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The Pitman girls tennis team came up short against a visiting Merced Bears team, 2-7, on Tuesday bringing the Pride's league record to 4-5.
The Turlock High football team broke its recent lull and with a hard-earned victory on the road, defeating Golden Valley, 50-29, in Friday's Central California Conference opener.
Q. What does it mean to be a team captain for Denair High varsity soccer?
Pitman High continued its winning ways Friday night with an old fashioned, defensive beat down of Buhach Colony High in the Pride's Central California Conference home opener at Joe Debely Stadium.
The atmosphere was electrified at the Turlock High pool on Tuesday night after a much anticipated crosstown rivalry clash between Turlock and Pitman's varsity boys water polo squads resulted in a back and forth game.
Turlock High girls golf trounced Atwater on Tuesday by a score of 221 to 282.
The Pitman Pride girls varsity water polo squad is a perfect 5-0 in the Central California Conference to start off the 2014 season after defeating crosstown and league rivals Turlock, 12-6, at the Bulldogs' home pool on Tuesday.
Turlock High's girls tennis team is a perfect 6-0 in the Central California Conference thus far, after defeating Merced High, 6-3, on Tuesday at home.
Hilmar volleyball added yet another win to its prestigious record, beating out Modesto Christian 3-0 Monday evening, for its 14th consecutive victory.
The Delhi High varsity football team saw its three-game win streak come to a bracing halt on Friday in an 8-40 loss to a visiting Orestimba High team on the Hawks' homecoming night.
It was a perfect preseason for the Pitman High varsity football team.
After being outscored 208-18 through its first four games, Turlock Christian High put in its best performance of the season Friday night against Brookside Christian High. Down by two touchdowns in the first quarter, the Eagles rallied behind freshman quarterback Jakob Skinner and junior running back Dominique Zendejas and kept pace with the Knights for the remainder of the game.
Q. How is it playing at the varsity level of Turlock High football as a sophomore?
Turlock has owned the tennis courts for the past four years against Pitman High and the streak continued on Tuesday for the defending Central California Conference champions.
The streak continues for the Pitman High Pride who recorded their 22nd consecutive straight-set victory on Monday with a 25-17, 25-17, and 25-4 win over Turlock High. Now ranked 74th in the nation and 14th in the state of California, the Pride comfortably sit atop the Central California Conference standings while Turlock sits in second place.
Action at the Denair High basketball tournament resumed on Friday when two local teams in Turlock Christian and Delhi met on the court in the consolation bracket with both teams seeking a win after falling in the first round.
Denair High will be playing for third place in its Denair Holiday Classic today after dropping Friday's game against Millennium High, 52-62. The Coyotes (4-8) hit the court strong against the Falcons (6-0) in the first half, but a third quarter slump that saw Millennium nearly double Denair's offensive output dashed the Coyotes' hopes at a championship run in their home tournament.
The girls of Turlock Christian High (6-4) hosted the much improved Denair Coyotes (4-4) on Friday night in a critical showdown between the two local schools.
In a complete turnaround from last year's disappointing start, the Denair High boys basketball team cruised its way out of the opening round of their home tournament with a convincing 52-29 win over Tioga High on Thursday night.
The Turlock Christian Eagles did not start off the Denair High basketball tournament how they had hoped, but instead fell into the consolation bracket after dropping the first game to Hughson in the opening round on Thursday night, 50-73.
Delhi High's boys basketball team pulled double duty on Thursday. First they put their brains to the test for finals, then they kicked off the Denair Holiday Classic with a game against Linden High.
Denair High nearly upset Ripon High on the wrestling mat Wednesday night, out-pinning the Indians four to six, but 18 points from a trio of forfeits was too much for the Coyotes to overcome. With holes at the 106-pound, 160-pound and Heavyweight weight classes, Denair dropped its first dual meet of the season, 30-41.
The Pride of Pitman came into their second game of the 38th annual Frank Godinez tournament against Laguna Creek - which had to forfeit their first round game due to Thursday's storm -with hopes of turning things around after a crushing first round loss to Beyer High.
Another solid effort from Turlock High on the court has landed the Bulldogs in the finals of the Frank Godinez Boys Basketball Tournament for the third year in a row.
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Jobless rate looks nice — until you look under hood
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Updated: November 8, 2012 11:59AM
The debate saga of Campaign 2012 moves to the vice presidential level Thursday as Democrat Joe Biden takes on Republican Paul Ryan with the twin goals of altering the narrative of debate failure by President Barack Obama and touting the September decline in the unemployment rate as proof that the administration's policies are working. Tough challenges both.
Such was the debacle of Obama's showing in the Denver debate against GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney that Democrats have resorted to denial and attack.
Denial has taken the form of all manner of excuses for Obama, perhaps most notably blaming moderator Jim Lehrer of Public Broadcasting for somehow mishandling his job in a way that harmed the president's performance. Nonsense. Lehrer did his job admirably in a format — agreed to by both sides — that emphasized free-wheeling exchanges between the two candidates and that kept to a minimum interference from the moderator.
Attack has come in the form of nasty Obama advertising accusing Romney of lying during the debate. That's an ugly way to characterize partisan differences. A key line of attack was to double-down on the charge that Romney has proposed a $5 trillion tax cut.
It was more than a little amusing to watch when CNN's Erin Burnett confronted Obama spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter with facts showing the allegation is false. "Well, OK, stipulated, it won't be near $5 trillion," grudgingly admitted Cutter, who has been caught on the wrong side of the truth before.
Democrats seized on the Labor Department's report Friday that the unemployment rate in September fell to 7.8 percent, dropping below 8 percent for the first time in 44 months. So surprising was the decline that it set off speculation among some conservatives about a cooked-booked October surprise.
That's not remotely likely as playing with the numbers to influence the election would surely come out eventually and plunge the nation in a crisis the likes of which we haven't seen since Watergate.
A more likely possibility advanced by several economists was that the September number was a statistical quirk. If so, we should find out when the October jobless number comes out days before the election.
For all the hoopla Biden may make out of the September figure, a closer look finds the Obama economy is still miserable. The jobless rate fell because employment increased by 873,000 last month. But a whopping two-thirds of those jobs — 582,000 — were part time.
As the Bureau of Labor Statistics put it, "These individuals were working part time because their hours had been cut back or because they were unable to find a full-time job."
