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African mermaid
Taking a stab at some sculpting here. This is for my mom. She does dollhouse miniatures so it's in 1 inch scale. The mermaid doesn't have a name yet so if anybody has suggestions let me know.
She's polymer clay, but I haven't decided whether to do her tail in polymer clay or in an air drying epoxy clay. The main thing I'm worried about is strength, since the fin part will be pretty thin. If anyone has suggestions on that as well I'd love to hear them.
I'm kind of worried about her face. Being face-blind, I'm never sure if they look right or not because apparently I have a tendency to exaggerate features and make them into caricatures.
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What I do a lot of the time is rough it in in sculpy and "skin" it in epoxy clay.
So.... there's going to be a mermaid in the dollhouse? is it a fountain?
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The Indian Puck, or Robin Good-Fellow, ca. 1884
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Tomah Joseph (1837-1914), a Passamaquoddy Indian living at Peter Dana Point, etched the "Mikamwes" illustration on birchbark.
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One wouldn't think that the least populated county in the nation's least populated state would be fertile ground for a weekly crime drama. But "Longmire," A&E Network's engrossing new ode to frontier justice, uses its sparse setting to great effect while not skimping out on the whodunits.
Based on Craig Johnson's popular Walt Longmire mystery novels, "Longmire," premiering Sunday, June 3, finds the titular sheriff of Wyoming's Absaroka County in a truly dark place. He's still grieving the loss of his wife and has pretty much checked out emotionally, not really being present for his job and largely avoiding his grown daughter, Cady ( Cassidy Freeman). He goes through the motions, despite the efforts of longtime friend Henry Standing Bear ( Lou Diamond Phillips) to break him out of his funk. The situation is not helped when Walt learns one of his deputies -- the fabulously named Branch Connally ( Bailey Chase) -- is planning to run against him for sheriff.
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Firestone-Walker releasing their 12th Anniversary Beer
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Flash news. Firestone Walker is releasing their 12th Anniversary beer on Nov. 8 at the brewery in Paso Robles. Bottles will be on sale for $19.95 (Well, they're big bottles). A limited amount of the beer is making its way northward to the San Francisco Bay Area and all the usual good beer stores and good beer pubs will have it, however briefly. Hint: Reserve a bottle today. This is a beer that will improve with age, although I've never had enough self-discipline to to keep one long enough to find out. I always drink it.
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- Head brewer Matt Brynildson enlisted the help of Paso Robles area wine makers to assist in the blending of several barrel-aged beers into the finished product. Parabola, a Russian Imperial Stout and Bravo Brown, an Imperial Brown are just two of the beers making up the final blend. Some of the component beers have spent over 2 years aging in a combination of retired bourbon, rye, and wine barrels. This process contributes unique and one-of-a kind flavors not typically found in beer.
- The anniversary release will be available to select accounts in limited quantities throughout California and Oregon later in the month. Only 600 cases of this vintage beer were made and Firestone Walker co-founder David Walker doesn't expect it to last long.
- "Our anniversary beers have become somewhat of a phenomenon. Each year beer fans make the pilgrimage to the brewery to get this limited release and before we know it, it's gone," said co-founder David Walker.
- The release party on the 8th of November will also feature a few other special beers only available at the brewery. Bottles of "XII" will be on sale for $19.99 plus tax with a 12 bottle limit per person to insure everyone has an opportunity to purchase.
