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The Raiders also addressed their need for an offensive tackle with two extremely talented middle round prospects in Jared Veldheer and Bruce Campbell. While neither may be able to contribute as a starter immediately, both could ultimately develop into quality starters.
The biggest move, of course, was the addition of quarterback Jason Campbell.
Campbell has the big arm necessary to take advantage of Darrius Heyward-Bey's big play ability. He's used to attacking defenses down the seam through the tight end with Chris Cooley and inherits a young tight end in Zach Miller, who has quietly become of the AFC's best at the position.
Considering the that the Broncos are unlikely to get immediate help from their top draft picks, Demaryius Thomas and Tim Tebow and the Kansas City Chiefs are still a year or more away from truly competing, Oakland could emerging as San Diego's primary competition in the AFC West.
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I don't know if I would call the Raiders contenders after the draft, but no team improved itself (on paper) relative to it's roster more than the Raiders this year.
Regarding McClain over Morrison, Raiders fans have watched game after game in agony as Morrison would rack up tackles five or ten yards beyond the line of scrimmage. Another poster said it very well, he's an outside linebacker hopelessly overmatched in the middle.
Regarding Campbell, the argument that he makes the contenders is based on what happened with the Raiders when JaFlabbus Bustell wasn't on the field. Gradkowski, a journeyman in the NFL, showed the team could win games against some really good teams if it had something better than the worst starting quarterback in the NFL. Campbell is not only an immense upgrade over Russell, he's likely a significant upgrade over Gradkowski. Furthermore, his strength has always supposedly been his deep ball, which was underutilized in Washington, so Oakland certainly seems to fit him better. System counts for something.
Also, taking talented offensive tackles in the third and fourth round makes much sense for the Raiders, who have a former offensive line coach as their head coach. By taking project tackles later in the draft, the Raiders are taking advantage of one of their coaching strengths.
The Raiders won five games last year, and it seems that because of the moves they made, perhaps even just the acquisition of Campbell alone, that they are atleast three games better--which puts them at 8-8 and in the hunt in the AFC West. They aren't anywhere close to San Diego yet, but they might actually have a shot at a wildcard spot.
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Posted on: April 28, 2010 2:47 pm
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All Raider fans loved Morrison...but if you really watched him play, he was a liability againts the run. Yes he led the team in tackels...but I would say 75% of those tackles were after big gains by a running back...luckily he was fast enough to run them down before they broke totally free. He wasnt powerful or stout enough to get up in the middle and close those holes. He was much batter as a coverage LB...but his INT and pass deflections have dropped over the last two years. Morrison is a good LB...but he's better on the outside and in coverage...he was not the run stopping MLB the Raiders needed behind that DLine. He will continue to have success in Jax...but McClain will be a much better MLB in Oak than Morrison was able to be. He's not as quick or as solid in coverage...but he plays smart, he can captain the Defense and he will be a huge improvement in stopping the run. He'll be at the same level of tackels that Morrison was each year...with more sacks and more takcles for loss...he wll be a difference maker on Defence...not just a solid player With that being said though...i will miss Morrison in the Silver and Black...and I guess I'll need to replace my Morrison jersey with a McCalin!
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Is resorting to bigoted remarks about a person's personal beliefs the best you can bring? Its also intellectually dishonest... look it up, you will find it under "i". Why not go down to the stadium and call Tim out or are you just as cowardly physically as you are intellectually?
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Angryrod: You lose what little credibility you have when you use religious slurs as part of your opinion. You are simply a nasty Bigot.
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Posted on: April 26, 2010 4:08 pm
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Remember Nancy Reagan..."Just Say No." Live by those 3 simple words and you won't make people shoot water out of their noses as they read your blogs. The Ray-turds a contender...just lose baby!!
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Posted on: April 26, 2010 11:46 am
Campbell, draft make OAK a surprise contender
Because the Raiders had a pretty solid D last year and Gradkowski won 4 games or something.
Campbell is at least 3 games better than Gradkowski.
There is an infinite amount of space of how much better he is than Russell.
