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CL Program Editor is a text editor for CL Programming on IBM eServer iSeries, i5 and AS/400.This editor is special designed for AS/400 CL ( Control Language ) Programming. By the full syntax coloring editor, you may find the CL Program source file is much cleaner to edit and view.
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PDA Diet Program to monitor diet, exercise, carbs. Build-Edit-Delete meals and menus. Create-Edit foods. Includes 50+ meals. Edit main food database. Track Water, caloires plus seven other values. Build-Edit-Delete Exercises. Complete control over historical data. GRAPHS of your progress. Control your fitness, health weight loss.
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Ask & Receive Subliminal Message Program. Part of the DSPP series, increase assertiveness and get your needs met by changing your thinking and overcoming shyness. Open your mind to opportunities and ask questions instead of guessing and giving up. Demo WIN/MAC
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AnyMini C is automatic character count software. It is character count Program for all common file formats, which supports .DOC, .RTF, .XLS, .PPT, .PPS, .HTM, .CSV, . After character count is completed, you can: view character count results on the screen; print character count results; export character count results into Text, HTML, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Rich Text...
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AnyMini L is automatic line count software. It is line count Program for all common file formats, which supports .DOC, .RTF, .XLS, .PPT, .PPS, .HTM, .CSV, .PDF, .TXT, .XML, .MIF, .WPD, .ZIP and is powered by AnyCount Text Count Engine. Support for line count for .MIF (Adobe FrameMaker), XML (eXtensible Markup Language), and .WPD (Corel WordPerfect) files is added; Show full path...
Category: Business & Finance
Publisher: AIT Line Count Programs Team, License: Shareware, Price: USD $23.00, File Size: 3.1 MB
Platform: Windows
AnyMini W is automatic word count software. It is word count Program for all common file formats, which supports .DOC, .RTF, .XLS, .PPT, .PPS, .HTM, .CSV, .PDF, .TXT, .ZIP and is powered by AnyCount Text Count Engine. After word count is completed, you can: view word count results on the screen; print word count results; export word count results into Text, HTML, Microsoft...
Category: Business & Finance
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The Beta Program Bug & Feature Database allows you to capture all customer feedback when you run a Beta Program. Data can then be prioritized and sorted by a variety of attributes. Both Excel and FileMaker versions of the database are included. Also includes a white paper on Beta Program Best Practices.
Category: Software Development
Publisher: 280 Group LLC, License: Shareware, Price: USD $10.00, File Size: 116.7 KB
Platform: Windows, Mac
The Developer Program Roadmap & Cost Estimator allow you to create a roadmap for your developer recruiting activities and a budget estimate. Also includes a Developer Program White Paper that teaches you best practices and a PowerPoint sample showing an evangelism timeline.
Category: Software Development
Publisher: 280 Group LLC, License: Shareware, Price: USD $10.00, File Size: 200 B
Platform: Windows, Mac
Lock and unlock any Program on your pc, including IE, Outlook, AOL, AIM, and more. You can even lock your control panel with one button click. Other features include the ability to choose your own message to display if anyone attempts to run one of your locked programs, and also includes password protection so only you can unlock the Program when you are ready to use it. Allows...
Category: Internet
Publisher: SoftDD Software, License: Shareware, Price: USD $29.95, File Size: 608.6 KB
Platform: Windows
The Keys Program is an easy to use database for businesses to keep track of keys for buildings, offices or vehicles that are issued to employees or other individuals. The Program will keep a complete and permanent record of exactly who had what keys and when they had them. It is intended to help prevent the accidental loss of keys by keeping key holders accountable, and to keep a...
Category: Business & Finance
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Platform: Windows
A freeware submission program for FFAs and classified sites to submit to the free for all link sites or classified sites of your choice. Contains 25 free submission sites
Category: Internet
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Platform: Windows
This freeware will start any Program you want at a scheduled time. It can perform both one-time and recurring tasks. However, there is more to Smooth Program Scheduler than just starting other programs. If some Program is enabled with a control interface built under Scheduler's specification, then you will get additional control over that Program. Two sound...
Category: Utilities
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Platform: Windows
Play a trick on your friends/acquaintances! Simply secretly install this harmless joke Program on your victims computer. When your victim starts and uses Windows, one of his/her CD/DVD drives will continue to open in irregular intervals.
Category: Games
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CALENDAR Software - Calendar Builder software Program - print your own custom calendars. Easy to use! This Program is designed to be used by regular people - yet the outcome is quite spectacular! Choose a style that suits you. Add Graphics. Add your own graphics and clipart. Choose Fonts. Use any font, color, and header style desired.
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Data recovery Program is an effective tool to recover deleted file & folders from corrupt, deleted, damaged FAT & NTFS partitions. The data recovery software is equipped with three robust recovery modes; Quick scan, Extensive scan & File Trace. Quick scan recovery mode recovers recently deleted files and is a fast method of data recovery. Extensive scan recovery mode helps the users to...
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Deleted some important files while emptying the Recycle Bin? Lost something important when your computer crashed? Whether it happens accidentally or intentionally in both the cases you will required a File Restore Program to restore all your deleted files. By using the utility of Deleted File Recovery recover deleted files without changing original file format & mime type of data. So the...
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April 27, 2014 Updated: April 27, 2014 at 3:15 pm
DENVER — Authorities say a man was hospitalized after he and his girlfriend caused an explosion while making hash oil in a Littleton home.
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says an 8-month old child and a 3-year-old child were in the home at the time of Saturday night's explosion. KUSA-TV reports (http://on9news.tv/1lXbdix ) the couple, whose names have not been released, could face charges of child abuse and arson.
The process of making hash oil is dangerous and has caused several similar explosions in Colorado and around the country.
The man's condition has not been released.

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Challenges in Building Large-Scale Information Retrieval Systems
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Building and operating large-scale information retrieval systems used by hundreds of millions of people around the world provides a number of interesting challenges. Designing such systems requires making complex design tradeoffs in a number of dimensions, including (a) the number of user queries that must be handled per second and the response latency to these requests, (b) the number and size of various corpora that are searched, (c) the latency and frequency with which documents are updated or added to the corpora, and (d) the quality and cost of the ranking algorithms that are used for retrieval.
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Shuttle $99 PC Reviewed (Verdict: Great Value, But the Linux OS Is Bleh) [Shuttle Kpc]
A $99 PC obviously isn't going to deliver a blockbuster experience, but Shuttle's toaster-sized KPC actually has the hardware to get the lightweight job done: 1.8GHz Celeron processor, 512MB RAM and an 80GB hard drive, all of which is expandable. Overall, Tom's Hardware thought the cheap-o box delivered "surprisingly good" performance and value, except for the default OS Foresight Linux—its user-unfriendliness and bugs are the KPC's biggest problems. But, the Windows XP install "worked flawlessly" in case you've got an extra copy lying around and want a low-power mini-PC. [Tom's Hardware]


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In my room at the Maurya Sheraton Hotel & Towers, the world was at my fingertips by way of AT&T's Definity Voice and Data System 75.
Downstairs, a group of 100 very senior seminar participants were gathering and raring to go - and my experience in Bombay two days earlier suggested they would be perkier than the 600 American executives I had addressed in Orlando, Florida, the week before that.
This was India 1994. But what about the armed roadblocks we had seen on the drive in from the Bombay airport, a response to bombings a few months ago? And what about my walk the night before the seminar? Out of the Sheraton, then, one street later, down a dirt lane where half-clothed children squatted to defecate and a line of men stood urinating along a wall. You can imagine the stench.
Such blatant contradictions notwithstanding, it's no wonder that India is a priority for Kimberly-Clark (Kleenex), GE and the Spanish. The 250 million or so Indians in the middle and upper classes (about 40 million of whom make over dollars 40,000 a year) add up to a well-off population equal in size to that of the United States.
