the alteration of the normal voltage pattern (sine wave) due to "non-linear" loads (like electronic equipment). All electronic devices (those having transistors for example) draw electricity differently than non-electronic equipment and distort the normal voltage pattern.
Possible Causes
- Operation of non-linear loads such as fluorescent ballasts and computer power supplies
- Operation of battery chargers
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To keep your business up and running with reliable power, some of the following equipment may be useful.
- Designed to maintain a constant voltage output over a wide range of input voltages. As a result, input voltage variations do not pass through the transformer.
- Maintains voltage output within a desired limit despite varying input voltage. Regulators provide little or no protection against surges or noise.
- Designed to limit the periodic or continuous distortions of the normal voltage wave pattern (sine wave) caused by non-linear loads. Non-linear loads (like all electronic equipment) draw electricity differently than linear loads and distort the normal voltage pattern.
- Protects sensitive electronic equipment by buffering electrical noise.
- Eliminates interference that may interrupt the proper operation of electrical or electronic equipment. This interference is known as electromagnetic interference (EMI). Electronic devices can be a source of this interference.
- An alternate power supply usually driven by a gas or diesel engine.
- Designed to limit instantaneous high voltages. Also known by a number of names, such as surge suppressor, surge arrestor, and surge diverter.
- Designed to come between the power from the utility system and critical equipment within the business. The motor takes power from the utility system and then generates power for critical equipment. Acting as a buffer, motor-generator sets provide regulated, conditioned power to connected equipment.
- Designed to improve the quality of power supplied to critical loads and to generate the required voltage and current when power interruptions, voltage variations, or frequency variations occur. A UPS has batteries as an internal source of energy and uses this energy to provide AC power to selected equipment even if the utility power is interrupted.


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A waterproof/breathable eVent shell keeps the down bone dry—even when puddles of tent condensation pooled on the bag's foot end—and a two-inch-wide zipper flap prevents blowing moisture from penetrating. The hood has a reverse-differential cut*, so it surrounds the head like a customized cloud of warmth. Bonus: The roomy fit accommodates layers of puffy clothing that could push this bag's comfort range down to about -40°F. $759; 3 lbs. 14 oz.; -25°F
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Phenomenon1996 Drama | Romance | SciFi/Fantasy
Director Jon Turteltaub followed up the hit While You Were Sleeping (1995) with this fantasy similar to Charly (1968) and a film from the previous year, Powder (1994). John Travolta stars as George Malley, a humble mechanic in a rural California town. On his 37th birthday, George celebrates at a pub with friends Nate (Forest Whitaker) and Doc (Robert Duvall), the local physician. When he steps outside, George observes a bright light in the sky that knocks him briefly unconscious. When he awakens, George has incredible intellectual powers. He checks books out of the library in armfuls, becomes an inventor, a psychic, has telekinetic powers, predicts an earthquake, and memorizes Portuguese in minutes. Using his newfound powers, George becomes a hero, but he can't totally win over the spooked townsfolk or the standoffish Lace (Kyra Sedgwick), a single mom burned by love once too often. As George's kindness breaks down Lace's reserve and a romance begins, his fame spreads, bringing him to the attention of the FBI and curious university scientists. Similarities between George's powers and the alleged benefits of Travolta's religion, Scientology, led to charges that the film was veiled pro-Scientology propaganda.~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide


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Tiina Kivinen (f.1971)
Mourning cloak
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Uten tittel (landskap)
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Mezzotint / Aquatint
Kr 5 500,00Kjøp
Afroditen lintu
Mezzotint / Aquatint
Kr 5 500,00Kjøp
Hobgoblin`s Home
Kr 3 500,00Kjøp
Gatherer`s Friend I
Mezzotint, aquatint
Kr 3 500,00Kjøp
Gatherer`s Friend II
Mezzotint, aquatint
Kr 3 500,00Kjøp
Gatherer`s Friend III
Koldnål, aquatint
Kr 3 500,00Kjøp
Forest Notes
Mezzotint, koldnål, aquatint
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Mezzotint, koldnål, aquatint
Kr 4 200,00Kjøp
The Fairy Forest
Koldnål, aquatint
Kr 4 200,00Kjøp
Son of the forest
Kr 4 200,00Kjøp
Don Quijote Andalusia II
Mezzotint, koldnål
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Hide and Seek
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Don Quijote Andalusia I
Mezzotint, koldnål
Kr 3 500,00Kjøp
Mezzotint, Koldnål
Kr 5 500,00Kjøp
Tabernas Desert
Mezzotint, Koldnål