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"His erudition and command of the salient literature are evident throughout this work, and he moves with ease through a range of debates about suprastate accountability, while engaging convincingly with numerous possible critiques of cosmopolitan democracy. . . . The Global Commonwealth of Citizens provides not only an exhaustive treatment of the benefits and drawbacks of cosmopolitan democracy but the most detailed statement to date of how some form of cosmopolitandemocracy could be realized."--Luis Cabrera, Ethics & International Affairs
"This engaging book . . . deserves to be read by all who are interested in international institutions and democracy."--Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Journal of Peace Research
"Archibugi's book . . . should be applauded and paid attention to."--Jack Crittenden, Journal of Politics
"[I]nnovative, thorough and brilliant book."--Stefan Hojelid, European Legacy
"The Global Commonwealth of Citizens is not a book of dreams. It is a serious, learned, but nevertheless accessible effort to grapple with some of the most important issues of the twenty-first century. Is it possible to be cosmopolitans--citizens of a world of more than six billion people--and to find ways that allow us all to govern ourselves? The debate that this book engages is the debate of our time. Daniele Archibugi has made an important contribution."--Anne-Marie Slaughter, dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University
"Daniele Archibugi provides a bold and innovative approach to thinking about democracy within and beyond the borders. At a stroke, he helps consolidate a new political discourse to meet the challenges of our global age. Modern political theory has thought of the political good as limited within the boundaries of nation-states. Archibugi demonstrates why this no longer works, and shows how to move on."--David Held, London School of Economics and Political Science
"This is the first theoretically sophisticated and conceptually innovative effort to build an overall case for the total democratization of political life at all levels of human interaction. This is a truly groundbreaking book that will arouse widespread interest, commentary, and debate about both the desirable approach to global governance and the proper relationship between domestic and foreign policy in liberal democracies."--Richard A. Falk, author of The Declining World Order
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The following is a guest post by David Certner, AARP legislative policy director. The last time we made significant changes to Social Security – including adjustments to benefits – was the 1983 Social Security amendments. At the time, Social Security had less than a year's worth of solvency, and a bipartisan agreement to put Social Security on sound financial footing was essential. That legislation, negotiated by President Reagan and Democratic House Speaker Tip O'Neill, focused on what was needed protect …
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One of Social Security's great strengths is that it offers meaningful protection against inflation. Each year, the program considers how prices are rising [as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers]. If prices go up, the Social Security benefits people have earned tend to be adjusted as well. For a typical household, this protection is huge – a point I tried to emphasize in my book, "Social Security for Dummies." It helps people keep …
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No one with any common sense wants to see our politicians take us over the fiscal cliff. And I think most people with common sense also realize that Social Security, and the tougher issue of Medicare, are worth thoughtful debate and discussion so these vital programs can be put on stronger footing for future generations. However, when budget cutters take aim at today's Social Security recipients, it's time to ask questions and dig deeper into the fine print. A proposal …
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It's a question lots of people have about Social Security: Do you get back as much as you put in? But this question only gets at part of the story: Social Security is a kind of insurance, not just an investment. It protects you and your family from things nobody wants to think about — death and disability. In other words, it contributes to well being and peace of mind in ways that may be impossible to measure. A few …
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RADICAL plans for distancing the East German Academy of Sciences from the state were considered at a meeting of the academy this week. The aim is to free scientists from central control, says Bernd Wilhelmi, the director of the academy's Institute of Physics.
The academy, which is run by the state, looks likely to divide into two as a result of this week's meeting. One part would become a research institution and the other a scientific society.
West German scientists say that this would be a return to the old Prussian system. The academy is the legal successor of the academy that existed before the Second World War. After the war, science in the GDR was reorganised on the Soviet model with centralised control. The president of the academy had the status of a minister and was a member of the Cabinet.
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Malware makers paying US$100 for Google Play accounts
Google may have to further tighten their app review mechanism for Android, as developers of malware targeting the search giant's mobile device platform are reportedly paying US$100 to buy Google Play accounts.
In a blog post, tech journalist Brian Krebs said getting a developer account at Google Play may allow malware makers to disguise their products as legitimate apps.
"I recently encountered an Android malware developer on a semi-private Underweb forum who was actively buying up verified developer accounts at Google Play for $100 apiece. Google charges just US$25 for Android developers who wish to sell their applications through the Google Play marketplace, but it also requires the accounts to be approved and tied to a specific domain," Krebs said.
He said the buyer he encountered was offering $100 for sellers "willing to part with an active, verified Play account that is tied to a dedicated server."
The buyer was supposedly selling an Android SMS malware package targeting customers of Citibank, HSBC and ING, and at least 66 other financial institutions worldwide.
Krebs said the bot kit, dubbed "Perkele," would intercept SMS messages sent by the banks as a form of multi-factor authentication.
"Customers can purchase a single-use application that targets one specific financial institution for US$1,000; the malware author also sells a "universal kit" for US$15,000, which appears to be an SMS malware builder that allows an unlimited number of builds targeting all supported banks," Krebs said.
In contrast, Krebs said Apple's iOS platform uses a "closed" iTunes store to keep out malicious apps.
For now, Krebs advised Android users to "make sure you download apps that are scanned through Bouncer (Google's internal malware scanner)." He also advised them to research about the app's reputation.
A separate blog post on Hotforsecurity.com said the account-buying developer's "Perkele" malware works in tandem with mobile banking malware for the interception of mTANs (Mobile Transaction authentication numbers).
"However, if these threats turn up on Google Play – or worse, in applications that have already built a reputation among its users, their rate of success will dramatically increase," it said – KDM, GMA News
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The Analysis of Failure
An Investigation of Failed Cases in Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy
By Arnold Goldberg
Routledge – 2011 – 244 pages
Routledge – 2011 – 244 pages
Psychotherapy and psychoanalysis don't always work. Inevitably, a therapy or analysis may fail to alleviate the suffering of the patient. The reasons why this occurs are as manifold as the patients and analysts themselves, and oftentimes are a source of frustration and vexation to clinicians, who aren't always eager to discuss them. Taking the challenge head-on, Arnold Goldberg proposes to demystify failure in an effort to determine its essential meaning before determining its causes. Utilizing multiple vignettes of failed cases, he offers a deconstruction and a subsequent taxonomy of failure, delineating cases that go bad after six months from cases that never get off the ground, mismatches from impasses, failures of empathy from failures of inattention. Commonalities in the experience of failure – conceived as less a misapplication of technique than consequences of a co-constructed yet fraught therapeutic relationship – begin to emerge for scrutiny.
