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Is there a movie in recent memory with a gloomier set of characters than Mary Reilly? When we first see Julia Roberts, she's on her hands and knees, scrubbing a sidewalk somewhere in Victorian London. The walk is the color of charcoal, the buildings are charcoal, even the air is charcoal; no wonder she looks depressed. Roberts' Mary Reilly, who has been in service since she was 12, is a thin, frightened wisp of a young woman with a face so milky pale it stands out from her surroundings like a moon glowing through haze. Anyone eager for a glimpse of the famous Roberts smile those luscious wax lips come to life had better look elsewhere. In Mary Reilly, the lips are taut and nervous, drawn into a stoic line of woe. Her eyes gleam with trepidation.
Mary's employer, Dr. Henry Jekyll (John Malkovich), is involved in a series of secretive experiments that appear to have intensified his already morose nature. A dour, fastidious chap, too repressed to realize that his attachment to Mary is rooted in his attraction to her, Jekyll has a head of thick graying hair and wears an unflattering goatee; he looks like a hedgehog in midlife crisis. Malkovich, speaking in a lazy American accent, lets his lines dribble out slowly, syllable by syllable, the words pitched in some emotional twilight zone between apathy and contempt. He sounds like a hypnotist who's trying to put the audience (if not himself) to sleep. Of course, we know what Mary doesn't: that Jekyll, on the nights he drinks his experimental potion, is transformed into Mr. Hyde sexy, confident, murderous, the room-trashing id hovering beneath Jekyll's cloak of propriety.
Both Mary and Dr. Jekyll are such sodden spirits that for the first 45 minutes of Mary Reilly we're strung along by our anticipation of Hyde's appearance; he would seem to be just the bad boy to get this party started. Finally, he shows up. It's Malkovich again, clean-shaven now, with a mop of jet-black rock-star hair but damned if he doesn't look pretty much the same as Jekyll and speak in an identical fey monotone. Malkovich does his version of an amorous leer (he appears to have just eaten his young), but there's no demonic joy to his performance. His Hyde, at best, seems like a somewhat less tormented Dr. Jekyll. Directed by Stephen Frears, from a script by Christopher Hampton (based on the novel by Valerie Martin), Mary Reilly sounded like a promising idea the Jekyll-and-Hyde saga told from his housekeeper's point of view but the film's chief novelty turns out to be its drab ''literary'' approach to horror. Instead of tapping the theatrical heart of the material, Frears and Hampton reduce the three major characters to drawing-room stiffs who sit around explaining their passion instead of acting on it.
For most of the movie, Jekyll and Hyde engage in windy Freudian dialectics about civilization and desire, the imprisonment of the soul, and so forth. This gothic puffery isn't new; it's the sort of thing that used to pad out the old, thriller-diller Hollywood versions of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. (You can't blame Malkovich for sounding bored.) Frears and Hampton previously collaborated on Dangerous Liaisons, a movie with nasty shards of wit (and a supremely energized Malkovich performance), but in Mary Reilly their work has a paralyzing earnestness. Mary has been given a dysfunctional Dickensian past her father was a drunk who beat her and the picture is held together not by fear or suspense but by a single, thudding irony: the fact that Mary doesn't realize that Jekyll and Hyde are the same man. For the irony to produce drama, however, we need to feel that Mary too is torn between them, divided between the light and dark sides of herself. In Mary Reilly, the passion we see isn't light or dark it's just dead gray. C-


