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Quote of the day – dumb politican edition, part II
Thank you for your service. Now hush up and go home Sen. McCain:
"Obviously that would be a serious mistake…at least until we find out as much information we have," McCain said during an appearance on "Imus in the Morning" when asked whether the suspect, 30-year-old Faisal Shahzad, a naturalized American citizen from Pakistan.
"Don't give this guy this Miranda rights until we find out what it's all about," McCain added.
Really? Is that the way it works now?
You may not like the law, Mr. McCain but that doesn't mean you can selectively apply it – the SCOTUS has been very clear about doing such things.
Of course, you have to remember, this is the same guy that was so concerned about campaign financing that he sponsored a law that trashed the 1st Amendment and then claimed he'd rather have clean elections than free speech.
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Editor and Publisher: "Sky isn't falling as fast as you might think; ignore chunks coming through ceiling around you"
The newspaper industry loves dramatic headlines. At least, until they're looking at their own problems. Then it's time to look for a silver lining, even if it's a pretty tarnished one. So here's the headline for the Editor and Publisher article that tells us that circulation for newspapers, which fell 10.6% last year, fell again this year by 8.6%:
Like Newspaper Revenue, Decline in Circ Shows Signs of Slowing
I guess the good news is that instead of plunging to oblivion immediately, they're merely on a rapid glide path towards it, with no noticable prospect of reversing course. For any other industry or trend (e.g. global warming), I'm guessing we would see somewhat more dramatic headlines.
Newspapers are high-volume businesses. As a whole lot of newspapers in medium-to-large cities discovered in the last twenty years, it isn't necessary to lose all, or even most, of your subscribers to become non-viable as a business. A certain reasonably sized subscriber base is required to sustain a large staff, a huge printing press facility, and a distribution network.
So how much more loss on top of the 20% in the last two years will it take for the major to start imploding? I don't know, but it's hard to see how they can tolerate more than four or five more years of that type of decline with anything like their current business model.
But they're determined to find good news:
And newspapers — including some that reported big declines in print paid circ — showed significant growth when print and online audiences are combined.
OK, but for any major newspaper that doesn't have "Wall Street" in its name, there's no direct revenue from online "circulation", and any advertising money from an on-line presence is a small fraction of the advertising revenue in print publication. Nobody except Google has figured out a way to turn online content into significant revenue, and it seems pretty unlikely that stodgy newspapers will be the ones to do it.
For those just tuning in, the basics for these guys are absolutely horrible. Traditionally, the biggest chunks of their print advertising revenue include:
– Classifieds
– Movie listings
– Automotive dealership ads
– Retail chain ads
Now lets take these one at a time. Classifieds have almost been destroyed by Craigslist. Teenagers would no more think of buying a newspaper to check movie listings than they would consider buying a leisure suit. Car sales are down, we don't know when they're coming back, and that entire industry is going through a re-structuring. Retail is in turmoil, as shown by the vaporization of Circuit City, Linens and Things, Media Play, S&K Menswear, and others.
It looks unlikely that any one of these four will get significantly better as revenue sources for newspapers. The top two are gone for good. I suppose the last two might stabilize if the economy improves, though I certainly would bet on merely slower declines instead of increases.
Newspapers also have the same problem as broadcast news programs: an aging customer base. Young people are shifting their reading habits away from print publications in general and newspapers in particular. This has been going on a while, and in the absence of all other factors presages a decline to irrelevance for print pubs.
That doesn't even touch on the ongoing drop in quality and increase in bias many of us see in newspapers. I used to occasionally actually put money in a rack for USA Today. No more. I see it in hotels a few times a year, and it's just awful. I'm considering stopping reading it even when it's free because it's just a waste of time.
It's interesting, in fact, to note that the only major newspaper with a small increase in circulation was the Wall Street Journal. I don't consider the WSJ to have gold-plated quality, but they at least try to do some in-depth work and not be totally blinded by their biases.
As a counterpoint, the very liberal San Francisco Chronicle has the largest percentage drop among the majors, down 22.68% in one year! Another year or two like this, and San Francisco will be left with no significant daily newspaper. That is, unless the Chronicle just does the same thing as the other majors in the Bay area and combines with the San Jose Mercury News:
There was a new kid in the top 10 as the San Jose Mercury News posted a weekday circulation of 516,701 by incorporating the Oakland Tribune and Contra Costa Times as editions of the Mercury News.
Our liberal friends often tell us we'll miss these institutions when they're gone, but as with climate alarmists and their huge houses, they don't back up what they say with their own actions.
For those of us who love to beat up the majors for incompetence and biased reporting, take note: indulge while you can. With numbers like these, who knows how long it will last.
Don't know if means anything, but HCR is dropping on Intrade
Over at Intrade the contract for passage of the healthcare reform bill has dropped from 84.7 to 77 in the last two hours.
Of course it took a steep dive a couple of days ago and recovered, so it might not mean anything. I guess we'll know in 36 hours.
*** Update 2:45 PM CST ***
Three hours later and it's back around where it started. I guess Pelosi got over whatever snag came up. Even though the counts don't show her with the votes yet, the people putting down money clearly think she's going to come up with them from somewhere.
Quote of the Day
From Lord Monckton, as he takes apart climate alarmists:
The fact is, they're crooks. That's what they really are. I call them the traffic light tendency. They call themselves green because they're too yellow to admit they're really Reds.
It's at about 8:25 in the video. But watch the whole thing, even though it's about half an hour. It's worth it if you want a no-holds-barred slamming of the climate Cassandras. Charts and graphs included, no extra charge.
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Social Conservative handwringing at the Corner
Kathryn Jean Lopez frets about legalization of marijuana at The Corner:
Do moms on the Right want legalization? And are their children a driving motivator?
Even if you believe there's a high chance that your teen will try or use pot, don't you hope he doesn't? And aren't there decent reasons for that? That may not be the final determinant on what your position on legalization is, but it is so … right?
I would hope that any freedom-oriented thinker would understand that "what I want my children to do" is a completely separate subject from "what I think should be legal".
No, I don't want my teens smoking pot. Or smoking cigarettes. Or drinking.
But I don't favor prohibition of alcohol. We tried that one. I don't favor prohibition of cigarettes either; I think it would be even worse. And both of those substances are arguably more addicitive and damaging than pot.
Using protection of our children to justify controlling the behavior of adults is anti-freedom. We all make fun of it when the left does it. It's no less silly when social conservatives do it.
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Oh, dear, I better get started on the FTC full disclosure stuff
The FTC says we bloggers are untrustworthy folks who might, *gasp*, try to influence people's opinions for nefarious reasons, and not divulge all the payoffs, bribes, "promotional samples", and other stuff we get that obviously drives us to be such unscrupulous shills. So I guess I better come clean about things for my prudent and judicious overlords at the FTC.
I was at Costco last week and they gave me a free sample of some cheese bread. I didn't like it much. But they also gave me a sample of some powdered Acai berry kool-aid type stuff, and it wasn't bad. Full disclosure: it was totally free. Just like samples at Costco always are, but I mention it just in case the FTC needs to know.
