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We're two weeks into the new season of Mad Men and already we've witnessed the event that may signify the ultimate spiritual and mental collapse of series lynchpin Don Draper.
No, I'm not talking about his post-Christmas party tryst with Allison, his loyal secretary (loyal to a fault, it would seem), though that certainly did set many tongues a-wagging among those fortunate enough to list "watching TV" in their job description. Certainly it was low ebb for Don, who in the past had at least managed to tastefully confine his dalliances to other men's wives and his kids' teacher. Indeed, many would consider his awkward handing over of Allison's Christmas "bonus" lower still.
Then again, this is 1964. Who couldn't use a hundred bucks?
No, the incident to which I refer occurred all the way back in the first episode, when Don displayed an affection for prostitutes (again, not exactly shocking for the era...or the profession), specifically those of the slapping variety.
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Now I'm sure series creator Matthew Weiner -- when he's not bitching at January Jones to put on some weight -- intended this act of masochism to represent Don's accelerating slide into despair and existential crisis; that the man who proved so adept at manufacturing and living a false identity (at least until he left his super secret documents in his DESK AT HOME) would begin to unravel when he lost one of the only things giving him a sense of self: his family.
Yeah. Look, I hate to tell Mr. Weiner his business, especially when it's been working so well so far, but the psychological underpinnings of Don's childhood have never been all that compelling (his mother was a prostitute and now he works in advertising...do I have to draw you a diagram?). At the very least, they paled next to those of the real weirdos, like Pete Campbell and Bert Cooper. But we always liked Don for representing that bygone era when lunch consisted of four martinis and desert was a half a pack of Luckies.
That Don and the rest of the crew at Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce Waterhouse represent a bygone masculine age (well, maybe not that dork Harry Crane) has been remarked upon ad nauseum since the show began. Men of my generation cluck our tongues at such blatant insensitivity. We recognize the pitfalls of romanticizing an era when philandering was winked at, alcoholism was a job requirement, and the Voting Rights Act was still a year away.
But there's always a part of us that wonders: what's it like to never change a diaper?
Which is why Don's...well, let's not call it a "fall from grace" so much as his abdicating Milton's diabolical throne...is so upsetting. I wouldn't say we were mad that he's as prone to vanilla fetishism as the next pizza-faced loser with mommy issues. Just disappointed.
We really should have seen the warning signs last season during Don's extended California fandango, a sequence about as out of place as banjo solo at a Mayhem show. In the end, it accomplished two things: robbing Christina Hendricks of valuable screen time, and increasing our dread that the show is about to drift into Battlestar Galactica levels of metaphysical wankery.
I'm now taking bets on when Don's suicide attempt will take place. My guess: on or right before the season finale. Probably following the blockbuster Advertising Age story about his "Dick Whitman" past.
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I recently got an ps3 from my brother because the laser went out so i bought another laser and replaced it 2 weeks ago. Then during the beginning of demon souls yesterday the tutorial boss didnt appear but his level gauge did. So i restarted my ps3 and it stop reading all discs again!!! Can the system cause the laser to mess up or something? i have a 40gb non bc ps3.
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I've had this problem for a long time, here is the basics of it... I use a mixed environment of Windows 7/8 computers with Mac OSX Lion/Mountain Lion. Whenever a Windows computer creates a file on a SMB share on the Mac it no longer has group permissions, only the person who created or updated it can access it. My solution has been to go onto the Mac system and reset permissions for the entire directory structure then everyone can see it again.
About the only thing on this that I can find was for OSX pre Snow Leopard that mentioned editing the SMB.CONF file to fix their particular problem (similar to mine, http://www.gladsheim.com/blog/2009/09/19/osx-leopard-and-samba-permissions/). The problem is that now Lion and Mountion Lion no longer have an SMB.CONF file (another web search pointed to the com.apple.smbd.plist (http://kidsreturn.org/?s=smb.conf) but it's an XML file now and I'm not clear on what should be done to THAT to fix the problem.
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HOW IT WORKS; If You Behave Yourself, I'll Print You a Toy
By PETER WAYNER
Published: May 29, 2003
VIEWED through the fantastic lens of science fiction, three-dimensional printers seem as amazing as the transporters in ''Star Trek.'' In goes a digital idea of a thing and out comes the thing itself.
In practice, three-dimensional printing is fairly mundane. Many such machines use a computer-controlled stream of a chemical or laser light to bind a powdery material, layer by layer, into an object. Just as a modern printer uses billions of tiny dots to produce images, three-dimensional printers arrange billions of tiny flecks of plastic or metal to produce objects. Computers ensure that the billions of bits end up in the right place, a process that can take several hours or even a day.
The machines are very expensive, costing tens of thousands of dollars or more, and are used by industrial designers or engineers to make prototypes of parts or other objects.
But some companies are considering the possibility of producing a lower-priced version that could eventually find its way into homes. Then, for example, a grandmother could e-mail a toy to her grandchild by sending a software file, or the angler in the family could prepare for a day of fishing by printing out a few lures, optimized for the season and the weather.
Kevin McAlea, the senior vice president for worldwide revenue generation at 3D Systems, a printer manufacturer based in Valencia, Calif., said that mass production could lower the price of the machines, but that no one knew whether there would be a market.
''Will this just be an adjunct to the engineering plotter business, or a significant addition to the general office or the home?'' he said.
Whether there is a market for a home three-dimensional printer depends in part on improvements in the technology. Mike Rufo, president of Design Prototyping Technologies in Syracuse, uses the machines to make objects for his clients before undertaking the manufacturing process. The reliability of the machines is rapidly improving, but they're not ready for homes, he said.
''They're not nearly as maintenance-free as a laser printer, but they're much better than they ever were,'' Mr. Rufo said. ''Five years ago, you had to have a service tech on call all of the time.''
There are many competing approaches using combinations of plastics, paper, metal and glue that are sprayed, melted, cut, dissolved, precipitated and catalyzed by chemicals, heat and light. The machines from the Z Corporation, a small company in Burlington, Mass., for example, spread a thin layer of powder that is bound into the right shape by a liquid that is sprayed from an ink-jet print head adapted from a Hewlett-Packard design. The machines repeat this process to build up the object.
