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The year 2012 brought exhibitions that were ambitious, unpredictable and sometimes downright messy — but when it comes to art, these are all good things. What's more, all that disheveled enthusiasm wasn't solely confined to the alternative spaces and apartment galleries — Chicago's museums got a little down and dirty too. This was a banner year for sprawling group shows based around participatory themes and methods. Our list of highlights, in no particular order:
"24HRS/25DAYS" at New Capital Projects
What a way to end 2012, along with New Capital's own two-year run: a 25-day marathon of exhibitions and performances on view for 24 hours a day, every day. Co-directors Chelsea Culp and Ben Foch provided the venue, but in the end this was a communitywide endeavor, with more than 160 participants creating about 90 works — among them, a table filled with multi-tiered wedding cakes (edible, of course) and a playable bass guitar shaped like a coffin. When the clock ran out at 11:59 p.m. on Dec. 12, one thing was clear: "24HRS/25DAYS" had been more than an exhibition — it was a living, breathing work of art in its own right.
"Home: Public or Private?" at 6018NORTH
Aimed at redrawing boundaries between personal and public spaces, "Home: Public or Private?" saw artists transforming different rooms of the ramshackle Edgewater house owned by Tricia Van Eck, 6018NORTH's director, into a host of quirky art installations. Many of those changes were subtle, leading, perhaps inevitably, to questions from visitors along the lines of "Is this part of the art or just the bathroom?" With the ever-gracious Van Eck serving as tour guide, however, the answers didn't matter. Roaming the halls of this not-yet-habitable home felt like an adventure — and isn't that exactly how art should make us feel?
"This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s" at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
"This Will Have Been" looked at the art of the Reagan era, give or take a few years, yet set itself apart from other survey-of-a-decade-type shows through guest curator Helen Molesworth's determinedly political stance. Few and far between were all those big, blustery neo-expressionist paintings so often associated with the decade's output; instead, the activist-oriented billboards and posters of collectives like Gran Fury, Group Material and the Guerrilla Girls — ephemeral works in their own time — were foregrounded alongside biting installations by Hans Haacke, David Hammons and other artists who were uncompromising iconoclasts then and remain so today.
"A. Laurie Palmer: Still, yet, else, further, again" at Three Walls
The huge wooden hole in the main gallery provided the spectacle, but what really made Palmer's solo exhibition one of the year's best was the video titled "794 mph" projected in the side room. It showed, in real time and from the point of view of a stationary camera, the roughly 20-minute period when darkness cedes to rosy-fingered dawn, a process that Palmer repeated at several different locations. The Chicago artist's meditation on slowness and time's relativity did what all great art does — it imbued the ordinary world with mystery and made us feel as if we were seeing it for the first time.
"In the Spirit of Walser" at Donald Young Gallery
This poetic, seven-exhibition series turned out to be the Donald Young Gallery's swan song, but what a lovely song it was. Young, who died of cancer in April, conceived the exhibition from his own long-standing fascination with the oddball Swiss writer Robert Walser, who was known for writing miniaturized short stories on tiny slips of paper. Young solicited like-minded works from Fischli and Weiss, Rosemarie Trockel, Thomas Schutte and other acclaimed artists on his roster, proving in the process that blue-chip gallery shows can be just as intellectually ambitious as those at edgier nonprofit spaces. Here's hoping the spirit of that idea lives on too.
Steve McQueen at The Art Institute of Chicago
The British artist's spare, elegantly choreographed film and video installations often explore the slippery space between desire and aggression. In one of his earliest short films, two men wrestle nude, their horseplay slowly morphing into an erotic pas de deux; in a work from 2004, we see an extreme close-up of the actress Charlotte Rampling's eye as McQueen's fingertip insistently probes the skin around it. This 20-year retrospective was nothing if not well-timed — McQueen is garnering acclaim as a feature film director (he helmed "Hunger" (2008), "Shame" (2011), and the forthcoming "Twelve Years a Slave") so it was an opportune time to look back at some of the key moments of his creative genesis.
"Irena Knezevic: Night of the World" and "Robots Will Keep Us As Pets" at Alderman Exhibitions
Shhh — we're sneaking in a tie. Knezevic's caged boa constrictor and series of fired porcelain objects harked back to her devastating solo show last year at Illinois State University, where the Serbian-Jewish artist confronted head-on the unspeakable horrors of modern genocide. At the other end of the emotional spectrum was an ebullient group painting show curated by Andreas Fischer, who posited good, old-fashioned "painterly painting" as an antidote to the computer screen and its attendant technological imperatives. The two could not have been more different, yet together these shows exemplify how risky and wonderfully wide-ranging Ellen Alderman's gallery program has been over the past year.
"Dawoud Bey: Picturing People" at the Renaissance Society and "Dawoud Bey: Harlem USA" at the Art Institute of Chicago
What makes Dawoud Bey's portraits different from all others? Whatever the formula, it can't be precisely replicated. We do know that Bey considers his subjects to be his collaborators. He doesn't take the shot until the person he's photographing is ready, so when they do gaze into his camera, they're fully present, body and soul. The Ren's retrospective charted multiple developments in Bey's 30 year-plus career, while the Art Institute of Chicago homed in on a suite of 25 photographs made in 1970s Harlem that had not been shown in their entirety since 1979.
"Spectral Landscape With Viewing Stations" at Gallery 400, University of Illinois/Chicago
Curated by Pamela Fraser and John Neff, this odd duck of a show took the entire color spectrum as its formal and thematic premise. Fraser is a painter bent on upending traditional color theory, Neff, an artist whose difficult-to-classify installations draw on diverse forms of photographic reproduction. Although "Spectral Landscape" never quite delivered on the "viewing stations" part (Where were they, exactly?), it did succeed beautifully in making us "see" color as a mutable and idiosyncratic phenomenon, one that can be approached by artists in as many different ways as there are, well, artists.
"Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art" at the Smart Museum of Art
"Feast" surveyed a subset of contemporary art practices in which food — growing it, serving it, sharing it — figures prominently. The show had its faults — the gallery displays felt awfully dry for an exhibition ostensibly about the pleasures of food and drink — but the research that went into it all was impeccable, and thankfully, the catalog's a keeper. What else did we learn? That the art of today takes limitless forms, and yeah, some of them involve beer-drinking and the consumption of soup, pad thai or some other delectable dish. Don't fight the trend. If you're getting a meal out of it, everyone wins.
