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Thread: must keep hands moving.
June 6th, 2011 #1
must keep hands moving.
Im trying to do a piece with everything, environment, story, movement.
essentially, guy on right istvan is smuggling girl on left ashita out of a town that wants to use her as a weapon.
he is already a weapon, but retains some human characteristics, he wants to protect her, because they fall in love and all that. but as they are leaving, he's confronted by his peers.
one of them being his sister asami
picture of her here ----> http://i224.photobucket.com/albums/d...c/61e1bc22.png
so you can also get an idea of what his suit will be like, whole she's a nurse, he's a surgeon so i wanted to incorporate his scalpel, he can manipulate it to be larger, but i figured for sake of composition, it should be compact, plus he could never really hurt his sister.
she's a bit inoocent at this point, but they do get caught and she becomes tougher in the future
so this picture is like a flashback.
Hide this ad by registering as a memberJune 6th, 2011 #2
Some things to consider:
- First of all, why is the girl naked? Seems a bit strange to me that in the process of smuggling her out of the city, she didn't have time to throw something on.
- Also, her lower body is completely messed up. The lower body is way too long, and despite the fact that her upper body is turned away from us, her butt is in a weird profile angle. You need to shorten that up, and turn the butt towards us.
- The guy's neck is way too long.
- There is some weird box around the background where the buildings are... I'm not sure what that is...
- Is the guy crying or is that some sort of scar?
- I'm assuming those are wings coming out of the girl's back, first of all, why does she have wings, and secondly, try and make them look more like actual wings and not those weird anime wings.
- His eye brows shouldn't be that far arched... look at your own eyebrows and you'll notice that's impossible to mimic.
That is all.
June 6th, 2011 #3
i dunno but i like the girl, shes really buttoxed hugely, but some guys like that like me for example. I dunno if this is good advice, but worry less about proportion and more about whats going to make the picture cook, or youll get nowhere, i really think the guys neck that long is kinda stylish and might suit the picture?
as it is, as far as realisticish anime goes, i like it, actually, its got a good activity to it.
my sketchbook! http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...97#post3332697
June 7th, 2011 #4
In all honesty I agree that proportions are large issue.
Yes his neck is long, yes his upper arm seems huge, but the part that gets me the most is the comparison of HER upper arm and HIS. By your own proportional rules he's going to be like twice her size, or she's got a really short and stubby arm. Even for girls with a big backside you're stretching that one.
I'm not bothered much by the faces, at least what you have in there. His hand does bother me a lot and seems to indicate that the rest of the iffy issues are actually problems and not stylistic choices.
"She took the ice cube trays out of the freezer. What kind of a sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?"
June 7th, 2011 #5
ill try to update soon, to help clarify. haha, the hand was last minute.
i dont have internet at home so i get on about twice a week, and sometimes just have ideas an hour before library time. the butt is facing this way, i just got tired of dealing with her skin and moved on to other parts. ahaha. i hadnt really thought about whether i wanted to do animeish wings or not, i havent touched them much from the color blocking.
and the nudity, i wanted her to be seen as a human experiment. i was considering giving her a patients robe.
and i just love the eyebrow so muchh. i almost never draw guys so the male anatomy is what im studying now. :/ hopefully i can fix it for next time.
plus im hugely inspired by alien and hyung tae kim, and wanted alot of motion, maybe less perfection when it comes to anatomy. ahh c:
June 7th, 2011 #6
If I were in a confrontation and I was going to defend someone, the first thing I'd do is shove them behind me and untangle myself. Unless he's a totally useless git as a fighter he'd know that he has no manoeuvering room with someone clinging to him like a big-eyed squid. Right now he's basically using her as a shield which is very practical but hardly romantic.
I'd pull the camera out further so you could see all of him and put him in a ready-for-action pose with the girl behind him.
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June 9th, 2011 #7
you are completely right. D;
im scratching this one. ahaha.
June 10th, 2011 #8
June 14th, 2011 #9
stilll working on the crotch, and the girl. ahah
June 15th, 2011 #10
If I may ask, how is his jumpsuit doing the Superman shirt rip without hands...?
Amateur Artist. Professional Asshole.
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Rule #1 of depicting soldiers: KEEP THE DAMN FINGER OFF THE DAMN TRIGGER.
June 17th, 2011 #11
its not ripping, just a reallly low cut v neck.
c: oversexualization isnt just for my girls.
i want to show his chest and all~


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Richard Dawkins and women
From Conservapedia
Survey data and website tracking data of prominent atheist websites indicate that in the Western World, atheism appears to be significantly less appealing to women. According to the website tracking firms Alexa and Quantcast women frequent the website of richarddawkins.net significantly less than men.[1][2]
One cause of many women's lack of interest in the message of the New Atheist/agnostic Richard Dawkins is the abrasiveness of Richard Dawkins. For example, in September of 2010, Richard Dawkins became nasty towards a woman in an audience he spoke before.[3] Richard Dawkins' arrogance and poor social skills sparked his Elevatorgate scandal.
See also: Elevatorgate and Atheism and women
Elevatorgate is a term commonly used to describe a scandal involving Richard Dawkins' inappropriate comments made to fellow atheist Rebecca Waston. In 2011, Richard Dawkins was widely criticized within the atheist community plus criticized in various press outlets for his insensitive comments made to atheist Rebecca Watson about an incident which occurred in an elevator (see: Richard Dawkins' Elevatorgate comments).[4] Specifically, Watson was propositioned after an atheist event in an elevator by a man who apparently was a fellow atheist during the early hours of the morning and she was upset about the incident. Watson has written about widespread misogny within the atheist community and she has received threats of rape.[5]
Post Elevatorgate controversy, at an atheist convention, Rebecca Watson claimed:
|Hundreds of atheists have informed me that either they wanted to rape me, someone should rape me so that I will loosen up or that no one would ever rape me because I am so ugly".[6]
The inappropriate behavior which was has been directed towards Rebecca Watson by atheists is not surprising. In February of 2010, the news organization The Telegraph reported Richard Dawkins was "embroiled in a bitter online battle over plans to rid his popular internet forum for atheists of foul language, insults and 'frivolous gossip'."[7] Given Richard Dawkins's abrasiveness, it is not entirely surprising that a portion of his fans engages in inappropriate behavior.
The New Statesman reporter and fellow skeptic David Allen Green said he believed Dawkins was a sexist.[8] In addition, Green wrote: "Can Richard Dawkins still credibly pose as a champion of rational thinking and an evidence-based approach? In my opinion, he certainly cannot, at least not in the way he did before."[9]
Rebecca Watson and Elevatorgate
See also: Feminist quotes about Richard Dawkins
As a result of Elevatorgate, atheist Rebecca Watson wrote concerning Richard Dawkins:
|This person who I always admired for his intelligence and compassion does not care about my experience as an atheist woman and therefore will no longer be rewarded with my money, my praise, or my attention. I will no longer recommend his books to others, buy them as presents, or buy them for my own library. I will not attend his lectures or recommend that others do the same. There are so many great scientists and thinkers out there that I don't think my reading list will suffer."[10]
Dawkins stands by Elevatorgate remarks. Says Elevatorgate incident was rather trivial
On November 18, 2014, Richard Dawkins indicated that: he stands by his recent remarks about women/men relations, he feels muzzled by "thought police" and that Rebecca Watson's experience in the elevator was "rather trivial" compared to events some Muslim women experience.[11]
Specifically, the Washington Post reported on November 18, 2014:
| "I don't take back anything that I've said," Dawkins said from a shady spot in the leafy backyard of one of his Bay Area supporters. "I would not say it again, however, because I am now accustomed to being misunderstood and so I will . "
He trailed off momentarily, gazing at his hands resting on a patio table.
"I feel muzzled, and a lot of other people do as well," he continued. "There is a climate of bullying, a climate of intransigent thought police which is highly influential in the sense that it suppresses people like me."
Recent criticism of Dawkins has come from women, many of them within the atheist movement, which has long drawn more men to its ranks. His online remarks, some women say, contribute to a climate they see as unwelcoming to female atheists...
"I concentrate my attention on that menace and I confess I occasionally get a little impatient with American women who complain of being inappropriately touched by the water cooler or invited for coffee or something which I think is, by comparison, relatively trivial," he said.[12]
Allegation that Rebecca Watson was behaving hypocritically
Amanda Read wrote in the Washington Times that she believed Watson was behaving hypocritically and declared:
| The point is that because the issue is sexism in the atheist movement, perceptions of sexism are not based on absolute principle, but on relative emotion.
Watson speaks out against the sexual objectification of women, but she apparently sees nothing wrong with the pinup calendars that she and her female atheist friends publish. Myers defended her views on his blog, but only last year he linked to an interesting interview with Nina Hartley, a feminist atheist who sees nothing wrong with women performing as sex workers.
