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Sexy sparrows: Professor Hill uncovers the shocking truthby Mona Prufer
They look so cute and innocent, the way they blend into the environment with their muted brown and grey tones, the way they feed their babies and protect their young, the way they sing like, well, like cheery songbirds.
ĀYou just don't expect them to be promiscuous.
Yet, the Saltmarsh Sparrows, especially the females, are perhaps the most sexually indiscriminate birds in the world.
As new research by Coastal Carolina University biologist Chris Hill and colleagues Chris Elphick of the University of Connecticut and Carina Gjerdrum of Environment Canada shows, the sparrowsĀexhibit "scramble-competition polygyny," a condition that is most unusual in the bird world.
The sparrows mate and nest along the coast from Virginia to Maine.
In an article in The Auk, the journal of the American Ornithologists' Union, Hill and his co-authorsĀdescribe the little birds as exhibiting "extreme levels of multiple mating."Ā
Fifty-seven of the 60 broods tested had at least two chicks with different fathers. Ninety-seven percent of females were mating with more than one male.
"Frequently, every single egg in a nest would have a different father," says Hill, who conducted molecular analyses of paternity in his laboratory at CCU.
Hill's collaboration with Elphick and Gjerdrum came about through a meeting at a conference in 2002. "I had wanted to study the mating system of saltmarsh sparrows, but they do not breed in South Carolina," says Hill. "Chris and Carina, who were studying the nesting ecology of saltmarsh sparrows in Connecticut, agreed to gather blood samples from chicks in the nest and from adults on the breeding grounds, and then sent the blood to me to determine paternity."
Before Hill's study, the species had been known to lack the pair bonds common to most songbirds (instead, the female sparrows nest and feed the young without any assistance from males), but exactly who mated with whom was not clear.
"There have even been reports of forced copulation, which is very odd among songbirds, almost anatomically impossible," says Hill.
He was assisted by Scott Tomko andĀKatie Copenhaver, recent CCU graduates, and Whitney Bryan, a student from the South Carolina Governor's School for Science and Math.
The sparrows are thought to be even more promiscuous than the previously known extremes of multiple mating, the Greater Vasa Parrot of Madagascar and the Superb Fairy-Wren of Australia.Ā
Hill, who is currently studying the nesting ecology of Least Terns in South Carolina with CCU graduate student Alex Kohorst, remains interested in Saltmarsh Sparrows. "They spend their entire life in salt marshes, which makes them vulnerable to habitat loss as sea levels rise," notes Hill. "This is a species whose future is in question. They need watching."


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Nicolas Cage is set to play a widower-turned-vigilante in a new movie.
The Ghost Rider and Kick-Ass star is attached to the lead role in action thriller I Am Wrath, according to Deadline.
If things go ahead, Nicolas will play Stanley, a man seeking justice after his wife is murdered. He decides to take matters into his own hands after discovering a web of police corruption.
There's no word on who else will star, but it has been reported that The Exorcist filmmaker William Friedkin looks set to direct.
Production is scheduled to get under way in February next year.
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Florida needs to take a hard look at its licensing requirements. In many instances licensing requirements can be replaced with consumers exercising choice among competing providers, which serves consumers well in so many other states. Allowing and encouraging voluntary certification by professional groups and independent ratings by business and consumer groups also can be valuable and quickly remove bad actors from the market. And requiring insurance for some occupations to cover claims by consumers if they are harmed may also provide protections in some instances.
Policy Brief
Occupational Licensing Kills Jobs
Unnecessary Licenses Are Killing Jobs in Florida
Samuel R. Staley, Ph.D. is a senior research fellow at Reason Foundation and managing director of the DeVoe L. Moore Center at Florida State University in Tallahassee where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in urban planning, regulation, and urban economics. Prior to joining Florida State, Staley was director of urban growth and land-use policy for Reason Foundation where he helped establish its urban policy program in 1997.


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Dear Economist,
As a keen silver surfer, I find YouTube an excellent way to revisit comedy favourites such as Monty Python and Peter Cook and Dudley Moore. I feel guilty watching pirated material, but what really puzzles me is why people post this material for my delectation. Can you explain?
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The Gremlin isn't new to setting trends, but even this one surprised me. He was at the beach the other day when a boy many years older than him had a Nerf gun that the Gremlin wanted to look at. So he approached the boy.
"Scuse me, can I see your pch-ewer, please?" The boy looked at him scornfully.
"'Pch-ewer?' I've never heard of that. I don't know what that is." The boy tried to turn away, but the Gremlin pointed and spoke up quickly.
"That's a pch-ewer."
"It's not a 'pch-ewer' it's a Nerf toy." At this point the Gremlin knew the kid did not want him to look at it, but the manipulation track the Gremlin took was so subtle and so quickly decided upon it took me by surprise.
"Oh, you don't know it's a pch-ewer? I thought you were smart so you'd know what it was called, cause only smart people know that." The boy stopped at this and looked at him. "May I please see your Nerf toy?" The Gremlin pronounced this last part very carefully, and the boy, now very unsure of himself, looked at his mother, who shrugged.
"You should let the little boy have a look at it." The boy turned back around and reluctantly handed over the gun. He walked the Gremlin through the basic functionality, shooting, cocking, and reloading, and then took it back. The Gremlin, with his short attention span, moved on to the playground equipment, and we forgot out the incident until we were leaving some time later.
Walking back to our car, we came upon the 9 year-old boy with the Nerf gun who had joined up with one of his friends, and was now explaining to him that they're changing the name of the Nerf guns.
"It's called a 'pch-ewer.' That's the smart name for it, and I just learned it because I'm so smart. You can be smart too, but I was smart first." But apparently not as smart as the 3 year-old who convinced you it was called something he had just made up.
Favorite Toy of the Week: Licky (so named because he 'licks the Gremlin a lot' when he goes to sleep)
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Did you know that Karak highway isn't the only route going from KL to Genting Highland? Long before the shiny toll way was built, there was an older road from just behind Batu Caves going to Genting via a little town called Ulu Yam. That road is still there, and remain my favorite way to go up to the highland retreat if time is on my side.
There are a few reasons:
- The scenery is beautiful, especially when you drive by Batu Dam lake.
- the winding road makes driving a pleasure
- coconut shrimps at ulu yam!
Okay, maybe mostly about the coconut shrimps..
Sammy liked it!
The first time I went there was on the new year eve of 2006 with the MR2 club. Wait, I just realized that's more than 2.5 years ago… Anyway, I went there again a few months ago with Sammy (her account) and of course, we ordered the coconut shrimps, and a plate vegetable to go with rice.
