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Museums and galleries are in Manhattan unless otherwise noted. Full reviews of recent art shows: nytimes.com/art. A searchable guide to these and many other art shows is at nytimes.com/events.
★ American Folk Art Museum: 'When the Curtain Never Comes Down' (through July 5) A sprawling cacophony of objects, audiotapes, photographs and films is here orchestrated into a curatorial marvel. Strange and wonderful in numerous ways, the show sheds new light on the performance aspects of much outsider art while reminding us how eccentricity is not only basic to creativity but also to personal liberty and democracy itself. 2 Lincoln Square, Columbus Avenue at 66th Street, 212-595-9533, folkartmuseum.org. (Roberta Smith)
★ Brooklyn Historical Society: 'Personal Correspondence: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn' (through next spring) Symbolically, the Civil War ended when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant in the spring of 1865. For many people who lived through it, though, the war never ended at all, and it lives on in letters sent to and from the battlefield. Thousands of these ended up half-forgotten in attics and bureau drawers; a small stash comes to light in this exhibition that consists of just one little room with a lot in it — including letters, Civil War souvenirs and explanatory texts — with everything as readily accessible as if in a well-packed suitcase. 128 Pierrepont Street, near Clinton Street, Brooklyn Heights, 718-222-4111, brooklynhistory.org. (Holland Cotter)
★ Brooklyn Museum: 'Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Unknown Notebooks' (through Aug. 23) In this sparkling if sometimes arcane exhibition, the contents of eight notebooks, supplemented by several paintings and large drawings, trace the evolution of Basquiat's loquacious pictorial style. Time spent with the catalog enhances the experience. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. (Smith)
Brooklyn Museum: 'Zanele Muholi: Isibonelo/Evidence' (through Nov. 1) Describing herself as a "visual activist," the South African photographer Zanele Muholi is dedicated to increasing the visibility of black lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people with notable international success. Her stark black-and-white photographs often respond to the violence inflicted on those groups. But the exhibition also includes colorful photographs of same-sex weddings that are radiant, both with African sunshine and irrepressible joy. 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park, 718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org. (Schwendener)
★ Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum (continuing) The stately doors of the 1902 Andrew Carnegie mansion, home to the Cooper Hewitt, are open again after an overhaul and expansion of the premises. Historic house and modern museum have always made an awkward fit, a standoff between preservation and innovation, and the problem remains, but the renovation has brought a wide-open new gallery space, a cafe and a raft of be-your-own-designer digital enhancements. Best of all, more of the museum's vast permanent collection is now on view, including an Op Art weaving, miniature spiral staircases, ballistic face masks and a dainty enameled 18th-century version of a Swiss knife. Like design itself, this institution is built on tumult and friction, and you feel it. 2 East 91st Street, at Fifth Avenue, 212-849-8400, cooperhewitt.org. (Cotter)
Frick Collection: 'Leighton's "Flaming June" ' (through Sept. 6) "Flaming June," by Frederic Leighton (1830-1896), a masterpiece of Victorian painting, has come to New York for the first time in more than 35 years, for a solo turn at the Frick Collection. Anyone who's ever perused books of late-19th-century British art will instantly recognize the idyllic image of a young woman in a sheer, incandescent orange dress curled up in sleep on piles of drapery on a marble bench, with a sunstruck Mediterranean in the distance. She's particularly memorable for her disproportionately large right thigh. The painting is languorously beautiful and an exceptionally interesting artifact of Victorian consciousness. 1 East 70th Street, Manhattan, 212-288-0700, frick.org. (Ken Johnson)
Jewish Museum: 'Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television' (through Sept. 27) This small but revealing and entertaining exhibition traces the connections between the high art of the 1950s, '60s and '70s and the developing medium of television. The connections aren't always deep, but the material is always absorbing — from the "Twilight Zone" credits, to CBS promotional materials designed by Ben Shahn, to Andy Warhol's Schrafft's commercial. 1109 Fifth Avenue, at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, thejewishmuseum.org. (Mike Hale)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Fatal Attraction: Piotr Uklanski Photographs' (through Aug. 16) A small but succinct survey of the multimedia bad-boy artist's polymorphous relationship to photography shows him constantly changing scale, film and printing methods while exploring the medium's ability to startle, seduce and become generic. He appropriates, imitates and pays homage as he goes, regularly invoking his Polish roots. Don't miss the large photo-banners in the museum's Great Hall or the massive fiber-sculpture monument to the eye and to insatiable looking. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe' (through Nov. 1) This outdoor rooftop exhibition is about time. The main attraction is a massive fish tank containing a curious assortment of objects, animate and inanimate. As if by magic, a boulder of lava floats in the water, its top rising a bit above the surface. A couple of inches below is a mound of sand around which are swimming little brown eel-like lampreys and bright orange Triops cancriformis, or tadpole shrimp, two species thought not to have evolved in millions of years. Elsewhere on the roof, a boulder of Manhattan schist, the material that forms the bedrock for many New York City skyscrapers, represents geological duration. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Johnson)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'China: Through the Looking Glass' (through Aug. 16) Designed to illustrate the influence of Chinese culture on Western fashion, this visually extravagant exhibition fills both the basement-level Anna Wintour Costume Center and the Chinese galleries on the second floor, and claims a repurposed Egyptian space in between. In terms of real estate, it's one of the museum's largest shows ever. And it feels that way, exhaustingly so, with acres of objects, photographs, film clips and apparel punched up by sound-and-light special effects. In a way, it's all just fashion business as usual, the product of a culture that speaks a language of overkill. In this case, though, a smaller, better show is all but buried: a nuanced historical essay on cultural hybridity, the mixing of styles and ideas over space and time that leaves every culture equal to every other culture in its creative impurity. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Discovering Japanese Art: American Collectors and the Met' (through Sept. 27) Highlighting contributions to the Met's Japanese art holdings by American collectors from the 1880s to the present, this gorgeous show presents more than 200 superb paintings, drawings, prints, scrolls, folding screens, ceramics, lacquer ware and works in other mediums and genres, mostly dating from the fourth century to the late 19th. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Johnson)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Reimagining Modernism: 1900-1950' (continuing) One of the greatest encyclopedic museums in the world fulfills its mission a little more with an ambitious reinstallation of works of early European modernism with their American counterparts for the first time in nearly 30 years. Objects of design and paintings by a few self-taught artists further the integration. It is quite a sight, with interesting rotations and fine-tunings to come. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Sultans of Deccan India, 1500-1700: Opulence and Fantasy' (through July 26) This beautiful, evocative exhibition sheds new light on the miniature paintings, calligraphies, luxurious metalwork and breathtaking jewels that remain from the succession of cosmopolitan Muslim kingdoms and their turbulent 200-year golden age on the Deccan Plateau of south-central India. It also presents the paintings in new ways, most strikingly relieved of the white mats favored by Western museums and collections. Their decorative borders and patterned album pages are a revelation. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Van Gogh: Irises and Roses' (through Aug. 16) Art is long, but color can be brief. That's the message conveyed by this concentrated, juicy show. Reuniting four biggish floral still lifes painted in under a week, it affirms the artist's ability to give flowers the presence of portraits. And, using the latest digital means, it also examines the changes wrought by an orange-scarlet that faded over time. Enjoyable and edifying. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Smith)
★ Metropolitan Museum of Art: 'Warriors and Mothers: Epic Mbembe Art' (through Sept. 16) If a dozen masterpiece Renaissance sculptures, done in an unknown and wildly unorthodox style, suddenly turned up in the Italian countryside, the find would make the news. You'll encounter the equivalent of such a discovery in this show of spectacular weatherworn, wood-carved figures, some dating to before the 17th century, that were made by the Mbembe in southeastern Nigeria and taken to Paris by an African dealer in the early 1970s. They caused a sensation among collectors and scholars at the time, and you can see why. But the effort to find more of them proved fruitless. The examples at the Met, which include the original dozen, represent all the fully intact stand-alone Mbembe figures known to exist. 212-535-7710, metmuseum.org. (Cotter)
MoMA PS1: Simon Denny: 'The Innovator's Dilemma' (through Sept. 7) A hyperactive multimedia extravaganza by this Berlin-based artist takes down irrational exuberance about new technologies with sardonic verve. Along the way, it indirectly damns the high-end art market's own inflationary mania. If Mr. Denny doesn't get to the bottom of what's causing the sociopathology infecting both industries, his show is certainly a good conversation starter. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-784-2084, ps1.org. (Johnson)
★ MoMA PS1: 'Wael Shawky: Cabaret Crusades' (through Aug. 31) Some of the most vivid depictions of a war in the Middle East aren't on television news these days. They're in the local solo debut of the Egyptian artist Wael Shawky at MoMA PS1. Called "Cabaret Crusades," it's made up of three sequential films set in the distant past, beginning in the 11th century when European armies marched eastward to claim the Holy Land. The story is one of almost unremitting violence, and the scenes of battle, torture and execution are appalling to see, which is a surprise, considering that all the actors are marionettes, some of which are on view in the gallery, and an extraordinary sight they are. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-784-2084, ps1.org. (Cotter)