Moreover, these people 'want quality and are ready to pay for it', according to the South Asia head of Lintas, the advertising agency.
What a change. In the summer of 1991 India almost defaulted on its international debts. To the world's surprise, the prime minister, PV Narasimha Rao, responded with vigour and began to rip open the doors to a closed economy.
Many referred to India's economy as the 'licence Raj' - a vestige of British colonialism. New Delhi told companies what, when and how to produce, where to locate, what technologies to use and whom to take on as partners.
India's state governments were worse. 'Armies of inspectors', as one commentator put it, traversed the country making sure companies accurately attended to the elephantine load of paperwork, licence renewals, and so on required by further armies of underemployed form-creating bureaucrats.
Has it all gone away? Hardly. State governments still get in the way and duties are still high. The planned sale of flabby state enterprises is going slowly.
Asea Brown Boveri, which has invested heavily in India, has been waiting for approval to produce a new high-tech locomotive since 1987. But most licences at the federal level have been abolished. Bank reform is progressing. The average tariff is heading down from almost 90 per cent to 25 per cent.
Access to technology is improving and foreign multinationals can set up research and development facilities in the country.
The proof, of course, is in the doing, of which there is plenty. GDP growth is up from about 1 per cent in 1991 to 5 per cent, inflation is down sharply, and foreign exchange holdings have gone from pocket change to about dollars 11bn.
Most important, foreign investment - a dollars 200m trickle in 1991 - is flooding in at a rate of more than dollars 2bn a year. Approvals for Indian businesses to collaborate with big foreign firms jumped from one in 1990 and five in 1991 to 49 in the first six months of 1993.
India's trade with China doubled in 1993, and US exports to India rose by 37 per cent. The government has recently issued licences to Coca-Cola and McDonald's.
IBM, which was booted out of India in the 1970s, is back, as are AT&T, Walt Disney, Raytheon, Morgan Stanley and Sara Lee.
In Bangalore, heart of the entrepreneurial south, Singapore's Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong cut a ribbon in January to launch Information Technology Park, a wonderland that may employ 16,000 software and electronics engineers. Nearby, Motorola engineers are designing components for Iridium, the hand-held satellite phone system. The company's chief for Central and South Asia said opportunities in India were 'without parallel'.
The statistical litany is overwhelming. And I was overwhelmed by the enthusiasm and energy of all those I met, not to mention the spectacle of running with hundreds of joggers in saris, Nehru jackets and Nike shoes on the seaside promenade in front of my Bombay hotel at 6.15am.
Yet, unlike my newfound Indian friends who practise denial so artfully, I did not become inured to the desperation just a millimetre below the surface.
Thirty per cent of the world's poor live in India, and at times I felt the fingers of each one scratching at the windows of my taxi in hopes of a tiny handout. One hundred million Indians are unemployed, several times that number are underemployed - and the country's population grows by about a Canada a year, or more than 20 million people.
So which India is it? The one that ranked 123 out of 160 Third World nations on the UN's Human Development Index? Or the India that GE and Motorola are betting will become an economic power?
I am excited, repelled and confused in equal measure. And I think, in the end, that's about the right take on this most extraordinary country.
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I think there was a German localization of Fallout 1. Unfortunately, due to censorship, this made the game unplayable when trying to complete quests that centered around The Glow. The only solution was to play the game in English. Thus, you'd still have to play the game in English in order to complete it :D


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Donaji & the Magical Poncho
This is the story of a fearless girl and her encounter with the wicked cold wind god
4.30 / 5.00 5,250 Views-UPDATE- thx 2 all of j00 who liked and voeted 6 on this collab for teh daily feature and weekly award! Special thx goes out to MrChocobo who designed teh awesome dropdown menu. Much <3
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We are Teh Piconjers, the uncensored flash community that pwns the internet. Piconjo Jam #21 continues the Piconjo's tradition of giving you a glimpse of our future work with several short movies spotlighting some of the talent in our community.
If you are interested in joining in on the fun and showing us and a large audience what you're capable of, email us at email@example.com
RIP, Piconjo. Your presence with us has ended, but your spirit lives on forever.
that was so sexy. I think I might be dreaming of the images in this movie for weeks to come. I love it as much as blue chley penors!
OMG xonK go back 2 j00r clay penors rofl
Graphics: 10 : very impressive.
Style: 10: very impressive.
Sound: 10: very fitting.
Violence: 10: a lot.
Interactivity: 10: Play, 4 scenes, 3 graphics options, link to Piconjo website, back to menu buttons.
Humor: not LOL funny but still amusing.
Overall: 10: If this is the new face of Piconjo, then I hope he's here to stay!
thx... wanna cyber? ;)
I voted 6 naturally
awsome job everyone this movie had it all!
The action (Rtill)
The drama(GAO)
The l33tness(Jerkoffman)
and of course the random-serious part(xonk)
hi i would like the time to talk about the origion or picjo he is crazy and stuff and did you no that hes liek 3 years old wtf wtf wtf right wow so anyway when i got home from school 2 day i went and about some tape, hokey tape the kind that they use on hockey sticks so i went home and did a really sweet tape job on my lacrosse stick witch was pretty kool soo yeah anyways befor i got home i was at school and i didnt l;earn anything i had a panic attack though becuase of not so great grades and i need to be like perfect from here on out so i can go 2 college so yah panic attack i go home eat mcdonalds go 2 sports chalet buuy tape and yeah tape my stick then my friend is like omg im made this hekka kool moveir and he tells me to vote 5 so i watch it and i cant figure out how to vote 5 so i figure that maybe its on this thing but no its not its in the left corner i think you should all vote 5 to becuz if you do all send you free porn like good stuff liek stuff thats real and not hella cheesey and fake and basically its awsome you no whaty eles is awsome my life man and i think the reason behind this is becuz im a great guy.. yesterday i wrote a letter to any one who wants to read it, it read hella my name is nicky and at the risk of sounding really corny,i would liek to say that i make people happy for a liveing, theres this mircle going on and it started oct 23 2006 and hasnt stoped since. this mircle is the fact that people are happy and if i have to do stupid shit to make them happy (like stapleing my ballsack to my leg or lighting my person on fire) then i will becuz thats the mircle of makeing people happy. in my mind i am better than jesus becuz he no longer creats mircles for people becuz he was brutally crusifide by the nazis and basically the nazis killed alot of other jews to i think you could compare nazis to fat people they take advantage of everything aloit like a hypo and i for one am not a hippo wiitch i guess would make me a jew, alot of people are going to read what i jusat wrote and i want you to get at least one thing out of it that this movie is the best movie ever made and if u disagree thats okay but plz dont be a fag who is hella annoying and basically has no life outside the internet and keep figfhting the piconjers.. you wont win they are under your skin there in you and there are many of them who help make legendary frrom movies so you cannot get rid of them, just accept them and encouge legendary from to make his own movies instead of haveing other people make them for him and yes legendary frog has not made his own flash since the first lord of the rings spoof
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omg piconjo would be so proud, jerkoffmanz prt was teh 1337. I luv hw j00 drew everyon. <3


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The Rhizome Digest merged into the Rhizome News in November 2008. These pages serve as an archive for 6-years worth of discussions and happenings from when the Digest was simply a plain-text, weekly email.