Do Biden and Obama want to campaign on four more years of that?
What's more, a 7.8 percent jobless rate is more than 2 percentage points above the 5.6 percent rate the administration predicted for this month when it promoted its $830 billion stimulus in 2009.
Some other indicators support the idea that September was a fluke. The nation's economic growth rate has been falling for a couple of years, hitting 1.3 percent in the second quarter. Consumer spending fell in September, reports Gallup.
A survey by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce found 60 percent of small-business owners and executives say the business climate has deteriorated over the last two years, and only 17 percent expect to hire more workers next year, a number that's been trending down this year.
And 76 percent say the costs and regulations of ObamaCare make it harder to hire more workers.
Obama and Biden may tout a nice-looking September jobless rate, but looking under the hood shows that, as James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute put it, "The U.S. labor market remains in deep depression with virtually no recovery since the official end of the Great Recession."

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Former Los Angeles First Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner will be moderating tomorrow's mayoral debate at CSUN's Valley Performing Arts Center with a different approach.
"So far there hasn't been a very (subsistent) discussion about many of the issues (such as) public safety, transportation, the budget (and) education," he said.
Dropping out of the mayoral race last May in order to tend to his family life, Beutner said this debate will be slightly different than others for that reason.
"This (one) is a little free-formed. The candidates have agreed that I can follow up on their responses as I see fit," Beutner said.
He said that in order to draw out the actual differences in the candidates, a real conversation must be had, not just the repetition of campaign platitudes on a set number of topics.
"I think if we start working to solve problems rather than just talking about them in Los Angeles we can make a difference for our communities as a whole," Beutner said.
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The Cricket World Cup is one among the biggest tournaments of the world, like the Olympics and the Football World Cup. With its amazing quality of keeping the viewers glued to the match with the most unexpected turns and results, cricket today is the most popular and most watched sport after football and tennis. The ICC world cup, held every four years, is the premier international championship of men's One Day International Cricket.
History of One Day International (ODI) Cricket-
The first ever international cricket match was played between Canada and the US in September 1844. The first multilateral competition of test cricket at international level, known as the Triangular Tournament, was played in England between England, Australia and South Africa, in the year 1912. England, Australia and South Africa were the only three test playing nations at that time. They were joined by the team of West Indies in 1928, New Zealand in 1930, India in 1932 and Pakistan in 1952.
Cricket was an interesting sport, but gradually the test format of the game was loosing its sheen not only due to the long period of five days involved, but also because most of the matches finished with a draw, disappointing the viewers. Besides, the cricket industry was also facing shortage of capital, income and the skilled labor required for the game. It was turning into a non-profitable business. This led to the invention of the shorter version of the game which finished in one day.
The England Country County cricket teams began playing the shorter version of cricket in the early 1960s. The first one day international match too has an interesting story. It so happened that the five day test match between England and Australia, held in Melbourne in 1971, was ruined due to rain, greatly disappointing the spectators. To fill in the time available on the fifth day and to compensate for the frustrated crowd, a one day match was played between the two teams of England and Australia. It was a 40 over match with 8 balls per over.
The diminishing popularity of the test format and shortage of funds, the increasing popularity of the one-day matches
in England and all other cricket loving nations and the craze of the Football World Cup, inspired the International Cricket Council (ICC) to organize a Cricket World Cup.
The first world cup was held in 1975 in England. England was the only country at that time which had the required resources to host an event of such magnitude. The ICC World Cup was initially known as the Prudential Cup because it was sponsored by the insurance giant Prudential plc in England. When it was held in India and Pakistan in the year 1987, it was called the Reliance World Cup, as the event was sponsored by Reliance group.
Indian sub-continent as host-
The historical World Cup victory of India on 25th June, 1983, under the captaincy of the erstwhile Kapil Dev, heralded the dawn of the immensely profitable industry of cricket in India. Cricket overshadowed every other sport in the country as its popularity soared to crazy heights among Indians, irrespective of age, gender, caste or class. The 1983 World cup win not only changed the face of cricket in India, but this world cup, hosted by England for the third consecutive time, also sowed the seeds for the desire to host the prestigious tournament in the Indian sub-continent.
Mr. NKP Salve, the then BCCI president attending the world cup in England and cheering India through the matches. Inspite of his being a Union minister and also the president of the BCCI, he was refused a few complimentary passes for the final, by the ICCI. This disrespect not only hurt Mr. Salve, but it also gave birth to desire to democratize the ICC and break the dominance of England over all cricket related issues. Along with Mr. Jagmohan Dalmiya and Mr. I. S. Bindra, Salve started efforts to get the priviledge of hosting the world cup in the Indian sub-continent which had the greatest
number of cricket fans in the world. Pakistan fully supported India's cause. It required quite some efforts by Indiaand Pakistan to convince the ICC to get the World cup in India. Being a significant income generator, England tried to discourage by putting forth causes like- lack of international standard grounds, lack of good hotels for visiting players, lack of enough foreign exchange in India and Pakistan and the shorter days in the Indian sub-continent. The two determined countries played smart with commendable support from their political heads of that time, Mr. Rajiv Gandhi (PM of India) and General Zia-ul-Haq (President of Pakistan). All conditions and moneys were guaranteed, as Reliance won the bid as the chief sponsor of the tournament to be held in India and Pakistan. This paved the way to develop the required infrastructure for the international tournament. India also offered a 50 percent hike in prize money and a more equitable distribution of guarantee money to full and associate members of the ICC.
Regarding the shorter daylight period in the sub-continent, India and Pakistan offered to hold the 60 overs matches spanning in two days. This proposal was rejected and finally the matches were cut short to 50 overs. Ultimately, on July 19, 1984, India and Pakistan won the right to host the 1987 World Cup. The Indian sub-continent is hosting the World Cup for the third time in 2011.
The Trophy-
The current trophy was created for the 1999 championship and it was the first permanent prize in the tournament history. Prior to 1999 different trophies were made for each world cup. The current trophy is made of silver and gild. It features a golden globe held up by three silver columns, shaped as stumps and bails. The globe characterizes the cricket ball and the three columns represent the three fundamental aspects of cricket- batting, bowling and fielding. The names of the previous winners are engraved on the base of the trophy, with space for a total of 20 inscriptions.