Claudine Ise is a special contributor to the Chicago Tribune.
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Wendel is one of Europe's leading listed investment firms. The Group invests internationally, in companies that are leaders in their field, such as Bureau Veritas, Saint-Gobain, Materis Paints, Stahl, IHS and Constantia Flexibles. Wendel plays an active role as industry shareholder in these companies. It implements long-term development strategies, which involve boosting growth and margins of companies so as to enhance their leading market positions. Through Oranje-Nassau Développement, which brings together opportunities for investment in growth, diversification and innovation, Wendel is also a shareholder of exceet in Germany, Mecatherm and Parcours in France, Nippon Oil Pump in Japan, Saham Group in Africa and CSP Technologies in the United States.
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New Life Free Will Baptist Church
Several of the youth group leaders at New Life Free Will Baptist Church, 1622 Springdale Road, felt that God wanted them to teach children to serve others. They decided to take toys to the children in the community around the church. The leaders spoke with their pastor, the Rev. Douglas Pate, and approached him to ask if they could do the toy project, and to make sure that everyone involved would be safe.
Knowing what not to do is just as important as knowing what to do when it comes to your health and fitness.
After all, you don't want to be wasting any of your time doing something that's wrong.
Take this for example: did you know you should be eating within the first hour of waking up? This simple action trains your body to burn fat.
If you are eating later than that, you're doing just the opposite by training your body to store fat.
When Pam Taylor lost her voice, she was finally able to empathize with her best friend's autistic son.
Connor Anderson, 9, of Kershaw has never spoken a word. His fine motor skills are not good enough to communicate with sign language.
He cannot hold a pencil to write. His caregivers are left to guessing his needs.
But family and friends are trying to change that. Ever since her vocal cords healed, Taylor has been raising money alongside Samantha Chilcoat, Connor's mother, to buy a machine that will speak for him.
Many of us probably take for granted the act of doing things outdoors.
Whether it be hunting, fishing or participating in some outdoor sport, we don't think twice about the opportunity.
A group of local state troopers, however, have come together to help those with disabilities also enjoy the great outdoors.
Mobility Outdoors for Christ is the name of the organization, and First Sgt. Paul Harrison of the South Carolina Highway Patrol said he felt the idea was a calling from the Lord.
The main course may make a meal, but let's be honest, isn't it the dessert that you're really waiting for? Well, you're not alone. Sweet tooths of the world unite, and enjoy this sweetest of all seasons. And while you're at it, why not make a celebratory splash of your own by serving up holiday sweets as pretty as they are delicious?
This weekend you don't want to miss the annual Tour of Homes, sponsored by the Lancaster Garden Club.
In addition, Lancaster Garden Club and arts council organizers teamed up to make a concert featuring South Carolina's own Capital City Brass Quintet at 4:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at the Cultural Arts Center.
What better way to end your day of holiday activities than with an entertaining classical holiday concert?
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In July 2011, here in Lancaster, residents started seeing fund-raising jars for a little girl with "Saving Baby Susan" etched on them, not knowing the whole story behind the girl or those jars.
Well, here is that story from her mother's words and heart.
On Dec. 16, 2010, Susan, or "Bean" as she was known by family and friends, was a healthy and normal 18-month-old child.
Great food is the centerpiece of any holiday celebration, and practicing safe food handling in the kitchen is an important part of holiday meal preparation. There are certain steps you can take to keep friends and family safe from food poisoning.
"The kitchen can be chaotic and it can be challenging to keep food safety top of mind when dealing with a whole holiday meal, from turkey to trimmings," cautions Shelley Feist, Executive Director of the non-profit Partnership for Food Safety Education.
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Following the recent announcement that the UK Government is to clamp down on drink and drug drivers, alcohol and drug safety experts are urging companies to be more vigilant when it comes to their alcohol and drug testing policies.
Drugs and alcohol cost British businesses in excess of £6 billion per year in lost productivity and in 2014 alone alcohol accounted for 5,650 accidents and 8,320 casualties on UK roads.
Suzannah Robin, an alcohol and drug safety expert, said: "In the UK there is no legal requirement for employing organisations to implement alcohol policies, however, health and safety at work legislation requires.
"Certainly if the company that employed the tractor driver had a regular and random alcohol testing policy in place it is highly likely that he wouldn't have been driving that day and this tragic event could have been avoided."
Currently companies operating under the Railways and Transport Bill, such as airlines and rail operators, have to adhere to a drink-drive limit (0.02% BAC) that is just a quarter of the current drink-drive level in England, Wales and Northern Ireland (0.08% BAC) and less than half of Scotland's lower limit (0.05%). However, there is no obligation for companies operating outside these confinements to follow these guidelines.
Suzannah said: "We work with numerous companies in many different industry sectors that already operate robust alcohol and drug policies. This includes regular random testing of their employees, which has resulted in significant benefits for improving safety and safeguarding their businesses. However many more companies, particularly those in the transport industry or those operating heavy machinery, need to do more to improve standards not just for the safety of their employees but to protect the general public as well.
"We would always recommend that a business adopts a drug and alcohol policy as standard and consults a professional to help implement their plans."