I think just the fact they got him says the Raiders are not longer interested in playing the part of the wild child bad boy club. They want to win games. They are willing to admit mistakes and move forward even if it means wasting 30 million dollars. That will make the players care and will mean more than just having a competent NFL QB.
Also, Campbell is way underrated as an NFL QB. He is athletic, smart and has a good arm. He was put in some pretty unfair situations because of bad coaching and ownership. I think with a team that decides on him as a starter and lets him play one offense for back-to-back seasons he can be a dependable if not great QB
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Posted on: April 25, 2010 2:52 pm
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um, comparing moss and bey is an obvious mismatch, but the Raiders have a few more targets than that. JR couldn't hit any of them. as a chefs fan, you should be happy with your draft as well, but the chefs and the Raiders trade games every year. Neither team is very good. The Raiders are much better without JR. The entire team plays better whehn he is out. Zach Miller is more talented than cooley, and louis murphy and chad schillens are underrated. The best player on the redskins is portis and the skins have ran him to death. The Raiders are not ready to contend for the division, but they are closer. The longer Norval is in SD - the worse they get. What the Raiders desperately need is a difference maker at DT, and I do not think we will get one anytime soon. I do not think that the 3-4 will settle the run defense either. The Raiders still have a long way to go, but they are closer if JR never sees the field. Does anyone remember just how awful he looks every offensive possession ? overweight, overpayed, unmotivated, and he makes everyone around him worse. Campbell has got to be a step up from that. btw, the skins were poor on D last year as well.
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Posted on: April 25, 2010 2:48 pm
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Personally, don;t think Campbell as great as the article here writes HOEVER< being a memebr of The Nation, any QB beyond Russell is a step in the right direction. Great draft, solid addition, weakeing AFC West, NFC West and scaled schedule??? - Raiders absolutely have a chance to take the AFC West.


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A former Valley City State men's basketball player is continuing his career in the American Basketball Association. Point guard John Raquel, who last season helped the VCSU men's basketball team to the NAIA National Tournament, is playing this season with the ABA's Inland Empire Invaders in Riverside, Calif. Raquel was one of five seniors on last year's VCSU men's basketball squad that ended a 26-year drought at VCSU with the program's first national tournament appearance since 1986. He played two seasons at VCSU, posting career averages of 11 points and 3.3 assists per game. With the Invaders, Raquel is averaging about 20 minutes a game and scoring about 11 points per game. His team is coming off a 117-96 victory over the San Diego Surf on Jan. 4. Coming up on Jan. 18, the Invaders will host a team from Gangnam, Korea – a sister city of Riverside. The Inland Empire Invaders are currently 5-7 and in fourth place out of five teams in the Southern California Division. In the latest ABA Power Rankings, the Invaders are rated 24th in the league of 60-plus teams. More information on the ABA is available at abalive.com

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The historic vehicle won a 1986 Guinness World Record for fuel economy – 5,691 miles per gallon. The victory demonstrated that Shell Canada's 1977-1993 Fuelathon program was making important contributions to the accumulation of knowledge about fuel economy, rolling resistance, aerodynamic drag and engine design. It was also a tribute to management, teamwork and driving skill.
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"We believe that the building of low-cost housing in Cape Town central will go a long way to integrate communities across colour lines.
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He said the community of Green Point should support their proposal, as it would ensure that there would be no further commercial activities in the stadium, as the City of Cape Town plans.
Anton Groenewald, the executive director in the city's tourism, events and marketing department, said the stadium's current range of potential uses was bound by 14 restrictions that were part of the province's Record of Decision (ROD) that authorised the building of the stadium. These limited the ways in which the stadium could earn money.
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I've been a single mom to my two boys for most of their life. It's been hard and there's been plenty of times that I can't give them the things they deserve in life. They've missed out on sports because I couldn't afford the fees, they've had to skip days at the pool with their friends because I couldn't pay the admission, and there hasn't been a year I could get them new school clothes. The list goes on.