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Women of color are the "gender gap."
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Well Valentine's day was a lot of fun even though my official Valentine's Day due to schedule constraints isn't until tommorow. Mor eon that later. ; )
At midnight my roomates and I sat around and talked about how much guys sucked. We got pretty intense and ended the night eating pancakes at IHOP @ 2am with the club crowd. I must note though I think the intensity of our conversations was probably due since we had been "relaxing" prior to and those anger thoughts soon left lol.
Later on in the morning my sister surprised me and took me out to Magnlolia Cafe and I ate some yummy French Toast for breakfast. It was great.
My parents told me "We haven't had time to send you your Valentine's but we'll send it." Great the few couple Valentine's I depend on and they forget. I promise this year my parents have been "Lydia Whoo??" My mom hasn't even sent me cookies once!! Sighhh that's what happens when you move and your parents get used to you gone, last year was just another story
Did I mention I bought the book "He's Just Not Into You." I recommend it for any girl. It's great. It's common sense but stuff a girl never wants to realize.
It has been beautiful outside these past couple of days...ahhh. I love going outside knowing I won't need a sweater but damn this cold front and rain that is coming in.
I need to go to HEB...
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The National Association of Disability Representatives (NADR) has posted the schedule for its national conference in Albuquerque, NM from March 25-28, 2007. The schedule posted appears to be somewhat preliminary. Susan Brown and Joan Parks Saunders, the Regional Chief Administrative Law Judge for the Dallas Region, are the scheduled speakers from the Social Security Administration.
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Ruth A. Gollnick, 84, Plover, formerly of Amherst, died Monday, March 4, 2013, at Ministry St. Michael's Hospital.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Amherst, with the Rev. John Schmidt officiating. Interment will be in Bickel Cemetery in the town of Amherst.
Visitation will be at the church from noon Friday until the services.
The Jungers-Holly Funeral Home of Amherst assisted the family with arrangements. Condolences may be offered online at www.hollyfuneralhome.com.
Mrs. Gollnick was born April 13, 1928, in Chicago, Ill., a daughter of the late Fred and Ernestine (Gadow) Fox.
She was married to Norman K. Gollnick on Sept. 4, 1954, in Wisconsin Rapids. He died on March 18, 2012.
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Intel Pushes Their Linux-Friendly Xeon Phi
In addition to NVIDIA and AMD announcing new high-end server/workstation GPUs to coincide with this week's SuperComputing SC12 conference in Salt Lake City, Intel has announced new details and release information on their Xeon Phi co-processors.
13 November 2012 - Xeon Phi - 11 Comments
Intel 2.20.13 Driver Update Carries More Bug-Fixes
Chris Wilson of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center continues releasing new xf86-video-intel 2.20.x point releases.
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Intel VA-API Video Support Takes In New Features
The Intel VA-API 1.0.19 driver was released on Thursday and it's a feature release with some exciting additions.
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Intel's Haswell Introduces VECS, VEBOX
While AMD is letting go of their Linux staff responsible for new CPU enablement, there's no slowdown on the Intel side for future hardware enablement under Linux. New Haswell Linux patches were published yesterday, which also reveal a few more details about the video playback improvements to be found on these Intel processors to be introduced in 2013.
7 November 2012 - Haswell - 1 Comment
Handling Command Submission For The Intel DRM Driver
If you liked yesterday's post by Daniel Vetter of Intel's Open-Source Technology Center that covered going over the Graphics Execution Manager for memory management, today he's around with a second part that details command submission handling for the Intel open-source Linux driver.
1 November 2012 - Command Submission
Going Over The Graphics Execution Manager
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31 October 2012 - GEM Management
Atomic Mode-Setting Still Being Enriched
Intel Linux developers continue to work on atomic mode-setting and page-flipping support for their Linux DRM infrastructure.
25 October 2012 - Intel Work - 1 Comment
Haswell Video Acceleration Code Published
Just minutes after writing about how Intel keeps releasing open-source Linux code for Haswell, their next-generation hardware for 2013, they ended up pushing out their initial video acceleration (VA-API) support code.
23 October 2012 - Intel Haswell - 8 Comments
Intel Keeps Pushing Haswell Code For Linux
Intel continues to push out more open-source kernel code for enabling their next-generation Haswell processors to be properly supported under Linux.
23 October 2012 - Haswell
Intel Linux Driver Still Working To Address Tearing
Open-Source Intel developers have long been working towards a tear-free Linux desktop with proper vsync support. For Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge hardware there's still been some tearing issues, but they hope to soon finally have it solved.
21 October 2012 - Secure Batches - 24 Comments
ETC2 Texture Compression For Intel Is Happening
While Intel is now forcing on S3TC to be advertised for their Mesa driver by default, the ETC2 texture compression scheme holds more hope and support for it within the Intel Mesa driver is also being worked on.
20 October 2012 - ETC2 Intel - 3 Comments
Intel Mesa To Force On S3TC, Floating-Point Textures
Two patches from Intel's Ian Romanick for their open-source Mesa DRI driver will now enable S3TC extensions always plus floating-point textures. These two features previously were not enabled by default out of patent fears.
19 October 2012 - Woohoo - 20 Comments
Intel On Haswell Under Linux: "We've Screwed Up"
After the change yesterday to now hide early Intel hardware support by default to fend off early driver issues for new graphics hardware -- such as mode-setting just outright failing to work -- Intel has commented a bit more on the driver support for the forthcoming "Haswell" hardware.
18 October 2012 - Intel Haswell - 12 Comments
Intel To Hide Early Hardware Support By Default
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Intel X.Org Driver Gets A Number Of Core Bug-Fixes
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VA-API Library 1.1 Supports Wayland, Raw DRM, ICS
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225 Local Catholic Churches Open Doors for Day of Confessions March 6
TORONTO (March 5, 2013) – Thousands of Catholics in more than 220 Catholic churches throughout the Greater Toronto Area will line up to take part in the Archdiocese of Toronto's first Day of Confessions on March 6, sharing the burdens of their consciences with priests as they prepare for Easter.
Every Catholic church in the archdiocese will devote extended hours to Confession – formally known as the Sacrament of Reconciliation – as part of the Day of Confessions. Building on similar days in dioceses throughout the United States and Canada, the event, in conjunction with the global Roman Catholic Church's Year of Faith, provides an opportunity for Catholics to renew their focus on repentance and forgiveness as part of the 40-day liturgical season of Lent. Similar initiatives will take place in the Archdiocese of Edmonton and the Diocese of London, Ontario, where the event has expanded significantly since its arrival four years ago.
Some churches will have a priest on hand for up to 14 hours to be available for those wishing to take part in this important sacrament, which is a central part of an active Catholic faith life. Confession allows individuals to meet with a priest, acknowledge their frailties and imperfections, seek forgiveness and start anew, resolving to raise the bar on personal behaviour moving forward. Priests, God's representative in the sacrament, are under a seal of secrecy and can never reveal the content of a confession.
Those hoping to take part can find a local parish by visiting www.archtoronto.org. The Archdiocese of Toronto has prepared a special mini-website: www.archtoronto.org/confession with resources, multimedia clips and more information to help those who have been away from the sacrament for an extended time or might be looking for a refresher on the steps involved.
The Archdiocese of Toronto is Canada's largest diocese, encompassing 42 municipalities stretching from Toronto north to Georgian Bay and from Oshawa to Mississauga. It is home to 1.8 million Catholics and 225 churches, with Mass celebrated in more than 30 different languages each week.
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Syfy is getting back into business with Ronald D. Moore, the writer/producer who developed the network's crossover hit "Battlestar Galactica."Read More »
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"Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome," a prequel to Ronald D. Moore's hit reimagining of the 1978 sci-fi drama, was made into a pilot but never ordered to series by Syfy. Instead, the 90-minute episode, created by Michael Taylor and David Eick ("Caprica") and d...Read More »
"Defiance," Syfy's new television series/transmedia project set to premiere on air on April 15, may be the medium's most ambitious attempt at cross-platform storytelling to date. "Defiance," which is set in a near future in which humanity and various alien species cautiously coexist, is half TV show...Read More »
Created and written by Michael Taylor ("Star Trek: Voyager") and David Eick ("Caprica"), "Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome" was conceived as another prequel to Syfy's acclaimed and critically adored "Battlestar Galactica" reimagining. Whi...Read More »
As the Hollywood Reporter noted yesterday, M. Night Shyamalan has a television project in the works at the Syfy network. The channel's committed to make and air a pilot for "Proof," his first scripted TV venture and one that will find him working with Marti Noxon, best known for h...Read More »
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The "A History of Violence" auteur may be widely celebrated for his work behind the camera, but that hasn't stopped him from also popping up in front of it on occasion. According to TV Line, David Cronenberg has been tapped to guest star in the two-hour pilot for Syfy's time-travel drama "Rewind," a...Read More »
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Amazon villagers get Conservative party windfall for saving rainforest - Times Online
A REMOTE community in the Amazon stands to be given millions of pounds to stop cutting down its rainforest after being chosen by both the Conservative party...
A total of 322 families living in the Juma reserve in the Brazilian state of Amazonas will each receive a monthly allowance in return for pledging zero deforestation. Each family had to attend a workshop on climate change and commit to zero deforestation and to send their children to school. They were then given a forest cash-card credited with 50 reais (£15) per month.
The Tories decided to support the project after a visit in December by Greg Barker, shadow environment minister, on a fact-finding mission. "Nothing we can do to fight climate change will succeed unless we can reverse the alarming deforestation across the world," he said.
It will be announced this week as part of a Conservative climate change campaign.
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Legendary singer-songwriter Chuck Berry was charged with tax evasion in 1979. He pleaded guilty and was ordered to perform 1,000 hours worth of benefit shows after serving four months in prison.