I got a new voter registration card, and I've been meaning to blog about this. See, we changed our land line to a mobile number, and that apparently triggers something at the election commission in Nashville to assume that we had moved away. So we had to fill out some forms telling them otherwise, and get a new card. But it was free, and I got it in the mail a couple of weeks ago. Do I have to divulge that the voter registration card was free when I talk about it? Better not take any chances.
I've discussed before how AT&T sucks toxic waste as a company. I have seen no improvement since I made that post. But I should disclose that they give me free stuff every month, according to items on my bill which have zero cost. Well, they say it's free, though my $150 bill suggests that I'm paying for it in there somewhere. My son just got a free phone from them, because his old one broke, but we had to sign a two-year contract extension to get it, so I'm not sure if that counts. I guess I should consult a lawyer who specialized in FTC rules. Anyway, AT&T sucks toxic waste, and I'm pretty sure I don't say that because they supposedly give me free stuff, but just in case I need to disclose any of this, I've now done so.
Do I have to disclose it again next month when I get my bill with the zero cost items? Guess I need to talk to my FTC law specialist on that one too.
I got a free brownie from my son last night. I was the best brownie I've ever eaten. Honest, and the fact that my son produced it or has nothing to do with that assessment. I think it's because he used half-and-half instead of water in the mix. Anyway, I got it for free, and I'm telling you it was great, so this is my disclosure about it.
Oh, I almost forgot the most important disclosure! Two weeks ago, a wild turkey was in my carport. He seemed to be enjoying himself, so I parked in the front yard and left him alone. He left behind this beautiful tail feather.
I put up a Twitter post about it, so I guess I need to disclose the tail feather because that influenced my decision to put something on the Internet about the turkey.
In conclusion, let me say that even though I have a very large turkey living in my back yard, I think the FTC bureaucrats who created this stupid disclosure rule are even bigger turkeys.
I am still allowed to say that, aren't I?
The Republicans are lost
I just watched a video in which House Republican Whip Eric Cantor appeared with one of his Democratic colleagues from Virginia to discuss healthcare. You can watch it here if you like.
Though I can tell you right now that there's not much point to it. It consists virtually 100% of empty, meaningless politician-speak from both congressmen. Despite some decent attempts on the part of the interviewer to get them to answer some tough questions, they both just dodged them and mumbled platitudes about "educating voters" and "the status quo is unsustainable".
Educating voters isn't going to do a damn thing. Voters are sick to death of Washington telling them what to do. Democrats in Congress (and many Republicans) insist that there be a mandate to buy health insurance, and I think they have vastly underestimated the pushback they are getting right now and how much worse it would be if they actually passed it. Any bill with a ghost of chance of passing also has new taxes and new spending, and voters are (1) not fooled by any shell games claiming otherwise, and (2) profoundly sick of both taxes and spending.
Saying "the status quo is unsustainable" is pointless because it says absolutely nothing about whether any of the current proposals would make the system any more sustainable. Given the $47 trillion Medicare and Social Security already has in liabilities, creating another entitlement to increase that amount looks like the silliest possible response.
I expected such empty blathering from the Democrat. Any Democratic member of Congress is caught right now between a hard-left leadership who want government control over when people go to the bathroom and the Blue Dogs who know they'll be looking for another job if any healthcare bill with a lot of government interference is passed. Not to mention a president who can't seem to make up his mind on what he's willing to settle for on healthcare, and whose only strategy is to flap his gums.
But have the Republicans learned nothing from 2006-2009? Has the Tea Party movement made no impact on them? Do they not sense the rising anti-government attitude in voters? Are they so incredibly clueless that they can't learn the lesson from Reagan's landslide and the 1994 takeover of Congress?
Look, you idiots: You can win big when you strongly advocate smaller government principles. When you don't, at best you tread water, and at worst you get your butts kicked.
Watching Cantor pour out the same old politician's blather was painful. Based on that one video, I never expect to support this guy for anything. And he's part of the GOP leadership, supposedly the best they've got. Well, if he's one of the best, they're still as lost as they were in 2006.
I see many signs that 2010 could be a landmark year. Two months ago, I summarized Obama's failings to that point, and since then he's racked up scandals with his czars, seen his buddies at ACORN exposed as the criminals many of us thought they were, and had his make-nice efforts toward Iran shown to be naive and pointless.
But absent any Republican leadership on a real change in direction, none of that will make a big difference. Oh, I think the Democrats will lose a fair number of seats in the House in any case, because of depressed turnout among Democrats in marginal districts. The Republicans may well pick up three or four Senate seats too. But without a clear message concerning their desire to trim the size, cost, and intrusiveness of government, they will gain no loyalty or long-term support from those people who have finally reached their agony threshold on big government.
They'll just drift for two years, using the same strategy that got the Democrats in the White House, which is to hope voters are so sick of the other side they will vote for a change, any change. And, of course, even if that works, they won't do anything about reducing the size and scope of government, hoping the whole debt mess doesn't finally reach critical mass on their watch.
With a clear message, I believe the GOP could do a rerun of 1994. But I don't know a single person among them capable of carrying the banner for that message. It sure as heck is *not* Eric Cantor.
Senate Votes To Defund ACORN
You may remember that in my last post about ACORN (about the Census Bureau ending its relations ship with ACORN) I ended it calling for a complete defunding of ACORN. I'm pleased to announce that the Senate has heard me.
OK, I know better, but I've always wanted to say something like that – there, I've got it out of my system. If they won't listen to a town full of tea partiers, I doubt they're listening to me.
My guess is the third pimp sting in NYC did ACORN in. It becomes much harder to claim the people telling the faux pimp and prostitute how to scam the loan industry and the IRS weren't trained to do so when they're the third group to do it.
The Senate voted Monday to block the Housing and Urban Development Department from giving grants to ACORN, a community organization under fire in several voter-registration fraud cases.
The 83-7 vote would deny housing and community grant funding to ACORN, which stands for the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now.
The action came as the group is suffering from bad publicity after a duo of conservative activists posing as a prostitute and her pimp released hidden-camera videos in which ACORN employees in Baltimore gave advice on house-buying and how to account on tax forms for the woman's income. Two other videos, aired frequently on media outlets such as the Fox News Channel, depict similar situations in ACORN offices in Brooklyn and Washington, D.C.
The Senate's move would mean that ACORN would not be able to win HUD grants for programs such as counseling low-income people on how to get mortgages and for fair housing education and outreach.
The 7 voting against were 6 Democrats and 1 Socialist:
* Dick Durbin (D-IL)
* Roland Burris (D-IL)
* Robert Casey (D-PA)
* Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)
* Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
* Bernie Sanders (I-VT)
* Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)
Apparently what ACORN has engaged in is all right with them.
I'm surprised, given the present atmosphere in DC that a real, honest to goodness bi-partisan vote could be made – but I guess the third video is a charm.