I've been seeing "John" for the last 7 months and he's great with my boys. I found a ring at John's house and I'm 99% sure he is going to propose to me. I'm not positive I want to marry him, but I know that if I say yes my sons will be taken care of and get the things they've always deserved. John owns his own company and will take care of us. My kids will finally get to be kids instead of always worrying about money. I'm torn. I know saying yes isn't the right thing to do to John, but I also know that I have to give my boys the best life I can. What do I do?
Slacker thinks that she would be teaching her kids to live in a loveless marriage. He asks if she would fake being a good wife and always felt in debt to him. He says women and men have done way worse things to provide for their kids.
Steve hates women that use men, but he understands why she would do this. He wants to hate her but she is obviously a great mom. Steve asks Slacker about his kids and if he would do anything for his kids and he of course answered yes, even if it was deceitful. He says what is wrong with a business arrangement where he will marry her because he wants to have a companion and she can provide for her children.
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A guy at the Y today asked me if I knew where that 3% to 2.5% unemployment figure comes from (for North Dakota). He asked what that 3% were holding out for because he saw in today's Bismarck Tribune about six pages of help wanted ads, everything from engineers and accountants to waiters and waitresses. I note that today's Forum's first 10 pages of classifieds were help wanted ads. It is an interesting question. Who are the 2.5% to 3% unemployed, and why are they unemployed?
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Workers at a Sony manufacturing plant in France, which is due to close on April 17th, held Sony France president Serge Foucher overnight on Thursday against his will because they were not happy with their severance packages. Foucher was released on Friday morning, but escorted him straight to the negotiating table with trade union officials. The Pontonx-sur-l'Adour plant closure in southwest France, which has been making videotapes since 1984, is affected by Sony's December announcement that it would cut 16,000 jobs worldwide.
Foucher met on Thursday with 311 striking workers at the plant who went on strike on Thursday and barricaded the plant's entrance with tree trunks. "He won't listen to us, we didn't find any other solution," the left wing CGT union's spokesman Patrick Hachaguer said. On Friday morning in France, union members escorted Foucher and the director of human resources in a mini-bus to hold negotiations in the presence of local police staff.
"I'm happy to be free and to see the light of day again," Foucher said before being escorted to the talks.
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ACTING CHAIRWOMAN MIGNON CLYBURNRe: Rates for Interstate Inmate Calling Services, WC Docket No. 12-375
For ten years, family, friends and legal representatives of inmates have been urging the
courts and waiting for the FCC to ease the burden of an exorbitant inmate calling rate structure.
Their wait is at long last over. Borrowing from a 1964 anthem inspired by challenges of his
time, the immortal songwriter Sam Cooke sang that it's been a long, long time in coming, but
change has finally come.
Today's Order reforms the rates and charges for interstate inmate calling services and
provides immediate and meaningful relief, particularly for low income families across this
nation. This Order fulfills our obligation to ensure just, reasonable and fair phone rates for all
Americans, including the millions with loved ones in prison.
This all began with one Washington, D.C. grandmother, Mrs. Martha Wright, who spoke
truth to power in 2003, and reminded us that one voice can still spur a movement and drive
meaningful change.
Mrs. Wright once talked with her grandson Ulandis, who is here with us today, a couple
of times a week, about 15 minutes each call. For this minimal contact she often paid more than
$100 a month no small change for a retired nurse. In 2003, she filed a petition with the FCC
asking for help. Others who were paying a high toll for interstate inmate calls would follow her
lead and after many twists and turns we are finally here.
I am happy that Mrs. Wright's grandson and many of her fellow petitioners are our
special guests today. Millions will benefit from your perseverance and your willingness to take a
stand. Thank you for seeing us through to this important day.
Mrs. Wright's story and those of many others reveal many common themes that illustrate
why the change we put forth is so very necessary. Too often, families are forced to choose
between spending scarce resources to stay in touch with their loved ones or covering life's basic
necessities. One family member described how communicating with her husband is a "great
hardship," but that the few minutes that they are able to talk each week, "have changed his
life." Another parent told us how he has spent significant amounts of money to receive collect
calls from his son -- calls that he "cannot afford," but accepts because his son's "emotional
health and survival in prison is important" to him.