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The Coves de Campanet, where the next clue was "hidden," seemed pretty cool with all the stalagmites or stalactites or whatever and the lovely guitar music echoing throughout. "I love caves!" Lexi exclaimed as if caves are one of her hobbies, and it was in that moment I realized how frankly exhausted of her I've become. The only thing of note to happen here was the best line of the night, delivered by one of the Twins in response to the other who asked how the Beekmans had gotten their hands on a map. "I don't know, they're super-prepared, they're gay." Be more gay, girls!
The detour that came next was "Spin it" or "Bull it."
"Bull it" would require teams to visit a 1000-year-old bull-fighting arena, crouch into into a two-person bull costume and charge around, butting eight capes in under two minutes. Team Texas was the only one to tackle this one, and from the way it was edited, it seems like they got it after two attempts, though who knows if that's how it went. It did seem easy, though - so long as you kept your fingers out of the way. Because Lexi's finger only got mildly slashed, I felt justified in fully enjoying her whimpering wails of "My fingherrrrrrr!" I watched it twice and it's likely I'll go back for more later tonight. It reminded me of how when I was in the sixth grade this girl in the classroom next door somehow got her lip stuck on one of those peel-top Lincoln apple juice cans during lunch one day - and she ran through all the adjoining classrooms with her lip attached to the can screaming "MY LIP, MY LIP!" My brother, thank God, was witness to this, too, and what can I say, it has enriched our lives - we like to remember it now and again. My fingherrrrrrrr!
By the way I liked those cute booties that came with the bull outfit.
In "Spin it" teams had to repair a 400 year old windmill by attaching two giant blades to it using screws and whatnot. The Chips were in their element here. What with the tool belts and hard hats they looked and felt right at home. "Working at Chippendales, we may have seen a construction outfit a time or two," Jaymes said. Then in a comment that doubled as one of the only things James has said this season and one of the funniest, he added "Yeah, I may have swung a styrofoam hammer here or there." These two kicked the crap out of this "man work" and were out of there in no time.
In a perfect example of the Beekman's surprising ferocity on this race, they, too rocked the goat balls off this challenge. Turns out if you run a farm, you get good at construction -- turbines, tractors -- and Josh and Brent were at their Beekman best here. In skills, yes, but also 'tude: "Whatever competitive drive that I have kicked in when we saw the Twins," Josh said. "I knew in my heart that we'd be better." Cocky and I like it!
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Taking Control of IT Changes
One of the hardest parts about managing IT resources is understanding how to control and document changes to your network infrastructure, applications and systems. And as enterprises deploy more virtualization tools, along with upgrading and improving their desktops, managing these changes effectively can make the difference between satisfying users and dealing with chronic downtime.
Sometimes, it's a matter of knowing when to stop patching and start swapping an aging system for something that can be better maintained in-house. One example is the city of Ventura, Calif., which had repeatedly changed its 28-year-old legacy system and realized it was time for a replacement. After selecting Agresso Business World to provide its ERP solution, the city had to bring its staff on board with the new technology.
"We had large SAP and Oracle installations and wanted a system that would enable us to transfer expertise as quickly as possible to our own staff to make them self-reliant," says John Emerson, senior IT executive with the city.
"We live in a dynamic world, and state and federal governments are changing the rules on our operations all the time, and users are changing their needs," Emerson points out. "We wanted the ability to keep up with these changes without having to hire consultants all the time. We went with Agresso because it had the strongest ability to add files and tables and workflows. We already had a custom system, so this was a critical requirement."
However, a lot of staff retraining was necessary, and the transition was difficult. "We completely underestimated the difficulty of changing our system because it had been in place for so long that users couldn't distinguish the system from their jobs," Emerson explains. The city replaced the outdated character-based system with a "modern application that required using a mouse and Windows. It also took some adjustment to deal with the workflow features."
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When the Raleigh Durham International Airport built a new terminal, it updated its existing network management and monitoring tools using software from Solarwinds. "What really sold us was being able to quickly build nested network maps," says Brian de Loureiro, manager of systems and integration for the airport. "Because of the size of our network, we couldn't represent all our devices on one screen.
"We have different sections of our campus, and with the nested maps, we can click on a building and drill down to the network in that building. We can readily identify if an entire building is down. The mapping makes it quick to identify [specific areas]."
When it came time to upgrade an aging frame-relay circuit, Solarwinds helped the airport's IT team analyze its Internet connectivity. "We could see the bandwidth we were using and were able to make things run more efficiently," de Loureiro says.
Previously, the airport used an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of managing more than 4,000 IP addresses across their network, but that had become unworkable. "Issuing IP addresses wasn't that bad when we had 500 or so," he explains, "but with the airport's new terminal, we had multiple contractors that needed these addresses. We had subnets that were being created by subcontractors, and we had a time crunch to open the new terminal. [With the new network tools,] we didn't have to worry about double-booking IPs."
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David Goodman learned the hard way about how and when to involve his IT department in changes made at The International Rescue Committee, a relief organization based in New York City that runs dozens of offices around the globe.
"We had a recruiting package that was bought by another company, and our migration was handled by our HR department," says CTO Goodman. "The upgrade didn't go particularly well. The people running the project weren't IT people, and they didn't think things through. In the end, it was clear to them that you have to involve the systems people in systems upgrades."
This doesn't mean that IT needs to be involved in every project, he explains, but someone needs to ensure that the foundations of requirement-gathering and systems analysis are in place.
"When I was hired, we didn't have much of an IT department, and many of our staff members didn't understand the value IT could provide," he says. "I purposely don't come into meetings and try to take over a project. I take a more measured approach and have people come to us when they need something."
Goodman believes getting a business degree and being more sensitive to the business processes helped him sell his services internally. "Our public-facing Website was languishing from a tech standpoint," he recalls, "so my team and I helped to staff up the Web team and get it to a point where it didn't need my attention anymore. It's important to know when to step out of a project and let the end-user department take over."
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Sometimes, all it takes to make change more manageable is the right kind of documentation, something that Connie Dillard, the longtime IT manager for the city of San Carlos, Calif., knows all too well. In preparation for her retirement from the city this spring, she began an overhaul of their systems and network documentation last year.
"I wanted to make sure that there was an orderly transition when I retired, and it was also time to do a better job at keeping track of our procedures," Dillard says.
Dillard began using Microsoft's One Note software to compile electronic "notebooks" full of information, such as user-access lists, project purchase orders, and software- and network-configuration information. "It makes it easier to share this information with the other members of my IT staff, so they can easily and quickly find something when I'm not around. If you don't document it, you have to relearn how to do some procedure—or call the vendor to walk you through it."
Dillard uses Screensteps screen-capturing software from Blue Mango Learning Systems to document the process to set up a new server or user account. So everyone on her staff can replay these steps in the future. "This way, it is at our fingertips," she says. "Since we are still using some software that is more than 10 years old, it's critical to preserve this knowledge."
Virtualization has made the city's documentation requirements a lot more critical, Dillard adds, but not necessarily complex. She created an Excel spreadsheet that keeps track of when individual virtual machines on her host server are restarted, as well as when they need to be patched or updated.
"Not all of us are here all the time, and we needed some way to quickly share what we were doing," she explains. "This works just fine for our purposes."
Consolidating the physical servers, along with some other technologies, has made Dillard's documentation duties a lot easier in some ways. "We used to have paper logs for each of our 31 servers," she recalls. "That—and having backup tapes and doing the catalogs for them—was very painful. Now we use direct-to-disk backups, and with virtualized servers and automatic logging tools on some of our other software products, we save a lot of time."
The key thing, Dillard stressed, is to review these activity logs each morning to make sure that any problems are resolved and that what was supposed to happen the night before actually transpired.
Sometimes, the hardest part about changing your applications is keeping your legacy data in a form that you can access once you perform your upgrades. Some upgrades can make this data inaccessible—either because data storage formats become obsolete (remember the eight-inch floppy disk?) or because the newer applications can no longer manipulate the older versions' data.
That's what the IT staff members at the Emory University library faced when they received several Apple Macs that author Salmon Rushdie used to write his novels. Software Engineer Peter Hornsby and Senior Engineer Ben Ranker had to develop ways to extract and preserve the machines' data so that scholars could view Rushdie's documents.
"That was the first time we had such a valuable collection of computers in our special-collections department," Hornsby says. "We needed to preserve the context as well as the formatting of the documents."
As the examples in this article illustrate, the path toward upgrades needs to be managed carefully and with appropriate policies and plans in place. So make sure you analyze at the start the impact your decisions will have on your enterprise and then carefully document all the changes you are making.


