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CLAFLIN - Edward "Ed" Dolechek, 63, died Aug. 28, 2012 at his residence in rural Claflin.
WINFIELD - William 'Billy' R. Bauer, 78, of Winfield, passed away Aug. 27, 2012 at the Wm. Newton Memorial Hospital.
DEERFIELD - Robert (Bob) Lee Hughes, 76, of Deerfield, died Aug. 27 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. Born Nov. 14, 1935 in Craig, Colo., he was the son of Lena E. (Barnhart) and Paul O. Hughes. In 1996, Robert and Thelma Hughes were united in marriage in Satanta.
CHASE - Frances Jean Heine, 86, died Aug. 26 at her home in rural Chase. Born March 8, 1926 in Gridley, she was the daughter of Charles Edgar Mills and Minnie Mae Smalley Mills. On Feb. 20, 1949 she married Alvin W. Heine in Ellinwood. She received her registered nursing degree at the Kansas City General Hospital in Kansas City, Mo. A resident of rural Chase since 1949 she was a school nurse at Ellinwood and Chase School Districts.
Max Nelson Reed, 72, died Aug. 25 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice in Wichita. Born April. 1, 1940 in McPherson, he was the son of Clarence Harley and Anna Ellen (Ebaugh) Reed. Max was a wonderful son, husband, father, brother, uncle, friend, teacher, and coach. He married Judith Ann Birkholz on May 23, 1965 in Argonia. She survives. He obtained his Masters of Science in Education from Emporia State University, and took additional courses at the University of Kansas and the University of Wisconsin- LaCrosse. He taught in the Meade Middle School, Meade, where he also coached football and basketball ...
Thomas LeRoy Wray, 86, died Aug. 25 at Cherry Village Nursing Home in Great Bend. Born Dec. 18, 1925 in McLouth, he was the son of Albert and Mabel (Bradford) Wray. A resident of Great bend since 2006, coming from Midwest City, Okla., Amarillo, Texas, Clearfield, Ut. and Kansas City, he was an auto transporter, working for Wood's Industries, Auto Transport and retiring from Jack Cooper.
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Kenneth "Kenny" Brummer, 66, died Aug. 25 at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita. Born Sept. 25, 1945 in Beloit, he was the son of Joseph I. and Kathryn (Thomas) Brummer. On Oct. 28, 1967 he married Beth Melton in Beloit. She survives. A resident of Great Bend since 1981, coming from Beloit, he retired from Barton Community College in 2007, working in the maintenance department and bus driving. Previously he worked at Great Bend Auto as a machinist. After retirement, he worked for Sterling House and Prince of Peace Parish.
SALINA - Crystal Lea Palmer-Mongeau, 31, of Salina passed away Monday afternoon at her parents' home after a nearly three-year battle with ovarian cancer.
GREAT BEND - Max Reed, 72, died Aug. 25, 2012 at Harry Hynes Memorial Hospice Center, Wichita.
SKIPPACK, Pa. - Arlen D. Eichman, 70, died Dec. 28, 2010 in Skippack, Pa. Born Dec. 6, 1940 in WaKeeney, he was the son of Jacob Eichman and Clara Deines Eichman.
GRAHAM, Wash. - Jon Bradley Lundquist, 25, died Friday, Aug. 17, 2012 at his home.
ODIN - Joseph F. Hekele, 80, died Aug. 23, 2012 at Golden Living Center, Wilson. He was born March 14, 1922 at Odin, the son of Joseph Alois and Anna Agnes (Seus) Hekele. He married Martha Moeder, Oct. 25, 1950 at Hoisington. She died October 11, 1988. He was owner of Hekele and Son's milk hauling business and co-owner of the former Hoisington Cheese Plant. He was a lifetime Odin resident. Joseph during World War II as a Staff Sergeant in the United States Army. He was a member of Holy Family Catholic Church and Knights of Columbus Post 2630 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. - After a life well lived, Ty Schurtz died Aug. 22 at Mercy Hospital in Springfield, Mo., just 12 days past his 99th birthday.
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GREAT BEND - Brenda Ann Barger, 58, died June 25, 2015, at her home in Great Bend.
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - David Wayne Bowman, 55, died June 24, 2015, at Centerpoint Medical Center, Independence, Mo.
Brenda Ann Barger, 58, died June 25, 2015, at her home in Great Bend. She was born Sept. 17, 1956, at Salina, to Bob Bruce and Beverly Ann (Holdren) Burgard. She married Steve Barger Nov. 21, 1992, at Great Bend. A Great Bend resident since 1979, coming from Salina, she was a homemaker and foster mother.
LEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. - David Wayne Bowman, 55, died June 24, 2015, at Centerpoint Medical Center, Independence, Missouri. He was born Oct. 13, 1959, at Larned, to Howard and Carole (Unruh) Bowman. He was a 1977 graduate of Macksville High School and graduated from Barton County Community College, Emporia State University and the University of Kansas. A longtime Kansas City area resident, he was a custodian for the Lee's Summit School District.
Ryan Robert Fanshier, 36, died June 24, 2015, at Great Bend Regional Hospital. He was born June 17, 1979, at Great Bend, the son of Randall and Angela (Sharpe) Fanshier.
ELLINWOOD - Barbara (Babs) Rae Eubank, 75, passed away June 23, 2015, at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood.
OTIS - Connie Lynne (Hoch) Hoopingarner, 72, passed away on June 22, 2015, at Locust Grove Village in La Crosse. Born on Aug. 24, 1942, she was the daughter of O.C. ('Poss') and Esther (Keenan) Hoch. In 1960, she graduated from Hoisington High School and went on to earn her Dental Hygiene Degree from the University of Missouri Kansas City. She worked as a Dental Hygienist until her retirement in 2002. On Feb. 29, 1964, she married Larry Dwight Hoopingarner in Las Vegas, Nev. They made their home in Manter.
ELLINWOOD - Reinder Carl Ringwald, 92, died at Great Bend Health & Rehabilitation in Great Bend on June 22, 2015. Services are pending with Minnis Chapel in Ellinwood.
Hugh Robert "Bud" Steadman, 90, died June 21, 2015, at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwood. Born May 23, 1925, in Great Bend, he was the son of Frank M. and Blanche Marie (Sterling) Steadman. On July 14, 1946, he married Delores June Schenkel in Bazine. She died on April 28, 2015. A lifetime resident of Great Bend, he was an engineering technician for Evans, Bierly and Hutchison.
ELLINWOOD - Barbara R. Eubank, 75, died at Woodhaven Care Center in Ellinwod on June 23, 2015. Services are pending with Minnis Chapel in Ellinwood.
MCKINNEY, Texas - Kimberly Dawn Burkhart died at her home in McKinney, Texas, on May 13, 2015. Born April 4, 1969, in Great Bend, she was the daughter of Cliff and Barbara Burkhart. She was employed by American Airlines as an International flight attendant. She served as an MP in the United States Army and was active in Desert Storm.