ACORN has sucked down 53 million tax payer dollars since 1994. My guess is they'll dissolve ACORN, wait a few months and then reinvent themselves as some new group named after a nut. And as an aside, I have to wonder if the IRS will now review the tax forms submitted with ACORN as the preparer – with the advice they were handing out in Baltimore, DC and NYC there may be enough in back taxes and penalties to pay for all the uninsured and save ourselves from Obamacare. The silver lining in all of this.
Oh who am I kidding – I'm dancing in the street over this bit of misfortune and, hopefully, the demise of one of the most corrupt taxpayer supported organizations out there.
So long ACORN.
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Quote of the day
From Noel at Cold Fury:
Paul Krugman said we would all embrace DMV-Care if only the president were a white man. You know, like Bill Clinton.
Well, since Hillary was running so much of it, I suppose Krugman might maintain that we were all being sexist back then.
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In this podcast, Bruce, Michael, and Dale discuss the meaning of the 4th of July, Honduras, and Sarah Palin's resignation.
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Cheesy Eggplant Slices
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|1 Medium, peeled and sliced 3/4 inch thick
|1⁄4 Cup (4 tbs), melted
|Crushed cheese crackers
|1⁄2 Cup (8 tbs) (Finely Crushed)
|Mozzarella cheese slice/Swiss cheese
|4 , cut in half diagonally
Tear off four 18x18-inch pieces of heavy-duty foil.
Sprinkle eggplant slices with salt and pepper.
Dip each eggplant slice into melted butter, then into crushed cheese crackers.
Place two slices of eggplant on each square of foil.
Wrap foil loosely around eggplant, sealing edges securely.
Grill packets over medium coals about 10 minutes.
Turn and grill till eggplant is done, 6 to 7 minutes more.
Open foil and top each eggplant slice with one cheese triangle.
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As Americans, we can react self-righteously. I've lost my cool in dozens of cafe debates with Muslim friends.
Nevertheless, looking far past 9/11 and into the next presidency, there are reasons for hope. Polling consistently shows Muslims' priorities mirror ours: family, economic opportunity and a political system they can participate in. It's just that today they see America as standing in the way of these values, rather than promoting them.
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- Luis Manriquez: A Reflection on Work with the Sound Alliance
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- Reveille for Radicals (1946). 2nd edition 1969, Vintage Books
Rules for Radicals: A Pragmatic Primer for Realistic Radicals(1971)
(1946). 2nd edition 1969, Vintage Books (1971) by Saul D. Alinsky
- Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice(Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003) by Ed Chambers
- Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement. Oxford University Press, 2009 by Marshall Ganz
- You Can't Be Neutral On A Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times (1994) by Howard Zinn
- Roots for Radicals: Organizing for Power, Action, and Justice.Continuum International Publishing Group, 2003 & The Power of Relational Action. ACTA Publications, 2009 by Ed Chambers
- Don't Think of an Elephant!: Know Your Values and Frame the Debate–The Essential Guide for Progressives (2001). Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 2004 by George Lakoff
- Organizing for Social Change: Midwest Academy Manual for Activists. The Forum Press, 2001 by Kim Bobo, Jackie Kendall, Steve Max
- Stir It Up: Lessons in Community Organizing and Advocacy byRinku Sen
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1.- There are 8 items to choose from:
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- Languages
- Kids
2.- Has 7 levels of difficulty:
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- Crazy
3.- Support horizontal and vertical orientation.
4.- Available in many languages (22):
English , Arabic , Catalan , Czech , German , Greek , Spanish , French , Hindi , Hungarian , Indonesian , Italian , Japanese , Korean , Dutch , Polish , Portuguese , Russian , Thai , Tagalog , Turkish and Chinese.
5.- Has two game modes:
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- Without help
Forget the pen and paper - You'll never run out of puzzles with WORD SEARCH PUZZLES!
Welcome to the best word search application for Android auto-generated letters:
1.- There are 7 topics to choose from:
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- Dictionary
2.- Has two game modes:
- Normal : This is unlimited time mode. You just need to find the all words listed.
- Blitz : 30 seconds with a 7-second add. You have 30 seconds at the beginning of game. Every word you found will give 7 extra seconds.
You need to find all words listed before running out of time. It is similar to chess blitz mode.
3.- Available in 14 languages:
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- German
- English
- Spanish
- Italian
- French
- Portuguese
- Dutch
- Norwegian
- Polish
- Russian
- Finnish
- Swedish
- Turkish
4.- Has 14 different leaderscores on Google Play Game Services.
Your scores will be saved into Google Play Game Service and you will be able to compare your scores with other players.
If you can not finish the game, do not worry, when you get back, you can choose to start a new game or continue the game as you left it.
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Escape the pattern of lines, find words in every possible way.
Play against the clock advancing levels or hobby training.
Can not find a word? You can use the power of lightning to reveal the word.
There are more than 18,000 words!
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Kids: Refresh your childhood memories with easy but hard to find words. E.g.: Animals, Birds, Fruits & Veggies and Cartoons.
Around the World: Discover most popular landmarks, cities and countries of the world from the grid.
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Music: Playing music is always fun. Find out the names of famous singers and their hit songs & music albums.
Personalities: World famous people who have changed history. Search their names inside the puzzle.
How to Play?
Your goal is to find all the hidden words inside the grid. Hidden words can be in any orientation- up, down, left, right, or diagonally. You can also get word puzzles in either direction, forward or backward, much to spin your head.
Word search
This is called "Word search" "Word find" "Word seek" "Word sleuth" "Mystery word" in the world.
The puzzles which can play by this application use everything's character on the board as the part of one of words.
Therefore the puzzles of this application aren't easy. When finding all words, you'd be able to feel the feeling of achievement very much.
* This is the simple design to reduce the battery consumption
* This is playable in 23 languages countries
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World's Biggest Word Search is designed to challenge the world record for the largest wordsearch puzzle ever published – and to offer over forty hours of engrossing gameplay in the process! We've produced a MAMMOTH puzzle, with 5,000 words hidden in a grid of over 60,000 letters. The puzzle is hand-crafted with over 350 carefully selected and edited themes and many secrets and challenges to discover. Can you unravel the Secret Message, and collect all of the Trophies?
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- Word lists with foreign words
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- Note Paper
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- Sports
- Football Players
- Music & Instruments
- Flowers
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- Transport
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- Weather
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- German words
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Support Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Word Search Tab
Want a challenge? Try the timed word search game play option that pits you against the clock. See if you can find all the words in less than 60 seconds. Each word found gives you more time on the clock.
3 different puzzle sizes available, along with 3 different word list sizes, are available in the game.
Customize the game's background and text colors.
Optimized for tablets running the Honeycomb version of Android.