MoMA PS1: 'Samara Golden: The Flat Side of the Knife' (through Aug. 31) Standing at a railing where you look into the museum's two-story-tall Duplex Gallery, you behold a confoundingly complicated interior architecture with furniture, stairways, musical instruments, wheelchairs and many other domestic items rendered in silvery, foil-clad foam board. The gallery's floor is covered by a grid of large mirrors so that everything is doubled. What you think is up may really be down, and what you take to be real might be a virtual reflection of the real. 22-25 Jackson Avenue, at 46th Avenue, Long Island City, Queens, 718-784-2084, ps1.org. (Johnson)
★ Morgan Library & Museum: 'Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan' (through Sept. 20) The library redefines the artist-selected museum exhibition by inviting Emmet Gowin to mix selections from its holdings with his own photographs. The extraordinary result is a retrospective inside a visual autobiography that can evoke a cabinet of wonders and includes many Morgan marvels, like the best Rembrandt drawing of an elephant you'll ever see. Mr. Gowin's interview in the catalog adds further depth. 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, 212-685-0008, themorgan.org. (Smith)
★ El Museo del Barrio: 'Under the Mexican Sky: Gabriel Figueroa, Art and Film' (through June 27) Painting with light is one way to define the cinematographer's task, and it describes the art of Gabriel Figueroa (1907-1997), who worked with some of the leading international film directors of his time and was a national hero in his native Mexico, the supreme painter-in-light of Mexicanidad. How do you put this particular kind of art across in a museum — art that is as much about time as it is about material, as much about flux as it is about fixity? This show, which mixes Figueroa film clips with paintings and prints by some of Mexico's greatest artists and in the process utterly transforms El Museo's interior spaces, gives an enthralling answer. 1230 Fifth Avenue, at 104th Street, East Harlem, 212-831-7272, elmuseo.org. (Cotter)
Museum of Arts and Design: 'Richard Estes: Painting New York City' (through Sept. 20) The core of this show is a selection of vivid, Photorealist paintings of urban subjects like glass and chrome storefronts, movie theater marquees, cars and trucks, subways, the Brooklyn Bridge, views from the Staten Island Ferry and idyllic images of Central Park made between 1965 and 2015. The exhibition also includes didactic sections about the craft and technique that go into Mr. Estes's painting and prints, but that aspect doesn't fully deliver what it promises. 2 Columbus Circle, Manhattan, 212-299-7777, madmuseum.org. (Johnson)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'One-Way Ticket: Jacob Lawrence's Migration Series and Other Visions of the Great Movement North' (through Sept. 7) In the early 20th century, tens of thousands of African-Americans left the rural South for the industrial North in search of jobs, homes and respect. Officially, this show is meant to mark the centennial of that immense population shift, though it also marks another anniversary: the first time in two decades that all 60 paintings in Jacob Lawrence's great "Migration Series," now divided between New York and Washington, have been shown together at the museum. Here they are surrounded by period photographs, books and fabulous music in a display as stimulating to the mind and the ear as it is to the eye. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Cotter)
Museum of Modern Art: 'Scenes for a New Heritage: Contemporary Art from the Collection' (through March 2016) MoMA's latest installation of works from its permanent collection fills the second-floor contemporary galleries with videos, installations, sculptures, drawings, prints and photographs produced by more than 30 artists during the past three decades. It's an uneven, haphazard selection, but leaving artistic quality aside, its unusually optimistic-sounding title inadvertently raises a large and intriguing question: At a time when contemporary art seems to be spinning its wheels, what could a new heritage be? 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Johnson)
Museum of Modern Art: 'From Bauhaus to Buenos Aires: Grete Stern and Horacio Coppola' (through Oct. 4) Divided into alternating his-and-hers rooms, the show features the Argentine artist and filmmaker Horacio Coppola (1906-2012) and the German artist Grete Stern (1904-99). Stern was clearly the more strident innovator. Highlights of the show include her work with Ringl & Pit, the advertising agency she founded with Ellen Auerbach, as well as "Dreams (Sueños)," the surrealist photomontages she published in a women's magazine from 1948 to 1951 to illustrate a column on psychoanalysis. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Schwendener)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980' (through July 19) This show recalls a not-so-distant time when architects and governments together dreamed big about changing the world for the better. What got built through the 1970s in places like Havana and Buenos Aires, Mexico City and Lima included some of the most inspired architecture of the modern age. The show is an eye-opener, rectifying a long-skewed, Eurocentric worldview, shedding light on a period neglected for generations outside the region. It's the sort of exhibition MoMA still does best. You can come away shaking your head at the variety of remarkable projects missing from the 20th-century canon. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Michael Kimmelman)
★ Museum of Modern Art: 'Yoko Ono: One Woman Show, 1960-1971' (through Sept. 7) In 1971, Yoko Ono gave herself an imaginary solo show at MoMA by means of a few cut-and-paste photographs and some strategically placed newspaper advertisements. More than 40 years later, the real thing has come to pass and it was worth the wait. Enhanced by films and a soundtrack, the show is largely archival, with lots of works on paper, including the 151 hand-typed note cards that, in 1964, became "Grapefruit: A Book of Instructions and Drawings," and demonstrate how radical this artist's early experiments with language and performance were. A 2015 sculpture rounds things out. Sure to put you off balance, it's a reminder of what a wake-up-to-life call that art can be, a message that this underestimated artist has been delivering for years. 212-708-9400, moma.org. (Cotter)
Museum of the City of New York: 'Everything Is Design: The Work of Paul Rand' (through Sept. 7) You may not know the name Paul Rand (1914-96), the immensely influential advertising art director, illustrator and graphic designer, but it's a safe bet you're familiar with some of his works. After shaking up American advertising and book cover design in the 1940s and '50s, he created logos for UPS, IBM, Westinghouse and other American corporations. His admirers called him "the Picasso of graphic design." This show tracks his six-decade career with 150 examples of vintage magazines, book covers, three-dimensional containers, children's books and books by Mr. Rand about principles of design. Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, mcny.org. (Johnson)
Neue Galerie: 'Gustav Klimt and Adele Bloch-Bauer: The Woman in Gold' (through Sept. 7) With the release of the movie "Woman in Gold," which is about the restitution of some Nazi-looted paintings by Gustav Klimt to their rightful heir, the most celebrated of those works, the predominantly golden "Adele Bloch-Bauer I" (1907), is back in the media spotlight after its 2006 purchase by Ronald S. Lauder for $135 million, a record price at the time. This small show features the portrait along with eight other Klimts and an assortment of jewelry and decorative objects typifying the luxurious lifestyle of Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, the art collectors who commissioned it. 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, 212-628-6200, neuegalerie.org. (Johnson)
★ Neue Galerie: 'Russian Modernism: Cross-Currents of German and Russian Art, 1907-1917' (through Aug. 31) This lively, scattershot exhibition of about 70 paintings and works on paper forms an indispensable introduction to Russian modernism's figurative beginnings and its ties to German Expressionism. That many of the Russians are unknown compensates for the unevenness of their work and for a selection of abstract pieces that feel tacked on. The German works, while outnumbered, look great. 1048 Fifth Avenue, at 86th Street, 212-628-6200, neuegalerie.org. (Smith)
★ New Museum: 'Albert Oehlen: Home and Garden' (through Sept. 13) This fantastic, overdue show skims too lightly over three decades of painting — from 1983 to 2011 — as the artists moved from Neo-Expressionist self-portraits to his latest abstractions, in which irony is replaced by a semblance of anguish. In between: some of the first (and best) forays into painting by computer, and a group of canvases whose sublime abandon obliterates elaborate computer-built images. 235 Bowery, at Prince Street, Lower East Side, 212-219-1222, newmuseum.org. (Smith)
★ New-York Historical Society: 'Freedom Journey 1965: Photographs of the Selma to Montgomery March by Stephen Somerstein' (through Oct. 25) Almost 50 years ago, the picture editor of a campus newspaper at City College of New York assigned himself a breaking story: covering what promised to be a massive march in Alabama, led by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., to demand free and clear voting rights for African-Americans. On short notice the editor, Stephen Somerstein, grabbed his cameras, climbed on a bus and headed south. The 55 pictures of black leaders and everyday people in this show, installed in a hallway and small gallery, are some that he shot that day. The image of Dr. King's head seen in monumental silhouette that has become a virtual logo of the film "Selma" is based on a Somerstein original. 170 Central Park West, at 77th Street, 212-873-3400, nyhistory.org. (Cotter)
Queens Museum: 'After Midnight: Indian Modernism to Contemporary India, 1947/1997' (through June 28) This large group exhibition of South Asian-born artists is really two shows, a focused one of modernist painting from roughly the time of Independence in 1947 through the 1970s, and a larger, somewhat haphazard selection of multimedia work from the past few years. The best way to approach the second part is one artist at a time, and there are some fine ones, from Atul Dodiya and Dayanita Singh of an older generation, to Prajakta Potnis and Sreshta Rit Premnath of a younger. The placement of films by Nikhil Chopra around the museum's grand New York City panorama makes for a win-win installation. Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, 718-592-9700, queensmuseum.org. (Cotter)