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MOUNT VERNON - Brewton-Parker College has announced it plans to participate in the Yellow Ribbon tuition program for veterans.
LUDOWICI - Walker Middle School had its first CHAMPS graduation ceremony June 1.
The board of education is still paying for the construction of Libert County High School's Donell Woods Stadium and they passed a motion Tuesday to accept a $328,658 bid from Titan Golf Services to correct irrigation issues that have left the field saturated and soggy.
More than 900 students at Lewis Frasier Middle School signed a test-taking pledge and posted pledge cards on a wall in the school's commons area for all to see during CRCT week.
The Liberty County School system recognized three teachers at Tuesday night's Board Meeting for exceptional use of technology in the classroom.
Joseph Martin Elementary students have become published authors. All students participated in a program from studentreasures that allowed them to write and to illustrate their books.
Falling in line with state results, Liberty County schools posted significant increases in criterion-referenced competency test scores this year, exciting educators across the area.
LUDOWICI - Despite a rainout Friday night, the Long County High School 2009 Graduation Ceremony went off without a hitch Saturday morning.
The Valedictorians from Bradwell and Liberty traveled to the Georgia's Governor's Mansion for a day of honor.
Three Liberty County High School students will accompany Waldo Pafford fourth-grade teacher Nicole Carter to New York this summer to compete in a competition sponsored by the NAACP.
Jordye Bacon Elementary recently concluded the school year with a Jeopardy-style quiz bowl for K-2 and a three-strike elimination quiz bowl for grades 3-5. Winners of the K-2 were on team 3; Diamond Stiff, Michael Alexis and Jakorian Willis. Winners of the black history bowl were Tyma Bullard, first place, Kylee Proffitt second, and Kyshon Campbell, third.
The world's toughest exam has driven Chinese students to extremes, including suicide, but cheating will be a little tougher if a plan in Henan province, 400 miles south of Beijing, pans out.
Students listed on Button Gwinnett Elementary School's final honor roll of the year were:
A report by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, an economic cooperative of 34 countries including the United States, found that poverty rates are now highest among young adults ages 18-25.
Three people in Mississippi faced charges of disturbing the peace, with possible $500 fines and even six months in jail for shouting a graduate's name at a Senatobia High School graduation last month.
Liberty County School System employees will not have to endure any furlough days next year, Superintendent Dr. Valya Lee announced at Board of Education meeting on Tuesday evening.
Students named to Joseph Martin Elementary School's fourth nine weeks "A" honor roll were:
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie became the latest GOP presidential contender to flip on Common Core, announcing last week his opposition to the curriculum and standards system once embraced across a broad political spectrum.
Students named to Frank Long Elementary School's fourth nine weeks honor roll were:
The new frontier of education, many experts believe, is video games. While the field is still maturing, most objectives can now be enhanced with games that allow students to collaborate and learn with more engagement while teachers are free to spend more time observing and helping, and less time at the whiteboard. Many of these games also offer parents and teachers tools to monitor progress on specific learning objectives.
According to an email distributed to all Liberty County School System staff, the new incoming principal of Liberty County High School is Stephanie Woods. Woods had been serving as an assistant principal for Bradwell Institute. We will update this story as more information becomes available. In the same email, Veronica Johnson has been appointed as curriculum specialist for the central office.
The Community of Inspired Women Inc. awarded its first scholarship to Kaisha Porter during its monthly meeting June 2 at the Liberty County Performing Arts Center.
MILLEDGEVILLE - Two local students made the dean's list for the 2015 spring semester at Georgia College.
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"We believe it is very important to continue the ignite09 symposium conversation series here in Chicago, especially since a recent report highlighted that a typical family of four in Chicago is spending an average of $19,008 a year on healthcare, which is the third-highest in the country," Bob Nease, Chief Scientist, Express Scripts. "Attendees at the ignite09 symposium will continue the dialogue that began in the nation's capitol and then moved to San Francisco about America's existing and emerging healthcare problems and discuss real solutions made possible by applying the principles of behavioral economics to healthcare."
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The 5th Anniversary Party was a party in Club Penguin. It was supposed to be one day only, but started a day early, and ended a day late. It was also first confirmed in a post on the What's New Blog.[1]
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- You were able to throw green, orange, yellow, and red colored snowballs in the Coffee Shop, Book Room, and Town.
- The cake had 5 layers, possibly representing the five years of Club Penguin.
- If you clicked on the candles on the cake, they would all blow out and confetti would pop out of the cake. You would then get earn a stamp called the Celebration stamp.
- In the corner near the staircase, all of the previous Party Hats were on display, including the famous Party Hat which was in a locked, glass cabinet.
- The music for the party was the same as main theme for the Water Parties.
- The yearbooks were also on display in a corner of the Book Room, including the new yearbook.
- There was a gallery of Penguin Art in the Book Room up on right wall.
- Strangely, the party continued on October 25, a day after it was supposed to end. The decorations were removed from the Town, but not the Coffee Shop or Book Room.
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Gunung Leuser
This biosphere reserve and national park covers a vast area of tropical rain forest in northern Sumatra with a range of ecosystems: lowland evergreen dipterocarp forest, lower and upper montane rain forest, peat swamp forest, forest over limestone, sub-alpine meadows and heathlands, freshwater lakes and rivers, and sulphur mineral pools.
Declaration Date: 1981
Surface Area: 1,094,692 ha
Administrative Division: Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam andNorth Sumatra Provinces
Human activities
More than four million people live within or adjacent to the Gunung Leuser National Park, with many different ethnic groups repre-sented.
Most of them are farmers and depend very much on the protection of this park for their subsistence. Paddy fields, mixed gardens, and small-scale and medium estates of rubber and oil-palm receive a consistent water supply from this park.
Ecological Characteristics
Gunung Leuser NP is proven as a rich yet vulnerable natural laboratory. Mac- Kinnon and MacKinnon (1986) stated that Gunung Leuser has the highest score for its conservation contribution to Indo Malaya conservation area.
Leuser is a habitat for most fauna, ranging from mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians to fish and invertebrates. It is a region which has the longest list of birds in the world, up to 380 species with 350 of them found in this Park.
Gunung Leuser is also home to 36 of 50 Sundaland endemic bird species. Almost 65% of 129 species of mammals in Sumatra is recorded in this area. Gunung Leuser ecosystem is a habitat for key fauna such as Sumatra elephant (Elephas maximus sumatranus), tiger (Panthera tigris sumatrae), rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) and orang-utan (Pongo abelii).