-65,000+ word bank
-3 different word list sizes
-3 different puzzle sizes
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Word Search
There are games that never die and are always appreciated by people of all ages. Word search games are among these. They are quite old, but over the course of the years they have modified themselves in a way that makes them attractive even today. First, there was the magazines and newspaper word search puzzle. Then, we stepped into a new age: one where everything happens online, on the computer and/or on our mobile devices as well.
Our word search puzzle is a great and fun activity for the entire family. We have focused our app primarily on word searches for kids, but we are more than certain that you will enjoy them as an adult too!
Why Are They Good for Your Kid?
Word games are great from many points of view:
• First and foremost, they are great at building vocabulary for kids as they don't simply make them learn words by heart. When a kid is challenged to do something, it is more likely that he/she will remember it in a natural way – rather than simply memorize it and forget it soon.
• Secondly, a word search puzzle game is great because it is fun for a kid to play around and search for words. This is the kind of fun game for kids that brings together entertainment and education at the same time – and it is really the best kind of game for a child to play!
• Word search puzzles can also help your kid develop his/her ability to notice things faster. While this may be just a game, this skill will be useful in the future as well, as your child goes through primary education, secondary education and even later on in college too.
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Detroit Lions DE Cliff Avril mentioned that he would like to re-sign with the team during the offseason. "I would definitely love to be back here," Avril said, per Anwar S. Richardson. "I've been in this locker for five years now. I would definitely like to stay here." It is interesting because Avril turned down a three-year deal worth $30 million that included $20 million guaranteed last offseason, which forced the team to apply their franchise tag to him. Avril is still just 26 years old and plays a premium position, so his decision to turn down that contract could ultimately payoff for him this offseason. It seems highly unlikely that Avril would turn down a contract extension and then opt to give the Lions a hometown discount the following year, so Detroit will have to offer him a competitive deal or being willing to pay an additional 20% on top of the franchise total to re-tag him. We have Avril listed as the No. 12 best available free player in Top 50 Free Agents list. The post Lions DE Cliff Avril Hopes To Re-Sign With The Team appeared first on NFL Trade Rumors -.
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Hisahiro Hayashi, Fujisawa JP
|Patent application number
|RECORDING/REPRODUCING SYSTEM AND SERVER - If a fault, or deterioration in read-out quality, is detected during recording processing with respect to a first recording face, a duplication is made, with respect to the recorded data on the second recording face of the same recording medium, on a separate recording medium.
|ARCHIVE SYSTEM AND PROCESSING METHOD - In a RAID group using a plurality of recording media readable and writable on both sides, a data configuration such that data on front sides of other disks may be held on back sides of respective double-sided disks is formed and managed, and data for restoration is created from readout data of other data disks than that with failure.
Hisahiro Hayashi, Chigasaki JP
|Patent application number
|RECORDING AND/OR REPRODUCING APPARATUS - A recording and/or reproducing apparatus includes a plurality of devices in which a first device has a connecting unit connected with a host device to perform a data transfer with the host device, a second device shares a temporarily recording area with the first device to perform the data transfer between the first and second devices via the temporarily recording area, and the data transfer is performed by using the temporarily recording area shared with the first device and using the connecting unit of the first device when the second device performs the data transfer with the host device, in this way, a power consumption is reduced.
Hisahiro Hayashi, Yamato JP
|Patent application number
|RECORDING/REPRODUCING DEVICE - The present invention relates to a recording/reproducing device that records data on a double-sided recordable optical disk for storage and management purposes. The device includes a unit which stores a plurality of optical disks, a unit which records data onto and reproduces data from an upper side of an optical disk, a unit which records data onto and reproduces data from a lower side of an optical disk, a unit which conveys an optical disk between the disk storage unit and each recording/reproducing unit. When a request for reading data recorded on the lower side of the disk is received while the upper side is being written onto, a control unit interrupts a data recording process on the upper side, reproduces data recorded on the lower side, and after completion of reproducing the recorded data, resumes the interrupted data recording process.
Hisahiro Ishida, Saitama-Shi JP
|Patent application number
|NETWORK SYSTEM AND DATA TRANSFER METHOD - The network system of the present invention is comprises lower segments constituted in each of a plurality of organizations, floors, offices, and an upper segment that connects the lower segments together. The network system comprises an improved L2 switch that is installed in each lower segment and has a function to transmit a frame, which is transmitted from other network devices of each lower segment to the improved L2 switch itself to a center device that is installed in upper segment; and the center device that is individually connected to the improved L2 switch and controls the data communication of the frame between the improved L2 switches. According to the present invention, a network system; wherein data communication can be performed easily between the lower segments, and an ideal data transfer system which can be prepared optionally by changing the center device characteristics when necessary, can be offered.
Hisahiro Ishihara, Suwa-Gun, Nagano JP
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|LENS DRIVE DEVICE - The lens drive device is equipped with a first supporting body that holds the lens and is movable in the direction of the optical axis, a second supporting body that holds the first supporting body, a fixed body that holds the second supporting body in a manner enabling movement in directions that are roughly orthogonal to the optical axis direction, a first drive mechanism for driving the first supporting body, a second drive mechanism for driving the second supporting body in a first direction, and a third drive mechanism for driving the second supporting body in a second direction. The first supporting body is supported by the second supporting body by means of first supporting members (
Hisahiro Ito, Minowa-Machi JP
|Patent application number
|DATA COLLECTION SYSTEM AND WIRELESS TAG - A data collection system includes: a plurality of wireless tags; and a data collection device that performs time-division multiplexing communication with the plurality of wireless tags, the wireless tag including a tag-side transmission unit that transmits a signal in a frequency band higher than the LF band to the data collection device, a tag-side reception unit that receives an LF signal transmitted from the data collection device, a timer that performs time measurement, and a storage that stores information.
Hisahiro Ito, Minowa JP
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|VARIABLE CAPACITANCE CIRCUIT, OSCILLATOR CIRCUIT, VIBRATORY DEVICE, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, MOVING OBJECT, AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING VIBRATORY DEVICE - A variable capacitance circuit includes a plurality of variable capacitance elements (varicaps) each having the capacitance value controlled in accordance with the inter-terminal voltage applied between the terminals of the variable capacitance element and connected in parallel to each other, has the combined capacitance value of the plurality of variable capacitance elements variable taking a predetermined capacitance value as a base, sets the inter-terminal voltage of at least one of the plurality of variable capacitance elements to a first voltage as a variable voltage, and sets the inter-terminal voltage of the rest of the plurality of variable capacitance elements to a second voltage as a stationary voltage.
|CIRCUIT DEVICE, OSCILLATOR, ELECTRONIC APPARATUS, AND MOVING OBJECT - A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit that includes a variable capacitance circuit and performs an operation of oscillating an oscillation element; and a control unit. The variable capacitance circuit includes a plurality of variable capacitance elements. When an operation mode is a first operation mode, the control unit supplies applied voltages in which at least one thereof is a variable voltage to the plurality of variable capacitance elements, and when the operation mode is a second operation mode, the control unit supplies applied voltages which are all fixed voltages to the plurality of variable capacitance elements.