We had actually ordered the lala as well but I must applaud the honesty of the shop keeper in informing us that lala wasn't very fresh that day and advised us against ordering it.
prawns, slurps slurps
Coconut Shrimps is basically a curry dish where by they stuff a lot of prawns cooked much like the asam prawn style into a fresh coconut. The curry mixed with coconut creates a unique taste that is both spicy, sour, and slightly sweet of coconut taste; very unique and rather tasty. Onion, garlic and chili padi makes up part of the ingredients too.
Ulu Yam is some 27 kilometers from batu caves
There was plenty of prawns in that one single coconut and we thoroughly it. The ingredients were fresh and curry flavorful. Even the simple fried vegetable dish was rather delightful too.
If I remember correctly, that meal was less than RM 35 for the two of us. Value for money, and great tasting too. Give it a try if you're up for an alternate way to Genting. GPS coordinate might not be spot on, but it won't be far off.
14, Kampung Baru,
Ulu Yam Baru, 44300
Ulu Selangor, Selangor
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Biographical entry Heagney, Muriel Agnes (1885 - 1974)
- Born
- 1885
- Died
- 1974
- Occupation
- Trade Union - Organiser
Muriel Heagney was a trade union organiser and writer who was particularly interested in improving the conditions of women workers.
Born in Brisbane and educated at a Richmond convent in Melbourne, Heagney was trained as a teacher, but abandoned this vocation in 1915 when she went to work as a clerk for the Department of Defence.
She was involved for several decades in the fight for equal pay for women, having served on the committee of the Workers' Educational Association, the Victorian central executive of the Labor Party (1926-1927) and as an investigator for the Federated Unions of Australia in their submission to the Commonwealth Royal commission on the basic wage.
In the 1940s, she worked as an organiser for the Amalgamated Engineering Union in Queensland, and upon her return to Melbourne in the 1950s, embarked upon a history of the trade union movement which was never completed. She died in St Kilda in 1974.
Related entries
Union Membership(s)
Archival resources
State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection
- Muriel Agnes Heagney - Papers, 1936-1968, 1936 - 1968, MS 9106; State Library of Victoria, Australian Manuscripts Collection. Details
The University of Melbourne Archives
- Melbourne Trades Hall Equal Pay Committee - Records, 1940 - 1967, 1978.0110; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
- Trade Union Equal Pay Committee - Records, 1940 - 1967, 1984.0145; The University of Melbourne Archives. Details
University of Wollongong Archives
Published resources
Book Sections
- Bremner, Jennie, 'Muriel Heagney', in Radi, Heather (ed.), 200 Australian Women: a Redress Anthology, Women's Redress Press Inc, New South Wales, 1988, pp. 148-149. Details
Journal Articles
- Lake, Marilyn, 'Independence of Women and the Brotherhood of Man: Debates in the Labour Movement over Equal Pay and Motherhood Endowment in the 1920s.', Labour History, vol. 63, 1992, pp. 1-25. Details
See also
- Australia's Prime Ministers, National Archives of Australia, http://primeministers.naa.gov.au/. Details
Digital resources
- Title
- Muriel A. Heagney
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- Source
- Photograph from Andrew Scott, reDISCOVERING Labor. Sources of Victorian ALP History, Australian Labor Party (Victorian Branch), 1991, p.5.
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India is in a rushed to achieve big heights in terms of economy as well as lifestyle and this adjustment in Indian economy is a reflection of young talents who concoct innovative business thoughts. Such new startups are anticipated to be billion dollar organizations as time flows. Today we shall look into such inspiring success story of one of such young entrepreneur, Ritesh Agarwal who is one among numerous such abilities. He has started a new trend in standard budget hotel in India with his 'OYO rooms' chain and is considered to be one of the youngest CEOs in India.
Ritesh belongs to a rich family in Orissa who runs their family business. He generally tried to make his own particular character and amid school days he was never inspired by studies therefore he stays as a school drop out. At an extremely youthful age he traveled all over India and stayed and experienced the different level of comfort most of the hotels are providing.
Agarwal has won many awards and accolades for his work including the Business World Young Entrepreneur Award. He is a regular speaker at entrepreneurial conferences and institutes across India and the world. – Wikipedia
At 18 years old he thought of spending plan inn network 'Oravel stays' which gives quaint little inn. In any case, with more examination of business sector he figured out there are no essential offices accommodated the financial backing explorer in a large portion of the inn, accordingly he changed over his 'Oravel Stays' to 'OYO rooms'. Every last room is given aerating and cooling, Spotless cloth, complimentary breakfast, complimentary wireless internet and hygienic washrooms.
According to Ritesh, OYO Rooms was founded to solve the problem of the lack of predictability, affordability, accessibility and availability at budget stays.
OYO rooms is India's largest budget hotel chain and is present in over 120 cities across the country with 20,000 rooms under its umbrella. OYO rooms is not merely an aggregator of budget hotels but instead focuses on the standardization of hotels in the non-branded hospitality sector. OYO rooms is considered to be one of the very few start-ups which are non-copycat.
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On 4 March at 9.30am, a homeless woman was found unresponsive on the streets of Colorado Springs, wrapped against the -1°C / 29°F cold in a blanket. Raven Canon was at least the ninth person to die on the city's streets this winter, activists say. She was also a rising star in her community, an effective community organiser and activist, and the editor-in-chief of the world's newest street paper.
Days after her body was found under a pavilion near Highway 115 on the south side of Colorado Springs, the cause of Raven's death is not obvious – but the impact she had could not be clearer. Her hometown has reacted with shock and sorrow, as have her international street paper colleagues.
Raven started her street paper journey as a vendor for Real Change in Seattle. Though selling didn't work out for her, the concept had an impact. When she found herself homeless in Colorado Springs she decided that what the city needed was a street paper – and she set out to make that a reality. Impressed by her vision and drive, Real Change founder and INSP board member Tim Harris acted as an adviser. He put her in touch with INSP in December last year.
"I am in a mad dash to come up with the last couple of hundred dollars we need to go to press," she told me in her first email. "I am very honoured to be able to do all that I am currently working on. I am amazed at all that has happened and all that lies before us."
It wasn't until I spoke to her on the phone for the first time that I realised she was sleeping in a tent or in all-night cafes. "It's a battle," she admitted at the time. "I'm emotionally exhausted."
