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With a diameter of 15m, the JCMT is the largest dish in the world dedicated to observing at submillimetre (sub-mm) wavelengths. Submillimetre light comes from the coldest and most distant material in the universe and has a wavelength 1000 times longer than visible light. Sub-mm emission traces everything from cold dust in the Milky Way, just a few degrees above absolute zero, to distant galaxies whose light has been stretched by the expansion of the universe.
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"The JCMT has been an outstanding success over the past quarter century" says Professor Gary Davis, its Director. "It has provided its user communities in the United Kingdom, Canada and the Netherlands with scientific capabilities that are unrivalled anywhere in the world. With the recent release of SCUBA-2, this success will continue into the future and I look forward to seeing the observatory continue to thrive."
The JCMT is operated by the Joint Astronomy Centre (JAC) on behalf of the UK Science and Technology Facilities Council, the National Research Council of Canada, and the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. The JAC operates two telescopes on Mauna Kea; the second is the United Kingdom Infrared Telescope (UKIRT), that celebrated its 30th birthday in 2009.
W51, located in the constellation of Aquila, is one of the most massive regions of star formation within the galaxy. It is in stellar nurseries such as this that the stars form with enough mass to go on to end their lives in Supernova explosions. The background is a mid-infrared Spitzer image while the blue overlay is 850μm data from SCUBA-2. Credit: Spitzer/GLIMPSE, JAC.
The James Clerk Maxwell Telescope sits at 14,000 ft atop Mauna Kea in Hawaii. Credit: JAC.
A ring of dust particles around a nearby star, Epsilon Eridani. This star is similar to the Sun and the ring is thought to resemble the Kuiper Belt in our own Solar System. The clumpy structure is suggestive of planets, and it is known from other techniques that there is at least one planet orbiting this star. The ring was images with the SCUBA instrument on the JCMT but the star in the centre is an artists impression. Credit: Greaves et al.
This image of the Hubble Deep Field, taken with the SCUBA instrument, reveals the presence of primoridal, dust-enshrouded galaxies form the when the universe was about one tenth its current age. This discovery spawned the field of submillimetre cosology, which has been one of the primary areas of astrophysics supported by the JCMT. Credit: D. Hughes et al.
The first detailed image of filamentary structure traced in the Northern part of the Orion A cloud, showing where the stars are forming from clumps of cold gas and dust. The ability to image condensations of cold dust with the SCUBA camera, and more recently with SCUBA-2, has made the JCMT one of the choice instruments in the world for studying the earliest stages of star formation. Credit: Johnstone et al.
Sub-millimetre wavelengths are much smaller wavelengths than emitted by a typical radio station, but lo nger wavelengths than light waves or infrared wavelengths.
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Your plant is fine! Don't worry about the lost leaves. They will quickly grow back and as long as they receive a few hours of direct sunlight, can be brought back into bloom. Bourgainvilleas do like to dry out between waterings; encourages flowering. I have one in a western exposure that gets between 3-4 hours of direct sun at this time of year. I water about twice a week--still, it always seems to be dry. It is blooming heavily now but did nothing in the summer when it was outside (probably was too wet). (Don't fertilize at this time of year.) Good luck! |
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Posted on June 18, 2013 by Patrick Smith
Scott Wyden Kivowitz is a New Jersey photographer with a focus in portrait and landscape photography. Scott is also the Community & Blog Wrangler at Photocrati Media where he teaches others how to improve their photography business through their websites.
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I have been taking pictures since I was young and dabbled a little in high school with photography classes. However, it was not until I was in college that I realized photography was what I wanted to do with my life. I was originally going to school at Berklee College of Music in Boston, for music recording. I wanted to own a recording studio in New Jersey where there are very few. However, after one semester at the school, I decided to move back home and transfer to a county school with a fantastic music department. I continued with that path for another year or so until I realized how much I really despise music theory. After an in-depth talk with friends and family I made the decision to take a curve in the road of life, and head towards photography. As it turned out, I fell in love with photography theory.
My first camera was a Fujifilm SLR which was originally my biological father's camera. He passed away when I was just two years old, but we have a lot in common. He and my grandfather were both big photography nuts. They both had cameras with them all the time, and my father was also a Johnny Cash fan like me. When I decided to pursue photography as a career, I used my father's Fujifilm camera for a while. Eventually I picked up a Nikon D80 and some autofocus lenses. When my grandfather passed away, he left me all of his camera equipment including a Nikon F in pristine condition. While I did use it for school here and there, I keep it on display with my camera collection in all of its beautiful glory.
My career path has changed drastically since college. I really thought that one day I would own a photography studio, but as it turned out I am a full-time blogger for Photocrati. There, we develop WordPress products for photographers. So, although I am not taking pictures on a daily basis, I am fully engulfed in the photo community, teaching other photographers and writing about the art regularly.