★ Whitney Museum of American Art: 'America Is Hard to See' (through Sept. 27) With high ceilings, soft pine-plank floors and light-flooded windows and terraces, the galleries of the new Renzo Piano-designed Whitney Museum in the meatpacking district are as airy as 19th-century sailmakers' lofts. Art feels at home in them, and the work in the museum's top-to-bottom inaugural exhibition is homegrown. Culled from the permanent collection, it mixes bookmarked favorites by Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe and Jasper Johns with objects and artists that the Whitney had all but forgotten or just brought in. As a vision of a larger America, the show is far from comprehensive; as a musing on the history of a particular New York institution over nearly a century, it is very fine, smartly detailed and superbly presented. 99 Gansevoort Street, at Washington Street, 212-570-3600, whitney.org. (Cotter)
Galleries: Chelsea
★ Santu Mofokeng: 'A Metaphorical Biography' (through June 27) Born in Johannesburg in 1956, Mr. Mofokeng produced some of the great pictures of the apartheid years, but his images were different from many others of the time. His interest was less in a photojournalistic documenting of battles between South African blacks and repressive government, than in recording the dynamics of another front line: daily life in black communities. This small but comprehensive career survey ranges from his mid-1980s "Townships" series, for which he traveled to various black settlements created far from cities by a white separatist government, to 2004 pictures of the Motouleng Cave, a spiritual pilgrimage site to which the artist took a brother sick with AIDS. The Walther Collection Project Space, 526 West 26th Street, Suite 718, Chelsea, 212-352-0683, walthercollection.com. (Cotter)
Galleries: Other
Deborah Kass: 'America's Most Wanted, 1998 — 1999' (through June 28) Considering this smart and funny show of screen-printed, black-and-white images apparently copied — and much enlarged — from police mug shots, the casual gallery goer might wonder: Who are these people? What crimes did they commit? Those who know their Pop Art history will recognize Ms. Kass's "America's Most Wanted, 1998-1999" as a late-1990s update of Andy Warhol's 1964 work "13 Most Wanted Men." In fact, Ms. Kass's supposed miscreants all are well-known art curators and not criminals at all. Sargent's Daughters, 179 East Broadway, Lower East Side, 917-463-3901, sargentsdaughters.com. (Johnson)
'The Story of O(OO)' (through June 28) The title of this puzzling exhibition refers to the erotic French novel "The Story of O" and to a recent trend in philosophy called Object Oriented Ontology, or OOO for short. Works by six artists, including Paul Laffoley and Lucy Dodd, are arranged on and around a diagram on the floor resembling a hopscotch court. It's from a chart about how we know reality devised by Graham Harman, one of OOO's leading exponents. David Lewis Gallery, 88 Eldridge Street, near Grand Street, Lower East Side, 212-966-7990, davidlewisgallery.com. (Johnson)
★ 'Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera' (through July 11) In 1979, Mr. Tseng (1950-90) began to create his most memorable works: photographic self-portraits in which he appeared wearing dark glasses and a Zhongshan suit — the type of drab uniform favored by Mao Zedong of China. Thus outfitted, he posed before famous monuments like Mount Rushmore and the Eiffel Tower and natural wonders like Niagara Falls and the Canadian Rockies. This entertaining survey presents about 80 works from a short but prolific career. Grey Art Gallery, New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Greenwich Village, 212-998-6780, nyu.edu/greyart. (Johnson)
Public Art
Jeppe Hein: 'Please Touch the Art' (through April 2016) People with small children likely will enjoy Mr. Hein's three-part show. If it's a hot day, the kids will rush to be drenched by "Appearing Rooms," which has water spouting up unpredictably from a square platform of metal grating. Youngsters as well as grown-ups also may be fascinating by the perceptually confounding "Mirror Labyrinth NY," which consists of mirror-surfaced planks of stainless steel in varying heights planted in the grass in a spiral formation. Meanwhile, guardians can rest on one of 16 fanciful, shocking orange park benches while their young charges clamber about on the furniture's surrealistically altered parts. Brooklyn Bridge Park, 334 Furman Street, Fulton Ferry, Brooklyn, publicartfund.org. (Johnson)
Out of Town
★ Clark Art Institute: 'Van Gogh and Nature' (through Sept. 13) "Nature is very, very beautiful here," van Gogh wrote to his younger brother Theo in the summer of 1890, a few weeks before he took his own life. He was referring to the vistas of forests and grain fields surrounding the town of Auvers-sur-Oise northwest of Paris. He had written almost identical words in other letters, from other places, over the years. Natural beauty was the first thing he noticed wherever he went, and this show of some 50 paintings and drawings, on loan from American and European museums, is filled with his images of it, from early, twilit Dutch landscapes, to sumptuous floral still lifes, to exquisite late drawings of insects and birds. They add up to one of this summer's choice art attractions; a low-key big deal. 225 South Street, Williamstown, Mass., 413-458-2303, clarkart.edu. (Cotter)
Dia: Beacon: Robert Irwin: 'Excursus: Homage to the Square³ ' (continuing) A walk-in maze with walls of white scrim lit by color-filtered fluorescent tubes, Mr. Irwin's "Excursus: Homage to the Square³" had its debut in 1998 at the Dia Center for the Arts in Chelsea. It was so popular that the curators elected to keep it on view a year longer than its originally planned run. It's reincarnation here is similarly transporting, if not as thoroughly as the original was. But to experience it at Dia: Beacon along Minimalist works by other artists that encourage heightened perceptual attention to the here and now is as spiritually calming as it is historically illuminating. 3 Beekman Street, Beacon, 845-440-0100, diaart.org. (Johnson)
★ National Museum of African Art: 'Conversations: African and African American Artists in Dialogue' (through early 2016) For its 50th anniversary, this museum has brilliantly thread together work from two sources: its own holdings in African material and the Camille O. and William H. Cosby Jr. collection of African-American art. The Cosby collection, weighted toward canonical figures like Romare Bearden and Charles White, will bring in the crowds, but it is the curators and museum itself, which is in a period of renaissance, that have made the show rise well above predictability. Smithsonian Institution, 950 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 202-633-4600, africa.si.edu. (Cotter)
Last Chance
Lilja Birgisdottir: 'If Your Colors Were Like My Dream' (closes on Sunday) When artists refer to color theory, they usually mention thinkers like Isaac Newton, Goethe and Josef Albers. The Icelandic artist Lilja Birgisdottir takes a different approach, employing New Age aura reading and wardrobe color analysis — and black-and-white rather than color photography. The results in this small, minimal show — her first solo exhibition in New York — are poetic and provocative. Rawson Projects, 221 Madison Street, near Jefferson Street, Lower East Side, 212-256-0379, rawsonprojects.com. (Martha Schwendener)
Vern Blosum: 'Late Work' (closes on Sunday) Each of the 11 amusing poster-size pencil drawings in this exhibition presents a neatly rendered object accompanied by block-lettered captions. The text below the image of a fly swatter reads "No Fly Zone." "Ideologues" is illustrated by a pile of decomposing logs. Curiously, a gallery news release says these and the others are the first works produced by the pseudonymous Vern Blosum since the early 1960s when he painted similar images as a mockery of Pop Art. Essex Street, 114 Eldridge Street, near Broome Street, Lower East Side, 917-263-1001, essexstreet.biz. (Johnson)
Harry Dodge: 'The Cybernetic Fold' (closes on Saturday) Harry Dodge is a transgender artist whose current show meditates seriously, and deliriously, on the fluid nature of identity and how technology alters bodies and consciousness. In addition to ecstatically colored sculptures and stenciled wall panels, a 13-minute video featuring the fast-talking Mr. Dodge ruminates on quantum physics and ends with a yarn about technological extensions of the body. The show's title and the news release both reference important works of gender and queer theory and add to the crush of ideas. Wallspace, 619 West 27th Street, 212-594-9478, wallspacegallery.com. (Schwendener)
'Drifting in Daylight: Art in Central Park' (Friday and Saturday) Be forewarned: It will take at least a couple of hours to find and appreciate every one of the show's eight mostly ephemeral works. You'll need a map, available at the park's Discovery Center on 110th Street. By far the most moving piece is Ragnar Kjartansson's "S.S. Hangover. " In a square-sailed boat resembling a Viking ship, a formally attired brass quintet plays a beautiful composition as the vessel slowly motors around Duck Island in the Harlem Meer. For refreshment, tired walkers can enjoy a free ice cream cone dispensed from Spencer Finch's solar-powered ice cream truck — if, that is, there's enough sunlight to power the freezing machinery. (From noon to 6 p.m. through Saturday.) Central Park, 212-206-6674, creativetime.org. (Johnson)'Figuratively Considered, A Selection of Early-20th-Century American Figurative Works' (through next Friday) This group show is a must for appreciators of underappreciated artists. It contains two portraits that the great David Park painted between the wars under the spell of between-the-wars Picasso, and "Bea Ault," a bold Cubo-folk portrait from 1925 by the resourceful Marguerite Zorach (1887-1968), an early adopter of Fauvism who was included in the 1913 Armory Show. Kraushaar Galleries, 15 East 71st Street, near Madison Avenue, Upper East Side, 212-288-2558, kraushaargalleries.com. (Smith)
Tabor Robak: 'Fake Shrimp' (closes on Sunday) The second New York gallery solo of this brilliant digital artist meshes high and low; digital and labor-intensive; art and advertising. The result is some new strain of specific object, with its own beyond-radiant palette, seamlessly evolving forms and meanings, and a sense of process and acute attention that belie the view of digital art as slick and impersonal. Team Gallery, 83 Grand Street, at Greene Street, SoHo, 212-279-9219, teamgal.com. (Smith)
Torbjorn Rodland: 'Corpus Dubium' (closes on Saturday) A Norwegian artist who lives in Los Angeles, Mr. Rodland creates photographs that are formally acute, conceptually playful and psychologically evocative. The most intriguing of the large, color prints in this show have eccentric religious overtones. "Drunken Man" depicts a large-bodied, bald and bearded fellow, naked from the waist up and evidently happily inebriated. A different young woman is glimpsed to either side of him, bringing to mind the biblical story of Lot and his daughters. Algus Greenspon, 71 Morton Street, West Village, 212-255-7872, algusgreenspon.com.