Raven spent most of her life fighting to stay off the street. She was born with gastroschisis [a birth defect in which the baby is born with their intestines outside of its body], and fought stomach problems her whole life. She worked in bars for years, never far from the breadline. When she quit drinking due to addiction problems, she lost her profession and her income source. Homelessness caught up with her.
"Why am I on the streets? I could say that it was one event, which was the officer who sexually assaulted me and I had to file charges" she told Colorado Springs advocacy group Coalition for Compassion and Action (CCA) last year. "I didn't have anywhere to go, so I ended up in Pueblo [in Colorado], which is where I'm from. Pueblo has no resources, so I came to the nearest larger city that had services, which is why I am in Colorado Springs.
"But when I look back, if I'm honest, I've been struggling to stay off the streets for 20 years. Eventually it happened that I could no longer keep my head above water."
Raven's friend Linda Laba says that the odds were always stacked against her, "But she rose above the odds and the statistics."
Linda calls herself a sister to Raven. They met years ago, when Raven was living on the U.S. island territory of Guam, in Micronesia. Back then, Raven was known by her given name of Crystal Tippens. (She changed her name recently to Raven to symbolise her new life.)
"I met her through my involvement in a 12-step programme," Linda says, on the phone from Guam, as her chickens crow outside. "We got very close because she's just such an extraordinary person."
Formerly homeless and fighting her own battles with addiction, Linda was a mentor to Raven. They'd just celebrated Raven reaching her one-year anniversary of sobriety. But it was far from a one-way relationship. "She probably thinks I was helping her, but of course, in reality she was a big help to me," Linda explains – one of many to repeat the sentiment. "I saw in her such a jewel – and she proved me right. It's obvious in the last year, with everything she accomplished, that she really was a great person."
Linda works as a substance abuse counsellor at the Oasis Empowerment Centre in Guam, so she has helped plenty of people facing the same demons as Raven. What was it that made their relationship special? "I loved her heart. Her spirit. Crystal had the kind of heart where she wouldn't let anyone suffer – she wouldn't let them die alone. She marched to her own beat. And I loved that."
Colorado Springs activist Trygve Bundgaard first met Raven last year through her campaigning on behalf of the homeless community in which she lived. The board chair at Blackbird Outreach and a director at CCA, he was organising a sit-in protest against the city's proposed sit-lie ordinance – a draconian bylaw designed to force homeless people out of public spaces.
"She reached out to me on the phone and had some great ideas about ways to poke the city a little bit, and ways to be provocative. We instantly connected," says Trygve. "She's a very striking person, especially when you realise that she's out on the streets." Trygve, like Linda, is having problems with moving into the past tense when talking about Raven.
"Until the very end, she was the most fiercely articulate and intelligent person," he continues. "I think that's part of what made her so effective and powerful as a community organiser and an activist. She defied everyone's expectations of what someone surviving outside should look and sound like."
Though still struggling with housing, Raven's trademark grit saw her get the first edition of The Springs Echo out in January. She had secured the last couple of hundred dollars she needed from a donor. Although, in fact, thanks to administrative delays, fellow street paper Denver Voice ended up loaning her money so she could take delivery of the first papers. "I must say I am impressed with… her drive and determination," Denver Voice editor Sarah Harvey told INSP.
It was clear, Linda and Trygve agree, that Raven was turning her life around. After months of hard work, she'd achieved her ambition of starting the Springs Echo; she'd got to grips with her alcohol problems and some legal issues; and since the start of 2017 she'd found a room to stay in with friends.
Her advocacy work was starting to cut through too. According to Colorado Springs city councillor William Murray, "She was a rising star in the community."
On 17 January, during one of our many ongoing Facebook chats, she told me, "I love that I can be a walking example to those still on the streets that you can go from rock bottom to the top." She'd secured funding to travel to the Global Street Paper Summit in Manchester this summer and was looking forward to meeting her colleagues from all over the world. When I sent her pictures of The Springs Echo's first edition featuring in INSP's exhibition Uncovered: Still Homeless, Still an Issue in Glasgow, UK, she was ecstatic and put the exhibition on the front page of the second edition. She titled the story: 'The Echo heard around the world'.
Then on Thursday 2 March, she messaged with more troubling news. She felt that she could no longer stay in her home and so was back on the streets. "I feel like a failure," she said. "I am just so, so tired… and afraid I might die outside."
Raven's friends are still trying to work out exactly what happened between Thursday and Saturday morning, when her fear came true. She'd contacted Linda, Trygve, Tim Harris and Councilman Murray on Thursday too, in obvious distress. Her final, heart-breaking post to Facebook that day read: "All I ever really wanted was a home no one would take away from me. A HOME."
"That's the core root of what I'm struggling with so much right now," Trygve says. "In my last conversation with her on Thursday, I could tell she was down. I could hear the hopelessness in her voice but I could not get out of her why it was different. As far as I could see, everything was in place for an amazing new chapter to her life."
So far, the authorities have shed little light on Raven's death. The Colorado Springs Police Department said that there was no foul play, whilst the coroner's office says they will not have any comment until their report is ready in six to eight weeks' time.
From her home in Guam, Linda has been gathering what information she can by talking to the people around Raven. "She was awake at 5.30am, she got sleepy and wrapped herself in a blanket that she had gotten somewhere," she says. "She went to sleep… and I guess it was so cold out… and she's such a little thing. When they went to get her up at 9.30, she was unresponsive."
Raven had been estranged from her daughter for a long time, but just before her death they had started to talk again. Lesley Tippens is crowdfunding to raise enough money to cremate her mother and spread her ashes in the sea. "I want to take her to Panama, Florida to the ocean and spread her ashes there into the ocean," Lesley wrote on the GoFundMe page. "Thank you to everyone who had donated or shared my post. Y'all are making this seem much more possible than if I were doing this on my own." At the time of writing, she'd raised $1,620 of her $1,800 goal.
Councilman Murray donated $320 to the fund. "Actually, I was ashamed because I could have given her that money before the funeral," he says. "Afterwards it doesn't count, does it? It's a condolence, not a promise for the future. Had I offered it to her up front maybe this wouldn't have happened."
The what-ifs will continue for everyone that knew Raven. Everyone she contacted last week told her the same things – you inspire us, you are a success, we're there for you. Somehow, it didn't break through.
"I think probably the saddest thing, in hindsight, is that she kept telling me that she felt so alone," says Trygve. "Her death has clearly shown how not-alone she was." Scores of people plan to attend a memorial event for her on Sunday that Trygve and others have arranged.
