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Over the past 5 months I have been heavily involved in the planning and execution of artist Laure Drogoul's first retrospective as part of MICA's Exhibition Development Seminar. Follies, Predicaments and Other Conundrums: The Works of Laure Drogoul opens tomorrow Friday Jan. 30th at MICA's Meyerhoff and Decker Galleries. The exhibition includes performance, sculpture, interactive works, collections, an incredible array of public programming, and an exclusive 14Karat Cabaret at the BBOX that includes a variety of artists who are flying in from places like Paris and New York City.
We are down to the last hours of installation and we have been installing over the past 2 weeks day and night, so it is bound to be a magnificent show!! I'm planning on doing an entry later on about my experience in this seminar and with the Curatorial Studies Concentration I'm currently pursuing.
Congratulations to all my fellow EDS classmates, we've put together this exhibition from scratch with our own hands: we've developed printed and web-based materials, creative public programming, exquisite installation and curatorial cohesiveness and rich written and visual content that is to be envied.
I will write more later, but for now you can come the opening, or read the blog, or visit the website!
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Carlos Beltran is the name mentioned in every sentence involving "Giants" and "trade" over the past few months, but there's a new name on the block as of Monday morning: B.J. Upton.
That's right -- the uber-talented, oft-struggling Rays' centerfielder is now all up in the Giants radar, according to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports.
Actually, he's "the Beltran alternative" for San Francisco, but he's a player that would make sense as a better fit in the "big scheme of things" (my words) for Brian Sabean's club.
Is he as good a hitter as Beltran? No. And it's not really even close. Upton would also most likely make various Giants fans scream in anger with his ability to crank out a low batting average and pile up whiffs.
But, he's substantially better on defense and would immediately improve the overall defensive capability of the Giants outfield.
Additionally, Upton's 27 -- not 34 like Beltran. For a team so heavily weighted with veterans like the Giants, there's certainly nothing wrong with acquiring a young bat.
Especially if that bat is under control for more than just this year, as Upton is -- Beltran, on the other hand, would be a free agent following the 2011 season which might mean the Giants giving up a prospect in vain for a guy like Beltran.
Upton would give them a building block for the future and, as Rosenthal writes, could become "energized" playing for the World-Series champ and getting involved in a playoff race.
There are some issues, however. (There always are, duh.)
Mainly the Rays are a really good team when it comes to trades -- making a deal with them is tougher (from a "let's rip them off" perspective) and they're all but certain to demand a prospect in return.
It's obviously easier to sacrifice a prospect if it means getting a younger bat, though.
And then there's the whole "other teams" thing -- it appears the Indians, Braves, Phillies and Rangers are all interested in pursuing Upton as well, should Beltran fall through.
The Giants, though, arguably (definitely?) need offense more than any of those teams, so don't be surprised if there's talk of them "swooping in" for Upton as well as we get closer to the trade deadline.

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Nina's voice is a voice for the ages, speaking boldly
to all who will hear and speaking soulfully for all who can understand. Her artistry, vocal and instrumental, is unique–subtle shadings of the divine in harmonic black and white. Her auditory canvases range the spectrum of human experience. That experience—at times, illuminating, private and beautiful, and at others times, damning, public and raw—apprehends the infinite possibility of human interaction filtered through a talent anguished by the hard realities of an imperfect world.
That the American Songbook has been enriched by Nina Simone goes without saying. So, too, have the lives of her many first-hand fans who knew her, who experienced her, who loved her. Having coursed her life, Nina now lives as memory, in the telling and re-telling of her powerful story by new generations of musicians and listening fans. She remains iconic, one of the rare stand-out figures, hard to categorize, her legacy broad-scoped, influential and powerful.
Some nearly eighty years after Nina's birth, I find myself daily walking in her footsteps in a most literal way—tracing the patterns of her early life where I now live in Tryon, North Carolina, her birthplace, a yet small village on the first rise of the Blue Ridge Mountains. There, among other things, I coordinate the Nina Simone Project, a grassroots memorial effort containing three elements: a scholarship, a sculpture and a music festival. www.ninasimoneproject.org
My first introduction to Nina came from my father, a classically-trained musician who had little real appreciation for most popular music. He did however have great appreciation for musical excellence, and that is what he had perceived in Nina, I suspect.
As I was then, I am, to this day, filled with emotion when hearing Nina's piano solo cover of You'll Never Walk Alone from Rodgers' and Hammerstein's popular 1945 musical Carousel. From that initial hearing, my interest in and appreciation for Nina Simone grew exponentially day by day, fueled certainly by her local connection to Tryon, but sustained by an impassioned search for understanding of how a small town North Carolina daughter came to achieve international recognition for her unique talent and her formidable contributions both to the musical arts and to civil rights activism.
Nina's meteoric rise to fame can't be separated from her unique personal history. Her career, though not the one she had anticipated, began during one of our nation's most volatile periods of civil unrest. What emerged from her and from that time was change, slow in coming, but change nonetheless, moving us ever forward and ever closer to a better day and a better world.
Nina's creative part in that shifting ideology was significant and can be read in most of her protest music. But there was in Nina, a parallel shift as well, more introspective, and perhaps universally familiar—one that also confronts each of us almost daily throughout the unrelenting progress of our own lives. It is a matter of profound, but simple recognition, that point when all things, great and small, begin finally to fall into the larger scope of human history.
For this reason, I find myself coming back time and time again to a tune some twenty years into Nina's career, Everything Must Change from the 1978 album Baltimore. Here anger is diminished. What remains, beyond a consummate artistry, is left for the listener to decide. Painful recognition, and unnerving melancholy, yes, but there is something more, too. And in that interactive space we confront the mythic, unadulterated Nina, the legendary voice illuminating what it means to be fragile, to be impermanent, which is to say, what it means to be human.
Crys Armbrust, Ph.D.
Founder & Director of the Nina Simone Project