Subject: RHIZOME DIGEST: 3.18.05 From: firstname.lastname@example.com (RHIZOME) Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 13:21:21 -0800 Reply-to: firstname.lastname@example.com Sender: email@example.com RHIZOME DIGEST: March 18, 2005 Content: +announcement+ 1. Lucy Kimbell: Pindices: project launch +opportunity+ 2. olia lialina: 1000$ PAGE CONTEST 2005 3. mark cooley: Join the De-Tourism Center and rework the circuits of bucolic tourism! 4. M. Takeo Magruder: NET:REALITY (call for proposals) 5. Francis Hwang: Rhizome.org seeks software consultant 6. matthew fuller: DIGITAL FINE ART POST LANCASTER UNIVERSITY 7. Julian Bleecker: ISEA 2006 INTERACTIVE CITY CFP +work+ 8. Marius Watz: Project: Universal Digest Machine 9. rick silva: working title +comment+ 10. Jon Ippolito: Re: Internet2: Orchestrating the End of the Internet? + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 1. Date: 3.15.05 From: Lucy Kimbell <inbox AT lucykimbell.com> Subject: Pindices: project launch Pindices: Personal Political Indices A project by sociologist Andrew Barry and artist Lucy Kimbell --Website, gallery work and live research Part of 'Making Things Public: Atmospheres of Democracy', an interdisciplinary exhibition curated by Bruno Latour and Peter Weibel at the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany, March 20-August 7, 2005 How political have you been this week, based on acts you have performed? How much of a citizen? Pindices seeks to make individual political activity visible, but not in the ways typically measured by polling agencies or using the normal methods of social science. Rather than looking at political ideologies, institutions, groups or identities, in our project we start with the individual and their acts, and invite participants to make public a reckoning of their everyday political or citizenship activity by creating their own personal political indices during 'Making Things Public'. Somewhere between a public art project and bad social science, Pindices offers ways of thinking about what matters to individuals and how this is made visible. Set up your own pindex at http://www.pindices.org from 20 March http://makingthingspublic.zkm.de/ Andrew Barry is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, Director of the Centre for the Study of Invention and Social Process and the author of Political Machines: Governing a Technological Society. Lucy Kimbell is an artist and designer and AHRB research fellow at The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford. The project is supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Board, ZKM, Goldsmiths College and The Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org 2005 Net Art Commissions The Rhizome Commissioning Program makes financial support available to artists for the creation of innovative new media art work via panel-awarded commissions. For the 2005 Rhizome Commissions, seven artists were selected to create artworks relating to the theme of Games: http://rhizome.org/commissions/2005.rhiz The Rhizome Commissioning Program is made possible by generous support from the Greenwall Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 2. Date: 3.12.05 From: olia lialina <olia AT profolia.org> Subject: 1000$ PAGE CONTEST 2005 http://art.teleportacia.org/1000$/ Art.Teleportacia is calling again for personal web site submissions. You can submit your own page or a page you like. Your own comments are welcome but not required. Submissions will be accepted till the end of June 2005. The winner will be announced early July 2005. The site, time and the form of the award ceremony are open and will depend on the location of the winner and the political situation this summer. Notice that this year plus to the main prize we announce a special 79,50 English Pounds prize for a great Musician Self-Promotion Page. Sponsored by Lektrolab. And a prize for the Best Site of a Couple, made possible by the E8Z.org team. During the submission period all the submitted links will appear on the website. The most interesting links will be reviewed weekly by jury members. 1000$ prize is made possible by Art.teleportacia's savings and cash contributions from the jury members. http://art.teleportacia.org/1000$/ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome is now offering organizational subscriptions, memberships purchased at the institutional level. These subscriptions allow participants of an institution to access Rhizome's services without having to purchase individual memberships. (Rhizome is also offering subsidized memberships to qualifying institutions in poor or excluded communities.) Please visit http://rhizome.org/info/org.php for more information or contact Kevin McGarry at Kevin AT Rhizome.org or Rachel Greene at Rachel AT Rhizome.org. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 3. Date: 3.13.05 From: mark cooley <mgc868f AT smsu.edu> Subject: Join the De-Tourism Center and rework the circuits of bucolic tourism! Join the De-Tourism Center and rework the circuits of bucolic tourism! Organized by Nato Thompson Calling all miscreant mailers, drunk walking tour guides, peripatetic monster truckers, wayward window displayers, hand-me-down postcard makers, failed theme park conceivers, bad news bumper sticker makers, and all ye who just have their doubts about the tourist economy.... Cultural tourism has been heralded as the saving grace of post-manufacturing towns, but what exactly are people touring? What is worth seeing and what isn't? Why would one travel three hours to feast ones eyes? What role do artists have in these efforts and what roles are boring? "What," asks the Detourism Center, "is interesting about touring?" And maybe even more importantly, who wins, who loses, who is worth looking at and who isn't? The Detourism Center is unorthodox in that it isn't interested in booming economies or pragmatic functionality. It won't get you from here to there and it won't necessarily find you the best vacation package. From field guides for divining water to alternative maps for finding love in North Adams, the Detourism Center is almost mystical in its anti-intuitive, pro-meander methodologies. The Contemporary Artists Center is a small humble non-profit located in the foothills of the Northern Berkshire Valley in Western, Massachusetts. Just a stones throw from MASS MoCA, this benevolent art space and artist residency consistently produces great low budget exhibitions that at this point are contributing to the expansion of radical and formal history. Be a part! Send proposals to: The Contemporary Artists Center 189 Beaver Street North Adams, MA 01247 + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome Member-curated Exhibits http://rhizome.org/art/member-curated/ View online exhibits Rhizome members have curated from works in the ArtBase, or learn how to create your own exhibit. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 4. Date: 3.17.05 From: M. Takeo Magruder <m AT takeo.org> Subject: NET:REALITY (call for proposals) Net:Reality - A UK national touring exhibition of New Media artworks which simultaneously exist within networked and physical space. Background: 20-21 is a contemporary visual arts centre, situated in Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire. The centre comprises a former church built in the 1890s which has been extended on its south side to provide a café, retail area, education room and IT suite. The nave and chancel of the former church are now the main gallery. The centre opened in May 2001 and since this time, 20-21 has developed a reputation for producing high quality touring exhibitions. Q Arts is a leading visual and digital arts development organisation based in Derby, with a core aim to create an innovative, challenging and socially engaged programme. Q Arts exhibits contemporary art, media, digital and lens-based work, seeking to promote and develop emerging fields of practice. The organisation also engages with new and existing audiences through a core integrated education, interpretation and commissioning programme. In January of this year, these organisations secured funding from Arts Council England to develop a touring exhibition encompassing Internet and New Media work in conjunction with artist, Michael Takeo Magruder. Concept: Indicative of the advance of ubiquitous computing, technology is currently undergoing an evolutionary shift away from a personal experience towards an omnipresent framework, where design and form are increasingly characterised by device convergence and seamless integration into mainstream surroundings and situations. Parallel to this development, there is an expanding group of New Media practitioners who are concerned with blending elements from networked and physical worlds, in order to reflect upon the perceived â??voidâ?? between the relational spaces of the data-driven Internet and the organic, physical presence and interaction of the viewer. Through the creation of mixed reality constructions, such artists are addressing the nature of the amorphous connections that bridge these disparate entities rather than their points of origin. It is the examination of the â??dotâ?? within net.art. [excerpt from working text, Jessica Loseby and Michael Takeo Magruder, 2003] Exhibition: Net:Reality will exist in two distinct and interconnected strands; an exhibition of New Media artworks for the physical gallery space and a live online exhibition of Internet art. The physical and online formats of the work within the exhibition will be intrinsically linked and will reference one another in a variety of ways. There be a catalogue and CD Rom to accompany the physical touring exhibition and documentation of the Internet-based exhibition of the work will remain online for a minimum of three years. Rather than having a â??themeâ?? for the works, the media itself will unite the pieces within the exhibition. At present five participants have been selected; Glorious Ninth [Kate Southworth and Patrick Simons], Neil Jenkins, Jessica Loseby, Michael Takeo Magruder and Michael Szpakowski. The exhibition will commence at 20-21 on Saturday 23 July 2005 and will run until Saturday 29 October 2005. It will then travel to Q-Arts [Derby], Shrewsbury Museum & Art Gallery and other venues in the UK. Eligibility: We are currently seeking a further two artists/artist groups to participate in this exhibition. Applicants must reside in the UK and demonstrate a high standard of practice in both Internet and physical space settings. Submissions from â??emergingâ?? practitioners