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|Disc Drive - There is provided a disc drive by which the fluid loss of a disc is reduced and the electric power consumption of a spindle motor can be decreased. In the disc drive according to the present invention, a rotation load reducing member is provided between a top cover and the disc. The rotation load reducing member is movably supported by a clearance adjustment member. While the disc is rotating, the rotation load reducing member is moved in the direction approaching the disc. Thereby, the thickness of an air layer on the upper surface of the disc is decreased.
|OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus capable of being thinned and lightened while ensuring a mechanical strength and a stiffness, and also capable of restraining sticking of an FPC and reducing the sliding resistance of the FPC, comprises a frame, a motor arranged in the frame, for rotating an optical disc loaded in the optical disc apparatus, an optical pickup arranged in the frame so as to be movable in a radial direction of the optical disc, for carrying out at least one of recording and reproduction of signals onto and from a data recording surface of the loaded optical disc, an FPC arranged in the frame, for connecting between the optical pickup and a circuit board, and a unit cover for covering the frame on the mounting surface side of the optical disc, the unit cover having a first zone including an area made into contact with the FPC, and second zones projected toward the mounting surface side of the optical disc from the first zone and located on opposite sides of the first zone so as to interpose a part of the area made into contact with the FPC.
|OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - An optical disc apparatus including first to fourth disc guides. At the end of disc loading, the first one, in a fixed position, contacts a peripheral side face of the optical disc at a first point thereon to support the disc; the second one has a plane opposite to the peripheral side face which contacts the peripheral side face of the optical disc at a second point to support the disc while restrained from moving away from the side face; the third one contacts the peripheral side face of the optical disc at a third point to support the disc while biased by a spring; and the fourth one contacts the side face at a fourth point while biased by a spring to support the disc, and is restrained from moving against the resilience of the spring. The disc, supported by those disc guides, is chucked by a clamper.
|OPTICAL DISK DEVICE - An optical disk device in which the thickness of the device is not increased, and interference between the bottom surface of an optical pickup unit (OPU) and a bottom case of the device is prevented upon emergency ejection of an optical disk without moving the optical pickup unit to an outermost peripheral position of the disk in the event of abnormality such as power shutdown during an operation in the optical disk device. A support mechanism having a coil spring is provided at shaft-holders in three of four positions of a guide main shaft and a guide sub shaft to support an OPU, to perform skew adjustment. In another position, a support mechanism having a plate spring is provided such that, upon emergency ejection, the interference between the bottom surface of the OPU and the bottom case is mitigated.
|OPTICAL DISK APPARATUS - The present invention provides an optical disk apparatus which allows for accurate centering of an optical disk regardless of its placed attitude and in which reliability of chucking operation has been improved, and the apparatus includes a first disk guide
|OPTICAL DISC APPARATUS - The invention makes it possible to carry out an emergency eject motion without attaching and detaching teeth between gears in a transmission system of a driving force of a loading motor, in an optical disc apparatus. At least one of gear units in a gear train constructing a transmission system between a loading motor and a disc moving mechanism is structured such that a driving gear is coupled in an inner diameter side of a large diameter driven gear in such a manner as to be movable in an axial direction and be rotatable integrally with the driven gear, and the driving gear moves and displaces in an axial direction with respect to the driven gear, thereby being canceled the coupling with the driven gear while keeping an engagement with a gear in the next stage, canceling the coupling by an external force by a manual operation so as to set the transmission system to a disconnection state at a time of an emergency eject, making the disc moving mechanism carry out a disc discharge motion by the external force, and discharging an optical disc out of the apparatus.
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|CERAMIDE DISPERSION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The present invention provides a ceramide dispersion which includes (1) ceramide-containing particles which contains a ceramide, which are dispersed in an aqueous phase as an oil-phase component, and which have a volume average particle diameter from 1 nm to 100 nm; and (2) a fatty acid component which is at least one of a fatty acid having a melting temperature not higher than 30° C. or a fatty acid salt; the amount of nonionic surfactant being 0 or not more than 0.1 times the total mass of the ceramide; the amount of an ionic surfactant other than the fatty acid component being 0 or less than 0.05 times the total mass of the ceramide; and the pH being from 6 to 8.
|CERAMIDE DISPERSION AND METHOD FOR PRODUCING SAME - The present invention provides a ceramide dispersion which includes (1) ceramide-containing particles which contain a ceramide, which are dispersed in an aqueous phase as an oil-phase component and which have a volume average particle diameter from 1 nm to 100 nm, (2) a fatty acid component which is at least one of a fatty acid and a fatty acid salt, (3) a polyhydric alcohol in an amount from 5 to 20 times larger than an amount of the ceramide and (4) a polysaccharide fatty acid ester; and in which the pH is from 6 to 8.
|DISPERSION COMPOSITION AND METHOD FOR MANUFACTURING DISPERSION COMPOSITION - The present invention provides: a dispersion composition including a poorly water-soluble polyphenol compound, an emulsifier including a sucrose fatty acid ester, and a water-soluble polymer, in which a content of a polyglycerin fatty acid ester in the composition is 0, or 0.1 or fewer times a total mass of the sucrose fatty acid ester in the composition, and a particle size of the dispersed particles including the poorly water-soluble polyphenol is 200 nm or smaller; and a method for manufacturing the dispersion composition, the method including an oil phase preparation process in which an oil phase is prepared by dissolving one or more oil phase components including the poorly water-soluble polyphenol in a good solvent for the poorly water-soluble polyphenol compound, and a mixing process in which the obtained oil phase and a phase of a poor solvent for the poorly water-soluble polyphenol compound are mixed to obtain the dispersion composition which includes the poorly water-soluble polyphenol compound and includes dispersed particles having an average volume particle size of 200 nm or smaller.
|WATER-BASED COSMETIC AND MANUFACTURING METHOD THEREOF - A water-based cosmetic that includes: (A) ceramidic compound-containing particles that include a ceramidic compound and that are dispersed as an oil phase in an aqueous phase; (B) a fatty acid component composed of at least one selected from the group consisting of fatty acids and fatty acid salts; and (C) a polyhydric alcohol component that includes a first polyhydric alcohol having an IOB of 2.2 or more and a total content in the composition of from 3% by mass to 20% by mass, and a second polyhydric alcohol having an IOB of 2.0 or less and a total content in the composition of 0% by mass or not more than 3% by mass, wherein a total content of surfactant in the composition is 0% by mass or not more than 1% by mass, and a total mass of ceramidic compound in the composition is at least 3.0 times a total mass of the fatty acid component in the composition.
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Lucullus: A LifeHardback International Library of Sociology (Paperback)
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This is the first biography in English of Lucullus, one of Rome's greatest soldiers, traditionally considered a degenerate. Paring back the legends and misconceptions surrounding his name, the book examines Lucullus as a soldier, politician and aesthete. Inheritor of the ideals of his friend Sulla, his career spans the last years of the Roman republic when it was governed under the constitution the dictator had devised. Through the eyes of Lucullus, the failure of that constitution is depicted.