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The Face of FNA "Sparkle"s on Studio 10August 10th, 2012 at 11:41 am by Marcus Jackson under The Movie Guru, Uncategorized
Marcus Jackson, the WALA / WFNA Resident Movie Guru here. What a week this has been. Now it's Friday and for all my fellow movie lovers we had a treat today on Studio 10. No not the New Orleans Style BBQ Shrimp, which was very tasty; Not Wet Willie playing LIVE – we taped another song afterwards to show at a later date – Go Check Them Out When they Are in Town; No, I'm talking and our very own "Face of FNA" Dani Dials stopping by to talk her most recent Hollywood interview with the cast of the highly anticipated film Sparkle Starring former American Idol Season 6 Winner Jordin Sparks – an appropiate last name for this film – and the Late Great Whitney Houston in one of her final performances. Dani got to talk to the cast of the upcoming film. Here is a link to her Studio 10 appearance as she explains what she did on her interview …..
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text: Mercedes unconcerned by FRIC removal 18 July, 2014 Mercedes mechanics working at Hockenheim Mercedes are unlikely to suffer any significant setback from a decision to ban a particular type of suspension system from this weekend's German Grand Prix, according to their title contender Lewis Hamilton. "I don't think much at all," the Briton told reporters at Hockenheim when asked about the possible impact on his dominant team of the removal of the front and rear interconnected suspension (FRIC) system. "We may lose some time this weekend but if everyone is taking it off then everyone will lose the same pretty much. I don't think the order should generally change much," added the 2008 champion. Formula 1 Technical Delegate Jo Bauer said after scrutineering on Thursday that he could confirm that "no car is fitted with a front to rear linked suspension system of any sort." Nico Rosberg with media in Hockenheim The teams did so out of concern that they could otherwise be challenged by rivals and subsequently be disqualified from Sunday's race. The systems, which stabilise the car through corners, have been in use for several years but the governing FIA believes they have now been developed to the point where they are an aerodynamic aid and contravene the rules. Teams were given the option of using them for the rest of the year, before a definite ban starting in 2015, but that required unanimous agreement which proved impossible to reach. Nico Rosberg, Hamilton's team mate who leads the championship by four points, felt that there would be some effect but it was too early to say what it might be. Rivals agreed, but still hoped that the change could narrow the gap between them and Mercedes. Sebastian Vettel walks the track with his Red Bull crew "I hope it brings the field closer to Mercedes but it's difficult to say," declared Red Bull's quadruple champion Sebastian Vettel, last year's winner in Germany, but without a victory so far in 2014. "All of the teams have been playing with it to some extent. How much it has an impact? I think it has to be seen this weekend and also probably next week in Hungary. After those two races, I think you [make] have another judgement." Sauber Principal Monisha Kaltenborn questioned whether it was correct to change the rules midway through the season, however. "It just another point where we have a very unnecessary discussion right in the middle of the season," she told reporters. "It doesn't create a good image for Formula One." (Reuters) Tweet Related NewsTech Talk: Hockenheim AnalysisNo wings for Red Bull with new fuelFIA confirm no F1 team using FRIC in GermanyMercedes to run without FRIC at HockenheimWill any team lodge FRIC protest at Hockenheim?Caterham expected to protest FRIC at HockenheimWhat the FRIC is going on? Confusion ahead of German GPMercedes to remove FRIC system for HockenheimFormula 1 set for another engine revolution in 2016Horner happy to have Illien working with Renault


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50646828627551837272014-10-04T20:56:39.752-04:00Art by Erika Taguchi-Newton (Ravengirl)Art by Erika Taguchi-NewtonErika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-52653682518282384362014-08-13T22:30:00.000-04:002014-08-13T22:30:48.365-04:00Long Time, No See!Hello, it's been a long time. Are you still out there, blogsters?