Kr 5 500,00Kjøp
Black Hero II
Kr 8 400,00Kjøp
Ninja in Lapland
Mezzotint, heliogravure
Kr 5 100,00Kjøp
Option II
Kr 3 200,00Kjøp
Option I
Kr 3 200,00Kjøp
Wisdom Mouse
Koldnål og mezzotint
Kr 3 300,00Kjøp
Pebble Pocket
Mezzotint og koldnål
Kr 3 100,00Kjøp
How to treat your Tamagotchi IV
Kr 4 200,00Kjøp
Pirates Cove
Koldnål og Mezzotint
Kr 1 600,00Kjøp
I found a baby dragon
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Koldnål og Mezzotint
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How to treat your Tamagotchi VI
Kr 4 200,00Kjøp
Tiina Kivinen 2000-2010
Kr 250,00Kjøp
Instinct and emotion
A small gesture in a landscape, weakness of a human, or a strong presence of an animal are things that are difficult to illustrate. They are states of mind, momentary perceptions. As topics of visual arts they become concrete. At the same time they tend to lose their original, intuitive sensitivity. A landscape turns into a still, colored surface; a human being becomes a person and an animal turns into a symbol.
Printmaker Tiina Kivinen has taken on the challenge. She concentrates on intuition. She reaches for the original frame, where sensitivity can be seen. Her work is about boundaries which are not easy to observe in real life – because stopping time is impossible. Kivinen slows time down for us. She shows us images that offer a prolonged presence. From tiny premonitions arise thoughts and a restless motion appears to be coherent.
Kivinen offers us the possibility to see but at the same time she also forces us to take a closer look. She does not disregard the smallest things in life. Although the smallest might be left unseen in everyday life, Kivinen makes them visible in her works. The most vulnerable and trampled are defended by Kivinen. Nevertheless, Kivinen does not preach, she shows empathy. She relies on the empathy of the viewer and works subtly, just like Asian lyricists. Her work can be compared to Japanese Tanka and Haiku poems. A light, breathing rhythm and the endless layers of contents and aesthetic colors emphasize the lyricism of her works.
Representation is a wavering notion for Kivinen. At times there are recognizable elements in the picture. In most cases, it is the viewer's own need to find the reason for the picture, the storyline that the picture entails. This need is deeply humane. The feeling of closeness when recognizing the motif makes the viewing experience pleasant, reflecting the viewer's own memories and experiences. The strictest representatives of abstract art wanted to eliminate the possibility of recognizing the motifs. Kivinen's aim is quite the opposite. She tunes the viewer into a sensitive mood. She creates images that are easy to grasp. The viewer is, however, on a narrow field: without concentration the motif is not easily understood. Kivinen plays with the viewer's need of recognizing the topic and at times she dares to make recognition almost impossible. The viewer's need to recognize the motif has to be deep enough so that the work is not merely considered as an abstract composition.
Kivinen's work is easy to view as a series because of the interesting interaction of abstract and figurative. Recognizing the topic in one piece encourages the viewer to find the topic in another piece as well. This is why her body of work is not seen in the same way as a group of mere abstract compositions.
Kivinen works with intaglio. It is often considered to be technical, heavy work lacking in direct processing of the motif. This is not true. Intaglio printmaking is very similar to drawing. Working on the image is possible also in the printing stage. Kivinen uses etching very seldom. She works mainly with drypoint, mezzotint and monotype techniques. With these techniques it is possible to print only small editions. A large number of Kivinen's prints are unique. Working on the image in the printing stage demands the presence of the artist, and that is the reason why only few of Kivinen's prints are printed by a professional fine art printer.
Kivinen concentrates on the most essential things. She prefers large surfaces but she has the ability to express herself in smaller surroundings as well. A square is one of her favorite forms. It is not obvious which way the print is finally displayed. She expresses herself in an aphoristic way. A condensed message is often interestingly elliptical. Though being elliptic does not mean losing the meanings of the print. The meanings have a lyrical form, emphasizing the aesthetic features of the print. Kivinen is a storyteller. The titles of her prints are contemporary and typical for everyday language use. The titles offer the viewer one possible way to interpret her works. Kivinen expresses herself with lines and colors. The colors she uses are not loud - they are sheer and toned. There are bright greens and warm reds bringing light onto the surface. The most important color is black. The velvety black is created with mezzotint technique. The surface of the copper is broken into even holes that are filled with the hand rubbed ink. The ink transfers into the grains of the heavy printing paper. By polishing the broken surface of the copper, the black ink gets new shades and light.