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The foreclosure process in Texas can be done either through the judicial or non-judicial process. The process typically moves rather quickly in Texas compared to most other states. You can lose you home in as little as two months from the time you stop making your monthly payments.
Below is a brief definition of the judicial and non judicial foreclosure process:
The judicial foreclosure process will involve your mortgage lender filing a lawsuit in court in order to foreclose on the defaulting property. For the lender to obtain this court action to begin the foreclosure, they must first prove that you are in default on your loan.
This way of foreclosure is done when there is no power of sale present in the original loan documents. Your home will be sold court order to the person who bids the most at the auction sale.
Since this foreclosure moves through court proceedings in some cases it may take longer to foreclose then the non-judicial way. This may benefit you in finding a solution to saving your home before the house is sold.
This way of foreclosure is used when there is a power of sale present in mortgage or deed of trust. When your loan docs are originally signed, you as the borrower preauthorize your lender to sale your home in order to pay off the mortgage's remaining balance. The actual sale of your home is either done by your lender or the Trustee (typically title company).
Below is three steps that must be followed during the Texas foreclosure process:
- Before you mortgage lender can begin the foreclosure, they are required to file with the county clerk a foreclosure notice at least twenty-one days prior to the actual sale. They must also mail a copy of this demand letter to the homeowner as well twenty-one days before the sale.
- The actual day of the foreclosure must take place on the first Tuesday of the month between 10:00AM and 4:00PM. Even if the Tuesday is a legal holiday the sale will still proceed.
- The property will then be sold to the highest bidder at the auction sale. There is no right of redemption in the state of Texas.
So remember regardless if the sale takes place through the judicial or non-judicial process, you may not have too much time to get your situation resolved if you begin to default on your payments.


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The Visual Arts Building was teeming with talented high school student artists and their families on Nov. 20 as they celebrated having their work included in the recent IPFW High School Art and Design Competition and Exhibition. Seven cash awards and six honorable mentions were presented in Auer Performance Hall at 6 p.m., including Best in Show, chosen by Sachi Yanari-Rizzo, Fort Wayne Museum of Art curator of prints and drawings. The awards were followed by an open house featuring studio and lab demonstrations, along with viewing the artwork.
Designed as a recruiting initiative to identify promising high school art students and connect them with IPFW, 1,700 high schools and individual art teachers in Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan were invited to compete. One hundred forty-three students entered for Fine Arts and 102 students for Visual Communication and Design, with more than 700 individual pieces of art submitted. Selected works will be exhibited through Dec. 14, 2014, in the Visual Arts Gallery.
Fine Arts Winners
First Place - $200
Renee Malomboza, Jefferson High School
Blue Daisies, oil on canvas
Second Place - $150
Aaliyah Miller, Carroll High School
Forbidden, wood sculpture
Third Place - $100
Savannah Swan, Mississinewa High School
Vagabond, oil on canvas
Honorable Mention
Rebecca Clay, Northrop High School
Music of the Heart, jewelry making
Honorable Mention
Lauren Haag, William Henry Harrison High School
Home of the Brave, soft pastel
Honorable Mention
Lillian Sprinkle, Huntington North High School
Love Affair, altered book/mixed media
Visual Communication and Design Winners
VCD First Place - $200
Taylor Terrell, Carroll High School
Twisted, photography
VCD Second Place - $150
Miranda Reagan, Jefferson High School
Convinced I'm Coming Clean, digital photography
VCD Third Place - $100
Erin Zehr, Carroll High School
Alzheimer's: A Timeline, darkroom photography
VCD Honorable Mention
Madeline Barry, Bishop Dwenger High School
Generations, photography
VCD Honorable Mention
Joseph David Horn, Chesterton High School
Hagia Sophia-Church of Holy Wisdom, drawn on Autocad-3D Print
VCD Honorable Mention
Audrey Ottenweller, Carroll High School
Soiled, photography
Best in Show - $500
Emily Vandervate, Jefferson High School
Saving Grace, inkjet print
Fort Wayne Museum of Art's Sachi Yanari-Rizzo had the following remarks regarding the exhibition and the quality of work presented by the students, "I am always impressed with the technical skill and craftsmanship as well as the diverse ideas that high school students dare to create these days. It was a challenge to single out an overall award winner because the quality of the work was so high. I responded to pieces that possessed technical skillfulness, strong composition and compelling content and imagery."
"However, the work that kept drawing me back was Emily Vandervate's inkjet print entitled Saving Grace which seemed to possess a spiritual quality. Intimate in scale, the subject is of a young woman—ironically a child herself—cradling a young child. Wax on the surface created a more diffused effect, but reminded me of old Christian cathedrals. In this pose, particularly with the tender reaching gesture of the young child, it called to my mind a reference to Madonna and Child paintings."
The event committee included Mikhael Antone, assistant professor of imaging and photography; Suining Ding, associate professor of interior design; Susan Domer, marketing and public relations specialist; James Gabbard, continuing lecturer in photography; Christopher Ganz, associate professor of drawing and printmaking; and Dana Goodman, professor of sculpture.
The College of Visual and Performing Arts has reached a milestone moment, having received notification in November of their first ever associate level membership accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design (NASAD). Now all of the departments in the College of Visual and Performing Arts are fully accredited by their respective national organizations, continuing to offer students the same academic rigor and artistic opportunities available at more than 300 accredited colleges and universities across the nation.
The IPFW NASAD steering committee was responsible for preparing a 300-page self-study and hundreds of examples of student work for review. The self-study and site visit resulted in full accreditation through 2020.
The driving forces behind this effort are VPA Dean John O'Connell; John Hrehov, chair of Fine Arts; Haig David-West, chair of Visual Communication and Design (VCD); Suining Ding, associate professor of interior design and coordinator of the Interior Design Program, and the faculty and staff in the Departments of Fine Arts and Visual Communication and Design.
The following programs have been accredited by NASAD:
Bachelor of Arts – 4 years: Fine Art, Art Education
Bachelor of Science – 4 years: Interior Design
Bachelor of Fine Arts – 4 years: Art (Ceramics, Drawing, Metalsmithing, Painting, Printmaking, Sculpture);
Visual Communication and Design (Graphic Design, Imaging and Photography, Modeling and Animation)
The Interior Design program at IPFW has found a new home and has enhanced resources for students studying in this exciting area of design. During the recent NASAD accreditation process administrators learned that Interior Design would need to be accredited in the process along with Fine Arts and Visual Communication and Design. "At that point we realized that the most appropriate college for the Interior Design program to be affiliated with was the College of Visual and Performing Art," said Dean John O'Connell.
VPA administrators, along with Manufacturing and Construction Engineering Technology and the Office of the Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs, worked to make the transition possible in July 2014. The program is now part of the Department of Visual Communication and Design (VCD), chaired by Professor Haig David-West.