Your gear?
My current setup includes a Nikon D800 as my main camera, with a D700 as a backup. My lenses include the Nikon 24-70 f/2.8, 70-200 f/2.8 and a wide range of primes including 24mm PC-E, 35mm, 50mm and 85mm. I decided to have the choice between zooms and primes for a couple reasons. For one, primes are typically sharper than zoom lenses. The second reason is because sometimes I want to carry light, and primes are pretty darn light. For transporting my gear I stick with Think Tank Photo products because of their strong and weather protected materials, customer service and warranty. I'm the type of photographer who would rather save money and pick up the best product I can rather than anything else. So I saved enough to pick up a Really Right Stuff tripod system and a complete Lee Filter solution. You can see all of my gear on my website.
Piece of gear you can't leave home without. Why?
If I am not going out to photograph something in particular, then I always have my 35mm lens attached. It's the most diverse lens in my opinion. It allows me to get portraits and landscapes but also keep the weight down. If I am just walking around somewhere I don't have my tripod in hand, but usually nearby. No matter what I always have an extra battery and memory card in a pocket because you never know if they will be needed.
Favorite lens?
My favorite lens, and workhorse is my 24-70mm f/2.8. I use that on majority of my commercial shoots, and many of my landscapes. With it I am able to have a sharp wide view at 24mm with practically no distortion and vignetting. I can also zoom to 70mm and grab some portraits on the fly.
How would you describe your style of photography?
I find myself to be a mix of a purist and experimental photographer. I always try to capture my vision in camera to reduce the amount of post processing time. When processing I never add clouds that weren't there, or textures over photographs. While I appreciate the ability to do it, I prefer keeping the photo original.
Whose had the most influence on you and your work?
This is a difficult one because when browsing Google Plus there is so much inspiration in every direction. If I had to pick from all the photographers, I would say Lee Friedlander and Robert Frank influence my style the most. Or at least did when I first starting my photography education. By the way, photography education never stops.
What is the coolest person, place, or thing ever photographed?
My favorite place to photograph is Eastern State Penitentiary in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Every time I go there, I find something new to photograph. There is so much color, texture and destruction. It's an amazing place to visit. For those who do not know what ESP is… it is a museum converted from the oldest prison in the USA. They are slowly restoring bits and pieces but leaving as much of it in original form as they can, safely.
How do you incorporate onOne Software into your post processing workflow?
I am sure I am not alone on this but I find Adobe Photoshop to contain way too much for the average photographer's needs. So I try my hardest not to use it in my workflow. Most of my photography processing is spent in Adobe Lightroom, and that is where my library sits. I do the bulk of my edits within Lightroom to save time, and stay consistent. Then, when I need that extra boost of that special something, I open the Perfect Photo Suite and keep flowing through my processing. Typically I am inside of Perfect Effects and Perfect B&W for monochrome conversions. Depending on the scene I will use the other software in the suite, like Perfect Portrait and FocalPoint. I processed the church landscape photograph using Lightroom 5 for debris and spot removal (from the water not my camera) and Perfect Effects for added vibrancy and tones.
What is your favorite onOne product and tool? Why?
Perfect Effects because the endless possibilities, easy tools that anyone can figure out and the Perfect Brush which is such a time saver. Styling a photograph in Perfect Effects is not only effective for a photographer, but also a joy.
Do you have a favorite photograph you've shot?
It has always been a toss up between two photographs. The first was taken in Boston on a horribly disgusting day full of mist and fog. I decided to over compensate with the HDR technique in order to get some type of detail out of the scene. So I captured 27 or so brackets and used the ones that had the most details and the best light. The other photograph was taken from the Statue of Liberty. I say from instead of at because of where I was standing. In the photo you will notice that Lady Liberty is not actually in the photographed, but rather her shadow is. This is one of those photographs where the sun works perfectly in the photographer's favor.
Tell us more about your current projects.
On June 29th I am hosting what I hope to be the first of many niche photography workshops in New Jersey and eventually around the country. The first workshop is on long exposure photography and is happening in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The workshop details can be found here.
I am also working on two workshops with Photocrati that is designed to educate photographers on how to increase business through their websites. Currently there are two workshops scheduled. The first is June 24th in Denver, Colorado and the second is in Hamilton, New Jersey. We decided to combine an educational workshop about business with an informal photowalk around the venues, because the venues are just that awesome. Details on those workshops can be found here.
The final project I have in the works (very early stages at this point) is a portrait series that will be made into a book. I cannot go into too much details on that, but I say that it will "rock".
Any advice you can offer other photographers?
First and foremost, if you're not doing what you love on a daily basis you need to rethink what you do on a daily basis.