Tim Harris has fought for homeless communities in the US for more than two decades, but he says that Raven will stay with him. "Raven didn't know 'too much to give'," he says. "She was driven by love, and offered up her own broken heart every day, taking care of others and fighting for basic human dignity. That's an inspiration I'll carry with me the rest of my life."
Raven once told me that she was "so very blessed" to be part of the street paper movement. In the days since her death, the best email I've had was from Steve Saint-Thomas, a career journalist who had advised her on the paper. The subject line was: "The Springs Echo lives on!" There could be no better tribute, or legacy.
Details about the memorial on 12 March are here. In lieu of flowers, organisers have asked mourners to support The Springs Echo. Thank you to Mark Reis at The Gazette for donating photos of Raven.
INSP members who wish to publish this story can find it on the INSP News Service.


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Dozens of film productions each year choose Hamilton as the backdrop. The latest production to come to the Hammer is "Filth City". Digital Canaries is the production company behind the film. The story is about a corrupt mayor who is swept up in a controversy than includes him smoking crack… Sound familiar?
Writers Andy King and Danny Polishchuck say it's a loose satire of the Rob Ford saga. The writers also act in the feature and Andy King is directing. He says they originally set out to do a film noir type crime comedy about Toronto when the Ford story started to unravel.
While they could have shot in Toronto, King says they wanted a Gotham City feel. Outside the studios, the crew is filming on location in areas like the Gage Park Bandshell.
The movie, "Filth City" will be aired on TV this spring, they are also hoping to eventually turn it into a series.


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All-American Council reports now available on-line
A variety of resources relevant to the 16th All-American Council October 31-November 4, 2011, were released on Friday, 30 September 2011 by the Pre-Conciliar Commission of the 16th All-American Council in accordance with the Statutory requirements of the Orthodox Church in America (Article III, Section 5E).
Available for downloading on the OCA web site are the following.
1. An introductory letter by Archpriest Eric G. Tosi, OCA Secretary.
2. The Delegate Handbook, which includes instructions, Statute amendments, resolutions current vetted, and other pertinent information.
3. The report of the OCA's officers.
4. Reports from the OCA's departments, institutions, and Metropolitan Council.
5. The financial report.
"All of these resources should be read in advance by Council delegates, and shared with the members of their parishes," Father Eric noted. "Printed copies of the resources will not be available at the Council. We ask participants to print them and bring them to the Council. Binders with dividers will be available at the time of registration."
With regard to resolutions, Father Eric noted that "not every resolution is contained in the Delegate Handbook, as some resolutions are still being vetted between the Resolutions Committee and the parties who submitted them. As soon as the vetting is completed, they will be posted on the OCA web site."
Father Eric added that the Crisis Management Committee report will be released after the Holy Synod of Bishops reviews its recommendations during the first week of October, after which it will be posted on-line.
"These decisions regarding additional resolutions and the Crisis Management Committee report were made by the Lesser Synod and Metropolitan Council and agreed upon by the General Counsel," Father Eric added. "At the Council's plenary sessions, additional oral reports will be offered, with opportunities to entertain questions."


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Subject Ranking QS: Polytech is ranked again among the TOP universities
Recently QS World University Rankings by Subject 2018 has been published. A study conducted by analysts of Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) evaluated 1,100 higher education institutions in 48 subjects and 5 research directions. Polytech improved its positions in two fields - Engineering and Technology and Natural Science.
QS World University Rankings by Subject is published for the eighth time. Based on QS methodology, universities are evaluated according to four criteria: the opinions of the academic community and employers, citation rates and Hirsch index. In 2017, SPbPU was ranked for the first time and started from the position 401-450 in the field "Natural Science". This year our university is ranked 349. But the most noticeable result SPbPU achieved in the field "Engineering and Technology", rising from 292nd to 248th position. This is the 5th result among all higher education institutions of Russia and the third among universities participating in the Project 5-100.
It should be mentioned that in the field "Engineering and Technology" universities are evaluated by analyzing the data for all the following subjects: Informatics and Information Technology, Chemical Engineering, Civil Engineering and Structural Engineering, Electrotechnical and Electronic Engineering and Mechanical Engineering. In the field "Natural Science" - for all the following subjects: Chemistry, Shipbuilding and Earth Sciences, Materials Science, Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy). Therefore, the drop in indicators for one subject can be compensated due to another (it is necessary, however, to meet the standard for the number of publications).
As we have already noted, the QS subject ranking takes into account such indicators as: the Hirsch index of the university in the subject (area); citing; reputation according to employers and reputation in the academic community. But in each subject (area) the significance of the indicators is not the same. For example, reputation is more significant for the direction "Engineering and Technology" than for "Natural Science". And indicators themselves do not provide information about the dynamics in the ranking - it is important to compare with other universities.
As for the "Natural Science", the improvement is due to the Hirsch index in the subjects "Physics and Astronomy" by 6.4 and "Shipbuilding and Earth Sciences" by 12,1, as well as the growth of the academic reputation for the subject "Shipbuilding and Earth Sciences". As a result, there was a growth of the total score by 3.7 units and it contributed to the higher position of the university in 2018.
Specifically, subject rankings, in recent years have been given special attention. Their advantage is that they evaluate the activity of universities in specific subject areas. For many universities, it is logical - to develop existing competencies in their strongest areas and thus becoming well-known all over the world. SPbPU Rector, Academician of the RAS Andrey I. RUDSKOY, commenting on the results of the ranking, noted that Polytech every year increases its results on the international education market. "We are implementing an internationalization strategy. It includes an increase in the number of publications in peer-reviewed journals indexed in international databases Scopus and Web of Science. This year, we have further strengthened the multidisciplinary approach, so there is a positive trend in both "Engineering and Technology" and "Natural Science". Our strategic goal is to become one of the prominent research and educational centers on these specializations in the world arena. And we are looking forward to further promotion in the subject rankings in the future".


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Eating it one of the biggest pleasures in life, especially in a place like Malaga. Its cuisine, wine and ambiance comes together in the restaurant of Hotel Antequera, so that our guests, including the most particular, can try some of the most traditional dishes and typical specialties of Andalusian cuisine. This restaurant service includes: a buffet with show cooking, breakfasts, snacks, tapas, salads, cocktails and exceptional wine. Taste the best flavours on your holiday at our hotel.