In intaglio printmaking the colour black has a strong status. In Kivinen's work it raises up to a topic. At the same time it links the works to the traditional printmaking in a fine, respective way. Kivinen composes with the deep, velvety black and makes the picture rest on the surface. The black is completely empty and brimful at the same time. It is rarely dismal. It is breathing, wide, and leaves room for the viewer's interpretation. When taking a closer look at the black, it can be seen that it is by no means pure. The black that Kivinen uses is strongly toned. Sometimes it is warm, sometimes cold, but never insignificant. The shades of black appear in ways that are unnoticeable in a direct viewing experience. The difference would be noticeable if the same work would be printed with pure black. The black presented in different shades and tones is not agonizing. It is the color of dusk, the horizon and the color of a campfire burned out. It does not compete with the whites: it wraps them alternately inside and around it. The other colors play minor roles in the play where black and white take the lead.
The line drawn by Kivinen lives a transitional stage. It has more nuances and it has made the works more drawing-like. A fragile line creates veil-like images that make the deep black surfaces even more noticeable. In her newest prints the line is like hair. The mark strongly scratched on the copper has a new companion: a fine line, lightly carved. Kivinen's technique is drypoint. The line is carved directly on the copper plate. The technique is laborious and demanding, but it enables direct working on the image, so that the act of drawing is being emphasized and reflected to the print. As an abstract, Kivinen's prints can be defined as drawings. They are stages for simple, humane observations. The black surface and the network of lines form an abstract composition or a recognizable object, depending on the context.
The epic intensity of her work is parallel with the ultimately tuned visual delight. Kivinen presents this in a very skillful way. The strong presence of the artist is transmitted from her work. It is lifelike and constantly open for new interpretations.
Tiina Kivinen har hatt solo-utstillinger i Finland, Tyskland, Estland og Spania, og har i tillegg til dette deltatt på gruppe-utstillinger i Kina, Sør-Korea, Japan, Russland, Tyskland, Italia, Estland, Polen og Sverige. Hun er representert ved en rekke samlinger, blant annet Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art, Aboa Vetus & Ars Nova museo, den Finske Stat, det Finske Parlament, og de Kunstmuseet i Helsinki -, Tampere-, Oulu-, Jyväskylä- og Kouvola.
Born 1971 in Kuusankoski, Finland – currently lives and works in Espoo, Finland.
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Springfield, OH 45505
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3520 Pentagon Park Blvd,
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Fairfield Inn By Marriott - Fairborn, OH
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Comments (20)
a resident of another community
on Jul 11, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Thank you for these informative and inspiring stories about depression and bipolar disorder. Ms. Lerer is to be highly commended for turning to help others, even when she herself has health concerns. I hope that her story and her support group will help many, many more of those living with these all-too-common illnesses.
a resident of another community
on Jul 11, 2007 at 5:30 pm
Thank you for an article that will provide hope and help to so many people who are either battling mental illness themselves or are close to someone else who is. With so many people in this country affected by mental illness, it's about time that all of the issues surrounding it get brought out of the closet and people get educated. I commend Ms. Lerer for her bravery in the face of her own illness and her resourcefulness in getting her support group going. I hope she can serve as a role model for others in similar situations to make a positive out of a negative situation.
a resident of South of Midtown
on Jul 13, 2007 at 9:56 am
Having had family members with bipolar disorder I really appreciate hearing Ms. Lerer's story first-hand. I consider her a role model for liberating those afflicted with mental illness... especially around the shame people feel. It is the shame that keeps people stuck and isolated and prevents them from seeking help. Ms. Lerer's support group and others like it seem like the key [for people with mental illness] to living a life of dignity, hope and joy.
a resident of another community
on Jul 15, 2007 at 4:42 pm
Thank you for such an informative article. Katherine is a very brave woman. She has the love and support of her family and friends and the strength to continue her venture. God bless you!
a resident of another community
on Jul 15, 2007 at 7:45 pm
My compliments to Ms. Lerer for bringing bi-polar out of the darkness and offering help and support to others. Probably not easy to do when you suffer from the disorder, but all the more valuable to those whose lives she touches. She is indeed an inspiration!