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The Confederation of British Industry is a UK business organisation, which in total claims to speak for 190,000 businesses,[1] this is made up of around 1,500 direct members and 188,500 non-members. The non members are represented through the 140 trade associations within the confederation, whose separate and individual memberships, the CBI claims to also to speak for. Trade Association member companies, are not directly consulted or involved in CBI's policy formulation. The National Farmers' Union with its 55,000 members is the largest component of the 188,500 non-members the CBI claims to speak for. The Country Land and Business association brings another 30,000 non-members, the Association of Independent Professionals and the Self-Employed 20,000 non-members, the Freight Transport Association 13,000, the Federation of Master Builders 9,500, the Road Haulage Association 8,100 and the National Federation of Builders 1,400. Members include companies as well as trade association … [Read more...] about Confederation of British Industry
Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Formal body of advisers to the sovereign in the United Kingdom Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council of the United Kingdom or just the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom. Its membership mainly comprises senior politicians who are current or former members of either the House of Commons or the House of Lords. The Privy Council formally advises the sovereign on the exercise of the Royal Prerogative, and corporately (as Queen-in-Council) it issues executive instruments known as Orders in Council, which among other powers enact Acts of Parliament. The Council also holds the delegated authority to issue Orders of Council, mostly used to regulate certain public institutions. The Council advises the sovereign on the issuing of Royal Charters, which are used to grant special status to incorporated bodies, and city or borough status to local authorities. Otherwise, the Privy Council's powers have … [Read more...] about Privy Council of the United Kingdom
Home/ China/ InnovationChina uses AI assistive tech on court trial for first time
For the first time in China, AI assistive technology was used at Shanghai No 2 Intermediate People's Court on Wednesday, the Legal Daily reported. Inside the courtroom, a screen was placed in front of all people present at the trial, including in the public gallery. When the judge, public prosecutor or defender asked the system, named "206 system", it displayed all related evidence on the screen. For example, playing the surveillance video at the entrance of Unit 2 or presenting the defendant's psychiatric report. The court heard a robbery and murder case on the day. Though the case was complicated, the 206 system displayed evidences comprehensively and clearly. The 206 system can not only transfer voice into characters precisely but also distinguish questioner and responder. "The transcript and evidence presentation went along as the trial proceeded. The 206 system realized full-course intelligence assistance and reviewed evidences comprehensively, playing an active role in … [Read more...] about Home/ China/ InnovationChina uses AI assistive tech on court trial for first time
Jok Addison (05.06.1936 – 31.12 2018)
He soon started teaching at the International School in Porches. His spare time did not last long as it soon was filled with requests from friends to tutor their children at home. Together with the help of parents the tutoring moved to an area called Val Verde and the Vale Verde College was started in a disused primary school at Quatro Estradas. Jok was an excellent teacher with a warm heart and a held a fund of knowledge on a vast array of topics. He always went to school with tremendous happiness and pleasure in his heart. This was a man who believed in teenagers. He always enjoyed his teaching and so did the students who often were delighted when Jok forgot to give them homework. Jok and Trudy´s work is continued at the Aljezur International School, a school you never hear a bad word about – this is as it should be, just like in Jok and Trudy´s days there. His wisdom and knowledge are missed. Trudy van der Steeg, January 2019 … [Read more...] about Jok Addison (05.06.1936 – 31.12 2018)
Home/ China/ National affairsProstitute re-education expected to end
A high-profile administrative regulation that requires prostitutes and people who visit prostitutes to be detained for education is expected to be abolished in China. A report by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the National People's Congress Standing Committee suggests related departments introduce a motion at an appropriate time to help push for the abolition. "It means those entitled to submit motions to the NPC, including deputies or members of the State Council, can introduce such an abolition motion, and I believe the committee will promptly remove it," Zhu Zhengfu, vice-president of the All China Lawyers Association, said on Tuesday. The regulation, established by the State Council in the 1990s, states that prostitutes and their customers face detention ranging from six months to two years after they are caught by public security authorities. In the period, the detainees are to be given legal and ethical education, taken to have medical checks and reform through labor. "But … [Read more...] about Home/ China/ National affairsProstitute re-education expected to end
United States Secretary of State
The Secretary of State is a senior official of the federal government of the United States of America, and as head of the U.S. Department of State, is principally concerned with foreign policy and is considered to be the U.S. government's equivalent of a Minister for Foreign Affairs.[4][5] The Secretary of State is nominated by the President of the United States and, following a confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, is confirmed by the United States Senate. The Secretary of State, along with the Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, and Attorney General, are generally regarded as the four most important Cabinet members because of the importance of their respective departments.[6] Secretary of State is a Level I position in the Executive Schedule and thus earns the salary prescribed for that level (currently $205,700).[3] The current Secretary of State is Mike Pompeo. On March 13, 2018, President Donald Trump dismissed Rex Tillerson and … [Read more...] about United States Secretary of State
We review the Honda HR-V (2015) from price to economy and all its features
Sleek HR-V is taken to task.. but it's not thirsty work. It goes Hon and on.BUY the Honda HR-V because it never runs out of fuel.OK, maybe I am exaggerating slightly, but the first tank of diesel you are gifted when you purchase the 1.6-litre i-DTEC model will go so far, you think the fuel gauge is broken.As with most week-long car loans, the sleek HR-V came with its tank brimmed. And, like most weeks, I had a packed schedule of family visits, runs to the shops and lengthy motorway slogs.But even when I handed the keys back to a man in a Honda shirt, the digital readout insisted there was a quarter of a tank left.I had covered hundreds of miles and picked up a dozen takeaway Costa coffees, but I had not had to reach for the pump once.The brochure says the official fuel economy figure is 70.6mpg on lower spec S models.The SUV segment has changed dramatically since Honda last offered a faux-by-four of this size, back in 2005.There are now plenty of smooth operators muscling in on the … [Read more...] about We review the Honda HR-V (2015) from price to economy and all its features
The Harmony Between Man And Nature