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I am very picky when it comes to my choice of body wash. I look for two important factors while shopping for body wash and they are smell and moisture rich lather quality both of which I have found in the newest Limited Edition Softsoaps. SoftSoap have always been my go to brand for body was and I was so excited when I got contacted to review to two newest ones in the Limited edition line. I got the opportunity to try Softsoap Rainforest Escape and Citrus Samba both of which are available at Walmart for just $3.50. With these new scents you don't need a day spa getaway because every time you take a shower you'll feel like your away at a tropical island. The scents are strong and pleasant and last for hours which I love. If you're loving these products be sure to head to your local Walmart because their only available until August so act fast. I'm in love with them and they just replaced my old body washes.
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The vintage wedding reception is warm, yet elegant, with a charm that persist over time by its unique beauty. In order to organize a wedding in a vintage style you must love the warm and welcoming atmosphere, to be an incurable romantic and like the look of very old things, magnificent, made with great care and delicacy.
The Color palette
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The decor should include warm colors, neutral, sweet, but slightly strident, breaking down easily the neutral atmosphere. Use pale colors of pink, brown, hot chocolate, white and beige.
Where to get them?
You can buy vintage items from shops that sell antiques or old things, you can get cages, chandeliers, silk flowers, wooden bowls and boxes with embroidery, silk or embroidered fabrics in the old style. Key objects are impressive framed mirrors, and flowers worked in plaster, in warm colors of those years the (cream, gold, brown). The used fabrics should be imposing and should have a royal air, silk, heavy fabrics, embroidery, velvet. Use large pictures that brings images of those times, taking care to match well the colors. Wrought iron candle holders and carefully crafted chandeliers bring a touch of brightness of that time.
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The Wedding Attire
The couple's outfit should not be in contrast with the vintage wedding reception. Choose old jewelry, pearls or solid gold, presenting flowers, or other elements of nature, worked in filigree technique. Wedding invitations can be engraved or written on old paper with a pen, clipped to the edge with ribbon or lace. The wedding favors may consist of embroidered handkerchiefs like of those times, the old-silvered glass, in glazed candy in your wedding's colors, with embroidery and served in vintage style packaging, pencils, boxes of tobacco.
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The decor
The wedding flowers for decoration must have a wild look, less elegant or exotic. For example, you can choose from lilac, peony, violets, bride's flower, hydrangeas and a lot of green.
Ambient music can be jazz, but still choose fun music for your guests so that each of them dance at least once.
Ambient music can be jazz, but still choose fun music for your guests so that each of them dance at least once.
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As an entrepreneur, your skills as a team leader are essential for today's business, especially when the work usually is done by teams and their members. Before some time I write here on Entrepreneurship in a box about managerial skills, then about entrepreneurial skills, and now I want to cover something about team leader skills.
Many times entrepreneurs ask me about this question: What are the most critical team leader skills?
Because of that, I will try to answer this question here.
Today, any organizational form can't run without strong teams. Strong teams become strong only if they have strong team leadership.
Strong team leadership you will have only if you have strong team leaders with strong team skills.
Let's look at eight most crucial team leader skills for you as an entrepreneur.
Team Leader Skills #1: Visionary Skills
First skill as a part of required team leader skills that I want to cover here is visionary skills. We cannot expect to have powerful team leader without a strong vision for the future.
With this type opt skills, visionary team leader implements visionary leadership in their teams.
What does this mean?
They simply know how to communicate their vision to other team members, and in such a way their vision becomes a team's vision.
Team Leader Skills #2: Human or interpersonal skills
We can't talk about team leader skills without talking about the human side of team members, or better said interpersonal skills of the team leader.
This skill simply means that a team leader will know how to work with people. She is the team leader or leader of a group of people who form the team which job is to do something in the business.
Team leaders need to motivate their members if they want to finish their job in the best possible way.
But, what is important here is that they need to have at first better understanding of different behavioral styles of team members if they want to choose the best possible leadership reaction. The different behavioral style will require different team leader's actions and reactions.
On the other side, the best team leaders also know how, when, and to whom to give praise in the team working environment.
Team Leader Skills #3: Listening Skills
Next, as a part of the most crucial team leader skills, I want to mention listening skills. You cannot expect to be the excellent team leader without knowledge and habit to listen to other people's opinion.
Listening becomes one of the most important functions in today's modern organizations.
Before concluding, a good team leader as a first listens to their team members, and after analysis of what she heard they conclude or decide.
Team Leader Skills #4: Creativity Skills
Because teams exist to solve problems and at the same time problems solving require a high level of creativity of all team members, a good team leader must have skills related to creativity.
They need to use their own creativity in solving problems, but also in encouraging other team members to be more creative when they work in team environment.
Creativity skills are an important part of an excellent team leader.
Team Leader Skills #5: Communication Skills
Teamwork is something that will need everyday communication between team members.
The leader is responsible to enable effective communication environment in their teams because without this, they can't manage effectively the members of the team.
Today, everything is based on the good communication process.
Excellent communication skills will improve overall skills of a team leader.
Team Leader Skills #6: Organizational Skills
Team leader skills also need some type of organizational skills, because every team member will need to have their own responsibility and contribution to the work of the team.
How the process of the work can be organized to large extent will depend on the team leader's organizational skills.
They will need to plan tasks, delegate tasks, control the work progress…
Team Leader Skills #7: Negotiation Skills
The next type of required team leader skills that I want to mention here is negotiation skills.
Teamwork will produce different proposals, different directions, and different actions. Something they will accept them immediately, but some of them will slow down further work of the team.
An excellent team leader will need to know how to negotiate and facilitate the process if she wants to succeed.
Team Leader Skills #8: Time Management Skills
Time management skills are also an important part of overall team leader skills because she will be inevitably faced with the need to manage the time of the team members.
Good time management skills will increase the overall productivity of a teamwork.


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IT Outsourcing for Dallas, Plano, and Frisco small and medium business provides you with a worry-free, proactive off-site IT department that treats your network as if it were our own. You are assigned a primary and backup network administrator who manages, maintains, and supports your entire information technology infrastructure. This includes 24×7 monitoring, antivirus/antimalware software, unlimited rapid support, procurement, and consulting services. Outsourcing your IT department can save you tens of thousands of dollars, no need to have a full-time network administrator who you need to provide benefits and vacation time.