a resident of Midtown
on Jul 15, 2007 at 8:06 pm
Dear Sir/Madam,
Thank you for publishing this article! Your publishing decisions result in education for the Mid-Peninsula community so that more people learn about mental illness. Readers need to know that bi-polar disorder, like other mental illnesses, is a scary, serious illness sometimes resulting in lengthy disability, but also often amendable to treatment. Many a patient can find successful treatment (meds and/or psychotherapy) and eventually reach his or her potential and fully participate in life. Thanks again for spreading the word about how people cope with and control their mental illness symptoms. Ms. Lerer is a great example of this!
a resident of another community
on Jul 15, 2007 at 11:17 pm
Thank you for publishing this honest interview with Katherine Leher. Stigma still surrounds mental illness and therefore, the shame exists. When people are educated about what mental illness "is" and "is not", there is more hope of getting rid of the stigma. There was a time when cancer & aids were stigmatized. People who are affected by mental illness and their families need compassion and concern in order to deal with the trauma it brings. Your article is a step in that direction. Katherine Leher is truly a courageous person. The help she provides to others is so very important!
a resident of another community
on Jul 16, 2007 at 2:57 pm
Thanks to Sue Dremann for writing this excellent article and thanks to Katherine Lerer and individuals in her support program for their willingness to be the subjects of the article.
Unfortunately, those suffering from biological brain diseases such as bipolar disorder, clinical depression, and schizophrenia are still subject to much stigma, prejudice, and discrimination. Perhaps more than any other group in our society.
As an example of this problem, those who suffer from the biological brain disease known as Alzheimer's are usually treated with respect and concern, but those suffering from the biological brain diseases that are collectively known as severe mental illnesses are subject to reduced insurance coverage and to reduced support by county medical facilities around the country.
Recent studies have indicated that those suffering from serious mental illness have an average life span approximately 25 years less that other Americans.
Articles such as this one play an important role in educating the public about mental illness, and I hope that this is only the first of a number of similar pieces by the Weekly.
a resident of Menlo Park
on Jul 16, 2007 at 4:21 pm
Thank you for publishing this beautiful story. It tells a tale of personal courage that all of us can learn from. Simply told yet insightful. Your tag line, "A Phoenix Rising" really applies.
I appreciated your positive presentation about mood disorders and the support groups that mean so much to those afflicted.
Barbara Tyler
a resident of Woodside
on Jul 17, 2007 at 7:38 pm
What an inspiring article offering hope and inspiration to everyone suffering from mental illness. The more we come out of the darkness and into the light, the more we can break the stigma and get the support and help to all of those feeling hopless desparation. Living with a family member that has suffered for years I know intimately the daily pain which affects the entire family unit. Ms. Leher is a brave woman and I applaud her candidness and willingness to share her compelling story to save lives and bring hope and courage in their lives. Thank you Sue for writing this article.
a resident of another community
on Jul 18, 2007 at 12:26 pm
Thank you for publishing this article about the depression and bipolar disorder group! I am a member of the group, and I KNOW how important a support group can be to someone with a brain disorder. I have been a member for over 6 years and recognize the vital role that it plays in maintaining my stable life.
Katherine is a wonderful advocate for the mentally ill. She is an awesome group leader and success story. I look forward to many more years of discussions and shared support among the members of the community.
a resident of another community
on Jul 19, 2007 at 11:39 am
Dear Sir/Madam:
Thank you for publishing this article. I am a member of this group, and very proud to be. It is important the we get this information out there, so that more people may be helped. This group contributes to my wellness every week. The people in the group are wonderful beyond words. It is so important to come together as a community.
Very truly yours,
Alicia DeValliere
a resident of another community
on Jul 22, 2007 at 3:47 pm
Thank you for publishing this article. While well over 2% of the population suffer from serious mental illness we don't often hear much about it and it continues to be surrounded by stigma. Katherine runs the best mood disorders support group I know of in the South Bay. The group maintains a web site at: Web Link
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Jul 29, 2007 at 4:30 pm
After being a Palo Alto resident for 40 years, we have moved north but retain our love for the City. I worked with Katherine for several years and know how difficult this has been for her. Her courage and willingness to share are truly inspirational. I have forwarded this article to my daughter who has schizoaffective disorder. We are very familiar with the difficulties. I refuse to give in to stigma and talk to people about mental illness frequently. When this happens, one or more of those to whom I am talking mention they have a sister, brother, or some other relative who also has a mental illness. It is all around us and should be treated as just another illness to combat. Those who have this condition (and there are several gradations and types) need our love and help, not to be shunted off or ignored or any of the other myriad ways, they are made to feel "less than". Please keep up the articles!
