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Carrabelle Riverfront Festival to host pet show
Does your Dalmatian have a wonderfully waggy tail? Is your cat the cutest in the county? Does your parrot look good in his pirate costume? Round up all your wonderful pets and enter them in the Carrabelle Riverfront Festival Pet Show where they will strut their stuff and show off before the judges in the viewing ring at noon on Saturday, April 26.
Registration is $5 per pet or $10 for your whole pack and each pet will receive a gift just for entering. Judges will be looking for all kinds of talent and for just plain cuteness. There will be lots of winners in categories including best kisser, best pirate costume, most mysterious heritage, and most exotic, just to name a few. The winner of the People's Choice award will receive a pet portrait by local wildlife photographer, Jon Johnson.
You may register early by calling Harriett at 697-8571 or register at the festival on Saturday before the show. Additional information can be found on the Carrabelle Riverfront Festival website.
Carrabelle festival features 'pirate school'
What kid wouldn't want to be a pirate? At the pirate school, young folks can learn to walk, talk, sing, work, dress, and play like pirates. Would-be pirates can walk the plank, dig for treasure, sail castaway's rafts, shoot down a pirate flag and hear tales of local pirate deeds. There will be sea shanties to sing and piratey crafts to make and take home.
All young pirates are invited to participate in the Little Pirates' Parade at the main stage beginning at 11 a.m. The Pirate Council will award honorary certificates to boys and girls who take part. Young pirates can even have a photo op wearing pirate garb to prove they had a great day at the Billy Bones Pirate School at the Carrabelle Riverfront Festival on Saturday, April 26.
School starts at 10 a.m. and continues throughout the day. All activities are free and supervised. For additional information call Caroline at 670-5064.
Easter egg hunt Saturday
The Franklin County Sheriff's Office will hold its annual Easter egg hunt on Saturday, April 19 at noon at the sheriff's office, 270 Highway 65. Come out and enjoy a wonderful day of egg hunting. Awesome prizes for the kids, free hot dogs and soda pop and a chance to win the world's largest Easter bunny.
'Bow-wowery' Station Yappy Hour benefit
The Bowery Station located in Apalachicola is hosting a fundraiser for the Franklin County Humane Society on Wednesday, April 23 from 4 to 7 p.m. You are invited to bring your well behaved four-legged friends to the Bowery Station to enjoy Yappy Hour. Yappy Hour will support the Franklin County Humane Society's Spay/Neuter Voucher Program. There will be games and prizes and an opportunity for you to support this vital program to help reduce the homeless pet population here in Franklin County.
So mark your calendars. If you aren't there, you'll be missing a doggone good time!
Commission concerned over lighthouse skateboards
At the April 15 county meeting, Parks and Recreation Director told commissioners, skateboarders are causing damage in Lighthouse Park.
She said skaters are using existing handicapped accessibility ramps, picnic tables and benches to create impromptu obstacle courses. Millender said the unauthorized use is damaging both buildings and furniture.
She said the surface of the basketball court is also being damaged by skaters.
Commissioner Pinki Jackel said she spoke with Lighthouse Association spokesperson Terry Kemp about the problem. Jackel said Kemp plans to post signs forbidding the use of skateboards and bicycles in the park.
Jackel asked county attorney Michael Shuler if an ordinance was needed to ban equipment from the park.
Shuler said the first step was to post the signs. He said an ordinance could be enacted if signage was ineffective.
Two new four-way stops in Lanark
The county commission has voted unanimously to install two new stop signs in Lanark Village.
During Tuesday's county meeting, County Planner Alan Pierce said engineering consultation firm Preble-Rish had inspected Pine St in Lanark Village for the placement of four-way stops at Pine and Parker, and Pine and Hefernan Drive.
Engineer Clay Smallwood advised that it would be suitable for those intersections to become four-way stops.
Pierce said the speed limit on all three roads is already 15 mph.
Airport passes inspection with flying colors
At their April 15 meeting, Director of Administrative Services Alan Pierce told commissioners the Florida Department of Transportation inspected Apalachicola Regional Airport on May 10. The airport passed inspection with only minor notes said Pierce.
Public meeting on Eastpoint land
On April 29 at 5 p.m., there will be a public meeting at the courthouse annex in Apalachicola to discuss possible uses for a plot of land in Eastpoint acquired using grant money.
The county currently plans to use the property, which is adjacent to the boat ramp on Paton Road, for parking.
Pierce said there it is a small plot of land and there will not be room for much additional activity, but the terms of the grant require that a public meeting take place.
Franklin County a Blueway community
At their April 15 meeting, county commissioners voted unanimously to accept a Florida Paddling Trails Association designation as a Blueway Community.
The designation was supported by the Franklin County Tourist Development Council (TDC).
The Florida Paddling Trails Association (FPTA), a 501(c) (3) organization, established the Florida Paddling Trails Blueway Community Program, which helps communities develop locations of interest to both in-state paddlers and out-of-state tourists.
FPTA defines a Blueway as a water path or trail with launch points, camping and picnic locations and points of interest for paddlers. Blueways are typically developed to encourage recreation, education and community development.
To qualify as a Blueway community a county or municipality must be in proximity to a Florida paddling trail or Blueway and have available accommodations, restaurants and additional recreational opportunities like hiking trails, museums and shopping.
According to FPTA, Florida currently has over 40 designated paddling trails on various rivers and streams in addition to the 1,515-mile Florida Circumnavigational Saltwater Paddling Trail.
As a Blueway community, Franklin County will be featured on the FPTA website and in associated advertising.
Other Blueway communities include Cedar Key, Yankeetown, New Port Richey, Desoto County, Zolfo Springs, Boca Grande, Live Oak, White Springs, Estero and Suwannee.


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Despite significant breakthroughs in the past 20 years, violence against women and girls justified in the name of religion, customs, traditions – in short, culture - remains unabated. Women continue to be persecuted and killed for making choices in life that are perceived to defy social norms. The presentation was created as a tribute to these women, to honour them and their sacrifices. It reasserts the statement made by WLUML and the VNC campaign five years earlier at the 54th session of the CSW.
The Women Living Under Muslim Laws International Solidarity Network and the Violence is Not our Culture Campaign strongly condemn the revocation of the registration licence of it partner in Sudan, the Salmmah Resource Centre without prior notice and due process.
When her widowed mother remarried, Parvin Rema, then 13, was part of the deal – one of several such arrangements in Bangladesh.
Three European women went on trial in Tunis on Wednesday for holding a topless anti-Islamic protest, and their French lawyer said he was confident they would escape prison despite the threat of jail sentences.
Pauline Hillier and Marguerite Stern from France, and Josephine Markmann from Germany arrived in court around 0930 GMT wearing the traditional Tunisian headscarf, or safsari.
Indian police said they arrested three men Thursday in connection with the alleged gang rape of an American tourist this week in the northern state of Himachal Pradesh.
Angkhana Neelaphaijit, a leading rights advocate for Thai Muslims, has voiced concern over continued sexual assaults against Muslim women by security officials stationed in the southern provinces of Yala, Pattani and Narathiwat.
The widow of abducted lawyer Somchai Neelaphaijit, who has been providing legal assistance to Muslim suspects in the three southern border provinces, voiced concerns during an address at a press conference by Amnesty International.
Listening to the women in Badam Bagh, it occurred to me that the entire justice system introduced in Afghanistan had become the cattle prod or taser in that story, an instrument of torture delivered perhaps with the best of intentions.
Twelve year old Fatima was sold into marriage to a fifty year old man in 2010. Her father Ali, who was unemployed and addicted to drugs, sold her into marriage for a sum of 40,000 Saudi Riyals (approximately £7,000), which he used to buy himself a car.
Stoning is not simply a relic of the past. In fifteen countries around the world, this brutal punishment and form of torture continues to exist in the here and now.
In 2008, a 16 year old from Iraqi Kurdistan named Aziz eloped with a man against her parents' wishes. Fearful of her life, she sought help from the Department to End Domestic Violence. Yet the Department turned her over to her father, and her family subsequently stoned her to death.
Local prosecutors are pursuing a statutory rape charge against 40-year-old restaurant manager Riduan Masmud, who allegedly had sex with the girl in a parked car outside the Sabah state capital Kota Kinabalu in February. The girl is now 13 and his defense is that he married her.