A quick view of the ICC world Cup-
1975- The inaugural cricket world cup was hosted by England. The matches consisted of 60, six balls overs, with the players wearing cricket whites and using red cricket balls. The 8 teams participating were- England, Australia, India, New Zealand, Pakistan and West Indies. South Africa could not participate because it was at that time banned from international cricket due to apartheid. West Indies won the trophy by defeating Australia in the final match.
1979- The second World Cup was again held in England in 1979. Canadian team too participated in the tournament. West Indies were the winners for the second consecutive time defeating England.
1983- Hosted by England again, Zimbabwe was the new entry this time. India won the cup by defeating West Indies.
1987- Hosted by India and Pakistan, the games were reduced to 50 overs per team due to shorter daylight hours in the Indian sub continent compared to England's summer days. The 1987 World Cup was won by Australia, played against England, by just 7 runs, which remains the closest margin in the World Cup final's history.
1992- The cup was co-hosted by Australia and New Zealand in 1992. The 1992 tournament introduced the colored clothing for players, white balls and also day/night matches. South African team participated for the first time as theban lifted. The Cup was won by Pakistan by defeating England.
1996- Held in the Indian sub-continent, co-hosted by India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Sri Lanka won the Cup playing against Australia.
1999- Held in England, with some matches played in Scotland, Ireland, Wales and Netherland. Australia won against Pakistan.
2003- The 2003 World Cup was co-hosted by South Africa, Zimbabwe and Kenya. The number of teams increased from 12 to 14. Australia won the cup playing against India.
2007- The 2007 tournament was held in West Indies, where again the cup went to Australia playing against Sri Lanka.


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There are approximately 3,300 street lights lining our City roadways. These lights are a mixture of top-of-the-post mounts which you see in the downtown and Spring Lake area, and cobra heads style fixtures which are located in the majority of our residential neighborhoods; both of these fixtures utilize a type of lamp called high pressure sodium (HPS). These lamps emit a yellow/orange light and vary in their power consumption depending on the wattage of the lamp in use; typical wattages are 70, 100, 150, 200 and 250.
On July 5th City crews began replacing the HPS street light fixtures from CR 98 to West St. with energy efficient fixtures that utilizes light emitting diode (LED) technology; this effort is being done to help reduce the maintenance and utility costs associated with the lighting of our roadways. This project, which is being funded by an Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Grant (EECBG), will allow us to install approximately 1,400 of the LED fixtures in our City.
One of the more evident changes that you will notice between the two types of fixtures will be the color of light they produce. While the physical attributes of the fixture themselves will be very similar, the orange/yellow tint that is currently created by the HPS lamps will now be replaced with a more apparent white light. Furthermore, the utility cost to operate a new LED fixture is less than half of its HPS counterpart and can last up to 3 times longer. This project will produce a savings of approximately $40K a year in reduced utility charges alone. Other savings will include a onetime PG&E rebate of $50 to $150 for every LED fixture installed (this amount varies on the wattage used), and a reduction in maintenance costs associated with employing this type of technology.
In an effort to get community buy in, City crews installed 80 of the LED fixtures in various locations of the City last year; feedback we received from an informal survey was very positive. Of the 381 responses received, 91% approved of the new lights, 4% disapproved, while 5% had no comment.
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Three airlines are asking British
airport company BAA to cut back on improvements at Gatwick airport,
saying the airports' passsenger load does not warrant the project's
$1.4 billion price tag.
The Guardian of London reports that British Airways, easyjet,
and Ryanair have sent a joint letter to BAA, which operates three
London airports, saying they would eventually have to pass along
the costs of the improvements to their passengers. The airlines
said the business plan supporting the improvements was unproven,
citing Gatwicks' 12 percent decrease in passengers in 2009.
The improvements are taking place
even as BAA is trying to sell Gatwick. In 2008, the company was
ordered to divest its self of some holdings by Britains'
Competition Commission, and the airport was put on the market in
September of last year. In the letter, the airline executives say
the eventual new owner may have a less expensive plan for airport
improvements. The airlines are specifically targeting a $318
million plan that BAA says would allow 95 percent of Gatwicks'
passengers to board airplanes from the terminal rather than using
Two groups are involved in the bidding for Gatwick: Manchester
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Great enviornment, quality family owned location.
Distance from home to work
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The idea is right, The execution: A step above neolithic incompetency. "
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I have been working at Park Place MotorcarsPros
-Base pay is decent, but taxes and deductions eat it up quickly.
-Good benefits, Incentives.
-Often busy pace, There is always something to do.Cons
-The hours and general scheduling if left alone can leave a lot to be desired, Often chewing up your whole day.
-Promotion is seemingly possible, but unfortunately with as many deciding factors as there are in the automobile service, and sales industry, it is very easy to slip up and have that be the cause of getting passed over for a promotion or bonus.
-The constant feeling of micromanagement is felt in just about everything that one as a Valet does. (The Greeters tell Valet's what to do, The Asst. Lead Valet tells Valet's what to do. The Lead Valet tells Valet's what to do, The Asst. Service Managers, or Service Advisors usually don't get involved, but their higher-ups, Service Managers will step in and tell Valet's what to do. Even the Service Director, and up on higher will tell Valet's what to do. )
In short, there is almost as many management figures as there are Valet's, And at times it can be very disconcerting, and even irritating to go take care of a task and have 5 different levels of management ask/tell you about it.
-The Asst. Service Managers at times can be lackadaisical in their response to a waiting client on the service drive.
-As with any environment where there are many in the same position, there is the usual element of competitive smearing (Someone in your same position making you look bad in front of management or fellow peers), and gossip. Word gets to management quickly over any little quibble.Advice to ManagementAdvice
-Allow one to take ownership over their work and perfect it.
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I worked at Park Place MotorcarsPros
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-The hours at Park Place are horrible and long
-No good channels of promotion. Most people in upper management have either been there forever or are placed there from outside.
-Can't take ownership of your own job and improve
-Upper level employees can be condescending
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The Authors Guild et al v. Google Inc.