You see, sexism and the exploitation of women are not immoral to godless women as long as such things are on their terms.[13]
For more information please see: Elevatorgate
Atheist PZ Myers comment about Dawlns' attitude towards women
In 2014, the prominent atheist PZ Myers said of Richard Dawkins' attitude towards women: "At a time when our movement needs to expand its reach, it's a tragedy that our most eminent spokesman has so enthusiastically expressed such a regressive attitude."[14]
Richard Dawkins' two divorces
In 1984, Dawkins divorced his wife of 17 years, Marian Stamp; later that same year, he married Eve Barham. Dawkins also divorced Barham, though the precise circumstances of this divorce are unclear.[15] He married science fiction actress Lalla Ward in 1992; at present, the two are still married.
Richard Dawkins commentary on Mary the Mother of Jesus
In 2010, the Christian apologetics website True Free Thinker wrote:
| The atheist and evolutionist Richard Dawkins just referred to Mary, the mother of Jesus, as a "'submissive cosmic doormat'...
If Richard Dawkins had a better grasp of womanhood and a greater grasp of manhood, he would still be married to his first wife and not his third.[16]
Women with traditional values and Richard Dawkins
Another plausible explanation for many women having a lack of enthusiasm for Richard Dawkins's message is that many women who attend religious services and hold traditional beliefs and values find Richard Dawkins' atheism and atheistic values repugnant.
In terms of traditional values, when asked in an interview, "If we do not acknowledge some sort of external [standard], what is to prevent us from saying that the Muslim [extremists] aren't right?", Dawkins replied, "What's to prevent us from saying Hitler wasn't right? I mean, that is a genuinely difficult question, but whatever [defines morality], it's not the Bible. If it was, we'd be stoning people for breaking the Sabbath."[17]
The interviewer wrote, regarding the Hitler comment, "I was stupefied. He had readily conceded that his own philosophical position did not offer a rational basis for moral judgments. His intellectual honesty was refreshing, if somewhat disturbing on this point."[17]
(See also: Richard Dawkins' commentary on Adolf Hitler and Essay: Richard Dawkins' comment concerning Adolf Hitler )
Women's views of New Atheist Sam Harris
The four most prominent writers of the New Atheist movement are Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens and Daniel Dennett. Like Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris has his own website. According to the website tracking firms Alexa and Quantcast women frequent the website of Samharris.org and richarddawkins.net significantly less than men.[18][19][20][21] This data suggest that the New Atheism movement may be significantly less appealing to women.
See also
- Atheist leaders and immoral relationships
- Western atheism and race
- Ponies vs. atheism - Ponies win! - satire
- Atheists say the darnedest things! - satire
- Racial demographics of the Richard Dawkins' audience
- Does Richard Dawkins have machismo? - satire
- Richard Dawkins' lack of appeal to the Asian woman audience - satire
- Atheists' meetings - satire
External links
- Dawkins drives Skepchick into feminism
- Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name by Adam Lee, The Guardian, September 18, 2014
- ↑ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richarddawkins.net
- ↑ http://www.quantcast.com/richarddawkins.net#demographics
- ↑ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/richard-dawkins-i-never-meet-people-who-disagree-with-me-2080451.html
- ↑
- ↑ The Privilege Delusion by Rebecca Watson - Skepchick
- ↑ PZ Myers and the Art of Shameless Dishonesty
- ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/7322177/Richard-Dawkins-in-bitter-web-censorship-row-with-fellow-atheists.html
- ↑ Sharing a lift with Richard Dawkins by David Allen Green - New Stateman - 06 July 2011
- ↑ Sharing a lift with Richard Dawkins by David Allen Green - New Stateman - 06 July 2011
- ↑ Richard Dawkins Gets into a Comments War with Feminists by Caitlin Dickson - The Atlantic Wire, Jul 06, 2011
- ↑ Richard Dawkins stands by remarks on sexism, pedophilia, Down syndrome, by Kimberly Winston | Religion News Service November 18, 2014
- ↑ Richard Dawkins stands by remarks on sexism, pedophilia, Down syndrome, by Kimberly Winston | Religion News Service November 18, 2014 and syndicated to the Washington Post
- ↑ Of sexism and atheism: Richard Dawkins gets in trouble with feminists, Washington Times, July 16, 2011
- ↑ Richard Dawkins has lost it: ignorant sexism gives atheists a bad name by Adam Lee, The Guardian, September 18, 2014
- ↑ http://www.richarddawkins.com/
- ↑ http://www.truefreethinker.com/articles/richard-dawkins-immaculate-and-mary-cosmic-doormat
- ↑ 17.0 17.1 17.2 http://byfaithonline.com/page/in-the-world/richard-dawkins-the-atheist-evangelist
- ↑ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/samharris.org
- ↑ http://www.quantcast.com/samharris.org
- ↑ http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/richarddawkins.net
- ↑ http://www.quantcast.com/richarddawkins.net#demographics

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Hiromi Ozaki is some kind of hybrid between Laurie Anderson and Maywa Denki.
She's not only a graduate of Design Interactions (RCA, London), she's also Sputniko!, a Japanese pop star whose music, videos, performances and electronic devices explore themes of technology, gender and pop culture.
Hiromi is the author of devices such as the Pénis Cybernétique (i'm sure your french is fluent enough to make sense of the words) and Crowbot Jenny, a dark-haired girl who goes around urban park carrying on her shoulder a crow-shaped robot that can communicate with crows and turn them into a bird army. Her first dvd album Parakonpe 3000 is a collection of videos which comment on our relationship with technology. There's the "Child Producing Machine" but also the Google Song, "Sputniko! TV: A Children's Program for Newly Born A.I.s" and the Wakki Song (an interactive armpit performance).
More than just a gadget, a video, a song, Sputniko! creates a whole character with its own manga-inspired aesthetics, attributes, super-powers and dynamics. Each of her projects has been produced in collaboration with scientists experts in Zoology, Medicine and Reproductive Science.
She was presenting two new works at the Summer exhibition of the Royal College of Art.
First, a much blogged-about device which, i hope, will soon be added to the collection of the Museum of Menstruation.
The question at the heart of the Menstruation Machine, Takashi's Take is 'It's 2010, so why are humans still menstruating?'
Abdominal pain, headaches, depression, emotional sensitivity, feeling bloated, changes in sex drive and nausea, premenstrual water retention, etc. Not to mention mood swings. Why do women still have to go through that?
Women are in good company though. just like them, chimpanzees and fruit bats need to bleed monthly for their reproductive cycle.
What does Menstruation mean, biologically, culturally and historically, to humans? Who might choose to have it, and how might they have it?
Fitted with a blood dispensing mechanism and lower-abdomen-stimulating electrodes (the same used by your uncle to muscle his abs while watching tv on the sofa, only that Hiromi maxed out the power of the contractions), the Menstruation Machine simulates the pain and bleeding of an average 5 day menstruation.
The machine could be worn by men who desire to feel closer to women and experience what they have to go through, but also by women when menstruation becomes obsolete in the future and the process becomes a mere ritual of gender and identity.
The artist made a music video to illustrate how and by whom the machine could be used.
The video 'Menstruation Machine - Takashi's Take' stars Takashi, a boy who builds the machine in an attempt to understand better what the girls he hang around with experience every month.
Her second project had the same level of fantasy, the same vision of a technocratic future. Sushiborg Yukari is a cyborg designed to serve Sushi on her rotating belt. Her function is to entertain over-worked Japanese businessmen in their after-hours. She is tomorrow's equivalent of Nyotai Mori, the tradition of serving Sushi on naked women.
Given scientists' fondness for young, slick, pretty girl-robots, one would not be surprised to see a sushi cyborg hit the gadget blogs in the future. Sushiborg Yukari, however, is a dissatisfied cyborg.
When Yukari's artificial intelligence develops enough to understand she's little more that a sex object, she starts to slowly and secretly hack herself into a lethal weapon by attaching knives to her own body. And one day, she manages to escape the sushi restaurant....
More works from the RCA show, over here, ladies and gents!
Never a dull post with the graduates from Platform 13, Design Products Department, Royal College of Art.
Hwang Kim (also the author of a spectacular CCTV Chandelier) was one of the superstars of the whole RCA exhibition for me.
He was showing a witty, wonderfully researched and tactful fake documentary aimed as a subtly subversive introduction for North Koreans into diverse aspects of western culture. The film also explores how design can contribute and impact on a social and cultural level, subtly challenging an ideological status quo.
North Korea is one of the most politically and culturally isolated countries in the world, any foreign influences is systematically rejected. The fact that the first pizzeria opened only last year in the capital Pyongyang, is quite symptomatic of how culturally controlled the country is. I was first tempted to compare the opening of the pizzeria to the one of the first McDonald's fastfood in Moscow but that would be misguided. Only the leader Kim Jong-Il and a handful of wealthy people can afford a Margherita or a Quattro formaggi.