State officials in Sabah want the marriage annulled. The girl is known to be from a very poor family and in one interview Riduan said the rape was a case of "suka sama suka" ("mutual consent").


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While the devil wears Prada, VC12 Darth Sidious certainly has a penchant for faux fur. The head sculpt is amazing and kudos on the removal cowl, but the execution of the felt soft goods jacket falls a little short. Sort of like a particularly cranky bag lady look. What makes sense with a Gamorrean Guard doesn't necessarily work with the evil despot of a galaxy far, far away. Just sayin, Big H.
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Why Do You Have to Get Guild Wars 2 Beta Key
NCsoft along with ArenaNet declared a week ago that the Guild Wars 2 closed beta will be open, however just for 48 hours only. Today the publisher and developer have got launched the closed beta signup information, and they are truly very amazing.
The signups for the next Guild Wars 2 closed beta test had just reached a million signups in just 2 days of span of time. Based on the publisher, this results from the gaming community, producing over 4k signups every minute in the course of top periods. This testifies that gamers today wanted a brand new level of gaming.
"We built Guild Wars 2 with the notion to bring players together to experience what a true online world experience should be, and we couldn't be more excited with the reception we're receiving from gamers wanting to get in and play our game," said Mike O'Brien, president of ArenaNet and executive producer of Guild Wars 2.
Guild Wars 2′s upcoming closed beta test will be scheduled this late month of March all of which will offer participants with the chance to feel its deep RPG game features, grand WvW fights and attracting sociable gameplay while supporting the team load for testing the servers.
Naomi's New Diet
Country music star and former RN Naomi Judd is recommending a new diet that emphasizes eating whole grain cereals. The diet is a promotion of Post cereals and features Naomi as the spokesperson.
The diet has three main components:
- Substitute 2 meals per day with a bowl of whole grain cereal, low-fat milk, and fruit.
- Maintain portion control and make the third meal of the day a healthy one.
- Exercise at least 30 minutes per day.
I like whole grain cereals and think this diet has veracity. Still, I can't help wondering if some smart marketer at Post didn't take a look at the new food pyramid which recommended increased whole grain intake (the orange band is the widest on the pyramid) and said, "we can use this to sell more cereal," then concocted the diet to match. Post Healthy Classics…has a nice ring to it, doesn't it?
I hate to be skeptical, but if you eat healthy and exercise, well…let's put it this way, I don't know that this diet is that different from any other. But, if you're a diet junkie and looking for the latest fad, this just might be it!
Okay, I done gone and said it. Of all the issues and ideas that swirl around love and relationships, there seem to be proportionally far more questions, misconceptions, and miscalculations about threesomes than any other. Adding bodies can no doubt bring extra flare and excitement to a relationship, but the risks can be great and the costs can be high. Today's lesson is a brief synopsis of how to decide whether a ménage à trois is right for you and your partner, and how to go about pursuing one once you're both comfortable with it.
The first and most crucial step is squaring the idea with your significant other. If he or she isn't cool with it, then there shouldn't be a second step. Be sure to approach the subject gently and attentively. Express your interest in adding a third, but be clear that you are happy with your relationship the way it is. If that isn't the case, then you and your partner need to have another conversation altogether; a threesome should be a scintillating experiment, not the voltage to jump start an otherwise listless sex life.
If your partner is receptive to the idea, you should then begin to discuss specifics. What gender would you each prefer in a third? Which activities are okay and which are not? How will you ensure one another's physical and emotional safety? Are you going to seek a friend with benefits – someone you may just as likely spend time with at the bar as in bed – or is your relationship with the third going to be purely physical? Try to view the circumstances from every angle and discuss every foreseeable complication. The better prepared you and your partner are, the greater your chances of having a pleasurable experience. If you're unable to reach total agreement, then you're not ready and you should take more time to mull it over.
Once you and your partner are on the same page, you may begin looking. Between the internet and your local alternative weekly, there is ample opportunity to conduct your search for a third effectively and anonymously. Be explicit and specific when advertising yourselves or responding to an ad; the more clear you are about what you want, the more likely you are to get it. When you find a match, meet for a drink to chat a bit before the circus comes to town. Though undressing may be your only intention, getting to know your third beforehand can help make the encounter less awkward and more relaxing, even if the introduction is brief.
Adding a third person to a sexual relationship isn't simple arithmetic, but like with any equation, you have to balance both sides. Fill your third in on any rules you have so that he or she can help you and your partner abide by them. Treat your third with respect and be equally considerate of his or her needs and desires. Think of him or her as a temporary partner, instead of as an accessory.
Polygamous relationships remain mildly taboo, but if you're smart about it, there's no reason you can't make one work. After all, three is the magic number (though I hear numbers like 8 and 27 can be pretty magical too).
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1. Threesomes can truly be a fantastic experience. My husband and I have had threesomes and foursomes, but the threesome worked better for us (the competition between men sometimes creates problems). We were with a really good female friend and we just kind of improvised and asked about boundaries as we went. The memories of the experiences are like fantasies but much more vivid and real! I recommend it as long as you are NOT the jealous type of girl or guy!!! That is VERY important!
2. My thinking from seeing the life styles of pornstars is sooner or later one of the partners decides they want a minogamise relationship and the threesome thing just hurts the relationship. There always sooner or later becomes a cheater in the relationship. The partner who decides to look for someone to have sex with alone without the threesome.
Angie's Mirena Experience
Hi everyone,
I am 20 years old and have always had an irregular extremely painful period. I could go months without any sign of a period but when it came it was heavy and the pain was unbearable. I have never had children but after reading that the mirena could help with cramping and stop periods I decided to give it a try.
I've had the mirena iud for a week now. When I got it put in place the pain wasn't as bad as I thought. I guess after so many years of unbearable cramps this was a breeze.
For the first couple of hours I was crampy but that went away with the medication. My doctor warned me that because I inserted the iud about two weeks after my last period ended that my mirena could trigger a period. And that it did. I had what seemed to be the start of a normal period about 2 days after getting the mirena but that only lasted for that day. Since then I've had light spotting and light cramping every morning but usually it goes away after a few hours and the spotting stops. I find It strange that this only happens during the morning. But overall I am satisfied with the experience I have so far. Ill keep you posted on any new side effects.
How to Lose Weight with Dr Berg Diets
Research has shown that more people are dying of diseases related to being overweight. For instance, many young people are dying at their tender age due to obesity and other related illnesses such as heart attack. This situation can be altered if people are keen on the kind of lifestyles that they adapt to. With the current technological advancement, people no longer have to break their backs at work. This is an advantage on one hand and a disadvantage on the other mainly because people no longer involve themselves in tasks that can help them to burn enough calories in their body. It is for this reason that Dr Berg has come up with a variety of diets that are meant to help people lose weight naturally. With these Dr Berg diets, you will be able to lose your extra weight naturally without putting your health at risk.
Dr Berg diets are a perfect way in which people who are overweight can reduce the amount of calories in their body without overworking themselves. The best weight loss diet is one that can help you to count your calories. You should therefore ensure that the diet you take provides very little amount of calories. Stop eating first foods that contain too much fat and sugar because they are known to increase the amount of calories in the body by great measure. In fact, you should be shocked when you read the label on the packet of cheese and see how much fat and sugar you are just about to consume.
The good thing with Dr Berg diets is that they have very little fat and sugar. Thus, they can help you a great deal in controlling the amount of calories that you consume. In addition, always ensure that you do regular exercises because they will help a lot in burning more calories and keeping your body fit.
The Jotun Race of Guild Wars 2
The most up-to-date profile of many of the other sentient races in Guild Wars 2 is currently survive the state site. Now the giant-like beings referred to as jotun would be the subject of this article. The most up-to-date race to sign up Guild Wars 2, the Jotun, has become revealed by ArenaNet. The Jotun are identified as a race have been once kings from the land but have since lost their command of magic and technology.