are encouraged. Call for Artwork Proposals: As the media itself is the unifying theme for the exhibition, proposed works may address any conceptual or aesthetic concerns. The artwork must be accessible both physically in a gallery environment and remotely via the Internet. These components of the artwork must be intrinsically linked, in which one element cannot exist without the other. The physical form of the proposed artwork must be: - modular/adaptable to generic gallery space. - constructed with professional, high quality equipment and materials. - robust and sustainable for the duration of the tour (min. 1 year - max. 2 years). - compliant with all UK health and safety requirements. - able to be set-up/maintained by gallery staff without the artist being present. - able to function on a shared, standard broadband connection (e.g. no static IP addresses and bandwidth must be shared with other artworks). - equipped with both G band wireless and 10/100 wired network facilities which can be used to connect to a host router/server for Internet access. The Internet form for the artworks must: - be cross platform (Windows 98/2000/XP and Mac 0S9/X). - be cross browser (IE, Firefox, etc.). - utilise free, easily installed plug-ins which are cross platform/browser. Commissioning Fee: The budget for each commission is £2,000, and must include: - artist fee - all materials and equipment for the artwork (including any consumable items) -the delivery and set-up of the artwork at 20-21 - resolving major breakdowns or technical problems with the artwork during the exhibition tour Submissions: All applications must include: - Artwork Proposal - CV/Bio/Artist Statement - Supporting Visual/Sonic Materials Proposals must be submitted via email to Michael Takeo Magruder (m AT takeo.org or mtakeomagruder AT yahoo.com). Please send all writing as Word or plain/rich text attachments and supporting visual/sonic material as low-bandwidth attachments or URL links. For submission materials which cannot be sent electronically, please request posting instructions via email. The deadline for submissions is 10/04/2005, all material received after this date will not be considered. Timescale: 10/04/2005 Deadline for submissions 25/04/2005 Notification of successful applicants 11/07/2005 Delivery and installation of commissions (ending 18/07/2005) 23/07/2005 Exhibition opens at 20-21 12/11/2005 Exhibition opens at Q Arts + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 5. Date: 3.17.05 From: Francis Hwang <francis AT rhizome.org> Subject: Rhizome.org seeks software consultant Rhizome.org, a non-profit organization serving the new media arts community, is seeking a software consultant. The consultant will work closely with the Director of Technology on a number of projects, from building new community features, optimizing the existing system, or extracting open source libraries out of the existing codebase. Rhizome.org is a highly trafficked community website with thousands of registered users and more than 1 million hits a month. Although the site uses a combination of Ruby, PHP, and Perl, almost all new development is done in Ruby. However, experience with specific languages is less important than an interest in object-oriented design patterns, agile methodologies, and test-first programming. Apple and Unix snobs highly encouraged to apply. This is a highly flexible part-time gig; we understand how consulting work goes, and will work to accommodate scheduling quirks, whether that's one week off to work at an ad agency in midtown, or one week off to tour eastern Europe with the other members of your robot music collective. However, please note that we require candidates to be in the New York area, since much of the work--though not all of it--will be on-site in our Manhattan office. Rhizome.org is among the oldest and most well respected organizations in the field of new media art. For more information about the organization and our programs, please check out our web site: http://rhizome.org. To apply, please email your detailed cover letter and resume (in PDF, if possible) to Francis Hwang at francis AT rhizome.org. Francis Hwang Director of Technology Rhizome.org phone: 212-219-1288x202 AIM: francisrhizome + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 6. Date: 3.18.05 From: matthew fuller <fuller AT xs4all.nl> Subject: DIGITAL FINE ART POST LANCASTER UNIVERSITY LANCASTER UNIVERSITY ART POSTS IN DIGITAL FINE ART - Ref: A442 ART PRACTICE AND CURATORSHIP - Ref: A443 Art seeks to appoint two ambitious colleagues to join our distinctive unit, committed to an integration of practice and history/theory. Art is part of the newly formed Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, a merging and major development of the departments of Art, Music and Theatre Studies. The persons appointed to the posts (that may be at lecturer, senior lecturer, or professorial level) will be expected to make significant contributions to the Institute's vibrant research culture, as well as enhance the excellence of our teaching and learning. Art is currently ranked third and fourth in The Guardian and The Times league tables. For both posts we are looking for: · individuals who have demonstrable potential to make their mark in their chosen field. Candidates will have a proven record of distinction in research or be on the way to acquiring one. Either way, you must be capable of contributing fully to the profile of a leading research-led university. · Teachers who are intellectually committed, stimulating and hard working. The unit is a relatively small and friendly one that values highly its caring and supportive relationship with the students. · Individuals with the initiative and resilience to respond to the opportunities and challenges offered by both disciplinary and interdisciplinary change. The posts take effect from 1 September 2005. The closing date for applications is 30 March 2005. Interviews will be held in the week beginning 18th April 2005. Informal enquiries may be addressed to the Head of Art, Professor Nigel Whiteley (email: n.whiteley AT lancaster.ac.uk). Further Details These notes are intended to provide a succinct overview for persons interested in applying for the posts in Art. Additional information about our identity, degree schemes, courses, research and staff profiles can be found on our website at: http://www.lancs.ac.uk/depts/art + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 7. Date: 3.18.05 From: Julian Bleecker <julian AT techkwondo.com> Subject: ISEA 2006 INTERACTIVE CITY CFP ISEA 2006 Interactive City San Jose, California, USA 1-14 August 2006 EARLY CALL DUE: 22 April 2005 ISEA INTERACTIVE CITY CFP: http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/ GENERAL INFO ABOUT ISEA 2006: http://isea2006.sjsu.edu/ ISEA (International Symposium on Electronic Art) is a large, international, two week long, conference and festival situated at the critical intersection of art and technology (see http://www.isea2004.net for last year's festival details). In August 2006 the 13th ISEA will be held in San Jose, California. ISEA spans a broad range of work from critical theory and application papers, interactive demonstrations, videos, installations, performances, and emerging music to name a few. In 2006 ISEA will feature four themes: Interactive City, Community Domain, Transvergence, and Pacific Rim. Each theme will of course manifest itself at ISEA in the form of papers, demos, performances, etc. Each of these topics will also feature a 2 day event immediately preceding ISEA to further focus the topic and go into more critical depth. This announcement is for the early call for proposals within the scope of the Interactive City. The city has always been a site of transformation: of lives, of populations, even of civilizations. With the rise of the mega city, however; with the advent of 24/7 rush hours; with the inexorable conversion of public space into commercial space; with the rise of surveillance; with the computer-assisted precision of redlining; with the viral advance of the xenophobic, the contemporary city is weighted down. We dream of something more. Not something planned and canned, like another confectionary spectacle. Something that can respond to our dreams. Something that will transform with us, not just perform change on us, like an operation. The Interactive City seeks urban-scale projects for which the city is not merely a palimpsest of our desires but an active participant in their formation. From dynamic architectural skins to composite sky portraits to walking in someone else's shoes to geocaches of urban lore to hybrid games with a global audience, projects for the Interactive City should transform the "new" technologies of mobile and pervasive computing, ubiquitous networks, and locative media into experiences that matter. We are initiating an early Call for Proposals that manifest but are not limited to the spectrum of ideas below. Interactive City proposals should embrace aspects of the city of San José and/or the surrounding metropolitan San Francisco Bay Area specifically. We are seeking projects that are large in scale, require advanced or special planning and/or permissions, or projects seeking early review. Let us experience your vision of the Interactive City! MORE INFO: http://www.urban-atmospheres.net/ISEA2006/ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome ArtBase Exhibitions http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/ Visit the third ArtBase Exhibition "Raiders of the Lost ArtBase," curated by Michael Connor of FACT and designed by scroll guru Dragan Espenschied. http://rhizome.org/art/exhibition/raiders/ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 8. Date: 3.15.05 From: Marius Watz <marius AT unlekker.net> Subject: Project: Universal Digest Machine -- Marius Watz: Universal Digest Machine -- 7.2 - 31.4, Solvberget Kunstforening, Stavanger -- Part of the exhibition "My Language" -- http://spider.unlekker.net A trip through the hyperuniverse of the World Wide Web on full autopilot: The Universal Digest Machine is an installation featuring a web spider that crawls the net, digesting web pages and outputting a brief analysis of their contents. The display unit is an industrial thermal printer mounted on a plinth. For every page visited by the spider, a receipt is printed, falling on the floor unless taken by a visitor. The receipts become a sprawling heap of intriguing but ultimately incomprehensible artifacts, obviously representing information but no longer in