"I've always held the position that Interior Design is a cognate discipline to VCD," said David-West. "I consider the migration of Interior Design into VCD a logical one. In addition to increasing our student enrollment, the Interior Design program brings with it faculty with impressive academic and professional credentials to improve VCD's intellectual diversity."
The program has new office and classroom space beginning spring 2015 dedicated to Interior Design in the Modular Classroom Building on the north end of main campus that will house 25 new computers in the computer lab as well as the materials library.
"We are thrilled to be part of the College of Visual and Performing Arts," said Suining Ding, associate professor of interior design and coordinator of the Interior Design program. "With the new computer lab, we will be in close proximity to the other college departments where students will have access to required drawing and design classes, making their educational experience more enriched by connecting them with more student artists."
The IPFW Fine Arts and Visual Communication and Design faculty were featured in an exhibition at Indiana University East's new fine arts gallery, Room 912, located in downtown Richmond, Ind. The exhibition, Regional Impact: Faculty Work from the IU Regional Campuses ran from January 31 – March 7, 2014, and also included faculty members from IU East in Richmond, IU Kokomo, IUN in Gary, IUSB in South Bend, and IUSE in New Albany.
IPFW faculty featured in this exhibition included John Hrehov, Nancy McCroskey-Hrehov, Derek Decker, Brandon Furness, Robert F. Schroeder, Audrey Ushenko, Jim Gabbard, Christopher Ganz, Dana Goodman, Sara Nordling, James Jur, Gretchen Kunberger, Mikhael Antone and Andres Montenegro.
Robert F. Schroeder, professional curator and associate faculty in metalsmithing, traveled to Richmond to see the gallery and exhibition, which includes his work. "The gallery is in a double wide former retail store front on Main Street in downtown Richmond, and community outreach is the main focus of the gallery's use of this space. They are teaching several extension adult art classes in the space, collaborating with the Richmond Art Museum and other local arts organizations," said Schroeder.
Schroeder went on to say, "The University has prepared the walls of the gallery to support framed art works and be repaired easily for rotating exhibitions and changing the art works displayed. They installed track lighting and have movable walls to change the configuration of the floor plan, giving them flexibility for hosting smaller as well as a bit larger exhibitions."
This event is the first event at IU East's new downtown gallery and it is hoped the exhibit will help increase accessibility to the arts and help educate the public about the importance of the arts, while improving the quality of life in the area. In speaking of the gallery, Katherine Frank, dean of Humanities and Social Sciences at IU East, believes that having students and faculty contribute to and experience this process will strengthen teaching and learning in Richmond and help rejuvenate the city.
Brooke Francesi ('09, BFA, graphic design) has been living and working in San Francisco while attending California College of the Arts (CCA). Francesi is currently an associate creative director of B'stro, a creative agency focusing on quality design, speed of execution and strong working relationships between their agency and its clientele. Francesi recently participated in an exhibit at the California Academy of Sciences (CAS), a world-class museum.
Each Thursday, CAS presents an exhibit titled Nightlife. Open to the public, the Thursday night event has become hugely successful, drawing an eclectic over-21 crowd. Nightlife is known to present energetic and imaginative displays featuring multi-media designs and interactive experiences. Recently students from CCA were invited to participate in an exhibit at CAS focusing on the concept of metamorphosis.
Francesi, along with two cohorts from CCA's MFA design program designed and built a life-sized inflatable elephant that became the centerpiece for other interactive installations in the museum's African Hall. Francesi also created a game featuring animal riddles. Guests were encouraged to hold the riddles they were given under a black light to reveal the answer. The event was a huge success, receiving coverage in the Huffington Post. For more information on Francesi, the California Academy of Science or California College of the Arts visit http://bstro.com/2013/11/15/california-academy-sciences-nightlife-exhibition-features-creative-bstro-associate-creative-director-brooke-francesi/.
The work of Mikhael Antone, assistant professor of imaging and photography, is featured in an exhibit entitled Mainland at Kiernan Gallery from January 2 - February 1, 2014. Based in Lexington, West Virginia, Kiernan Gallery is displaying the juried landscape photographs in-house and online. They are featuring the work of 25 photographers in the gallery space and another 34 in the online gallery. The works were adjudicated by Stella Kramer, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photo editor who has worked at The New York Times, People, Sports Illustrated, Newsweek, Entertainment Weekly and other top magazines.
Antone relates to landscape as having a sense of place. "This show is about landscapes," said Antone. "I have found myself seeing the landscape in a different way and when I went back to my home town, I was seeing it in a totally different light. The description of landscape on the Kiernan Gallery's call for entries (for this exhibit) was different than the way most people talk about landscapes. When I read it I immediately thought of my recent work."
For Mainland, Kiernan Gallery looked for photographs that examined a wide variety of climate, topography, and development on our planet. The gallery describes the genre of landscape photography as being "as varied as the earth itself…From mountains to coastlines, desert to tundra, our relationship with the land is complex and personal."
In addition to her work at IPFW, Antone is a filmmaker and visual artist. Born and raised in Rhode Island she finds her work opening in a new direction, as she sees familiar landscapes in a new way.
To learn more about Mainland or the Kiernan Gallery, visit http://kiernangallery.com. To learn more about the work of Mikhael Antone, visit http://mikhaelantone.com
After more than two years of work, Cerulean is set to premiere at the Fort Wayne Cinema Center on Friday, August 9 at 8:15 p.m. Visual Communication and Design Visiting Instructor Allen Etter and his students have lived with Cerulean as their constant companion throughout the lengthy directing, filming and editing process and they are excited for the region to see the results of their hard work and diligence.
Cerulean, a student driven independent film about a group of people stranded on an increasingly hostile world, is set far off in the future. When a power struggle erupts between the five, violence and death soon follow. Unbeknownst to them, a sixth individual is on the planet, keeping close watch on their actions.
The students filmed on location on the IPFW campus, Franke Park in Fort Wayne, Bluffton, Indiana and Ireland. They also were responsible for acting, camera work, computer graphic effects, stunt coordination, color balancing, soundtrack and second unit directing. IPFW students and alumni who performed in the project were Maggie Dye, Josh Adams, Luke Hathaway, James Baker, Debbie Ngo and Allegra White. A complete list of the crew is in their web site. They will be entering the film in a number of national film festivals including the Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, which features films, screenplays and music videos.
In April, students from IPFW Visual Communication and Design (VCD) won $1,000 for their department by designing and presenting their campaign for a new logo and promotional materials for the Three Rivers Festival (TRF) at the downtown Allen County Library. Faculty advisor and continuing lecturer John Motz helped the VCD students prepare for the design competition that included teams from the University of Saint Francis, Indiana Tech and Ivy Tech. "Through strong research, excellent design and a professional-quality presentation by the students we won the competition and secured the $1,000 prize," explained Motz.
The PITCH, an event devised and sponsored by the American Advertising Federation of Fort Wayne (Fort Wayne AdFed), was a competition for area university graphic design students to create a marketing plan, new artwork and communication tools for the Fort Wayne Three Rivers Festival 2013. Students had to pitch their concepts to local ad agency executives and Jack Hammer, executive director of TRF, in an attempt to win the prize money.