The Park is also habitat to owa (Hylobates lar) and kedih (Presbytis thomasi). There are also more than 4,000 plant species found in the Park, including 3 of 15 parasite Rafflesia. Thus, it is a habitat of many medical plants (Brimacombe and Elliot, 1996). As a natural laboratory, Gunung Leuser is impor-tant for conservation, education, scientific research for local and foreign researchers and ecotourism. Orangutan Research Station in Ketambe, Southeast Aceh District, is one of the oldest research stations, opened by Dr. Herman D. Rijksen, and is still an interesting location for researchers.
Protection Classifications
Gunung Leuser was declared a national park by the Ministry of Agriculture in 1980, and designated under the decree of the Ministry of Forestry No. 276/Kpts-VI/1997, covering a total area of 1,094,692 hectares.
In July 2004 together with Kerinci Seblat and Bukit Barisan Selatan National Parks the three parks were inscribed as a World Heritage cluster titled the Tropical Rainforest Heritage of Sumatra (TRHS).
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The Miis I met, along with some of the new features Nintendo added recently.
The next morning, on the 18th, I was excited for more SteetPass opportunities. If I got three in just one museum, how many would I get today? Though I crushed my previous record of 7,545 steps with a new, and current, record of 17,396, I got nothing. At first I was sad, but then annoyed because I realized the wireless functionality of my 3DS has been turned off somehow. I wondered how many encounters I missed as I turned StreetPass back on.
Ahhhhh, my legs!
I encountered another person, Aggan, on the 22nd while in Kansas, but only via Super Street Fighter IV. Much like my fights with Jeff and Matt, I got my ass kicked.
Fast-forward almost two weeks later and we pass by someone on a road near our home, will rhein from North Carolina, who happened to have their 3DS on as well. On the 13th, at the Genghis Khan exhibit in Raleigh, North Carolina, I encountered Fupo, also from North Carolina. Supposedly it was their birthday!
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For spring, I am offering this old wood storage box which I upcycled by painting it with Annie Sloan chalk paint in Old Ochre, then distressing the edges with sandpaper. I then dry brushed the inside with a blush pink acrylic paint.Comments
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The more I corrected and tried to help the worse the situation was getting. Then I was reminded of Colossians 3:21 which reads "Fathers do not embitter your children or they will become discouraged."Comments
YWCA Bristol is currently accepting referrals for the Moms-R-Us teen pregnancy program, which offers free support and education classes to teen parents.Comments
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Springfield Museums to Display Rare Japanese Woodblock Prints, Snow Globes
October 2, 2014
Later this month, the Springfield Museums will unveil an exhibit combining Japanese woodblock prints depicting winter scenes with a collection of rare and whimsical snow globes from the past century. The exhibit, titled Let it Snow: Winter Scenes in Snow Globes and Japanese Prints, will be on view at the Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts from October 28, 2014–January 4, 2015.
Museums Annouce Stars Program for October
September 22, 2014
The Springfield Science Museum's large rooftop telescope will be open for public sky gazing on Friday, October 3 at 7:30 pm as part of the "Stars Over Springfield" observatory series. These programs are organized by the Museum and the Springfield Stars Club, and take place on the first Friday of each month.
Springfield Museums Announce Lecture and Tour Schedule for October
September 19, 2014
The Springfield Museums' monthly tour and lecture schedule continues in October with the popular Thursday Museums à la Carte lectures, held weekly at 12:15 pm in the Michele and Donald D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts. Admission is $4 ($2 for members of the Springfield Museums); visitors are invited to bring lunch (cookies and coffee are provided). The programs are sponsored by Big Y World Class Market. For more information about Museums à la Carte, call 413.263.6800, ext. 488. This month's lectures include:
Culture & Cocktails Series Returns
September 17, 2014
The Springfield Museums will kick-off its fifth season of Culture & Cocktails with their annual Oktoberfest: The Art of the Brew event on Thursday, October 2, 2014 from 5–8 pm at the Merrie and Lyman Wood Museum of Springfield History. The event is $5 for members, $15 for nonmembers, and includes tastings of all brews. Oktoberfest is sponsored by TD Bank and Business West. The media sponsor for the Culture & Cocktails series is The Republican/Masslive.
Steampunk Wheelchair Arrives at Museums
September 11, 2014
As the groundbreaking Steampunk Springfield exhibition approaches its conclusion at the Springfield Museums, guest curator Bruce Rosenbaum has produced one more surprise from his bag of Steampunk magic tricks.


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I was up on the mountain this past Sunday and Monday and I wanted to quickly note some thoughts on the current conditions. I spent several hours on Sunday doing laps on First Time lift with my 2 1/2 year old daughter and a friend or hers and I can now assure everyone that skiing with a youngster will keep you warm no matter what the temperature. Also, I'll vouch that First Time and Turtle Trail runs are in perfect shape for anyone looking for a beginner experience - the kids were bummed when we had to leave as they wanted to do more runs!
On Monday, I spent the morning at a conference and then snuck back to the resort along with several other attendees to show them around. We started with several laps off Bonanza lift, where conditions were very nice, with natural snow mixed in with man-made. We also noted the progress being made by the snowmaking team on Jonesy's, Silver Queen and Claimjumper. After that, we dropped back down to PayDay lift for several more runs, including this video that I shot (sorry if the quality is a bit off, I took it with my phone), of the 2nd half of Payday run. The snow surface was easily turnable and the fresh stuff mixed with the natural made for a really fun afternoon. Here's the video:
See you on the slopes!
Who is that crazy guy who almost ran into the camera dude? Oh wait. That was me. Thanks for a great afternoon of skiing, Eric. Greg, Brian, Mae and I all really appreciated it.
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DJ, the camera just makes everything seem closer than it really is. Seriously, it was great riding with you and I hope to see you up at PCMR again soon!
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What is the name of that song? So dominant!
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Mike, it's listed at the end of the video, but it's called "Childhood Dream".
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Looks great. Only wish more runs were open. Great song!
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Thanks John, I wish we had more open as well, but - stay tuned for some good news coming soon!
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I did a lot of reading about colour and abstract painting over the year.. I feel I'm drawn more towards abstract art rather than figurative or landscape or realist painting even though I have my own personal favourite artists in those fields. My eye is abstract. I'm a lens based artist, studied graphic design previously. Most graphic design is based on abstract shapes or arrangements.
I started using watercolour inks to make these on A3 sized white card. I would find doing these meditative and would usually do them after work, at weekends, sitting in the front room in front of the television or watching a film. Because the scale of the work it would take me a few days to finish them (just like the Enso drawings in another post) and I would have to use my concentration skills to get them right (I'm a very good listener and I have a heightened sense of hearing so would 'hear' these programmes and films instead of 'watching' them).
I found the watercolour inks to be very rich in colour. There are a few colours I really like using because my eye is drawn to them so I like to use them (I guess thats something to factor in when artists chose the palettes they use in their work as its not just random colours they use, its all relative in some way) and I would use a number 1 brush to draw them and colour them in - hence why it was so meditative for me!
Some of them work, some of them don't. I like to show things that don't work as much as those that do because they can be interesting too. I wasn't taught as a painter.