★ Joan Snyder: 'Sub Rosa' (closes on Saturday) The painter, who has been showing in New York since 1970, continues to confront us with heavy textures, strong colors, bursting roseate motifs and sometimes fraught bits of language, resulting in visceral expressions that merge painting with scrapbook, diary, garden journal and bulletin board. She is still regularly making work you have to contend with. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 53 East 64th Street, near Park Avenue, Upper East Side, 212-246-5360, franklinparrasch.com. (Smith)
★ Stan VanDerBeek: 'Poemfield' (closes on Saturday) Projected on four walls of a small space, several 16-millimeter films from the late 1960s form a pulsing environment of words and patterns that is one of the best shows currently in Chelsea. They also exemplify one of the first digital animation programs put to ingenious use. Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, 544 West 24th Street, Chelsea, 212-627-6000, andrearosengallery.com. (Smith)


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My Hometown on Monday - All School Gathering 2010
The "Coon Rapids-Bayard (IA) All School Gathering 2010" is planned for this coming weekend, July 15-18, in Coon Rapids, Iowa. There are 125 persons on Facebook confirmed that they are participating. You can locate the Facebook page by putting the word in quotes, above, in the search box. Administrators of the Facebook page are listed as Alyssa Jackson, Janelle Kracht, Rich Baker and Try Trimble (creator of the page).
The weekend event opens with Live Music by Matt Woods and the Thunderbolts hosted by Whiterock Conservancy at Riverside Park from 7-9 pm on Thursday July 15. Golf, social hour and evening dinner are scheduled for Friday. Saturday will involve school tours, County Fair participation, late afternoon social hour and dinner, and the Figure 8 raceing plus Beer Garden with DJ or other activities at the Fairgrounds. Sunday afternoon will have Coon Rapids tours leaving every half hour from the Aquatic Center parking lot.
It also appears that the same group is beginning the organization of the observance of the Coon Rapids Sesquicentennial in 2013.
In related news, the following two class reunions are scheduled for this summer, as well (per FREESPACE in the Coon Rapids Enterprise):
1. Class of 1950 will hold their 60th reunion on July 24th & 25th. Saturday, July 24th, an evening supper will be held at 6 p.m. at the Carrollton Inn in Carroll. On Sunday morning, July 25th, a morning brunch will also be held at the Carrollton
Inn at 10 a.m.
2. Class of 1960 to hold 50th Reunion. The planning committee for the Class of 1960 will hold their 50th reunion on September 4 & 5. On Saturday, September 4th, we will gather in the party room at the Coon Bowl at 6 p.m., and order from their menu. On Sunday morning, a morning brunch will be held at 4104 Aspen Cove at Lake Panorama. This brunch will be followed by a pontoon ride on the lake. Contact person Deanie Christy Thomas at email@example.com or 641-755-5336.
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I am Emperor Morgan the Wise of Alba. King of Scotland, Ireland, and England. The last heir to the Kingdom of Aquitaine and de jure liege of Wales and Brittany. Duke of Albany and the Dunbar ancestral lands Lothian, and Count of all associated holdings.
You may remember my great, great, great grandmother: AElfeda who married matrilineally to Patrick which her brother put on the throne.
King Patrick only lived for another decade or so and when he died the realm passed to the first Dunbar king: King Dietrich.
AElfeda lived to a ripe old age of 69. In those years as Queen Mother and Duchess of Lothian, the Dunbar ancestral lands, King Dietrich broke away from the generational plan to start moving into the English nobility and instead pushed into Ireland. His second-cousin was a Countess by the name of Godgifu, a formidable woman who would come to be known as "the Lion" and had many claims in Ireland.
Dietrich pushed those claims and by the time Queen AElfeda died and the ancestral lands passed to him, Northern Ireland was within Scottish borders.
This of course made the Countess quite powerful. In fact, by doing this she was probably one of the most powerful people in Scotland. She was the Countess of Galloway, Ulster, Oriel, and Tyrone. More worryingly, though, she was sworn to the Duke of Moray. Duke Lachlan. An ambitious a Muirebe.
Uprisings, both from nobility and peasantry, happened from time to time but it was a wise King that kept enough territory in his demense and enough allies to be able to handle any opposition. Between the Duke of Moray and the Countess they could perhaps match the King's personal levies – and that was a problem.
Transferring the vassalage of the Countess directly to the King would be out of the question – the Duke would surely rise up in arms and the Countess would be obligated to join him. So Dietrich simply promoted the Countess to the Duchess of Ulster. A newly created Duchy for the new Irish holdings. By making her a peer of Moray she could no longer be his vassal and, like all dukes, swore fealty directly to the king.
Dietrich was known as the Careless because he was often wounded in battle. Ultimately he took a blow to the head answering a call to arms to a distant ally – the King of Aquitaine (some sort of marriage alliance no doubt) – and was rendered incapable. A regent ruled for a few years and then Scotland, and the ancestral Lothian lands, passed to Dugald in the year of our Lord, 1175.
Each successive King achieved more than the last. Dietrich was known for bringing northern Ireland into the fold. Dugald would all-but complete his father's quest.
On succession Dugald began claiming Irish territory on behalf of his vassals. You see, Ireland was not a united Kingdom but broken up into smaller Petty Kingdoms – sometimes only one county in size. This made them grossly outnumbered as they rarely banded together. By picking the Irish apart, Dugald incorporated just under half of Irish land. More importantly though, the once loyal Countess turned on the new King. She loved his father, of course, but held no special love for Dugald and, as previously stated, she was one of the most powerful individuals in Scotland.
The inevitable eventually occurred and she rose up in rebellion demanding independence. It was a tough war, but the King was rich and hired mercenaries to defeat her armies and imprison the Countess. She was stripped of her Ducal title and Dugald passed it to a more loyal vassal. She never saw the light of day again and eventually died in the King's dungeons around 1185. She would serve her King one last time though, just before her death.
After some investigation it was discovered she had one more claim that could be pressed: Dublin.
Dugald pushed the claim – dungeon's were not known for keeping their guests healthy and Dublin needed to be claimed before she, unfortunately, expired.
It was swiftly done, and within 12 months the Countess passed on.
Now with over half of the Irish counties under Scottish rule, Dugald declared himself King of Ireland. This gave him an all-too-important casus belli on any remaining Irish counts and Petty Kings – your lands are now rightfully within the realm of the King.
Due to the intricacies of peace treaties the entirety of Ireland was not quite incorporated before Dugald's death in 1199 – the County of Desmond remained, the last refuge of King Mael-Sechlann of Munster – protected by a 10-year truce.
King Dugald, aged 64, was known as "the Old" when he passed the ancestral lands of Lothian on to his son Waldeve. My Grandfather.
Waldeve's reign was inconceivably long. But also very successful.
With Dugald's death, so did die his truce with King Mael-Sechlann, and Waldeve incorporated the last Irish hold-out into his realm.
Next he moved on the Petty Kings of Wales. The idea was with the Irish and Welsh combined with Scottish levies, he should have enough men to place anyone he needed on the English throne. Or, perhaps, to claim counties one-by-one should opportunities arise.
He didn't have to wait long. England was regularly breaking down into civil war, and in 1208 a succession crisis lead to England splitting in two. As it happens, Waldeve had a woman in his court by the name of Valdrade who had a weak claim on the throne. In fact there was also a woman by the name of Herrmessent who also had a claim. Valdrade was Countess of Ross, and Herrmessent was Duchess of The Isles. Waldeve carefully weighed up both options – most importantly where their children lay in the line of succession, and their ages in comparison to Waldeve's – and determined Valdrade the better claimant. This would be quite a different story for me, if he had chosen otherwise.
Valdrade, supported by Waldeve, threw her hat into the conflict over the English throne (at that time seated by the child-Queen Constance.) The war ended in 1213 with Valdrade on the throne.
Waldeve's work was not quite done, however. You see, at this stage he'd had 4 daughters and no sons. Eleanor was, in fact, already married to the Duke of Moray and had even had a daughter – my step-sister Malmure. Unsure of the best way to proceed, destiny seemed to show the way:
The Duke died young to some disease. This freed up Eleanor to marry again and Valdrade's son was not quite of age, but Eleanor was only in her mid-twenties and still of a child-bearing age. No doubt a virile 16-year-old would be able to get her to bear a son.
And so it came to be. Waldeve married his brightest and youngest daughter, Eleanor, to Valdrade's son and heir, Guirand – my mother and my father.
Still, the laws in Scotland meant that Waldeve's rightful heir was his nephew, as he had no sons of his own. The succession laws were changed to elective. This allowed all of Waldeve's dukes to vote on the next king, but they rarely stray from the King's suggestion and so when I was born in 1221 he immediately nominated me, his grandson.
Perhaps to cover his bases, when Waldeve's wife died in 1211 he married a very young Mael-Muire. She then went on to bear him another daughter… followed by 3 sons.
Naturally they were livid, once old enough to understand, at the law change that robbed them of the Kingdom, but Waldeve's manoeuvring meant that on his death I would inherit Scotland, Ireland, and the ancestral Dunbar lands and on Valdrade's death: The Kingdom of England.