My last blog post was almost 2 years ago! I've manage to get some paintings done, but it's been hard with this whole motherhood thing. I'm definitely not a natural at nurturing, but my little guy is a pretty cool dude.

Doing art shows and events have been more difficult. Unfortunately, I'm not going to be at GenCon or DragonCon this year. We had some health issues in the family and had to cancel last minute. In fact, it's the night before Gen Con, and I'm very sad that I'm not there. I'm telling myself to get over it and move on.

Moving on...

In the next few weeks, I'm hoping to catch up with this blog and post what I've been working on the last 2 years.

Catching Fireflies - Acrylic on board - 11x14 (Prints Available)
This piece (homage to Firefly show) was done for Nerdcore Art Show at Ink & Pistons Tattoo and Art Gallery, in January 2013.

Here's a sketch of little River with her net:

Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-6513332670463438342012-09-05T22:52:00.000-04:002012-09-05T22:52:13.005-04:00Endless SummerWhew! Just got back from GenCon and DragonCon. Such amazing times! Met up with old friends and made some new ones. I'm so giddy about winning Third Place at DragonCon for "Lost Selkie" and Best Space Scene for "Raygun Love".

I was able to finish a new painting for DragonCon last week:

Fall is almost here and Baby Jack will arrive soon. My show schedule will be limited and local, but they will be great fun. PalmCon will be next (Sept 22nd) - last year was the first one and it was quite a turnout for a small comic convention. Then it'll be the mother of all indie craft events - StitchRock! (Oct 6th).

Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-41468696351576973662012-08-03T12:17:00.001-04:002012-08-03T12:17:37.124-04:00Long, Hot SummerYou know you've been neglecting your blog when your husband teases you about it. Well, I've been a little distracted, being knocked up and all!

So far this summer, I made it to HeroesCon (Charlotte, NC), Florida SuperCon (Miami), and Art Nouveau Events' Arts, Beats, Eats & Treats in North Palm Beach (which I'll be doing one more this Saturday night). In a couple of weeks I'll be off to GenCon in Indianapolis, then shortly after to DragonCon in Atlanta. Then I will sit home, get enormous, and wait for our baby boy to pop out :).

I'm doing a big push on finishing off several paintings before DragonCon. Here's the first one completed:

(Prints available)

My step-by-step:

In June, I was commissioned by the very best comic book store in the universe - Tate's Comics in Lauderhill, Florida. If you are a geek like me, you have to make a pilgrimage!

Hope everyone is having a great summer. And staying cool!Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-61830374722509525602012-02-29T12:59:00.002-05:002012-02-29T12:59:49.673-05:00Raygun LoveHappy Leap Day! To celebrate Leap Day, I'm taking a LEAP back into space (that's as clever as it gets here, folks...). Bear and Bird Gallery's open-to-all-artists show, Square Show 2, is next month. I played around with an idea, sketched it out, even got it fully pencilled on the board. But I wasn't excited about it so I erased the whole thing and pencilled a completely different idea. I'm glad I did because I had so much fun with this piece:

Preminary sketch:

By sheer coincidence, next month's show at Zapow turned out to be a sci fi theme show! So I decided to take my painting and idea further and turn it into a faux pulp cover. I plan to do 2 more paintings for a series. Here's the first one:

Limited Editions giclees will be available at the gallery.

Prints will be available online at my store - http://ravengirl.bigcartel.com/product/raygun-love-print.

Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-74905619032406760942012-02-27T12:10:00.000-05:002012-02-27T20:56:35.944-05:00Year of the Dragon, Megacon, and Zapow!
It's been a few months since I've posted, I'm going to try to catch up...

I took a month off in Decemeber to spend time with family and friends. I did manage to do a Christmas card painting before my break. It is a third in my series of reindeer cards and I will have the cards for sale this Christmastime:

End of last year, I got a great opportunity to get into a new gallery in downtown Asheville, North Carolina called Zapow! I have prints and giclees hanging there, and sometimes an original piece sneaks in. If you are in the area, please check it out. And if you do go, eat at Early Girl for me!

The new year started off fierce! Completed a New Year painting like I did last year. This year is, of course, Year of the Dragon and was the theme for the monthly art show by always-awesome Art Nouveau Events. I didn't get the piece done in time but was able to do some of the finishing touches at the show. I feel very cumbersome when I paint in front of people. At one point I had the painting upside down and someone asked me why. I told him it was because I was too short to paint the upper-left part of the sky comfortably. He looked a little disappointed, I guess he was waiting for some profound answer. Here's the result:

Some progress shots:

Megacon was just a week ago and it was fantastic! I got to meet some great artists in the Artist Alley, the talent was incredible. I did a little fan art for the con:

Now I'm getting ready for the next show which will be in Largo on March 18th. But before that I will be at this Sunday's Downtown Open Market in Boca.

Oh, and I've been much more active on Facebook. Please "like" me at facebook.com/ravengirlsnest.
Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-35574853927815463182011-11-30T12:51:00.001-05:002012-02-27T20:56:51.751-05:00Season of Payne's Gray
I'm a little obsessed with my new favorite color - Payne's Gray. It puts me in a misty, mysterious, magical mood. Last couple of projects looks like they are studies in gray.