Guild Wars 1 players have an understanding of the Jotun race, mostly as "the giant creatures that will not stop KDing me," but you are likely to possess a continuing plus much more associated existence in Guild Wars 2, based on the ArenaNet blog. Inside a short article for the official website, writer Ree Soesbee mentioned the studio wished to bring the brand new race towards the Norn aspects of the planet especially. The websites displays information for the jotun's the recent past, society and religion. Additionally, the expansion team gives some "Behind the Scenes" details about the jotun, regarding tragic background driving them to over "just unhealthy guys with big clubs". For Guild Wars 2, to remain gifted more intelligence, more society and history compared to they were originally caved Guild Wars. When compared to original Guild Wars, the Jotun are taller plus more intelligent, which Soesbee explains allows you depict them as relatable characters. Modifications help "to better illustrate the race's background the belief that these are sentient, smart creatures – not rock-tossing droolers."
Ree Soesbee took an in depth understand this race inside the newest ArenaNet short article, The Savage Pride with the Jotun. Inside post, she explains the way the Jotun have essentially devolved over time as a result of infighting: Over the centuries with their existence, the Jotun have dropped not even close to hawaii of grace, reducing control of technology and magic they once applied, and recalling their place as kings from the land only in legend and story.
The primitivism we percieve of their clothing and weapons is really a sharp contrast on the magical monuments located at their camps – which, too, is deliberate. Showing the decline of your race from power and civilisation into primitivism, all since they cannot stop fighting amongst themselves, is vital for the game's theme.
The post delves deeper in the past and provide outcomes of this transformation, then switches gears for the behind-the-scenes go through the race's creation. The complete post is a great read for any person thinking about the sport from your lore or advancement viewpoint.
Guild Wars 2 First Public Beta Event on Weekend: April 27-29
ArenaNet has just declared in Twitter the very first public Guild Wars 2 beta event weekend which will happen on the 27th to 29th of April. Those users who already pre-purchased any GW2 game/edition will have an guaranteed access to any or all public beta weekends of this mmo. This will be the first time to make thousands of fans get a hands on and set foot on the land of Tyria.
ArenaNet said that "Players will discover next weekend that Guild Wars 2 doesn't follow tired, outdated MMO conventions, but it offers them a true online world rich with persistent, dynamic and social experiences like nothing they've ever played."
Moreover to weekend beta entry (as well as the unique Hero's Band in-game item), everyone who pre-purchased Guild Wars 2 will also receive a 3-day headstart prior to the launching of game. ArenaNet has also said that more information regarding the beta events will be outlined on the next blog post.


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College pals Haley Grant and Kaylee Jasperson bonded over shared musical tastes as students at Belmont University, . They were both also familiar with the hardships possessing the voices of angels; it was inevitable that a musical project would come of the union. The Harmaleighs formed in 2013, and the two proceeded to develop their sound, learning how to filter their shared experiences through an Americana sieve, until every heartbreak and setback sounded as though it occurred decades ago somewhere in the Appalachians.
The Harmaleigh's debut album, "Pretty Picture, Dirty Brush" will be released February 3rd. It covers the gauntlet of relationships that a young adult can encounter: partners, friends, hometowns. It also showcases the pair as the crackerjack musicians that they are. The same razor-sharp tightness that makes bluegrass so satisfying to hear is present in the entire album. Everything rings out as clear as a bell, and nothing is overdone or unnecessary. The girls have a healthy respect for the traditional, and can whip out a down-home rhythm as easily as a teenaged missive on heartbreak.
Speaking of teenaged missives, a delicate balance is at work here. There are moments that the pair hit Watson Twin-levels of harmonies (like the ghostly intro of opening track "Hesitate") and there are times they turn right around with something more juvenille like "Got fired for dropping a glass of wine/ screw it I'm running out of time," in their recent single, "I Keep Ticking On." There's alot that can go wrong: their music acoustic guitar driven, with some lap steel and banjo thrown in, and they have a propensity to break into foot-stomping jags that recall the receding arena-folk wave. But it doesn't matter. They're so good, by grace of their conviction and clarity, that I'd probably be sucking this album down and singing along even if I were a 50-year-old truck driver.
That's the appeal of "Pretty Picture..." The album concentrates being young and new into something potent and delivers it with a little bit of sass; that's a combination capable of crossing quite a few boundaries. It's the emotional equivalent of four seasons of summer camp, thirty friendship bracelets, or ten viewings of "Milo and Otis." This album is bound to strike a chord within the most jaded of bastards. Keep up with The Harmaleighs at their website www.theharmaleighs.com


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Bullying focus begins to shift to workplace
PHOENIX -- Bullies are not just on school playgrounds. They're in the workplace too.
A workplace bully could be a co-worker. It could even be a boss.
Portland, Ore. attorney Jathan Janove is an expert on bullies at work. He gives webinars on this topic and said some bosses create a "Zone of Fear" of anxiety and intimidation that interferes with people's capability to perform on the job.
"Most bosses that do this -- and many, many, many do -- they aren't aware that they're behaving as bullies."
A bullying situation may not involve frightened employees. Sometimes it's the boss telling an inappropriate joke. Not too many people are willing to say, 'Didn't get that one, boss.'
Janove said direct responses are best. Tell the chief it's not funny.
"If that doesn't work, then action should be taken. It should be dealt with. Not only are you the victim but there are probably other victims as well."


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Art refers to a diverse range of human activities, creations, and expressions that are appealing to the senses or emotions of a human individual. The word "art" may be used to cover all or any of the arts, including music, literature and other forms. It is most often used to refer specifically to the visual arts, including media such as painting, sculpture, and printmaking. However it can also be applied to forms of art that stimulate the other senses, such as music, an auditory art. Aesthetics is the branch of philosophy which considers art.
Traditionally the term art was used to refer to any skill or mastery, a concept which altered during the Romantic period, when art came to be seen as "a special faculty of the human mind to be classified with religion and science". Generally art is a (product of) human activity, made with the intention of stimulating the human senses as well as the human mind; by transmitting emotions and/or ideas. Beyond this description, there is no general agreed-upon definition of art. Art is also able to illustrate abstract thought and its expressions can elicit previously hidden emotions in its audience.
The evaluation of art has become especially problematic since the 20th century. Richard Wollheim distinguishes three approaches: the Realist, whereby aesthetic quality is an absolute value independent of any human view; the Objectivist, whereby it is also an absolute value, but is dependent on general human experience; and the Relativist position, whereby it is not an absolute value, but depends on, and varies with, the human experience of different humans. An object may be characterized by the intentions, or lack thereof, of its creator, regardless of its apparent purpose. A cup, which ostensibly can be used as a container, may be considered art if intended solely as an ornament, while a painting may be deemed craft if mass-produced.
Visual art is defined as the arrangement of colors, forms, or other elements "in a manner that affects the sense of beauty, specifically the production of the beautiful in a graphic or plastic medium". The nature of art has been described by Wollheim as "one of the most elusive of the traditional problems of human culture". It has been defined as a vehicle for the expression or communication of emotions and ideas, a means for exploring and appreciating formal elements for their own sake, and as mimesis or representation. Leo Tolstoy identified art as a use of indirect means to communicate from one person to another. Benedetto Croce and R.G. Collingwood advanced the idealist view that art expresses emotions, and that the work of art therefore essentially exists in the mind of the creator. Art as form has its roots in the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and was developed in the early twentieth century by Roger Fry and Clive Bell. Art as mimesis or representation has deep roots in the philosophy of Aristotle.
The second and more recent sense of the word art is as an abbreviation for creative art or fine art. Fine art means that a skill is being used to express the artist's creativity, or to engage the audience's aesthetic sensibilities, or to draw the audience towards consideration of the finer things. Often, if the skill is being used in a common or practical way, people will consider it a craft instead of art. Likewise, if the skill is being used in a commercial or industrial way, it will be considered Commercial art instead of art. On the other hand, crafts and design are sometimes considered applied art. Some art followers have argued that the difference between fine art and applied art has more to do with value judgments made about the art than any clear definitional difference. However, even fine art often has goals beyond pure creativity and self-expression. The purpose of works of art may be to communicate ideas, such as in politically-, spiritually-, or philosophically-motivated art; to create a sense of beauty (see aesthetics); to explore the nature of perception; for pleasure; or to generate strong emotions. The purpose may also be seemingly nonexistent.