If you are just getting started, I recommend learning everything you can about light, the camera, techniques, etc. Never stop learning, because that is extremely important. Ask for help when needed. I'm color blind and dyslexic and I am a photographer and blogger. I have always and still ask for help when needed. Don't be afraid to do so. Try new things and fail. Learn form it and then try again. Most important, love photography or move on because it is a lot of work and it can be expensive.
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Three El Paso Women Trying To Start A Restaurant Where People Pay What They Can
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Imagine a restaurant where everyone can afford to eat because they pay whatever they can. That's what a group of El Paso women is trying to start up in our community as a way to bring the entire community, whether rich or poor together. But they do need your help.
There's something cooking in Christi Brown's kitchen. But it's not on the stove. Christi and two of her friends have been meeting there every week for the past eight months in hopes of starting up the Mustard Seed Community Café, a restaurant where people pay what they can.
"We're excited to create a place where El Pasoans can come together and where everyone can eat," said Christi, the founder and president of the Mustard Seed Community Café.
Those who cannot pay for their meal at the Mustard Seed Community Café will not get it entirely free. They will be required to put some time in the kitchen, while at the same time learning some valuable skills. "A big part of that is to give job training to people so that they are ready to maybe move into the food service industry or other areas of employment as well," said Christi.
The idea of a community café is the brain child of Denise Cerreta, who started up a community cafe in Salt Lake City nine years ago and also founded the non-profit organization One World Everybody Eats.
Since then, about 20 more such cafes have opened. And that includes Soul Kitchen, which rocker Jon Bon Jovi opened in his home state of New Jersey.
The ladies, who are hoping to open the café in the next nine months, are missing one main ingredient. "Right now, our primary goal is to find a location, a place to call our own," said Christi.
"Our hope is that we'll find a restaurant-ready kitchen and if not, we're going to need everything," said Mustard Seed secretary treasurer Shelley Speicher
They're also hoping to have a community garden either at the restaurant or nearby, where they'll be able to grow the vegetables they'll serve in the restaurant. "It is going to be healthy, wholesome, delicious food," said Shelley.
In order to get the cafe up and running, the group needs financial contributions to offset their start up expenses.
"The neat thing about the café is that it will be self-sustaining by the revenue it makes so it's not something that we will continually be going to people to say, 'Help us'," said Christi.
While they've also received donations of plates, silverware and kitchen utensils, they cannot take larger donations until they have the restaurant location in place. "We are taking smaller items because we have space for them in our home. We aren't taking the larger ones yet," said Shelley. "If there are people who want to donate those, we would suggest you go to our website and fill out the interest sheet that's one there."
The women say the Mustard Seed Community Café is something everyone in El Paso can contribute to and they're asking you to step up. "Whoever has a small inkling to get involved to do so. That everybody has something to contribute," said Shelley.
There will be two paid positions at the Mustard Seed Café: the chef and the general manager. The rest of the staff is expected to be made up solely of volunteers. If you'd like to help out in any way with the café fill out the interest sheet found on their website. This wil help them see what kind of volunteers and donations they have to work with and get organized.
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By Nilofar Suhrawardy, Muslim Media News Service (MMNS)
NEW DELHI- Selected as the winning candidate for becoming India's 13th President, Pratibha Devisingh Patil is just a step away from becoming the first woman to hold the country's highest constitutional office.
After days of deliberation and suspense coupled with hectic parleys between politicians, her name was finally agreed on last Thursday (June 14) between the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) and its ally–the Left bloc.
Making the announcement in the presence of PM Manmohan Singh, UPA chairperson and Congress President Sonia Gandhi described it as a "historic moment" in 60th year of the republic. Patil (72) is a Congress leader and a qualified lawyer from Maharashtra. She has experience as a politician as well as an administrator, having held key positions in the Maharashtra unit of Congress. She held ministerial portfolios before becoming Rajya Sabha's deputy chairperson for two years from November 1986. Patil went into political wilderness after her tenure as a Lok Sabha member ended in 1996. She was brought in as Rajasthan governor in November 2004. Now she is just a step away from holding the topmost position in the country.
Expressing happiness at her selection, soon after her arrival from Jaipur (Rajasthan), Patil told reporters at the airport (June 16): "My candidature for the top post is a big step for women. I am very happy to be selected as the UPA candidate. This shows that India has a lot of respect for women." Her candidature would "inspire" other women and help in their empowerment, she said. "But empowerment will not come automatically. They will have to work for it," she said.
Patil first called on Sonia at her residence and discussed issues related to presidential elections. Later, after meeting PM Singh at his official residence, dismissing speculations of her playing the role of a "mere rubber stamp," she said: "There is no question why I should be a mere rubber stamp. I have my own thinking and I have my own individuality."