"We Hide in the Forest" is a triptych I really enjoyed doing. Each piece is 6x12, with the background that goes together. I did these for the Small Stuff show at Bear and Bird, but I couldn't part with them just yet. So I got some really nice limited edition canvas giclees done for the show (http://ravengirl.bigcartel.com/product/we-hide-in-the-forest-limited-edition-giclee).

Prints are available here: http://ravengirl.bigcartel.com/product/we-hide-in-the-forest

Whenever I decide to do a series, I usually get bored after the second one. And I can never match up the color or the shading. So this time I decided to paint them all at the same time. What a difference! All came out with same tone and values. I'm very happy about that!

Here's the step-by-step:

Couple of weeks ago I participated in a Harry Potter art show (another awesome Art Nouveau Event!). Not able to decide on what scene or characters, I ended up doing a HP-inspired piece. Another gray piece and an experiment with negative space.

Prints available here: http://ravengirl.bigcartel.com/product/spell-casting-practice

I didn't take any step-by-step photos, but here are some sketches:

Very loose griffin sketches and Hermoine detail sketch that I was playing with. I like the characters when they were younger. Teenage wizards are so annoying!

Finalizing the sketch and a layout thumbnail.

On the side note, the Christmas cards are all available on my Etsy site - ravengirl.etsy.com. Thanks!
Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-5334923326676971742011-09-22T14:47:00.000-04:002011-09-22T19:48:21.404-04:00Nosferatu and Autumn ScheduleBear and Bird's annual Halloween group art show is coming up. I missed last year so I made sure I submitted a piece this year. This year's theme was "Creepy Cinema," so I decided to do one of my favorite film vampires - Nosferatu. Opening night is October 1st, hope you can make it!

I also decided to have a little fun with the print (available in 11x14 and 8x10):

Also on October 1st is StitchRock!, my favorite local indie arts and craft event. I will have a table there where I'll be hawking this print and many others, including Christmas cards. I'm also going to have for some limited edition canvas giclees, hopefully they will come in on time.

In November, I'll be heading back to Atlanta for ICE (Indie Craft Experience). Going to be a busy autumn - ready, set, go!Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-70523741847626395682011-09-09T12:39:00.000-04:002011-09-09T12:39:31.040-04:00Back from DragonConI survived DragonCon! And I had the best time. It was quite intense, the morning started around 9am and the show closed at 8pm for 4 days. Monday was a short day but it didn't feel like it. If it wasn't for my friends who helped me at my booth, let me crash at their house, and just being there, I think I would have fallen apart. I hope they know how much I appreciate their support through all this.

I was able to complete my latest piece for the show and it was a big hit. It also sold in the auction which was a huge thrill for me. I can't wait til next year!

Prints available here

Next on the calendar is PalmCon, a local 1-day comic book convention (9/17). And then my favorite local indie show, StitchRock! (10/1).Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-44541791385973283832011-08-29T09:25:00.003-04:002011-08-29T09:50:54.542-04:00There be DragonCon!I'll be going off to Atlanta end of this week to attend DragonCon, my first out-of-state show. I still have a lot to do, including finishing a painting to be displayed there at the Art Show, and getting all my prints ready. I will have a Bazaar Table (BT-18) at, what looks like on the floor plans, the back wall of the Grand Hall West at the Hyatt Regency (Exhibit Level). If you are anywhere near Atlanta, you need to check out this convention. It is the ultimate geek fest (my kinda place!). And if you do check it out, I hope you'll stop by my table and say "hi."

Here's a little sneak peek of what's on my easel right now:

I played around with this idea last year for a group art show at Pink Ghost, and I always wanted to do a bigger version of it:

Also finished for DragonCon is another huladollsquidgirl piece:

Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-64720121966302720352011-08-16T09:35:00.005-04:002011-08-16T10:36:00.678-04:00My apology letter to Edward HopperDear Mr. Hopper,

Yes, it's true. Another pathetic parody has been painted of your masterpiece, "Nighthawks."

And I'm sorry, I did it. But rest assured it will never be as widely known as that nails-on-the-chalkboard version, "Boulevard of Broken Dreams."

I know there has been many over the years from The Simpsons to that one with chickens, so I'm positive mine is not the worst offense. Yes, I butchered your lonely composition and the stark balance of warm and cool lighting. But please understand, I did it out of respect and love of your work. The task of recreating the mood you set has taught me that I have a lot to learn. I hope if we ever meet in the afterlife, you will not dismiss me completely, but pat me on my head and say, "at least you tried."

Sincerely,
Erika

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Here's my "Nighthawks" homage, with the classic Univeral monsters:

"Night at Karloff's" - 20x16 Acrylics

And some works-in-progress:

Some sketches of the classic Universal monsters

Final Wolfman sketch

Final pencils on board

The Bride is starting to get some color

Wolfie is getting there

I wish I did a more horizontal piece like Hopper's original. It's just not the same without the street scene. Note to self: work more on composition. And don't mess with a masterpiece.Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-48456636795383230032011-06-30T19:49:00.007-04:002011-07-08T09:18:42.755-04:00Florida Supercon and Star WarsFlorida Supercon starts tomorrow in Miami, and I'll be heading down there bright and early to get set up in the Artist Alley. This time I'm partnering up with another local artist Justin "Invi" Vilonna. I wanted to do something special for the show, so I came up with a tribute piece of my childhood hero, Wonder Woman. Her invisible plane just makes me giggle with delight.

Prints available

I came up with my own version of the plane. I know, I know... who would paint a face on an invisible plane - you can't see it. Hey, it's my invisible plane, ok! And it's going to have a face! With teeth! (For those plane enthusiasts, it's based on P40 Warhawk.)

Last week, I was part of another amazing show at The Lounge put on by Art Nouveau Events. The theme was Star Wars, so I couldn't stay away. My contribution to the show was "Teatime with Wampa":

Prints available

I'm really happy with how this came out. My only regret is that I didn't have more things on the table, it's a little sparse for teatime...Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-59966160485951548412011-04-29T10:42:00.004-04:002011-04-29T11:19:19.873-04:00ArtRock! 2011Just over one week away from ArtRock!, this show has a special place in my heart. Not only is it created by my dear friend and super-cool-awesome-girl, Amanda Linton, it was my first art fair, and that was only just last year. This was the show that infected me with inspiration to start showing my work and get serious about illustrations. This year, I'll be joined by Little Lina and she has some exciting new pieces to show. She's threatening that she'll be painting live!