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The Author's Guild et al v. Google Inc. Doc. 865 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK The Author's Guild Inc., Association of American Publishers, Inc., et al., Plaintiffs, -againstGoogle Inc., Defendant. Case No. 05-CV-8136 (DC) DECLARATION OF RON LAZEBNIK 1. My name is Ron Lazebnik. I am a member of the Bar of this Court and of the firm Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc., the not-for-profit organization through which Fordham University School of Law runs some of its clinical programs. Lincoln Square Legal Services, Inc., is counsel for putative class members Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, Inc. ("SFWA") and the American Society of Journalists and Authors, Inc. ("ASJA"), in this action (collectively the "Objecting Organizations"). 2. I make this Declaration in support of the Objecting Organizations' objection to the Amended Settlement Agreement on the grounds asserted in the accompanying Memorandum of Law. 3. Annexed hereto as Exhibit A is a copy of what I understand to be a web page that was associated with the URL http://www.ursulakleguin.com/UKL_info.html as of January 28, 2010. Exhibit A is a copy of a petition letter, written by Ursula K. Le Guin and signed by several other authors, requesting that this Court reject the Amended Settlement Agreement. 1 Dockets.Justia.com 4. Annexed hereto as Exhibit B is a copy of what I understand to be a web page that was associated with the URL http://www.ebook-converter.com/google-books-download.htm as of January 28, 2010. Exhibit B is a website where users may purchase a program which converts ebooks to PDF files, which can be saved on a user's hard drive and printed. 5. Annexed hereto as Exhibit C is a copy of what I understand to be a web page that was associated with the URL http://www.aboutonlinetips.com/google-books-downloader as of January 28, 2010. Exhibit C is a website containing information about programs which convert e-books to file formats which allow a user to save and print the e-book. WHEREFORE, the Objecting Organizations respectfully request that this Court reject the Proposed Amended Settlement Agreement. I, RON LAZEBNIK, declare under penalty of perjury that the forgoing is true to the best of my knowledge, information, and belief. Dated: January 28, 2010 New York, N.Y. /s/ Ron Lazebnik Ron Lazebnik a 2 CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I, Ron Lazebnik, do hereby certify that on January 28, 2010, I caused a true and correct copy of the foregoing document, in The Authors Guild et al. v. Google, Inc., Case No. 05 CV 8136-DC, to be electronically filed with the Clerk of Court using the CM/ECF system which will send notification to all CM/ECF subscribers, including: Michael J. Boni, Esq. Joanne Zack, Esq. Joshua Snyder, Esq. Boni & Zack LLC 15 St. Asaphs Road Bala Cynwyd, PA 19004 email@example.com Jeffrey P. Cunard, Esq. Bruce P. Keller, Esq. Debevoise & Plimpton LLP 919 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 email@example.com Daralyn J. Durie, Esq. Joseph C. Gratz, Esq. Durie Tangri Lemley Roberts & Kent LLP 332 Pine Street, Suite 200 San Francisco, CA 94104 email@example.com Any persons identified in the Notice of Electronic Filing as having appeared in the case and who are not registered ECF users will be served by United States Postal Service, first class mail. I certify under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the foregoing is true and correct. Dated: January 28, 2010 New York, New York /s/ Ron Lazebnik Ron Lazebnik


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Futurama may be over, but its characters have at least one more TV story to tell. In the first image from the Futurama/Simpsons crossover episode, we see Bender as a time-traveling Terminator, sent back to kill Bart before the boy can cause a horrible catastrophe. »
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Carlo Petrini to Receive Highest UN Environmental Award
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Carlo Petrini has been named one of the eight winners of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) Champions of the Earth award - the UN's flagship environment award that recognizes outstanding visionaries and leaders in the fields of policy, science and civil society action.
On September 18, 2013, during a ceremony in the American Museum of Natural History in New York, UN Under-Secretary General and UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner will officially award the prize to the founder and president of Slow Food. As Petrini cannot be there in person, Richard McCarty, President of Slow Food USA, will receive the trophy on his behalf.
Outlining their motivations for choosing Petrini, the UNEP said:
"With this Prize, we recognize your remarkable accomplishment as the founder of the Slow Food Movement covering a network of over 100,000 supporters in over 150 countries. With the critical issue of sustainable consumption and production in the context of global food security, your movement has become a formidable force that defends local food traditions, protects local biodiversity, and promotes small-scale quality products with an increasing focus on investments in the South. Through the Presidia projects and the Terra Madre network of food communities, you have also helped focus attention on the important role of indigenous peoples in upholding food traditions as well as being the custodians of irreplaceable inherited knowledge".
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Gypsy At Heart
After graduation, most of my friends took the logical and reasonable step to become college freshmen. I didn't. College is in my plan for next year. I'm not unlike a Gypsy – traveling about, always searching, always enticed by change. Gypsy At Heart will chronicle my gap-year/backpacking-adventure/cause-for-some-people-to-smile-as-if-constipated-when-they-hear-of-solo-travel-in-Europe/Eat-Pray-Love-esque-search-for-beauty-and-inspiration.
I am a singer and entertainer (and now a writer!) and will post anything and everything of interest I encounter abroad.
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Cian \cian\ as a boy's name is pronounced KEE-an. It is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Cian is "ancient". Name of Brian Boru's son-in-law, who played a major role in the battle of Clontarf (11th century). Variants are anglicized forms.
Cian has 4 variant forms: Kean, Keane, Kiean and Kian.
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Community Projects Demonstrate Risk-Sharing CUSO Model
With more than $1 billion in business loans already funded in Michigan, credit unions continue to demonstrate their commitment to Michigan businesses via ongoing collaboration in commercial lending throughout the state. Two new community-based projects are a great example of how credit unions in Michigan continue to reduce the financing gap caused by reduced lending by banks and non-bank lenders.
Construction on the Dexter Wellness Center in Dexter and on a multi-unit residential and retail property in downtown Auburn Hills are well under way. In both cases, a strong commitment from the lead membership credit union was complimented by support of additional credit union participants. In total, the two loans have 18 combined participants, with commercial lending CUSO Michigan Business Connection providing the construction administration and loan management for the credit union participants.
MBC President/CEO Bill Beardsley said the collaboration is typical of the loans it administers.
"Risk sharing is critical to safety and soundness, and these two projects illustrate the important role that credit unions are playing with economic development, affordable housing and quality healthcare," Beardsley said. "I don't think I've ever seen other financial institutions able to sincerely put their competitive differences aside in order to collaborate for the greater good like credit unions can. CUSOs help make that happen by providing expertise, but more importantly, a framework for the efficient exchange of risk and reward."