Art can describe several things: a study of creative skill, a process of using the creative skill, a product of the creative skill, or the audience's experience with the creative skill. The creative arts (art as discipline) are a collection of disciplines (arts) that produce artworks (art as objects) that are compelled by a personal drive (art as activity) and echo or reflect a message, mood, or symbolism for the viewer to interpret (art as experience). Artworks can be defined by purposeful, creative interpretations of limitless concepts or ideas in order to communicate something to another person. Artworks can be explicitly made for this purpose or interpreted based on images or objects. Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses. It is also an expression of an idea and it can take many different forms and serve many different purposes. Although the application of scientific theories to derive a new scientific theory involves skill and results in the "creation" of something new, this represents science only and is not categorized as art.
In the nineteenth century, artists were primarily concerned with ideas of truth and beauty. The aesthetic theorist John Ruskin, who championed the raw naturalism of J. M. W. Turner, saw art's role as the communication by artifice of an essential truth that could only be found in nature. The arrival of Modernism in the early twentieth century lead to a radical break in the conception of the function of art, and then again in the late twentieth century with the advent of postmodernism. Clement Greenberg's 1960 article "Modernist Painting" defines Modern Art as "the use of characteristic methods of a discipline to criticize the discipline itself". Greenberg originally applied this idea to the Abstract Expressionist movement and used it as a way to understand and justify flat (non-illusionistic) abstract painting: After Greenberg, several important art theorists emerged, such as Michael Fried, T. J. Clark, Rosalind Krauss, Linda Nochlin and Griselda Pollock among others. Though only originally intended as a way of understanding a specific set of artists, Greenberg's definition of Modern Art underlies most of the ideas of art within the various art movements of the 20th century and early 21st century. The art of Marcel Duchamp becomes clear when seen within this context; when submitting a urinal, titled fountain, to the Society of Independent Artists exhibit in 1917 he was critiquing the art exhibition using its own methods.
Pop artists like Andy Warhol became both noteworthy and influential through critiquing popular culture, as well as the art world, through the language of that popular culture. Certain radical artists of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s took those ideas further by expanding this technique of self-criticism beyond high art to all cultural image-making, including fashion images, comics, billboards and pornography.
"Imitation, then, is one instinct of our nature. Next, there is the instinct for 'harmony' and rhythm, meters being manifestly sections of rhythm. Persons, therefore, starting with this natural gift developed by degrees their special aptitudes, till their rude improvisations gave birth to Poetry." -Aristotle
"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science." -Albert Einstein
"Jupiter's eagle [as an example of art] is not, like logical (aesthetic) attributes of an object, the concept of the sublimity and majesty of creation, but rather something else - something that gives the imagination an incentive to spread its flight over a whole host of kindred representations that provoke more thought than admits of expression in a concept determined by words. They furnish an aesthetic idea, which serves the above rational idea as a substitute for logical presentation, but with the proper function, however, of animating the mind by opening out for it a prospect into a field of kindred representations stretching beyond its ken." -Immanuel Kant
"Most scholars who deal with rock paintings or objects recovered from prehistoric contexts that cannot be explained in utilitarian terms and are thus categorized as decorative, ritual or symbolic, are aware of the trap posed by the term 'art'." -Silva Tomaskova
"[Art is a set of] artefacts or images with symbolic meanings as a means of communication." -Steve Mithen
"By contrast, the realistic attitude, inspired by positivism, from Saint Thomas Aquinas to Anatole France, clearly seems to me to be hostile to any intellectual or moral advancement. I loathe it, for it is made up of mediocrity, hate, and dull conceit. It is this attitude which today gives birth to these ridiculous books, these insulting plays. It constantly feeds on and derives strength from the newspapers and stultifies both science and art by assiduously flattering the lowest of tastes; clarity bordering on stupidity, a dog's life." -Andre Breton (Surrealism)
The functions of art described above are not mutually exclusive, as many of them may overlap. For example, art for the purpose of entertainment may also seek to sell a product, i.e. the movie or video game. One of the central challenges of post-modern art (after the 1970s), is that as the world becomes increasingly utilitarian, functional, and market-driven, the presence of the non-motivated arts, or art which is ritualistic or symbolic, becomes increasingly rare.
It is common in the history of art for people to dispute whether a particular form or work, or particular piece of work counts as art or not. In fact for much of the past century the idea of art has been to simply challenge what art is. Philosophers of Art call these disputes "classificatory disputes about art." For example, Ancient Greek philosophers debated about whether or not ethics should be considered the "art of living well". Classificatory disputes in the 20th century included: cubist and impressionist paintings, Duchamp's Fountain, the movies, superlative imitations of banknotes, propaganda, and even a crucifix immersed in urine. Conceptual art often intentionally pushes the boundaries of what counts as art. New media such as Video games slowly become co-opted by artists and/or recognized as art forms in its own right, though these new classification shifts are not universally adopted and remain the subject of dispute.
Philosopher David Novitz has argued that disagreement about the definition of art are rarely the heart of the problem. Rather, "the passionate concerns and interests that humans vest in their social life" are "so much a part of all classificatory disputes about art" (Novitz, 1996). According to Novitz, classificatory disputes are more often disputes about our values and where we are trying to go with our society than they are about theory proper. For example, when the Daily Mail criticized Hirst's and Emin's work by arguing "For 1,000 years art has been one of our great civilising forces. Today, pickled sheep and soiled beds threaten to make barbarians of us all" they are not advancing a definition or theory about art, but questioning the value of Hirst's and Emin's work. In 1998, Arthur Danto, suggested a thought experiment showing that "the status of an artifact as work of art results from the ideas a culture applies to it, rather than its inherent physical or perceptible qualities. Cultural interpretation (an art theory of some kind) is therefore constitutive of an object's arthood.
In the twentieth century, Pablo Picasso's Guernica (1937) used arresting cubist techniques and stark monochromatic oils, to depict the harrowing consequences of a contemporary bombing of a small, ancient Basque town. Leon Golub's Interrogation III (1981), depicts a female nude, hooded detainee strapped to a chair, her legs open to reveal her sexual organs, surrounded by two tormentors dressed in everyday clothing. Andres Serrano's Piss Christ (1989) is a photograph of a crucifix, sacred to the Christian religion and representing Christ's sacrifice and final suffering, submerged in a glass of the artist's own urine. The resulting uproar led to comments in the United States Senate about public funding of the arts.
In the twenty-first century, Eric Fischl created Tumbling Woman as a memorial to those who jumped or fell to their death in the attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. Initially installed at Rockefeller Center in New York City, within a year the work was removed as too disturbing.
Art has been perceived by some as belonging to some social classes and often excluding others. In this context, art is seen as an upper-class activity associated with wealth, the ability to purchase art, and the leisure required to pursue or enjoy it. For example, the palaces of Versailles or the Hermitage in St. Petersburg with their vast collections of art, amassed by the fabulously wealthy royalty of Europe exemplify this view. Collecting such art is the preserve of the rich, or of governments and institutions.
Fine and expensive goods have been popular markers of status in many cultures, and continue to be so today. There has been a cultural push in the other direction since at least 1793, when the Louvre, which had been a private palace of the Kings of France, was opened to the public as an art museum during the French Revolution. Most modern public museums and art education programs for children in schools can be traced back to this impulse to have art available to everyone. Museums in the United States tend to be gifts from the very rich to the masses (The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, for example, was created by John Taylor Johnston, a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum.) But despite all this, at least one of the important functions of art in the 21st century remains as a marker of wealth and social status.
There have been attempts by artists to create art that can not be bought by the wealthy as a status object. One of the prime original motivators of much of the art of the late 1960s and 1970s was to create art that could not be bought and sold. It is "necessary to present something more than mere objects said the major post war German artist Joseph Beuys. This time period saw the rise of such things as performance art, video art, and conceptual art. The idea was that if the artwork was a performance that would leave nothing behind, or was simply an idea, it could not be bought and sold. "Democratic precepts revolving around the idea that a work of art is a commodity impelled the aesthetic innovation which germinated in the mid-1960s and was reaped throughout the 1970s. Artists broadly identified under the heading of Conceptual art... substituting performance and publishing activities for engagement with both the material and materialistic concerns of painted or sculptural form... [have] endeavored to undermine the art object qua object.