Floridians, come by and see some awesome local artists at ArtRock! next Saturday, May 7th!!!

I would also like to announce couple of new shows I'll be attending. I'm getting out of comfort-zone of Florida and exploring Atlanta. Grateful for being able to visit one of my best friends, an Atlantian, I've been able to check out their art scene last couple of years. I will be doing Indie Craft Experience (ICE) in June, and the big whammer-jammer of a comic con, DragonCon (September)!Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-33295000376924846002011-04-24T11:32:00.003-04:002011-04-24T12:09:34.975-04:00What happened to spring?Here in Florida, it's already summer temperatures and rising... March and April just flew by. Some ups and downs - death in the family, caught the flu... twice, awesome comic book convention, and couple of super art shows.

Megacon was fantastic and I caught the fever! I want to do more! I saw and met wonderful artists and somehow felt like I was in the right place in the center of all things geek. I submitted for DragonCon in Atlanta. Just waiting for the jury rounds to be completed to see if I got in. If not, I'll stick with smaller cons and try out again next year.

I also finished couple of paintings.

This one was a massive piece for me at 18x24. It took few months to complete, not because it was overly complex but because I did so many smaller (faster) works during it and kept putting it to the sidelines.

One of those smaller works, "Swing" was a fun piece. I tried to paint loose and expressive. And really fast. Not sure if this is "me", but I enjoyed the process.

Coming up in a couple of weeks is ArtRock put on by amazing Amanda Linton. I will be sharing the booth again with my pARTner in crime, Little Lina. Hope to see you there!Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-22587225151725892042011-03-09T11:18:00.004-05:002011-03-09T12:00:11.546-05:00February Re-capThe second month of the year blew by like it's the shortest month of the year! Oh wait...

Couple new pieces were completed for the monthly art shows - Howley's and The Lounge. Both themes were Valentine-based so I did companion pieces - "Roses are Red" & "Violets are Blue".

These were painted on very soft wood panels. I learned a few things about painting on wood. If you don't have the wood sealed, because acrylic is water-based medium, it will make the grain of the wood more rough. I found an excellent sealer called "Sanding Sealer" by FolkArt found at a craft store. I only needed to sand lightly to get rid of the fibers and it kept the wood smooth no matter how much medium I was using.

I am still experimenting with painting on gold and silver leaf. I have one tip about applying the adhesive. Make sure you brush it on smooth and leave no beading or texture. You will be able to see every rough brush stroke when you apply the leaves. I have been painting on it with acrylics by applying 2 thick layers of matte medium for the surface. And I have also tried water-soluable oils. But I think it's time to bring out the real oils.

Now my attention shifts to March and what it will bring at the end of it - MegaCon! New pieces are in process. Prints, banner, travel plans... lots to do.Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-32610671707994319222011-01-21T10:41:00.003-05:002011-01-21T10:59:01.110-05:00Steampunk at The Lounge by Art Nouveau EventsCouple days ago (Wednesday), I participated in a Steampunk show at The Lounge (West Palm Beach), curated by Art Nouveau Events. Teresa Korber puts on this awesome monthly event, with each show a different theme.

For the show, I put together couple of pieces painted on vintage gold-leafed plaques found years ago at a yard sale. I almost got rid of them last month, not knowing what to do with them. I'm glad I kept them because I love how these came out.

Work in progress:

Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-43729495507499431802011-01-11T11:37:00.003-05:002011-01-11T11:55:23.259-05:00New Year's "Promises, Promises"Happy New Year! I'm hoping for a very exciting year. I started it off with a trip down to Miami at the Wynwood Art District's Wynwood Market. Every 2nd Saturday of the month, there is a Gallery Walk, and the outside market is located in the middle of everything. I hope to be there again next month.

Tonight is opening night of Howley's monthly art show, put on by the infamous Amanda Linton. Lowbrow art and milkshake, perfect combination! This month's theme is "Resolutions." I didn't really want to reveal my New Year resolutions, so I decided to put them in a bottle and send it out into the unknown. This piece is called "Promises, Promises" and is 8x10 Acrylics:

My under-drawing:

Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-34466178911680968892010-12-22T18:12:00.007-05:002011-01-05T15:44:03.618-05:00Mustang Sally - Pinup Girl for 24 Hour Lemons

Finally completed, "Mustang Sally" is ready to go for a ride!

The paint brushes did not like the rough texture of the hood that's been spray painted with matte black. So the details had to be done with charcoal pencils, and I really like the effect.

We did a quick test fitting on the car:

A progress shot in my studio:

The race will be held at Palm Beach International Raceway on December 31, 2010.

The race team's blog - http://teamexperimentals.blogspot.com/
24hr Lemons site - http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-70671308591720759082010-12-16T11:46:00.003-05:002010-12-16T12:12:36.425-05:00Transferring Large DrawingWhen I was a kid I saw a movie about Michelangelo ("Agony and Ectasy"), where Charlton Heston was transferring a large drawing onto the wall of the Sistine Chapel. He had punctured pinholes through the paper, outlining the drawing, and was rubbing chalk onto it to transfer dots onto the wall. I've never seen anybody do this in real life, probably because projectors are much easier.

Well, I didn't have a projector handy, and I didn't want make a mess on the hood by doing the grid method. I scanned in my original drawing, scaled it up in Photoshop, and printed it out in pieces. I taped the pieces together, then tediously punctured holes, following the lines of the drawing.

After taping it into position on the hood, I used a soft white chalk and traced the drawing. Then I redrew the sketch on the hood by connecting the dots.

I can't imagine doing a complicated drawing this way, but for this one it worked out great.Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-51338748413906645792010-12-15T10:29:00.010-05:002010-12-15T11:45:04.392-05:00Work-in-progress: Pinup Girl for 24hr LemonsThere's a hood of a car on my dining table! Living with a grease-monkey husband, I got use to the dirty door knobs, transmission on the patio, and his fellow grease-monkeys working on various cars on the driveway. Well... maybe not the dirty door knobs...