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bringing 2 U events & happenings in and around Ipoh … & beyond…
I was ecstatic when we visited the Putrajaya Equestrian Park or Taman Ekuestrian Putrajaya (TEP) where we got to go on horse-riding. Horses are amazing animals, though they could be quite scary.
There are a total of sixty horses at this equestrian park, where 49 are owned by the park while the rest have owners who have rented stables here. Most of the horses here are suitable for riding, jumping and dressage only.
TEP offers horse riding classes: Beginner, Intermediate and Advance levels. Riding packages start from RM380 for eight lessons. Minimum age to begin riding lessons is seven years old but height is a considering factor.
Beginners' course includes horse sense, safety rules and their reasons, horse care and handling. Basics of horsemanship are mounting and dismounting, seat and hand position and also basic aids.
Having had a taste of horse-riding, it would be fun if I could take up horse-riding classes. Now, to overcome the fear of being bitten by horses…
Opening hours:
Tuesdays to Sundays: 7.45am – 11.45am & 4.15pm – 7.15pm (closed on Mondays).
Putrajaya Equestrian Park (Taman Ekuestrian Putrajaya)
Add: Precinct 5, 62200 Putrajaya, Wilayah Persekutuan Putrajaya, Malaysia.
Tel: +603-88886080
Fax: +603-88888699
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Woah… Nice… I fell like I wanna have horseback riding.. And major in dressage.. Horse discipline pretty awesome..
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Experts have been testing the assertion that the new Microsoft Surface tablet will have a sharper display than the new iPad. The result: no it won't.
Microsoft recently claimed that its Windows 8 RT-powered Surface tablet's display would appear sharper than the latest iPad's to many people. This despite the fact that the Surface display has a mere 1366×768 resolution compared to the latest iPad's mighty 2048 × 1536 Retina display.
The difference in pixel density is vast – 148ppi versus 264ppi respectively – but the Surface does have a form of technology that gave rise to these claims.
The Surface sports a ClearType display, which utilises sub-pixel rendering. This means that the little red, green and blue sub-pixels that make up a single pixel can be treated as independent image elements, rather than being bound to a rigid pixel shape. In certain cases this can make the screen appear to have up to three times its true resolution.
As with the majority of other LCD displays, the iPad's Retina display uses standard pixel rendering, so it's more limited than the Surface in this one way.
Because of this distinction, Microsoft engineer Steven Bathiche claimed that "Doing a side by side with the new iPad in a consistently lit room, we have had many people see more detail on Surface RT than on the iPad with more resolution."
However Raymond Soneira, President of DisplayMate Technologies, recently put these claims to the test – and dismissed them out of hand. According to AppleInsider, he claimed that it was "very unlikely that [the Surface] will turn out to be visually sharper than the new iPad 3."
He reached this conclusion by taking an Asus netbook that uses a similar ClearType display to the Surface, and comparing it to the iPad 2 and the iPad 3.
He found that while the screen was "significantly sharper" than the iPad 2's, it fell some way short of the new iPad's sharp display.
However, Soneira does accept the possibility that the Microsoft Surface Pro, with its 208ppi 1920×1080 ClearType display, could well outshine the latest iPad when it finally launches.


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Yokohama Bay Stars: June 7, 2010
by Gen on Jun.07, 2010 @ 4:15 pm, under NPB
6/8/2010 1:44am JST
...The Bay Stars apparently decided that they'll be adding Tasuku Hashimoto to the active roster on Tuesday.
6/7/2010 4:15pm JST
...Shuichi Murata knocked out his 38th career Inter-league home run yesterday. That broke him out of a three-way first place tie on the All-time list with Alex Ramirez and Takeshi Yamasaki.
The homer came in the 5th inning off Masaru Takeda (HAM).
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text: BUSINESS Spiralfrog takes first leap in U.S. 5:00 AM PDT 9/18/2007 by Antony Bruno, Billboard , AP FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Empty DENVER -- After months of delays, executive upheaval and more than $10 million spent, the Spiralfrog ad-supported free digital music service went live today in the U.S. The U.S. launch is an important step in determining whether offering free music in return for watching advertising is a viable business model for the still-struggling digital music space.The service operates much like any other music subscription service in that users can search, sample and download an unlimited number of songs, but are required to register with the site once a month -- free of charge -- to refresh their licenses. The idea is to lure users of free, pirate peer-to-peer networks to a free, authorized service, and make money through ads on the site.But major questions remain over whether Spiralfrog, or other ad-based services for that matter, can attract enough regular users to generate revenue needed to pay for its music licensing costs.The company outlined its strategy to address this issue in a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filing last week. The document details a unique licensing scheme that focuses on royalty payments paid upfront, in addition to a split of advertising revenue.For instance, Spiralfrog paid Universal Music Group -- the only major label supporting the service to date -- an upfront fee of $2.2 million for its catalog. Additional payments will be due after Nov. 15.This model means Spiralfrog is not paying a per- download or per-stream fee, like other services must -- a critical distinction. If it had to pay labels per song, ad-supported services would run out of money long before they could generate enough traffic to justify raising advertising rates to the level needed to cover the licensing fee. That©ˆs why Napster stopped hosting its free, ad-supported service tier on its main site and instead hides it in a non-linked page -- it was starting to cost too much."It's a bit of a Catch-22," Napster COO Christopher Allen says."You scale the audience to where you can generate the advertising (rates), but have a difficult time paying the financial obligations. But until you get to that scale, you can't charge the (rates)."During the private beta, Spiralfrog says the average user downloaded 16 songs and viewed 15 pages on the service per day. It has 700,000 songs and 1,500 videos available. According to the SEC filing, Spiralfrog hopes to finalize licensing deals with at least two other major labels and launch service in the United Kingdom by the end of the year. A mobile service is also in the works.At launch, Spiralfrog is in a precarious financial position. It has generated only $3,000 in advertising revenue as of the end of June through its beta phase and Canadian live launch in May, and has less than $1 million in cash on hand. The company says it needs another $18 million in funding for the next year or won't survive, and will initiate a $25 million private placement funding round for the fourth quarter to sustain operations. FACEBOOK TWITTER EMAIL ME Antony Bruno, Billboard firstname.lastname@example.com @thr AP firstname.lastname@example.com @thr