Waldeve should have settled in then, and lived out the rest of his days as a comfortable king. Any chance of that fled in 1235.
A noble in the Kingdom of Aquitaine send King Waldeve a letter which, in other words, read: "We plan to petition our King to abdicate to you, as we want you to be our King."
As you can see, Aquitaine was no small Kingdom. In fact, the Kings of Aquitaine and France had regularly been at war over territory for the last 200 years – and it would seem the Aquitaine Kings had been winning.
It's true Waldeve had picked up a claim on that Kingdom from one of his ancestors somewhere, but expected this demand to lead to war. A war he hadn't planned on, but it seemed like a good opportunity. Scotland was stable, and it could be a simple way to add an entire Kingdom to her borders.
As it turned out, he needn't have worried. The King abdicated and just like that, Waldeve was the King of Scotland, Ireland, and now Aquitaine.
Of course the nobles that had pushed Waldeve's claim liked him, but the rest of the French (technically Aquitaine, but I'm going to call them French) Dukes did not like this King with his Scottish mannerisms and they also considered him a foreign conqueror.
A few wars were required, but this allowed Waldeve to stripped a couple titles to weaken the more rebellious Dukes, and rearrange the Kingdom somewhat. It wasn't perfect – short of expelling all the French Dukes and replacing them with Scottish nobles, Aquitaine would always be a struggle to contain. It was hoped eventually they will get used to a Scottish King and come around.
He changed the Aquitaine succession laws to elective, and nominated me as his heir. The hope was that I would then inherit the Kingdoms of Scotland, Ireland, and Aquitaine, but the French nobles wouldn't come to the table. It was looking like on Waldeve's death Aquitaine would fall to one of their own Dukes.
Unable to change the laws a second time, Waldeve simply dissolved the title and Kingdom altogether. What was once the Kingdom of Aquitaine, was now simply more Scotland. The nobles weren't exactly happy about the development, but Waldeve couldn't live for much longer, surely.
Waldeve, like his father, became known as "the Old", and eventually passed away on 30 October, 1247, aged 85. Not even from old age, but it was severe stress that got him in the end.
My Grandmother (on the other side) also lived to a ripe old age of 87 – so it was some time until I finally inherited England.
The succession actually went quite smoothly. The nobles still weren't thrilled with having to deal with a Scottish King, but they did not bear a grudge against me, like they had with my Grandfather, for "conquering" them.
No, my biggest problem came from my neighbour – the Holy Roman Empire (HRE). A mighty empire, nearly as powerful as Scotland will be – once I inherit England. In the meantime we seem to be well matched.
We had terrible trouble trying to stamp out the Lollard heresy here in Scotland. The HRE, meanwhile, had embraced it. This meant that either Kingdom could declare a holy war on the other. So far we have had 4 – twice a holy war for the Duchy of Toulouse, and twice for the Duchy of Provence.
All wars have ended with the defender victorious, so I count us evenly matched. I hope with the English behind me I will finally be able to break this stalemate.
In 1264 the Queen of England passed away, and so, finally, a Dunbar sits on the English throne. It also united the Welsh territories, previously split evenly between England and Scotland, under the one banner.
And so, I declared myself Emperor, and my Empire was called Alba.
I have a number of duties to attend to with my new Empire. Now all the Kingdoms follow the same laws, I think I should change the succession laws back to primogeniture (oldest son inherits.) My vassals like the current law, but I can't risk the Empire or Kingdoms passing into the wrong hands. I don't expect I'll need to skip a generation, like my Grandfather. This will please my eldest son, naturally, and as a traditional succession law vassals and other children won't mind (much.)
To my east is my great foe: the HRE. I have essentially unlimited casus belli's to call on them, and could incorporate great swathes of their territory to my own – if only I can beat their armies. The last time we fought, I did so handily and would have pressed my advantage, but with the English crown passing to me I thought I had better deal with the petty in-fighting that the English dukes brought with them first. If I'm lucky I might be able to get the Pope to declare a full invasion of heretic lands, which will allow me to simply invade and keep whatever I occupy. Invasion or no, I can also call on the Knights Templar, the Teutonic Order, and the Knights Hospitaller who can be counted on to fight heretics and non-Christians.
Speaking of non-Christians, to my south and west is the Iberian peninsular. This area has been almost entirely conquerored by the Abbidad Sultantate. Muslim, of course, so again – I can call a Holy War on them at any time. We have no need for "claims" when Europe is in the clutches of non-Christians. Once again, if I'm lucky, I might be able to convince the Pope to declare a crusade on either of these powerful foes.
The Dunbar goal has finally been achieved – but perhaps Morgan can push it further than any of my ancestors had ever dreamed.


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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Miami-Dade County Mayor Carlos Gimenez revealed Thursday that the deep budget cuts will only close four libraries and not the worst case scenario of 22 libraries closing.
According to CBS4 news partner the Miami Herald, libraries across the county will still have to shorten hours and have fewer librarians due to the deep budget cuts requested by the county commission and Mayor Gimenez.
In addition, while the total number of closures has dropped, the number of layoffs coming to the library system has not. According to the Herald, 192 library workers stand to lose their jobs, which is down from the original number of 251 proposed layoffs.
The current branches likely facing the budget axe include the system's Civic Center kiosk and three branch libraries in Country Walk, Sunset, and Tamiami. The list is still not finalized and won't be until after two public hearings on the budget in September.
The Herald reported that the Miami-Dade School board will seek to help soften the cuts by opening five school libraries to the public starting on the first day of classes.
Beginning Monday, the public will have access on weekdays to books, the Internet and other resources at media centers at the following locations: D.A. Dorsey Educational Center, 7100 NW 17th Ave., Lindsey Hopkins Technical Center, 750 NW 20th St., Miami Lakes Educational Center, 5780 NW 158th St., Miami Lakes; Robert Morgan Educational Center, 18180 SW 122nd Ave., and South Dade Educational Center, 109 NE Eighth St., Homestead.
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Previously on this blog, we discussed a potential benefit of a daily stroll – namely a reduced risk of developing breast cancer. Now, a review from the University of Toronto has shed light on yet another reason to make time for a bit of moderate exercise each day.
According to reports, researchers have analyzed more than 25 years of data to determine if changes in our day-to-day behavior can influence our likelihood to suffer from depression. Why? Because currently, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and prevention estimate that up to one in 10 American adults have struggled with this psychological disorder – or are continuing to battle it – and the physical, emotional and fiscal costs are starting to take their toll.
"We need a prevention strategy now more than ever. Our health system is taxed. We need to shift focus and look for ways to fend off depression from the start," said George Mammen, a PhD candidate at the University of Toronto who has spearheaded the new review.
Mammen and his colleagues have found a strong relationship between exercising for 20 to 30 minutes a day and enjoying a reduced risk of depression. Mammen notes that there are myriad other factors that influence this ailment, but these findings are still worth taking into account.
Women who have suffered from depression know full well that this disorder can affect your life in countless ways, robbing you of the pleasure you once took from your favorite activities and even dulling your desire for sexual intimacy. But, by engaging in mood-boosting activities, you may just find yourself feeling more upbeat than ever – ready and willing to explore and experiment personally and professionally. Who knows, you may even feel bold enough to finally try that arousal gel you've been eyeing.


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In the final analysis, Florida's 2008-09 season wasn't much different from 2007-08. Florida wound up in the NIT for the second straight season, finishing with a 25-11 record, a one-game improvement from its 24-12 mark the season before.
All season long, Florida players and coaches insisted that this was a better team than a season ago.
The Gators worked harder. They cared more. They played better defense.
Yet in the final analysis, Florida's 2008-09 season wasn't much different from 2007-08. Florida wound up in the National Invitation Tournament for the second straight season, finishing with a 25-11 record, a one-game improvement from its 24-12 mark the season before.
And Florida coach Billy Donovan acknowledged following his team's season-ending loss to Penn State in the NIT quarterfinals that more work needs to be done to make progress in 2009-10.
Asked what it will take to return to Florida's previous standard of nine straight NCAA Tournament appearances from 1998-2007, Donovan responded: "We have a long way to go to get there. I think we really do. That's kind of the reality of it. There's a lot of aspects that goes into getting to that point. But I still think that we've got a ways to go in terms of developing, getting them better and adding more pieces."
That process could take even longer if Florida loses its leading scorer and assist king, point guard Nick Calathes. On Monday, Calathes put his name in the NBA draft without an agent, leaving open the possibility he could return for his junior season. Calathes (17.2 points per game, 6.4 assists per game) accounted for close to 22 percent of Florida's scoring and more than a third of its assists this season.
For the second straight season, the Gators peaked in late January. After starting 18-3, Florida went 5-6 in its final 11 regular season games. Then, faced with a critical game in the Southeastern Conference Tournament quarterfinals against Auburn, the Gators lost to the same Tigers team they had beaten during the regular season. Freshman guard Erving Walker's 3-point attempt was blocked at the buzzer in the crushing 61-58 postseason loss.
It served as a microcosm for Florida's struggles in clutch situations throughout the season. Florida went 4-6 in games decided by five points or less.
"We've battled, but there has to be an understanding of making those plays that are necessary," Donovan said.