Interestingly, Patil's name as a possible candidate was thrown in virtually at the last minute as Congress and the Left remained rigid on their respective stands. Among the names doing the rounds were that of Home Minister Shivraj Patil, Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde, and senior Congress member Karan Singh, sources said. Earlier, the Left had favored External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee, who had been strongly opposed by Congress. Expecting this logjam, PM Singh had apparently been prepared with a list of possible woman candidates. When A.B. Bardhan (CPI) said: "It is time for a woman. After 60 years, the next president should be one," Singh came up with Patil's name. "What about Pratibha Patil?" he asked and that settled the issue. Noted Gandhian Nirmala Deshpande's name as a possible woman candidate was also considered.
Welcoming Patil's candidature, Kalam, who demits office next month, said: "Fantastic!"
Hailing the move, Girija Vyas, chairperson of National Commission for Women, said: "It is a sign that Indian democracy has come of age. I thank all who decided to field a woman in the presidential election." The women organizations are hopeful that with Patil as the President, greater sensitivity will be shown to women's issues, particularly the long held-up bill providing 33 percent reservation to women in legislatures.
Women politicians of rival groups, however, think otherwise. Displaying a different stand, Sushma Swaraj (Bharatiya Janata Party) said: "For the Congress, loyalty to the Gandhi family has been the main condition for the nomination while for the Left, the criteria has been survival of the UPA. Pratibha Patil is UPA's choice under compulsion, she is not a natural choice."
All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) chief J. Jayalalitha said: "We have decided not to support a Congress nominee. It does not matter whether it is a man or a woman. We will go by our decision."
Though before her nomination Patil seldom hit headlines, in the political field she has made her mark. She is the first woman to hold the office of governor of Rajasthan's governor. At the time of her nomination, she was the only woman governor in the country. She was first woman president of Maharastra Pradesh Congress committee (MPCC). She is the fourth woman to run for presidential polls and the first one with the electoral edge numerically in her favor. The first time that a woman entered presidential polls was in 1967, but then Manohara Holkar failed to get a single vote, with Dr Zakir Hussain becoming the President. In 1969 elections, Gurcharan Kaur managed to get 940 votes against 401,515 got by V.V.Giri, the winning candidate. Freedom fighter Lakshmi Sahgal was the first woman candidate to be fielded by any political party. Selected by the Left for 2002 elections against President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, who won with 922,884 votes, Sahgal got 107, 366 votes.
As of now, Patil is slated to be the winning candidate. The UPA-Left combine with votes of Bahujan Samaj Party has the numerical edge with more than 570,000 votes; National Democratic Alliance holding about 354,689 votes, and third front–106,281 votes.
With the Election Commission having issued a notification, the process of presidential election has been formally set in motion, June 16 being the first date for filing nominations. The last date for filing nominations is June 30 and for withdrawal of nominations is July 4. The counting is scheduled for July 21. Lok Sabha Secretary General P.D.T Achary has been appointed Returning Officer for the election.


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In Wake of Paris Riots, Public Housing Authorities Build More, Better Projects
January 25, 2007
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If last year's riots Paris riots were horrific, they weren't surprising. The banlieue, suburbs like St. Denis, Poissy, and Clichy-sous-Bois, are pockets of concentrated immigrant poverty and faceless, block-style building long regarded as tinderboxes for trouble.
Paris has begun building more affordable housing within its borders to reduce social isolation of those outside. Besides offering public-housing tenants an alternative to the banlieue, the move addresses the city's own growing squatter population, which suffered from a slew of fires in the city's outer rings at the end of the summer. While approximately eight in 10 lodgings in some peripheral neighborhoods are public, many Paris neighborhoods contain no more than a quarter.
Almost all of Paris's social housing authorities have revamped their building strategies over the past five years. The shift dates to the inauguration of Mayor Bertrand Delanöe, a socialist and a design advocate who, with others, knew the banlieue was an issue long before the riots. The Office Public Patrimoine Construction Réhabilitation Aménagement Politique, or OPAC, is the largest of these agencies and offers a good case study. Whereas about 1,500 new apartments were built per year prior to the new system, that number is now about 4,000, says Helen Schwoerer, OPAC's head of public housing architecture. Two-thirds of OPAC's work is infill, and the rest is new construction.
The city has also distributed projects over a much wider area of Paris. Officials from OPAC and other city agencies are working to ensure that all quarters contain 20 percent public housing, and they have announced that all new buildings in wealthier quarters must include at least 25 percent affordable housing in their programs.
The city is also building better social architecture, aiming to reverse social housing's negative stigma, Schwoerer says. OPAC has added more architects to competition juries (competitions are mandatory for all public projects in France) and has begun casting a much wider net to find talent. Whereas the same firms used to build most of the city's public housing projects, now the list includes innovative, international, and young firms, such as Lacaton + Vassal, Francis Soler, Edouard François and Roland Castro. Many jump at the chance to build projects in the historic heart of the city, where new projects are almost impossible to come by.