a human-readable form. Internet space is much like the physical universe - greater than any single person could comprehend or personally navigate. Since the spider is indiscriminate about the links it follows, it ends up in places most human users would never reach. As it does so it reveals a Terra Incognita of obscure web sites, giving equal space to Microsoft white papers, Disney collectibles and scat fetishism. Just as antique maps would be marked with dragons and fantastic monsters where the cartographers' knowledge of the world ended, there may well be terrible and wonderful things lurking on the web just outside of reach. -- The project can be seen online: -- http://spider.unlekker.net Marius Watz http://www.unlekker.net/ + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 9. Date: 3.17.05 From: rick silva <rick AT cuechamp.com> Subject: working title friends, enemies, friends of friends, and enemies of enemies, new project up online / quicktime and sound up: http://www.cuechamp.com/working_title.htm werd, rick + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + 10. Date: 3.17.05 From: Jon Ippolito <jippolito AT guggenheim.org> Subject: Re: Internet2: Orchestrating the End of the Internet? Thanks for this thoughtful response, Phil. It's hard for me to disagree with someone who is so plugged into Internet2--and says such nice things about me. But I'll do my best, with the help of Google and the EFF's Seth Schoen. > (1) the broadcast flag only applies to over-the-air broadcasts (not >cable, satellite, or internet streaming That's basically true--although Seth tells me the jury is still out on whether the flag applies to cable. In any case, Hollywood didn't need to lobby for a broadcast flag on cable or satellite broadcasts because those providers already can (and generally do) slap on even stricter DRM. The FCC approved this stricter form of exclusion--with minor limitations--in their recent "Plug and Play" proceeding. http://www.eff.org/IP/Video/HDTV/FCC_PnP_Ruling.pdf > (2) [the broadcast flag] will not prevent >copying for fair use. For example, you will still be able to record >over-the-air broadcast TV shows at home for later use. Yes, if you use software or hardware that meets Hollywood's specification. While in theory such a device might let consumers do everything they're legally allowed to do, in reality the MPAA has no incentive to encourage devices that let consumers do something Hollywood won't profit by. Jack Valenti isn't really interested in letting you freely record digital TV with your current DVD burner, email a clip from a President's press conference to your mom, or create a high-definition video installation based on an archive of short TV clips. http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000148.html http://www.digitalconsumer.org/bcastflag/info.html http://www.artnewsonline.com/currentarticle.cfm?type=feature&art_id=1226 To be sure, Jack doesn't have the direct authority to approve or disallow new PC tuner cards and DVD players. But before the broadcast flag, Hollywood had no recognized legal interest in appealing an FCC decision. Now that there's an FCC ruling designed specifically to protect their own interests, the movie studios are hiring expensive lawyers to do just that. In the short term, some consumers may not notice the immediate effects of the flag. (Though I'm guessing Johnny Consumer will be ticked off when he learns that the $500 video player he bought in 2005 won't play a recording Aunt Betty made with a DTV receiver she bought in 2006.) More important for the long run, however, will be the flag's effect on innovation in video software and hardware. To build a legal device to interoperate with the broadcast flag will require it to be "untamperable." That rules out any technological innovation that requires tinkering or experimenting with an existing apparatus. In particular, it rules out open source software such as GNU Radio, because open source projects *require* others to be able to tinker with them. Do we really need another market where open source developers are told they can't compete because it would it would wreck the business plans of entrenched commercial interests? http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000148.html http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/3065992 While analog recording devices are not constrained by the broadcast flag, the MPAA has been trying other schemes to "plug the analog hole." A particularly ludicrous proposal, documented in the MPAA's "Content Protection Status Report" filed in the US Senate in 2002 and echoed by two TV execs at last week's DVB World, calls for embedding anti-copy chips into every analog-to-digital converter manufactured. As you probably know better than I, those wee little converters are everywhere--in digital scanners and camcorders, but also in thermometers, seismographs, computer mice, mobile phones, and light-meters. That Hollywood would presume to constrain technological development in everything from health care to scientific research testifies to its fanatic obsession with controlling technologies that are incompatible with its business model. http://bpdg.blogs.eff.org/archives/000113.html >The broadcast flag system *will* prevent large scale redistribution, >i.e. massive piracy. But will it? Many observers have noted that the broadcast flag's DRM has all the toughness of a wet paper bag. It's just unencrypted bits in a stream, and the spec is publicly and lawfully accessible. The MPAA even sidestepped the question of effectiveness in their official FAQ. The ease with which it can be subverted makes me worry that its introduction will spur illegal reuses of digital TV while locking out legal ones. http://www.mpaa.org/Press/Broadcast_Flag_QA.htm By the way, you don't need to be a Bram Cohen to get around this DRM. Sure, you won't find a flag-free player manufactured after this July. But if you're keen on committing massive copyright infringement, just plunk down $150 for a tuner card before the deadline. Then you can spew pirated Alias episodes afterward to your heart's content. >The ability to quickly create improvised collaborative groups was >recognized as being among the highest application priorities in the >earliest pre-planning of Internet2. Application level efforts such >as the Internet2 Commons, VRVS, and indeed the very Access Grid >technology that MARCEL depends on, are some of the fruit of this >early vision. I'm glad to hear you think there's plenty of room on Internet2 for pickup collaborations outside of the broadcast model. Knowing you, you've probably participated in some interesting events on Internet2. So forgive me if the consortium's public face--which I've seen in Ann Doyle's presentations and Internet2 Web sites--doesn't reinforce the vision of open and improvisatory collaboration described above. Some of the networked performances I've seen associated with Internet2 sound innovative, but they take for granted a clear distinction between performers and audience. Likewise, I want to be part of the Internet2 Commons--but not if I have to shell out a couple grand to join it. And an Open Student Network is a great idea, but not if the end result is a television channel for Connie Chungs-in-training. But as you suggest, much of the problem may lie with the choreographers rather than with the engineers. Perhaps if MARCEL and Internet2 folks brainstormed together, they might come up with less hierarchic models of high-bandwidth culture. >Router level digital rights >management is not being considered by any of the internet standards >bodies. It's not even over the horizon. That's good to hear, and you're in a much better position than I to know what Internet2 chieftains are contemplating. I suppose my concern is less with what Internet2 is now than with what it could easily become if the MPAA starts getting its claws into it. You see, I don't know how to square your reassurances with the comments by MPAA and Internet2 VPs in the News.com story I posted earlier. When Chris Russell talks about working with Internet2 to "manage illegitimate content," how is he going to do that without sniffers inside the network that tell him what's being traded or who fed it into Internet2? Today, you and I can plug off-the-shelf PowerBooks into Ethernet cables at our university offices and communicate via Internet2 without Hollywood's blessing. I was optimistic that this privilege might someday belong to a much wider cross-section of people. But now the pessimist in me is thinking that even spoiled academics like us may be denied that freedom if the MPAA gets its way. As the folks at Public Knowledge commented in regard to the FCC's "Plug and Play" proceeding: "One of the key issues in this proceeding is the extent to which content companies and content-delivery services can leverage the Commission's goals of promoting digital television, cable compatibility, and competition in the navigation-device market into sweeping regulations whose principal effect is not to serve these goals, or even to prevent piracy of digital television. Instead, the real purpose of these proposals is to restore to content companies, to the extent possible, the degree of control over video they exercised prior to the invention of the videocassette recorder." http://www.publicknowledge.org/issues/plugandplay I hope that folks like you with some influence in the consortium will take this threat seriously enough to be mindful of it. Thanks for helping to air this debate in public. >And I personally look forward to working further with both! I'd love to start a working group on Internet2/Access Grid devoted to questions of access and control. As long as admission is free :) jon + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome.org is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and an affiliate of the New Museum of Contemporary Art. Rhizome Digest is supported by grants from The Charles Engelhard Foundation, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, and with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency. + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + Rhizome Digest is filtered by Kevin McGarry (kevin AT rhizome.org). ISSN: 1525-9110. Volume 10, number 12. Article submissions to list AT rhizome.org are encouraged. Submissions should relate to the theme of new media art and be less than 1500 words. For information on advertising in Rhizome Digest, please contact info AT rhizome.org. 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- Bill Crider said...