Defense was another issue. Florida finished tied for last with Arkansas in the SEC in defensive field-goal percentage, giving up 44 percent from the floor. The Gators were a better pressing team, forcing 15.1 turnovers per game. But without an inside presence, Florida ranked last in the SEC in both rebounding (34.3 per game) and blocked shots (2.69 per game).
"A lot of times on the court, in physical situations, we tended to shy away from that stuff," Florida junior forward Dan Werner said. "I think that will be a big part of our offseason, that and working on our individual games."
When Florida played man-defense early in the season, Werner and sophomore center Alex Tyus were in constant foul trouble. That forced Florida into more zone defensive packages, which compromised its ability to defend the perimeter. Florida ranked ninth in the SEC in defending the 3-point line, giving up 35.1 percent from 3-point range.
Tyus and Walker were the bright spots of the season. Tyus, in his first year as a starter, finished second on the team in scoring (12.5 ppg) and first in rebounding (6.2) while playing out of position for much of the season. At 6-foot-8 and 220 pounds, Tyus was recruited by many teams as a power forward and by some teams as a wing player.
The 5-8 Walker finished as Florida's third-leading scorer (10.1 points per season) and best 3-point shooter (41.9 percent.) By the end of the season, Walker worked his way into the starting lineup.
"Erving Walker was probably the only freshman that really came in and was able to add a pop to our team," Donovan said.
The same couldn't be said of the rest of Florida's freshman class. Freshman center Kenny Kadji was expected to provide a physical presence inside, but never consistently played to his 6-10, 240-pound size. Freshman forward Allan Chaney showed signs of potential early in the season, starting a game against Washington in November, but he missed the second half of the season with ankle and heel problems. By the end of the season, the 6-8 Chaney was suspended for undisclosed disciplinary reasons.
Freshman forward Eloy Vargas missed much of the first half of the season after recovering from ankle surgery and rarely got off the bench, missing all 10 of his shot attempts. Freshman guard Ray Shipman, Florida's best perimeter defender, had issues with shot selection within UF's motion offense.
"We were hopeful for this year was that some of our freshmen could provide some depth in our frontcourt," Donovan said. "(We) couldn't probably anticipate Vargas having major ankle surgery, Chaney suspended, dealing with foot issues the whole year. I think Kenny Kadji, as most freshmen are, was up and down. Alex and Dan probably didn't get a lot of help like we thought we were going to get."
Another disappointment was the play of sophomore forward Chandler Parsons, who couldn't build off some of his midseason success. After scoring 27 points in a nationally televised game at Vanderbilt in January, Parsons reached double figures in just five of his last 13 games. Parsons bulked up last offseason, gaining 15 pounds of muscle, but struggled shooting from the perimeter (30.1 percent from 3-point range) and the free-throw line (55.7 percent.)
If Calathes declares for the NBA draft, Florida would fill its allotment of 13 scholarship with the addition of three incoming freshmen and center Vernon Macklin. The 6-9, 240-pound Macklin, a transfer from Georgetown, should give Florida a much-needed physical presence inside.
If Calathes stays, Florida would be one over its scholarship limit and would need a player to transfer. Sophomore guard Adam Allen, who missed the entire season with knee problems, said he wants to return next season. Chaney's mother, Brenda Pledger, recently said her son wants to return to the team.
The Gators will definitely lose senior guard Walter Hodge, their last link to the back-to-back 2006-07 national championship teams. His starting position could be filled by either Shipman or incoming freshman guard Kenny Boynton, a McDonald's All-American from Pompano Beach who is expected to give Florida an athletic scorer with an ability to create his own shot off the dribble.
Two more incoming freshman, Erik Murphy (6-10, 220) and DeShawn Painter (6-9, 210), should add depth to the frontline.
"What kind of impacts will they make? I don't know," Donovan said. "I think they are good players, they can add some value to our team but can they really come in as freshmen and play in a game like this? I don't know if anyone knows that, but I think they are going to be good players. But there's definitely some pieces we need to add and a different element we need to add."
For players like Werner, time is running out. After winning a national title ring as a freshman, Werner probably expected a long string of NCAA Tournament appearances. Instead, Werner hasn't tasted March Madness since earning a starting job as a sophomore.
"I'm just as hungry as the next person to get back there," Werner said. "That's obviously our goal. I went to college wanting to go to the NCAA Tournament every year. You can't look back and whine about it. You just got to look forward and understand what you have to do and get better."


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April 29, 2016 · 0 Comments
By Debbie Freeman
Hannah Sine was the pride of Shelburne last week where, after months of training at Shelburne's own Towne Fitness Centre, she ran the Boston Marathon after qualifying last May.
This very special event is memorable to all of us as we remember the tragic bombing at the Marathon in Boston in 2013 and the loss of 263 lives, yet Hannah was unafraid, relentless and determined, and two years of preparation and training paid off.
Hannah prepared for the run with the help of private training coach William Clews when final stages of her training started last August.
Qualifying in Ohio didn't necessarily mean Hannah would gain entry; she had to submit an application with her qualifying time and age, and then hope she made it to the final big one: the Boston Marathon.
Yet, never in her wildest dreams did Hannah believe it when she was told she had qualified.
Excited, she packed, and was on her way to Boston.
Hannah was not new to marathons – this was her 13th – but it was, by far, the most memorable.
Arriving in Boston a few days before the big day, some of Hannah's friends surprised her, turning up at her hotel to support her.
Friends and members at her Shelburne gym had made t-shirts with "Team Hannah" on them.
Her friend Amanda, and husband Glen, had driven all the way from Dundalk with dozens of good luck messages and to support her to the finish line.
Standing at the start line in Boston on April 18, all Hannah could think was whatever happened that day, she was already a winner and was overwhelmed with the support and good wishes and messages from friends, family and members at her gym – and the T-shirts topped it all.
She started off well and after about 15kms she was experiencing tightness in her left leg.
At 25kms, her left quad had completely seized.
"Medics on site were amazing," says Hannah, adding there was an army of organizers, and helpers.
She was expecting to finish the race In 3 hours and 38 mins, which was not far off her original qualifying time, and with the help of one of the medics and some walking, she crossed the finish line in just over 4 hours: still a great accomplishment, especially with her injury.
Proud as a peacock, Hannah arrived back in Shelburne proudly wearing her Boston Athletics Association Jacket and her medal presented to her for finishing the race.
The words of encouragement and congratulations were pouring in and she felt so very special.
She was asked to stop by the Shelburne Legion on the Friday afternoon as a few people wanted to congratulate her and, lo and behold, her friends had arranged a surprise party for her return with a beautiful large poster signed by everyone, a room full of decorations, flowers and a wonderful cake with her marathon picture on it!
"When I set out to qualify for the Boston Marathon two years ago, never could I have imagined it would be such an incredible journey, and that so many people shared that with me," says Hannah. "My main goal was to finish the race, and yet this has been one of the most amazing times of my life and some of my gym members have become my good friends.
"Shelburne is a wonderful place and the people have encouraged me so much. I am fortunate to be a part of this community and I can't thank everybody enough"
Hannah explained that so many of her members have taken up running and are even more passionate than she is.
Towne Fitness have organized free running groups since they opened a few years ago, and many of those who take part have gone on to run 5km and 10km races with ease.
This year, the gym has a team of 20-plus runners participating in the Chase The Tornado event in Grand Valley on Victoria Day weekend, so watch this space, Shelburne!
But would Hannah do the Boston Marathon again?
"Mmm, let's think about it" says Hannah
The Staff at the Shelburne Free Press would like to congratulate Hannah on her success. We hope to see lots more of you.
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The Omiros Hotel is situated just 100m from the beach in the centre of Gouvia. The hotel has a friendly and welcoming atmosphere and is ideally located for you to enjoy the pretty town, with the Venetian Shipyard, the Gouvia Marina and stunning landscapes where you take relaxing walks, all just a few minutes away. There are also bars and restaurants where you can unwind in the evenings and enjoy a refreshing drink or some local cuisine.\n\nDuring the day you can take your pick between sunbathing by the pool, while sipping a cocktail from the pool bar, or making the sort walk to the pebble beach where you can admire the stunning clear waters. Corfu Town is just 7km away and offers a slightly more lively experience with a greater range of restaurants and bars as well as some discos.\n\nThe Omiros Hotel is a great place to stay for a comfortable and relaxing holiday in Greece. It is excellently located and is a great base for exploring this stunning island. \n\n##Accomodation\n All 62 rooms are basic but comfortable and stylish and come with; private bathroom (bath or shower), balcony, air conditioning (extra charge), central heating and fridge and/or TV (extra charge). \n\n##Eating and Drinking\n The pool bar serves a continental buffet breakfast as well as light snacks throughout the day and a set menu dinner. It also serves a good range of alcoholic and soft drinks. \n\n##Swimming Pools\n The hotel has a swimming pool surrounded by loungers and parasols. There is also a pool bar.
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Property owners: Committed to help getting fair deal for their property in the market by giving wide publicity on the mostly used internet media, guide them about their rights, the procedures involved and assist them in getting their grievances, if any settled through appropriate channels. This puts the borrower on notice that he or she is facing foreclosure and starts a reinstatement period that typically runs until five days before the home is auctioned off. Such a petition will suspend the foreclosure proceedings if it is properly filed with the Clerk of the U. S. Bankruptcy Court before the property is sold on the courthouse steps.