Not all projects are stellar, but the overall results are impressive. Instead of towering blank walls framing empty courtyards, fairly low-budget projects are often animated by creative plans, forms, and materials.
An OPAC housing project being built inside a 19th-century school on Boulevard Henri IV in the historic 4th arrondissement is a good example. Architects Guillaume Neuhaus and Laurent Niget will maintain the building's landmark exterior, but they will transform the interiors in almost every way: The interior courtyard will be reinstalled and clad completely in gold-colored aluminum panels, a reference to period gilt interiors. Once-cramped apartments will be rebuilt and enlarged with lofty ceiling heights to accommodate large families. Larger windows will allow more light and improve ventilation.
A project by local architect Edouard François in the 20th arrondissement, called Batignoles Planchées, emulates its old neighborhood's livery model. It will be divided into three long volumes separated by narrow pedestrian alleyways. The outer buildings will comprise a series of attached houses of varying heights and materials, including terra cotta, brick, concrete, and zinc, that emulate a tiny village. The project's inner section will include a concrete communal building with wooden stairways and balconies that have plants growing up their lengths, culminating in a roof garden. François persuaded officials to support the concept, which is radical for the city, where strict rules usually prohibit rural styles in the urban grid. "We should never be afraid to test the officials," he says. Indeed, François is known in Paris as an architectural renegade: In 2004 he completed the social housing Flower Tower, in which extruded concrete floor slabs sprout 380 tall bamboo plants from massive concrete pots.
In 2005 Lacaton + Vassal and architect Frédéric Druot beat out competitors Dominique Perrault, Roland Castro, and others to reshape the Tour Bois le Prêtre, a 17-story housing tower on the city's northern edge designed by architect Raymond Lopez in 1957. The team will cut away most of the thick concrete facade's partitions, installing balconies and large sliding windows in their place. Besides opening the apartments to more natural light, the units are being significantly enlarged and opened, and the firm will install new heating, ventilation, and electric systems.
Other housing agencies have also been revamped, producing interesting work throughout the greater metropolitan area. Near Lacaton + Vassal's project, in Porte Pouchet, the young firm Péripheriques is planning an entirely new mixed-income neighborhood that features work by several emerging firms. Also, for Assistance Publique Hopitaux de Paris, Jakob +Macfarlane is designing 100 units in three new public housing apartments whose curving skins undulate around rectilinear interior skeletons. Beckmann-N'Thepe is nearing completion on an unusual concrete building for Société Anonyme d'Economie Mixte Immobilière Interdépartementale in the formerly industrial Massena area, in which the building's center is carved out about three levels up to create a lofted courtyard, while side portions are also cut out to create several rooftop gardens. The firm is also developing public housing in the derelict St. Denis, which features staggered balconies with guard rails composed of a fiberglass-based fabric
While the increase in innovative projects is very encouraging, Aldric Beckmann, a partner at Beckmann-N'Thepe, echoes a popular sentiment when he says that most new public housing is still prosaic and unsophisticated. Architects have more say, but the bureaus are largely composed of bureaucrats and engineers, and practical concerns reign when budgets are low and the margin for error is even lower. While certainly improving, OPAC and other agencies are still not exactly architectural trailblazers.
Meanwhile in the banlieue, the situation is more dire. Mostly poor, small towns do not benefit from the financial and management advantages of Paris. A lack of coordination between suburban localities stifles improvement, and because many buildings are cooperatively owned, large-scale transformation is difficult. While the majority of new suburban building is heavy, blocky, and still insensitively scaled, there are some success stories. Peripheral towns like Bois-Colombes, Villeneuve-la-Garenne, and Clamart have all rebuilt their town centers. But for greater things to happen here, most point out that the best hope is the implementation of a much-talked-about "Grand Paris," in which the city takes over its outer circles. The city's borders haven't moved since the 19th century, making it one of the smallest major capitals in the world. But there appears to be no movement on that front for now. Until then, observers hope that improving social housing inside the city will stave off a sense of alienation and resentment, but even so, only time will tell.
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Accountants and the Art World: From Supporting Artists to Recording Assets
PricewaterhouseCoopers LPP (PwC) became acquainted with the work of Daniel Terdoslavich through leasing his paintings from a gallery, a practice that gives artists greater exposure. PwC bought his existing work and commissioned 63 new paintings from him after leasing, American Artist
"I much prefer selling to leasing my work," Terdoslavich said, "but if leasing leads to selling that's fine with me."
Other artists who have participated in art-leasing programs have enjoyed similar success, the American Artist adds.
The "noncommitment" aspect of art leasing works well for businesses, because with high turnover among decision-makers, it offers new owners the chance to trade for something totally different, Polly Larsen, owner of the Larsen Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona, told the American Artist. In addition, if companies want to purchase leased art, the cost of the lease is subtracted from the purchase price.