In the decades since, these ideas have been somewhat lost as the art market has learned to sell limited edition DVDs of video works, invitations to exclusive performance art pieces, and the objects left over from conceptual pieces. Many of these performances create works that are only understood by the elite who have been educated as to why an idea or video or piece of apparent garbage may be considered art. The marker of status becomes understanding the work instead of necessarily owning it, and the artwork remains an upper-class activity. "With the widespread use of DVD recording technology in the early 2000s, artists, and the gallery system that derives its profits from the sale of artworks, gained an important means of controlling the sale of video and computer artworks in limited editions to collectors.
An art form is the specific shape, or quality an artistic expression takes. The media used often influences the form. For example, the form of a sculpture must exist in space in three-dimensions, and respond to gravity. The constraints and limitations of a particular medium are thus called its formal qualities. To give another example, the formal qualities of painting are the canvas texture, color, and brush texture. The formal qualities of video games are non-linearity, interactivity and virtual presence. The form of a particular work of art is determined by both the formal qualities of the media, and the intentions of the artist.
A genre is a set of conventions and styles within a particular media. For instance, well recognized genres in film are western, horror and romantic comedy. Genres in music include death metal and trip hop. Genres in painting include still life, and pastoral landscape. A particular work of art may bend or combine genres but each genre has a recognizable group of conventions, clichés and tropes. (One note: the word genre has a second older meaning within painting; genre painting was a phrase used in the 17th to 19th century to refer specifically to paintings of scenes of everyday life and can still be used in this way.)
An artwork, artist's, or movement's style is the distinctive method and form that art takes. Any loose brushy, dripped or poured abstract painting is called expressionistic (with a lower case "e" and the "ic" at the end). Often these styles are linked with a particular historical period, set of ideas, and particular artistic movement. So Jackson Pollock is called an Abstract Expressionist.
Because a particular style may have a specific cultural meanings, it is important to be sensitive to differences in technique. Roy Lichtenstein's (1923-1997) paintings are not pointillist, despite his uses of dots, because they are not aligned with the original proponents of Pointillism. Lichtenstein used Ben-Day dots: they are evenly-spaced and create flat areas of color. These types of dots, used in halftone printing, were originally used in comic strips and newspapers to reproduce color. Lichtenstein thus uses the dots as a style to question the "high" art of painting with the "low" art of comics - to comment on class distinctions in culture. Lichtenstein is thus associated with the American Pop art movement (1960s). Pointillism is a technique in late Impressionism (1880s), developed especially by the artist Georges Seurat, that employs dots that are spaced in a way to create variation in color and depth in an attempt to paint images that were closer to the way we really see color. Both artists use dots, but the particular style and technique relates to the artistic movement these artists were a part of.
These are all ways of beginning to define a work of art, to narrow it down. "Imagine you are an art critic whose mission is to compare the meanings you find in a wide range of individual artworks. How would you proceed with your task? One way to begin is to examine the materials each artist selected in making an object, image video, or event. The decision to cast a sculpture in bronze, for instance, inevitably effects its meaning; the work becomes something different than if it had been cast in gold or plastic or chocolate, even if everything else about the artwork remained the same. Next, you might examine how the materials in each artwork have become an arrangement of shapes, colors, textures, and lines. These, in turn, are organized into various patterns and compositional structures. In your interpretation, you would comment on how salient features of the form contribute to the overall meaning of the finished artwork. [But in the end] the meaning of most artworks... is not exhausted by a discussion of materials, techniques, and form. Most interpretations also include a discussion of the ideas and feelings the artwork engenders.
Art predates history; sculptures, cave paintings, rock paintings, and petroglyphs from the Upper Paleolithic starting roughly 40,000 years ago have been found, but the precise meaning of such art is often disputed because so little is known about the cultures that produced them. The oldest art objects in the world: a series of tiny, drilled snail shells about 75,000yrs old, were discovered in a South African cave.
The great traditions in art have a foundation in the art of one of the great ancient civilizations: Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia, India, China, Ancient Greece, Rome, or Arabia (ancient Yemen and Oman). Each of these centers of early civilization developed a unique and characteristic style in their art. Because of the size and duration these civilizations, more of their art works have survived and more of their influence has been transmitted to other cultures and later times. They have also provided the first records of how artists worked. For example, this period of Greek art saw a veneration of the human physical form and the development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions
In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Western Middle Ages, art focused on the expression of Biblical and not material truths, and emphasized methods which would show the higher unseen glory of a heavenly world, such as the use of gold in the background of paintings, or glass in mosaics or windows, which also presented figures in idealized, patterned (flat) forms. The western Renaissance saw a return to valuation of the material world, and the place of humans in it, and this paradigm shift is reflected in art forms, which show the corporeality of the human body, and the three dimensional reality of landscape.
In the east, Islamic art's rejection of iconography led to emphasis on geometric patterns, calligraphy, and architecture. Further east, religion dominated artistic styles and forms too. India and Tibet saw emphasis on painted sculptures and dance with religious painting borrowing many conventions from sculpture and tending to bright contrasting colors with emphasis on outlines. China saw many art forms flourish, jade carving, bronzework, pottery (including the stunning terracotta army of Emperor Qin), poetry, calligraphy, music, painting, drama, fiction, etc. Chinese styles vary greatly from era to era and are traditionally named after the ruling dynasty. So, for example, Tang Dynasty paintings are monochromatic and sparse, emphasizing idealized landscapes, but Ming Dynasty paintings are busy, colorful, and focus on telling stories via setting and composition. Japan names its styles after imperial dynasties too, and also saw much interplay between the styles of calligraphy and painting. Woodblock printing became important in Japan after the 17th century.
The western Age of Enlightenment in the 18th century saw artistic depictions of physical and rational certainties of the clockwork universe, as well as politically revolutionary visions of a post-monarchist world, such as Blake's portrayal of Newton as a divine geometer, or David's propagandistic paintings. This led to Romantic rejections of this in favor of pictures of the emotional side and individuality of humans, exemplified in the novels of Goethe. The late 19th century then saw a host of artistic movements, such as academic art, symbolism, impressionism and fauvism among others.
By the 20th century these pictures were falling apart, shattered not only by new discoveries of relativity by Einstein and of unseen psychology by Freud, but also by unprecedented technological development accelerated by the implosion of civilisation in two world wars. The history of twentieth century art is a narrative of endless possibilities and the search for new standards, each being torn down in succession by the next. Thus the parameters of Impressionism, Expressionism, Fauvism, Cubism, Dadaism, Surrealism, etc cannot be maintained very much beyond the time of their invention. Increasing global interaction during this time saw an equivalent influence of other cultures into Western art, such as Pablo Picasso being influenced by African sculpture. Japanese woodblock prints (which had themselves been influenced by Western Renaissance draftsmanship) had an immense influence on Impressionism and subsequent development. Later, African sculptures were taken up by Picasso and to some extent by Matisse. Similarly, the west has had huge impacts on Eastern art in 19th and 20th century, with originally western ideas like Communism and Post-Modernism exerting powerful influence on artistic styles.
Modernism, the idealistic search for truth, gave way in the latter half of the 20th century to a realization of its unattainability. Relativity was accepted as an unavoidable truth, which led to the period of contemporary art and postmodern criticism, where cultures of the world and of history are seen as changing forms, which can be appreciated and drawn from only with irony. Furthermore the separation of cultures is increasingly blurred and some argue it is now more appropriate to think in terms of a global culture, rather than regional cultures.
Traditionally, the highest achievements of art demonstrate a high level of ability or fluency within a medium. This characteristic might be considered a point of contention, since many modern artists (most notably, conceptual artists) do not themselves create the works they conceive, or do not even create the work in a conventional, demonstrative sense. Art has a transformative capacity: confers particularly appealing or aesthetically satisfying structures or forms upon an original set of unrelated, passive constituents.