Filmed in South Korea and split into four episodes, Star Pizza introduces North Koreans to typical aspects of Western culture through the eyes of a fictional young couple.
The lovely couple is exposed to Western cuisine with the chapter on How to Make a Pizza; the possibility of going on holiday with the episode about How to Pack a Suitcase To Go Abroad; Western entertainment with How To Become A Trend Leader At Pop Dancing and finally learn How to celebrate Christmas Day.
Since there is no hope that Star Pizza would ever be shown on North Korean tv, Hwang Kim converted his film to 500 DVDs, managed to get in touch with people who smuggle over the North Korean borders from China, and had them distribute the film on the black markets of Pyongyang.
One of the smugglers asked the designer to send him some clothes and shoes for his wife and daughters as a price for this dangerous job.
As Hwang Kim explained me, North Koreans have almost no access to the internet. The only way they can watch films and soap operas from other country is to buy pirate DVD on the black markets of the capital.
All the actors of Star Pizza are South Koreans, casting North Koreans refugees may have threaten their security. To give the illusion that the film was made in North Korea, North Korean refugees gave the actors a one week intensive accent training course. The refugees, living now in London and South Korea gave advice and feedback on all aspect of the film, throughout its production.
Star Pizza is accompanied by a series of specially designed political props that have been inserted into the four episodes and that were also exhibited at the RCA show.
For example, the prop in the second episode of the film is an "Exile Blanket". The young couple is packing a suitcase for their holiday abroad. A Russian-style bed sheet embroidered with the portraits of famous political exiles can be seen in the back of their room. Images of exiles are not allowed to be shown in any kind of media in North Korea. Yet, exile is the only way for North Koreans to travel abroad. According to the UN HCR, over 300,000 North Koreans have already chosen this form of holiday.
The designer chose some of his own favourite exiles for the blanket. From left top, Karl Marx, Dea Joong Kim, Vladimir Lenin, Miklós Horthy, Napoleon Bonaparte, Alejo Carpentier, Aleksandr Danilovich Menshikov, Alfonso XII, Bob Powell, Edward VIII, Ferdinand Marcos, Francisco Goya, Haile Selassie, Sun Yat Sen and Manuel Azaña.
Another prop is the fan that doubles as a radio when you press the buttons in the correct order. Long distance, short wave radios are strictly forbidden in North Korea. In the film, a old fan is used as a vehicle to conceal this type of radio, enabling the protagonists to circumvent the regulations. It is a playful proposal for North Koreans on how to develop creative tools of cultural guerrilla.
From the same Platform: Nomadic Sound Systems.
Another look at the graduate projects of Design Interactions, Royal College of Art, in London.
Sitraka Rakotoniaina's Hyper Normal series of objects explores a possible 'Hyper-normal' space on the edge of normality, whereby a distorted experience of reality is induced because of physical or psychological stress, injuries, conditioning or training.
The first object Sitraka Rakotoniaina designed attempts to manipulate time, or rather the notoriously elastic perception we have of time. It flies when watching an action film and slows down when queuing at the post office. People who have been involved in car accidents have often reported how, in the few seconds before the crash, they had an experience similar to that slow motion effect called bullet-time. Warner Bros., the distributor of The Matrix, actually trademarked the term.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explains that in a situation of intense stress and, when experiencing things for the first time, the brain creates much denser and richer memories, giving the feeling that an event lasted longer than it has.
Rakotoniaina created a "Time Conditioning" prosthesis for the arm that aims at providing this same feeling of bullet-time. Not to avoid bullets that villains might shot at you on a rooftop but to enable users to catch flies with chopsticks. Because...
" Man who catch fly with chopstick accomplish anything."
The training prosthesis slows down the moves of the user's arm, as if under water. After a period of adaptation the training device is taken off. Once freed of the prosthesis the user has potentially increased his anticipation skills.
The second object of the Hyper Normal series triggers a temporary amnesia, called transient global amnesia.
Amnesia can be seen as a reflex that acts as a kind of safety fuse in case of an emotional or physical overload. It usually occurs after a brain ischemia when memory is more sensitive to the deprivation of blood than other areas.
Called Beam Me Down, the "self-inducing amnesia" device has a discrete trap-door hiding a pump that quickly pushes air in and out the user's lungs, causing hyperventilation which leads to a brain ischemia that eventually causes fainting and a potential temporary loss of memory. Once the user has hit the floor, a counter weight pulls the trap-door shut, leaving no evidence save for the light beam shining onto the un-animated body.
By getting this self-induced amnesia, the person would be on a 'holiday' from their own life and personality. But would they have to go to a bland, neutral or unfamiliar place to provide the user with the full amnesia experience? A building that looks nothing like their house for example, to ensure that memory would come back as slowly as possible or did you think of some other location?
No actually. As it is a temporary loss of memory that can last up to 24h i presumed that it would be more convenient for the person to stay home.
However the device is designed with a counter-weight that pulls the trap-door shut, once the person has fainted. Hiding the mechanism inside the beam in order to leave no evidence of what happened.
The idea behind is that you would trick yourself by displaying fake clues about who you are and what you do. As you might try to recollect your memory, those fake clues would lead you potentially to new experiences that you would have never tried whilst being 'yourself'. A temporary amnesia could be a good excuse to explore some kind of parallel life, without risking to lose everything you have done so far.
And hopefully it would give you the necessary distance to get a better awareness of the condition within you are living.
How would you define the sense of 'hyper normality' your devices are trying to recreate? Do you have examples of everyday life 'hyper normality'?
The hyper-normal is a space on the edge of normality.
There are few examples of that I would call hyper-normal, but most of the time they are seen as abnormality, disease, mental illnesses etc. For example sleepwalking can lead to really complex behaviours, like driving to the gas station. We do not really know what causes this phenomenon, but what if we would be able to control it and accomplish tasks while sleeping. Stress as well, during a frightening event like a car accident. People usually talk about experiencing the few seconds before the crash in real slow-motion.
And what would it be like to extend normality to few of these phenomenons? New experiences or better understanding of what is a 'normal' condition, maybe.
Do you plan to work any further on the hyper normal projects? With new prototypes or maybe by improving the existing ones?
I would like to, I think this space has got potentially a lot of depth to explore. I do not really try to make the prototypes 100% efficient as sometimes a good probe can convey the same message better. Because it can be more theatrical, dramatic, filmic or whatever it needs to be.
But I would be quite up for working with scientists as well to try to make fully working prototypes, but not on my own.
Thanks Sitraka!
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Third project i discovered at the RCA Summer Show. This one was developed at Platform 13, part of the Design Products Department and mentored by Onkar Kular and Sebastien Noel.
Platform 13 is by far the most interesting of all Design Products platforms for me. Hopefully, the projects i'm going to blog in the next few days will demonstrate why i find their work so relevant and surprising. Here's the blurb from their website: Platform 13 starts from the premise that our current global society, with its prevailing techno-political system, faces challenges of an unprecedented scale. We are asking ourselves how Design can contribute to alternative models of living and production by engaging with, commenting on, and addressing issues currently beyond the usual scope of design - political, social, technological or ecological.
Before i proceed with the text about Benjamin Newland's Nomadic Sound Systems, i'll invite you to watch the video of the performance:
The wireless wearable sound system frees electronic music from the restraints of immovable equipment, opening up possibilities for mobile performance and new forms of audience participation.
The NSS enables musicians to fully engage with the space and experiment with human analogue surround sound, moving speakers around the audience, setting up surprises in the halls and corridors and creating site specific musical journeys in the process.
What i found most generous and smart in Benjamin's approach is that he doesn't see himself as the ultimate performer and controller of the NSS. He's rather put it in the hands of talented and creative musicians who would make the most of the possibilities offered by his project.
Benjamin gave me more details about his plans when we met at RCA and during a more recent online conversation:
I see the project as having 3 key directions which can be pushed it further.
The first is in terms of performance. I would like to work with musicians and DJs who can make use of the new set of possibilities provided by the system, to make specific music and performances. The NSS puts a human in control of each element of the sound system and allows them to move individually or as a group so you can use choreography to mix sound spatially and travel through space. Currently, sound is broadcast from a single band leader and participants have control over their location and volume, but in future we will be able to let them shape the sound they are producing, and if we can network the system with MIDI control, they could play each component like an instrument.
The second direction is about spontaneity and flexibility. The NSS can be used for unplanned and impromptu events which opens up the possibility to use the psychological and emotional influence of sound and music, to change behaviour.
Lastly, I think the wireless speakers can be used informally to socialise the consumption of music, outside ipods and club culture. Several of designs are suitable as open source designs where people can download them, adapt, and make them for themselves. It would be great to create a culture of sound system modification and display, much like modified car culture.
Are you planning to do more performances in London or elsewhere? Are there places where you would dream to see the NSS perform?