Some artists can now look to the newly formed Artists Pension Trust for an investment nest egg. The Trust, which invites young artists to contribute up to 20 pieces of their work to a tax-protected fund for 20 years, assumes that some of these works will appreciate in value, the New York Times reports, and some of the income will go to the artists. Investors, who hope to establish trusts in 10 cities, receive 20 percent of the trust income, and the rest is divided among the artists. Successful artists receive half the appreciation in their work; less successful artists, the rest.
"There are tons of extremely well known artists who are practically destitute," Kiki Smith, an artist, who is one of the Trust's advisers, told the Times. "Most artists live with tremendous insecurity about their future in terms of money. It's like being in a free fall their whole lives."
For one artist who needed to pay the bills, the solution has been setting up a small business to support her art. Linda O'Neill, an artist living outside of Boulder, Colorado, took in a dog from a rescue shelter and painted his portrait, leading to the decision to set up a dog portrait business, USAToday reports. Her advice to other artists is to do what you love and market it, and then market it some more.
The long-established tradition of large companies building art collections can lead to some thorny accounting and legal issues. Robert Fitzpatrick, director of Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA), is attempting to claim an Andreas Gursky photograph from the Refco collection, before it is sold to satisfy Refco's creditors.
In a court filing, reported by the Chicago Tribune, the MCA said that the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York sold the print to Refco in 2002, at below market price, on the condition that it would be donated to the museum by December 31, 2007. Refco gave the museum a 10 percent interest in the print, giving the company an immediate tax benefit.
The Riggs Bank collection of Impressionist art, formed by former CEO Joe L. Albritton, is also currently for sale, as part of the merger agreement between Riggs and PNC Financial Services Group, the Washington Post reports. Riggs never discussed how much money was spent on art purchases, although one Manet was reportedly purchased for $3 million, because the value of a single painting would not affect its financial position. From an accounting perspective, Riggs "capitalized" the purchases as assets on the balance sheet and they never depreciated.
While Albritton loved his art, PNC didn't, the Post said, and it has included the paintings among other non-producing assets, such as a Gulfstream V jet, heading for the auction block.
The sellers, if successful, will pay capital gains taxes, of 28 percent, on the "art and collectibles" investment type, according to Art and Antiques. "Artists and collectors are being punished by the current tax code," says Sen. Pete Domenici, (R-NM) who introduced a bill in June that would extend the 15 percent maximum to cover art and collectibles.


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Often women show of more than what they actually are. This may backfire as he may be able to find the true you sooner or later. How To Keep Your Man Steve Harvey it's always better to be true to yourself and him.
Always Remember That There are Other Fish in the Sea- Men are like worms. Find the right patch of ground apply a little water and men will spring up all over the place. Don't fret your dating failures.
But what many women don't understand is that there is a fine balance between showing interest and destroying your magnetic attractive essence. When a woman is too available and too nice men read this as being deeply insecure and too available. One thing you always want to do is to create a nice sexy and exciting balance. You should always balance your energy so that you are available yet intriguing and mysterious. The Self-Centered Woman — Some women will have you believe that it is difficult to attract men because they are so successful.
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The Society Traveling Lecturers Committee (TLC) is responsible for soliciting nominations for the Thayer Lindsley Visiting Lecturer and the International Exchange Lecturer positions as described in Article X, Section 10.1(f) on page 19 of the SEG Bylaws.
The Committee shall consist of nine members, including a Chair, representing the main fields and geographic distribution of Society membership, with three members to be appointed annually each for a three-year term. The Vice President for Regional Affairs (VPRA), as an ex officio member of the committee, shall serve as Chair. The other eight members make up the Thayer Lindsley Visiting Lecturer Sub-Committee and the International Exchange Lecturer Sub-Committee.
The Chair is responsible for the following:
SEG lectureships, while an honor bestowed to recognize an individual's abilities, are also responsibilities to help SEG to communicate the science of economic geology and to promote SEG activities. For these reasons, the VPRA and the SEG headquarters, in conjunction with the Chair of the Program Committee (the Past Vice President), will determine the itinerary of each tour based on the following criteria:
In many cases, SEG funding can be offset or stretched by procuring funds from other sources such as an employer. In addition, we request, where possible, that the local host organization cover local expenses such as meals and accommodations. The Traveling Lecturers Secretary, the SEG Executive Assistant, is responsible for coordinating the advertising of talks and the planning of itineraries. He/she can be contacted for more information.
See Guidelines for Thayer Lindsley Visiting Lecturer Sub-Committee and International Exchange Lecturer Sub-Committee. Committee members who provide nominations must declare that they are free from any conflicts of interest.
The recommendations of the Sub-Committees, together with supporting data, should reach the Executive Director no later than September 30 each year. The Executive Director will duplicate the supporting material and distribute it to the Council for action at its first meeting following the September 30 date (traditionally at the GSA Annual Meeting).