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Hi all,
I have a 7" android tablet installed in the dash of my '06 Mustang GT that replaces my 2-din Shaker 500 stereo perfectly . I have had it installed now for about 6 months and it does everything I want it to do functionality wise (GPS, MP3 playback, OBD monitoring via Torque-app, etc). But I have some concerns about the tablet battery now that it's spring. I live in Las Vegas and triple digit temperatures are on the way in a few months.
My worries are about how the li-ion battery in the tablet will stand up high temperatures of a car interior. Recently, I took a trip to LA and left my car in a parking lot for three days. I powered the tablet completely off to make sure I would not run the battery down while I was gone; I usually just have tasker put the tablet to sleep when I drive to work and leave the car at my work parking lot during the day.
When I got back after three days and powered the tablet on, the battery had about 15% charge and then quickly dropped to 0 and tablet powered off. I wonder if the high temperatures in the car interior during the three days might have caused this.
Another worry is about high temps in the interior (I have read that enclosed car interior temps here can get up to 160 degrees F or more) possibly causing the battery to over heat and possibly catch on fire.
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Through this new building security initiative, entry to all campus buildings has been switched over to a card swipe system. This system gives us greater control over building security.
Residence halls, classroom and administrative buildings (including JWU libraries, computer labs and dining centers) have been switched over to this system.
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Will I always need my card to get into my residence hall? Yes. As a resident, your JWU ID is the only way you will be able to gain entry to your residence hall. Your card will be valid 24-7 (except during the break when all buildings are shut down). To gain access, wave your card near the card reader, located at the main entrance. The door will release momentarily (for 5 seconds), and then re-secure.
Entry to residence halls is restricted to residents of that particular hall; you will also be required to show your ID to the front desk staff person.
If I have a visitor coming to my residence hall, how will they get in? A resident is still required to sign in their guest with the front desk staff person. (See the Student Handbook for the complete Guest/Visitor Policy.)
You and your visitor should either arrange a time to meet at the front entrance of the building so you can let them in or they should call you as they arrive outside the building. You can then go down to let them in.
What if I lose my JWU ID? Report the lost card immediately to Safety & Security, 305-892-7011. You will be charged $15 for a replacement card.
If you lose your card during regular office hours (Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm), report directly to SFS/Student Account Window, located in the University Center 1st floor.
In the event that you lose your ID card after hours or on the weekend, report directly to Safety and Security. Your lost card will be deactivated; you will then be issued an ID card. During regular business hours, you must update your Dining Services information at the SFS/Student Account Windows.
How long will it take to program my new card? Typically, a newly issued ID works within one hour of issue.
Why can't holes be punched in the cards? The entire card is actually a circuit board. If you punch a hole in it, you break the circuit. For your convenience, the new cards being ordered come with a pre-punched hole.
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Hotels in sunny Eilat run from family-style to huge, lush, and luxurious. Pleasure comes first: business facilities on a modest scale are available in larger hotels, whereas a beautiful and luxurious spa with a wide range of facilities is an important feature of each large hotel. Even many of the smaller hotels have installed spas. In Eilat, a few hotels operate on an all-inclusive basis. High season
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The Top 100 Songs Banned In ChinaSubmitted by zooamerica on Thu, 04/04/2013 - 20:54
The Top 100 Songs Outlawed in China
42.) The Backstreet Boys - I Want It That Way
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Now I know they're bad, but come on China! They're not that bad! The freaking Backstreet Boys? Seriously? Do they have any idea how stupid and tyrannical this makes them look?
"Tracks by Eminem, Christina Aguilera and Kylie Minogue fell foul of a sweep by the ministry earlier this year. In April, officials said they would punish 14 sites that had provided illegal downloads. The ministry also controls events such as concerts. In 2006 it reportedly banned the Rolling Stones from singing such risque numbers as Let's Spend the Night Together and Honky Tonk Women when they played in China – though apparently Start Me Up slipped past the censors."
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In other words, rap groups like NWA would never find much success in China. Songs like, "F@%k The Police," would have not gone over very well with the CPC.
Sorry, but I must do this....
I Want It That Way
And that's the way it should be, no matter how much you may be offended by the Backstreet Boys. Let's keep it that way, or else awesome posts on the DP like, "Time for my nightly jam session,"
will soon become outlawed as well. We will be restricted to posting only 2 government approved songs at one time, with a 4 post magazine cartridge per week limit.
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For some reason, I suspect this might not be exactly welcome
For some reason, I suspect this might not be exactly welcome to air in China, either:
Or is it?
"Cyril" pronounced "see real". I code stuff.
"To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous." -- Confucius
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I don't know how I missed this post Zooamerica, but thanks for posting.
Where would the world be without music? Banning music is just as offensive as banning books.
2 government approved songs per night? NO! Never... I will not comply.
"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living."
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Life-sized replica of Noah's Ark launched
DORDRECHT, Netherlands — Just as the first storms of winter roll in, Dutchman Johan Huibers has finished his 20-year quest to build a full-scale, functioning model of Noah's Ark — an undertaking of, well, biblical proportions.
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Brad Goreski Lands Another Styling Job
Styling for J. Brand.
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Beast Legends brings legendary creatures to life through computer graphics. A globetrotting animal doctor, a Harvard professor of evolutionary biology, a gifted illustrator and a mythology maven explore the truth behind some of the world?s renowned creatures. They seek clues to whether these mythical monsters could have really existed and how they became woven into local lore. Watch as they go to extreme lengths to unravel these myths.
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10 Cars That Deserved to Fail
Cars models come and go. And just like the discontinuation of our favorite model of gym shoe, or the rare timepiece we mortally wound and can't replace, their demise often hits us with immeasurable grief and sorrow. But every once in a while, a ride rolls off the assembly line that elicits an immediate "WTF?" from anyone with even an ounce of automotive appreciation. Whether poorly positioned in the market, too much of a brand departure or just plain ugly, they're the vehicles we can't wait to see disappear. Here are 10 embarrassments that couldn't fail fast enough for us.
By William Gock
Cadillac Catera (19972001)
Manufactured in Germany as essentially a re-badged Opel Omega, the Catera was GM's attempt at a sportier Cadillac, a move warmly welcomed by many car lovers. But this departure from the brand's traditional image of cushy luxury was riddled with problems that included premature tire wear, a faulty oil cooler that eventually allowed oil into the coolant and timing-belt issues that could lead to complete engine failure. Add all of that to the strange marketing campaign featuring Cindy Crawford, a cartoon duck and the tagline "The Caddy that zigs," and you got a car that couldn't zag into obscurity quickly enough.