As for forthcoming events, I haven't yet confirmed any, but I would really like to see it at community events and celebrations. My favourite events are Lewes bonfire night which has an amazing archaic anarchy about it it, and and the joyous Hanover day in Brighton. I would like to see the project become a set of tools for for people to create events like those, but relating to their own unique contemporary street cultures, formalising them with pageantry and social display. Obviously this already happens at events like Notting Hill carnival but I think it is good to enable more people to do it in more ways.
The track used on the video is I.R.L. by Girl Unit (real name Philip Gamble), who has kindly given his permission for it to be uploaded online.
The video was shot in a void space under the Westway (M40), on Wood Lane, White City, in London.
Thanks for your time and answers Benjamin!
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Back to my visit at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition
One of the projects of ADS4, A Crime of Passion - Synthetic Murder in our Midst, knits together a scenario made of gene therapy, criminality, love and lurid gossips for tabloids. The twisted and compelling project designed by Rachel Harding revolves around the question: In a Future Dominated by Gene Therapy, How Might Criminal DNA Mend Britain's Breaking Hearts?
The answer to the question lies somewhere at the intersection between two facts that might otherwise seem to be poles apart:
1. In 2003, the British Food and Drug Administration eased the ban on gene therapy trials using retroviral vectors in blood stem cells. Scientists could potentially correct the genes responsible for a life-threatening condition by "smuggling" functional copies into the cells. It is hoped that one day gene therapy studies might be able to find a cure for cancer and hereditary diseases. The therapy doesn't come without problems and a high cost. However, it is estimated that the cost of decoding a person's genome is likely to fall from $50,000 to $100 by 2015.
2. Crime groupies or prison groupies who profess their love to notorious criminals. Some even manage to marry them. Ted Bundy, a serial killer who confessed to over 30 murders, is said to have received 200 love letters a day after his conviction. Josef Fritzl seems to attract an equal amount of amorous passion.
In 2030, the detritus of crime scenes has become a romantic commodity. A health-obsessed public are turning to genetic miracles to cure their many ills. To maintain their medical regimes, each patient requires the regular donation of hundreds of genes from a singular donor, but as our genetic blueprint has become increasingly vital to our lives, so has our aversion to donation. Studies have shown that some 30% of the public surveyed would not accept to donate an organ, and that 89% people would refuse to give their genes for therapies.
Criminal DNA is therefore used to meet public demand for genes. As treatments progress, donor and patient become increasingly homozygous, and peculiar romances begin to form.
This idea of a romance comes from a phenomenon called genetic attraction, in which people with similar genetic codes feel attracted towards each other. It is believed to affect half of the adopted siblings who first meet as adults. The next step according to Harding's scenario would see women who have undergone gene therapy fall in love with the criminals who have donated their genes to medicine.
The love would bloom in a series of buildings and structures where patients can receive gene therapies in a hospital of bullet proof mirror glass whilst enjoying romantic but high-security rendezvous with their criminal donors. The convicts would be kept in locked concrete structures whilst the housewives enjoy their genetic honeymoon. Both would be able to date at a distance at specially-designed film theaters and parks. That's what Harding calls a love resort providing a medical honeymoon of genetic perfection.
In an attempt to revive readership, media group News International would fund Gunpowder Park (that's the name of the charming resort.) This glorious union of violence and romance creates a sensational community filling red-tops with exclusive juicy crimes and intriguing love affairs to grip the British public.
I'm going to spend the whole week in blogger inferno (meaning no wifi at all, just apathetic connection using a phone network somewhere in Wallonia where people don't appear to be keen on getting decent mobile phone coverage), i might therefore be a bit slow with the updates and reviews.
A few days ago i was in London to visit the Royal College of Art Summer show. I'll kick off with the Design Interactions department but expect stories from Architecture and Design Product as well in the coming days.
Back in September when i came to see the work in progress show, i was very intrigued by Andrew Friend's exploration of the fantastic. He was showing a long mast designed to attract lightening strike and brand/burn the skin of your upper arm with a lightening logo, as a souvenir of this one-in-a-lifetime experience.
Friend's project has evolved over the past few months. It is now made of a series of three prototypes that act as a compelling antidote to a society that would have us live an increasingly safe, bland and surprise-free existence. This is specially true in England i guess where the infamous Health and Safety Authority seems to dictate how one can use an escalator, roll a cheese or walk in order not to be defeated by the treacherously slippery leaves that paves your way in Autumn.
The designers project, simply titled Fantastics, fully embraces the unexpected, the confusing and the extraordinary. The fantastic has the power to engage the imagination, initiate dreams and trigger desires, excite, manipulate and confuse. The projects explore how one can, through the production of objects and services located in specific contexts, enable these fantasies.
The first prototype is the Device for Experiencing Lightning strike, a long, light and foldable mast which increases the user's likelihood of getting struck by lightning. Energy from the strike is transferred to heat, used to brand the user (yes, like cattle) and scar him or her as a memory of the event. The device questions the dissemination of this experience, from the life threatening, to simple story, the transition from the fantastic to the banal.
Friend tested the device in the Peak District a few weeks ago. He was not lucky enough to be hit by lightening. The fact that the fantastic might or might not happen is actually part of the whole experience.
The prototype i found most interesting (in spite of my fierce claustrophobia) is the Device for Disappearing (at sea) which offers the individual opportunity for a safe, temporary disappearance, experiencing an isolation seldom found on land. The candidate for this isolating experience goes down a rope to the bottom of a floating well located in the middle of a lake or quiet sea, disappearing from view beneath the water's surface. The device examines the relationship between the known above, and the unknown/ imagined world below sea level.
The device for disappearing at sea is made of fiberglass. It stays afloat thanks to inflatable buoyancy bags, and it is ballasted to pull it down to the desired level. As Andrew explained me, "In order to achieve the correct balance the volume of air in the buoyancy bags is adjusted to float the device just below the water's surface, with only the rim of the hole above."
Finally, there is the Device for Experiencing the Invisible, a parabolic dish that places its wearer at the center of any invisible energy passing around. For optimum and most extraordinary results, the wearer must go to sites of increased radio, paranormal, or electrical activity. Could the device lead to mutation, possible harm, or uncover new, previously unseen landscapes and instances? How much risk / danger will individuals put themselves under in order to experience this invisible fantastic?
Photos and drawing courtesy of Andrew Friend. Credit photo for the Lightning strike & Invisible devices: Hitomi Kai Yoda.


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|Artist: Joe Gibbs
Learn more about 1967-79-Love Of The Common Peo:
Format: CD
Manufacturer: Bmg/sanctuary Records Group
Sku: 60507451
Release Date: 10/23/2001
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Hold Them - (with Roy Shirley) ~ Joe Gibbs
2. You're Gonna Need Me - (with Errol Dunkley) ~ Joe Gibbs
3. Upsetter, The (I Am) - (with Lee Perry) ~ Joe Gibbs
4. Seeing Is Knowing - (with Stranger Cole/Gladdy) ~ Joe Gibbs
5. Seeing Is Believing - (with Caly Gibbs) ~ Joe Gibbs
6. Longshot - (with The Pioneers) ~ Joe Gibbs
7. Jackpot - (with The Pioneers) ~ Joe Gibbs
8. Mama Look Deh - (with The Reggae Boys) ~ Joe Gibbs
9. Dem A Laugh And Kiki - (with The Soulmates) ~ Joe Gibbs
10. Wreck A Buddy - (with The Soul Sisters) ~ Joe Gibbs
11. Movements - (with Count Matchuki) ~ Joe Gibbs
12. Only Yesterday - (with Ken Parker) ~ Joe Gibbs
13. Danger Zone - (with Lloyd Willis & The Destroyers) ~ Joe Gibbs
14. Love Of The Common People - (with Nicky Thomas) ~ Joe Gibbs
15. Jack Of My Trade - (with Sir Lord Comic) ~ Joe Gibbs
16. Reggae Fever - (with Lloyd Willis & The Destroyers) ~ Joe Gibbs
17. Don't Touch Me - (with Nicky Thomas) ~ Joe Gibbs
18. Doctor Feelgood - (with Sir Lord Comic) ~ Joe Gibbs
19. O Lord - (with Winston Wright & The Destroyers) ~ Joe Gibbs
20. Aquarius, (Sounds Called) - (with Lizzy & Cornell Campbell) ~ Joe Gibbs
21. Hypocrite - (with The Heptones) ~ Joe Gibbs
22. Maga Dog - (with Peter Tosh) ~ Joe Gibbs
23. Be The One - (with The Heptones) ~ Joe Gibbs
24. Road Is Rough, The - (with Joe Gibbs & The Professionals) ~ Joe Gibbs
25. Freedom To The People - (with U Roy & The Heptones) ~ Joe Gibbs
Disc 2
Song Title
1. Have A Little Faith - (with Nicky Thomas) ~ Joe Gibbs
2. Channel Seven - (with Prince Williams) ~ Joe Gibbs
3. Them A Fe Get A Beaten - (with Peter Tosh) ~ Joe Gibbs
4. Pretty Girl - (with Delroy Wilson) ~ Joe Gibbs
5. Money In My Pocket - (with Dennis Brown) ~ Joe Gibbs
6. So We Stay, A - (with Big Youth/Dennis Brown) ~ Joe Gibbs
7. Win Them, A - (with Leo Graham) ~ Joe Gibbs
8. News Carrier - (with I Roy/Leo Graham) ~ Joe Gibbs
9. Burn Babylon - (with Sylford Walker) ~ Joe Gibbs
10. State Of Emergency - (with Joe Gibbs & The Professionals) ~ Joe Gibbs
11. Natty Pass Him - (with GCE Shorty The President) ~ Joe Gibbs
12. Rockers (No Crackers) - (with Glen Washington) ~ Joe Gibbs
13. Inna Jah Children - (with Dhaima) ~ Joe Gibbs
14. Heavy Manners - (with Prince Far I) ~ Joe Gibbs
15. I'm Still In Love With You - (with Marcia Aitken) ~ Joe Gibbs
16. Three Piece Suit And Thing - (with Trinity) ~ Joe Gibbs
17. Up Town Top Ranking - (with Althea & Donna) ~ Joe Gibbs
18. Calico Suit - (with The Mighty Two) ~ Joe Gibbs
19. Money In My Pocket - (with Dennis Brown) ~ Joe Gibbs
20. I Can't Stop Now - (with Ruddy Thomas) ~ Joe Gibbs
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info
|LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE contains digitally remastered versions of original productions by Joe Gibbs.