This is a book I remember wanting to like a lot. But I didn't.
- February 20, 2011 at 8:14 AM
- Evan Lewis said...
I've had this a long time but haven't read it. There's one novel about Bogie I can recommend, though: We'll Always Have Murder by ... what's his name again? Oh yeah. Bill Crider.
- February 20, 2011 at 8:28 AM
- Richard R. said...
We'll Always Have Murder by Bill Crider is really a terrific book, I've read it and can recommend it unconditionally. Yes, he's a friend, but he is also an excellent writer. The truth.
- February 20, 2011 at 4:10 PM
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> Hello, > > I'm running an embedded Derby database in my java application. I want > to use one single file for my database (not the directory with > seperate files), so I stored it in a jar file and used the derby:jar: > protocol in the connection url. However, compared to using the > 'non-jarred' database, my select queries are slower (I don't use > compression the jar file), is this normal? > > Thanks for the info! > > Best wishes, > Thomas > I run derby from a CD. I haven't noticed a difference between using a jar or using a directory, though I suspect the latency from the CD would hide any. So, I tried both ways from the HDD in a totally unscientific test (select * from a table). >From the jar: real 0m1.699s user 0m1.580s sys 0m0.072s >From the directory: real 0m2.026s user 0m1.704s sys 0m0.092s I repeated the test several times with consistent results. Anecdotally, I'd say the jar is faster. ry | |
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What is all of this BS from pepole who do not live in Wisconsin. Anyone can believe what they want
the fact is Tom Barret wants to spend 100 million on a two mile loop of a trolly, all of this while his city police department reclassified major crime like assualt and battery down to simple assualt or even disordly conduct
Tom Barett has nothing to offer nothing and most of the voter are fine with what Walker did some may not agree with what he however i wake up every day and the sky is still their over Wisconsin.
"With the ultra-radical left in WI, I can see why a governor would need a legal defense fund."
Ummm. that "defense fund" is because Walker has apparently been palin' around with GOBP thugs and criminals. How is that the fault of the "ultra-radical left in WI"?
this election has been sealed and bought by the Koch Brothers so grassroots efforts are now a thing of the past.
If Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker wins next week's recall election? Are you joking. Listen I know that CNN is a DIE HARD Liberal station but seriously. Walker is so far ahead int he polls there is no IF. Nice try on blaming money remember Obama raises more and receives more than anyone and it is not going to help him either.
I believe that the vets that were polled are the WWII vets and more of the older ones who still love the battle cry of war. Outside of the bombing of Pearl Harbor (with hopefully all the facts on board) this country has been involved in wars that have proven nothing but death to our young men and women, along with wounded and damaged families. Iraq was a complete disaster following a terrible lie by Bush and his administration, same for Vietnam. What reason would a vet have to poll favorably with Romney? He has yet to prove anything, other than a failed governorship and business deals that only helped himself and the rich. One argues neither Romney or Obama have had military experience, true, howver at least Obama has proven himself with getting out of Iraq, killing Bin Laden and Gadhafi and now pushing policy to get our soldiers out of Afghanistan. One last tidbit, Romney sees no problem in demolishing one multi-$$$$ home in order to build himself a larger multi-$$$$$$ mansion. Please people don't settle for this last pick of the litter candidate to run this country. We deserve better than someone who does not think before he speaks and even if the did think, it wouldn't be worth much as he is just so far out of touch with the majority of people in this country.
Go Barrettt--Go Wisconsin--Don't believe in Polls!
Teabagger like Walker and friends will always suck.
Wisconsin is proof that cutting taxes and union busting does not create jobs.
Anyone can cut spending when you tell the people on whom you are cutting spending that they have no rights or can't keep their rights. Imagine if the GOP tells seniors that the government can't afford to pay them Social Security benefits anymore, and they must accept a higher retirement age and lower benefits. This was essentially what happened in Wisconsin. The governor and the GOP-controlled legislature took away the collective bargaining rights of unions, then told the unions that they can't keep their benefits. The governor needed to do this so that he could cut taxes without busting the budget. The governor claims that he is standing up to union bosses. It is like Nazis claiming that they need to defend themselves against the Jews by exterminating them. These union bosses are so powerful that they lost their collective bargaining rights without putting up a fight.
Romney is surrounding himself with warmonger advises like Bonkers Bomber Bolton. As a result, if the military like more deployments for occupations and wars for Israel, they'll love Romney.
It is not just a recall of Walker. There are also recalls of GOP State Senators. The dems only need to win one of the three Senate seats to end the radical right-wing Senate. Lets hear more about the senate races.
If the Waukesha County Clerk has a 3rd run at her on-going election rigging she needs to be jailed! Third time may finally be the charm. The WI GOP remains thugs and criminal with the likes of her.
Big Oil Party vs. The People. This country gets more like Tsarist Russia every day.
I really dont buy these polls... let me guess...each one conducted about 1,000 interviews...correct? There are ALOT of liberals in Wisconsin that voted for Walker the first time around that wont this time. I really do think Walker is going down...by a very small margin. It really kind if p**sses me off that Obama hasn't helped rally the troops in Wisconsin, he could have made a big difference. Regardless of who wins, Romney is NOT winning Wisconsin. If Bush couldn't win Wisconsin...there is no way Romney will either. Obama will win wisconsin by 8+ points.
Nice try on blaming money remember Obama raises more and receives more than anyone and it is not going to help him either
Obama is also required list his donors ... ALL two million plus of them. SuperPacs running Wisconsin adds now aren't required to list ANYTHING. Who knows, it might be just one person spending all those millions of dollars in Wisconsin. Apparently that doesn't bother you. It should you know. Because after THIS election, should Walker once again win, he will once again be beholden to his money master. I'm guessing it's the same as the last one. And yes, Wisconsin will go the route most Southern States ... all those red states ... which are always listed last in nearly every category known. As it is, Walker has already given Wisconsin a heads up in lack of job growth, which is already at the bottom of ALL states, blue and red.
Two things:
First no name calling is needed when you have a solid argumentation based on facts and not propaganda, so 'lefty fellas' don't go doing what right wing fellas have to since every single 'fact' that they point out can be debunked or pu back in its original context.
Second: Richard T, thanks for finally saying something about the senators too.