Here's a 'before' and 'after' as an example..
The yellow, light blue, and the red are colours I like. I started off thinking if I could do it in one colour and then the other colours sort of jumped in.
I do like using one colour only. And I like where it takes me because these aren't marked out or planned, they just happen. Depends on my mood, if I'm in a rush or not, if I'm hot or cold, what kind of day its been. All factors apply to how it turns out at the end.
These two below, I really like..
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15 January 2015
Funnily enough I'm okay with hands..
..but probably only because its easier to focus on one part of the body at any one time as opposed to focusing on the different parts of a life drawing, making them work together and keeping dimensions relative to the other bits.. its a lot to juggle!
Life Drawing Classes
I don't post here much, a lot of things going on.. but here is a compendium of photos of various drawings I did on a few life drawing sessions I attended throughout last year.
I do believe that drawing is a skill that needs to be used to keep sharpened just like you would if you were using a tool fora hobby or your work. Its a great skill and teaches you about how to look at things and also about observation skills. You think you know what something looks like because you have seen it but you need to observe it to refine it and to notice the small details we may skip by thinking that we know what something looks like.
I don't think I'm perfect. In fact I hate drawing. Actually because I think I'm not any good at it, or because I think it doesn't look like what I think it should look like I hate doing it. Its the perfectionist in me I guess. But last year I overcame my dread of drawing and these are some of the results.
I do believe that drawing is a skill that needs to be used to keep sharpened just like you would if you were using a tool fora hobby or your work. Its a great skill and teaches you about how to look at things and also about observation skills. You think you know what something looks like because you have seen it but you need to observe it to refine it and to notice the small details we may skip by thinking that we know what something looks like.
I don't think I'm perfect. In fact I hate drawing. Actually because I think I'm not any good at it, or because I think it doesn't look like what I think it should look like I hate doing it. Its the perfectionist in me I guess. But last year I overcame my dread of drawing and these are some of the results.
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3 September 2014
Zen circles or 'Enso'
A little something I wrote elsewhere about these Zen circle paintings I do..
"I enjoy doing these because I find it meditative/relaxing concentrating on making each zen circle or Enso. Originally Enso just have the one circle, the ones I do have three componant circles around a dot. This symbolises me & my three children.. Also how your attitude radiates outwards & affects other people.. like a radiating circle.. a ripple in a pond."
I have done a few of these now this year, and I hope this explains a bit as to what fascination circles have for me in my recent abstract painting & drawings.. these are the first two on black paper. I'm planning a whole series so we'll see how it goes..
More about Enso: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ens%C5%8D
21 August 2014
Necrology - Standish Lawder (1970)
"the sickest joke I've ever seen on film" - Hollis Frampton
What does it mean? Let's look at the title. Necrology. Necro suggests something about the dead, -ology usually means a study of something. So put together its a study of the dead.
Ok, but what about the cast list towards the end, what does that suggest?It suggests a roll call of the dead, albeit a fictional cast.
11 or so minutes of people standing on an escalator with the film run backwards? They are ascending to meet their maker.
The people featured in Necrology were commuters being filmed covertly by the filmmaker at New York's Grand Central station. It was filmed during the end of a work day when all office workers were let out of work to go home for the day, the end of their shift.
Check out more about Standish Lawder & his films at UbuWeb: http://ubu.com/film/lawder.html
10 June 2014
William Henry Green - Action Artist (1957) / Ken Russell - Pop Goes The Easel (1962)
|Tony Hancock - The Rebel (screenshot)
Watch scene here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs73aPdYvnE
Do you remember the Action Art bicycle scene from Tony Hancock's "The Rebel"?
This guy was the inspiration.. British Action Artist, William Green.
Sadly all the negative attention to his (at that time) unusual work & his methods didn't do him any good and he gave up making art and became an alcoholic (he did eventually make a return to art due to an exhibition but that was thirty years or so later just before he died). Knowing this makes me realise how delicate people can be about their work and whilst we might all think aspects of it are funny or weird to us, theres always someone who takes pride in their work seriously enough that any criticism could make them feel self conscious about continuing their creativity and destroy their confidence.. Such a shame.
Here's a clip of Green working on a piece for a Pathe Newsreel clip called 'Action Artist' from 1957:
This could've been the very piece he was working on in his studio that day when Pathe paid him a visit: http://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/green-untitled-t07905
Some more information about William Green including an artists biography & some of his later works on paper via England & Co Gallery: http://www.englandgallery.com/artist_group.php?mainId=56&media=Drawings%20%26%20works%20on%20paper
A nice little blog piece from the Illuminations Media Blog archive about sixties art television (mentions William Green & also a bit about Ken Russell): http://www.illuminationsmedia.co.uk/blog/index.cfm?start=6&news_id=195
I also read that Ken Russell filmed Green for a spot on the BBC's Sunday Report & I'm very keen to see that if the footage is still around.. In the meantime here's a link to 'Pop Goes The Easel' a report made by Russell for the BBC arts programme Monitor in 1962:
And a bonus link to Russell's Bohemian semi-social documentary about the old digs where he used to live in West London: 'A House in Bayswater' - 1960:
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7 March 2014
Squares, and Circles, and Lines, oh my! (a long post about drawing)
I had attended a drawing systems short course, learning how to draw perspectives using various drawing systems: Orthographic Projection, Isometric Projection & Perspective Projection. What I took from this course was the doodling in the practice exercises, I seemed to find this a fun aspect of the class:
So I worked them out in sketchbooks which filled with pages of these exercises and I really wanted to do something with them. I could see patterns and sculptural planes emerging:
So I cut a Linocut of one of the patterns that emerged during these exercises and printed it up:
I had started doing some sketching as a response after reading Bataille's Story of The Eye:
Which morphed in to sketches of dots with three circles centred around them (similar to Greek / Turkish Magic Eye symbols):
This then became a motif I could work with best in watercolour inks, a coloured background also became important within experimentations:
I then became interested in varying the size of the circles and also looking to try and create patterns within the piece to create a kind of texture:
I also brought both these motifs, square and circle, to one particular piece:
I had seen some work of Robert Horvitz at the 'Reflections From Damaged Life' show at Raven Row (and also attended his artist talk there).
The use of lines in his work painstakingly drawn for ten hours a day at a time using pen really intrigued me, it made me want to experiment with mark making myself using a cartridge pen and simple basic marks. My drawing up to then had consisted of abstracted shapes with a border around them, something similar to the counterculture poster artists of the Sixties. Horvitz' work simplified the line down to a basic mark which when repeated made astounding pieces.
After seeing Horvitz' work I simplified it down and experimented using directional lines:
I hope to continue using these motifs in my abstract drawing practice. Here is one particular directional lines piece:
I do also feel that life drawing classes, even though I mainly draw abstract pieces, does bring my drawing practice full circle. Drawing is a draughting skill which needs to be practiced fully and from all angles whether it be representational drawing, abstracts, or doodles. I wouldn't say I have an exceptional skill where drawing is concerned, in fact it means I have to practice it more to get results.