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I have Iris, Canna, and Dahlia bulbs to plant. We have had above average temperatures this spring so far, so when can I plant these bulbs? I'm in zone 6 in Massachusetts. Thanks... |
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For most of them, about 2 to 3 weeks before your expected last frost. Here in my part of Michigan, that translates to around the 10th to 17th of May. By the time they emerge, no more danger of frost (as a rule). You can warm the soil and help them along by planting them and then throwing a piece of black plastic over the planting bed (poked full of holes for water to penetrate) for about a week -- really warms the soil. |
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I already planted my cannas. I am waiting until the ground has warmed up before planting my Dahlia. I usually plant them well after Mother's Day. You can plant Iris now. It's a perennial anyway. |
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By C.J. Chivers
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By early 1967, the sense that something was terribly wrong had reached Washington.
Angry troops were sending home letters. Journalists were hearing complaints. Reports of the AK-47's reliability were also providing an obvious contrast. The Washington Daily News posed the question.
In the past two years, with amazing competence and thoroness [sic], the communists have replaced their earlier inferior weapons with the rapid firing AK-47 automatic assault rifle of Soviet design and Red Chinese manufacture... . The AK-47 ... is as good as the new M-16 rifle U. S. troops use. It is less liable to jam and therefore, in the opinion of some experts, may even be better... . Why is it that North Vietnam, with aid from its Chinese ally, could foresee the need and meet it, despite all sorts of obstacles? Why is it that the U. S., with its $25 billion to $30 billion yearly war budget, superlative defense plants, and reputed logistic superiority, could not keep pace?
By spring 1967, the problems had become so widely known that Congress took an interest. On May 3, 1967, Representative L. Mendel Rivers, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, appointed Representative Richard H. Ichord as head of a special subcommittee to examine the "development, production, distribution and sale of M-16 rifles." Ichord steered wide of the question of which weapon was better the M14 or the M16. If the military wanted the M16, so be it. He wanted to know why the M16 was malfunctioning at an unacceptably high rate.
One rifle-failure incident after another eroded public confidence. Senator Peter H. Dominick of Colorado visited Vietnam that May. He inquired about the M16. He was told it was a good weapon. Someone produced an M16 and handed it to the senator, who tried to fire it. It jammed. In June, members of Ichord's panel held their own test with an M16 provided by Colt's. If any one M16 might have been expected to perform flawlessly, this should have been it: the test rifle a manufacturer facing congressional investigation presented as a sample to Congress. The subcommittee's rifle jammed several times. No one needed to be told what this might mean in combat. But another GI crystallized for the congressmen a particular species of nightmare: The other night we got a radio message from one of our night ambushes... . The last words they said were, "out of hand grenades, all weapons jammed." The next morning when they got to them, their hands were all skinned up and cut and their stocks on their rifles were all broken from using them as clubs.
Out in the field beside Ap Sieu Quan, Private First Class Nickelson worked on his jammed rifle. He had given away his position by firing.
Bullets raked the grass nearby. He reached for a grenade, pulled the pin, and threw it as far as he could toward the trees; he hoped its blast would divert the attention of the enemy soldiers. After the explosion, he removed his rifle's magazine and pulled back on the charging handle to look inside the chamber. The empty cartridge was stuck there. He cursed again and reached for his cleaning rod. Around him was chaos. Nickelson pushed the rod down the muzzle and knocked the empty cartridge case clear. He returned the magazine to its place and chambered a second round. Again he looked up and spotted the North Vietnamese soldier in the tree line. The man was on his stomach, prone and firing out. Nickelson aimed his M16 and eased back on the trigger again. Firing on automatic, he hoped to hit the man multiple times. The first bullet hit the soldier in the left leg. He watched him roll out of sight into the bushes. But Nickelson could not finish him.
His rifle had jammed again.
Just as it had on Hill 881, Hotel Company fell back. Aircraft and artillery hit the village. The company moved forward later, after the NVA had slipped away. Hotel Company had suffered miserably once more. Five Marines were dead, thirty were wounded. Nickelson had survived. He rose to his feet but left his jammed rifle in the dirt. He had shipped to Vietnam a month before. Until that day, he had never handled this kind of rifle. In the United States, he had trained on an M14. In his one previous firefight, his M16 had jammed, too after firing a single round. Nickelson was new to war, but he was no fool. A rifle that failed in battle was worse than useless. It was detestable. As far as he was concerned, it was a discard. Upon arriving in-country, Nickelson had bought a .38 revolver from a soldier who was rotating home part of an underground market for troops arming themselves with personal weapons as insurance against the failures of their issued guns.
Now an officer ordered him to pick up his M16. "Fuck you," Nickelson said. He would never carry an M16 again.