Its good to see that Gov Walker and the people that are backing his reform movement have come to the table with enough money to get their message across to the good voters of WI. The corrupt alliance between the democratic party and the public employee unions that was bankrupting the state and taking it down the path of CA and IL certainly have had no shortage of support from unions and extreme left wing special interest groups. If WI is going to stay on the path to recovery, growth, and jobs the amazing voters of WI have to stay strong and continue to beat back the corruption that wants to get its hands back into their pockets. The amazing voters of WI have truly led the way to real reform. One more tiime in June and they will set the example to reform our nation and get it back on the path to growth and jobs by rejecting Obama in Nov!
If WI is going to stay on the path to recovery, growth, and jobs the amazing voters of WI have to stay strong and continue to beat back the corruption that wants to get its hands back into their pockets.
So, when are all these miracles to happen? You know, the job growth and such. As I stated previously, THERE HAS BEEN NO job growth under the Kochs', er ... I mean, Walkers rule. Quite the contrary, actually. It's fallen to last in the nation.
Condescension might work where you come from, but in Wisconsin ... not so much.
Walker should save his money for his legal defense.......
Remember, good people of Wisconsin, walker wants to divide and conquer. What the h3ll kinds of person/govenor wants to do that? Vote this poc walker out of office now!!
Why does walker need a legal defense fund, huh? he did something really bad, ? Yep, I think so
To Jake:...... The two party system has already been dismantled and it was done the day our president was inaugurated and the Repubs had a meeting which included Mitch McConnell saying that their one direction in this political picture was to "make Obama a one term president" . They have worked very hard to do just that which is the reason they are still being called the party of "NO"....Jake ,,,if you don't know this by now.....you have a problem!!
If Walker wins and starts to ruin their lives even more then those who voted for him will have nobody to blame but themselves.
Are u kidding us? What in God's name has Romney ever done to gain the faith of the Military over Obama. It's BS CNN and you have finally lost my respect. Jack & Blitz are so Right-Wing and now I see CNN going Fox on us. Bon Chance on you voyage "downhill".
And, based on the polling from Wisconsin.....Romney will win in Wisconsin, NOT Obama!! Voters want jobs, not foodstamps and welfare.


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3 comments:
- Ellen@Color Calling said...
You are placing this image without a single comment, Beth. Do you want us to weigh in on this look? Okay, I'll bite. Decorating with strong complementary colors is extremely tricky when you use them both in equal doses (that is, not using one strictly as an accent color). I'll leave it at that.
- May 1, 2012 at 9:07 AM
- Beth Connolly said...
Ellen - While it is a bit strong for my taste,
it is a popular look in modern Chinoiserie
and has been pinned dozens of times since
I posted it last night. - May 1, 2012 at 9:34 AM
- Junell said...
Yes! Go bold or go home is my motto. How well I know strong color is a controversial subject; I happen to love it & live it.
- May 1, 2012 at 10:36 AM
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Sometimes I envy the other contributors to these pages. They get to salute the heroes in their field, to bestow garlands upon the best and the finest that the bookshops of England can offer – and to acquire an armful of volumes that would grace the shelves of any reading person. I'm more like the Dynorod man. I roll up a sleeve, dip an arm into the slimy feculence of the celeb memoir business and yank out the ghost-written, self-indulgent, self-aggrandising effluvia of a ghastly gang of cash-randy showbiz egotists. I'd give it up – tell the editor to stuff it and give the gig to Marina Warner – if only I didn't like doing it so very much.
So who's first out of the U-bend this year? It has to be Jonathan Ross, who must have pressed Send on Why Do I Say these Things? (Bantam £18.99) months before those dirty phone calls to a minor British character actor gave the title of his book such topicality. The cover photograph features him in a scrum with the three wise monkeys. Some simian fingers are clamped across his face, neatly expressing the theme of the text and hiding the author's double chin from the camera. But that office really ought to have been performed by the hand of his hairiest human friend – and co-defendant in the recent Manuelgate brouhaha. Trying to look cool while sitting next to Russell Brand was what got Jonathan Ross into trouble at Radio 2. Why Do I Say These Things? does the same job in print: this is his Booky Wook.
Brand's bestselling memoir was a series of confessions – mostly involving bodily fluids – that would have made Rousseau's horse blush. Ross's revelations are just as undignified, but they are of a lesser magnitude. Brand wrote about taking his dad on a Thai sex holiday. Ross writes about practising his oral technique on peeled satsumas. Brand wrote about smashing the mobile phone of a prostitute during a bout of nihilistic coitus. Ross supplies six pages detailing his attempts to remove a small genital wart. Brand admitted that he'd once made a heroin-fuddled attempt to steal a preserved foetus from a hospital in the hope of selling a story about aliens to The News of the World. Ross tells the tale of how, when working as the token able-bodied person on a Channel Four show about disability, he volunteered to carry a colleague and his wheelchair up several flights of stairs, held the man too tightly and found himself bespattered with the contents of an exploding colostomy bag.
So, despite the emphasis on excrement, vomit, sperm and Rohypnol to be found in its pages, Ross's memoir is positively Pooterish in comparison with the book that it apes. Which ought to be a relief to his wife and children, if not to his publisher.
Dawn French's autobiography contains nothing so scatological – apart from one feeble joke about William Shatner. For me, French is an unusual figure in British comedy. Maybe my memory is at fault, but I can't actually remember her doing or saying anything amusing in the 30-odd years she's been in the business. There's nothing wrong with my eyes, however, and I failed to spot anything funny in Dear Fatty (Century, £18.99). I'm afraid I'm just not the sort of person who finds their sides aching when they read words such as pootle, cockin' and faddle. Laughter, though, isn't really the principal object of this book, which appears to have been modelled on the kind of autobiography you find filed in Tragic Life Stories section of WH Smith: those books about people who spent the first 10 years of their life tied to a hat-stand in the attic.
Dear Fatty is a story of genuine heartache and loss, written as a series of letters to loved ones, notably French's father, who committed suicide when she was 19, and her husband, the comedian Lenny Henry, whose much publicised extra-marital affair is the subject of a chapter. The tone is very odd: these letters, which deal with extremely raw and emotional subjects, purport to be intimate reflections addressed to the most important people in her life. And yet – because we are the true audience for them – they are delivered in a smirking stage whisper. "You is SO not an arse," she tells Henry, after he has done a stint in the Priory (a "frickin' good" place) and embarked upon a short tour of family members to apologise for his sexual misdemeanours. "You is a proper man." As a soppy-stern remark made between consenting adults in private, it seems fair enough. But why would anyone want to say it to their spouse with several thousand Vicar of Dibley viewers between them on the pillow? If you want a comedian's life story in your stocking this Christmas, stuff the thing instead with Alan Carr's memoir Look Who It Is! (HarperCollins £18.99) – it is simple, satisfying, and the author chooses the moments when your toes curl.
Roger Moore, the knitwear model turned third-best James Bond and Unicef ambassador, is far too smooth and well-mannered to splurge the details of his marital bust-ups into a hardback for the Christmas market. I admire him for it, because he has more material to draw upon than most. He spent the 1960s as husband to the singing legend Dorothy Squires, a foulmouthed domestic pugilist who considered no tiff to be complete without a black eye and a few smashed pieces of furniture. In 1950, Roger Moore's predecessor was relieved of his position during a fist-fight in a theatre bar in Llannelli. (Her father tried to separate the couple and was punched in the face for his trouble.) Moore married her in 1953, and is reported to have avoided her rages by sleeping in the garden.
However, there's none of that in My Word is My Bond (Michael O'Mara £18.99), in which the author emerges as the embodiment of chivalry. In fact, for a man who spent much of his screen career undoing bra-straps with magnets, a high quotient of his anecdotes are about being the object of male desire – from the story of the dirty old man who popped into his scout tent and complimented him on his knees, to his experience of being wedged on a Knole settee between Godfrey Winn and Terence Rattigan, to his rather sly practice of accepting drinks from homosexual strangers in pubs and ending the evening by ordering a ruinous final round and disappearing. (Gin and tonic was very expensive in the Churchill years.) The first incident, he notes in his opening chapter, was once the source of some inaccurate newspaper reports about his childhood. Frankly, I'm not surprised he gets misquoted. I was once at a press conference at which he intended to say, "I have just returned from a conference on child sexual abuse, chaired by Queen Silvia of Sweden," but instead told us, "I have just returned from sexual congress with Queen Silvia of Sweden."