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Is this entirely correct?? I've never entirely understood...
If you are receiving a signal from whatever device at 60Hz and it is sent to a 1080p HDTV, then if the signal sent is:
a) 1080i then for every 1/60th of a second the HDTV receives half of the screen's picture (540 lines) waits for the alternate lines to appear in the next 1/60th second interval and then displays both at the same time in its native progressive format. Overall, you get an updated screen every 1/30th second. Is this correct?
b) 1080p then for every 1/60th of a second the TV receives a a full screen picture (1080 lines) and progressively displays it every 1/60th second.
Now, the way I understand it is that the video on the HD-DVD or Blu-Ray or even normal TV transmission is only ~24fps so it makes no difference whether it updates the entire screen every 1/60th of a second or every 1/30th of a second as it is more than enough time to display the entire image.
For a games console you'd really want progressive output to a progressive TV as games often run up to 60fps so you'd need the screen to update fully every 1/60th of a second to get every frame shown.
Is this all correct?
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Max Fisher of the Washington Post has compiled 40 interesting maps that do throw a lot of light on what's going on in the world. I linked to some of them in my posts on country comparisons of religion and IQ and racism and diversity.
You can click on 40 maps to see them all, starting with a geopolitical map of world powers as of 200 A.D. and ending with an interactive time-lapse map of the earth as seen from space over 12 months.
Many of the maps have links to accompanying Washington Post article. If the video link above doesn't work, you should be able to see the same video on the 40 maps link.
Jack Akadjian, who writes for the Daily Kos web log, recently listed 15 things that all Americans would know if the news medical really were liberal.
1. Where the jobs went.
2. Upward wealth redistribution and/or inequaliy.
4. The number of people in prison.
5. The number of black people in prison.
6. U.S. health care costs are the highest in the world.
7. Glass-Steagall.
8. Gerrymandering.
9. The number of bills blocked by Republicans in Congress.
10. The Citizens United Supreme Court decision.
11. Nixon's Southern Strategy.
12. Tax cuts primary benefit the rich.
13. What's happened to the bees.
14. The impact of temporary workers on the economy.
15. Media consolidation.
For details, click on 15 things everyone would know if there were a liberal media.
Jeff Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, will buy the Washington Post for $250 million. I suppose it is not as bad as the Post being bought by the Koch brothers or Rupert Murdoch. We'll see.
Bezos' politics might be described as Silicon Valley liberalism. He is a champion of gay rights, but not in the right of his employees to decent working conditions.
I worked on newspapers for 40 years, and liked to believe that journalism was a calling and more than just a way for journalists to earn a salary and owners to earn a profit.
Most (not all) of the historically great American newspapers were owned by families who believed in the newspapers' mission, rather than by corporations whose main business was elsewhere.
Bezos will own the Washington Post as an individual and incorporate it into Amazon, so he doesn't fall into either category. It will be interesting to see what his intentions are.
The billionaire brothers, Charles and David Koch, are the fourth and fifth richest Americans, according to Forbes magazine. They own Koch Industries, a conglomerate corporation founded by their father, Fred Koch, which Forbes says is the second largest privately-held American company.
Little known to the general public, they have spent decades funding right-wing, conservative and libertarian organizations, such as the Cato Institute, the Federalist Society, Americans for Prosperity, the Heritage Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council.
They reportedly are interested in acquiring the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Baltimore Sun and other newspapers owned by the Tribune Company.
My friend Anne Tanner e-mailed me a copy of this letter from David Simon, former Baltimore Sun reporter and creator of The Wire television series, about his concerns regarding the possible Koch takeover.
Dear Friend,
Strange that I acquired a certain notoriety and success writing television drama, yet for some dumb luck, I'd be in a newsroom somewhere watching what is happening to American journalism and wondering when anyone is going to speak up and act. Yes, I make television now; but The Wire and Treme are narratives rooted in what I came to value in print journalism, and the world that the Baltimore Sun opened up for me when I arrived in that city, fresh out of college.
A newspaper — an honest one — was a marvelous place to learn about the world and to convey what is learned to the community it serves. But this is only true, of course, if the newspaper is of and for the community and if it values its daily report more than any pre-determined point of view. So it is alarming to me that the Koch brothers, the billionaire duo so actively engaged in supporting a particular political ideology, are interested in buying the Baltimore Sun and a dozen other newspapers including the Los Angeles Times , the Chicago Tribune and the Hartford Courant .
Join me in signing a petition asking the Tribune Company not to sell to the Koch brothers, and to instead support the local ownership of American news organizations.
My concern does not stem from my distaste for the Koch brothers' right-wing ideology. I would be appalled if, say, Arianna Huffington or Ralph Nader or any other politically engaged voice was attempting to buy my local newspaper. Good journalism needs to be unaligned and indifferent to ideological cant and partisan politics; it needs to be about the acquisition of unaligned fact.
There are many who claim the internet has rendered professional reporting obsolete; that the careful, impartial coverage of an increasingly complex world can be left in the hands of citizen bloggers, that no one needs to be paid to cover institutions consistently and with unbiased and ethical rigor.
I don't agree. Reporting is a delicate and professional endeavor. And maintaining that endeavor is the only way to maintain an open and honest society. This will remain true whether a news report is delivered digitally or in print, and supporting professional journalism with a revenue stream that is rooted in a committed hometown readership that trusts its local newspaper.
The original sin of American journalism is having listened to Wall Street four decades ago, when it was first suggested that out-of-town ownership by publicly-traded chains were the optimum means of assuring profit and viability. The seeds of this disaster predate not only the Koch brothers, or the internet, or even the Tribune ownership of my hometown paper. It goes back nearly three decades to the moment when local ownership of that paper passed from Baltimoreans to those who did not live, or work, or live and die with this city.
Wall Street is very good at manufacturing short-term profit and little else. And political ideologues are very good at manufacturing a stunted political argument. But for a newspaper to serve its community with care and precision and dedication, the newspaper must be of the city and a part of the city — and beholden only to that city.
To that end, there are Baltimore-based consortiums who have made clear to the Tribune Company that they are ready and willing to purchase the Baltimore Sun and operate the newspaper as a locally-owned enterprise. There are people in my city who understand that a first-rate metropolis requires a daily paper that is not merely a vessel for profit or ideology, but rather for unbiased, unaligned and properly supported journalism. And the Tribune company, in divesting itself of its newspaper assets with an eye to local ownership, could undo the great damage that news-chain journalism has done to our civic life.
A sale to the Koch brothers would indeed be a journey from bad to worse. The only way to restore print journalism for the civic good is to have it practiced and owned by those who live in and are dedicated to the community itself.
Join me in asking the Tribune papers not to sell to the Koch brothers.