a resident of another community
on Jul 29, 2007 at 9:53 pm
I have great love and admiration for Katherine, whom I know personally. She is courageous, and has gained personal strength from her dedicated efforts to help others fight these types of illness. I wish her continued success, and hope that she will inspire others to follow her lead.
a resident of another community
on Jul 30, 2007 at 2:54 pm
I met Katherine recently at a Stanford seminar and until she let me know that she had bipolar I would not have guessed that she suffered from this illness. I salute Katherine for her courage in helping to let people know what it is like to have bipolar disorder. Through Katherine, and others, we can see that although we cannot yet cure the illness, there is a basis for hope and inspiration - and that with medicine and therapy, the illness can be tamed and the ill can lead go on to lead good lives. As the parent of a child that has the illness, I can appreciate seeing this kind of progress.
One aspect of bipolar disorder that the writer may expand upon in a follow-up article is to look at how important family and friends are in a patient's journey towards recovery and the value of support groups for these helpers. It is essential for the patient's family and friends to know there are support groups for them too, such as those available through Alliance and NAMI, and that they will need (and deserve) this kind of emotional support.
The initial period before and after a patient's diagnosis are rough, really rough, and there is so much to get to know and to do. Families must learn these things pretty darn fast. There is so much that is happening that defies understanding (including public assistance like SSI, EPS, and emergency 911 types of calls), such as the emotional lows of the depression, the anger, and when these feelings become focused upon those who are trying to help. It's even more difficult for all when there are other aspects of the illness (such as schizophrenia which commonly accompanies bipolar disorder) to also deal with. Parents and family members tend to take these experiences personally, but they need to know that patients don't wish to behave this way, and unfortunately, patients commonly act this way towards those who love them while they are trying to provide help.
If people consider the families and friends that help the ill like a compass to help the ill to navigate their way to wellness, then they should also consider joining a support group to ensure that they stay strong and get the emotional support that they will need to survive the ups and downs they will surely encounter. Support groups for families are as essential to the families as they are for people who suffer from the illness.
Bless you Katherine for all that you are doing to help yourself and to help others. You go girl!
a resident of Duveneck/St. Francis
on Jul 31, 2007 at 5:40 pm
I've known Katherine for many years, before and after her bipolar disorder emerged. I loved and admired her before the illness struck, and I love her and admire her even more now, having seen the courageous way that she's dealt with all of the many difficult aspects of the disease. I'm always amazed that Katherine manages to do all that she does. Indeed, as I've often told her, she takes on more challenges and accomplishes more than most of the people I know who don't have to cope with bipolar disorder at the same time. I've also always been impressed with the good humor and positive attitude with which she lives her life. But most of all I admire her unselfish determination to help others. Having suffered with depression myself, I know how hard it can be at times just to get up in the morning, let alone reach out to others. I also understand the impulse to remove oneself from the world when the pain of depression seems too difficult to handle. But Katherine has done quite the opposite. With her group, her writing, and in her everyday life, she's not only an effective mental health advocate but a truly compassionate and giving human being. I know this first hand because Katherine has always been there for me as a loving and helpful friend even when she herself was suffering. She is always empathetic, supportive, and concerned no matter how difficult her own life may be at the time. I'm grateful that she's my friend, and I'm grateful for the article featuring her story. I hope that you'll continue to publish articles such as this. Mental illness has long been misunderstood and is too often seen as a stigma rather than a condition that many, many people, including Katherine, deserve our respect and admiration for not only enduring but rising above.
a resident of another community
on Aug 1, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Thank you so much for this article. It not only helps to normalize a condition that is stigmatized in our society, but illustrates what a resourceful and giving person such as Ms. Lerer can contribute to alleviate the suffering and isolation of others. She is an emblem of the highest attributes of humanity.
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Aug 4, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Thank you for your article on bipolar. I will read your article to my daughter who is bipolar and our family which may shed some insight into what our 32 year old daughter is going through. She has gone through some similar things. Please keep writing and informing others there is hope available.