As a conservation organization, the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) is not only concerned about the loss of biodiversity and the degrading quality of the world's environment. It's also increasingly worried about the loss of cultures. The fact is that there's a direct link between traditional peoples - such as pygmies in the Congo Basin or Australian aborigines - and nature conservation. These peoples inhabit nearly 20 percent of the planet, mainly pristine forests or dryland. They have accumulated vast amounts of ecological knowledge over thousands of years. The WWF currently runs projects in all five continents of the world which aim to protect indigenous peoples and their habitats. These are often under threat from mining, logging or slash and burn agriculture. Dr. Claude Martin, Director General of WWF International, says the organization is focused on considering indigenous peoples' needs. "People participation is something that one has to take very seriously … [Read more...] about The Harmony Between Man And Nature
Australia's Yolngu People: Celebrating 40,000 Years
The annual Garma Festival is one of Australia's most significant Indigenous celebrations, attracting around twenty clan groups from across Arnhem land and the Northern Territory. The festival takes place at Gulkula, a site which overlooks the Gulf of Carpentaria, and which has profound meaning for the Yolngu people, its traditional owners. They believe that it was here that their ancestor Ganbulabula first created the Yidaki, or didgeridoo. Northeast Arnhem land is regarded as a heartland of Aboriginal culture and land rights. Its culture is one of the oldest on earth, stretching back 40,000 years. The Garma Festival, now in its fourth year, aims to give both whites and Indigenous people an opportunity to share in this ancient culture and knowledge about the land. ...Where traditional meets modern Europeans first established a permanent presence in Arnhem Land in about 1935. The area's since become a popular destination for tourists as well as commercial fishers … [Read more...] about Australia's Yolngu People: Celebrating 40,000 Years
Mexico: Preserving Nature and Culture
The Huichol live in small communities scattered through the canyons and valleys of the western Sierra Madre in the states of Jalisco, Nayarit and Durango. They live off the land, cultivating corn, beans and chili peppers on the steep mountain slopes. Descended from the Aztecs, the Huichol believe that the Cerro Quemado (Burnt Hill) at Wirikuta is where their ancestors witnessed the birth of the sun. The first deer hunt also took place here. Out of the deer's footprint the Peyote, or sacred cactus, grew. Each year a special group of Huichol makes a pilgrimage to Wirikuta, 500kms to the east in San Luis Potosí state, to eat the Peyote and make offerings to the gods. Protecting the Huichol's cultural heritage For years, people have been stealing the Huichol's offerings from the Cerro Quemado. The pilgrimage has also become more difficult, with heavily guarded private properties along the route. In 1994, a road was proposed which was to traverse the … [Read more...] about Mexico: Preserving Nature and Culture
Canada's Inuit: Sharing Traditional Knowledge for Survival
The Inuit understand conservation. For centuries, they've used traditional knowledge about the arctic environment to ensure there's enough food to hunt and fish, to sustain them through its harsh climate. Inusiq Nasaliq, a local elder from the village of Pangnirtung, 40 kilometres from the Artic Circle, says 'country food' has always been the basis of the Inuit food supply. "It's very important, because it keeps them alive," he says. Ame Papatsie's own father made sure his son learned the lesson, that you kill only what you can eat. As a child, Ame once caught a bird for fun. His father made him eat it. "I cried eating it," Ame says. "My parents didn't want anything of it. Once I ate that, I understood I have to kill what I want to eat." Teaching for survival Today, Inuit traditional knowledge is being taught in schools and universities. But elders still play an important role in teaching about living on the land. Ame Papatsie … [Read more...] about Canada's Inuit: Sharing Traditional Knowledge for Survival
Christianity Against Violence
Almost mirroring what was said by the Dalai Lama, Sister Nirmala said that only non-violence could combat international terrorism. As the head of a religious order founded by Mother Teresa, she urged President Bush to exercise restraint and not unleash more violence to avenge last week's attacks. "We pray to God that President Bush knows what he is doing...Violence only causes destruction," she said. Sister Nirmala became head of the Missionaries of Charity after Mother Teresa passed away in 1997. However, she did add that "terrorism should be contained". Her comments came after President Bush said on Monday he wanted Islamic militant Osama bin Laden, who the US's prime suspect, "dead or alive". He also warned that Afghanistan's ruling Taliban would be held accountable for giving him safe haven. The Taliban and bin Laden have denied involvement in the attacks. The Taliban movement has said it will launch a jihad or holy war against the United States if it attacks Afghanistan. Pope … [Read more...] about Christianity Against Violence
Rediscovering Fabulous Fashion Behind the Wall
"We thought everyone in the GDR walked around in drab, dismal clothes, but suddenly we found this incredible stuff which showed there was a thriving fashion industry," said Caz Hildebrand, the British art director who put the collection together. But was there really? The photos were taken by Günter Rubitzsch, a Leipzig-based photographer who worked regularly for women's weeklies such as Pramo (abbreviated from "Praktische Mode" or "Practical Fashion") and Für Dich ("For You"), magazines which featured sewing or knitting patterns for women who liked to make their own clothes. And most of them had to. "Everyone looked the same, so if you wanted something special you had to make it yourself," explained Antje Lond Benn, who studied at the Technical College for Clothing Design in East Berlin in the 1980s. "Fabrics and patterns were really cheap, and everyone would improvise with them. And if you were lucky, you could fit into the kids' clothes, which were heavily subsidized." … [Read more...] about Rediscovering Fabulous Fashion Behind the Wall
In Oscar Wilde's play The Importance of Being Earnest, there's a man with a different persona -- even a different name -- in the city and in the country. He's called Ernest in the city, and Jack in the country. He and his friend make up a fictitious invalid buddy with the lovely name of "Bunbury" who lives in the country -- so that they can take trips to "visit" him there, but really so they can behave differently and have a jolly old time. They even have a name for their game! It's called bunburying. Well this phenomenon of having two personas, one for the country and one for the city, isn't limited to humans. There are birds who bunbury. One of them is the blackbird, as in the picture above. (If you're wondering why it's brown: baby blackbirds are born brown, and they only become black later.) When they are in the city, they eat different things, make houses in different places, and breed at different times of the year. (Maybe even, in bird language, they cheep out different names to … [Read more...] about GERMAN SCIENCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT – 8
Would you want to find that beetle in your bed one night? Well, probably not -- nor would an ant, but if the ant did, it might just go ahead and eat the beetle. That is, unless the beetle were protecting itself -- that's what it's doing in the picture. Look carefully at the small balls of liquid around the beetle's body. For an ant, that's poison. Actually, if that leaf beetle really were in your bed, you probably wouldn't notice it. It's about as small as the ball on your ball-point pen. (You can click on the picture to make it larger -- much larger than real life.) But -- like so many wonderful products of biology -- small doesn't mean simple. In fact, the little body of that leaf beetle takes sugars that it eats from that poplar plant it's sitting on, and converts them chemically, into poisons. It's a very complicated process. So complicated, in fact, that it baffled scientists for a while. But now they've figured out how it works. And it turns out, they also learned a fascinating … [Read more...] about GERMAN SCIENCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT – 7