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Saturday, November 19, 2011
The Good News
(Open Window by Henri Matisse, 1869-1954,
French printmaker, painter, and sculptor)
"And when we come to think of it, goodness is uneventful. It does not flash, it glows. It is deep, quiet, and very simple. It passes not with oratory, it is commonly foreign to riches, nor does it often sit in the places of the mighty: but may be felt in the touch of a friendly hand or the look of a kindly eye." ~ Ray Stannard Baker (1870-1946), American journalist and writer
They don't publish
the good news.
The good news is published
by us.
We have a special edition every moment,
and we need you to read it.
The good news is that you are alive,
and the linden tree is still there,
standing firm in the harsh winter.
The good news is that you have wonderful eyes
to touch the blue sky.
The good news is that your child is there before you,
and your arms are available:
hugging is possible.
They only print what is wrong.
Look at each of our special editions.
We always offer the things that are not wrong.
We want you to benefit from them
and help protect them.
The dandelion is there by the sidewalk,
smiling its wondrous smile,
singing the song of eternity.
Listen! You have ears that can hear it.
Bow your head.
Listen to it.
Leave behind the world of sorrow
and preoccupation
and get free.
The latest good news
is that you can do it.
~ Thích Nhat Hanh, born 1926, Vietnamese Buddhist monk
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That is beautiful, I love that poem. I just found this blog and I want to subscribe now.
- November 19, 2011 at 6:50 PM
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Oh my gosh, I love this poem, Maria. I need to save it. Thank you for your terrific pairings of art and word.
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Live action snapchat dog.
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Peter Wilson is a Senior WordPress Engineer at Human Made and contributor to WordPress core. Peter has worked on the web for twenty years on everything from table based layouts in the 90s to enterprise grade CMS development. Peter's a big fan of musical theater and often encourages his WordPress community colleagues to join him for a show or two in New York or in the West End. View more posts


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Strange Days
Mr Practical
The dollar is the new yen, from which investors are still cutting their losses.
Not much has changed since we last spoke. I'm just sitting tight vacationing in the US with my assets in dollars. Everyone is negative on the dollar, for good reason, but that fact alone could, and I think will, propel the dollar higher at some point in nasty fashion.
Just look what happened to the yen. Everyone was negative on it for the same reasons and everyone was borrowing in yen to buy risky assets. Of course they took huge currency risk in doing so and thus paid the price. They're still counting their losses.
So now, in my opinion, it's the dollar's turn.
Speculators are borrowing dollars (short) to buy risky assets and loving it right now. Everyone thinks the Federal Reserve is going to keep printing and printing until the dollar goes to zero. The problem with that is the Fed right now can't print enough, that is to say, it can't create enough credit. It's trying as hard as it can, believe me, for that is what it does, but without a fractional banking system willing to lend, it's impotent.
One way the Fed can print money/extend credit could be in a very devious way.
Many are marveled at the boom in stocks, given really rotten fundamentals. Of course, so far it's been a function of a lower dollar and there's a way to "reflate" with those printed dollars that normal conduits won't allow.
What if the government/Fed realized the most efficient way right now to "print" dollars and "reflate" the economy was to get stock prices up? What better way to do that than print dollars to buy stocks?
There's ancillary evidence that stocks are acting "artificial". Stocks aren't only climbing a wall of worry, they're scaling the Mt. Everest of bad fundamentals. Tick data is extreme, especially when the stock market is down. We constantly see 1000+ tick prints when stocks are down; this is very strange indeed. Volumes are down at least 20% from normal levels (and much more if you discount for high-frequency trading), making it easier to get stocks up.
Under TARP, the fine print allows dealers to REPO stocks to the Fed as collateral (holy cow is right).
What if there were an arrangement where large dealers buy stocks and stock futures through the day and REPO them to the Fed at the high closing prices? The dealer would book the profits derived from the difference at no risk.
If you look at the trading patterns of the largest dealers, one in particular lost money trading in only one day last quarter. Statistically that's like finding a needle at the bottom of the ocean.
Of course no one knows for sure because no one is allowed to see what's on the Fed's balance sheet. But more and more of us are suspecting it's not just the normal junk people talk about.
There was a good editorial in the Wall Street Journal describing the government's and the Fed's involvement in the financial ponzi scheme that has accumulated over the years. I believe it disingenuous for the government to persist in covering up its complicity by doing more of the same. They seem intent on bankrupting the country instead of steering clear of gobbledygook economics.
This won't work in the long run and only serves to increase risk.
Risk is very high.
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Photos show 'person of interest' in Los Angeles fires
The Los Angeles Police Department asked for the public's help Sunday in identifying a "person of interest" in the series of fires in the Hollywood area.
The still images taken from a video show an older white male with a receding hairline and shoulder-length ponytail. He is wearing a black jacket and black pants. His image was caught on a video that showed a car fire Saturday night inside the parking structure of the Hollywood & Highland Center on Hollywood Boulevard.
The LAPD asks residents to leave porch and carport lights on at night and make sure cars are locked. Authorities also ask residents to immediately report anything suspicious by calling 911. Officials said Sunday that they have connected at least 39 fires, the first of which started early Friday morning in Hollywood. Most of the fires have occurred in the Hollywood and West Hollywood areas. Early Saturday, nearly a dozen fires broke out in the northeast San Fernando Valley.
Los Angeles arson fires char holiday spirit
Ruin, wreckage at Jim Morrison's former home
-- Andrew Blankstein
Photo: Images taken from a videotape show a "person of interest" in the recent fires. He is on the right in the top photo and is wearing black pants and a black jacket. KTLA News