For powder, the Z Corporation uses starch or plaster. ''A lot of our materials are food-grade,'' said Marina Hatsopoulos, the company president, ''but they aren't very tasty.''
Other companies use metal or plastic powder. 3D Systems uses a laser to bind the metal or plastic by heat. The company also makes stereolithography machines, which aim ultraviolet lasers at a vat of polymer fragments. The light catalyzes the reaction linking the molecules, allowing the laser to draw the object, layer by layer.
In another approach, plastic or solder is sprayed from a small nozzle, building up the model layer by layer.
All of these machines work -- to use the business's term -- positively, meaning they build up the model by adding to it. A different class of machines works negatively, guiding a milling machine to cut the model from a block of raw plastic, wax or metal. Generally, positive solutions can build more complicated models with parts embedded inside other parts.
Ms. Hatsopoulos explained that the starch in her company's machines keeps the inner parts separate. ''We can do a ball in a ball in a ball,'' she said. ''We've got really cool ball bearings.''
In other approaches, interlocking parts are built with two different materials. The machines from Stratasys, a company based in Eden Prairie, Minn., for instance, build supports from a water-soluble material that can be washed away after the object is finished.
The quality of the finished object varies. The Z Corporation machines, for instance, deliver a rougher, sandy surface at a relatively low price. The print heads can also color the material, producing objects with intricate patterns on the surface. Tools that rely on lasers usually offer more precision and a smoother surface at a price that may be several times greater.
Designers often use the lower-grade machines for testing, but turn to high-precision equipment for the final run.
Tim Reher, the president of Print3d.com, a model-making shop, sells models he makes with a Z Corporation printer and finishes them with wax, glue or plastic resin.
''It acts pretty much like a sponge,'' he said. ''You can take a starch part and build a flexible part by impregnating it with an elastomeric urethane.''
''I say to people, 'Tell me what you want to do,''' Mr. Reher said. ''You can make it act like a piece of plastic. You can paint it. You can snap-fit it. You can actually use the part. I've heard of pieces attached to the outside of an F-16.''
Chart/Diagram: ''Megabits (Of Powder)'' Three-dimensional printers are being used increasingly by industrial designers to create prototypes of parts and other objects rapidly. While a variety of technologies are used, many build up objects layer by layer using powder that is bound together with chemicals or laser light. 1.) An object is created on a computer using 3-D software. 2.) The file is sent to the printer. This one uses starch or plaster powder and liquid binder to create the object. 3.) The printer's feed box is filled with a supply of powder, which is transferred to the object box in thin layers by a roller. As the feed box loses powder, its bottom panel rises. Meanwhile, the bottom panel of the object box descends to accommodate the growing object. 4.) An inkjet-type print head sprays liquid binder on the powder layer in a pattern corresponding to a crosssection of the object. The process is repeated many times. 5.) After each pass, the bottom panel of the feed box rises slightly, exposing more powder to the roller . . . . . . and the bottom of the object box lowers, allowing a fresh layer of powder to be deposited. 6.) The object is built from the bottom up in layer after layer of starch or plaster. Typically, a layer is less than one hundredth of an inch thick. 7.) When the object is complete, the excess powder is vacuumed away. The size of the object is limited by the dimensions of the object box, in this case 8'' x 10'' x 8''. (Frank O'Connell/The New York Times) (Source: Z Corporation)


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Unruly protests end Albuquerque council meeting
Albuquerque Police Chief Gorden Eden, far right, was present at [auth] the City Council meeting Monday, April 7, 2014, in Albuquerque, NM. (AP Photo/Albuquerque Journal, Roberto Rosales)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque city councilors walked out of a meeting Monday night that spun out of control when dozens of people chanted demands for the police chief to be fired and the mayor to be recalled for their handling of the embattled Police Department.
With the agency under intense scrutiny over its use of force, the council was going to discuss whether the police chief's position should be one selected by the council or by voters. The meeting came two days after a fatal police shooting and weeks after a harsh U.S. Justice Department report faulting the department over excessive forces. Albuquerque police have shot nearly 40 people since 2010.
The meeting grew heated after about an hour as one man called for Police Chief Gorden Eden's arrest. The crowd then began chanting for the chief's ouster and Mayor Richard Berry's recall as they flooded the front rows of the council chamber with their signs and banners.
Some protesters held an upside-down American flag during some of the testimony before the council, the Albuquerque Journal reported.
City Council President Ken Sanchez called for order, but the chaos continued. People in the crowd shouted back at Sanchez that it was the people's meeting. He then declared the meeting adjourned and left with other councilors.
The Journal reported that some of the protesters then held their own meeting, taking over the council's seats on the dais with some also shouting into the microphone at the podium.
There were chants of "Recall Mayor Berry" and "Fire Gorden Eden."
Sanchez later said in a statement that he had to adjourn the meeting for safety concerns and plans to call a special City Council meeting on Thursday.
Police shootings in the city have led to a series of protests. In the most recent case, an Albuquerque officer shot a suspect on Saturday during a long SWAT standoff. Authorities said Armand Martin, 50, had come out of his home firing two handguns.
Police said at a news conference that Martin fired at least 11 shots from inside and outside his West Side home before a SWAT team member fired a single shot that struck his chest. Martin died at the scene.
Martin threatened his wife and two children with a gun around noon Saturday, Deputy Chief Eric Garcia had told reporters.
The proposals dealing with the police chief's position were near the bottom of Monday's agenda, but activists critical of the department showed up early.
Some told the councilors during the early portion of the public comment session that those officers who consistently use excessive force need to be fired. Demands that Eden resign drew cheers.
Others said the city's response should not be a knee-jerk reaction but that the councilors needed to do more to confront the problems.
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edit: no you dont put sminstaller and inintrd file in linuc>c folder.. you put initrd file in linux>isolinux folder and you put sminstaller in linux folder..
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After reading all the posts in this topic i found the question i have but because i wasn`t able to find the answer i´ll ask again:
i have a softmoded xbox and i wanted a new hdd. i bought a new 120Gb maxtor hdd, i made the tutorial and made the hdd with the option "Build a new Xbox HD from scratch" with the boot disk i made with my eeprom file, my C drive files and my E drive files. Then i put it on my xbox and it worked perfectly, now i have a F: drive with 109 Gb. Then when i tried to play, the games freezes when i try to load a previously saved game. I tried for example with Forza and the disc loads but when i have to choose the profile to play, the game freezes. so i restart my xbox, and create a new profile and all works perfectly but again, if i restart my xbox and try to play with the recently created profile the game freezes when it tries to load the saved game. i have tried with other games and it happends the same thing. Anybody can help me? thx.