The pros and cons of buying a home involved in foreclosure vary with the phase of foreclosure the property is in when purchased. Our take on Sessions came largely from living in Alabama for 36 years, where Sessions served as state attorney general or U.S. senator for most of that time.
All participants receive a copy of the Center's publication, Representing Yourself in Foreclosure: A Guide for Connecticut Homeowners." Participants also have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with volunteer attorneys and paralegals to discuss their situations.
In this case, the court overseeing the foreclosure process may enter a deficiency judgment against the mortgagor. Under federal law, the valid filing of a bankruptcy petition acts as a stay" of legal proceedings against the debtor, including a non-judicial foreclosure.
If you and the lender have not worked out a plan to avoid foreclosure, the lender can record a Notice of Default in the county where your home is located, at least 30 days after contacting you for the foreclosure avoidance assessment. Foreclosure is a legal course of action in which nobody really comes out on top.


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Senior Software Engineer at WeWork Technology
Software Engineer
The mission of Real Estate & Development ("RedTech") is to enable our teams across real estate, architecture, design, construction, and project management with the most up to date technology. Our technology allows for a better ability to source new deals, close those deals, design and build more efficiently, and manage the construction process end to end. We're supporting the core business here in RedTech and would love to have you on the team!
Are you someone with a strong creative streak? Do you enjoy fast paced exciting environments? Are you looking to contribute to making a real impact across many different communities and cultures around the world with the work that you're doing? If so, then we may have the opportunity for you.
- Deep knowledge of design patterns and their applications.
- Take active role in breaking down an epic into multiple sprints and tickets.
- Define the best implementation method and related effort to answer a given problem.
- Lead feature development with 1-2 more collaborators..
- Identify and drive code improvements, including technical debt.
- Author feature-specific design docs.
- Serve as an example of quality code and design, and push for better processes around how the team operates.
- Mentor others and proactively identify opportunities to improve intra- and/or inter-team capability, such as interviewing and active participation in guilds.
- Advocate for a solid technical approach and influence peers.
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science (or relevant experience, master degree preferred).
- Minimum 5+ years of experience building highly available critical systems.
- Experience writing scalable, high-performant, instrumented and clean code.
- Experience developing web services using Java (Kotlin, Spring MVC, Spring Boot is a plus).
- Experience developing web interfaces using HTML/JavaScript/CSS (React or equivalent framework, TypeScript is a plus).
- Experience with relational databases such as MySQL or PostgreSQL.
- Good understanding of Amazon Web Services including ECS, CloudFormation, IAM, RDS, etc.
- Experience working on teams with heavy emphasis on DevOps, Automation, CI/CD, and Quality (Jenkins, Docker, Artifactory, etc).
- Experience working in an Agile development environment.
WeWork Mission
WeWork is the platform for creators, providing hundreds of thousands of members across the globe space, community, and services that enable them to do what they love and craft their life's work. Our mission is to build a world where people work to make a life, not just a living, and our own team members are central to that goal.
We are building software for physical space that uses data and technology at each point in the building process, such that it can make better sourcing decisions, improve its designs, build faster and smarter, and ultimately improve the lives of the people working within its buildings.
Our state of the art technologies and dedication to technological innovation are key reasons why WeWork has been able to scale sucessfully.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.


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Dear Stoner: What's the best way to renew your medical card and avoid a disruption in service? What if you don't have the cash flow to stock up before the wait?
Dear Mario: The answer is simple: Take care of it early. You don't want to be the kid who can't go on the field trip because you never got your permission slip signed, do you? That's why you take it home and get that sucker filled out ASAP — so while dumbass Robbie is crying because he'll be stuck at school all day, you'll be checking out dino skeletons and caveman exhibits at the museum. Don't be a Robbie when it comes to your medical card, either.
The Colorado Medical Marijuana Registry recommends that you send in your renewal application form thirty to sixty days before your card expires to avoid any lapse in treatment, because your application will not get you inside medical dispensaries. Set up an appointment with your physician more than two months before your card is set to expire, and you should be fine. Your re-evaluation might be different this time around, however, as the Colorado Medical Board recently implemented new guidelines for medical marijuana recommendations that call for physicians to include more details and scrutiny when they assess you for cannabis treatment.
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Dear Stoner: I enjoy wheat beers in the summer and stouts in the winter, just like I want fruit salad in the sunshine and soup when it snows. Does that apply to pot? Are there "winter strains" out there?
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Dear Smelf: I've never noticed a seasonal pattern for strains that are available in the winter as opposed to the summer, but unlike beer and food, weed hasn't been readily available for centuries. With all that time to decide what tastes best at certain times of year, booze drinkers have a head start on us potheads, but we're doing our best to catch up. When it comes to food and drink, consumers traditionally prefer lighter, fresher options during the summer, when they are most active. During the winter, when it's cold and they want to sit by the fire, consumers usually want something heavier, with more of a kick. I believe cannabis is the same: Unless I'm on the slopes, give me a heavy indica like Afghani or Bubba Kush to get my body warm and relaxed during the winter. In the summer, I'll take a citrus sativa like Tangerine Haze to keep me moving.
If you want a strain branded for the holidays, one of our readers suggests Christmas Cookies at Walking Raven. It's more of a hybrid than an indica, but it'll make you jolly enough.


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Offsite modular construction offers efficiencies over in-situ
Adapt to changing real estate demands with permanent modular buildings that combine the durability of stick built structures with the flexibility of modular. Permanent structures manufactured in a controlled environment are quick to construct, durable and still allow for contemporary design. They are ideal for hotels, multi-unit housing, offices, classrooms, and healthcare facilities.
We specialise in modular residential and office buildings with the architectural aesthetic of an in-situ construction, delivering outside-the-box, custom designed buildings and villages for the most specific requirements.
With the advantages of a guaranteed faster build, assured high quality, and efficiency control, modular is the intelligent construction solution. It offers you choice of materials, flexible design and greater collaboration to produce innovative and sophisticated permanent buildings rivalling any traditional counterpart.
When you need housing for a group or community, quickly and affordably, a modular structure can be built in a fraction of the time, while meeting strict building codes and seamlessly incorporated into its surroundings. The life of these buildings can be extended beyond their initial uses into other affordable housing options like student and senior housing.
Modular buildings are a great solution for commercial offices of any size, including contemporary corporate headquarters that require a variety of spaces. Healthcare and education buildings that require space for a variety of uses can also benefit from the flexibility that offsite construction offers.


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Tony Seba set to disrupt, innovate and engage at Nor-Shipping 2017
Nor-Shipping has unveiled its first keynote speaker, with thought leader, author and clean energy expert Tony Seba topping the bill. Seba will be joined in the coming weeks by a series of well-known shipowners, as Nor-Shipping compiles a programme of speakers and events to represent, challenge and engage the industry. Seba is a globally respected speaker, writer, entrepreneur and educator, mixing teaching duties at Stanford University with advisory roles, media appearances and authoring several books. His titles include the provocative Clean Disruption of Energy and Transportation – How Silicon Valley Will Make Oil, Nuclear, Natural Gas, Coal, Electric Utilities and Conventional Cars Obsolete by 2030. Nor-Shipping Director Birgit Liodden says Seba will inject disruptive innovation concepts from outside the shipping environment, helping the industry consider current and future challenges in a new light. She notes: "Tony Seba is an inspirational thinker and speaker, capable of tackling some of our industry's, and the world's, most pressing issues with ideas and insights that audiences can appreciate, remember and act upon. His understanding of digital technology and clean energy solutions is beyond cutting edge – assuring that he can deliver real value to an industry eager to plot a sustainable pathway into the future. "The theme of Nor-Shipping 2017 is Catalyst for Change, and that's exactly what Tony Seba is. His work has the power to help shift the global conversation when it comes to the future of transport, energy and climate issues. He adds something unique to our diverse programme of events, and we're delighted to have him on-board." Alongside Seba, a number of yet to be announced shipping figures will bring insights from a broad spectrum of industry segments, spanning ownership, operation, ships services and logistics. Presentations will be far-reaching in scope, tackling issues such as balancing the drive for enhanced performance with greater efficiency, meeting tomorrow's challenges through innovation today, and why quality matters, whatever the market conditions. "The global industry faces challenges on many fronts," comments Liodden. "It's our job to represent and support that industry, so we're keen to address concerns and deliver valuable insights that can help. By signing up maritime leaders to share their wisdom, we can give our delegates something they can't get anywhere else – the benefit of remarkable individual experience and expertise. "We aim to have something for everyone – ensuring a range of audience takeaways that, like our speakers themselves, can make real waves in the industry."


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Building iOS 10 Applications with Swift will teach you how to start an app from scratch, see the needed steps for completing your app until deploying it to the App Store. If you ever thought about creating your own iPhone App, this course is a good start!
Firstly, you will start by learning how to install the Xcode and review some fundamental concepts of the Swift programming language. Using the new Contacts framework, you will be able to create your own appealing UI and replace the previous framework. You will then create an Apple Watch app and see how to make it communicate with your iPhone. The course will also cover projects that will help you retrieve the weather forecast, detect the user's location, customize our own table view cells, and retrieve information from a server. Each app will be developed step by step, explaining their concepts and ideas. Finally, you will learn how to deploy apps to the App Store, making them available to download on any device.
After completing this course, you will be able to create your own apps by making the most of iOS 10 with Swift.