Actually, the hood is there for a good reason this time. I'm painting on it! It's for my husband's latest obsession - 24hr Lemons Race. The entry cars are suppose to have a theme. Since his car is a Mustang, the theme is P-51 WWII fighter plane called the Mustang. As you know, the pilots painted pinup girls on the nose of the planes back then.

My husband is great - he's been so supportive of my goal to be a working artist. I wanted to do something for him for putting up with MY obsession last couple of years.

Normally, I would do this kind of thing out on my patio. And normally, Florida would be beautiful outside this time of year. But we are having some freakish cold weather down here, so dining table it is!

I also had some great help last night from our roomie. Thanks, Rama! If he can keep helping (hint hint) this will be done in no time!

The race team's blog - http://teamexperimentals.blogspot.com/
24hr Lemons site - http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-64460642818772172592010-11-18T10:04:00.002-05:002010-11-18T10:20:16.429-05:00Megacon!Just a quick little post to announce that I will have a table at Megacon in Orlando - Gray table #11 to be specific. It is at the Orange County Convention Center, March 25th through 27th. This will be my first non-local show and I'm scared to death! Well, I guess it's sort of local, it is still in Florida.Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-61566708566449884772010-11-16T12:53:00.005-05:002010-11-16T13:05:59.903-05:00Little Drummer ElfMy favorite reindeer and elf are back this year for my Christmas card illustration. This time I finished it with more time for me to actually get the cards printed professionally, instead of doing it myself.

Oh! And tonight at Howley's, we'll be having a Mini Art Mart. Very affordable art by local artists, perfect for gift giving!

Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-79008854782742811442010-10-31T19:04:00.003-04:002010-11-01T09:42:02.147-04:00Huladollsquidgirl UkuleleJust in time for next week's Palm Beach Art & Music Festival, I finished painting my favorite tentacled cutie on the uke. Done in acrylics, she is one of a kind. I hope someone will fall in love and take her home. If not, no biggie - I'll be happy to keep her for myself. I'm still learning "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" anyways.

(UPDATE: Submitting this for Illustration Friday theme - "Spent." A bit of a stretch, but here it goes... The girl needs a break! She is "spent" from too much hula dancing.)

Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-58950973512380687742010-10-29T09:26:00.007-04:002010-10-29T09:31:38.781-04:00Christmas CardsThese cards are available now at my Etsy store!

Erika (Raven Girl)http://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-33128417893543186522010-10-16T20:53:00.010-04:002010-10-16T21:22:20.878-04:00DEKKA SouthI got an opportunity to actually have my very own display wall at DEKKA, a hip fashion/art gallery on Fashion Row in Hallandale, Florida. I have original pieces and framed prints hanging there. Please stop by and check it out if you are local (closed Sundays).

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www.dekkafam.com | 954-455-2616Erika (Raven Girl)http://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-5064682862755183727.post-65704490330615329022010-10-15T11:09:00.004-04:002010-10-15T11:21:58.154-04:00Our booth at Stitch Rock 2010Lina and I had an awesome time at Stitch Rock, and can't wait til Art Rock in May, another awesome event that will be put on by Amazing Amanda (Linton).

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This 84-lecture, 12-professor tour of Western philosophical tradition covers more than 60 of history's greatest minds and brings you a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present.
It took 3,000 years for the debate chronicled in these lectures to reach maturity.
With this series of lectures, you can encompass it by the end of next month. You'll travel chronologically through the history of the Western world, charting the intriguing development of Western philosophy and drawing fascinating connections between thinkers separated by the gulf of time and space. You'll acquaint yourself with the Greek Pre-Socratics (the world's first scientific thinkers) and examine in detail the insights of three towering figures: Socrates, his student Plato, and Plato's student, Aristotle.
You'll examine the contributions to philosophy from biblical traditions and the great minds of the Christian age. Then, you'll mark the critical schism that developed between the claims of faith and those of science and participate in the breathless discovery found during the Enlightenment, which reveled in the new freedom of human potential and scientific expansion. You'll study the provocative philosophical responses (by the Existentialists and others) to the challenges raised by the new scientific consciousness. And you'll conclude with an overview of the work of Derrida and other late 20th-century philosophers and theorists.
The full list of lecturers includes Professors Alan Charles Kors, Darren Staloff, Dennis Dalton, Douglas Kellner, Jeremy Adams, Jeremy Shearmur, Kathleen M. Higgins, Louis Markos, Mark Risjord, Phillip Cary, Robert C. Solomon, and Robert H. Kane.
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"Fantastic overview"
I have recommended it to my friends, because this is, as far as I know, the best and most simultaneously accessible and comprehensive overview of philosophy that is available in the audio-book format. Furthermore, the fact that such a variety of scholars present the material is helpful: everyone seems to be an expert on the thing that they're talking about, and almost every one of the lectures is informative and interesting.
The lectures on Nietzche, Rorty, Aquinas and Kierkegaard.
They are all confident and clear in their presentation, and it seems obvious that they are all truly experts and experienced teachers.
Learn, understand, then decide whether you accept or reject.
"Your Mileage May Vary"
Prepare yourself for some sophisticated concepts. This is not your average audiobook, and if you want to get your money's worth you'll have to concentrate and often repeat certain lectures to fully understand all the interrelated concepts mentioned and discussed in it. And some lectures mention concepts that have been introduced in previous lectures, with little more than a quick recap. So better get your academia ready.
With multiple professors contributing, I couldn't help but notice that a few of them had certain pronunciation perks which started to bother me after a couple of courses they give. It shouldn't take too much value away, however.
I have never written a review in 5+ years of membership on the Audible site and hundreds of books read. However, I had to write one for this collection. I have spent years borrowing these titles from my local public library (all the way back to when they only had a limited array of cassette tape courses). Each course is like sitting in on a series of college lectures discussing the topic your choosing - at your pace - with no finals or tuition bills! For anyone on the fence about buying, don't wait, they are well worth it. These courses are going to cost me a lot of credits...
"Overall "meh" feeling"
Probably. The quality of speakers and recordings is great. You can hear the excitement of the narrators on their topic of discussion. The problem is that it provides little in depth knowledge on the subjects, leaving the listener always wanting more. Perhaps that is what this kind of survey approach is going for, likely even, but it didn't feel like enough for me personally.
No story at all. Though there is some emergent narrative.
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