PD: wow, thx kingroach for all your help. this topic begans a year ago and i thought that you will not be here after that time. really, really, thx, you have help a lot of people And of course, thx to all of you that keeps this alive.
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and by the way, anybody knows why i can`t load previously saved games in my new hdd???
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i went through the xboxhdm process of rebuilding my drive using a backup eeprom that i had. i had (i think so anyway) successfully unlocked and relocked my hard drive. i had a message indicating my new master password was ´xboxscene´ (im confused on the master password thing.) i also had a message line saying that i had security enabled = yes. but...another message line showing security lock = no. so...what gives? after rebuilding the c partition (i think) successfully with xboxhdm and uxe i then relocked the drive and shutdown. i then powered up the xbox again only to see that the damn eject button was blinking red again. is this indicative of an error 16 message again? i had no monitor to see if the xbox was booting properly or not. im assuming, though, i have a problem still cos of the red blinking.
plugged the xbox into the tv. it shows error 21 now. any idea?
by the way, i have a version 1.6 box...if this makes any bit of difference.
i read the tutorial more than once and i dont recall anything about copying the e folder over. i thought the e folder was designated for games. i thought all one needed was the c folder and a few others (when using xboxhdm with uxe). anyhow, how do u manually copy individual folders over usig xboxhdm? i thought the process was automatic using respective options. maybe i missed something here. i suppose i could have done a few things wrong, but i thought i followd the tutorial pretty well and with care. and....one last thing. i thought hotswapping was different than simply rebuilding a hard drive using xboxhdm. correct me if im wrong. i sure could use kingroaches help on this one sice he does seem to be the master of the process. any ideas? still waiting eagerly.
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Now i have few questions reference to your tutorial, which is very explanative but am getting doubts at some basic points....need help
1. In step 4 you have mentioned to copy Xbox'x eeprom to linux eeprom folder, but how is this possible without even connecting to the Xbox HD?
2. Considering i hotswap my Xbox HD with my PC, how do i take backup of the C: drive as i donot have my PC HD disconnected??
3. I was going through teh Slayer's manual, it has an option to take backup of Xbox original files and saves it in C:\backup....now can i do that without hotswapping and formatting the HD?
4. will Slayer's Auto installer suffice all requirements like installing dashboard, apps etc. then is there no need for using the UDE?
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The Lightning are making a trade today. They'll be getting a player and a draft pick in return.
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The Tampa Bay Lightning on Thursday picked up left wing Drew Miller and a third-round pick in next year's draft in exchange for wing Evgeny Artyukhin.
added 4:57pm, Damain was just on The Bill Watters Show on 640am in Toronto and said the move clears up a little cap room for the Bolts. Tanguay still in the mix, although Damian has heard he has at least one offer for more money than what Tampa wants to pay.
Bolts may be offering a 1yr deal to Alex and it Damian feels it may be a good deal for him.
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And we have a 6 week old infant as well, who I put in a baby swing in the same room, enjoying the fact that he can hear his dad's voice for a good 20 minutes at a time. It is also the most clear recording of my husband's voice we have, better quality than we hear on the phone, through Skype, or in the voice recordings my children have in stuffed bears from my husband. It is truly my husband's voice filling our home. Thank you so much for having this program. We really appreciate the way we are able to stay connected with our Soldier."
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"People spend their whole lives trying to live up to other" ~Anon
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"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life Quotes: "The State of your Life is Nothing More - than a Reflection of your State of Mind" ~Wayne Dyer
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"When I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning" ~Gandhi
"Accept each part of your journey as it comes...Let each stretch of your purpose be what it needs to be." ~Lolly Daskal
"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else" ~Erma Bombeck
Life Quotes: "Most people spend more time planning their grocery shopping than designing their future. The basic difference between people who live their dreams and those who only dream about how they would live, are the accuracy of their plans, their ability to generate new ideas, and their ability to take action." ~Anon
Life Quotes: "Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world." ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"They say anything is possible, you need to dream as if you've never seen obstacles." ~Anon
"Fear is the greatest bully in the classroom of life." ~Carla Hunter
"The worst kind of lie to tell is a lie to yourself!" ~Tony Gaskins
"Let Me Not walk In The Shadow Of My Mind." ~Eleesha
"If you're competing with others & you're not playing a sport then you're automatically losing!" ~Tony Gaskins
"Be a goal digger, not a gold digger" ~Tony Gaskins
"If you refuse to listen that's cool.. Life will find a way to make you feel it instead." ~Anon
"Be a better you for....YOU!" ~Wayne Dyer
"Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second." ~William James
"You don't have to debate what you know. The truth pressed to the ground will rise again. Let life prove it." ~Anon
Parents:: "Don't worry that your children are not listening to you.. worry that they're always watching you!" ~Anon
"If you don't learn from your mistakes, there's no sense making them.. Making mistakes is part of it." ~Anon
"The difference between who you are and who you want to be is what you do... and what you have to do to get where you want to be may not be pretty or may not come easy... "~Anon
Life Quotes: "The secret of life is that I have validated my existence. I am worth more than my house, my bank account, or any physical thing." ~Santana
"Don't expect people to be interested in your vision if you're not interested in their lives." ~Anon
"Your obstacles seem really big, when your not looking at your goal! Stay focused & keep it moving... It's gonna be so worth it.. I promise!!" ~Anon
"Stand, even if you stand alone." ~Anon
"Anybody can celebrate your assignment once you've achieved it but it's a blessing to have people that believed in it when it was just a dream." ~Anon
"Don't miss today's opportunities worrying about tomorrow's problems." ~Anon
"There was a time that you were just like them....lost, confused, hurting, hopeless and clueless so reach back & help them." ~Anon
"Every second wasted worrying about the problem is valuable time that could be used to work on the solution. Don't worry... WORK!" ~Anon