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MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO--(Marketwired - March 22, 2017) -
Pioneering Technology Corp. ("Pioneering" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:PTE), a technology company and North America's leader in cooking fire prevention technologies and products, is pleased to announce that it has closed its previously announced bought deal private placement financing (the "Offering") with Echelon Wealth Partners Inc. (the "Underwriter"), including a portion of the over-allotment option. Pursuant to the Offering, the Company issued 5,668,631 units of the Company ("Units") at a price of $1.10 per Unit ("Issue Price"), for aggregate gross proceeds of $6,235,494.10. Each Unit is comprised of one common share in the capital of the Company ("Common Share") and one half of one Common Share purchase warrant, (each whole Common Share purchase warrant, a "Warrant"). Each Warrant will entitle the holder thereof to purchase one Common Share at a price of $1.80 for a period of 24 months following closing of the Offering, provided that if, at any time after 12 months following the closing date of the Offering, the volume weighted average trading price of the Common Shares on the TSXV over any 15 consecutive trading day period is at least $2.50, the Company will have the right to accelerate the expiry date of the Warrants to a date that is 15 calendar days after the date on which the Company issues a press release announcing the accelerated expiry date.
The Underwriter received (i) a cash commission equal to 7.0% of the gross proceeds raised in the Offering, and (ii) non-transferrable broker warrants ("Broker Warrants") equal to 7.0% of the aggregate number of Units issued pursuant to the Offering. Each Broker Warrant shall be exercisable into one Unit at the Issue Price for a period of 24 months following closing of the Offering.
The net proceeds of the Offering will be used to repay existing indebtedness, fund business expansion, invest in product development and sales & marketing and for general corporate and working capital purposes. The securities issued in connection with the Offering are subject to a hold period which expires on July 23, 2017.
The Shares were sold on a private placement basis pursuant to "accredited investor" exemptions under National Instrument 45-106. The securities referred to in this news release have not been, nor will they be, registered under the United States Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and may not be offered or sold within the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, U.S. persons absent U.S. registration or an applicable exemption from the U.S. registration requirements. This news release does not constitute an offer for sale of securities for sale, nor a solicitation for offers to buy any securities. Any public offering of securities in the United States must be made by means of a prospectus containing detailed information about the company and management, as well as financial statements.
About Pioneering Technology Corp
Pioneering, based in Mississauga, Ontario is an "energy smart" technology company and North America's leader in innovative cooking fire prevention technologies. Pioneering engineers and brings to market energy-smart solutions for everyday consumer appliances making them safer, smarter, and more efficient. The company's patented technologies/products address a multi-billion-dollar problem - cooking fires. According to the National Fire Protection Association, stovetop cooking is the number one cause of household fire and fire injuries in North America (48% of all household fires - up from 20% in 1980). Pioneering's temperature limiting control (TLC) technology is now installed in approximately 200,000 multi-residential housing units across North America without a single cooking fire being reported and delivering a return on investment for its customers. Pioneering has proprietary cooking fire prevention solutions, including its trademarked Safe-T-element, SmartBurner, RangeMinder & Safe-T-sensor, for the majority of the more than 140 million stoves/ranges and over 140 million microwave ovens throughout North America. For more information, go to www.pioneeringtech.com.
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The statements made in this press release include forward-looking statements that involve a number of risks and uncertainties. These statements relate to future events or future performance and reflect management's current expectations and assumptions. A number of factors could cause actual events, performance or results to differ materially from the events, performance and results discussed in the forward-looking statements, such as the economy, generally, competition in Pioneering's target markets, the demand for Pioneering's products, the availability of funding and the efficacy of Pioneering's technology and governmental regulation. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date hereof an, except as required by applicable law, Pioneering does not assume any obligation to update or revise them to reflect new events or circumstances. Actual events or results could differ materially from Pioneering's expectations and projections.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release.
Pioneering Technology Corp.
Kevin Callahan
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The following article is the sole opinion of the Lt. Governor, and does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the entire District Cabinet, or of Ruritan National, although some of the ideas set forth are an interpretation of workshops and meetings about Publicity and Membership from the 2014 Ruritan National Convention in Branson MO.
An opinion from the desk of the Lt. Governor:
As the Ruritan Clubs look to their future, more members are realizing that their local clubs are at a critical crossroad, and difficult decisions must be made. Some clubs are struggling with membership loss for a variety of reasons, and are finding it challenging to recruit and maintain their clubs at charter strength. If the clubs are to survive, the clubs need to find a way to recruit and retain younger, enthusiastic, energetic members.
Those younger, energetic members, are members of the generations often referred to as the "Generation X" and "Generation Y" (or "Milleniums.") Successfully marketing Ruritan to these groups of people is critical if the local Ruritan Clubs are going to survive.
Online published articles about marketing research about the Generation X target market, and marketing research about the Generation Y (Milleniums) from a well-respected source known as CRM (Customer Relationship Management) makes it clear that both of these generations are extremely technologically savvy, and are very involved in social media. Links to articles about that research are provided in the previous sentence; you can click on those links to see the articles.
These two generations are the real future of Ruritan. If Ruritan Clubs want to survive, then the clubs need to embrace that as the truth, and market themselves to those two generations. These generations use dynamic social media, such as Facebook, and Twitter. They are more likely to be attracted to a responsive, dynamic, blog-style webpage that has a calendar of upcoming events on the home page, categories, widgets, and frequent, updated blog posts about the most recent club happenings than they are to a static webpage that is essentially an announcement of "hey, we exist, come check us out" page that is attractive to previous generations. The blog-style webpage is similar in appearance, and feel to Facebook, and most of the people in these generations use Facebook a lot.
Static webpages have served their purpose well in the past, and it is understandable that the clubs might be reluctant to change them. After all, we are comfortable with them, they are our creations, and we hate change! But change is coming, whether we like it or not, and we must adapt, or cease to exist.
Some of the components of those static webpages can be preserved by creating a "sticky post" on the home page of the blog-style websites, but in the current Internet environment those completely static webpages are not going to perform as well in Google Search Engine Results Pages, Domain Authority Rankings, Google Page Rankings, Bing Rankings, Alexa Rankings as the newer blog-style websites will perform. The blog-style webpages, if created correctly, and maintained faithfully and correctly, will be more effective at reaching the Generation X and Y target markets.
There is no reason that a Ruritan Club cannot have multiple websites, targeting different markets! If the club already has a static webpage, and is happy with it, the club can create a new blog-style webpage and link it to a new or existing Facebook page. There is nothing that says a club can only have "one" webpage!
Many Ruritan clubs are at a crossroads. These clubs need to decide whether they want to attract younger members into the clubs so the clubs will survive, or if they want to just let the club memberships drop below charter level and eventually lose their charter. If the clubs want to attract younger members, then the clubs would be well advised to market their clubs to the technologically savvy, younger members through the Social Media that these younger members already use – Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, and blog-style websites in addition to newspapers, radio, television.
Resistance to evolution is futile. If Ruritan Clubs are to survive, we must study the changes and adapt to them, or we will not survive.