The style of eyeglasses above, called "chicken eyes", stole glances at fashion shows this year. But while the spectacles may look good, you probably wouldn't really want to have the eyes -- or the brain -- of a chicken. The picture on the left is a hill, and the picture on the right is a crater. Right? (Click on the magnifying glass to make the pictures bigger.) You've probably figured out already that they're both the same picture, one just reversed. If you want to test it, go ahead and stand on your head, or turn your computer monitor upside down. Light in the real world usually comes from above: from the sun, or from the lamp on your ceiling. So we assume that's true for the image, too. The shadows and light help us interpret the picture as a crater or a hill. If you try hard, you might be able to override the 'natural' interpretation by imagining the light coming from underneath and suddenly the hill will appear a crater and the crater a hill. But animals are … [Read more...] about GERMAN SCIENCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT – 3
You may not know it, but there's light that you can't see. Besides the beautiful hues of the rainbow, from deep red to bright yellow to green and violet, there's more light... and it doesn't have any colour. Light is made up of an electromagnetic field, you see. That field moves in waves. If the peaks of those waves are too close together or too far apart, the human eye can't make sense of them. Light whose peaks are too close together is called ultraviolet, and too far apart is called infrared. But even though you can't see them, ultraviolet and infrared light are very useful. Scientists in the past have used ultraviolet light (the short one) to make better microscopes: to see things that are too small to see with regular light. Not so long ago they also used it to make very small things like computer circuits and the DVD's you use to watch movies. But now, scientists at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried, Germany have found a way to use infrared light (the long … [Read more...] about GERMAN SCIENCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT – 2
Strokes happen when brain cells lose oxygen. Oxygen, as you probably know, is something we breathe in and out all day -- and then gets carried by blood all around our body. But sometimes, something stops normal blood flow to the brain -- for example, abnormally grown tissue in blood vessels (patients with the disease called arteriosclerosis have this problem). Then, the brain doesn't get oxygen -- and that's the critical moment for stroke. The victim can die, have a coma, or be paralysed, have speech problems, emotional changes, and many other difficult problems. But there's more than one vessel bringing blood into the brain. Often, not all of them fail. If, somehow, we could make the other vessels bigger, we could bring more blood in to compensate when one vessel doesn't work. The good news is, medical scientists already have a way to make blood vessels bigger: it's called arteriogenesis and it just may save somebody's life. (Or many people's!) That's what happened to the rat brains … [Read more...] about GERMAN SCIENCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT – 6
Those two pictures are of the same piece of the sky. (You can click on the mangnifying glass to see it bigger.) The bottom one seems crisper and clearer, and indeed it's a beautiful and special picture. But the top one is something quite revolutionary: it's from the new gamma ray telescope called HESS in the Namibian desert, the telescope that can "see" the highest frequency radiation in the world. … [Read more...] about GERMAN SCIENCE WEEKLY HIGHLIGHT – 5
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Anglers wishing to launch their boats at the Bear Creek Reservoir will find it's 33 percent more expensive and available 25 percent less frequently, thanks to action taken last week by the Upper Oconee Basin Water Authority. The four-county group that owns the 505-acre reservoir voted last Wednesday to increase the cost per boater/fisherman by $2 to $8 per day and to close the boat ramp on Fridays. The changes became effective immediately.
Both actions are attempts by the authority to reduce the member counties' cost for offering boat access to the lake. Ricky Sanders, chairman of the authority's Recreation Committee, estimated that the moves will trim the annual expense for fishing access to $1,800. The current budget projected an $11,000 annual deficit. Each of the four counties is responsible for 25 percent of that cost.
The reservoir is open year-round to bank fishing at no charge on a short stretch of shoreline on Georgia Hwy. 330. But the boat ramp — the only public access for boats – is open only nine months of the year and, after last Wednesday's vote, only three days a week instead of four.
Harry Sims, chairman of the authority's Recreation Committee, presented the committee's recommendations.
"Dropping Fridays will bring us a closer margin to get the subsidies down," Sims declared.
He noted that the cost of annual passes will remain at $50, while the cost for children, veterans, the elderly and the disabled will remain at $3 per day.
Sims said the cost of keeping the reservoir open to boats amounts to $160 per day.
The changes will not affect owners of property adjacent to the reservoir. They can launch their boats from their property 365 days a year.
For the rest of the public, the reservoir is open to fishing from boats from 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays April-September; from 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays in October, November and March; but is closed during December, January and February.
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PHILADELPHIA – Cintas Corporation, the largest uniform manufacturer in North America and a provider of specialized services to businesses, including fire protection, will pay $152,500 and furnish significant remedial relief to settle a federal racial and sexual harassment lawsuit, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced today.
According to the EEOC's lawsuit, Claude Ash, Armand Upchurch and a class of African- American and male employees were subjected to egregious sexual and racial harassment by a co-worker with supervisory responsibilities in the company's fire protection unit, which was then located in Warminster, and is now located in Conshohocken, Pa. The class members worked in the dry cell unit, which refurbishes and refills customers' portable fire extinguishers. The EEOC charged that this supervisor's unlawful harassment included: fondling the buttocks of class members; exposing his private parts and asking class members to expose their private parts to him; requesting sexual favors; and discussing his sexual exploits and sexual activities he would like to perform.
The EEOC further alleged that the supervisor engaged in unlawful racial harassment including: referring to the dry unit as the "ghetto division"; calling black employees nicknames using some derivation of "chocolate" such as "chocolate delicious"; and using a racial epithet to Upchurch and Ashe when professing why no one would believe their accounts about the harassment over company witnesses. The EEOC contended that the uncorrected harassment culminated in the discriminatory discharge of Upchurch, Ashe and other class members.
Such alleged conduct violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits sexual and racial harassment. T he EEOC attempted to reach a voluntary settlement prior to filing suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 1:09-CV-04449.
In addition to the $152,500 in monetary relief to Upchurch, Ashe and the class members, the consent decree resolving the lawsuit enjoins Cintas from engaging in sexual or racial harassment or retaliation. The company must also provide training about federal anti-discrimination laws to all employees at the Conshohocken facility, report to the EEOC about the company's response to any complaints of alleged discrimination, harassment or retaliation, and post a remedial notice.