David Simon
Baltimore, Maryland
Click on Working Families to sign the petition.
[Update 8/5/13] Another threat. Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos. It is always a problem when a newspaper or news broadcaster is a component of a corporation in some other line of business, which has interests that will be affected by the way news is covered. In this case, Jeff Bezos is buying the business as an individual rather than as CEO of Amazon, but the principle is the same.
For an idea of the Koch brothers' power and influence, click on the following links.
Inside the Koch Empire: How the Brothers Plan to Reshape America by Daniel Fisher in Forbes.
Political activities of the Koch brothers on Wikipedia.
The Koch Club – Koch millions spread influence through nonprofits, colleges by the Investigative Reporting Workshop of American University's journalism school
Koch Brothers Influence Peddling Exposed for highlights of the AU students' report on Daily Kos.
Back when I was a reporter for the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, our city editor once did an informal poll on our internal e-mail system as to what reporters and editors thought about the topic of abortion.
Not all the reporters and editors responded, but of those who did, there was a large number (including me) who were pro-choice and one brave lonely individual who was pro-life.
I recalled this the other day when I read that the University of Colorado Board of Regents intended to conduct a survey to determine whether conservatives and conservative viewpoints were underrepresented on the university's faculty.
In the case of the D&C newsroom, I think our near-unanimity was a handicap in doing justice to both sides. We all tried to be as fair to all points of view as we could, but you never know what you are unconsciously taking for granted until you interact with someone whose assumptions are different.
I don't what could have been done about this imbalance. Nobody asked my political opinions when I was interviewed for the job. I don't think that would have been a proper question to ask, any more than a question about my religion. If a newspaper were ever to start an intentional policy of hiring more conservatives and Republicans, what they would get is a lot of opportunists claiming to be whatever they thought would get them hired.
It is a fact of life that certain occupations attract certain types of people, and it is also a fact of life that working in certain occupations gives you a certain point of view. I doubt you would find, to pick a few random examples, that the political opinions of military officers, climate scientists, engineers or bankers necessarily represent a cross-section of the population.
Looking back on my own work, I think I was biased not so much liberal or conservative as biased toward the point of view of the people I covered—in my case, the Rochester business community. This is an old and familiar tendency in newspaper work. The sports writer becomes a fan of the home team, the police reporter take on the point of view of the police, the political reporter starts to think of herself as a political insider.
The answer is not to try to correct a bias with a corresponding opposite bias, and certainly not to put journalism under the supervision of politicians, but to strive for professionalism, which means reporting the relevant facts as accurately and completely as you can, stating opposing views fairly and being willing to acknowledge errors and inconvenient truths.
I don't in fact think we did a bad job of covering the abortion issue. Both sides complained about our coverage in about equal measure.
Click on University of Colorado plan to survey political climate draws mixed reactions for a report on the Colorado regents' plan. I found the link on the Unqualified Offerings web log. I agree with "Thoreau" on Class is a battlefield and Samuel Goldman of The American Conservative on Trolling for Conservatives.
What do you think?
Julian Assange said in an interview Monday that the Bradley Manning court-martial is a show trial. Just like the show trials in the Soviet Union in the 1930s, the verdict has been pre-determined, and the purpose of the trial is to convince the public of the defendant's guilt.
The judge has ruled out the Manning's lawyers main line of defense, which is that the information he released was wrongly over-classified, and allowed only one of 33 witnesses the defense wanted to call. The prosecution will call 141 witnesses, some of whom will present their testimony in secret. Access by the press is controlled, and less than a quarter of those who applied were granted press credentials.
Assange pointed out that many American newspapers published articles using the information Manning revealed, but not one of them contributed to Manning's defense fund. Some reporters may have done so individually, however.
Here are links to articles I found interesting, and you might find interesting, too.
Our American Pravda by Ron Unz.
The publisher of the American Conservative writes that many important news stories are ignored by the major U.S. newspapers and broadcasters, including the mystery of the 2001 anthrax attacks, evidence that American POWs were left behind in Vietnam and charges by an FBI whistleblower of a high-level espionage ring. Ron Unz says you need to use the Internet to find the real news.
Postal service is on its last legs, with little help in sight in the Los Angeles Times.
As a government corporation, the U.S. Postal Service has the worst of both worlds—a requirement to make a profit, but no freedom of action to do the things necessary to make a profit. Even so, the USPS might be able to survive if not for the requirement that it fund retirement benefits 50 years in advance—far longer than the USPS is likely to be in existence, unless things change.
At Universities, Too, the Rich Grow Richer by Lawrence Wittner.
Graham Spanier, the president of Pennsylvania State University, received $2.9 million in salary for the 2011-2012 academic year, the year he was forced to resign in disgrace over the Penn State pedophile scandal. He is an example of how state universities reflect the U.S. trend to huge compensation packages for top executives, wage stagnation for middle-level workers and a growing number of low-paid temporary workers (adjuncts) at the bottom.
Why is the FBI helping a monstrous dictator? by Ted Rall.
A cartoonist and syndicated columnist asks why the FBI has arrested an opponent of Uzbekistan's corrupt and hated dictator, Islam Karimov, who has massacred his own people and literally boiled opponents alive. Karimov was so odious that the Bush administration severed relations, but the Obama administration restored the connection, because of Uzbekistan's strategic location and Karimov's help in prosecuting the war in Afghanistan.
Back in the 1980s, when I was a reporter for the Rochester (NY) Democrat and Chronicle, we had a managing editor who used the newsroom e-mail system to provoke discussion and bring the newsroom closer together as a group. One day he conducted a poll on whether we were pro-choice or pro-life. Some of us declined to answer, but of those who did, all (including me) were in favor of abortion rights, except for one person.
Did this raise questions about whether we could be balanced our coverage? Maybe it did, although we seemed to get the same number of complaints from the pro-choice and pro-life sides. To the extent this was a problem, I don't know what we could have done about it, except to try extra-hard to be fair to the side we didn't agree with. Nobody asked my opinion on this or any other controversial issue when I was interviewed for the job, and for obvious reasons I don't think newsrooms would benefit from affirmative action policies for conservatives.
Journalism is a field which attracts people with particular sets of values, as does medicine, law, teaching, police work, military service and entrepreneurial business, and these values affect your outlook. That's just how things are.
The reason I write about this subject today is that a lot of people evidently think that (1) the murder trial of abortion doctor Kermit Gosnell should have got more coverage than it did and (2) the reason it didn't is that journalists are biased in favor of abortion.
Based on my newspaper experience, I think you have to turn to Chaos Theory to explain why some events become national news and others are only local news. If bias caused the Gosnell case to be under-reporter, this bias affected the right-wing press such as Fox News and the Wall Street Journal as much as it did CNN and the Washington Post. In any case, it is front-page news now.