- Prepare your environment for iOS development
- Understand the fundamentals of programming with the Swift programming language
- Create and use built-in frameworks like Contacts
- Learn different ways of storing your data locally
- Communicate and retrieve information from a server
- Deploy your app to the App Store
- The Course Overview
- Installing Xcode
- Xcode Navigation
- Using the Simulator
Swift Basics
- Creating a Project
- Basic Types
- Creating Classes, Protocols, and Structs
- Usage Generics
- Using the UI
- Usage Storyboards
Creating A Contact App
- Project Explanation
- Adding a New Contact
- Reusing UI with ContactsUI
- Querying Contacts
Watch App Sample
- Basic Architecture
- Designing the UI
- Developing the App
- Communicating with the iPhone
Storing Data
- Creating Files
- Using NSUserDefaults
- CRUD with Core Data
Location Services
- Location Concepts
- Location Manager
- Reverse Geocoding
A Better Ui With Uitable Views
- Introduction to Table Views
- Data Source and Delegate
- Custom Cells
- Rest Services
- Using URLSession
- Converting Data into Swift Objects
Deploying An App
- Deploying an App
- iTunes Connect
- Uploading to the App Store
Cecil Costa, also know as Eduardo Campos in Latin countries, is a Euro-Brazilian freelance developer who has been learning about computers since getting his first 286 in 1990. From then on, he kept learning about programming languages, computer architecture, and computer science theory.
Learning and teaching are his passions; this is the reason why he worked as a trainer and an author. He has been giving on-site courses for companies such as Ericsson, Roche, TVE (a Spanish television channel), and lots of others. He is also the author of Swift Cookbook First Edition and Swift 2 Blueprints, both by Packt Publishing. He will soon publish an iOS 10 programming video course.
Nowadays, Cecil Costa teaches through online platforms, helping people from across the world. In 2008, he founded his own company, Conglomo Limited (http://www.conglomo.es), which offers development and training programs both on-site and online.
Throughout his professional career, he has created projects by himself and also worked for different companies from small to big ones, such as IBM, Qualcomm, Spanish Lottery, and DIA%.
He develops a variety of computer languages (such as Swift, C++, Java, Objective-C, JavaScript, Python, and so on) in different environments (iOS, Android, Web, Mac OS X, Linux, Unity, and so on) because he thinks that a good developer needs to learn all kinds of programming languages to open their mind; only after this will they really understand what development is.
Nowadays, Cecil is based in the UK, where he is progressing in his professional career as an iOS team lead.
A test will be conducted at the end of the course. On completion of the test with a minimum of 70% marks, training.com will issue a certificate of successful completion from NIIT.
Five re-attempts will be provided in case the candidate scores less than 70%.
A Participation certificate will be issued if the candidate does not score 70% after five attempts.
Knowledge of basic mobile app design and development approach.
Working knowledge of iOS and Interface
Who should go for this Course?
iOS Application Developers engaged in development of mobile apps of almost all varieties ranging from game apps to business and enterprise mobile apps.
Where can I find my session schedule?
The session schedule will be available in the training.com Student portal - Learning Plan section. You can login to your training.com account to view the same.
What is your refund policy?
Upon registering for the course, if for some reason you are unable or unwilling to participate in the course further, you can apply for a refund. You can initiate the refund any time before start of the second session of the course by sending an email to email@example.com , with your enrolment details and bank account details (where you want the amount to be transferred). Once you initiate a refund request, you will receive the amount within 21 days after confirmation and verification by our team. This is provided if you have not downloaded any courseware after registration.
Why is it called Self Paced course?
Self Paced courses are comprised of several learning videos into a course structure broken down into Learning Modules and Sessions. The learner is required to go through the videos topic-wise in the structure sequence of the course to learn the concepts. Being Self Paced, there is no intervention of any external faculty or additional mentor in learning.
Being a self paced course, how will my attendance be tracked and marked?
you login into your training.com account to watch the videos, attendance for it will be marked automatically.
How will the assessment be conducted for my certification?
After each module, a multiple choice questions type online assessment will be conducted. 5 Attempts will be allowed for the assessment to be completed. The minimum pass percentage for each assessment is 70%. On successfully clearing the assessment, a verified certificate from NIIT shall be awarded otherwise the certificate of participation will be issued.
What are the minimum system requirements to attend the course?
- Personal computer or Laptop with web camera
- Headphone with Noise Clarity Microphone
- Broadband connection with minimum bandwidth of 4 mbps.
- Its recommended to use System Health Check to examine the OS details, Add in, Plugins, Camera, Mic and other external devices.
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Yes.For immediate technical support during the live online classroom sessions, you can call 91-9717992809 or 0124-4917203 between 9:00 AM and 8:00 PM IST. You can write to firstname.lastname@example.com for all other queries and our team will be happy to help you.


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June 4, 2020 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
19th November 2014
"Small is beautiful," said E F Schumacher some four decades ago. That part of the environmentalist author's thinking, although perhaps not the rest of it, has now been picked up by verteran fund manager Gervais Williams.
He's written a small book called The Future is Small where he sets out to show "why AIM (alternative investment market) will be the world's best market beyond the credit boom."
It's a tough call. AIM has been around for almost two decades during which time it has never seemed to have lived up to the hopes of its early promoters – and has endured more than its fair share of busts, bankruptcies and ballyhoo. And let's not forget the downright scandals.
First he has to wean investors off the bigger is better and biggest is best mantra. It's the macro version of Tesco's shrinking customer base, and the need for it (and competitors) to scale down their real estate. He has to convince institutional investors to have a fresh look at small companies.
That won't be easy. AIM-quoted companies are typically valued at £10m to £50m so they are off the research radar for increasingly globalised investment houses. Some have mandates which expressively forbid venturing into junior markets. And many benchmark results to an index, which either excludes micro companies or where their weighting is negligible.
His first argument – and this one has been put forward by penny stock and small company fans for generations – is that while the larger a company becomes, the mightier it is within its market, there is not much scope for increasing market share – again Tesco is confirmation of this. The "law of large numbers" suggests that as a company grows, the nearer it will be to the average.
This is a plus point for the safety first investor looking for the security blanket of regular dividends. But other large company traits such as increasing bureaucracy, a loss of vibrancy and eventual decline (Tesco, yet again) are less attractive. As Williams says "ant-sized companies appear entirely irrelevant to the gigantic scale of investment institutions."
"But they are in for a shock," he says, warming to his theme. "A sea change in attitudes towards genuinely small quoted companies is coming, and most, market participants are trend followers in the end."
There are loads of statistics showing that small company investment returns more over time than the equities of big corporates. The growth potential of a small company depends more on the people running it and other company-specific factors than on the economy as a whole. So investors in micro-caps have no need to churn through often incomprehensible economic data and commentaries.
But they do need to do their homework – and plenty of it – in other directions. |One idea is that small companies failed to perform during the credit boom years so they are plenty out there which are now undervalued. And the subsequent out-performance could be most marked among the tiniest companies – those listed on AIM.
As an example of a tiny company, he cites Bloomsbury Publishing. Floated in 1994, raising £5.5m, it had the foresight (or luck!) to discover the Harry Potter phenomenon which, along with spin-offs, put the firm at the forefront of its market.
But is this such a great example? There is only one such publishing phenomenon in a generation. It's share price stands at 164p – well above three years ago although a little below the start of this year – and under half its all time high of 388p in 2005.
Bloomsbury shows that getting out at the optimum moment is as important as getting in. Williams does however point out that Bloomsbury has been great for day one investors and a progressive dividend payer.
Individual investors and specialist funds should never overlook or discount AIM and other micro company shares. And no one can refute his optimism that a small company super-cycle is building up.
But the serious problem is the size of mainstream funds and mainstream investment firms. It's all very well to find a tiddler company with wonderful prospects. The trick then is to invest in it in a way that's meaningful.
A billion pound fund cannot take a stake in a £10m company, especially one where the majority of the shares are closely held. Until that problem is solved – not any time soon – small companies in general and AIM listed concerns in particular will be overlooked by most investors. Still, that means Williams and his small cap competitors can do well!


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CMS announces 500 participants in Comprehensive Primary Care initiative
August 23, 2012
On August 22, 2012 CMS Announced 500 primary care practices that will participate in the Comprehensive Primary Care (CPC) demonstration project in a new partnership between payers and primary care providers. Backed by the ACA, the goal of this multi-payer initiative is to deliver better coordinated, higher quality, patient-centered care, and to reduce costs.
The CPC's goal was to enroll about 75 primary care practices in several regions spanning eight states: Arkansas, Colorado, New Jersey, New York, Ohio & Kentucky, Oklahoma, Oregon. Practices were chosen in a competitive process based on several criteria.
- Use of health information technology
- Ability to demonstrate recognition of advanced primary care delivery by accreditation bodies
- Service to patients covered by participating payers
- Participation in practice transformation and improvement activities
- Diversity of geography, practice size and ownership structure.
The chosen practices are to begin delivering health care services under the program in the fall of 2012, and are projected to serve over 300,000 people with Medicare. For more details and a complete list of participating primary care practices visit the CMS Innovation web site and read the CMS press release.
Visit Extend Health to use the ExtendExchange™ platform – the nation's largest private Medicare insurance exchange.


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We are all creators of the world around us. However we choose to do it. We don't have to create a masterpiece to matter. A small thing like creating a smile for someone who needs one is enough.
An inspiring video that reminds us how important the strength of women can be