"Not only is sexual and racial harassment repugnant and illegal, it is costly to employers who fail to prevent it," said Regional Attorney Debra Lawrence of the EEOC's Philadelphia District Office, which oversees Pennsylvania, Delaware, West Virginia, Maryland, and parts of New Jersey and Ohio. "This settlement provides meaningful relief and preventative measures designed to protect employees from illegal harassment."
According to the company's web site, www.cintas.com, Cintas operates 420 facilities in the United States and Canada and had $3.5 billion in revenue in fiscal year 2010.
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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College women's basketball team (20-6) put two key players on the All-Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Teams, as announced by the conference Friday.
Senior Chimere Jordan (Gray, Ga.) took PBC first team honors. She averaged 21.0 points, nearly eight rebounds and 3.2 steals per game. Jordan ranked first in the conference in points per game, fifth in free throw percentage (.800), second in steals (3.1) and second in minutes per game (35.2). She currently ranks third in the nation in points per game and she is the only player in GC history to garner over 1,000 points in just two seasons.
Classmate Dominique Huffin (Tucker, Ga.) was awarded with second team honors. The 2008 PBC Freshman of the Year averaged 12.0 ppg and nearly five rebounds. Huffin is second in the conference in three point field goals made per game with 2.3. Huffin now stands second in the Georgia College recordbooks in all-time three point field goals made with 203.
Player of the Year was taken by Lander University's Shannon McKever. Defensive Player of the Year was awarded to Clayton State University's Tanisha Woodard. Freshman of the Year was garnered by USC Aiken's Kayla Harris and Coach of the Year was given to Clayton's Dennis Cox for a perfect 29-0 record.
All-time, the Bobcats have now put 31 players on the All-PBC list. Jordan joins an elite list of multiple-time recipients after being chosen a second teamer in 2010. Joining Jordan on that short list are Alicia Wilson and Christy Walker, who received honors in 1996 and 1997.
The 'Cats will travel to USC Aiken to play No. 4 Lander University at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 5 in the semifinal round at the Convocation Center.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/BobcatSports and www.facebook.com/gcbobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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"I didn't plan it that way… maybe it's life imitating art… Degrassi let me do something real and I kindof feel like I'm living proof of what the show was working to accomplish."
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Katy Perry's "Prism" is a shimmering, dynamic, heavy-duty modern pop album that's as unapologetically bent on moving bodies as it is on moving units. Longer by one song than her mega-selling 2010 record "Teenage Dream," the 28-year-old's follow-up is so packed with should-be hits that it's easy to believe she added the extra just so she could break more chart records.
There she is dancing through the fire in "Roar," a champion floating like a butterfly, then brushing off the dust. She blooms like a flower on "Spiritual" and elsewhere alternately compares a lover to a double-rainbow, a lottery, trash and treasure.
On "International Smile," she celebrates a woman who's "a little bit of Yoko, and she's a little bit of 'Oh no!'" She plays ping-pong all night long and then cooks pancakes for her man. Jeffrey Dahmer eats her heart out (at least as rapped by Juicy J on "Dark Horse").
Produced mostly by a team of pop scientists including Max Martin, Lukasz "Dr. Luke" Gottwald and Henry "Cirkut" Walter, "Prism" is the work of a woman and men striving to awe entire populations. They do so by revealing in confident, just-vague-enough terms snapshots of Perry's emotional life over the last few years — with beat-heavy, rhythmically exciting accompaniment. In that span she married and divorced actor-comedian Russell Brand and became involved with singer John Mayer. Songs convey shadows of these experiences with a range of sensuality, bitterness, confusion, passion and grace.
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She succeeds, though, in adeptly capturing a pop world in wonderful stylistic disarray. Way more concerned with channeling emotion than tapping intellect, Perry and her producers cherry-pick accents and conceits from across pop music history.
"Birthday" updates disco by replacing cheesy strings with jerky breaks and synth washes. "This Is How We Do" sounds like a pure rave track, replete with synth squiggles and melodic dots — slowed and chopped. Journey-esque power ballads tussle with glistening sports anthems, designed by master craftsmen for universal appreciation. "Roar" will soundtrack inspirational clips for decades to come.
The stylistic expansiveness is a reflection of popular music in 2013, when artists of all genres gleefully pick through history to find their own fingerprint sound. Whether Dam-Funk and Snoop Dogg conjuring '80s funk, Taylor Swift suggesting new wave, John Mayer doing canyon rock or Daft Punk rethinking disco, the present scene is a pastiche.
For its part, "Prism" is patchwork minus any frayed edges or loose threads. Rather, beats and melodies seem riveted into place. "Unconditionally" simmers like Usher's "Climax" before heaving into a chorus. The euphoria of "Walking on Air," which celebrates what sounds like a pretty amazing night spent with Perry, is infectious. "By the Grace of God" is a cosmic track, one with a humming, dark tension in which Perry and melody float like red balloons.
Skeptics who decry this music as "disposable" often cite the overly structured, focus-grouped nature of modern pop. "Prism" is indeed tightly structured and, it could be argued, exists as 13 distinct marketing opportunities. The longest song is the 41/2–minute ballad "Spiritual," and most clock in at a minute less than that. These are melody delivery systems, crafted for maximum exposure and punch.
"Prism" has neither fat nor pretense. In its own masterful way, in fact, Perry's new work contains as much of-the-moment sonic surprise as any other modern pop album this year. Is she remaking the musical landscape? No, but she sure does know how to thrive within it.
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Riva unveils the flagship of its open line, the stunning 63' Virtus.
With its elongated arrow-shaped windows and streamlined silver-gray topsides, the new open yacht Riva 63' Virtus resembles a sleek piece of art deco sculpture. And when it's in motion at a jaunty clip, slicing through sapphire waters and leaving a cloud of foam in its wake, its elegantly chiseled lines are only magnified. In short, it looks fluid, a fitting description for a sporty cruiser that is at once classic and contemporary in design.
"It's the best floating piece of art you can buy," says Giuseppe Meneghetti, Riva product manager for North America and Central/South America, about the luxurious 63' Virtus, the largest open boat to date in the Riva line (riva-yacht.com).