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 Once again – words and things http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-alsina-editorial
Artnodes, in its editorial work of the last decade, has endeavoured to map out a niche for reflection and evaluation regarding the forces acting on something as elusive as the present of artistic and cultural practices associated with particular places and times.

Year after year, however, a somewhat perplexing paradox is painted. Is it a question of talking about the present from the past? Or rather a question of talking about the past from the present? In referring to the artistic and cultural practices of our networked society, past issues of Artnodes have remarked on the need to map, survey or rewrite these practices and even to the more radical need to wipe the slate clean. This is because – leaving aside the 'great narratives' and stories already told – their immediacy and primitiveness (in the positive sense) allow us to glance between what has and what will be written.
 Anna Rodríguez Granell Pau Alsina 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2039 Media art history/stories http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-alsina
The signs are that we are witnessing a blooming of the "digital humanities". Technology is reshaping and remodelling traditional research, teaching and outreach in humanities and introducing new methods, techniques and even epistemological frameworks that reflect a new image of knowledge always under construction. Art history faces similar challenges in terms of hybridizing the possibilities offered by the ICTs, but also faces an additional challenge of having to chronicle a set of artistic practices that are directly associated with the media (including the digital media), namely, media art, which has already acquired a few decades of a history of its own.
 Pau Alsina (Coord.) 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2040 Utopias of Technological Art: The State of the Question Fifty Years On http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-alcala-jarque
The technological art emerging during the early part of the second half of the 20th century actively worked to take apart the paradigms that had supported the utopias of the old culture for over 5 centuries. This new art took over the construction and management of these utopias that had been developed for the industrial society by the artistic avant-garde during the first half of last century and replaced them with those for the digital-cybernetic society. Now, in the 21st century, we can finally analyze the utopias of technological art in historiographical terms.

The article's authors provide their experience in the theory and practice, and as curators, managers and professors of new media and art in order to produce this highly needed, though to date non-existent, critical and self-critical analysis. The necessary distance and perspective that we now have allows us to finally undertake the necessary assessment of the level and significance of these utopias of technological art, and their evolution, fall or current validity.
 José Ramón Alcalá Mellado Vicente Jarque Soriano 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1924 Digital Humanities, Digital Art History and Artistic Culture: Relationships and Disconnections http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-rodriguez
This critical analysis of the relationship between institutional digital humanities and the artistic culture discusses the low level of representation of digital and computational artistic culture in the digital humanities context. Reviewed in the search for new interpretive paradigms is the referential framework that contextualizes convergence between the visual arts, artistic culture, art history and computerized and digital media developments.
 Nuria Rodríguez Ortega 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2017 The University of Madrid Computer Centre. Creativity and Technology in Spanish Universities in the 1960s http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-lopez-juan
This article is based on information collected from the archives of the president of the Complutense University of Madrid and from interviews with Florentino Briones and Ernesto García Camarero (the first and second managers of the University of Madrid Computer Centre, respectively), Manuel Fernandez Barberá (IBM delegate), Javier Seguí de la Riva (organizer of numerous seminars), Ignacio Gómez de Liano (organizer of the Plastic Shapes seminar) and José Luis Alexanco (participating artist). The University of Madrid Computer Centre was a pioneering experience in Spain, contemporary with other developed countries in developing and applying computing to creativity, broadly understood as open to all fields of knowledge. An IBM-donated computer was used to carry out projects of various kinds related to art, architecture, language, education and medicine, among others. The University of Madrid Computer Centre seminars fostered a new mode of creation and a form of aesthetics that placed Spain in the world vanguard.

 Aramis López Juan 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1984 The Latin American Electroacoustic Music Archive ... Ten Years on http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-dal-farra
Electroacoustic music has a long, interesting and rich tradition in Latin America. Certain outstanding composers who were born or lived in this region have been experimenting and creating in the field of electroacoustics since as far back as 60 years ago. However, it has always been difficult for educators, composers, performers, researchers, students and the general public to access recordings and information related to these composers and their work. In an effort to preserve, document and make known at least some creations by electroacoustic composers born in or associated with Latin America, an archive was created a decade ago at the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science and Technology in Montreal. This widely consulted archive has facilitated the recovery and recognition for our collective memory of near-forgotten works and their composers. By allowing us to assess the achievements and obstacles overcame by those who preceded us it will help us better understand the present and consider the future.

 Ricardo Dal Farra 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2000 Media Art in Latin America and Fabián Taranto's "Search in Progress": Politics, Participation and Memory http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-montero-hofman
This paper proposes a reflective and situated review of Fabián Taranto's net art work Search in Progress [Búsqueda en Proceso] (2006) in terms of the dialogue with other Latin American media art works. Without generalizing, we underline their shared perspectives on the construction and intersection of memory, politics and participation. We also analyse an aspect which is not an exclusive or intrinsic property of media art, namely, the growing tendency to go beyond symbolic representation to represent social problems in their own materiality.

Three fundamental aspects of Search in Progress are thus examined. First, we analyse the active and facilitating role of this work in (re)constructing and transmitting collective memory, emphasizing, in particular, how notions of presence and absence are expressed at different diegetic levels. Next, we look at a very particular use of databases and data visualization, understood as the "frustration design" approach. Finally, we describe how this art work operates within the logic of tactical tools, particularly as a device designed to depict residual histories, submerged histories or histories omitted from official and hegemonic discourses.
 Valentina Montero Vanina Hofman 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2002 Reporte del proyecto: Invenciones en los bordes de la Historia http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-burbano
Este texto es un reporte escrito en primera persona sobre el proceso y los resultados del proyecto de investigación: "Invenciones en los bordes de la Historia. Re-significación de tecnologías mediales desde América Latina". El proyecto estudia a nivel histórico diversas tecnologías visuales, sonoras y computaciones que fueron propuestas y desarrolladas en América Latina en paralelo a otras similares en diferentes latitudes del globo. La pregunta fundamental confronta las razones históricas y culturales por las cuales las tecnologías propuestas desde América Latina son en general desconocidas mientras otras similares hicieron aportes fundamentales a la cultura de los siglos XIX y XX. Finalmente el proyecto propone el concepto de "re-significación" como alternativa y complemento a conceptos que vienen de los campos de la historia y la arqueología de los medios. El marco de desarrollo del proyecto se hizo desde una perspectiva teórica y también práctica. Esta investigación es el resultado mi disertación doctoral en el programa Arte, Medios y Tecnología de la Universidad de California en Santa Bárbara y fue desarrollado entre los años 2007 y 2013.