Sincerely, Debbie Miller
a resident of Woodside
on Sep 2, 2007 at 11:29 am
Thank you for such a great article on mental illness. How generous of Katherine to share her experiences. She is an inspiration in her willingness to be open about her difficulties and successes. It is so important to help others know that they are not alone and that there is hope for themselves or a loved one.
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Kakteen (Berger) 46 46 1929 [Et : Borg in Cacti 53 1937.)
Family: CACTACEAE
Origin and Habitat: Bolivia (Cochabamba, Chuquisaca, Formosa, Santa Cruz and Tarija), northwestern Paraguay, and northwestern Argentina (Chaco, Formosa, Jujuy and Salta). Also reported from Mato Grosso do Sul, Brasil.
Altitude range: 0 to 1000 meters above sea level.
Habitat and ecology: This species is found in dry and low-lying areas, sometimes associated with Pereskia sacharosa. It grows in clay soils. It is consumed by peccaries (Catagonus wagneri). Quiabentia verticillata has a wide distribution, is locally abundant, and there are no major threats affecting it. It is favoured by livestock grazing.
Habitat and Ecology: This species occurs in dry and low areas, sometimes associated with Pereskia sacharosa.
- Quiabentia verticillata (Vaupel) Vaupel ex A.Berger
- Grusonia verticillata (Vaupel) G.D.Rowley
- Pereskia verticillata Vaupel
Quiabentia verticillata (Vaupel) Vaupel ex A.Berger
Kakteen (Berger) 46 46 1929 [Et : Borg in Cacti 53 1937.)
Synonymy: 8
- Quiabentia verticillata (Vaupel) Vaupel ex A.Berger
- Grusonia verticillata (Vaupel) G.D.Rowley
- Pereskia verticillata Vaupel
- Quiabentia chacoensis Backeb.
- Quiabentia chacoensis var. jujuyensis Backeb.
- Quiabentia pereziensis Backeb.
- Quiabentia pflanzii (Vaupel) Vaupel ex A.Berger
- Pereskia pflanzii Vaupel
ENGLISH: Verticillate quiabentia
FRENCH (Français): Quiabentia verticillé
PORTUGUESE (Português): Achuma
SPANISH (Español): Quiabento, Oreja de perro, Sacharosa hembra
Description: Quiabentia verticillata is a treelike or shrubby plant 2 to 15 metres high with a distinct trunk.
Derivation of specific name: 'verticillata' from Lat., verticillate; for the branching pattern.
Stems: 1-3 cm thick branching off from the ends (verticillate).
Areoles: Conspicuous with white felt and wool, somewhat persisting.
Leaves: Oval to lance shaped, almost sessile, nearly cylindrical at base, 4-5 cm long, to 2 cm broad, very succulent and almost terete.
Spines: Several, acicular, white, downward pointing, of very variable length, the three longer to 7 cm long.
Flowers: Pale red, 1.5 cm long.
Chromosome number: 2n=22
Subspecies, varieties, forms and cultivars of plants belonging to the Quiabentia verticillata group
- Quiabentia pflanzii (Vaupel) Vaupel ex A.Berger: A tree or shrubs, with fleshy, cylindrical stems and oval leaves rather straggly in habit, 4 to 12 (-15) m tall. Distribution: Paraguay and Bolivia.
- Quiabentia verticillata (Vaupel) Vaupel ex A.Berger: is a treelike or shrubby plant 2 to 15 metres high with a distinct trunk. Stems branching off from the ends (verticillate). Distribution: Bolivia, Paraguay, and Argentina.
Bibliography: Major references and further lectures
1) Hunt, D., Taylor, N. and Charles, G. "The New Cactus Lexicon." dh Books, Milborne Port, UK. 2006
2) Anderson, E. F. "The cactus family" 2001
3) Urs Eggli, Leonard E. Newton "Etymological Dictionary of Succulent Plant Names" Springer Science & Business Media, 29 June 2013
4) Forzza, R. C. "Lista de espécies Flora do Brasil" Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro.2010
5) Curt Backeberg, Frederic Marcus Knuth "Kaktus-ABC". Kopenhagen 1936
6) Kiesling, R. and Ferrari, O.E. "100 Cactus Argentinos." Albatros, Buenos Aires. 2009
7) Neris, N.N. "El Tagua (Catagonus wagneri): dieta y uso del hábitat en el chaco paraguayano." Universidad Nacional Experimental de los Llanos Occidentales "Ezequiel Zamora".1993
8) Oakley, L. & Pin, A. 2013. "Quiabentia verticillata." The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2013: e.T152502A644121. http://dx.doi.org/10.2305/IUCN.UK.2013-1.RLTS.T152502A644121.en. Downloaded on 24 March 2016.