"What's your purpose? Why are you here? Are you a giver or a taker? Are you making a difference in life?" ~Anon
"The truth only steps on our toes when we are walking out of line." ~Anon
"Thinking of all I'VE LOST makes me proud of all I'VE GAINED! Never judge a person without knowing both side of their story!" ~Anon
"NO is still AN OPTION! .........Try it!" ~Anon
"You must sacrifice the OLD you.... And DEMAND respect for the NEW YOU. Or they will always devalue you treat, and look at you the SAME.." ~Anon
"When the mindset of the hearer is set by anger or bitterness, everything that is said will be perceived as negative, regardless of your heart." ~Anon
Life Quotes: "There are 6,775,235,841 people in the world. Why are you letting one of them ruin your life?" ~Anon
"Never try to be PHILOSOPHICALLY DEEP if you're not INTELLECTUALLY STRONG!" ~Anon
"Unfortunately sometimes the truth makes everything else a lie" ~Anon
"Don't expect perfection from others if they cannot expect the same from you." ~Anon
"Be kind to yourself & embrace the process. You can only learn by doing." ~Anon
"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, but don't let them win."" ~Stephen King
"Amazing, unbelievably good things happen when you follow your gut, your truth, your passion, your heart." ~Anon
"Pressure will cause you to operate in someone else's assignment. That's a dangerous place to be in." ~Anon
Life Quotes: "Be careful that you don't go from expecting in life to simply accepting life." ~Anon
"We don't want to tell anyone our problems so that we don't spoil the perfect image they have of us, but we forget that images are not real." ~Anon
"Ignorant people don't know they're stupid!" ~Anon
"Being realistic is the most commonly traveled road to mediocrity." ~Will Smith
Life Quotes: "To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all." ~Wilde, Oscar
Life Quotes: "Right now someone less qualified than you is living YOUR dream all because they weren't afraid to step out by faith." ~Anon
"Figure Out Your Purpose And Stay In Your Lane." ~Anon
"Today I Challenge YOU To...Cheat On Your FEARS. Break Up With Your DOUBTS. Get Engaged To Your FAITH & Marry Your DREAMS!" ~Anon
"You will never shine trying to sit on someone else's sun." ~Anon
"If you have a dream, don't waste your time explaining why to people. Just make it a reality." ~Anon
"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are." ~ Theodore Roosevelt
"Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star." ~Anon
"Live your dreams not your fears" ~Les Brown
"Life is so beautifully unexpected" ~Anon
"Think about the toughest situation in your life right now. Will it matter in 5 years from now? Take a deep breath & leave the details to God" ~Anon
"Don't you dare, for one more second, surround yourself with people who are not aware of the greatness that you are." ~Jo Blackwell-Preston
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I have been lurking but just wanted to say please be safe. A psycho in the town I live in last month went to the daycare where his kids were, tied up the daycare provider. He then took his kids and drove to where his girlfried worked n shot her manager and killed her then held her and her coworkers hostage and the kids. He then released them and killed himself. A wonderful, wonderful woman lost her life trying to protect her employees! The girlfriend had just gotten a protection order after a disagreement w him. Obviously it was useless in this case. But please be extremly careful getting away from your crazy man!
What you are feeling, the guilt, the hesitation, the over thinking - is all very normal. Once you get out, you will feel so much better. So will we all.
If you have even a hint that he could be violent, and it sounds like you do, please talk to your employer about this. He knows where you work. So many men go after estranged or ex wives or girlfriends at their workplace and it often does not end well. Pleases be careful. Does your mom have an alarm? Does she keep it armed? When my sister separated from her xH (she sent him packing), my parents finally installed an alarm. I heard a lot of the same things from her that I have seen from you. She is so much happier now.
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ITHACA, NY — Time lapse photography and video shot by an Ithaca College faculty member will be seen in an upcoming episode of "Fabric of the Cosmos," a four-part series for "Nova" being aired by PBS. Tom Nicholson, an associate professor of television-radio in the Roy H. Park School...
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Reductase inhibitors now in use for lowering cholesterol levels are more potent and have fewer side effects than the cholesterol-lowering agents previously available. They appear to reduce stroke, most notably in patients with prevalent coronary artery disease, which may be partly due to the effects of lowering the levels of cholesterol on the progression and plaque stability of extracranial carotid atherosclerosis or the marked reduction of incident coronary heart disease associated with treatment.Arch Intern Med. 1997;157:1305-1310
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The statewide ban on open burning, which was implemented Aug. 21, was canceled effective at noon Tuesday.
Officials with the Division of Forest Resources lifted the burning ban because of Fridays storm that dumped several inches of rain across the state.
While recent rainfall and lower temperatures have reduced the fire danger, this small amount of precipitation has not ended drought conditions the state is facing.
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Why It's Time to Open the Core Data of Banking Systems, by Inbox America
Why It's Time to Open the Core Data of Banking Systems to the not-so-big Community Bankers By Yoni Elmalem, Inbox America.
Big data should not mean big costs
How many times do you suppose that a C-level executive of community bank –struggling to maintain market share and grow its business– has daydreamed about actually having the analytic horsepower and resources to tap the muscle and might of Big Data? This could serve their obvious goals: to improve branch performance, identify developing trends that provide pivotal guidance on commercial and retail delivery strategies, keep up with customer's needs, and anticipate trends that allow proactive action before the window of opportunity has vanished.
Data analysis to gain competitive advantage
Make no mistake, the data and the technology exist, and innovative banks are already taking advantage of the valuable data gathered from their core banking system in a big way. For instance, Inbox recently met with one of the most recognizable banks on Wall Street with worldwide offices and that employs several hundred dedicated analytic programmers in their Market Research and Strategy department.
When did you want your reports: 2015 or 2016?
It's a commonly heard reply from IT managers who hate to say no to any request that could improve profitability, "I'll have to check with our core provider and find out how long it will take to get that data (and how much it might cost)....when did you want that by... 2015 or 2016?" In other words in IT dialect: "Fuggedaboutit!"
Luckily, most core banking systems provide back-up features that allow bank's IT department to extract that data. It's simple, free and usually included in your contract.
Community Banks have the right to access their own data. Anytime.