Watching this excellent docudrama about Edward R. Murrow's battle with Senator Joe McCarthy took me back, in imagination, to those days. In 1953 and 1954, when the events of this movie took place, I was a college student in Wisconsin. I listened faithfully to Edward R. Murrow's CBS radio news broadcasts, and admired his use of language—precise, strong, not a word wasted and his tone of voice full of majesterial disdain for liars and demagogues. I don't remember whether I viewed Murrow's CBS TV documentary on McCarthy when it was originally broadcast, but later, but I greatly admired it for the same reasons.
I watched it the other night on DVD at the home of my radical friend Larry, who pointed out that the time frame of the movie coincided with the CIA-sponsored coups against the elected governments of Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in 1954—both of which planted the seeds of the tragic histories of those two countries down to this day. I don't remember if Murrow ever did broadcasts on those two events. At the time they did not loom large in my consciousness. To the extent that I thought about them, I thought about them not as examples of American imperialism, but as episodes in the global struggle against totalitarian Communism.
My writings for the student newspaper were about academic freedom, which all educated, right-thinking people were for, and about racial discrimination, which all educated right-thinking people were against. I thought the danger to the Constitution and the Bill of Rights came from demagogues like McCarthy and the Southern segregationists. I did not think there was anything systemically wrong with the basic institutions of American society, nor did Edward R. Murrow.
It is only in the past 20 years, and especially the past 10 years, that I have begun to see that I was wrong, and radical friends such as Larry were right. U.S. government policies that I saw as byproducts of the struggle against Communism continued and grew stronger after the fall of Communism.
The movie depicts a program that Murrow did defending Milo Radulovich, an Air Force lieutenant who lost his commission on the grounds that he had been determined to be a security risk on the basis of secret information. He had been asked to sever ties with his immigrant father, who subscribed to a Serbian-language newspaper published on Communist Yugoslavia, and his sister, who allegedly was active in liberal and left-wing causes.
Today this seems almost quaint. The U.S. government now uses secret information to designate people for "targeted killing".
I think the Internet is potentially one of the greatest tools to promote human freedom and access to ideas and knowledge. I think it also is potentially one of the greatest tools of Big Brother for surveillance and censorship. For this reason I was particularly interested in the two-part series on the Cypherpunks on Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow program. The RT network recently released an uncut version of Assange's Cypherpunk interviews, which I also viewed with great interest.
The first part is more than an hour long and the second part is two hours long, and my guess is that most people who view this post won't have the time or the interest to watch them in their entirety. But I am posting them anyhow, for whoever might be interested, and also am linking to them in my Documentaries menu on the right.
The Cypherpunks are a loose movement whose goal is to promote individual privacy by providing encryption that would allow people to prevent unauthorized people, including government agents, from reading their private communication. Assange interviewed three notable Cypherpunks—Andy Muller-Maguhn of Germany, a member of the Chaos Computer Club, a hacker organization; Jeremie Zimmerman of France, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, which advocates for free circulation of knowledge on the Internet; and Jacob Appelbaum of the USA, an independent computer security researcher and a participant in the Tor project to create on-line anonymity systems.
They drew a frightening, but (I think) true, picture of the ability of governments to collect and record every electronic transaction by every individual—e-mails, credit card purchases, Google searches, bank deposits and withdrawals, telephone calls—while themselves operating behind a veil of secrecy.
Applebaum gave an example of a man indicted for posting information on the Internet in violation of a secret law whose text he was not allowed to see. The judge was allowed to see the law, and the man was acquitted, but presumably the loophole in the law was tightened up. I have to write "presumably" because there is no way to know.
Muller-Maguhn said that just as the invention of the printing press made everyone a potential reader, the creation of the Internet has made everyone a potential writer. Anyone, not just professional writers who are able to please professional editors, has the means of writing out what they think and know, and communicating it to the world. This is valuable and important, and it doesn't matter that only a little of the writing is of high quality.
These three, and Assange himself, are more libertarian than socialist. Assange said the three basic freedoms, from which all other freedoms flow, are (1) freedom to communicate, (2) freedom of movement and (3) freedom to engage in economic transactions, and the third may be the most fundamental. He may have been playing devil's advocate when he said the latter, but I don't think so.
I came across these videos on This Day in Wikileaks, a daily blog with daily news and commentary about Wikileaks, Julian Assange and Bradley Manning. I have put a link to it on my Links menu on the right.
I have put a link to Assange 'The World Tomorrow' —Cypherpunks uncut version, the Digital Journal version of the interviews, on my Documentaries menu on the right.
Click on Digital Journal: Cypherpunks Part 1 and Part 2 for the original 25-minute broadcasts.
Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow was broadcast by the RT (Russia Today) network. It was started by the Russian government for its own purposes, and for that reason should be regarded with skepticism, but it also provides information and ideas not available through the established U.S. TV networks. In the same way, the Voice of America is an agent of the U.S. government, but provides information to Russians they might not get from their domestic broadcasters. When I was younger, I never thought I would ever make this comparison, but times have changed.
When I was a newspaper reporter, I used to console myself with the thought that at least I had a job that could not be shipped overseas. This is no longer true. Some newspapers are outsourcing editing and even reporting of local news to countries such as India and the Philippines.
All this is made possible by the Internet. A lot of information is available on-line. You don't have to walk to city hall or the county courthouse to get it. You don't have to be in the same city to interview a local official by phone. Press releases are available on-line, and you can rewrite them as easily in one place as another. Some public meetings are televised and even available on YouTube; you don't have to be at the meeting to summarize what was said.
What is lost is the background knowledge that comes from living in a community, which enables you to understand the significance and context of what you report. But this is not quantifiable. For certain newspaper executives, particularly executives of newspaper chains who spend only a few years in each place, what counts is cutting and improving the next quarter's financial results. Longer-term consequences are somebody else's problem.
Click on Now They're Even Outsourcing "Local" Journalism for a report by Ryan Smith on Journatic and Blockshopper, two journalism outsourcing companies. He told how he worked for Journatic as a copy editor of articles written about local news in Chicago, Houston and other U.S. cities by far-distant reports in, among other places, the Philippines.
Click on Outsourcing Journalism for an older report on outsourcing local news editing and reporting to India.
Click on Journatic, Blockshopper and Mindworks Global Media Services for the home pages of three news outsourcing companies.
Click on Media Outsourcing and Journatic: Hate the Player, Not the Game for a defense of news outsourcing. The argument is that by giving up the low-end side of reporting, you free up reporters for higher-value activities..
Click on Clayton Christensen for the home page of the man who wrote the book on what happens when you give up on the basic "low-end" work.
Eli Pariser, former director of the online organization MoveOn, discovered a surprising and alarming thing about Google. When he does a Google search, the menu he sees on a give topic is different from the menu one of his friends would see. That is, Google has algorithms, based on his past Google searches and his demographic characteristics, that give him a unique menu based on what he is likely to be interested in. Facebook, too, deletes links from his Facebook page that its algorithms determine that he is not interested in. He found Facebook deleted links from his conservative friends because he clicked on them less often than links from his liberal friends.