"Arnold Goldberg has succeeded in writing an illuminating account of a study of a very difficult subject: failure. Its organizing principle is that everything matters. It is beautifully written, philosophically sophisticated, and clinically wise. He confronts the unpleasant and the uncomfortable head-on and demands honesty of himself and all the participants in the study. This book is essential reading for every psychotherapist and psychoanalyst. It deserves a place chairside of the novitiate as well as the most experienced practitioner." - Arnold Richards, M.D., Training and Supervising Analyst, New York Psychoanalytic Institute
"Arnold Goldberg concludes this absorbing new volume on analytic and therapeutic failures by declaring that the book itself is a failure. After all, there is no agreed upon definition of failure or success, so how can one judge which treatments are disappointing? I came to a different conclusion than Goldberg's—I found this exploration of treatment failures to be an impressive success. By entering this heart of darkness, the graveyard of analytic casualties where no clinician really wants to go, the author guides us through the major controversies within psychoanalysis today: the challenge of comparing one approach to another, the disparity between therapist and patient goals, the privileging of theory over outcome, and the impossibility of reaching consensus on what constitutes a success. I found this a riveting discourse on the state of contemporary psychoanalysis, and I recommend it equally to neophytes in the field and to experienced psychoanalysts." - Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., author, Love and Hate in the Analytic Setting (2000)
"A pioneer can extend a clearing in a forest only by working at the edge of darkness. Beware this book for it will make you think, and think about the dark edges of clinical experience, those places not lit by the flickering light of overgrown theories and those times when analytic inquiry fails. In this essential and liberating work, Goldberg, with his characteristic incisiveness and clarity, demonstrates how relentless inquiry into its clinical dark side can rekindle analytic enlightenment. As analytic work can help an individual overcome the constriction of hidden fears, Goldberg provides a model, one replete with many clinical examples, of how uncompromising examination of failures can help the field of analysis itself grow. Goldberg shows how analysis can restore its progress beyond parochial polemics, how through exploration of its own disappointing experiences it can know its limits and thus better know its strengths. Here be not dragons; here promise lies." - Warren S. Poland, M.D., author, Melting the Darkness (1996)
"The book does offer a valuable addition to the currently available literature on analytic failure, and it has the considerable virtue of attempting to normalize failure and to situate it as a proper and necessary focus of analytic inquiry. It clarifies the nature of analytic goals, and usefully deconstructs those that are unrealistic and grandiose…The book is a welcome addition to the literature on analytic failure, and it will undoubtedly spur further thinking and discussion among its readers." - Steven H. Goldberg, Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2013)
Introducing Failure. The Failure Project. Facing Failure. Dismissing Failure. Deconstructing Failure. A Taxonomy of Failure. Failure to Launch. Interruptions, Interferences, and Bad Endings. On Losing One's Patients. Analyzability and Failure. How Does Analysis Fail? Me and Max: A Misalliance of Goals. Empathy and Failure. Rethinking Empathy. Self Psychology and Failure. The Future for Failure.
Arnold Goldberg, M.D., is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis, where he was the Director from 1989-1992, and the Cynthia Oudejans Harris Professor of Psychiatry at Rush Medical College. The author of numerous articles and reviews, he was the editor of The Annual of Psychoanalysis from 1988-1991 and Progress in Self Psychology from 1985-2002, and has written or edited 30 books. He was the recipient of the Sigourney Award in 2006 for distinguished contributions in the field of psychoanalysis.
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Americans have always loved to drive their cars, but the combination of deteriorating roads, increased traffic congestion and other factors unfortunately lead to many accidents. In fact, throughout the nation, police have recorded 5.81 million crashes every year throughout the U.S. While accidents are unfortunate, they also create a tremendous amount of work. For those seeking job stability, great growth potential and above average wages, investing your future in Auto Collision & Management (ACM) Technology at Texas State Technical College by earning an associate degree can be a very smart choice.
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When William the Conqueror defeated Harold II at Hastings he headed towards Dover where the Angle-Saxons had already raised a burh. William improved this fortification by erecting a motte-and-bailey. Dover Castle has the most massive tower in Britain, an almost 100-foot cube with walls from seventeen to twenty-one feet thick. In 1216 the castle was besieged by Louis, son of the French king but saved when Louis returned to France.