Community banks that try to capture strategic data should be confident in their right to retrieve their own proprietary datafrom their existing core banking providers (eg. SAB, Atlas, Delta, Orion, FISERV, FIS) as often as they wish.
For the very few core providers who still make it difficult for banks to access their own data, Inbox suggests to write it clearly in the contract when renewing your existing core or shopping for a new system. Remember, it's your data! It does not have to be so hard to get them in the desired format that is useful or most importantly, actionable.
Why not simply use the CRM we purchased 5 years ago…?
The usual answer at a lot of community banks is that "our resources were limited when we purchased our latest CRM several years ago and it doesn't really interact transparently with our core system." In many cases, the older a bank's core system, the less likely it shares data with the customer relationship management system (CRM) or has the features to do the things that have become critical to future success. Ironically, many of the banks that do have a CRM will tell you it has become jokingly referred to as their 'Can't Really Measure' system.
Most Community bankers that I have met have an incredible knack for names, birthdays, and remembering key nuggets of information about their clients. But they wished their CRM systems could incorporate these data points or manage along with their core data so that the daily sales cycle would not be impacted if a key person at the bank leaves or is unavailable.
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Luckily, Inbox is changing the field of banking analytics making the benefits of Big Data and predictive analytics available to community bankers. Inbox provides valuable cutting-edge services for community banks and its flagship service, The Reflex CVM Suite ® which provides Customer Value Management across 4 major areas:
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The expansion of Bell Helicopter Tiltrotor Assembly Center, starting next year, would fuel growth in employment and production that would see production grow to 110 helicopters by 2012 and employment at more than 1,600.
Roger Williams, director of administration for Bell Helicopter in Amarillo, told Amarillo Economic Development Corp. board members that the plant employs 622 full-time and temporary workers. Production plans for 2004 call for 10 V-22 Osprey aircraft to be built and modification work done on eight existing V-22s.
If the Pentagon's Defense Acquisition Board approves a $6.7 billion plan to rebuild the Marine Corps fleet of attack and utility helicopters, the Cobras and Yankee models of Hueys, that work would be done at the Amarillo plant.
The work on the H1 helicopters would begin in 2006, when 13 V-22s, eight modified V-22s, four AH-1Z SuperCobras, also to be known as Zulu, and six UH-1Y or Yankee utility copters would be turned out.
Production and employment would rise gradually, with a rise to 921 employees by 2006 when the modification work would peak and the H1 work would begin.
Williams' projections show a dip in employment for the next year, but that is because the projections are based on firm commitments now in hand. He said Bell Helicopter would try to speed up the ramp for work in the following years so that skilled workers would not be laid off.
By 2012, employment would reach 1,659 and production would be at 48 V-22s, 30 Cobras, 14 Yankees and 18 BA-609, the civilian version of the tiltrotor.
Such growth puts a positive base to Amarillo's job market, said Amarillo National Bank President Richard Ware.
Growth at Bell can help attract related industries, he said.
Bill Davies, president of Bank One, said the growth also would provide Amarillo with a higher-skilled work force.
The incremental growth is better than a sudden spurt, Davies said.
"That's nothing but good for Amarillo's economy," he said. "It helps us be more diverse."
Greg Glenn, owner-broker of Prudential Ada, Realtors, also noted that Bell's growth can help sustain and add diversity to Amarillo's economy at the level of growth experienced during the past decade.
Noting that basic industry has a ripple effect on an economy, the increase of 100 employees and the resulting home sales could translate into 250 to 300 home sales in a year, Glenn said.
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Japan is set to make its belated debut as the 12th member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade negotiations Tuesday afternoon in Malaysia after a four-month wait since announcing its intent to join the talks on creating one of the world's largest free trade areas.
After the United States, the leading TPP economy, completes its domestic procedures to start talks with Japan in the afternoon, Japan's chief negotiator Koji Tsuruoka and his team will be welcomed into the 18th round of talks, already under way since July 15, according to Japanese officials.
With only three days left of the latest round, being held in the Malaysian resort of Kota Kinabalu, Japan will seek to fully use the time to negotiate its interests.
"We will unite as one and do our best to realize the national interest," said Tsuruoka as Japanese negotiators and lawmakers gathered in the morning.
"We aim to achieve results that will lead to revival of the Japanese economy," he added.
TPP negotiations comprise 21 working groups covering 29 chapters, including market access covering tariff elimination, which has been the key topic of interest for Japan.
While Japan seeks to eliminate trade barriers to boost exports of cars and other manufactured goods, its government has also pledged to protect its sensitive farm products, namely rice, wheat, beef, pork, dairy products and sugar, by retaining tariffs it imposes on imports.
The working group on market access, however, already finished its negotiations for this round on Friday, and Japanese negotiators can only take part in the talks of some working groups, including intellectual property and the environment.
But as the TPP members will be devoting the last day to briefing Japan on the current status of the negotiations and provide background information on accord texts, Japanese officials are hoping its negotiators can present the country's stance.
Some of the TPP members have shown understanding for Japan's intent to protect agriculture, with a Vietnamese TPP official saying member states "should cooperate to explore solutions for the sensitive sectors that member countries think should be protected."
The addition of Japan to the membership significantly raises the size of the envisioned pact. With Japan, TPP countries would account for nearly 40 percent of global gross domestic product and about one-third of all world trade, at a time when China, a non-TPP member, is increasing its global presence.
As the talks have already entered the fourth year, TPP countries are aiming to reach a basic agreement in October and conclude a deal by the end of the year. The next round is being arranged for late August in Brunei.
Despite the target date approaching, Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga indicated there is still time for Japan to negotiate.
"I think it is not yet too late to pursue the best path for serving the national interest," said Suga in Tokyo.
Aside from Japan, the TPP members are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States and Vietnam.


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Dear Members,
I am honoured to be nominated as President for the Society this year. I would like to say a big thank you to our outgoing President, Denise Baxter, for all that she implemented, the constant work and time she has put in. Also I thank the Executive and Committee for remaining in their positions. I really do appreciate their assistance and expertise they give to the Society.
This year 2015 is the 100th anniversary of World War 1. Too many Australian and New Zealand troops gave their lives so that we could be a free nation. We are all being enlightened each month by our Publicity Officer, Ann Tribolet, about the many sacrifices made during World War 1. A big thank you Ann for all the great stories you present each month.