9) "Números cromosomáticos para las Cactaceae del Paraguay" retrieved 23 March 2016 from <http://www.ub.edu/botanica/cromopar/citogenetica.pdf>
10) Michael Nee "Flora de la Región del Parque Nacional Amboró Bolivia: Magnoliidae, Hamamelidae y Caryophyllidae" Editorial FAN, 2004
In habitat. Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
Quiabentia verticillata Photo by: Alexander Arzberger
Cultivation and Propagation: Quiabentia verticillata is a low maintenance plant that tolerate considerable neglect and will naturalize, it is drought-tolerant; and suitable for xeriscaping, but their spines are so painful it is difficult to recommend them for home gardens. Easy to cultivate outdoor in dry, sandy or gravely, well-drained soils. May be grown in clay soils as long as drainage is good and soils do not remain wet, it is very adaptable both in acid, neutral and basic (alkaline) soils, but prefers a pH in the range 6 to 7.5.
Watering needs: Outdoors little or no water once established, in the green house irrigate regularly from March to October, keep fairly dry in winter, tolerate dry condition but suffer if exposed to prolonged and severe drought. A position at the base of a south-facing wall or somewhere that can be protected from winter rain is best for this plant, but is however resistant to moisture and rain.
Sun Exposure: Full sun (only), in semi shaded position wont produce many flowers.
Frost hardiness: They are not cold hardy, but may survived mild frosts if very dry.
Traditional uses: The leaves can satisfy the thirst in case of lack of water.
Propagation: Propagated by cuttings of segments at any time in the growing season. (Allow cut surface to callus over before planting).
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"Golden Chief" Tomb Treasure Yields Clues to Unnamed Civilization
"Spectacular find" includes gold, jewels, and a small army of likely sacrifices.
Newfound tombs in Central America are yielding thousand-year-old gold, gems, and even hints of murder by pufferfish. But the real treasure is the excavation's clues to the unnamed civilization of the so-called golden chiefs of Panama, archaeologists say.
(Also see National Geographic magazine's new "Golden Chiefs of Panama.")
"It's really a very spectacular find. ... probably the most significant" for this culture since the 1930s, when the nearby Sitio Conte site, also in central Panama, yielded a wealth of gold artifacts, anthropologist John Hoopes said.
Until now, Sitio Conte provided the only major evidence of the golden-chiefs culture, which can be traced from about A.D. 250 to the 16th century, when Spanish conquerors arrived on the scene.
Dating to between A.D. 700 and 1000, the new artifacts were excavated about two miles (three kilometers) from Sitio Conte, at a site called El Caño.
Striking Gold, Second Time Around
El Caño's field of stone monoliths and sculptures had drawn treasure seekers in the early 20th century, but as luck would have it, they dug up only artifact-poor graves of common people.
A few years ago, after having worked at Sitio Conte—also marked by ancient monoliths—archaeologist Julia Mayo of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute decided to reinvestigate El Caño.
Mayo's ground surveys, beginning in 2005, traced the circular outline of a series of burials, about 260 feet (80 meters) wide.
Not long after digging had begun, in 2008, the team uncovered the skeleton of a high-ranking chief, clad in circular breastplates embossed with ghoulish faces, patterned arm cuffs, and a belt of large golden beads—a taste of the bounty to come.
(Related: "Ancient Ruler's Tomb, Gold Trove Found in Bolivia Pyramid.")
Stones, Bones, and Gold
The most recent dig, in early 2011, uncovered a similarly adorned chief in a multilevel burial pit once sheltered by a wooden roof. Surrounding this golden chief are at least 25 carefully arranged bodies, making the assemblage the largest of the six El Caño burials revealed to date, according to Mayo, who received funding from the Panamanian government as well as the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration and Expeditions Council. (The Society owns National Geographic News.)
Among the corpses golden attire for a child, possibly the chief's son: tiny gold plates, bracelets, earrings, and a necklace of semiprecious stones.
At the bottom of the pit, the chief himself was supported by a sort of platform created from the tight arrangement of 15 bodies.
Mayo believes those individuals could be war captives or slaves who were sacrificed or committed suicide—a potential link to Sitio Conte, where similar burial arrangements have been found.