Climb onboard, and the slick sophistication continues. The large cockpit contains three settees, one of which, the three-seater helm sofa, allows guests to drive the boat with the captain. There's also a fridge, sink, grill and flip-top teak table for casual alfresco meals. The large windscreen is double-curved and tinted. If the sun gets too oppressive, a sturdy electro-hydraulic bimini (or canopy) is pressed into service, and it can be kept aloft while the yacht is running. Passengers are able to soak up the rays on two roomy sundecks—one at the bow and the other astern.
Belowdecks, teak and pale oak contrast with dark leather upholstery. Frosted glass, polished lacquer and stainless steel lend a fresh, modern accent, and copious mirrors throughout pick up the natural light while adding the illusion of more space. A large saloon is outfitted with a ceramic cooktop, microwave, dishwasher and fridge/freezer, and a dining table seats up to eight. There are three sleeping cabins: the master, the VIP—both with in suite bathrooms—and a smaller one with L-shaped bunk beds, suitable for children.
But all those amenities would count for little if the 63' Virtus didn't operate well. "Experts have said that this is the best boat we have produced in terms of manipulation," says Meneghetti. "It's perfectly balanced."
The Virtus' top speed is 40 knots (a shade over 46 mph), and its cruising speed is 35 knots (40.3 mph), Meneghetti says. It's powered by twin MAN V-12 1360 hp engines.
The vessel's swift acceleration and ease of handling, as well as its styling and exclusive cachet, make it a certain star at any harbor in the world.
Exclusivity, after all, is the hallmark of the Italian yacht-maker, which has been owned since 2000 by the Ferretti Group. Its history goes back 171 years, but it really garnered prestige in the 1950s and '60s when A-List celebrities such as Sean Connery, Prince Rainier, Sophia Loren and Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton cruised around in their Rivas to Monte Carlo, Venice, Cannes and Saint-Tropez. These days, country crooner Kenny Chesney owns a Riva 86' Domino.
The Virtus is reminiscent of the earlier hardtop Riva 63' Vertigo, but there are other notable differences aside from the Virtus' open top, says Meneghetti. The Vertigo, he notes, was built specifically for the European market.
"The engines are the same, but there's more room on the Virtus, especially in the cockpit, and the layout is different," he says. "The Virtus was built for entertainment with room for lots of people aboard."
Indeed, the 63' Virtus seems to encapsulate the Italian expression dolce far niente—"the sweetness of doing nothing." If there's a schedule onboard at all, it's simply to pass idle hours on languid afternoons. Whether cruising on the Mediterranean or Lake Michigan, this boat is designed as an escape from the workaday world. Anyone in a hurry is best left on land.
Despite the sleeping cabins, Meneghetti says not many people in the United States use the Virtus for overnight weekend or weeklong trips.
"In Europe, they'll travel from island to island and sleep overnight," he says. "But in this country, the Virtus is used mostly as a dayboat."
All of that craftsmanship, engineering and technology takes quite a few resources to produce. Although the Virtus retails for a hefty $3.6 million, Meneghetti says the typical Riva buyer also owns a fleet of other boats. Still, that pride of Riva yacht ownership is irresistible, even to those who can easily afford it.
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Reserve Bank's views on outlook, particularly in the housing market, seen as key pointer.
The Reserve Bank is expected to hold the official cash rate at 2.5 per cent on Thursday, so the focus will be on the accompanying statement and how the bank's view of the outlook has changed.
In particular, economists are looking for evidence of a higher level of fretfulness at the central bank about the housing market.
Westpac chief economist Dominick Stephens said the Reserve Bank had long taken a sanguine view, calling the pace of house price rises "modest" and predicting the market would soon cool.
"That view has been challenged by recent statistics, which have revealed increasing market activity and ongoing house price inflation, especially Auckland," Stephens said.
"Still, the housing market is not dangerously overheated and household debt levels are growing only modestly, so the Reserve Bank may not alter its core views at this stage."
Households' mortgage debt grew 2.8 per cent in the year ended October - its fastest pace since mid-2010 but nothing like the double-digit increases which marked the mid-2000s boom.
ASB chief economist Nick Tuffley said the current heat in the housing market in Auckland and Christchurch was largely a result of undersupply and over time construction should increase and ease supply constraints.
Building consents have been picking up, but from a low base. In the year ended October they were up 20 per cent on the previous year but still more than a third down on the year to October 2007.
With mortgage rates at 50-year lows, Tuffley said there was a growing risk of fuelling demand in supply-constrained regions.
Dropping interest rates in this environment would be reminiscent of the cuts made in 2003 which stoked an already hot market and which former Governor Alan Bollard has acknowledged was, with the benefit of hindsight, a mistake.
Swaps pricing implies an expectation in the money market that the Reserve Bank will cut the OCR by June next year.
But according to the latest Reuters poll, economists continue to expect its next move to be a rise in the OCR, though not until late next year or 2014.
Stephens expects the bank's forecasts for economic activity to emphasise the boost from the Canterbury rebuild, although that will be offset by government austerity.
Since the September monetary policy statement the run of economic data has been soft, and weaker than the bank, or other forecasters, had expected.
Inflation has fallen to just 0.8 per cent, unemployment has jumped to 7.3 per cent and retail sales in the September quarter declined.
Consumer confidence remains becalmed.
In the latest ANZ Roy Morgan poll a net 5 per cent considered themselves worse off than a year ago, even though real household incomes have risen on average 1.3 per cent in the the past year, as much as they did altogether over the previous four.
The New Zealand dollar remains stubbornly high - though not much more sothan the bank forecast - and the annual trade deficit widened to $1.4 billion in October.
Bank of New Zealand head of research Stephen Toplis said the economy was going through a soggy patch and the Reserve Bank would have to lower its inflation forecasts and indicative forward track for interest rates.
"That said, we are hanging, by our fingernails, to the view that the economy is far from dead and does not warrant extra monetary support."
Toplis said a drop in New Zealand interest rates would not bolster Australian demand for New Zealand exports, it would probably have little impact on the exchange rate, and it would be unlikely to boost consumer or business spending because the level of interest rates was not providing a hurdle in those areas.