This year the Society enjoyed many entertaining and informative speakers, outings and courses. In 2016 we hope to achieve and enjoy many more courses, trips and guest speakers.
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Art Gallery Series 2015-2016
Art Gallery SeriesArtists Entwined: Paintings by Will South & Jewelry by Sara Cogswell.
August 25 - September 24, 2015
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Will South makes art, writes about it, organizes exhibitions on it, and very frequently talks about it. Art has been the single constant thread in his life.
Like most of us, Will drew as a child. He simply never stopped. With a degree in studio art from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, his professional life began managing a gallery where he organized shows on painters and wrote their biographies. This led to a master's degree in art history, which led to a PhD from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Living in Manhattan, Will took courses at the Art Students League while steeped in art theory at the Graduate Center. Today, he remains an art historian and an artist in equal measure.
As a museum curator, Will is known for making art accessible, whether in writing, on the wall, or in public talks. He shares his passion for art freely, and sees museum work as an ongoing opportunity for public service. Back in the studio, however, he reverts to the artist who has made art his entire life, only now one who has learned a great deal from art history.
"I enjoy narrative, abstract and innovative art forms," he says, "but as an artist myself I'm not interested in telling a story or inventing something new. Topical art comes and goes, and cleverness holds no appeal. What is enduring about an image is the sensuality of color, the refinement of shape, the human intelligence contained in line. The challenge for me is to edit out all but the essential. And the ongoing problem is to know what the essential is. If he or she keeps working, once in a great while an artist will touch on what it means to be human."
Sara Cogswell is a resident of Columbia, SC having moved in October of 2011 from Dayton, OH. Her thirty-year career in arts administration has included time as Program Associate at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art in New York, Director of the Crafts Festivals at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Museum Administrator for the Weatherspoon Art Museum at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and Gallery Director of Gallery 115, also in Greensboro. For two years, Sara curated the material culture exhibitions for the nationally known Cityfolk Festival held annually in Dayton, Ohio over the July 4th weekend. She has been the owner and curator of Gallery West in West Columbia SC since the fall of 2013, a gallery of fine art, antiques, contemporary craft and art jewelry.
Sara's love of fiber began as early as she can remember. Growing up in Japan as the daughter of missionaries, she was surrounded by the rich textiles unique to that culture. After taking a weaving class in college, she was enduringly hooked. She wove for many years, but following the birth of her first child found it difficult to keep an eight-harness floor loom out of the reach of a toddler. Inspired by the work of two artists from Berea Kentucky, Sara began to work with fiber on a much smaller scale.
Her current work is made up of hundreds of silk, nylon, cotton, or linen threads, knotted into wearable art. The jewelry, which sometimes incorporates beads or unusual and unique objects, or at times just combinations of color, begin with these hundreds of threads, not always with a specific end in mind, but evolving as the piece progresses. Though labor intensive, she finds the repetition and rhythm of tying the knots to be a very meditative process.
Ellyse by Will Smith
Charcoal and prismacolor on linen, 2015
Cloissonne Pendant Necklace by Sara Cogswell
Art Gallery SeriesSmall Island, Large Landscapes - Photography by Ella and Knapp Hudson.
September 29 - November 5, 2015
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Meet the Artists: 4:00 pm Tuesday, October 27
"Near the top of the globe, Iceland is, literally, an island in the making and is a vast volcanic laboratory where mighty forces shape the earth. Knapp and Ella Hudson have traveled to the island 3 times; September 2013, May 2014 and August 2015 with other photographers, specifically to see and try to capture some of the island's extreme beauty. They focused on the massive waterfalls, icebergs, rock formations and fjords that draw more and more photographers to Iceland each year. We want to share what keeps drawing us back…Iceland's stunning variety of natural beauty and landscapes."
Ella Hudson
While in college (like many others in my generation) I discovered photography, went to Europe, shot pictures that my family and friends thought were wonderful and decided to become a National Geographic photographer and spend my life traveling the world and making pictures in exotic locales.
Instead, my exotic locale was Florence, South Carolina (my hometown) where I worked as a college photographer at Francis Marion College until marriage and a move. Leaving the quiet life of academia, I became a Medical Photographer in another extremely exotic locale, Mobile, Alabama, home of Mardi Gras (not New Orleans as you might think).
Still not realizing my dream of being a National Geographic photographer, I moved to Portland, Maine and continued as a medical photographer, collecting unusual stories along the way not suitable for polite dinner conversation.
After the usual twists and turns of working and raising a family, I am now retired, still living in Portland, Maine and enjoying photography for personal growth and pleasure, traveling with my husband, Knapp Hudson, and sometimes our black poodle, Izzy.
Knapp Hudson
My early exposure to photography was in high school, working in the darkroom for an "underground" satire newspaper. I would shoot the copy, develop the negatives, paste up the copy, then burn and develop the printing plates. I learned a lot about working in a darkroom but never touched any other camera.
Fast forward a few years to 1966, and I found myself in the Navy on Adak Island, Alaska. I picked up photography again and bought my first camera, a 35mm rangefinder, at the Base Exchange and reacquainted myself with the darkroom. This led to the purchase of a 35mm SLR, a twin lens reflex, etc. These cameras carried me through a very long year on Adak and the next few years in northern Europe.
Fast forward again to work years. I am now married to Ella Hudson, a real photographer, someone who gets paid to take pictures. Being married to a photographer, I started to learn about composition, and what it takes to make an interesting picture.
Fast forward to 2006, we are about to leave on a trip to China with some friends; what camera to take, how much film, how would we ever carry that much film, why don't we try digital? We did; we had a lot to learn, but over the next few years, we became comfortable with digital and have grown to appreciate it. Our cameras have now been all through Southeast Asia, Iceland, Nova Scotia and Scotland and have not let us down.
Hvítserkur Rock-Vatnsnes Peninsula-Iceland © Ella and Knapp Hudson
Stone Coast Photography
Art Gallery SeriesReactions to Actions - Contemporary Ceramic Sculpture by Renee Rouillier.
October 19 - December 3, 2015
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
The works may appear whimsical or surreal, but they are packed with meaning.