(Related: "Ancient Sacrificer Found With Blades in Peru Tomb?")
Murder by Pufferfish?
The team also uncovered a grisly clue as to how the apparent sacrifices might have met their fates, though forensic analysis is still underway.
"A vessel full of bones of a blowfish [pufferfish], Guentheridia formosa, was found near the bodies—it is a very poisonous fish," added Mayo, who also serves as president of the El Caño Foundation.
In another curious detail, the bodies surrounding the chiefs were covered in pieces of ceramic plates. Though the plates' significance is not yet clear, Mayo said they appear to have been made specifically to cover the corpses. The plates, she noted, are decorated only on what would normally be there undersides and were placed facedown on the bodies.
Hoopes, of the University of Kansas, noted similar ceramic finds at Sitio Conte.
"They would take the [plates] that were used during the feasts, which had been specially prepared, and they would place those in the graves," said Hoopes, who wasn't part of the El Caño excavations.
"What's not clear is whether [the ceramics were] intentionally smashed or whether they were placed in the graves intact and broke over time due to shifting of the earth."
Vampires, Werewolves, and Mascots
Among other El Caño mysteries are the half-human beings and mythological creatures in the designs of the gold jewelry and other burial finery.
"We are still working on the iconographic analysis," project leader Mayo said. "According to some experts, these designs could represent the ancestors of clans or kinship groups."
Hoopes said, "I think they're analogous to werewolves and vampires in Western culture, in that you have fangs and transform into animals or part-animals."
The idea of being represented by an animal spirit was widespread among pre-Columbian cultures of the Americas, he added.
A person might have had "a corresponding animal spirit that can inhabit them and change their personality and make them more effective in warfare"—not unlike the use of fierce mascots to inspire football teams, Hoopes said.
Who Were They?
Project leader Mayo hopes the treasure trove of material emerging from El Caño—including axes, packets of stingray spines, and a belt made of whale and jaguar teeth—can shed new light on the golden chiefs and their people.
The civilization, after all, left precious little historical record, at least that we know of.
"Part of the issue," Kansas's Hoopes said, "is that the devastation of the area by the Spanish happened so early and so completely that we still don't know what language they spoke."
He believes the Sitio Conte/El Caño people are "best regarded as a separate and distinct culture that flourished in central Panama." But, he added, apparent trade items—including likely Colombian emeralds found at El Caño—suggest the culture had some connections to other groups.
Little remains of the golden chiefs' built world either, hewn as it was from thatch and bamboo—in contrast to, say, the stony pyramids of the Maya.
Luckily the gold has proved more persistent, and more may await in up to 20 unexplored tombs at El Caño, according to Mayo—which gives Hoopes pause.
Despite the scope of Mayo's discoveries, he said, "this is just a tiny part of an enormous complex. ... It's absolutely essential that sites like this are protected from looters."
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Despite the star power of Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds, "Safe House" is earning lackluster reviews from critics.
The action thriller features Washington as a rogue CIA agent and Reynolds as the rookie tasked with watching him. AP Movie Critic Christy Lemire gave the movie just one and a half stars out of four, saying: "This is a frenetically paced jumble of shaky-cam tricks and quick edits, dizzying car chases and deafening shootouts."
Receiving even weaker reviews is "The Vow," starring Rachel McAdams as a woman who loses her memory after a serious car accident and Channing Tatum as her husband, who tries to remind her of the life they shared. Lemire also gave this one and a half stars, saying: "'The Vow' serves as a series of precise if obvious moments and emotional cues we must endure en route to the inevitable reconciliation, complete with an intrusively heart-tugging score and too much explanatory voiceover from Tatum."
Here's a look at how these movies and others fared on the top review websites as of Friday afternoon. Each score is the percentage of positive reviews for the film:
— "Rampart": Metacritic, 70; Movie Review Intelligence, 64.8; Rotten Tomatoes, 75. Average: 69.9.
— "Safe House": Metacritic, 52; Movie Review Intelligence, 59.2; Rotten Tomatoes, 53. Average: 54.7.
— "Journey 2: The Mysterious Island": Metacritic, 40; Movie Review Intelligence, 46.4; Rotten Tomatoes, 44. Average: 43.5.
— "The Vow": Metacritic, 45; Movie Review Intelligence, 45.3; Rotten Tomatoes, 29. Average: 39.8.


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