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Of cecropias, snarks and boojums
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Sheil, D., Padmanaba, M. 2011. Of cecropias, snarks and boojums . Plant Ecology & Diversity ISSN: 1755-0874.
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We reply to Webber et al. (2011). Our study, Sheil and Padmanaba (2011), was a preliminary assessment of the alien Neotropical tree Cecropia around Bogor, West Java, Indonesia. We highlighted the need for low-cost assessment approaches for addressing alien species and considered what might be achieved by local actors with limited resources. We successfully characterised the local distribution of Cecropia and identified, addressed and illustrated various concerns. Based on these results we asked how such studies might be useful and how they could be improved. Webber et al. criticise our study but fail to engage with its goals. Certainly, low-input local approaches lack the sophistication and rigour of larger international efforts, but such comparisons are unhelpful. Aside from a number of misunderstandings, we find Webber et al.'s principal arguments overstated, and unsupported by published information. The evidence that Cecropia causes harm is unconvincing; species-level identification is overemphasised; and the insistence on completing detailed research before considering management options is problematic. We offer some positive conclusions and repeat our plea for the development of effective low-input methods for evaluating and addressing naturalised organisms.
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please contact Ms. Joyce LoBue
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Our Facilities
Our physical space consists of an entire wing of Hale Hall with two floors. There is a centralized chair's office with an administrative assistant office as you enter our department, a mailroom and a conference room right after the Memorial Gallery.
Our beautiful facilities also include four computer labs, two traditional design studios, one technically enhanced mixed use design studio, two drawing/painting studios, one photography studio, sixteen faculty/staff offices, a chair's office, a large shared adjunct office, several storage rooms, two model changing rooms, and a student resource room. In addition there is a lecture room used for many of our art history classes in addition to other spaces throughout the campus. Hale Hall was completely renovated in 2009 and is now one of the premier buildings on the Farmingdale State College campus.


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Canadian freestyle skier JP Auclair takes his awesome stunts to the streets of Trail, Rossland, and Nelson, BC, for some urban skiing. This edit is part of a ski movie 'All.I.Can'.
You can watch a shorter version or check out the full segment, courtesy of Sherpas Cinema:
JP Auclair Street Segment (from All.I.Can.) from Sherpas Cinema on Vimeo.
Full movie is available on iTunes.


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A Thousand Words
Photo taken by Anonymous 24, in Honolulu, Hawaii. She will be receiving her BA in art history and computer science in 2013, after walking away from being a studio arts major. Her … Continue reading
Moving Free
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Sweet Slumber
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Nobody's Perfect
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Photo taken by Rainey, who suffers from depression. About this photo: I often stare into my own eyes, looking for the depression that I feel deep in my soul. It seems … Continue reading
The Streaking Hare
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Not to Full Capacity
Photo taken by Jill, 38, from Boston. I took these within an hour of returning home from my first hospitalization. I wanted to document how I looked, whether I would … Continue reading
Who I Am
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Fighting Insecurities
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Masquerade; Self
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Dancing in the Forrest
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Look At Me Now
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text: Take a virtual tour through the latest projects by Perkins+Will, one of the world's most influential architecture firms. Check out a former high school in Dallas that's now one of the firm's 24 offices. Or poke around Citizen's Tower, a brilliantly renovated workplace. Explore beautiful 360-degree panoramic imagery without a VR headset, or insert your phone into any standard viewer for an immersive experience. Project stats and info take you behind the scenes. Watch for new projects and tours added regularly.


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Fred Thompson's trip to South Carolina
From Newsweek/MSNBC:
June 28, 2007 – Fred Thompson isn't officially a candidate for president, but he might as well be. The pomp and circumstance accompanying his highly publicized visit to South Carolina on Wednesday—home of the "first-in-the-South†presidential primary—followed just the script you'd expect from a onetime Hollywood actor turned White House hopeful.
Reporters looking for the Clarion Hotel where Thompson was set to speak at a $50-a- head luncheon didn't have to look hard. His soon-to-be GOP rivals had blanketed nearly every vacant corner near the hotel with their own campaign signs—as though warning Thompson that he was walking into a fight. Across the street from the hotel's entrance, there were 33 John McCain signs alone, ranging in size from small to gigantic. The reminders of his rivals weren't limited to real estate. Every few minutes, a Ron Paul supporter drove by, with signs touting the Texas congressman's campaign taped to each side of his car.
Here's a news report on Thompson's South Carolina visit:
The non-outsider.
Thompson's speech was littered with his trademark down-home talk. He said he didn't buy talk from President Bush and other immigration reformers that the current bill will crack down on border security. "The dog isn't eating the dog food,†he said. The audience ate it up.
His down-home talk is sure to sell in the south, but will it sell in the north? Thompson has an upcoming trip to New Hampshire where it will be interesting to see what kind of reception he gets.
Will New Hampshire apply the FredOn?
At least he's got Bruce Willis' blessing.