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Rebooting the franchise to show a much younger Lara Croft (don't worry she isn't that young), the opening sequence we were shown shows Lara having to escape from what appears to be a cannibal about to eat her.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEFAIRFIELD, IA – The Fairfield Hy-Vee store opened today in a new 64,000-square-foot building – the fifth location for Hy-Vee in the store's 60-year history in the community. The new Fairfield Hy-Vee at the intersection of West Burlington Avenue and South 14th Street is the company's second store built in accordance with LEED® standards. LEED, which stands for Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, is the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction and operation of high-performance "green" buildings. Hy-Vee intends to seek LEED certification for the new Fairfield store. The new store brings an additional 125 jobs and an investment of more than $13 million to the Fairfield economy. Highlights of the new store include a food court featuring Chinese and Italian specialties; a first-aisle HealthMarket offering a wide selection of natural and organic products and foods for specific dietary needs; the services of an on-site dietitian; a pharmacy with drive-up service; an attached wine & spirits store; a Hy-Vee Club Room for meetings, classes and events; and expanded selections of produce, bakery, meat, seafood and frozen food products. A bit of history: The original Fairfield Hy-Vee opened in 1950, in a former A&P location at 500 West Burlington Avenue, near downtown. Wilson "Bill" Clemons, who later became a Hy-Vee vice president, was the first manager. As the years passed, the store continued to move west – to 1301 West Burlington in 1958, to 2000 West Burlington in 1970, and then immediately next door, to 2100 West Burlington, in 1994. The current relocation reverses the trend and brings the store closer to the center of town, to a site formerly occupied by an Econofoods store and a shopping center.
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Actress Betsey Means has spent the past two weeks getting a real feel for what it was like to be Mother Jones.
Since July 7, she's been traveling across New Jersey dressed as the union activist, stopping at parks to recite Jones' famous fiery speeches. She's honoring the 100th anniversary of the March of the Mill Children, when Jones (with children along for part of the way) walked from Philadelphia to President Theodore Roosevelt's home on Long Island to protest the plight of child laborers. Mary "Mother" Jones had been inspired to do so during a tour of Pennsylvania, when she had seen 10,000 children working in textile mills for long hours for little pay.


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Can Chinese chocolate taste better than those incredibly delicious morsels from Switzerland, the center of the chocolate universe? Can cheap wine from India taste better than that pricy stuff from California's Napa Valley?
That depends on what you know, and when you learned it, according to a new study that also shows, once again, just how easy it is to fool the human brain.
Marketing researcher Keith Wilcox and colleagues at Babson College in Wellesley, Mass., conducted a series of experiments showing that a little information can have the opposite of the desired effect if it is delivered after a taste test instead of before. In a nutshell, here's what the study, to be published in the Journal of Consumer Research, says:
Tell someone the chocolate they are about to taste came from Switzerland, and sure enough, they will like it better than the chocolate from China. Tell that same person where the chocolate came from just after they've tasted it, and they will swear the stuff from China tastes better.
Ditto for wine.
Wilcox, who considers himself a consumer psychologist, said during a telephone interview that the research shows that the information changed the person's "actual perception of taste" depending on whether it was presented before or after the taste test. A total of 528 students took part in the experiments, and they really did like China's chocolate better than the premium stuff -- but only if they learned of its origin after tasting it, he said.
And 64 customers at a Boston liquor store said they preferred wine from India, not known for its great vineyards, to wine that purportedly came from Italy, which produces some very fine wines indeed -- though, again, they were not told the origin of either until they had sampled it.
But here's the punch line: none of the chocolate came from Switzerland or China. It came from Trader Joe's, and the same chocolate was used in all the experiments. The wine was "ambiguous in terms of taste," according to the study. It sold for $15.99 per bottle.
Why would being told the origin immediately after the taste test alter the perception of quality? Wilcox said the element of surprise might be part of the reason. During the peer review process, some reviewers thought economics might have figured in more than the timing of the information, but Wilcox insists that isn't so.
"People may have expected the price to be lower, but if it was really just an expectation of lower price we would have expected them to prefer the Chinese chocolate both before and after" the taste test, he said. If they knew the chocolate was from Switzerland before tasting it, they liked it better than the chocolate from China, even though it was exactly the same candy.
But if they were told the origin just after tasting the chocolate, they preferred the dark stuff from China over the chocolate from Switzerland, even though it was really the same stuff.
The participants who tasted the chocolate before they knew where it came from probably really thought both pieces were about the same. But when they learned one came from China, they would have expected it to taste inferior to the famous stuff from Switzerland, and "it was much better than they would have expected it to be," Wilcox said.
Thus they judged the "Chinese" chocolate tastier, even though it was the same stuff.


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Karen People Part of Minnesota's Immigrant Population
Between 1,500 and 3,000 Karen refugees from Burma and Thailand are now part of Minnesota's immigrant population, City Pages reported.