|Recorded between 1967 & 1979. Includes liner notes by Laurence Cane-Honeysett.
|All tracks have been digitally remastered.
|This two-disc set goes a long way toward validating the career of Joe Gibbs, one of Jamaica's legendary producers. Known as much for his strongarm tactics as his abilities as a musical svengali, Gibbs and his studio were vital to the transition of Jamaican music from the freneticism of ska to the more languid, spacious beat of rocksteady. Along with Lee Perry, Coxsone Dodd, Duke Reid, and others, Gibbs moved Jamaican music from the gentle tones of mento and calypso toward the harder edge of American R&B and soul. Lyrical content changed too, reflecting the internal turmoil of a former colony groping toward independence. Most of the hits are here, delivered by some of the music's greatest stars, including Dennis Brown, Peter Tosh, Big Youth, Delroy Wilson, and a host of others. Gibb's relationship with Lee Perry was crucial to Perry's development. With Gibb, Perry learned his eye for talent and found an outlet for his ideas and songs. The first disc reflects this. Later, Erroll Thompson and Niney the Observer filled the chair that Perry abandoned, and the hits kept coming. This two-disc portrait isn't exhaustive; reducing his output to this format is analogous to trimming Motown's output to a double disc, an almost impossible task in the face of a mountain of music. Still, this set is probably the best overview listeners are likely to get and an essential addition to the library of anyone in search of the roots and future of Jamaican music. ~ Rob Ferrier
Producer: Joe Gibbs
Artist Overview
After opening a recording studio and starting a record label in association with future superstars Bunny Lee and Lee "Scratch" Perry in 1967, Joe Gibbs quickly became one of the hottest producers in Jamaica. Scoring hits with Nicky Thomas's "Love of the Common People," Culture's classic album TWO SEVENS CLASH, and many others with his core band the Professionals (starring the totemic Sly & Robbie), Gibbs remained a key figure in reggae throughout the '80s. In addition, Gibbs also recorded several dub albums under his own name, including the four-part AFRICAN DUB series.
Artist Influences
Bob Marley | Byron Lee | Clement "Coxsone" Dodd | Duke Reid | Prince Buster | Roy Shirley
Bob Marley | Byron Lee | Clement "Coxsone" Dodd | Duke Reid | Prince Buster | Roy Shirley
Artist Contemporaries
Bunny Lee | Culture | Delroy Wilson | King Tubby | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Lloyd Daley | Nicky Thomas | The Ethiopians | The Mighty Diamonds
Bunny Lee | Culture | Delroy Wilson | King Tubby | Lee "Scratch" Perry | Lloyd Daley | Nicky Thomas | The Ethiopians | The Mighty Diamonds
Artist Followers
Gregory Isaacs | J.C. Lodge | Mad Professor | Prince Far I | Sly & Robbie
Gregory Isaacs | J.C. Lodge | Mad Professor | Prince Far I | Sly & Robbie
Compilation Appearances
|12 Inch Reggae Discomix Showcase V5
|Black Dignity
Associated Artists and Works
|Steely & Clevie
Technical Info
|Release Date : 10/23/2001
|Original Release Date : 2001
|Catalog ID : 80253
|Label : Trojan
|Number of Discs : 2
|Studio/Live : Studio
|Mono/Stereo : Stereo
|SPAR Code : n/a


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The beauty of doing doTERRA is that it gives you the ability to touch lives of people that you never met before.
I first saw Sandra as she was dropped off by the handivan at my office. Sandra is a friend of Tarita Tehotu.
Tarita Tehotu and Howard Nakata had scheduled to do the neuropathy technique in the back.
I've met many people that have difficulty walking. With Sandra it was different, she could not walk at all. She wheeled herself through the door which is a difficult task. Most would get up to walk the rest of the way.
They then begun to lift her to the massage table. Sandra panicked as she hasn't left her chair and is not used to people carrying her. To bathe, she normally is simply wiped down.
They then did the AromaTouch and Neuropathy Technique.
She left happy and that was the last time I seen her.
It wasn't till I was informed by a fellow IPC Joan, that a Sandra has an amazing testimony. I knew of only one Sandra that couldn't walk. I checked with Tarita to verify if Sandra was the same woman who came to my office. Yes, she was.
Apparently, out of love Tarita continued to do the technique with Sandra day in and day out.
Tarita also provided the Lifelong Vitality Pack with confidence that she will see a change. Initially Sandra's family was wary of a perceived sales pitch but deep down Tarita knew that it may aid her some where somehow.
We've seen many people benefit from the Neuropathy Technique but this stuck out to Howard. I asked him why. He told me, "Holan, Sandra couldn't walk because she had a stroke."
The stroke has affected many of her movements. Sandra wasn't able to move her arm before. Today, she shares with joy and pride that some movement has returned to one of her arms.
I was excited, "I told people of Sandra, walking again after her stroke." I refrained from writing about her until I got all the facts correct.
I once told people, Sandra could walk after a few months of not being able to walk. Tarita corrected me and said, "Holan, it wasn't three months. She couldn't walk for four years." Having to help my own brother rehabilitate after surgery for six months not being able to walk, I could only imagine how much four years felt.
The more I learned, the more passionate I grew for doTERRA essential oils and it's mission to help others with similar circumstances.
What really impacted me and brought me to tears was the video that Tarita took of Sandra.
The video can be seen here:
Sandra starts walking at 5:34 in the video.
Hearing stories and meeting people such as Sandra has given me a new perspective of life.
To Sandra, living life meant walking again.
To her, if she was given a chance to walk again, she is able to do what she is passionate about with her church ministry.
I saw people that had a difficulty walking, now walking tall. Seeing a person who was confined to a chair getup and take steps they never took in years was breathtaking.
To me, the hero of the story is Sandra. She was persistent and didn't give up hope.
Although her family grew tired being offered an alternative product after product,
Sandra was willing to give her friend Tarita a shot with her full efforts.
Her story continues to keep hope alive for many people.
Sandra is a woman full of faith towards God. She gives God all the glory and is thankful for being surrounded by people that love her.
Sandra continues to use doTERRA's CPTG essential oils and purchases the Lifelong Vitality Pack with the support of her family.
I am very thankful to be a part of doTERRA. It is easy to think that we go out and touch people's lives. This time, my life was touched by Sandra.


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With its simplistic looks this redesign of the old Flow trainer opens the doors of Tacx's new Virtual Reality range to the everyday cyclist, combining value and performance. The Tacx Flow Computer Turbo Trainer with Skyline Support is one of Tacx's most popular trainers offering heart rate, power, speed and pedalling frequency measured and visualised on the display of the handlebar computer. These four training parameters are the most important tools that will help you towards focused and efficient work out routines and optimum performance. A great entry level ergotrainer which is excellent value for money and very easy to step up and use.
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The Fellowships and Scholarships Office provides support to current Carnegie Mellon undergraduate students who are interested in pursuing external scholarships and fellowships. For certain awards, FSO also works with graduate students and alumni (Fulbright and the UK Awards found on the Prestigious Scholarships website). The office works with students to help them develop competitive applications, identifies and supports faculty and staff representatives for a select number of prestigious scholarships and fellowships, maintains a website of external scholarship and fellowship opportunities, and manages campus selection processes.