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The virtual world of minecraft brought into the physical world. You can make your own world add in characters, objects - in fact anything! If you can imagine it, you can probably 3D print it.
We used a Hephestos Prusa i3 Kit to print our Minecraft with 1.75mm Green PLA.
Nozel Temperature: 220°C
Print Time: 300 mins
Filament required: 50 metres of Green PLA.
Cost of material used: £3.84


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As my own photography continues to develop, I'm noticing that the portfolio as a whole is becoming more important than the sum of its parts.
I find these days, that my edits are not done on an image by image basis, but instead with more thought about how an image may sit alongside its partners in the collection. I find that although I edit each image on an individual basis and apply what I feel is relevant for its own benefit, I also do a second stage edit whereby I try to find the image's place within the portfolio. This may for instance require me to tune the colour palette of an image to fit more in-line with its brothers, or it may require me to weed out images that don't fit because they don't share an 'aesthetic consistency'.
Aesthetic consistency is perhaps another way of saying 'style'. I'm never too sure what style actually is: is it just a way of saying that images conform to a set of rules, or is it a way of saying that images fit what we know or have come to expect from a photographer? I really don't know. But I do know what I like and I tend to gravitate to those images that I find aesthetically pleasing.
In the collection you see above, I think there is a theme at play. Not just in subject matter, but also in form and tone. On the one hand you may say the images are related by the black sand beaches, or the white ice (which is deliberately on the blue/cool side). You may however say the images are related by the use of strong diagonals throughout most of the pictures, or you may say they are related due to the same aspect ratio (shot in portrait mode). One may say they are related because they are from the same photographer, and as such, show his own style.
Either way, images have to be strong on their own, but it's also of great benefit if they can strengthen the portfolio as a whole. Your work has to represent you as a photographer, so only showing your best work, and presenting it in the strongest way is of vital importance.
I never underestimate the importance of this. Quality control is vitally important in conveying who and what you are. By showing your best work and presenting it well (in the form of a strong portfolio) should never be underestimated. That's why I'm always striving for a sense of 'aesthetic consistency' in what I do.


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When asked what you look for in a significant other or friend, your typical response would probably be some long or short list of generally positive characteristics, and perhaps a few physical attributes as well. However, when comparing the importance of physical appearance against personality, personality will win out every time. According to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, there are sixteen different personality types. The sections below focus on one particular type, referred to as "ISTP", which describes individuals who are introverted, rely on senses, put emphasis on thinking, and are highly perceptive. Read on to learn more about the personality and relationships of ISTP types.
If you're interested in finding out more about the various aspects of personality, check out this course on the secrets of personality!
Personality of the ISTP Type
The personality of ISTP types revolves around a calm and laid-back disposition. However, despite this, ISTPs usually have an underlying energetic component that allows them to become overly excited about ideas and use their high levels of creativity to invent unique solutions to everyday dilemmas. On the exterior, they remain very rational, assessing people and situations from a logical perspective and often veering away from emotional reaction. Their personality can seem very contrasting at times, but, upon getting to know the ISTP, the opposing traits will begin to make more sense.
ISTPs remain relatively private in their thoughts and opinions, greatly preferring friends and partners that do not seek out philosophical discussions. The sense of humor of an ISTP is unmatched and they frequently put it to work to dilute tense or awkward situations. Despite their reserved tendencies, ISTPs do not typically seek out or care much about maintaining a substantial amount of personal space when it comes to discussing projects that they are currently working on and activities that demand their attention.
What are the Advantages of Dating an ISTP Type?
Pursuing a romantic connection with an ISTP type can bring about long lasting happiness and joy due to the vide variety of attributes that this type will bring into the relationship. A few of these positive traits include:
- Optimism and energy. The upbeat nature of the ISTP is sure to lift even the worst of moods and add a touch of light to every situation. Always on the go and looking for something to get excited about, the ISTP is able to make every experience one to remember.
- Calm and laid-back. A key attribute of the ISTP is the ability to keep a clear head even in crisis situations. The ISTP remains calm at all times, even when those around the individual are panicking. Also, because of this rationality, the ISTP is often slow to anger.
- Creativity and practicality. The ISTP is always coming up with new and improved methods of finding solutions to problems, often approaching the situation in a way that no one else has. They enjoy tinkering with mechanics and examining the inner workings of machines.
- Able to prioritize. ISTP types can easily assess the most important matters in their lives and often put them first, pushing aside insignificant issues to make room. If a relationship becomes vastly important to the ISTP, it's likely they will place their significant other at the top of the list.
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What are the Disadvantages of Dating an ISTP Type?
Relationships can turn messy quite easily, especially if your significant other exhibits certain traits that are likely to drive a wedge between the two of you. A few characteristics that ISTP types possess that may be detrimental to the relationship include:
- Stubbornness. ISTP types have a tendency to stick to their guns when it comes to defending their morals and, because of this, may become pigheaded in arguments. They find it difficult to accept criticism or agree with perspectives that do not match up with their own.
- Risk-taking. While the boldness and confidence that typically goes along with risk taking may seem attractive, the negative side of this trait is that it often causes ISTP types to pick arguments simply for the enjoyment of determining how the other will react.
- Insensitivity. Following the ideals of logic, the ISTP often forgets that their calculating comments may come off as more inconsiderate than intended. They tend to be taken aback by the emotional reactions others offer in response to situations that the ISTP would react to in a levelheaded manner.
- Reservation in allowing others in. ISTP types prefer to keep even those closest to them at a distance, preferring the comfort of solitude and seek it out quite often. It is usually difficult to truly get to know an ISTP type and may cause potential problems throughout the relationship.
Becoming Friends With an ISTP
Building friendships often comes naturally to the ISTP, since their engagement in a wide variety of hobbies allows them access to a large pool of potential companions. They find it quite easy to come up with a list of activities to engage in with new friends and, because of this, typically become the planner in groups. Participating in physical activities, such as sports, with an ISTP is the easiest way to gain their friendship since competing with others is a favorite activity of theirs.
However, there are considerable drawbacks to befriending an ISTP type. ISTPs operate along the principals of all that they encounter being ephemeral, which may cause them to not take the friendship seriously. They tend to form rollercoaster friendships in which the relationship may be vastly fulfilling one day and devastatingly bad the next. Along with this, ISTP types often shy away from commitment, seeing such a step as equal to entrapment. Not wanting to be tied down, they often jump from friend to friend in constant search of something new and exciting.
To learn more about gaining and maintaining fulfilling friendships, check out this course on cultivating a powerful network of friends.
Having an ISTP Parent
Children of ISTP parents are often given more freedom than other children due to the very passive and permissive ISTP parenting approach. The laid-back attitude that surrounds this type manifests itself into raising children and often permits them from imposing rules and regulations for how the child is expected to behave. However, this relaxed approach sometimes functions as beneficial for the child, such as when ISTP parents encourage their children to pursue their dreams and divulge in other creative pursuits. They push their children to experience new things and explore the world around them. ISTPs tend to be especially encouraging when their children engage in the passions that the parent his or herself engages in, particularly in the field of sports or other physically active hobbies.
Unfortunately, as highly logical beings, ISTP types often have difficulty identifying with the overly emotional state that children sometimes possess and may find themselves exasperated by incessant crying about seemingly meaningless dilemmas. Children are very irrational and this inability to understand how to resolve the issue may be extremely detrimental to the child. In order to develop a full understanding of the child, ISTP parents are advised to attempt to view the situation through the child's eyes and provide immediate comfort even if the reaction the child is exhibiting still seems irrational.
Relationships, friendships, and other bonds with ISTP types can be both fulfilling and complicated. If you fall into the category of ISTP and you're interested in reading more about other types that your friends, significant other, or relatives may fall into, check out this blog post on ISFJ relationships. Once you've determined which type they belong to, check out this great course on living with differing personality styles!