According to City Pages the Karen people fled Burma where they were persecuted by the military government. The Burmese government forced them to work, flee their villages and live in fear. Some were raped, shot or killed by the government. Many fled to refugee camps in Thailand, later moving to third countries like the U.S.
Minnesota Karens have found sanctuary in St. Paul's First Baptist Church, where they make up the majority of the congregation, reported the Pioneer Press. According to City Pages, the congregation spends a large part of the sermon singing in Karen. The Pioneer Press reported that the church now offers music lessons and has a number of choirs and bands.
The City Pages article was written magazine-style as was appropriate for the publication. It gave a much more complete picture of the Karen situation. Individual stories were told through the voices of Karen people. The Pioneer Press was more of a short feature story that took the angle of music in a mostly Karen church. It was interesting to see the Pioneer Press story appear days after the City Pages story was front page.


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The upcoming action game Killer Is Dead has launched early in Japan with average sales numbers.
According to the Media Create chart update from July 29 to August 4, the PlayStation 3 version of Killer Is Dead sold 17,709 units in its debut week. The Xbox 360 version was at 36th place.
Killer Is Dead was beaten by four 3DS games, one of which was a new title called Disney Magic Castle: My Happy Life, which sold 119,154 units. The three others were Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (40,203), Mario & Luigi: Dream Team (32,537), and Friend Collection: New Life (21,313).
Killer Is Dead will be out in North America for the Xbox 360 and PS3 on August 27. Launch copies of the game will come with an art book, a bonus Gigolo mission, a new story mission, and in-game outfits for supporting characters Vivienne and Mika. The Japanese and Asian versions (with English voice-overs and subtitles) are out now.


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56.5 x 78.4 cm sheet; 95.5 x 117.8 x 5.5 cm frame
'Summer' is one of the most popular works in the collection, a virtuoso performance in watercolour. The searing heat of summertime almost obliterates the hills in the distance and penetrates through the tall gum trees that offer the sheep below restful shade. Heysen's mastery of draughtsmanship provided a sure foundation for his watercolours that remain among the best of his generation.
Australian Art Department, AGNSW, 2000
This painting won the Wynne Prize in 1909 and was acquired by the Gallery in 1909.
Rebecca Andrews, Hans Heysen, 'Heroic gum trees', pg. 52-59, Adelaide, 2008, 58, 59 (colour illus.), 133 (colour illus.).
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Art Gallery of New South Wales picturebook, Sydney, 1972, 92 (colour illus.).
Herbert Badham, A gallery of Australian art, Sydney, 1954, 26 (illus.). plate no. 26
Helen Campbell, Wynne centenary 1897-1997: a selection of past winners from the Gallery's collection, Sydney, 1997, 5 (colour illus.).
Jean Campbell., Hemisphere, 'With a humble mind', Australian Capital Territory, Apr 1979, 41 (illus.).
Deborah Edwards, Two centuries of Australian painting: a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 'Introduction', pg. 8-14, Sydney, 1986, 25 (illus.). cat.no. 19
Juliana Engberg (Curator), The Real Thing, Australia, 1997, cover (cover illus.), 56 (colour illus.), 85.
James Gleeson, Impressionist painters 1881-1930, St Kilda, 1971, 78 (colour illus.). plate no. 103
Anne Gray, The Cambridge companion to Australian Art, 'Australian artists within a wider world 1900-1930', pg. 84-96, Port Melbourne, 2011, 94, 95, 352. fig.no. 7.13 (colour illus.), between pg. 108 and 109.
Sasha Grishin, Australian art: a history, 'Art of federation', pg. 174-185, Carlton, 2013, 178 (colour illus.), 179, 548, 562. plate no. 18.2
Elioth Gruner (Organiser), Catalogue of an exhibition of the works of Australian artists, Sydney, 1923. not paginated, cat.no. 134, Room VIII (Water Colours)
Elioth Gruner (Organiser), The exhibition of Australian art to be held at the galleries of the Royal Academy London, 1923, Sydney, 1923. not paginated, cat.no. 52
Jeanette Hoorn, Australian pastoral: the making of a white landscape, Fremantle, 2007, 207 (colour illus.).
Bruce James, Art Gallery of New South Wales handbook, 'Australian Collection: Works on Paper', pg. 182-197, Sydney, 1999, 191 (colour illus.).
Joan Kerr, A singular voice: essays on Australian art and architecture, 'Other voices: More stories, 1988', pg. 116-125, Sydney, 2009, 122.
Lou Klepac, Parallel visions: works from the Australian collection, 'Hans Heysen / Elioth Gruner / Horace Trennery', pg. 32-47, Sydney, 2002, 32 (colour illus.), 143, 147.