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In January 2008, the following post was identified as the 3rd all-time most popular post with readers of this blog. The 4th most-read post was one in a series of posts cataloguing an online debate about baptism and church membership among theological heavyweights, including John Piper, Sam Storms, Wayne Grudem, and Mark Dever, among others.
This third-ranked post represents the first in my series of interviews with Christian leaders. I had no idea back in 2005 where the blogging journey would lead me. An exclusive offer to interview the translators of what was then a little-known, new, apparently niche-appeal translation was simply too good to turn down. The folks at Crossway were kind enough to offer me this amazing opportunity, which I grabbed with both hands!
For awhile, my blog was entirely devoted to the ESV. At the time, some people probably thought I'd never talk about anything else! They were wrong, of course, because although I often do go on and on about a subject for quite awhile, eventually the subject changes as the weeks roll into months and then years!
This post is the final one in an extended series I have run on the English Standard Version of the Bible. The opportunity to interview the ESV translators has been great. We have one more answer to share on a video clip, and at the end of the post I will list links for all my previous posts on the ESV (including some that weren't directly to do with the interview).
I hope this series of posts will continue to be of use to others, so if you have enjoyed them please do consider linking to this post on your own blog.
If you want to know more about the ESV version of the Bible, these interview posts should be helpful to you. There is also a great ESV Blog which is run by the publishers.
If these posts have prompted you to buy yourself a new Bible, do let me know by e-mailing me at email@example.com. The choice of Bible translations is a very personal thing, and most serious Bible students will own more than one version. Comparing and contrasting differing translations of a passage is very helpful in trying to understand what the Bible means.
I hope that even if you do not decide to use the ESV as your primary Bible translation, you will at least look at it from time-to-time to compare it to your current favorite. It is available to read for free online, and can be bought online from Crossway or Amazon.
The Final Question
To what extent was the translation of the ESV Bible one consciously assisted by prayer and the Holy Spirit? How conscious of his work in illuminating and guiding our understanding of God's Word were you in working together on this translation?
Watch J. I. Packer respond (Windows Media).
I may say, we did make worship basic to what we were doing and started each day with a reading of Scripture, a word or two of application, and prayer together. And we thought that important. We wanted the blessing of God on what we were doing, and we were sensitive not to follow a procedure which would, in fact, leave God out of what we were doing.
- The Warnock War—More on Bible Translations and the Top Ten
- Blogspotting the ESV—Interviews and Other Posts
- Which Bible Translation is the Blogger's Favorite?
- ESV: Is It the Easy Reading Bible?
- Choosing a Bible Translation and the Contest Timeline
- Announcing the Winners of the Free ESV Contest
- ESV: Assisted by God
- Gender and Bible Translations Links
- Gender and Translation: Getting Out of My Depth . . .
- ESV: Original Language Experts—We All Need Them!
- ESV: Arguing With Translations While Preaching
- Gender-Inclusive Language—Bible Version Rankings
- Bible Translation and Gender: What's All the Heat About? (Matthew 10:24, Romans 3:28)
- ESV: It's All Greek To Me!
- ESV: Don't Throw Out Your Commentaries!
- ESV: Are Commentaries Less Necessary With the ESV?
- ESV: Crossway Responses to Blogosphere's Comments
- ESV: One Version For Everyone?
- ESV Interview: Why is YHWH Translated "the LORD"?
- The ESV, the TNIV, and Gender
- ESV Interview: Textus Receptus #2 and a Doctrine Example
- ESV and Stirring Up Controversy
- ESV Detracting: Paul Whiting
- SansBlogue Quotes What He Sees as Some ESV Errors
- Jeremy Rises to Describe What He Sees as Errors in the ESV
- The ESV, David Warnock, and the UK Blogosphere
- ESV Interview: Textus Receptus and the KJV Only People
- ESV Interview: The Forthcoming Review
- ESV Around the Blogosphere
- Calling All Catholic Bloggers: Let's Interact!
- ESV Interview: Verses in Footnotes #2
- ESV Interview: Verses in Footnotes #1
- ESV Interview: Breadth of Acceptance #2
- ESV Interview: Breadth of Acceptance #1
- ESV Interview: Is Translation Affected by Doctrine?
- ESV Interview and a FREE Bible Offer
- How Does the ESV Compare to Other Versions?
- Ten Questions for the ESV Translators
- Exclusive Interview Opportunity With the ESV Translation Committee
- More On The ESV
- ESV Copyright Notice and Graphic
- An ESV Kids Bible Is On The Way . . .
- Jollyblogger Endorses the ESV "With Qualifications"
- Listen to Why John Piper Uses the ESV
- ESV Bible Official Blog
- English Standard Version Update
- The Blogosphere is Converting to the English Standard Version
- John Piper on the ESV
- A Meme in the Making: Is an ESV Wave Sweeping the Blogosphere?
- Books Every Christian Should Read: The Bible (ESV)


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CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) LeBron James scored 31 points, and Miami completed a first-round sweep of Charlotte with a 109-98 victory Monday night.
James scored 19 points after slightly injuring his thigh in the third quarter. He finished the game 10 of 19 from the field and had nine assists.
Chris Bosh added 17 points and Dwyane Wade battled through foul trouble and finished with 15 as Miami won its 20th straight game over Charlotte.
The two-time defending champion NBA champions will await the winner of Brooklyn-Toronto series, which is tied 2-2.
Kemba Walker led Charlotte with 29 points.
The Bobcats played without Al Jefferson, their leading scorer and rebounder who has been bothered by a foot injury since the first quarter of Game 1.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Mike Scott made five 3-pointers during a 30-6 second-quarter run and Atlanta fended off a furious fourth-quarter rally to beat top-seeded Indiana and take a 3-2 lead in the best-of-seven series.
Atlanta can clinch the first-round series at home Thursday.
Scott scored all 17 of his points during a 12-minute stretch when Atlanta went 13 of 16 from the field and outscored Indiana 41-19 to take a 61-40 halftime lead. The Hawks and the 1970 Milwaukee Bucks are the only road teams in the shot-clock era to score at least 40 points and allow fewer than 20 in any quarter of a playoff game.
Shelvin Mack led the eighth-seeded Hawks with 20 points.
Paul George had 26 for Indiana, which got as close as eight points in the final minute.