The Undergraduate Research Office
The Undergraduate Research Office provides seed funds for undergraduate research projects, recognizes students conducting research, funds undergraduates presenting their findings at academic conferences, and presents an annual undergraduate research symposium. The program is available to students from each of the University's six undergraduate colleges. The Office has proven extremely successful in encouraging students to pursue graduate studies and research careers.
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Stephanie Wallach is Assistant Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education, which puts her in charge of two campus-wide programs: First, the Undergraduate Research Office, including SURG, SURF and Meeting of the Minds; and second, the Fellowships and Scholarships Office (FSO), which includes a range of national fellowship competitions, including Fulbright, Goldwater, Churchill, Marshall, German Chancellors and many others. Stephanie has been a member of the Carnegie Mellon community since 1995, serving as an undergraduate advisor in history and international relations and internship coordinator in Humanities and Social Sciences.
Stephanie earned a Ph.D. in History from Columbia University in New York; she has a master's degree in History and Education from the University of California, Berkeley and a master's degree in Higher Education from the University of Chicago. Her research expertise is in twentieth century American history and focuses on issues of gender, education and juvenile justice. She has worked in higher education administration at a variety of institutions, including the University of Chicago, Simmons College (Boston), and Mills College (Calif). She was selected as a Fulbright Scholar to Germany for the Fulbright International Education Administrators Program in 2011. She is an avid tennis player and has lived for extended periods in the San Francisco Bay Area, Los Angeles, Boston, New York, and Chicago.
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Sleepout in Solidarity with St. Petersburg's Homeless -by Emily Reddy
On Friday night about 50 people gathered outside St. Petersburg's City Hall to protest the county's new ordinance against camping in public places. Thirty of those protestors slept the night on the sidewalk in front of the building as a sign of solidarity with the nearly 5,000 homeless in Pinellas county. This ordinance is actually an old ordinance that has been revivied and clarified, empowering law enforcement to arrest or site those sleeping on the grassy areas of city parks after the closing time of each park. Opponents say that the ordinance criminalizes homelessness and does nothing to actually reduce homelessness. WMNF's Emily Reddy was there and she filed this report.
Members of several homeless rights groups gathered on Good Friday to protest Pinellas county's ordinance against sleeping in the grassy areas of public places. The homeless would still be able to sleep on sidewalks, so the people in sleeping bags spread across the concrete outside city hall weren't technically breaking the law. Reverend Bruce Wright, Director of Refuge Ministries and organizer of this event, explained why the groups had gathered.
[Wright ... It was intended to do several things. One is to make a statement, that homelessness is not a crime. Two, we picked Good Friday because of its religious signifigance. It's a major holiday for 2 major religions. It's Passover for the Jewish community and it's the Cruxifiction of Christ for the Christian community. And both of those are symbolic in the sense that the Passover was all about the Jewish slaves being freed. And the Cruxifiction of course because Christ was homeless. Christ was oppressed. Christ was part of an oppressed class and culture. And we feel the homeless today in a very real sense are Cruxified by the ordinances.]
Matt Flege, a member of Eckerd College Homeless Outreach, says that Pinellas county isn't actually doing anything to try to address the problem of homelessness.
[Flege ... Unfortunately rather than providing adequate services or addressing homelessness at its root cause has tried instead to just push the problem out of the downtown area. It started a few years ago when they made it illegal to sleep in William's Park and now they're extending the boundaries of the park. Originally an ordinance was tried to be passed which would have made a blanket no camping ordinance on all of downtown area, however that issue was kind of scrapped.]
While Flege tried to talk to the crowd about why he and other Eckerd College students were there, Peg de Hew interrupted him. De Hew lives on the streets in a wheel chair. She was seriously injured in a hit and run auto accident 14 months ago.
[Flege ... Where are these people supposed to go? In our city right now...] [De Hew ... Here here, buddy. I'm tryin' to find somewhere, and I'm in a damn wheel chair.] [Flege ... I hear you...] [De Hew ... You better hear me loud and clear. There ain't nobody reached out to me in this damn town. I got hit on the city streets. Hit and run. Right down here. Nobody's reached out to me. So, please, watch what you say. I got nowhere to go.]
De Hew says that her anger was not directed at any of those present, but came from a fear of what the police might do to her now. De Hew chose not to spend the night in front of city hall.
[De Hew ... I think it's a wonderful thing. I know I was real angry, and it sounded real angry. I'm not angry at the people here. I think people are really trying to do something and this shows me that they are. The thing that's very frightening for me is that the homeless are afraid to be here, because there's a carload of cops right there and everybody's afraid they're going to go to jail. And I won't even stay here tonight. I mean, this lady from this school and this lady from this school and all these wonderful people will stay here and they'll be safe, but we don't think we are.]
De Hew says that police harass the homeless, waking them in the middle of the night to ask for IDs and to check for outstanding warrants.
Eric Rubin, state coordinator of the Florida Fair Trade Coalition, says that downtown development has contributed to the implimentation of ordinances against the homeless. [Rubin ... They put up condominiums, 2 million dollars. This law is passed because homelessness is not pretty for those who want to pay 2 million dollars for a condo. And, instead of dealing with the question, instead of recognizing that we could all be homeless, this city, again, does what it historically does in cities across the country. It criminalizes those who have created this country, who have worked in this country, who have built this country, and will continue to build this country, fight the wars of this country, and then be discarded by this country.]
Rev. Wright says that this ordinance is a part of the county's 10 year plan to end homelessness, adopted in response to a call for action to counties around the United States by President Bush. [
[Wright ... You know why there's a 10 year plan? Let's get real honest. The federal government said if the county doesn't have a 10 year plan, it's telling counties all over America "if you don't have a 10 year plan, your funding's going to be cut."]
But Reverend Wright says that the homeless being kicked off the streets are not being given anywhere else to stay. The city has told him that 25 new shelter beds have been added, but he says that's not enough.
[Wright ... It's a drop in the bucket. It's disingenuous. There's so much more that's gotta be involved in it. And they've gotta involve the people that are affected by it, they've gotta involve the people that are affected by it, and they're not.]
Reverend Wright is working with the National Law Center for Poverty and Homelessness on possible lawsuits should the ordinance be enforced. He also plans to continue to sleep on the streets with the homeless periodically to make sure they are not being harrassed.
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Dancing With the Stars 2013: Val Chmerkovskiy and Zendaya's Week 7 Paso Doble
Dancing With the Stars 2013 had Latin Night for Season 16, Week 7, and Val Chmerkovskiy and Zendaya delivered a fantastic Paso Doble. With sharp, quick movements paired with flowing spins and twirls, it just the right blend for the dance style. Plus, when the music stopped and the two split and came together again in perfect sync, our jaws hit the floor. However, the judges didn't necessarily agree. "That dance had attack, that had aggression," Len said, but gave constructive criticism about the placement of her chin. Bruno agreed, but ultimately told Zendaya, "You are a magnificent dancer." Hey, no worries, though — they still scored 27/30!


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Today we saw the arrival of delicious cookies courtesy of Liz from the Graphics team (and a certain Mr Jamie Oliver – whose recipe she used) and a tasty treat from the 80's, cheese straws. These were made by Dominie from the Marketing team and were accompanied by some homemade Rhubarb & Spiced Pear chutney… well we never do things by halves at Joules!
Chocolate biscuits with soft chocolate centres
140g/5oz butter
140g/5oz caster sugar
2 egg yolks
255g/9oz self-raising flour
30g/1oz cocoa powder
30 squares of chocolate (milk, white or plain
Makes 30 biscuits
You'll need two cutters, one about 4cm/1½ inches and the other about 5cm/2 inches.
Grease a large baking sheet. Cream the butter and sugar together until pale. Beat in the egg yolks, then add the flour and cocoa powder to make a dough. Turn out and knead, then pop it into the fridge for a while. Preheat the oven to 190ºC/375ºF/gas 5.
On a lightly floured surface, roll about a third of the dough out thinly, then cut out about 30 circles with the smaller cutter (you can do fewer if you want the biscuits bigger). Spread them out on the baking sheet and put a square of chocolate in the middle of each one – make sure you use all the chocolate however many you do. Then roll the rest of the dough out (I always add the leftovers from the first lot of cutting to it and knead it a bit). Cut out the same number of circles with the larger cutter and pop them on top of the chocolate, pressing gently all the way round to seal the edge and keep all the chocolate in.
Cook in the preheated oven for 10 minutes, and eat them hot or cold.
100g plain white flour
½ x 5ml spoon of mustard powder
50g butter or margarine
150g Cheddar cheese (I like to use ½ mature cheddar and ½ red Leicester for a bit of colour!)