A common view is that the epithet "art", particular in its elevated sense, requires a certain level of creative expertise by the artist, whether this be a demonstration of technical ability or an originality in stylistic approach such as in the plays of Shakespeare, or a combination of these two. Traditionally skill of execution was viewed as a quality inseparable from art and thus necessary for its success; for Leonardo da Vinci, art, neither more nor less than his other endeavors, was a manifestation of skill. Rembrandt's work, now praised for its ephemeral virtues, was most admired by his contemporaries for its virtuosity. At the turn of the 20th century, the adroit performances of John Singer Sargent were alternately admired and viewed with skepticism for their manual fluency, yet at nearly the same time the artist who would become the era's most recognized and peripatetic iconoclast, Pablo Picasso, was completing a traditional academic training at which he excelled.
A common contemporary criticism of some modern art occurs along the lines of objecting to the apparent lack of skill or ability required in the production of the artistic object. In conceptual art, Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain" is among the first examples of pieces wherein the artist used found objects ("ready-made") and exercised no traditionally recognised set of skills. Tracey Emin's My Bed, or Damien Hirst's The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living follow this example and also manipulate the mass media. Emin slept (and engaged in other activities) in her bed before placing the result in a gallery as work of art. Hirst came up with the conceptual design for the artwork but has left most of the eventual creation of many works to employed artisans. Hirst's celebrity is founded entirely on his ability to produce shocking concepts. The actual production in many conceptual and contemporary works of art is a matter of assembly of found objects. However there are many modernist and contemporary artists who continue to excel in the skills of drawing and painting and in creating hands on works of art.
Somewhat in relation to the above, the word art is also used to apply judgments of value, as in such expressions like "that meal was a work of art" (the cook is an artist), or "the art of deception," (the highly attained level of skill of the deceiver is praised). It is this use of the word as a measure of high quality and high value that gives the term its flavor of subjectivity.
Making judgments of value requires a basis for criticism. At the simplest level, a way to determine whether the impact of the object on the senses meets the criteria to be considered art, is whether it is perceived to be attractive or repulsive. Though perception is always colored by experience, and is necessarily subjective, it is commonly taken that - that which is not aesthetically satisfying in some fashion cannot be art. However, "good" art is not always or even regularly aesthetically appealing to a majority of viewers. In other words, an artist's prime motivation need not be the pursuit of the aesthetic. Also, art often depicts terrible images made for social, moral, or thought-provoking reasons. For example, Francisco Goya's painting depicting the Spanish shootings of 3rd of May 1808, is a graphic depiction of a firing squad executing several pleading civilians. Yet at the same time, the horrific imagery demonstrates Goya's keen artistic ability in composition and execution and produces fitting social and political outrage. Thus, the debate continues as to what mode of aesthetic satisfaction, if any, is required to define 'art'.
The assumption of new values or the rebellion against accepted notions of what is aesthetically superior need not occur concurrently with a complete abandonment of the pursuit of that which is aesthetically appealing. Indeed, the reverse is often true, that in the revision of what is popularly conceived of as being aesthetically appealing, allows for a re-invigoration of aesthetic sensibility, and a new appreciation for the standards of art itself. Countless schools have proposed their own ways to define quality, yet they all seem to agree in at least one point: once their aesthetic choices are accepted, the value of the work of art is determined by its capacity to transcend the limits of its chosen medium in order to strike some universal chord by the rarity of the skill of the artist or in its accurate reflection in what is termed the zeitgeist.


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The great thing about big-block Chevy engines is they offer gobs of luscious torque-producing displacement. The downside is that they are big and heavy, which has resulted in a trade-off between weight and displacement. These days, however, there are ways to have your proverbial cake and eat it, too.
The problem with going bigger, especially with today's aluminum GM blocks, is that the factory steel sleeves can only be bored so far before getting too thin to be reliable. The solution is to knock out the factory sleeves and insert aftermarket sleeves that are able to go big, real big. Having the ability to go with a bore size up to 4.200 inches is a key part of getting big-block displacement from the LS2. The other half of the displacement equation, stroke, is addressed with the use of a longer stroke crank. These are readily available and a 4.125-inch stroke can be accommodated inside the typical GM LS block with a bit of finesse. The upshot of this is it's now fairly easy to create a lightweight aluminum LS engine in the 454ci range.
This bump in available displacement equates to torque and as we all know torque, not horsepower, is the real star of the show. In addition, those extra cubes allow the use of a larger camshaft that would prove to be too raucous in an engine of more diminutive displacement.
For this build we decided to use a set of Darton MID sleeves to punch out the bore of a used LS block. The recipe also included a 4.125-inch K1 crank with standard length 6.125-inch K1 rods. When it came to selecting the camshaft we resisted the urge to slide in something too rowdy just to nail a sexy dyno figure. Instead, we chose a stick that would make great power and still offer excellent street manners. After getting our donor block resleeved by Steve Demirjian, of Race Engine Development, we headed over to Turn Key Engine Supply to complete the big-inch mill.
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Sleeving an LS block involves very specialized, and expensive, equipment, but more importantly it requires someone with the skill and experience to pull off the surgery. That's where Steve Demirjian of Race Engine Development comes in. He's been in the racing engine business since 1972 and that equates to a lot of knowledge of what works and what doesn't. In regards to sleeves he's been working with Darton for quite some time and is even one of the patent holders for their Modular Integrated Deck (MID) sleeve system. The MID system was developed by Darton to address the factory block's cylinder stability design weakness due to the poor support at the upper deck area. GM's "cast-in sleeves" make the factory engines affordable and they are great to a certain power level, but lacking when it comes to high power, boosted, or, as in our case, larger bore sizes. When the Darton sleeves are siamesed and nested, they create a solid deck of sleeve flanges held in tension, this reinforces the upper deck area and provides for individual replacement with what Darton calls MID. Unlike factory sleeves, water flows all the way around the cylinders and this promotes cooling and helps control detonation.


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Ed Hamburger can rightly be called a hot-rodder's hot rodder, although the moniker "speed merchant" also fits him particularly well. Ed, who started drag racing in the early '60s, has been an innovator of speed and performance parts and is the founder, CEO, and the driving force behind SLP Performance Parts-a major manufacturer and supplier of high-quality, bolt-on performance parts for Corvettes and other marques.
As is usually the case with young and budding non-pro drag racers, funds were limited, so Ed relied on his own ingenuity and creativity to squeeze every possible ounce of horsepower out of his rides. He eventually opened Ed Hamburger Hi-Performance Parts in New Jersey, where he had virtually dominated all the competition at the dragstrips of the Northeast territory (NED 1). At the time, he was running 340-cid, small-block Mopars, and his consistent and awesome performances attracted the factory, enabling Ed to become the first Mopar Direct Connection dealer.
As Ed's business grew through the '70s, the latter part of the decade found him racing less and spending more time personally building customer engines. While concentrating on growing his business, he initiated and developed an eight-car race team that wrought havoc in the Sportsman ranks. The team took an impressive six out of eight Class wins at the season-opening Winternationals one year.
In 1978, Ed launched Hamburger Oil Pans as an offshoot of his Hi-Performance Parts business, which manufactured a line of high-performance pans for street and strip. In fact, the pans were so good that at one time or another his customer list included NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt, the NHRAs indefatigable John Force, and other racing notables. Hamburger Oil Pans quickly became a tour de force as far as aftermarket brands go. He sold the highly successful company in 1995 to Mr. Gasket, which in turn sold it to TD Performance, where it remains today. Ed sold the company in order to devote the proper time and energy to his next venture, SLP Engineering, which came about in 1986. (The SLP stands for Street Legal Performance.)
Ed devised a plan designed to entice the performance-buying public back to American car dealers' showrooms; the heart of this plan was to modify brand-new GM vehicles. Special packages were developed for the Firebird (Firehawk) and Camaro (SS) that included increased horsepower, signature dress-up items, and superior handling. The first Firehawk was introduced in 1991, and the program was a huge success.
As with Ed's other business moves, the timing was right and so was the product. Every component added to both the Camaro SS and Firehawk was designed, engineered, tooled, and manufactured by SLP in its own assembly plant located in Canada, just minutes away from GM's F-Body plant.
SLP branched into two divisions: SLP Engineering, devoted to OE efforts, and SLP Performance Parts, the aftermarket division, which is now the sole SLP company remaining.
Realizing the huge market potential that existed and the desire for high-quality, bolt-on performance for Corvettes, SLP soon turned its attention in that direction with a series of mild-to-wild offerings to put more kick in the Plastic Fantastics. the company also develops and offers new performance packages for the GTO, fullsize trucks, Mustangs, and, of course, the C6 Corvette.