 Andres E Burbano 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1996 Historizing Bioart, or the Methodological Challenges of (Media) Art History http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-del-rincon-cirlot
Bioart has attracted growing attention from artists, theoreticians and institutions since the early years of this century, although the relationship between art, biology and technology begun to be documented in the first 30 years of the twentieth century. The task of chronicling this relationship is necessary in order to be able to understand the origins and transformations experienced in this area of artistic endeavour. Historical analysis reveals that the apparently homogeneous term "bio-art" embraces a wide range of practices and discourses, each offering valuable insights to different bioart voices and controversies. For the art historian, bioart does not exist as an autonomous element but thrives on inertia and creates tensions as a result of its interaction with other artistic fields inevitably associated with it, primarily media art and mainstream contemporary art. In this article we argue that the task of historicizing bioart must address three issues: a chronological account of the relationship between art, biology and technology; problems and solutions arising from an understanding of bioart as part of media art (mainly related to materiality issues); and methodological challenges and rewards of understanding bioart in relation to other manifestations of contemporary art.
 Daniel López del Rincón Lourdes Cirlot 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1999 Representing the Microscopic: New Ecological Thinking in Art and Science http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-buiani
An impressive range of competing and complementary visual renditions helps us understand the immaterial and the invisible by assigning a visual appearance to microscopic and submicroscopic substances. However, the sheer variety that dominates visualization of the microscopic suggests that a represented object may be so complex that it cannot be reflected by a single artefact. That is to say, it is not a monolithic given, a pristine entity or a "thing in itself" waiting to be dismembered and represented. I analyse mixed media installations by the bioartists Tagny Duff and Elaine Whittaker, contending that their method constitutes a recent media art trend towards ecological (re)thinking. By examining specific arrangements of objects and artefacts and the scientific processes used to manipulate, prepare and make the microscopic visible and by placing them side by side in the same execution, these artists unveil new alternative economies of nature that may reshape the way we understand the microscopic.
 Roberta Buiani 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1997 Art and Science: Convergence in the Framework of Complexity Theory http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-stubrin
Given events in the arts and sciences since the creation of institutions like the MIT Media Lab in 1985, the experiments of artists like Eduardo Kac and Stelarc in the 1990s, the development of sci-art and neurohumanities and the proliferation of bioart laboratories in the early twenty-first century, I analyse how the randomness of the scientific method has been acknowledged as a unifying element for art and science, as two spheres of knowledge that share the production space of the laboratory. As Edgar Morin has pointed out, "a paradigm is invisible." Such interdisciplinary modalities are, perhaps, feeding into a third culture that we are still too blind to notice.
 Lucía Haydée Stubrin 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1485 The Trans-subjective Look: Conversations with Roy Ascott at the First Cyberculture and New Media Art Symposium http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-caerols
This article refers to my encounter with Roy Ascott at the First Cyberculture and New Media Art Symposium, which, as part of the Fourth Edition of the MADATAC (Open Contemporary Audiovisual Art Museum Festival), I organized – with the collaboration of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport – along with Juan Arturo Rubio Aróstegui, head of research at the Faculty of Arts and Letters of the Antonio de Nebrija University, Madrid. The aim was specifically to discuss Roy Ascott's current work in terms of theoretical variables and innovative creative experiences. I highlight the most important aspects of his recent research and work, focusing particularly on a methodology circumscribed by a particular dialectic that emerged during our conversation that proved to be both the motivation and the engine that drove my own research. Summarized here, then, are the results of my own research aimed at devising new artistic and knowledge creation paradigms along with some reflections regarding the role of technology in this process.
 Raquel Caerols Mateo 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1823 Topologies of Art in the Information Age http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-alvaro
Developments in recent years in electronic art and the new media can be characterized in many ways, among them with discourses based on their development in parallel with the technologies they use or based on the development of specific features such as interactivity, communication, synaesthesia and their relationship with the virtual. This article proposes a hybrid perspective, along the lines of the discourse of Edward Shanken, with new media art and contemporary art – especially as related to vanguard movements such as kinetic art, conceptual art, performance, the Fluxus movement, Dadaism, Situationism and experimental film – being more simultaneous than continuous. Media art and contemporary art both develop from a topological thought – as expressed by authors like Bergson, Deleuze, Serres, Agamben and Latour – that is pushed into movement. Objects and stable boundaries disappear and we have, rather, a complex world, with relationships, intensities and connections as defining elements and with an ability to simultaneously generate new, mutable territories. In this setting, life feeds on information exchange and art leaves behind the stable place it formerly inhabited to venture into the creation of new contexts and forms of interaction and the production of emergent meanings, and taking account of the kinetic and immersive spaces of multimedia installations, urban space and virtual and ubiquitous web space, the coexistence of urban and web space in augmented reality, and, finally, the ecology of a connected world where technology, life, culture, nature and the local – with its global implications – are all brought together.
 Sandra Alvaro 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2016 [art–feminism–technology]: laboratories of citizenship http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-creus
The crucial relationship between art and technology in terms of understanding the current state of language and artistic practices is well known. From this perspective, we argue that recent culture and art history have demonstrated how the art-technology-knowledge relationship can be an instrument of social and political transformation in the hands of women artists. This notion, which stems from an ongoing research project titled "Artistic practices [between] gender and technology", represents the starting point for the conceptual discussion developed in this article.

Our starting point may be briefly summarized by the statement that new attitudes to art and life, as passed down to us by the twentieth-century conceptual art trends and as revised and reinterpreted by certain women artists from the technological reality of the twenty-first century, are opening up a new battleground in global cyberspace. In their very deliberate creative practices, these women artists pose very specific questions. To what extent is the development of Web 2.0 a subtle means of alienation in the new world capitalist order? To what degree do the ICTs enhance the invisible technologies that standardize bodies, subjectivities, psyches and mindsets? How can we ensure that the promise of technology does not become yet another failed myth of modern democracies?