2 x 15ml spoons cold water
A sprinkle of salt and pepper
1. Preheat the oven to 200ºC or gas mark 6.
2. Line a tray with baking paper.
3. Sift the flour, salt, pepper and mustard powder into a mixing bowl.
4. Using your fingertips, rub the butter or margarine into the flour until it resembles fine breadcrumbs.
5. Grate the cheese.
6. Stir the cheese into the flour mixture.
7. Using your hands, mix to form a smooth dough, adding a little cold water to help bind the mixture together.
8. Roll out, on a lightly floured surface, to form a rectangle about 0.5cm thick.
9. Trim away the edges and cut into thin strips, about 0.5cm x 7cm, using a palette knife.
10. Place the straws on the baking tray and bake for 12 – 15 minutes or until golden brown.
11. Allow to cool before removing from the baking tray onto a cooling rack.


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Thanks! Now to ask the obvious question...why the heck did IBM have some
images download as UDFs & others as a friggin .ZIP??? It boggles the
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From: DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/09/2014 11:01 AM
Subject: Re: v7.2 upgrade
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You need to uzip the udf files and use those.
- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis
On 5/9/2014 11:30 AM, Tommy.Holden@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I downloaded the files for the upgrade and there are some that were--
downloaded as udf files inside a zip file. Can these be loaded as a zip
file or do I have to extract the udf to use as a image catalog entry? I
did a "test" and it did add the .zip to the virtual optical but I'd hate
to run into issues once I get started.
Tommy Holden
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Everyone's heard "Highway to Hell," "TNT" and "Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap," but what about Bon Scott's lesser known classics with AC/DC? In honor of Bon's birthday, we take a look at five of his most underappreciated songs. "Ain't No Fun (Waiting 'Round to Be a Millionaire)"This track exemplifies the hustle and struggle of trying to make it. Think of it as the bluesy cousin of "It's a Long Way To The Top (If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll). "Ride On"The closest AC/DC has ever gotten to a ballad, this song from the Dirty Deeds… album just makes you ache. We can all relate to "another empty bottle and another empty bed." Sometimes…a little too well."Go Down"AC/DC have never exactly been subtle. What, oh what could they be talking about in songs like "Squealer," "Touch Too Much" and "Sink The Pink?" Some bands like a side order of raunch, but for AC/DC, it's the main course, and "Go Down"…well…you can figure it out."What's Next to the Moon"To me, choosing the most underappreciated song from 1978's Powerage is like choosing my favorite beer. It's too damn hard, and I love them all oh, so much! Truth be told, I could opine about that entire album to no end, but there's something about the killer groove of "What's Next to the Moon" that just stays with you."Jailbreak"From it's grizzly premise to it's video, everything about "Jailbreak" is perfect. It was first featured on the Australian release of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, but it finally received a proper release in the US, Canada and Japan on the 1984 EP '74 Jailbreak. Better late than never.
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Goals from Gary Hooper and Victor Wanyama saw Celtic ease past Helsingborg 4-0 on aggregate and into the group stage of the Champions League for the first time since the 2008/09 season.
Neil Lennon's men took a 2-0 lead into the second leg of their play-off against the Swedish side and Hooper's close-range strike on the half-hour mark, albeit from what looked like an offside position, effectively ended the contest.
Two minutes from time Wanyama headed in a Kris Commons cross to put gloss on a fine victory and confirm the Hoops' place in tomorrow's draw in Monaco.
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Marilyn H. Raymond, 92
Published DateBRIDGEWATER — Marilyn Houston Raymond, 92, of Bridgewater, passed away on Thursday, February 14, 2013 after a period of declining health.
Born in Plymouth, NH, on Leap Year February 29, 1920, she was the daughter of George D. and Ellen J. (Doiron) Houston. Marilyn was raised locally attending the Lower Intervale School through 8th grade and graduating from the Plymouth High School in 1938. She attended classes at Plymouth State College focusing on Library Management and Computers.
Marilyn worked for White Mountain Mfg. Co, for 18 years and Norman Perry Lamps for 10 years. During Tax season she worked for John Kelly CPA, where she learned to enjoy working with numbers. In 1941 she married her beloved husband Kenneth Raymond, and they eventually moved to Bridgewater in the late 1950s, where they bought a home on River Road.
Marilyn was very active in the town of Bridgewater, she organized the Bridgewater Historical Society, and held the position of president for four years; she was a Librarian and Supervisor at the River Rd. Library for more than 30 years, she was a member of the building committee for the new Town Hall and donated the funds for the granite monument on the front lawn. Marilyn also served as a deputy town clerk to Pat Mitchell for many years, as well as serving as a police officer for Chief Raymond for 20 years. Marilyn enjoyed being a member on the planning board 15 years; she was part of the Master Planning and Zoning Board's organization. She was elected to the office of the Town Treasurer and served in that position for more than 30 years, even serving during her illness when needed.
Marilyn has been an invaluable piece of the backbone of the Town of Bridgewater. She will be dearly missed by her many friends in the town and throughout the surrounding areas.
She is predeceased by her beloved husband Kenneth Raymond, in 1990.
Marilyn is survived by her nephews, David B. Kelly and wife Pamela, of Hill, NH; Raymond Chapman and wife Cecile, of Enfield, CT, nieces, Marilyn McCarthy, Monson, MA; Carol Knox, Parsons, Kansas; Nancy Pioretta ,Westfield, MA; Betty Hunter, Calais, ME; and long-time friend, Josephine Flanders, Bridgewater, NH.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Marilyn's memory to the NH Hampshire Humane Society, PO Box 572, Laconia, NH 03247 http://www.nhhumane.org/help-donate.php
A Calling Hour will be held on Sunday, February 24, 2013 at Mayhew Funeral Home (12 Langdon St.), Plymouth from 2:00 pm through 3:00 pm. Friends are respectfully invited to attend. Interment will be held at a later date in the Riverside Cemetery, Plymouth.
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Wladimir Balentien (28) -Remember this guy? He hit the longest home run of the 2009 season while a Red. I always wished he'd get a longer look, either with the Reds or with someone else...That someone else has turned out to be the Yakult Swallows.
Sean Casey (38) -The World's Nicest Baseball Player never drove in 100 runs, but drove in 99 twice...He's the only player to have the first base hit ever in two different parks: PNC and Miller.
Steve Sparks (48)- Knuckleballer whose career ended abruptly when he separated his shoulder trying to rip a phone book in half. As I've said before, you can't make some of this stuff up.
Jose (and Ozzie) Canseco (48) - The Madonna of baseball; a person who wakes up in the morning thinking "what can I do to get maximum attention today"... I think he's just as much of a grease fire as you probably do, but I do have to admit that much of the stuff in his book turned out to be true...Ozzie is basically Jose without the "good at baseball" part...
Hal Reniff -Reliever for the Yankees and Mets; supposedly the only player to play for those two teams and no others...On one of his baseball cards he's wearing a short-sleeved jersey and holding his arms above his head the way pitchers used to do, and you can see a disturbing tuft of armpit hair peeking out. I'd reproduce it here but some of you might be eating...On BaseballReference they say he did some acting after his baseball career ended, but another source says no, that's his son. I tried to find out which was true, but it eventually became a big timesuck, and I had to step back and remind myself that no one really cares...
Chuck Stobbs - Chuck won over 100 games in the bigs, but he's rememberd for two things he'd rather not be remembered for: 1) He gave up what's considered baseball's longest home run ever; a 1953 Mickey Mantle blast that left Griffith Stadium entirely and was estimated at 565 feet. 2) He uncorked what may have been the wildest wild pitch ever; it landed 17 rows up in the stands.
Grover Hartley -Grover played one game in 1934 at age 45, making him the last active player to have played in the Federal League...He later became an AL umpire.


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Matric exam cancelled after paper leak
QUETTA, March 11: The Balochistan education department cancelled on Thursday night English paper for annual matriculation examination scheduled to be held on Friday after several papers, the cancelled one among them, were leaked out.
Secretary Education Munir Minhas confirmed that English paper (A) had been cancelled.
Sources said that all seven papers had been leaked out and were in possession of many candidates.
Provincial Education Minister Tahir Mehmood ordered an inquiry into the leakage of papers."A three members committee headed by the additional secretary education has been set up to probe into the matter," the secretary education said, adding that the committee would submit its report in three days.
The education minister suspended the secretary and other staff of the secrecy branch of the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education Quetta with immediate effect.
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Liberians are apt to lose the forty percent of the National Forestry Reform Law of 2006 exclusively reserved for them on all established commercial forestry areas.
According to a release issued by Mr. Oscar Cooper, Chief Executive Officer of the Inland Logging Corporation, the House and the Senate are being coerced by the International Community through the United Nations to change the newly passed "National Forestry Reform Law of 2006".
The Law gives a long term protection to the Liberian Heritage by reserving 40% of all established commercial forestry areas exclusively to Liberians, whether utilized or not.