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Marketing & Business Development Manager, Gatwick, £36-48K + benefits
This award winning full service legal firm is looking for a Marketing and Business Development Manager to join the business team for a 12 month maternity cover contract commmencing mid May.
The purpose of this role is to work closely with the wider MBD team, a number of dedicated partners and other lawyers, ensuring that the firms MBD campaigns are driving new prospects into the firm and/or retaining and developing existing clients. This is achieved through the active progression of Parners sales pipelines – managing relationships through the sales conversion process. A key responsibility will be to provide coaching and consultancy internally to fee-earners across the firm. Candidates should have expereince of running Marketing and Business Development campaigns that help differentiate a business from its competitors.
This is an excellent opportunity for an ambitious professional who wants to take on a contract role in an award winning and forward thinking firm.
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- Of degree calibre and/or CIM qualified
- Previous experience of working in a marketing and business development role
- Experience of working in a professional services (ideally with a law firm) environment is preferred
- Real Estate bias is preferred
- Proven experience managing external agencies and participating in MBD campaigns
- Be creative, proactive and willing to develop own technical expertise
- Confidence and previous expereince working with and influencing senior management
Along with a competetive basic salary you will receive excellent company benefits.
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Role: Lead developer, Project manager
Company: National Association of Wholesaler-Distributors, one of the nation's largest associations, representing companies amounting to almost $5 trillion in sales.
When: 2005-2008
The goal of the project was to improve the navigation and look of the website, improve efficiency on the back end, and simplify data entry to allow non-technical staff to update the website.
Specifically, I:
- planned and developed a ground-up redesign of NAW.org. Worked as project manager between a 10 person design committee and the design firm in a six-month architecture and design effort.
- designed and coded the "AEC Resource Guide" and "Ask NAW", member only information sharing applications. The AEC Resource Guide worked similarly to current LinkedIn groups, and Ask NAW was very similar to Quora
- wrote an email promotion generator to simplify and automate the creation process. Reduced the time needed from days to minutes and reduced the number of staff necessary from 3 to 1.
- replaced a desktop application for sending email newsletters to a custom PHP mailer based application. Eliminated slow network performance and configuration issues and slow workstation performance related to sending 20k+ newsletters each week from staff workstations.
- moved registration for all meetings to online forms and online payment.


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It's 2006! How the hell did that happen then huh?
-- 2006 --
14.11.06 - In God's house When it comes to church, I'm a round peg in a square hole.
31.08.06 - Tomorrow's world Why aren't all parents mad crazy environmentalists?
31.07.06 - Baby on board A car window sticker that tells us more than it says.
06.06.06 - Assalamualaikum Is our distrust of Islam born out of our ignorance of it?
04.04.06 - Bleeding heart liberal? History remembers what today has forgotten.
05.02.06 - Not exactly GQ When bubbles turn bad.
08.01.06 - Shall we play a game? Do we somehow have the need to fear an enemy?
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Today, I'd like to ask writers who have worked with editors: How has working with an editor helped you? In response to yesterday's post, Graham Walmsley asked on Twitter for people to tell him how to make his released books better, to understand what we editors do[1]. I thought about doing that at first, but