The PITCH was designed to provide an opportunity for university students to work with actual clients in the community, helping them enhance essential skills to take with them into their future careers. Fort Wayne AdFed members who organized this event included Megan Tiffany ('10), a VCD alumna and email designer with Vera Bradley, and Michael Limmer, vice president of marketing, Fort Wayne TinCaps. The event was such a great success they already are making plans for next year. "I was blown away by the local talent from our students and their sheer enthusiasm in their presentations," explained Tiffany. "All schools talked about 'next year' and how great the experience was."
Fort Wayne AdFed directors already have begun planning for next year's PITCH competition and plan to prepare the students for another great experience. To learn more about Fort Wayne AdFed visit http://www.adfedfortwayne.org/
In May, Visual Communication and Design (VCD) alum Gregor Roth ('11) received his M.F.A. in Studio Arts from Maine College of Art (MECA) in Portland, Maine. The 2013 M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition of the graduates' work is on display at the Institute of Contemporary Art at MECA from May 14 through June 12. Roth has served as adjunct faculty in VCD while working on his advanced degree. MECA offers a low-residency M.F.A. in Studio Art, among the first of its kind in the nation.
Roth's project abstract explains his view that typically art viewership is a static process where one stands in front of the image, gazing and studying, never merging in a real and natural manner with the artwork, rarely making more than a short-term emotional connection. In Roth's site-specific thesis installation, string and yarn act as line and are used to draw in space to construct the illusion of structure. Roth asks the viewer to engage in a more intuitive and visceral interpretation of space by forming a third environment, encouraging the viewer to merge physically and emotionally in the work, altering his perceptions of space and time. Roth's work has been well-received and contemporary performance groups are interested in exploring more about his visceral interpretation of space.
Petrovsky is a character created by Andres Montenegro.
The Little Quest of Petrovsky, an animated short by Andres Montenegro, has been accepted to compete in the International Animation Film Market's Annecy International Film Festival in Annecy, France, June 10-15, 2013. The film will be competing in the animated short film category and Montenegro, IPFW assistant professor of modeling and animation in the Department of Visual Communication and Design, has been selected for a residency award.
Created in 1960, the competition categories include short films, long films, student films and films made for television, advertising and the internet. Festival partners include Adobe, Arte France and Walt Disney Studios. The festival's creative focus is an incubator for projects and an ideal forum for animation professionals and the talents of tomorrow.
"Annecy is a uniquely important event in our annual calendar, because it combines the world's leading animation festival with a market dedicated to animation," explains Disney, a festival partner, on Annecy's web site. "Similarly, the creative focus provides an important intersection between art and commerce in which a diverse cross-section of international talent can take their first shot at pitching new ideas to the market."
Montenegro has based his cinematic narrative on the paintings of French painter and stage designer Balthasar Klossowski de Rola (Balthus), who is noted for his carefully constructed figures. Montenegro's central character, Petrovsky, is a lonely character concerned about his future and worried about how to navigate the emotional landscape of middle age. Alone and frustrated, Petrovsky recently has been dismissed from the WWII Asia-South Pacific war. As he frets over his future, Petrovsky finds a mysterious map containing clues inviting him to meet a mysterious lady in the middle of nowhere. Petrovsky, worried that this will be one more of his usual disappointments, discovers a hopeful turn of events.
Over the past 25 years the Annecy International Film Festival has established itself as a leading event in the industry. Films shown at the festival are made available on the festival website and therefore benefit from such high visibility.
Eight students from the IPFW Department of Visual Communication and Design (VCD) received ADDY Awards during the annual American Advertising Federation of Fort Wayne's 2013 recognition gala titled, "You're My Type." This year's event was held in the Auer Performance Hall in the Rhinehart Music Center at IPFW on Saturday, February 16, at 8:00 p.m. The American Advertising Federation of Fort Wayne is a non-profit organization dedicated to promoting and improving the advertising industry. Each year scores of outstanding designers, agencies and student designers are recognized with ADDY Awards, acknowledging those whose skills and talents help cultivate a better understanding of the economic and social values of advertising for all people. 2013 VCD student winners include:
Patel Lauded by Wall Street Journal
VCD graduate and current associate faculty Swikar Patel was celebrated as having one of the Best Photographs of the Year 2012 by the Wall Street Jourrnal (WSJ). The image of the swan was captured on a Fort Wayne creek in early October. The WSJ editors pick the best photos of the year organized by category, date and location. These photos represent the key moments and defining images of the year.
Mobile technology has opened the fields of music, art and medicine in ways no one could have predicted. Samantha Birk, associate director for instructional technology in the Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching (CELT) believes there is more technology can do for us. "Students are bringing these mobile technologies into the classroom everyday," said Birk, "And it makes sense that the professors have experience as to use the technologies in meaningful ways."
Rising from a series of interdepartmental conversations in 2010 on the use of technology in the classroom, former Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs William McKinney issued a call for proposals to professors across the campus. McKinney asked them to suggest ways that mobile devices might be used to transform teaching, learning and/or research.
"The professors are the keepers of the curriculum," said Birk. "They are looking at course goals, objectives, assignments, underlying skill sets, acquisition of knowledge, critical thinking skills and collaboration. They also are looking at apps that can help them combine all of these things and putting them in combinations that will guide students in using them for those purposes."
After a close look at the mobile technology available, it was decided that the iPad was the most mature machine in the field of mobile devices. Funding was secured through an internal grant from IPFW's Office of Research, Engagement and Sponsored Programs to purchase a number of iPads and the iPad Project was initiated.
Birk oversees project #MobileEDU, affectionately known as the iPad Project, which began in the fall of 2011. Faculty from all disciplines were invited to apply to become part of the iPad Project and the response was extremely positive. The first cohort of participants in the iPad Project included 60 professors from across the campus. As the cohort began sharing ideas and information, professors very quickly began to ask whether their students could benefit by having an iPad to use in the classroom and iPad in the Classroom was launched. Five professors were recommended to teach classes using the iPad in class for the fall of 2012 and five were chosen for the spring of 2013.
The five professors chosen to teach with the iPad for fall 2012 were Assistant Professor Kirsten Ataoguz, art history; Continuing Lecturer Joyce Lazier, philosophy; Assistant Professor Abe Schwab, philosophy; Associate Professor Alice Merz, education, and Adjunct Faculty Samantha Birk, MCET and interior design.
Students are encouraged to enroll in one of the exciting upcoming iPad classes for spring 2013. The university will provide an iPad to those students enrolled in these classes. The iPad must be returned at the end of the semester. The five classes that will be part of iPad in the Classroom for spring are:
Several other classes for incoming freshmen will require enrolled students to purchase an iPad to use in class. These include classes in English 131 and 233, and Communications 114.
To learn more about a class included in the iPad Project.