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Zambeel Dramatic Readings Presents Dozakh by Ismat Chughtai at The Second Floor (T2F)
Join The Second Floor (T2F) for a dramatic rendition of Ismat Chughtai's vibrant play, "Dozakh", with original music composed by Rakae Jamil.
Dozakh, a play written for the stage, is a colourful roller coaster of emotions between two women, Naulasi Khanum and Umdah Khanum. Ismat Chughtai's skill as a writer is at its best in the wonderful repartee that is central to the lives of these companions. Original music for this reading consists of two tracks composed in Raag Sarang and Raag Bahaar, composed and played by Rakae Jamil.
- Mahvash Faruqi: Naulasi Khanum
- Shama Askari: Umdah Khanum
- Asma Mundrawala: Bahu / Khairun
- Music: Rakae Jamil
- Sound Cues: Seher Naveed
Direction and Sound
- Asma Mundrawala
Date: Tuesday, 25th June, 2013
Time: 7:00 pm
Entry: Rs. 300
Venue: The Second Floor (T2F), 10-C, Sunset Lane 5, Phase 2 Extension, DHA, Karachi.


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Here in the States, there is an old question that is asked:
Ginger or Mary Ann?
The correct answer is BOTH!
For Christmas, I got a boat load of AIW stuff (good thing I preordered it all). I got 6 Sho't / Centurions, 6 M51 Ishermans, 6 Magach 2 /3, 6 AMX-15, Israeli decals and half track stowage. Needless to say, I have been an assembling machine!
With both the Magach and Sho't boxes, you have to choose which version of the gun you want to mount. Because I like to choose "both", I decided to magnetize the barrels for both the Sho'ts and the Magachs.
The Magach is pretty easy to do. So let's tackle the tough one - the Sho't.
This is what the model looks like when you pull them out of the box:
Notice the hull is flush - this allows the gun to be glued flush. Take a look at this picture, which shows the back of the gun:
To do the drilling, you will need several different sizes of bits. I went micro, then used three different bits - but only one was actually "drilled" with my drill. Here are my bits and drill:
Ok. Here are the steps.
Step 1 - Turret as is out of the box:
Step 2 - Micro bit
Using the small bit, find the center of the turret and make a small hole. I found that being slightly lower than center was advantageous.
Step 3 - Next bit (I believe I used 9/32")
Using a normal drill bit and using your hand, slowly rotate the bit to make a larger hole. Depth isn't important as you just want to expand the hole and take away the outer resin "shell".
Step 4 - Next, next bit
Repeat the exact same step as above, but with the next larger size bit.
Notice the hole is getting larger. This is exactly what you want.
Step 5 - Drill Baby!!
Now, take the size bit that is needed to make the hole large enough for the magnets. I used the same magnets that are included in the model for the turrets. I just took those to my neighborhood hobby shop and found an exact match. So I bought 30... or 60.
The trick is to start very slowly with the drill until the bit has shaved away all the hard resin. Then increase the drill speed and apply a little more pressure to the drill.
This is what the turret should look like after.
You may want to check the depth by grabbing your magnets and making sure that two magnets can fit inside the hole.
That is it for the turret! Now, glue a magnet into the turret. Oh, be sure to mark or know which side of the magnet you need to be facing out for the barrel...
Now, grab a barrel and place it over the hole and try to see where the magnet should be glued. This is the tricky part. I have no suggestion other than to eyeball it. You could stick a piece of chalk to something that can hold ink, but that seemed more of a pain than just eyeballing. And so far it has worked for me.
Here is the picture from above (again) showing the gun and the magnet:
And on the model:
So now you have both barrels and can bring both versions of the tank to the game.
The Magach works the same way, except the whole drilling and gluing of the magnets is way easier. Each Magach turret has a predrilled hole for the gun. And each gun has a protrusion exactly where it would go into the hole in the turret. Just expand the hole using the same process above and cut off the metal protrusion from the barrel.
Here is the finished result:
Here is the underside:
Here is the top view:
And with the other barrel:
So if you take the time to drill and glue, you will have both versions of the Magach and the Sho't available for you. I believe it is totally worth it and the results are pretty darn good! Best of luck and drop me a question in the comments.
Oh, here is my table - just AIW stuff...
Friday, December 27, 2013
Magach 2 or 3? How about BOTH! Same with Sho't!
Posted by WEBGriffin at 10:00 PM
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Nicely done!ReplyDelete
One trick for lining up the opposite hole.. when you have your smallest guide hole.. clip a very small length of paperclip or what not, jam it in, and cut down so that just about 2mm sticks out. Paint the tip of the wire red, and while wet, dry fit the barrel where you want it to be. Once you have a red dot on the barrel, drill a guidehole there too, yank out the wire, and then proceed to enlargen both sides.ReplyDelete
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h/t NTS @NorthernTruthseeker for bringing this to my attention-
Not long ago, I was handed the most outrageous, vile, dishonest and slanderous calumny uttered against the people of Canada. It was contained in a full-page advertisement in the National Post (founder, Conrad Black), a newspaper handed out – free, I'm happy to say – on my Air France flight out of Toronto. Here is the headline: "Almost 4 million Canadians are afflicted by this disease."
Beneath this title is a half-page, very blurred and uncaptioned colour photo of a large crowd – they could be football supporters, rush-hour commuters in Vancouver, you name it; they are mostly white males but include women and with at least one dark-skinned man close to the camera. Beneath the picture, this incredible ad continues: "Left unchecked, it [the disease] can result in violence tendencies. Many times, those infected haven't been diagnosed and may pass it on to their children, grandchildren, colleagues or friends. Please help stop the spread of this disease before it contaminates your community."
This is frightening stuff, of course. Could this refer to some of the six million Canadians who may be living with HIV/Aids? Or the 4.5 million Canadians affected by arthritis? Or the 2.5 million Canadians believed to have diabetes? Or even some of the estimated 7.8 million Canadians treated for depression each year? Nope. This is far more serious. For the "disease" afflicting "almost 4 million Canadians" is "anti-Semitism" and this disgusting advertisement – published without comment by one of Canada's leading right-wing newspapers – was produced by B'nai Brith Canada and the "Jewish Christian Alliance".
"At the first sign of anti-Semitism," this appalling ad concludes, "call the B'nai Brith Canada Anti-Hate Hotline…" In other words, this pro-Israeli Jewish group – whose exaggerations and hateful propaganda have been rightly condemned by Jewish Canadians – claims that four million of their fellow-countrymen and women are sick, racist neo-Nazis. What other conclusion are we supposed to draw if almost 9 per cent of the Canadian population is "diseased", "infected" and "contaminated".