Hendrik Kolenberg, Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s, 'Introduction: Painting in watercolour', pg. 8-16, Sydney, 1995, 16, 40 (colour illus.), 117. cat.no. 29
Lionel Lindsay, 150 years of Australian art, Sydney, 1938. cat.no. 352 [Gallery No. 4]
Ewen McDonald, The Art Gallery of New South Wales collections, 'From Colonialism to late Modernism', pg. 7-106, Sydney, 1994, 23 (colour illus.).
J.G. McIvor and S. McIntyre, Managing and conserving grassy woodlands, 'Understanding grassy woodland ecosystems', pg. 1-23, Collingwood, 2002, 2 (colour illus.). Figure 1.1
Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries, Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from public and private collections, Sydney, 2000. Catalogue entry appears in inserted list to printed catalogue: Selections by Barry Humphries
Barry Pearce, The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition, 'Introduction', pg. 6-9, Sydney, 1986, 9, 16 (colour illus.), 25.
Laura Pia, Look, 'A landmark for the collection: Heysen's 'Summer' celebrates 100 years of popularity', pg. 34-35, Newtown, Oct 2009, 34 (colour illus.), 35.
Ursula Prunster and Edmund Capon, J.J. Hilder and contemporaries, Sydney, 1981, (illus.). cat.no. 29
Ron Radford, Our country: Australian Federation landscape 1900-1914, 'The symbolic landscape', pg. 60-92, Adelaide, 2001, 69 (colour illus.), 70, 153.
Julie Roberts, Art and Australia (Vol. 37, No. 2), 'Seeing the light', pg. 222-231, North Ryde, Dec 1999-Feb 2000, 228.
Julie Roberts, Uncertain ground: essays between art + nature, 'The edge of the trees at the end of the millennium', pg. 125-141, Sydney, 1999, 134, 137.
Andrew Sayers, Australian art, Oxford, 2001, 209-210. Imants Tillers' "Untitled" 1978 has appropriated Heysen's "Summer".
Daniel Thomas, Australia, 'Elizabthan post-colonial 1950-2013', pg. 226- 288., London, 2013, 228.
Daniel Thomas, Arts Monthly, 'The art of summer', pg. 8, Adelaide, 02 Jan 1996, 8.
Laurie Thomas (Editor), Jubilee exhibition of Australian art, Sydney, 1951, 37. cat.no. 84
Trustees of the National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836 to 1946, Sydney, 1946, 5, 9. cat.no. 16
Vivienne Webb and Abigail Solomon-Godeau, The unquiet landscapes of Rosemary Laing, Sydney, 2005, 15 (colour illus.), 16.
Donald Williams, In our own image: the story of Australian art, Sydney, 1995, 90 (colour illus.).
Editor Unknown (Editor), Great Australian landscape paintings, Melbourne, 1973, (colour illus.). plate no. 30
Editor Unknown (Editor), The art of Hans Heysen, Sydney, 1920, (colour illus.). plate no. X
Editor Unknown (Editor), Bulletin, 'How one German-Australian saw the bush', Sydney, 10 Jul 1976, 33 (illus.).
Hans Heysen (1922), F W Preece, Adelaide, 07 Sep 1922–23 Sep 1922
Exhibition of Australian art (1923), Education Department Gallery [Loftus Street], Sydney, Jun 1923 -
Exhibition of Australian Art (1923), Burlington House, 06 Oct 1923–03 Nov 1923
British Empire Exhibition (1924), Empire Stadium, Wembley, 23 Apr 1924–Oct 1925
Hans Heysen (1926), Society of Artists, Sydney, 16 Nov 1926–27 Nov 1926
Loan exhibition of the works of Hans Heysen (1935), Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 28 Mar 1935–26 May 1935
150 years of Australian art (1938), National Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 27 Jan 1938–25 Apr 1938
Australian watercolours from the National Art Gallery collection 1836-1946, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 24 May 1946–Jun 1946
Jubilee exhibition of Australian art:
J.J. Hilder and Contemporaries:
Two centuries of Australian painting, a selection from the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Orange Regional Gallery, Australia, 19 Apr 1986–15 Jun 1986
The Wynne prize: an Australian landscape tradition (1987):
Hans Heysen watercolours and drawings (1988), S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 23 Sep 1988–23 Oct 1988
Australian watercolours 1880s to 1990s:
The Real Thing, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Bulleen, 08 Dec 1997–22 Feb 1998
Favourites: Margaret Olley and Barry Humphries choose from Australian collections (2000), S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, 15 Jan 2000–27 Feb 2000
Our country: Federation landscapes 1900-1914, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 14 Sep 2001–18 Nov 2001
Parallel Visions: Twenty-two artists from the Australian collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 22 Feb 2002–May 2003
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2009 Shamus Award nominee
The fourth Annie Seymour mystery is now available in paperback from NAL/Obsidian.