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What appeared to be the insatiable U.S. appetite for territory prompted two Latin American meetings in 1856. Santiago, Chile, was the site of the third Pan-American conference under Spanish-American auspices. The conference was called because Ecuador proposed granting the United States the right to mine guano on the Galápagos Islands, an action that disturbed Ecuador's Pacific Coast neighbors. The republics of Peru, Ecuador, and Chile sent delegations to Santiago, where they drafted plans for another confederation and agreed upon joint measures for handling "piratical" expeditions. In September 1856 the delegates signed the Continental Treaty, dealing with many aspects of international law, filibustering, and acts of exiles, as well as the usual nod in the direction of a confederation. Significantly, while all of the nations of Latin America were urged to join, including Portuguese-speaking Brazil, the United States was not invited to attend the conference or to join the confederation. But once more failure ensued. The Continental Treaty was not ratified.
Meanwhile the United States, not a European nation, appeared as the chief threat to Latin America's territorial integrity. Its acquisition of more than one-third of Mexico was followed by the presence of filibusters in the circum-Caribbean region. William Walker's filibustering expedition into Nicaragua caused the ministers of Costa Rica, Guatemala, Mexico, New Granada, Peru, El Salvador, and Venezuela assigned to Washington, D.C., to sign a treaty of alliance and confederation on 9 November 1856. The signatories pledged themselves to prevent the organizing of expeditions by political exiles against an allied government and, if an attack occurred, to provide military assistance to the aggrieved nation. Hoping to convert this arrangement into a Hispanic-American Confederation, the delegates called for a conference to convene in Lima in December 1857. As in the past, nothing materialized. The Washington agreement was not ratified, and the conference was not convened.
The fourth and last of the "old" Spanish-American conferences took place at Lima, Peru, in 1864. The weakness of many of the Latin American states and the U.S. preoccupation with its Civil War had allowed a series of European flirtations in the American hemisphere. Spain claimed the reannexation of the Dominican Republic in 1861; Spain, Great Britain, and especially France threatened, and then invaded, Mexico; and Spain occupied Peru's Chincha Islands to collect debts, under the pretext that Peru was still a Spanish colony. In response, in 1864, the Colombian government encouraged the Peruvians to invite all former Spanish colonies to a conference at Lima to take up the matter of intervention by foreign powers. In addition to Peru, states attending included Argentina, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Venezuela. The United States and Brazil were not invited, ostensibly because they were not former Spanish colonies. The Lima Congress failed to negotiate with Spain for the withdrawal of its troops from the Chincha Islands, and when the delegates turned their full attention to the usual grand treaty of confederation, the failure was just as complete. Once again no nation ratified any of the agreements. The end of the American Civil War and the renewed preoccupation of Spain and France with domestic and foreign problems elsewhere account for the departure of those two nations from their Latin American adventures.
The War of the Triple Alliance (1865–1870), which pitted Paraguay against a loose league of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay, and the War of the Pacific (1879–1884), in which Chile easily mastered Bolivia and Peru, left bitter residues that in the short run meant the end of any program of Pan-Americanism led by Spanish-American republics. Although a few technical and nonpolitical conferences were held in the next few years, Pan-Americanism was discarded until the United States assumed the responsibility.
U.S. leadership marks the beginning of the "new" Pan-Americanism, dating from the 1880s until its demise in the 1930s. The "new" Pan-Americanism differed significantly from the "old." The four early conferences were dominated by the Spanish-American states and concerned themselves with problems that, while not exclusively Spanish American, seemed to threaten those states particularly. The meetings were usually provoked by the threat of outside aggression, and the solutions sought were political and military in nature. The "new" Pan-Americanism was more inclusive yet less ambitious in scope. It focused on low-profile issues, which contributed to increased conference participation and the building of Pan-Americanism into an institution of imposing size and machinery. Concomitantly, Latin Americans became increasingly vocal regarding U.S. dominance of hemispheric relations, culminating at the 1928 Havana conference.
Credit for inaugurating the series of "new" Pan-American conferences rests with James G. Blaine, who served as secretary of state in the brief (March to September 1881) administration of James A. Garfield. Blaine owed much of his genuine interest in Latin America to his admiration for Henry Clay. Both men envisioned a free-trade relationship among the countries of the Western Hemisphere. While U.S.–Latin American trade was nearly immeasurable during Monroe's presidency in the 1820s, by the 1880s the United States faced a healthy unfavorable trade balance caused by its large purchases of Latin America's raw materials and the small sales of manufactured goods to the area in return.
In addition to trade issues, Blaine confronted several ongoing disputes. The worst of these was the War of the Pacific, in which Bolivia had been decisively defeated by Chile, whose troops were occupying Lima, Peru. The Chileans gave every indication of making vast territorial acquisitions at Bolivia's and Peru's expense. In addition, several boundary disputes threatened the stability of Latin America and provoked Blaine into assuming the unpopular role of peacemaker. Blaine's intentions were better than either his methods or his agents, and he incurred significant displeasure from Latin Americans during his brief first term in office. Following Garfield's death, Blaine resigned the secretaryship. Before leaving the State Department, however, he promoted a call for the first International Conference of American States, to be held in Washington, D.C. Blaine's successors, Frederick T. Freylinghuysen and Thomas F. Bayard, had little interest in Latin American affairs. Freylinghuysen withdrew Blaine's invitation for an Inter-American conference in Washington.
The movement was renewed a few years later by the U.S. Congress, when it sponsored a survey of Latin America's economic conditions. With a more friendly atmosphere, the First International Conference convened in 1889, when the secretary of state was again James G. Blaine. All of the American states except the Dominican Republic (its absence was due to U.S. failure to ratify a trade treaty with its Caribbean neighbor) sent delegations of high caliber. With some opposition Blaine was chosen chairman of the sessions, a post in which he demonstrated considerable tact and skill.
In the midst of its industrial revolution, the United States anticipated that the conference would bring economic benefits through a customs union. Toward that end, the Latin American delegates were entertained lavishly and given an impressive and fatiguing six thousand mile railroad tour through the industrial heart of the nation. Understanding the U.S. intention, the Latin American delegates, led by the Argentines, failed to accept Blaine's proposed customs union. As producers of raw materials, the Latin Americans preferred open markets. Opposition also came from some U.S. congressmen, particularly those from the nation's agricultural sectors. Instead, a program of separate reciprocal trade treaties was recommended; a few were instituted, decades ahead of the Good Neighbor program of the 1930s. On the political front, an ambitious arbitration treaty was watered down in conference, nullified by a minority of delegations, and ratified by no one.
The most notable achievement of the Washington conference was the establishment of the International Union of American Republics for the collection and distribution of commercial information. The agency to execute this command was the Commercial Bureau of the American Republics, supervised by the U.S. secretary of state in Washington, D.C. This bureau met regularly and, expanding in both size and functions, became a useful agency to the American states, though a far cry from the Pan-Americanism of Bolívar's day. The date of the union's establishment, 14 April 1890, became known as Pan-American Day.
Although the delegates to the First International Conference had not scheduled any future meetings, they left Washington with the clear intention of so doing. Nothing happened until 1899, when President William McKinley suggested another conclave. Only then did the Commercial Bureau act. It selected Mexico City as the site for the second conference and handled the drafting of agenda and invitations.