"My most recent work is a reflection on the aging process and related issues of loss, diminished opportunities, societal viewpoints and life encounters/history. This alleged decrease in value I equate with the lack of value in old dilapidated buildings regardless of their personal history. There is such inherent beauty and wonder in buildings in a state of ruin or decay; and as with older people, both house a lifetime of hidden secrets.
"Working in fine arts for over twenty-five years and trained in a variety of mediums, clay provides the manipulability and avenue for contemporary storytelling. Influences from the unrestrained content and drama of the Surrealists and German Expressionist is reflected in the content of my art, art with an edge, dark side, or unforseen side of reality."
-- Renee Rouillier
Renee Rouillier holds a Master's of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramic Sculpture and 3D Study from the University of South Carolina, a Bachelor of Fine Arts & Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Arts for Children from SUNY College at Brockport NY, and Diploma in Fine Arts from Rochester Institute of Technology. She has taught at the University of South Carolina at Columbia and Aiken SC, Columbia College, and South Carolina State University and participated in many workshops and community fundraising and charity events.
Opposing Viewpoints II by Renee Rouillier
Art Gallery Series"Color Talks" - Senior Shows by Graduating FMU Visual Arts Majors Laken B. Long and Halli B. Williams
November 10 - December 19, 2015
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Reception 6:30 pm Thursday, November 12
Senior shows are required of all students majoring in Visual Arts. These shows give students hands-on experience in selection and installation of artworks, publicity of exhibition, and external review by the University community and the general public.
Art Gallery SeriesWorks by Ceramics and 3-D Design Classes.
December 8-19, 2015
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Students in ceramics classes learn processes and techniques in both wheel-throwing and hand building in the art and craft of pottery. Throwing leads progressively toward stoneware clay tooling, decorating, glazing and firing. As they advance through the curriculum, students add ceramic fabrications methods of slabwork, modeling from solid masses, and press molding. Multi-part forms and porcelain formula clay bodies are created as artistic discipline develops along with the individual's philosopy, critical awareness and asthetics.
Students taking Three-Dimensional Design classes investigate organization techniques, with special emphasis on the plastic controls of form and space. They learn to use a variety of tools and various sculptural media, including wood, plaster and clay.
Art Gallery SeriesRemix by Mary Robinson.
January 12 - February 18, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
"I am deeply inspired by natural forms, especially tree roots, tangled vines and human arteries, and explore the experience of being human as part of-- rather than separate from-- nature. I observe complex patterns of flowing, twisting fibers, and nature's mode of creating variety within repetition. I use similar forms in my mixed media drawings and prints to express the mix of awe, reverence and anxiety I feel living on Earth in the Twenty-First Century. Sometimes the elements in my work twist, writhe and ultimately suffocate in their claustrophobic confinement, as in Ingrown. In more open imagery, I allow the marks to pulse, flow and breathe harmoniously. In the most recent work, such as in Warning, I explore and express a growing sense of urgency to acknowledge and address environmental crises. This agitation manifests in intense hues as well as in forms that are branching, breaking, seeping and radiating.
"The process by which I work is very fluid. To create Warning and similar pieces, I painted paper, cut, collaged, painted some more, cut some more and so on. The prints that I am now producing are based on these pieces in terms of shape and color. They are not simply replicas of the paintings. I have made matrices using wood, Sintra board, and stencils, based on the general compositions of the paintings, but the shapes, lines and colors are combined in completely new ways. Many of the prints are 'finished' works unto themselves but because of the opportunity for multiple printing, some of the printed elements will also become physical material for new collage paintings. The paintings are 'sketches' for the prints, and the new prints become springboards and actual physical material to be cut and collaged for new mixed media work."
Mary is currently Associate Professor and Head of the Printmaking Program at the University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina.
Warning by Mary Robinson
Art Gallery SeriesMetamorphoses - Carvings by Ernest Donald Murray (1930-2006).
January 12 - February 18, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Don Murray was born and mostly raised in Asheville, NC. His life was extremely varied, including experiences as a stone carver, University of Tennessee football player, gunner's mate, prisoner of war in Korea, student of painting in New York, drill sergeant at Camp Jackson in Columbia, SC, company clerk in Germany, race car driver, graduate student in art as well as education, one-man art department at Chipola Community College in Florida, professor of humanities and professor of art at the University of Florida. While he was an extraordinarily generous and dedicated teacher, he continued to make art throughout his life, and left behind hundreds of paintings, cast sculptures, and these five carved wood figure sculptures.
These carvings are inspired by themes or stories from Greek mythology that come to us in Ovid's Metamorphoses, stories of change. The Greek myths have stayed interesting to us because they express in metaphor ideas about human experiences that we also have.
Prometheus by Don Murray
Art Gallery SeriesLife Is a Long Story: Pots from the Later Chapters (2005-2015) - Ceramics by Kate Shakeshaft Murray.
February 23 - March 31, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Kate Shakeshaft grew up in Iowa, and took her first ceramics class purely for fun while an English major at Grinnell College. She has never stopped making pots. She went on to study art at the University of Iowa, then worked for five separate production potters in Vermont. A fellowship drew her to the University of Florida for her M.F.A., and then great luck led her to Florence, SC, where she taught ceramics for three years from 1994-1997. During those years she corresponded with her friend and former sculpture professor Don Murray. Kate resigned her teaching job and returned to Gainesville, FL, where she married Don and set up a pottery studio. In 2006 Don died of cancer. Since that time Kate has been teaching at Santa Fe College in Gainesville, making pots, reading, cooking, and growing camellias. More images of her work and contact information can be found at www.kateshakeshaftmurray.com .
"Pottery historically answered our needs for practical containers. Now it can fill our need for formal beauty, and for carriers of personal meaning. My pots rarely defy function: mugs hold coffee, jars can contain beans or human cremains. At the same time pots are small sculptures whose beauties pertain to line, form, proportion, repetition, color and texture. I strive to make elegant forms with sumptuous surfaces.