New Haven police reporter Annie Seymour has a talent for running into trouble. So it should come as no shock when her co-worker's bachelorette party at a local club turns into a crime scene. What is surprising is that the dead bar manager on the sidewalk outside happens to be Annie's ex-husband - and the bullet shells around his body match the gun she has in her car.
Coming face-to-face with her past, Annie delves into a conspiracy involving everyone from a male stripper to a shot girl. If she wants to get the story, she'll have to escape a killer . . . before she becomes the next headline.
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"The plot is tight and cohesive while managing to not be overly complicated. Olson does an excellent job of grounding the story in reality and skillfully navigating the emotions that Annie must face in dealing with her ex's death. The usual superb supporting cast adds depth to an already fine story. The conclusion is more than satisfying, both for the individual novel and the series itself."
"Olson excels at plotting - with liberal doses of humor - and Annie grows more fascinating, and more human, with each novel. This one's a winner from Page One."
- Jay Strafford, Richmond Times Dispatch
"Shot Girl, installment No. 4 and easily the best one. . . . Even though the case looks to be fairly straightforward, it turns out Annie isn't quite as forthcoming as some readers might like her to be. So we get multiple investigations of what really happened and how much Annie can be trusted. It makes for greater depth to add that frisson of doubt and allows Olson to step up to a new storytelling level."
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By Eric Terrazas
I never shy away from a good hamburger.
Over the years, I have eaten at many different burger joints. And on a recent afternoon, I made my first visit to Victor's Villa in West Covina.
I decided to order the quarter-pound cheeseburger along with a side of onion rings. The burger cost me $3.15 while the onion rings are priced at $3.19.
After taking my first bite, I was impressed with the burger's fresh and tender taste. My cheeseburger came with lettuce, tomato and thousand island dressing, which all added to the burger's goodness.
The onion rings also did not disappoint. They especially tasted good after I added ketchup. All in all, it made for a nice lunch.
If you are not a fan of cheese, a quarter-pound hamburger is available for $2.85.
The Victor's Villa menu should also delight bacon and chili lovers. For $3.20, you can order the quarter-pound chili burger. If you're in the mood for bacon, the quarter-pound bacon burger can be had for $3.99.
Since I'm a fan of both bacon and chili, I would be willing to try the Victor's Villa take on both the chili and bacon burger.
For those with slightly bigger appetites, the quarter-pound Onasis Special burger is available for $4.85.
Victor's Villa also offers a good Mexican food selection. For $2.99, you can order a taco asada. Burritos, taquitos and quesadillas are also offered.
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CIRES is pleased to welcome Professor Steven Wofsy from Harvard University as our next guest lecturer in the CIRES Distinguished Lecture Series. Join us for his presentation "Greenhouse Gases Across Time and Space, from the Global Scale to the Urban Dome" on Friday, March 22, at 4 p.m. in the CIRES Auditorium-Room 338. Light reception to follow in the CIRES Atrium.
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Recession is driving down price of wine; and grapes
Leaving grapes to rot? That's what this recession has come to for wine. Check out this well-reported MSN piece on how the economy is creating great deals for consumers but major trouble for growers of chardonnay and pinot noir.
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I am not a big fan of Picscout myself. Don't take me wrong. The technology behind it and having a way to monitor usage of your image is great. It's the business model that makes me very uncomfortable. When you sign up with them, they will monitor your images for you, suing on your behalf any infringer and retain up to 35 % of the obtained legal decision.
Therefore, the more people steal your images, the richer they become. The more people they catch and drag to court, the wealthier they become. They are only interested in signing up big agencies with a lot of content in order to maximize their chances to "catch" an infringer.
Thus, they thrive on this industry's lack of DRM and on the misinformation regarding copyright. If both were successful, Picscout would be out of business. Now, it seems that their monitoring bots, those little crawling web apps that patrol the internet for illegal usages, are starting to heavily ennoy webmasters worlwide. I recently read a few entries posted by respected webmasters who have decided to block the Picscout blots. The reason ? The bandwidth usage and the near illegal intrusion.
More and more websites have instituted policies to direct blots behavor on their sites as a result of the increasing usage of those on the Internet. Search engines, for example, are constently crawling the web and returing information back to their servers. Multiplied by thousand, that makes a lot of data being transmitted from your site back to the search engine. For a good cause, you might say. But still, since you pay for the bandwidth, you might want to know who and what is being used for.
Picscout blot apparently does not identify itself, nor its intent. A bit like a spammer's blot looking for email addresses. Very disturbing for someone whose job is to secure a site.
So these webmaster have started a war. A small one that is. They are blocking the blots by blocking IP addresses and refusing to license images from Getty, Corbis and Istockphoto, in order to protest. This will be a game of cat and mouse, with the clients of Picscout becoming the losers.