Now let's forget that B'nai Brith regards any criticism of the state of Israel – however justified, however mild, made by Jews and non-Jews alike – as anti-Semitic. Let's forget previous protests by Jewish Americans against the organisation's grotesque exaggerations. Let's even ignore its equation of Palestinians with Nazis, a comparison that led it to publish a bowdlerised version of the infamous photograph of the wartime Grand Mufti of Jerusalem meeting with Hitler – the Nazi dictator was "moved" in the B'nai Brith version of the snapshot about three feet closer to the Palestinian so that Hitler appears to be almost sitting on his visitor's lap.
And let's not ask why the Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, did not immediately leap to the defence of his own Canadian people when confronted by this disgusting statement of "disease". For alas, Harper told the Israeli Knesset last January – while archly claiming "criticism of Israeli policy is not in and of itself necessarily (sic) anti-Semitic" – that condemnation of Israeli policies amounted to anti-Semitism. This included those who supported the boycott campaign against Israel or referred to it as an apartheid state. "On some campuses," said Harper, "intellectualised (sic) arguments against Israeli policies thinly mask the underlying realities, such as the shunning of Israeli academics and the harassment of Jewish students."
"Sickening," Harper called this. Yes, the Canadian Prime Minister himself was using the "disease" metaphor employed by B'nai Brith. And why not? Because there's another reason Canadians can expect no protection from their own Prime Minister, who in his speech might have been a member of the Knesset rather than a guest of its members: Stephen Harper was awarded the "International Presidential Gold Medal" for "his commitment to the Jewish people and the State of Israel" in 2008 – by B'nai Brith.So, Canadians, are you getting it? Our government doesn't 'love us'. They aren't concerned with us.
PM Harper has shown repeatedly where his loyalty lies. And it isn't with ordinary Canadians.
As for Bnai Brith propaganda aimed at demonizing ordinary Canadians?
"Diseased" "Infected" "Contaminated"
Someone should report Bnai Brith's ad to their anti-hate hotline. Because that is a very hateful agenda being promoted by Bnai Brith. Hate against Gentiles. Anti-Gentilism


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Lisa Slominski's cerebral solo at Dimensions Variable explores the malleability of memory and how we store, retain, and recall information in the high-speed digital age.
Her installation "Dreamy Nomads, Baby" incorporates light boxes, floor sculptures and a suite of flocked screen-prints on paper combining decorative elements that evoke all manner of art historical and contemporary design and architectural references.
Her exhibit is anchored by two large light box pieces arranged on opposing walls in a dialogue with each other. Each bears a text message in a direct call and response to the other, reflecting how in the era of Facebook and Twitter, the keyboard has supplied us with a new lexicon of hieroglyphic shorthand to not only communicate but also employ punctuation to convey emotions. The works were created by Slominski during her two weeks with the Fountainhead Residency.
Situated on the gallery floor in front of the light boxes are two sculptures, created with a collection of square and oval mirrors, each arranged around a 2x2 foot section of linoleum tile at the center from which the glass radiates outwards.
Their reflective surfaces face up, refracting light, snippets of the light box text and the passing image of the spectator as one navigates the space around them. One is immediately struck by the sunlight bouncing off some of the mirrors onto the walls and ceiling in distinct rays bringing to mind how Native Americans used reflective surfaces to signal each other across vast distances long ago before the advent of modern technology.
One is also struck by the notion that one's reflections, caught from the tail of the eye, as one walks around the mirrors, amplifies a sense of the at times, fleeting nature of our recollections.
Incorporated into these hypnotic pieces are groupings of laser-cut blue Astroturf patterns suggestive of arabesques, damasks and droplets of water. The resulting impression of the sculptures is that one is peering down at their reflections into Baroque or Rococo era fountains.
While walking around her floor sculptures one conjures images of ancient pools of limpid water where people first caught their visages reflected back at them recalling the myth of Narcissus.
The serial patterns of blue carpet arabesques and droplets serve to heighten the notion of streaming rivulets while the nature of the mirrors and baroque influences abstractly bring to mind some of the masters from art history who incorporated images of mirrors in classical masterpieces.
Sandwiched on an adjacent wall between her light boxes, Slominski's seductive suite of flocked screen-prints speak directly to the notion of memory distortion. These prints, arranged in a loose grid, are monochromatic in nature and at first blush appear not unlike fading photocopies of each other, in what might be described as blacks bleeding into lighter shades of gray before nearly evaporating before one's eyes into a ghostly white hue.
Inspired by Baroque period flocked, velvet wallpaper, the prints boast damask patterns and seem to have been crafted from the Jacquard looms that produced antique padded textiles. But while they possess a tactile veneer reminiscent of ancient fabric, upon closer inspection one detects phrases from Slominski's enigmatic text messages woven into the weft of the fading patterns.
The repetitive words imbedded into the prints along with the decorative patterns also allude to the ambient din of untold transmissions flying through the ether and our growing isolation from face-to-face engagements.
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Some visitors to the space will likely cast a furtive glance at Slominski's elegant yet spartan presentation and dismiss it as a collection of forms and patterns typically displayed at a designer's showroom. But that would be a waste. The work provides an opportunity for more profound contemplation.Therein lies the subtle beauty and meaning of her project. At a time when conversation is blurred by technology and often conducted at an intimate disconnect, she invites viewers to reconsider a sense of deeper communication.
Look for the full review in this week's print edition.
See "Dreamy Nomads, Baby" through October 22 Dimensions Variable (171 NE 38th St, Miami). Call 305-607-5527 or visit dimensionsvaraiable.net. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday noon to 5 p.m.
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Verizon is not traditionally known as a good carrier for those on a budget, but the strong growth of T-Mobile has encouraged Big Red to make some changes. The latest tweak to Verizon's offerings comes in the form of extra data for prepaid users. You can get a 1GB boost for enabling auto-pay.
In order to get this deal, you need to be on the $45 2GB plan or the $60 5GB plan. When you activate a new smartphone and sign up for auto-pay, you'll get 1GB of data added to your account. So, that's 3GB for $45 and 6GB for $60 (T-Mobile's Simple Choice Prepaid plans charge $65 for 6GB). The free data starts when your first auto-payment goes through and will stop should you ever cancel auto-pay.
Although they aren't talking as much about it, Verizon also has a new $30 prepaid plan that includes unlimited talk and text like the others, but no mobile data. Some people might be into that, I suppose.
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