The primate who is the ostensible author of Me Cheeta (HarperCollins £16.99) has not a hint of modesty in his make-up. He's worked – usually naked – with all the cinema greats: Chuck Heston, David Niven, Louis B Mayer, Marlene Dietrich and, most famously, Johnny Weissmuller, the Tarzan star who spent a decade swinging over the author's head and barking "umgawa, umgawa!"
Cheeta will confess anything, as long as the main players are safely in their graves: snorting cocaine off the breasts of Constance Bennett; getting hopelessly drunk during the shoot for Tarzan's Secret Treasure; sitting glumly on a Louis Quatorze dressing-table at a Hollywood orgy involving Paul Henreid, Paulette Goddard and Ronald Colman. ("They're like a bunch of fucking bonobos," he rages.) Aside from shamelessness, his most salient characteristic is a noisy aversion to the English, partly because of a bad experience on the set of Dr Dolittle involving Rex Harrison, a monkey-puzzle tree and a packet of fags. "I've never liked the goddam English," he snarls, "with their razor-wire elocution, their total lack of humour and their godawful pedantic spelling." But he says nothing about whether this hatred extends to the Welsh, and seems not to know that the line that gives him the title of his book – "Me Tarzan, you Jane" – was written by Ivor Novello, during his unhappy time indentured to MGM.
I can forgive this inconsistency: even though Cheeta has no morals or manners and gives an extravagantly unreliable account of himself, the personality that leaps from these pages remains a more plausible construction than those offered in the other books on this page. This, unquestionably, is the gold glinting in the cloacal slurry. Any celebs hoping to crack next year's Christmas market should take note: look upon the work of the guy with the hairy ears and the saggy scarlet bottom, and despair.
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Web Content Display Sahaj Sandesh No: 2010.30 Wednesday, 8 December 20101. Asian Seminar - November 29th to December 10th, 2010 at ManapakkamA seminar of abhyasis from Far East and South East Asian countries was held at Manapakkam from November 29th to December 3rd, 2010. In his inaugural talk at the seminar on November 29th, Rev. Master warns of the enticements of the outside world and the disappointment that inevitably follows pleasure seeking activities. He says it is up to us, as a matter of character, to make the right decisions and back them with determination. We must also allow our experience on the path to strengthen our faith. His full audio address can be heard at http://www.sahajmarg.org/audio/talk/apac-seminar-1120292010 A detailed photo gallery of photos taken during the seminar is at |


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'Iron Man 3' Blu-ray & Agent Carter One-Shot Details Revealed
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When Marvel Studios and Disney announced the release date for Iron Man 3 on home video and listed its special features there was a noticeable absence in it not listing any original content, specifically a Marvel One-Shot short film. The studio did however, tease that it would feature "more" and rumors and reports indicated that Hayley Atwell had shot a short titled Agent Carter and that it would be attached to Iron Man 3 and appearing at Comic-Con.
We had been told by Louis D'Esposito (Director, Marvel Co-President) back when he directed the Item 47 for The Avengers on home video that he and Marvel were already working on at least two more shorts and star Atwell teased many months ago that she shot something for Marvel for Comic-Con. It's here now and it is officially coming with Iron Man 3 on Blu-ray.
EW released official artwork and stills for Agent Carter leading up to its Comic-Con debut:
The short follows Atwell's British agent Peggy Carter still serving the SSR (Strategic Scientific Reserve) after the events of Steve Rogers took an ocean dive at the end of Captain America: The First Avenger. Dominic Cooper returns as Tony Stark's dad and the short serves as a bridge story between Iron Man 3 and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, so the timing couldn't be better. Director Louis D'Esposito talks about the speedy production of Agent Carter:
"First of all it's a period piece. You have three fight scenes as opposed to Item 47, where we just had basically one action scene. We had five days – one more day than we did on Item 47 but I think it's double in size. And also the visual style of it, that requires time. So there was pressure on us. I have people looking over my shoulder, looking at the watch saying, 'Come on, you're costing us a lot of money!'"
And on what the short is about:
"It's a year since Cap plunged into the ocean. And in our mind, we said there's a few SSR offices. If you want to relate it to now, it's like the OSS, the precursor to the CIA. The SSR is the precursor to S.H.I.E.L.D. There's some satellite offices in New York and right now their primary concern is getting Zodiac."
The mysterious Zodiac is something bad, something the villains are protecting. There will be a few other surprise cameos as well and D'Esposito hinted that they are considering including superheroes in future Marvel One-Shots.
Below is the updated official feature list for the various home video editors of Iron Man 3:
3-Disc 3D Super Set (Blu-ray 3D+Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy+Music Download)
Bonus Includes:
- Marvel One Shot: Agent Carter
- Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Look Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World"
- Marvel's Iron Man 3 Unmasked
- Deconstructing The Scene: Attack On Air Force One
- Gag Reel
- Deleted/Extended Scenes
- Audio Commentary With Drew Pearce & Shane Black
- And more!
2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack with Digital Copy (Blu-ray+DVD+Digital Copy)
Bonus Includes:
- Same as the 3-Disc 3D Blu-ray Super Set above
2-Disc Blu-ray Combo Pack (Blu-ray+DVD)
Bonus Includes:
- Same as the 3-Disc 3D Blu-ray Super Set above
1-Disc DVD + Digital Copy
Bonus Includes:
- Deconstructing The Scene: Attack On Air Force One
- Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Look Marvel's "Thor: The Dark World"
High-Definition & Standard Definition Digital
- Bonus offerings vary per select digital retailers
- Street Date: September 24, 2013 (Direct Prebook: 7/30; Distrib. Prebook: 8/13)
- Digital & On-Demand = please check with your television provider or favorite digital retailer for pricing
- Feature Run Time: 130 Minutes
- Ratings: U.S.: PG-13 For Sequences Of Intense Sci-Fi Action and Violence Throughout, and Brief Suggestive Content (bonus features not rated)
- Aspect Ratio: Blu-ray & DVD = 2.40:1
- Audio: Blu-ray 3D & Blu-ray 2D = English 7.1 DTS-HDMA, French-Canadian 7.1 DTS-HDHR, Latin Spanish 5.1 Dolby Digital, English DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital
- DVD = English/Latin Spanish/French Canadian 5.1 Dolby, English DVS 2.0 Dolby Digital
- Languages/Subtitles: English, French & Spanish
Here's the official Iron Man 3 synopsis for the few who didn't see the fourth highest grossing film of all-time in theaters:
Marvel Studios' "Iron Man 3" pits brash-but-brilliant industrialist Tony Stark/Iron Man against an enemy whose reach knows no bounds. When Stark finds his personal world destroyed at his enemy's hands, he embarks on a harrowing quest to find those responsible. This journey, at every turn, will test his mettle. With his back against the wall, Stark is left to survive by his own devices, relying on his ingenuity and instincts to protect those closest to him. As he fights his way back, Stark discovers the answer to the question that has secretly haunted him: Does the man make the suit or does the suit make the man?
Are you going to pick up Iron Man 3 on home video?
Iron Man 3 is currently in theaters, Thor: The Dark World on November 8, 2013, Captain America: The Winter Soldier on April 4, 2014, Guardians of the Galaxy on August 1, 2014, The Avengers 2 on May 1, 2015, Ant-Man on November 6, 2015, and unannounced films for May 6 2016, July 8 2016 and May 5 2017.
Follow Rob on Twitter @rob_keyes for your Marvel movie news!
Sources: EW, Disney


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