And I cannot blame them because it is be like a car rental company having someone who breaks the law, follow you around to make sure you return the car on time.
The web is viral by nature. If these webmaster become succesful in their campaign, soon it will be impossible for Picscout to monitor usage.


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HOUSTON (AP) -- Chris Paul, Blake Griffin and Kobe Bryant turned this All-Star game into L.A. story. Paul had 20 points, 15 assists and won MVP honors, Bryant blocked LeBron James' comeback attempt, and the Western Conference beat the East 143-138 on Sunday night. Kevin Durant scored 30 points and Griffin finished with 19, joining his Clippers teammate, Paul, in creating Lob City deep in the heart of Texas. "You just want to play fast. I like to throw the lob. I like to see guys hit 3s," Paul said. "When we're out on the court with all that firepower, why wouldn't you want to make passes? You've got KD filling one of the lanes, you've got Blake, Kobe on the wing. There's nothing like it." James scored 19 points but shot only 7 of 18, Bryant blocking two of his shots late, after having no shooting troubles during the latter part of the season's first half. Carmelo Anthony led the East with 26 points and 12 rebounds. "I think we played really good defense at the end of the game a...
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I Need To Conquer My Gamer Brain, Ch III: Zeitgeist Fury Go
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Let's face it, we all have things we dislike about ourselves, be it mind or body. I've recently decided to get into shape and eat better, no problem I can do that. But their is this other beast that I need to conquer, and this one doesn't make it easy at times. This little blog series is about conquering the gamer brain so that I and those who have similar.... issues, can enjoy gaming and life more!
Why do I come to this site? To find out about the latest games and laugh at Vinny's playful, sometimes racist, sense of humor. It's a lot of fun getting a new game day of release and discussing how great or shit it is with fellow duders on the forums here at Giant Bomb and finding out the teams personal views on the game I'm playing. But I feel like I am beginning to live and consume media like the Giant Bomb team, buying way more games than I have time to play.
There is a point in everyone's life where we start earning an income of our own and have free reign to purchase what we want. For me I just began to buy every game I had any interest in day one. Unfortunately this has led to a steam account full of 100s of unplayed games and a bunch of half played console games I need to get back to but can't because a new release is just around the corner. Perhaps this isn't a problem for everyone as they may have a more specific interest in certain games and are ready to play every new release they have interest in, but my love for games is so broad that mainly only sports games get a miss.
So what I am going to do is stop buying games until I've played everything single one in my steam and console collection No that's definitely not the solution, like I mentioned, it is a lot of fun being part of the Zeitgeist. The real solution is I'm just going to stop impulse purchases and only buy games I am really excited for. This way I can go back to games I missed and buy them at discount price later and still enjoy them. If a game is good, it doesn't matter when you play it, it will be good.
Frustration and Suffering
You're racing the AI across a long and winding road, avoiding countless challenges and obstacles along the way. You approach the finish line, your heart beats like a madman and you know you've got this 20min long sequence in the bag. BOOM!! you stub your toe, fall over and your competitor, Mr "stupid" AI whizzes past you and takes the victory and you have to start the whole goddamn mission again. How does that make you feel? It makes me want to rip out my own hair and shove it down the game designers throat (Well not really, I am not an aggressive personality type but I thought that may have more impact than an image of me weeping on the floor). Why? I hate repeating long sequences again in games and it is the main reason I don't play most games on hard. I prefer just to get through a game with a few challenges but ones I can manage without too much repetition of failed checkpoints. But this is a personal weakness of mine that I want to overcome because experiences like beating Dark Souls can be a nightmare at times, but can also be the most exhilarating experiences.
I fear failure, I know it. I have trouble trying things that I may fail at. But I want to shape a new mindset for myself. A line between living too safely and self defeating masochism. I need to be able to try something, fail at it and try again while maintaining a completely positive attitude. If I continue to fail I need to stop, because if its just not fun or working out then I shouldn't be doing it. Experiencing new things while trying to avoid pain and suffering is life, time to deal with it the right way.
Life tip
"Don't let artificial highs (Drugs, Alcohol, Sex,
Video Games) be your only way of maintaining happiness, as they will ultimately run you into the ground." - benspyda, you may have heard of him.
Anyway that's it from me and my insanity. The key to solving all lifes problems is by asking yourself why that problem exists in the first place (no matter how painful that answer may be). Live long and prosper \V/
I have been a long time flash game developer (even professionally for the education department for 3 years) and have began making my first mobile game for IOS and Android, my new site is http://www.eyespyda.com/ if you'd like to check out my work. I have also been thinking of making a Giant Bomb flash game starring the giantbomb crew and would love any ideas.


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