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White Flag? – An examination of the UK's defence capability. Michael Ashcroft & Isabel Oakeshott from Biteback Publishing.
This is a very timely book, says reviewer Nick Watts. Whitehall is in the midst of the latest iteration of a recurring debate: How big a military does the UK need, and what is it for? This book delves into this question. In 1962 Dean Acheson, former US Secretary of State in the Truman era, remarked that Britain had lost an empire and not yet found a role. The resolution of this continuing dilemma affects the UK's armed forces, and the roles they might be expected to undertake, as Global Britain seeks to redefine itself.


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Latest update from End of the Road
WOW! Early Birds are now SOLD OUT! Thank you so much for snapping up your Early Bird tickets for #EOTR2020. Tier 2, including our deposit scheme, is on sale now: https://buff.ly/2UprmkO
📸 Burak Cingi
End Of The Road Festival
3 days ago
🌱 While we're busy making exciting plans for 2020, have a look around our 2019 picture gallery. What was your highlight of #EOTR19?
🌱 A big thank you to our tireless and talented photographers Countessian Photography, Chris Juarez, Burak Cingi, Sharon Lopez and Anna Yorke for capturing all the magic.
🌱Browse the gallery here: buff.ly/352v8oE ...
Murder Capital
Yep, Murder Capital followed by Squid's tipi set
Courtney on the Woods Stage, Parquet Courts on the Garden Stage, the Beths in the tipi, Fontaines in the Big Top and Peach Pyramid on the piano stage. Fantastic!!
Low, Kokoko! and Seazoo for me I think.
Lewsberg were cool.
And Babe Rainbow.
Lewsberg 😎
And Du Blonde!
Jarvis, cate le bon, baxter dury, Lisa o'neil and squid in the Tipi
Low! Amazingly beautiful gig!
Low were a High.
Beths, Fontaines DC, Pigsx7
Baxter Dury was a revelation
1 week ago
🌱 The Woods Stage looking resplendent at this year's festival, captured by Countessian Photography. We know it's a way off yet - 300 days to be exact - but tickets for #EOTR2020 are on sale at Tier 2 prices now at buff.ly/2JPCi9Y, if you so happen to fancy it. ...
2 weeks ago
🌱 Throwback to Kelly Lee Owens' spellbinding set at End Of The Road 2019, shot by Sharon Lopez. ...
my favourite set of the festival
Great gig,. Excellent album too
🌲 With the dust truly settled on this year's exceptional End Of The Road, we're delighted to reveal the details of our Christmas Party which this year, takes place at the MOTH CLUB on Wednesday 4th December.
🌲 Fresh off their thrilling set at #EOTR2019 Black Country, New Road are the headliners on the night, supported by surrealist psych-artpop agent Jerkcurb and country-tinged songwriter Katy J Pearson as well as Loud and Quiet Magazine on DJ duties all evening. It's going to be wonderful.
Tickets on sale now:
Music Glue: bit.ly/2Jtwz6X
DICE: bit.ly/2pk4Ajo ...
Katie Lenton
🌱 We handed the ever-brilliant courtney barnett the keys to our Spotify ahead of #EOTR2019, and she dealt up a perfect EOTR-tinged playlist. Re-visit it at buff.ly/3669P70
📸 Anna Yorke ...
Nice... Not sure how I missed that the first time round..


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NOUN clarifies N20,000 fee for remarking students scripts
The management of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has reacted to allegations of extortion against the institution based on a ₦20,000 fee charged for remarking students' examination scripts.
PREMIUM TIMES reported how students accused the school of extortion after the institution announced a N20,000 fee per course to remark examination scripts.
Based on the announcement on its website, the school plans to set up a three-member committee to re-mark the scripts after receiving the payment. Efforts by PREMIUM TIMES to seek clarification on what the payment was for, from the university, were unsuccessful as all telephone numbers provided on the school's portal did not go through and emails sent to the university were also not replied for a week.
In a statement sent to this newspaper on Wednesday, the Director of Media and Publicity of the institution, Ibrahim Sheme, stated the reason for the charges.
"I would like to clarify that NOUN does not charge any unnecessary fees or fancies extorting money from students."
"What obtains in the case raised by you is that when results of examinations are approved and released by the university, any student who feels that he or she ought to have scored higher grades may decide to apply to the university for the remarking of such courses."
"The procedure is that such papers will be forwarded to other experts in another university, who are paid together with courier service from the fee the affected student pays for the remarking that he or she has asked for."
He also noted that it is an opportunity for fair hearing afforded the affected student rather than any attempt at extortion.
"NOUN does not withhold the results of students in order to ask them to pay for marking their scripts. Any delay in releasing results may have been caused by a minor hitch in procedure, but the said fee affects only the student who files an appeal for remarking with the hope that he or she will score a higher grade," Mr Sheme wrote.Click Here to Join Newsnow Nigeria WhatsApp Group for Breaking News Alerts More News
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