"The materials and processes of making pots have captivated me so firmly that I have shaped my life so as to be able to keep doing this work. And my life has shaped the work: reflections on experience and circumstances manifest themselves in the best pots. As a young woman I made pots celebrating femaleness. When I had to take care of a husband dying of cancer, I made a series of 'Fortitude Jars' about girding up to face adversity. 'Window Jars' were about his loss. Meditations on my place in an infinite universe became visible as spiral forms made out of clay. Combining the 'Fortitude' strap handle with the 'Window' hole-in-aknob worked to create an arch or bridge. The more extravagantly expansive 'ginko leaf' or 'feather headdress' knobs have coincided with moments of personal flourish, but also remind me of fungi that grow out of dead trees in the woods; life cycles around and around.
"The pottery begins as an idea about form to be worked out in clay--- when there are successful examples to look at and reflect upon, only then do the autobiographical themes reveal themselves to me."
Herringbone and Five Shell Jars by Kate Shakeshaft Murray
Art Gallery SeriesRoadside - by Lauren Greenwald.
February 23 - March 31, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Roadside includes work Greenwald developed from her month-long solo road trip of more than 7,000 miles exploring the blue highways of the United States. Using a range of tools from pinhole cameras to digital video, she photographed scenic vistas, tourist spots, and miles of empty landscape from the roadside. By employing the still and the moving image, Greenwald records, documents, and re-explores the ephemeral quality of moving through a landscape, and examines issues of space, time, perception, and memory.
Lauren Greenwald is a visual artist and educator working primarily in photography and video. Her work focuses on landscape, perception, and the experiential, incorporating a range of digital and analog processes. Ms. Greenwald received her B.A. in Art History and French from the College of Charleston and her M.F.A. in Studio Art, with a minor in Museum Studies, from the University of New Mexico in 2011. During her time in New Mexico, she worked closely with several New Mexico arts institutions, including Land Arts of the American West, SITE Santa Fe, and Radius Books, and has exhibited regionally and nationally. She was a Visiting Assistant Professor at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, NM, before relocating to Columbia, SC in 2014, where she is Assistant Professor of Photography in the School of Visual Art and Design at the University of South Carolina.
Lauren Greenwald
Shaira K. Lowery
Elizabeth Carter
Zachary Nivens
Tomasha Mcintyre
Cole Fenters
Jonathan Lacross
Tony Lockhart
Senior shows are required of all students majoring in Visual Arts. These shows give students hands-on experience in selection and installation of artworks, publicity of exhibition, and external review by the University community and the general public.
There will be an opening reception at 6:30 pm on April 6.
Art Gallery SeriesWorks by 3-D Design Classes.
April 5-22, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Students taking Three-Dimensional Design classes investigate organization techniques, with special emphasis on the plastic controls of form and space. They learn to use a variety of tools and various sculptural media, including wood, plaster and clay.
Art Gallery SeriesWorks by Ceramics Classes.
April 26 - May 7, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Fri
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Students in ceramics classes learn processes and techniques in both wheel-throwing and hand building in the art and craft of pottery. Throwing leads progressively toward stoneware clay tooling, decorating, glazing and firing. As they advance through the curriculum, students add ceramic fabrications methods of slabwork, modeling from solid masses, and press molding. Multi-part forms and porcelain formula clay bodies are created as artistic discipline develops along with the individual's philosopy, critical awareness and asthetics.
Art Gallery SeriesConnection - Recent Work by Stephanie Imbeau
May 17 - August 11, 2016
8:30 am - 5:00 pm Mon-Thurs
Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
Gallery Preview: 4:00-6:00 pm May 17
Reception Follows: 6:00 pm, Wallace House
Florence Native Stephanie Imbeau's "Connection" will include fiber art, ceramics, and a unique onsite installation of a structure made of umbrellas. Her practice investigates the way individuals seek community, personal security and a place to belong. She uses representations of protective structures as anthropomorphisms to explore this universal human impulse. These basic forms of shelter also provide the framework for a conceptual mapping of the barriers drawn to create safety and claim meaning using physical spaces. The simple outline of a house, for example, is both a boundary and a claim, "I am here" – with walls and a roof. She uses a variety of mediums with a specific interest in materials that posses the opposing qualities of utility and fragility, such as clay, cardboard and umbrellas.
Stephanie Imbeau received a BFA from The Ohio State University in 2004 and MFA from Newcastle University in 2007. Her competition-winning work Shelter made her the first female artist to adapt Channel 4's Big 4 in London in 2009. She was the youngest artist in the show Homeland [In]Security: Vanishing Dreams at Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY in November 2014. She has exhibited in Germany, France, England, Greece, and various locations in the US and has been featured in print in the UK and Korea. She currently lives and works in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
Rain Cloud Mars Bluff, Francis Marion University, May 2016
|About the Art Gallery Series
Walter Sallenger, Art Gallery Curator
The Department of Fine Arts sponsors the Art Gallery Series, hosting varied shows of two and three dimensional works showcasing local and regional artists. Exhibits change regularly throughout the academic year.
The mission of the art galleries program is to present exhibitions that support and enhance the academic goals of the visual arts program at Francis Marion University, providing a non-profit institutional setting in the service of society for educational purposes. Under the supervision of the Fine Arts Department faculty, the galleries curator is committed to researching, exhibiting and interpreting for the purpose of study, objects, activities, and documents focused on the visual arts.
Overview of west end of Hyman Fine Arts Center Gallery
| Art galleries are located in the Hyman Fine
Arts Center. The Fine Arts Center Gallery features large cases along
glass walls, allowing three-dimensional works to be displayed and
viewed from the outdoor breezeway as well as inside the commons serving
the Fine Arts Theatre and Adele Kassab Recital Hall. A lighting grid
and configurable display partitions provide a flexible gallery space
for two- and three-dimensional works throughout the remainder of the
Senior shows are required of all students majoring in Visual Arts. At the end of each semester, the galleries also feature works produced by students enrolled in studio art classes. These shows give students hands-on experience in selection and installation of artworks, publicity of exhibition, and external review by the University community and general public.
| The Galleries
Curator then selects among distinguished regional artists to fill
out the Art Gallery Series schedule in order to have two- and
three-dimensional shows changing regularly throughout the academic
year. The gallery serves as the lobby for Kassab Recital Hall and the
Fine Arts Theatre, bringing the visual and performing arts together.
Please check the Arts Calendar for more information about film, music and theatre offerings as well as the Art Gallery Series schedule. Gallery hours are typically 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday-Friday except during summer session (June-August), when hours are 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday-Thursday.
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