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One aspect of Roush-Fenway Racing's (RFR) announcement about their 2015 lineup is the news that Greg Biffle will be part of the 2015 lineup for that team; his contract has been extended and characterized as "multi-year." Speculation all year centered on the possibility that he might also leaver the organization.
Jason Hathaway finishes 11th in Sunday's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race at the Circuit ICAR road course in Mirabel, Quebec.
William Byron scores a 14th place finish in Saturday night's NASCAR K&N Pro Series-East race at Columbus Motor Speedway in Ohio.
Jason Myers moved into first place in the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour point standings after a second-place finish in Saturday night's race at Caraway Speedway in Sophia, NC.
Burt Myers was credited with a 16th place DNF in Saturday night's NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour race at Caraway Speedway in Sophia, NC.
Chris Buescher finished 12th in Saturday night's NASCAR XFINITY Series race at Daytona International Speedway.
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Jeff Gordon crashed on the final lap of both the Daytona 500 and Geico 500 earlier this season to finish in the 30s, so it came as little surprise to see him spinning as the checkers waved. Fortunately he had already crossed the finish line on the final lap and was credited with sixth in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway.
Kurt Busch finished fifth in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona International Speedway after starting the race 28th.
Quebec native Kevin Lacroix dominated the first-caution free race in NASCAR Canadian Tire Series history and triumphed in the Ecko Unlimited 100 at Circuit ICAR.
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Arthur Schopenhauer (February 22, 1788 – September 21, 1860) was a German philosopher known for his atheistic pessimism and philosophical clarity. At age 25, he published his doctoral dissertation, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason, which examined the fundamental question of whether reason alone can unlock answers about the world. Schopenhauer's most influential work, The World as Will and Representation, emphasized the role of man's basic motivation, which Schopenhauer called "will". Schopenhauer's analysis of "will" led him to the conclusion that emotional, physical, and sexual desires can never be fulfilled. Consequently, Schopenhauer favored a lifestyle of negating human desires, similar to the teachings of Buddhism.
Schopenhauer's metaphysical analysis of "will", his views on human motivation and desire, and his aphoristic writing style influenced many well-known philosophers, including Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Wagner, Ludwig Wittgenstein, and Sigmund Freud.
Arthur Schopenhauer was born in 1788 in the ethnically Germanic city of Danzig as the son of Heinrich Floris Schopenhauer and Johanna Schopenhauer, both descendants of wealthy German families. In 1793, when Prussia acquired Danzig, Schopenhauer's family moved to Hamburg. In 1805, Schopenhauer's father died, possibly by committing suicide. Schopenhauer's mother Joanna moved to Weimar, then the centre of German literature, to pursue her writing career. After one year, Schopenhauer left the family business in Hamburg to join her.
Schopenhauer became a student at the University of Göttingen in 1809. There he studied metaphysics and psychology under Gottlob Ernst Schulze, who advised him to concentrate on Plato and Kant. In Berlin, from 1811 to 1812, he had attended lectures by the prominent post-Kantian philosopher J. G. Fichte and the theologian Schleiermacher.
In 1814 Schopenhauer began his seminal work The World as Will and Representation (Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung.) He would finish it in 1818 and publish it the following year. In Dresden in 1819, Schopenhauer fathered an illegitimate child was born and died the same year.) In 1820, Schopenhauer became a lecturer at the University of Berlin . Schopenhauer scheduled his lectures to coincide with those of the famous philosopher G. W. F. Hegel, who Schopenhauer described as a "clumsy charlatan." However, only five students turned up to Schopenhauer's lectures, and he dropped out of academia. A late essay On University Philosophy expressed his resentment towards university philosophy.
In 1831, a cholera epidemic broke out in Berlin and Schopenhauer left the city. Schopenhauer settled permanently in Frankfurt in 1833, where he remained for the next twenty-seven years, living alone except for a succession of pet poodles named Atma and Butz. Schopenhauer had a robust constitution, but in 1860 his health began to deteriorate. He died of heart failure on September 21, 1860, while sitting in his armchair at home. He was 72.
Philosophers have not traditionally been impressed by the tribulations of love, but Schopenhauer addressed it and related concepts forthrightly:
He gave a name to a force within man which he felt had invariably precedence over reason: the Will to Live (Wille zum Leben), defined as an inherent drive within human beings, and indeed all creatures, to stay alive and to reproduce.
Schopenhauer refused to conceive of love as either trifling or accidental, but rather understood it to be an immensely powerful force lying unseen within man's psyche and dramatically shaping the world:
These ideas foreshadowed Darwin's theory of evolution and Freud's concepts of the libido and the unconscious mind.
Schopenhauer possessed a distinctly hierarchical conception of the human races, attributing civilizational primacy to the northern "white races" due to their sensitivity and creativity:
Despite this, he was adamantly against differing treatment of races, was fervently anti-slavery and supported the abolitionist movement in the United States. He describes the treatment of "[our] innocent black brothers whom force and injustice have delivered into [the slave-master's] devilish clutches" as "belonging to the blackest pages of mankind's criminal record." (Parerga and Paralipomena, "On Ethics," Sec. 5)
Schopenhauer additionally maintained a marked metaphysical and political anti-Judaism. Schopenhauer argued that Christianity constituted a revolt against the materialistic basis of Judaism, exhibiting an Indian-influenced ethics reflecting the Aryan-Vedic theme of spiritual "self-conquest" as opposed to the ignorant drive toward earthly utopianism of the superficially this-worldly Jewish spirit:
In 1821 he fell in love with 19-year old opera singer Caroline Richter, called Medon, and had a relationship with her for several years. He discarded marriage plans, however, writing, "Marrying means to halve one's rights and double one's duties", and "Marrying means, to grasp blindfold into a sack hoping to find out an eel out of an assembly of snakes." At the age of 43 in 1831, he again took interest in a younger woman, the 17-year old Flora Weiss, who rejected him. (ref: The Leuven Philosophy Newsletter pgs. 42-43)
Schopenhauer had generally liberal views on other social issues: he was strongly against taboos on issues like suicide and homosexuality, and condemned the treatment of African slaves. Schopenhauer held a high opinion of one woman, Madame de Guyon, whose writings and biography he recommended.
Schopenhauer's controversial writing has influenced many, from Nietzsche to 19th century feminists. While Schopenhauer's hostility to women may tell us more about his biography than about philosophy, his biological analysis of the difference between the sexes, and their separate roles in the struggle for survival and reproduction, anticipates some of the claims that were later ventured by sociobiologists and evolutionary psychologists in the twentieth century.
Schopenhauer told Richard Wagner's friend Malwida von Meysenbug, "I have not yet spoken my last word about women. I believe that if a woman succeeds in withdrawing from the mass, or rather raising herself above the mass, she grows ceaselessly and more than a man.
In another context, Schopenhauer reiterated his antidemocratic-eugenic thesis: "If you want Utopian plans, I would say: the only solution to the problem is the despotism of the wise and noble members of a genuine aristocracy, a genuine nobility, achieved by mating the most magnanimous men with the cleverest and most gifted women. This proposal constitutes my Utopia and my Platonic Republic" (Essays and Aphorisms, trans. R.J. Hollingdale, Middlesex: London, 1970, p. 154). Analysts (e.g., Keith Ansell-Pearson) have suggested that Schopenhauer's advocacy of anti-egalitarianism and eugenics influenced the neo-aristocratic philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, who initially considered Schopenhauer his mentor.
Concerning the Upanishads and Vedas, he writes in The World as Will and Representation:
He summarised the influence of the Upanishads thus: "It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death!"
Other influences were: Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Locke, Baruch Spinoza, Matthias Claudius, George Berkeley, David Hume, René Descartes.
Schopenhauer accepted Kant's division of the universe into phenomenal (perception) and noumenal (thought). Some commentators suggest that Schopenhauer claimed that the noumenon, or thing-in-itself, was the basis for Schopenhauer's concept of the will. Other commentators suggest that Schopenhauer considered will to be the only a subset of the "thing-in-itself" class, namely that we can can most directly experience.