 Maia Creus Castellana 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.1998 Collecting Intangibles: Marketing Strategies for Net art Works http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-waelder
Since its emergence, internet art has adopted a critical stance towards the traditional art world and has marked a distance from the market and galleries. However, over the last decade, many net artists have sought to sell or obtain some financial return for their work, whether through initiatives of their own or in cooperation with galleries and collectors. In regard to works freely accessible on the Internet – which only exist in the exchange of data between two machines – I examine several sales strategies developed by net artists, gallery owners/managers and other groups to overcome the limitations imposed by traditional art market approaches based on scarcity and exclusivity. The examples discussed ultimately lead us to consider possible alternatives to art market dynamics that more closely reflect current artistic practices.
 Pau Waelder 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2015 Imaginative Rationalisation and Speculative Archiving. Thoughts about language in media art database archives. http://artnodes.uoc.edu/index.php/artnodes/article/view/n13-wenhart
In contemporary discourse, speculation generally refers – in a negative context – to risky or hazardous business transactions and to statements in everyday language that cannot be proven. In philosophy, speculation is a way of generating knowledge when traditional methods reach their limits. In its original sense, speculation means "observation", a Latin interpretation derived from the Greek word theoria. This notion of the term is quite the opposite of its current predominant use.

The meaning I prefer comes from my grandmother. She was Bohemian – geographically, not in her lifestyle. She was a farmer and a very practical person. Instead of saying "I have to think about something", she would say "I need to speculate about it". This was combined with gazing at the ceiling as though she could see and compare different scenarios there that she could zoom in and out of, rewind and fast-forward, examine, change and rearrange in every detail. By imagineering and envisioning future options, she could pursue a train of thought and evaluate its effects. It was an iterative approach to arriving at a certain kind of experience and security regarding the option on which to base her next actions, a combination of rationalisation and creative thinking that is comparable to what we now call action research.
 Nina Wenhart 2013-11-01 2013-11-01 13 10.7238/a.v0i13.2014


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Magnolias - Bloom and Doom?
Over half the world's magnolia species are close to extinction in the wild, says new report
Magnolias may be blooming in Britain's gardens this spring, but in the wild it's an altogether different story. Over half the world's magnolia species are facing extinction in their native forest habitats, according to an authoritative new report from two leading plant conservation organisations.
The Red List of the Magnoliaceae, published jointly today by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), through the Global Trees Campaign (GTC), identifies 131 wild magnolias as being in danger of extinction, from a global total of 245 species.
The significance of this potentially catastrophic loss lies not only in the threat to the genetic diversity of the family, but also because they are a highly sensitive indicator of the well-being of the forests in which they are found. Magnolias are among the most ancient groups of flowering plants and have long been cultivated by mankind. Some specimens growing in the precincts of Chinese temples are estimated to be up to 800 years old. Still popular as ornamental plants in gardens around the world (although fewer than 15 species are common in cultivation), in the wild magnolias are a source of timber, food and medicines for local communities.
Speaking at the report launch in London, Sara Oldfield, Secretary General of BGCI and one of the report's authors, said: "We now have a choice. We can use the new information to conserve these important trees and restore their forest habitats or we can catalogue their extinction."
"The second option", she added, "would be a tragedy".
Some two thirds of known magnolia species are found in Asia, with over 40% occurring in southern China. According to the report half of all wild Chinese magnolias are at risk of extinction. In the Americas, north and south, where magnolias are also found in the wild, a similar picture is emerging. In Colombia, for example, the report concludes that the threat of extinction hangs over 30 of its native species.
Underpinning the report is a comprehensive mapping exercise carried out at Bournemouth University. According to report co-author, Professor Adrian Newton, "The maps provide an excellent baseline for future monitoring and conservation planning at a time of rapid environmental change. Comparing species distribution with forest cover for a whole family of flowering plants gives us a unique snapshot of forest biodiversity."
Drawing on the report's findings BGCI and FFI are collaborating through the Global Trees Campaign to boost conservation efforts for threatened magnolias. Later this month, at the 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan, China (April 16 - 20, 2007), BGCI will launch a survey of botanic garden collections of threatened magnolias species. This will enable BGCI to identify precisely which threatened species are not yet held in ex situ collections (in botanic gardens and arboreta, etc.), and take action to ensure that integrated conservation measures for these species are developed and implemented.
FFI is already working to improve the status of the wild populations of the most threatened magnolia species in China. "We are aiming to restore wild populations of key magnolia species in Yunnan Province," said Dr Georgina Magin, Global Trees Campaign Coordinator at FFI, "We hope to be able to extend this work to take action for other species, both in China and in other parts of the world."
Also being launched at the 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress in Wuhan is China's Strategy for Plant Conservation, designed to coordinate and strengthen the work already being undertaken by Chinese universities, botanic gardens and Government agencies to conserve Chinese magnolias. BGCI has been instrumental in assisting key Chinese agencies to develop the Strategy.
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Red List of the Magnoliaceae
The Red List of the Magnoliaceae, published jointly by Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI) and Fauna & Flora International (FFI), through the Global Trees Campaign (GTC), identifies 131 wild magnolias as being in danger of extinction, from a global total of 245 species.
Magnolia Images
Over half the world's magnolia species are close to extinction in the wild, says a new report from BGCI and Fauna and Flora International. We've gathered some pictures.
Where to see Magnolias in the UK and Beyond
These UK botanic gardens have told BGCI they have notable collections of Magnoliaceae.
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The BGCI plant search allows you to research plants in living collections all around the world. It gives cross-referenced information with Red Data Lists, plant images, the International Plant Names Index, Crop Wild Relatives, and the Tree Conservation Database.
3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress
The 3rd Global Botanic Gardens Congress has drawn to a successful conclusion. Attracting nearly 1,000 participants from 67 countries, the proceedings are now online, along with blog updates, pictures and useful links for you to continue benefiting from the event.
World Checklist of Magnoliaceae
Covering 7 genera, 223 species, this volume contains the first full list of the Magnolias (128 species). With additional information on life forms and distribution, and bibliography of the most relevant taxonomic literature, this is an essential reference for biologists, growers and collectors.
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Over 8000 tree species, 10% of the world's total, are threatened with extinction. The Global Trees Campaign is addressing the problems with help from botanic gardens and BGCI.