Back on board the USS Tripoli after Hotel Company left Ap Sieu Quan, the company's executive officer, Lieutenant Michael Chervenak, seethed. Chervenak was a man who followed his own compass. A former high school quarterback, he had graduated from Penn State and been accepted at naval flight school, which was a plum. He wanted to fly jets. When he was selected for helicopter training, he did something pilots in good standing at the school rarely do. He quit, and asked for orders to the infantry in Vietnam. He was new to Hotel Company and had replaced an officer who was shot through the head on Hill 881. When he arrived, he heard of the M16's problems but reserved judgment until he had been in combat with the rifles himself. After Ap Sieu Quan, he was in a state of quiet rage. He cleaned up and visited the stateroom where Captain Richard Culver, his company commander, was bunking. The officers discussed the M16's malfunctions. The lieutenant wanted advice. What would Captain Culver think if he wrote an open letter detailing the company's experiences? The Marine Corps was not helping its Marines. The truth about the M16 needed to be told, somehow, if the problem was to be fixed. Captain Culver, a former enlisted man, was the son of a Marine. His father enlisted in 1918 at age fifteen. Raised on bases, commanding a company at war, he was more than reluctant to speak outside the chain of command. But he knew this young officer was right. Writing a letter, he told him, was a good idea.
Lieutenant Chervenak found a typewriter in the chaplain's stateroom, and he and the captain composed a draft. When they finished, he climbed belowdecks to the enlisted quarters and asked Staff Sergeant Elrod to read it.
I am a Marine First Lieutenant and have been serving in a rifle company in Vietnam since the 15th of May. Ever since my arrival, immediately following the battle of hill 881, one controversy has loomed above all others that of the M16 rifle.
I feel that it is my duty and responsibility to report the truth about this rifle as I have seen it. My conscience will not let me rest...
We are constantly told that improper cleaning and unfamiliarity with the weapon cause any malfunction which may occur. Any rifle that requires cleaning to the degree they speak of has no place as a combat weapon. I believe that the cold, hard facts about the M_16 are clouded over by a fabrication of the truth for political and financial considerations. I have seen too many marines hiding behind a paddy dike trying to clear their rifle to accept those explanations any longer.
Our battalion has test fired these rifles on numerous occasions, aboard the ship and in the field, to try to find a solution to this problem. All rifles were cleaned and inspected prior to these tests.
Having supervised several of these tests, I will swear to the fact that at least 25 to 40% of the rifles malfunctioned at least once under these optimum conditions.
During a recent fight on the 21st of July, no fewer than 40 men in my company reported to me that their rifles had malfunctioned because of failure to extract. Because of these inoperative rifles we were severely hampered in our efforts to extract a platoon which had been pinned down. Lack of sufficient firepower also caused us great difficulty in getting our casualties out. Having 40 rifles malfunction in any rifle company is a serious matter, and in an understrengthened company such as ours, the gravity of the situation is greatly increased...
I do not mean for this letter to slap at my battalion, the Marine Corps, the Colt Manufacturing Company, the Defense Department or anyone else concerned. It is written out of concern for the safety of the men in my company and of the great morale problem that the M16 causes. I will stand and stake my reputation on the fact that we have had men wounded and perhaps killed because of inoperative rifles...
The search for the truth is paramount in all of us and I ask you to look into this problem and search for the truth there ... this problem has been overlooked too long and too many attempts have been made to gloss over a situation that endangers the lives of men.
Staff Sergeant Elrod finished the letter. He had served ten years, had seen lieutenants come and go, and had a strong sense of how the officer ranks worked. Loyalty, by his read, meant working hard and shutting up. He liked the letter very much. "Hey, sir?" he said. "You're not planning to make the Marine Corps a career, are you?"
On July 27, Lieutenant Chervenak mailed four copies of the letter. He sent one to The Barnesboro Star, his hometown newspaper in Pennsylvania. He mailed another to The Washington Post. The last two went to Senator Robert F. Kennedy and Representative Ichord. On each he signed his name officially. In all the available records surrounding the bloody introduction of the M16, this stands as one of the few brave and candidly honest acts. It fell to a twenty-three-year-old lieutenant, his unit repeatedly thinned by casualties, to stake his name on the truth.
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Summer Scholars will be housed in Messina Hall on Loyola's Lake Shore Campus. The building is comprised of suite-style doubles: two traditional double occupancy rooms joined by a common bathroom. These suite-style rooms will be assigned by gender, but the entire floor will have both male and female occupants.
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The program employs live-in staff members to supervise students throughout the program. Program Coordinators (PCs); oversee the entire program as well as supervise and direct the activities of the College Coaches (CCs). Members of our staff are experienced college students, employed by Loyola to perform a number of duties including developing the Activity Calendar which includes social and educational programming during the afternoons, evenings, and weekends.
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