Schopenhauer's identification of the Kantian noumenon (i.e., the actually existing entity) with what he termed Will deserves some explanation. The noumenon was what Kant called the Ding an Sich, the "Thing in Itself", the reality that is the foundation of our sensory and mental representations of an external world. In Kantian terms, those sensory and mental representations are mere phenomena. Schopenhauer departed from Kant in his description of the relationship between the phenomenon and the noumenon. According to Kant, things-in-themselves ground the phenomenal representations in our minds. Schopenhauer, on the other hand, believed phenomena and noumena to be two different sides of the same coin. Noumena do not cause phenomena, but rather phenomena are simply the way by which our minds perceive the noumena, according to the Principle of Sufficient Reason. This is explained more fully in Schopenhauer's doctoral thesis, On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
Schopenhauer's second major departure from Kant's epistemology concerns the body. Kant's philosophy was formulated as a response to the radical philosophical skepticism of David Hume, who claimed that causality could not be observed empirically. Schopenhauer begins by arguing that Kant's demarcation between external objects, knowable only as phenomena, and the Thing in Itself of noumenon, contains a significant omission. There is, in fact, one physical object we know more intimately than we know any object of sense perception. It is our own body.
We know our human bodies have boundaries and occupy space, the same way other objects known only through our named senses do. Though we seldom think of our bodies as physical objects, we know even before reflection that it shares some of their properties. We understand that a watermelon cannot successfully occupy the same space as an oncoming truck. We know that if we tried to repeat the experiment with our own bodies, we would obtain similar results. We know this even if we do not understand the physics involved.
We know that our consciousness inhabits a physical body, similar to other physical objects only known as phenomena. Yet our consciousness is not commensurate with our body. Most of us possess the power of voluntary motion. We usually are not aware of the breathing of our lungs or the beating of our hearts unless somehow our attention is called to them. Our ability to control either is limited. Our kidneys command our attention on their schedule rather than one we choose. Few of us have any idea what our livers are doing right now, though this organ is as needful as lungs, heart, or kidneys. The conscious mind is the servant, not the master, of these and other organs. These organs have an agenda which the conscious mind did not choose, and over which it has limited power.
When Schopenhauer identifies the noumenon with the desires, needs, and impulses in us that we name "Will," what he is saying is that we participate in the reality of an otherwise unachievable world outside the mind through will. We cannot prove that our mental picture of an outside world corresponds with a reality by reasoning. Through will, we know—without thinking—that the world can stimulate us. We suffer fear, or desire. These states arise involuntarily. They arise prior to reflection. They arise even when the conscious mind would prefer to hold them at bay. The rational mind is for Schopenhauer a leaf borne along in a stream of pre-reflective and largely unconscious emotion. That stream is will, and through will, if not through logic, we can participate in the underlying reality that lies beyond mere phenomena. It is for this reason that Schopenhauer identifies the noumenon with what we call our will.
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In his "Foreword to the first edition" of his work Die beiden Grundprobleme der Ethik, Schopenhauer suggested that he had shown Hegel to have fallen prey to the Post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy.
Schopenhauer thought that Hegel used deliberately impressive but ultimately vacuous verbiage. He suggested his works were filled with "castles of abstraction" that sounded impressive but ultimately contained no content. He also thought that his glorification of church and state were designed for personal advantage and had little to do with the search for philosophical truth. For instance, the Right Hegelians interpreted Hegel as viewing the Prussian state of his day as perfect and the goal of all history up until then. So although Schopenhauer's constant attacks on Hegel may have appeared vain and overly vociferous, they were not necessarily devoid of merit.
It is well-known that the book 'Oupnekhat' (Upanisad) always lay open on his table and he invariably studied it before sleeping.at night. He called the opening up of Sanskrit literature 'the greatest gift of our century', and predicted that the philosophy and knowledge of the Upanisads would become the cherished faith of the West.
Since compassion for animals is so intimately associated with goodness of character, it may be confidently asserted that whoever is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.
Nothing leads more definitely to a recognition of the identity of the essential nature in animal and human phenomena than a study of zoology and anatomy.In 1841, he praised the establishment, in London, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and also the Animals' Friends Society in Philadelphia. Schopenhauer even went so far as to protest against the use of the pronoun "it" in reference to animals because it led to the treatment of them as though they were inanimate things. To reinforce his points, Schopenhauer referred to anecdotal reports of the look in the eyes of a monkey who had been shot and also the grief of a baby elephant whose mother had been killed by a hunter. He was very attached to his succession of pet poodles. Schopenhauer criticized Spinoza's belief that animals are to be used as a mere means for the satisfaction of humans
For Schopenhauer, Will had ontological primacy over the intellect; in other words, desire is understood to be prior to thought. Schopenhauer felt this was similar to notions of purushartha or goals of life in Vedanta Hinduism.
In Schopenhauer's philosophy, denial of the will is attained by either:
However, Buddhist Nirvana is not equivalent to the condition that Schopenhauer described as denial of the will. Occult historian Joscelyn Godwin stated, "It was Buddhism that inspired the philosophy of Arthur Schopenhauer, and, through him, attracted Richard Wagner. This Orientalism reflected the struggle of the German Romantics, in the words of Leon Poliakov, to free themselves from Judeo-Christian fetters" (Arktos, p. 38). In opposition to Joscelyn Godwin's claim that Buddhism inspired Schopenhauer, the philosopher himself made the following statement in his discussion of religions: Buddhist philosopher Nishitani Keiji however sought to distance Buddhism from Schopenhauer. While Schopenhauer's philosophy may sound rather mystical in such a summary, his methodology was resolutely empirical, rather than speculative or transcendental:
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In 2004, Professor Manuel Tarrazo published an article on the relation between Schopenhauer's epistemology and current mathematical optimization. He is a professor of finance at the McLaren School of Business at the University of San Francisco. The article's title is "Schopenhauer's prolegomenon to fuzziness." It appeared in the Fuzzy Optimization and Decision Making journal of Kluwer Academic Publishers, Volume 3, Number 3, September 2004 Professor Tarrazo asserts that "part of the work by Arthur Schopenhauer can be thought of as a prolegomenon to the existing concept of fuzziness. His epistemic framework offers a comprehensive and surprisingly modern framework to study individual decision making and suggests a bridge from the Kantian program into the concept of fuzziness, which may have had its second prolegomenon in the work by Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, Peirce and Black. In this context, Zadeh's seminal contribution can be regarded as the logical consequence of the Kant-Schopenhauer representation framework."


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her site with photo galleries. I just got notification that it has been chosen for their World View Gallery, which is a pick of the top photos of the week. That really came as a surprise.
wow! Then again it was an amazing pic.
Dug that's so gorgeous. No wonder you yearn for it.
Wonderful Mad. I can never take pics of fireworks. We have Riverfire here on Saturday night. Bigger than New Years eve. And the City Of Lights show... lasers on the river and on the city buildings. Massive. So excited. Exarse is letting me pick H up and take her in as its his weekend and then week for holidays with her. Going to be a rush... get off work, get home ten mins to.change and rush over to get her then get to a bus or train to get into the city. Tens of thousands turn up for it. They close down the freeway to the city so can't take the car. Wouldn't be any parking anyway...


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No one has answer my question though. Why is having the option such a problem? If everyone said they wanted the option (even if you had no interest in using it) to have it or not then Microsoft would be compelled to give that option. No one has answered this yet.
Having options is never bad. Not having options is restrictive and lame.
I have answered your question. It's not bad to have the option. But the option is not there. Like Ice_Blue said, it's gone. It's not going to come back. Whining about it online will not help. Microsoft is not going to put it back in, no matter how many people whine about it online, especially in forums that they do not monitor. If you actually spend some time with it, you too will see that it's better than the start menu. This is why Microsoft removed it.
All we can do is wait and see. A lot of corporations adopted 7 though, so start screen or not they wouldn't adopt Windows 8. Microsoft is sure to survey them to see why they skipped 8.
I know my corporation will not be rolling out Win 8 client. We will see how many others with very lucrative EA's fail to adopt it too. That will play a key factor in the options for Windows 9 imo.


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I am playing a video that I shot with my video camera. and I am trying to record the audio from the video file.
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I am running windows 7 ult, onboard sound card. any thing else you need to help me just ask.
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