The problem with this, he said, is that unless you proactively seek out diverse sources of information, you will wind up in a bubble in which everything you get through Google or Facebook will confirm what you already think you know. He wrote a book about this (which I haven't read) entitled The Filter Bubble:What the Internet Is Hiding From You.
What this means is that unless you proactively seek out diverse sources of information, you're not going to get diverse sources of information. That is a fixable problem. The more serious problem is the other uses that Google, Facebook and other Internet companies make of the data they come on us. By integrating seemingly minor bits of information from diverse sources, they can come up with a well-informed guess about what products you'll buy, your politics and religion and even your personal habits.
The problem with this is that (1) this information can be made available to credit reporting agencies, employers, the Department of Homeland Security and other organizations who will use it in ways adverse to your interests and (2) the information may not be accurate. Parisi in the TED video above says that if you drink milk rather than wine with your meals, and you frequent fast-food restaurants, demographers would say you're probably a political conservative. Well, I drink more milk than wine, and I greatly enjoy an Arby's roast beef sandwich, and I consider myself a political liberal.
Years ago I used to joke that the same software that Amazon uses to determine that "people like you liked the following books" could be used by the Department of Homeland Security to determine that "people like you committed acts of terrorism." I no longer think of this as a joke. President Obama and the Central Intelligence Agency use computer algorithms in drawing up kill lists of people in tribal areas of Yemen and Pakistan.
Click on A little bird tells me… from Making Light for a benign example of individuals using data mining.
Click on Bubble Trouble for an argument by Jacob Weisberg of Slate that Parisi exaggerates the problem. Weisberg had friends of different political beliefs do Google searches on highly charged political subjects, and found little difference in the results.
Click on Google Personalization for directions as to how to turn off the Google personalization feature.
Click on The Filter Bubble for Eli Pariser's web log.
Hat tip to Steve B. and Daniel B.
I think it is a good thing, and not a bad thing, that the killing of Trayvon Martin is a national news story. If it weren't, the whole case might have been brushed under the rug.
But George Zimmerman is entitled to a fair trial, in which he is presumed innocent until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. And both he and we, the people, are entitled to accurate news coverage, which we have not always got.
It would have been despicable of Spike Lee and Rev. Al Sharpton to publish George Zimmerman's address even if they hadn't published the wrong address and subjected an innocent person to harassment. It is wrong that Zimmerman has to go into hiding—although Trayvon Martin's family might say that this is better than being dead.
A criminal trial is not a good place to resolve complex social issues. Racial profiling is a serious problem, Florida's stand-your-ground law is a serious problem. But when George Zimmerman goes to trial, the only issue to be tried is whether the prosecution can prove he is guilty of second-degree murder.
Many legal experts doubt that there is a case for a second-degree murder conviction. Second-degree murder is an intentional but unplanned killing, or assault in which the death of the victim was a distinct possibility. They argue there would be a stronger case for a lesser charge, such as manslaughter or assault. Here in New York, there is a crime called "reckless endangerment." which might fit.
What I wanted to see in the case, and what I now do see, is for the law to treat the killing of a young man as a serious matter. I am willing to let a judge and jury decide whether Zimmerman has committed a crime or deserves to be punished. I just want him to be held accountable for what he did.
Click on The Zimmerman Case: Reactions for a roundup by The Agitator of lawyers' comments on the indictment.
Click on Altering the Zimmerman Tape for Ta-Nehisi Coates' comment on NBC's doctoring the tapes of Zimmerman's 911 call to make Zimmerman appear racially prejudiced.
Click on The Trayvon-Industrial Complex for a post about the exploitation of the Trayvon Martin killing by Rod Dreher of The American Conservative. The comment thread is well worth reading.
Click on Trayvon Martin Photos for Snopes.com's report on bogus photos of Trayvon Martin being circulated on the Internet by Zimmerman supporters. Click on Koch Plays George Zimmerman's Legal Fees? for Snopes.com's exposure of another false rumor. These may be just the tip of the iceberg of false information circulating in the Internet.
Ecuador's President Rafael Correa has closed the U.S. base in Ecuador and expelled the U.S. ambassador, while inviting Chinese investment. According to U.S. embassy cables published by WikiLeaks, he is the most popular president in Ecuador's history.
He survived a 2010 coup attempt. Interviewed on Julian Assange's The World Tomorrow program, he told Assange that the United States is the only country in the world not in danger of a military coup because it doesn't have a U.S. embassy. He said the U.S. embassy directly paid units of the Ecuadorian national police force, who reported to the U.S. ambassador and not to him.
He said he would welcome a U.S. base in Ecuador provided that Ecuador could establish a military base on Miami. And he said Ecuador is actively looking for investment by China, Russia and Brazil. If the United States depends on Chinese financing of its budget and trade deficit, he said, it can't be wrong for Ecuador to look for Chinese financing.
The most controversial thing he has done is his crackdown on the Ecuadorian press. When President Correa was elected in 2007, the government only operated on TV station. His administration seized two TV stations in 2008, and has sued various journalists for defamation of character. Journalist Emilio Palacio, along with three owners of his newspaper, El Universo, was sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay a $40 million fine early in 2011. Palacio fled the country and was last reported living in Miami.
This kind of thing is not unique to Ecuador. Venezuela's Hugo Chavez also has cracked down on the right-wing adversarial press in his country.
Correa defended his action to Julian Assange by saying that five of the seven newspapers in Ecuador are controlled by the big banks, and are working to undermine his administration. They don't tell the truth, he said; by arrangement, none of them published any of the U.S. embassy cables, revealed by WikiLeaks, that related to Ecuador.
Assange said the media companies in the United States, Britain and other countries are equally corrupt. The solution, he said, is to break up the big media companies and make it easier for independent voices to publish, not to use the power of government to suppress freedom of the press. I think he's right. I also think he could have been tougher in his interview on this issue.
I watch Assange's The World Tomorrow because he interviews Interesting people who would never appear on American network television. Assange is not an adversarial interviewer – more like Charlie Rose than the late Mike Wallace – and I sometimes have to do some follow-up to get the complete picture, as I did with this interview.
Click on Digital Journal for links to previous episodes and a summary of the latest episode.
Click on President versus the media in Ecuador for a critical Al Jazeera report on President Correa's struggle with the Ecuadorian press.


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Mate 1.1 Arrives
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First Gameplay Video of No Time To Stop. A short video showing some features of the game. Enjoy!
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First Gameplay Video of No Time To Stop!
Also animated cutscenes like Another World or FlashBack coming!
The first screen still need some details like shadow in the deactivated elevator, some lamp moving with intermitent light, some fly near the lamp and better light/shadows but well now you can have an idea of how will looks the game.
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