The release said that the international communities are adamant that the 40% allocated to Liberians and future generations be removed from law and that a previous bill submitted with their interest opening the entire commercial forestry areas to foreign investors alike.
"This act, we fear will disenfranchise Liberian-owned companies that do not have the pecuniary potency to compete after the insurmountable losses incurred during the war. An influx of foreign investors in the forestry sector would undoubtedly dominate the bidding process for forestry acquisition," the release said.
Mr. Cooper said that this open-door policy would unquestionably invite companies like the O.T.C. to acquire vast forest tracts and extensively deplete their National Reserves.
He stated that the position of the International Community greatly deviated from the rationale as to why the sanctions were originally imposed on Liberia and in what aspect and roles were being played to determine which laws were beneficial to Liberians by the interpretation of the Liberianization policy as to whether the laws enacted, quote, "are investors friendly even to the detriment of Liberians?" "The House and the Senate are in a state of perplexed dilemma as to why the United Nations would continue to impose sanctions on Liberia," the release said.
Mr. Cooper said that the lawmakers were elected and placed in positions of trust by the people to protect their interest and not to be influenced by outside parties whose interest are not those of the Liberian people.
"The House, the Senate, the Executive and the Judiciary's first and foremost functions, obligations and loyalty, are for the Liberian people," the release concluded.


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Token - 1 Penny, J. MacGreggor, Sultan's Steam Coffee Works & City Tea Warehouse, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1868 Reg. No: NU 11688
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- Bronze One Penny Token, probably minted by Heaton and Sons, Birmingham. Issued by J. MacGreggor, Sultan's Steam Coffee Works & City Tea Warehouse, Sydney, circa 1868. James MacGregor's first business opened in 1855 at 464 Elizabeth Street. In 1861 he moved to 204 Pitt Street, between King and Hunter Streets. His success led him to move to 320 George Street in 1865, and he continued to do well in business for another couple of years. Unfortunately, the tokens he commissioned from Heaton and Sons, Birmingham, arrived in 1868, the same year the N.S.W. Government decided to demonetise tokens. This issue consequently holds the doubtful honour of being the last in N.S.W. and the entire issue is thought to have been sold for scrap, at a significant loss for MacGregor.
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- Description:
- A round bronze token (31 mm diameter). The token design features the name, address and business of the issuer:
J. MacGregor, 320 George Street Sydney, City Tea Warehouse and The Sultan's Steam Coffee Works. The reverse features a Coat of Arms with emu and kangaroo supporters and the motto ADVANCE AUSTRALIA. This token has a die crack from the rim through the M of STEAM, the I of ESTABLISHED and faintly to the rising sun and another on the obverse through the U of WAREHOUSE.
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- Transfer from Melbourne Branch of Royal Mint, 1978
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|James MacGregor, Grocer, Sydney, New South Wales (circa 1820-?), Numismatics & Philately Collection, Sustainable Futures Collection, Working Life & Trades Collection, McArthur Bequest, George McArthur, Collector & Baker (1842-1903)
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|Australia - New South Wales
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|Obverse Description:
|At centre within circle of dots; J.MACGREGOR / 320 / GEORGE STREET / SYDNEY; around THE CITY TEA WAREHOUSE . * . Border of 175 denticles. This token has a die crack through the U of WAREHOUSE.
|Reverse Description:
|Arms of New South Wales with motto ADVANCE AUSTRALIA on ribbon below; ESTABLISHED 1855 above and below within a circle of dots; around, . THE SULTAN'S STEAM COFFEE WORKS . SYDNEY. Border of 172 beads, the first 5 of the date re-entered. This token has a die crack from the rim through the M of STEAM, the I of ESTABLISHED and faintly to the rising sun.
|Edge Description:
|Obverse: J.MACGREGOR 320 GEORGE STREET SYDNEY THE CITY TEA WAREHOUSE
Reverse: THE SULTAN'S STEAM COFFEE WORKS SYDNEY ESTABLISHED 1855
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|J. MacGregor - The Sultan's Steam Coffee Works & City Tea Warehouse, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1868
|Previous Collection:
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"These are believed to have been the last tokens issued in New South Wales, as they were only received in the Colony just as the Act suppressing tokens was passed" Andrews p. 67
"The last copper or bronze idssue in N.S.W. in 1868" Heyde p.57
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Gasabo — The Minister of Education, Daphrose Gahakwa has clarified the reasons behind the government's new policy to make English the medium of education.
Addressing a press conference, the Minister said that the drafting of a strategic plan to have the policy fully implemented is under course in her ministry and that specialists have been hired to take on the study.
"The plan to have English as a medium of education is expected to begin by the next academic year, and be fully integrated in all private and public schools by 2011," said Gahakwa.
During the news conference, some journalists expressed resistance to the new policy, tabling their worries of dropping the French language.
In her response to the grievances, Gahakwa said that the adoption of the English language as a medium of education does not necessarily mean that the French language has been dropped completely.
"French will be studied as a subject. It is just prioritising English and it is in the benefit of the general public," she explained.
The Education Minister said that she expects no failure in the policy since there will be continuous follow up on students and teachers on how the implementation is going on.
Available statistics indicate that so far 4,000 teachers have undertaken English language courses while another 6,000 will soon follow.
The State Minister for Education in charge of Primary and Secondary Education, Theoneste Mutsindashyaka, said that currently the country has about 50,000 teachers and that the remaining 40,000 teachers will undergo the same English courses under a crash-program.
Mutsindashyaka said that the adoption of English would make education cheaper in the country.
"The cost of French textbooks is much higher than that of English books," said Mutsindashyaka. He also criticised those who are rejecting the policy.
"What is the complication in this? The question instead should be why did the government delay in coming up with this policy!" he argued.
The State Minister also strongly denied relating the issue with the ill relations between Rwanda and France. "This Issue should not be politicised at any point," he said.
Both Ministers of Education did not specify the amount the government is planning to spend on training teachers and purchasing new English textbooks.
Gahakwa said that the money will be drawn from the Ministry's budget while Mutsindashyaka said that a big chunk would be spent on purchasing books.
"Government is currently partnering with the British Council and private firms to acquire English textbooks," Mutsindashyaka said.
The news conference was also attended by the Minister of Information, Louise Mushikiwabo, who said that she had done extensive research on the use of the French language.
"It is known globally that French is losing value; there are about 3,000 publications from different scholars proving how the French language is losing value, why should we proceed with a language that would cost us a lot," asked Mushikiwabo.


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Bonjour! It's French as a Second Language Week
Every year, our tireless French teachers think up original and exciting ways to celebrate the French language and culture with our students during French as a Second Language Week. The theme this year is: French, One of Canada's Two Official Languages.
Here is what Gravelbourg High is doing for FSL week:
Crêpes, sucre à la crème, pâté chinois, un peu de sucre d'érable,... Eating! Crêpes, fudge, cottage pie, maple sugar.
La musique française jouée dans les corridors, un film français et l'impro 'franglais' joué à midi pour ceux intéressés... Activities: French music playing throughout school, French films and bilingual improve at noon hours.
Lindale is sharing French trivia every morning over the announcements for 3-8 students and a colouring contest for K-2.
Grade 4/5 students at Caronport Elementary School will be leading the school in singing the French lyrics for O Canada.
Read more to see what Palliser Heights and Gravelbourg Elementary are doing to celebrate:
Palliser Heights:
Le lundi 6 février, Jour 5 = I Can Speak French!
Le mardi 7 février, Jour 1 = Bilingual (Eng./Fr.) Word Research Contest
Le mercredi 8 février, Jour 2 = French Music & Movement
Le jeudi 9 février, Jour 3 = Maple Syrup
Le vendredi 10 février, Jour 4
Gravelbourg Elementary:
Each day start with a French announcement and a bilingual or French version of O Canada.
Introduce a French expression each day: bon appetite, à vos souhaits, à demain, etc..
Monday: All students will be making/eating Poutine
Tuesday: General assembly and video: Why learn French plus Grade 6/7 students will present a powerpoint about famous French speakers
Wednesday: All immersion students will meet for a period of board games and games that can be played in French.
Thursday: All immersion students are going for a French guided tour of our museum and some fun chasse aux tresor type activities as well as some history fun lessons to go along with the tours.
Later in the afternoon, there will be a general assembly, all students will French Just Dance song:


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Meg Compton has joined PNC Financial Services Group as senior vice president and relationship manager in its Oak Brook office, the company announced Tuesday. Compton has nearly 20 years of commercial banking experience as a senior level banker in Chicago, including serving as relationship manager with LaSalle and Harris banks and as division manager with Park National Bank. Most recently, she served as executive vice president at Wintrust Financial Corporations Beverly Bank & Trust. Compton earned a degree in finance from Valparaiso University and an MBA from Indiana University.
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