And, just yesterday, I spoke with Monalisa Johnson, a woman I met behind the stage at
the Urban League convention. You see, nine months ago her daughter began serving a 10-year
sentence in Georgia, and now the "new line item" in Ms. Johnson's monthly budget includes a
$600 per month charge to stay in touch from New York. She pays $21 for a 15-minute call,
which she describes as "highway robbery."
We've heard from inmates many of whom are concerned about the financial burden
that calling their parents, significant others, and children can impose. Too often, they are unable
to make a simple phone call on birthdays and other special occasions and from these stories and
thousands more we have learned just how much of a difference telephone contact can make. As
one inmate said: "To be able to actually hear your loved ones helps to strengthen the
relationship...unlike any letter that one can write."
These are not isolated anecdotes.
There are 2.7 million children with at least one parent in prison and they often want and
need to maintain a connection. In addition to coping with the anxiety associated with a parent
who is not there on a daily basis, these young people are often suffering severe economic
hardships, which are exacerbated by unaffordable inmate calling costs.
In the meantime, 700,000 inmates are released from correctional facilities each year. It's
critical for them to have strong support structures in order to re-assimilate successfully. Studies
have shown that having meaningful contact beyond prison walls can make a real difference in
maintaining community ties, promoting rehabilitation, and reducing recidivism. Making these
calls more affordable can facilitate all of these objectives and more.
So how much money are we really talking about? We've learned that rates can be as
high as $17 for a 15-minute call, and that inmates can pay as much as a $4 connection charge
each time and that calls made to or coming from one who is deaf or hard of hearing can and are
often even more expensive. For families on a fixed income or barely struggling to get by,
personal engagement is much too often beyond reach.
But today's Order takes action. It requires interstate rates to be cost-based. In other
words, rates and other charges to and from these facilities will be tied to the actual costs of
providing inmate calling service. The Order sets forth a framework that provides for immediate
relief from high long distance phone rates.
We adopt interim interstate rate caps and safe harbors to provide relief without delay to
families from exorbitant rates while permitting providers to secure reasonable compensation.
This Order will reduce rates that may run from over $17 to a maximum cap of $3.75. The rate
structure we adopt is grounded in the record, based on data that include security costs, yields fair
compensation to providers, and provides to these families the just and reasonable rates that this
Commission is charged with ensuring under the Communications Act.
All rates and charges, including ancillary charges must be based on the provider's actual
costs. Those in violation of this requirement could be subject to enforcement and required to
provide refunds to consumers.
Today's Order takes a measured but firm approach to reform. We also make clear that
site commissions are not related to the cost of providing inmate calling services, and therefore
cannot be included in the interstate rate. We also address related practices that drive up rates and
make it difficult for families and friends to communicate.
At the same time, this Order recognizes and puts measures in place to ensure that security
is not compromised. Inmate calling services require additional security to prevent inmates from
using phones to break the law or violate facility rules. Tying rates to actual costs is fair, is
guided by the law and will provide significant financial relief for families without sacrificing the
requisite security protocols.
I am also pleased that today's Order takes steps toward future reforms. First, the reform
includes a mandatory data collection that will enable the Commission to refine these interim
rates going forward and to take additional action, including ensuring that rates for intrastate calls
are just, reasonable and fair. And, through our Further Notice, we will collect information to
determine how to best move forward on additional reforms, including for deaf and hard of
hearing communities.
I would like to thank the many Members of Congress for their attention to this issue and
our partners in the states, who have provided us with valuable examples of their own
reforms. Thank you to my colleagues for their expedited consideration of this Order, and a
special thank you to Commissioner Rosenworcel for her support on this important milestone.
Finally, thank you to the Wireline Competition Bureau, in coordination with the Office of
General Counsel, as well as other Offices and Bureaus for your tireless work on this item. These
dedicated public servants, truly went above and beyond the call of duty, working long nights
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Rick Mallen, Claude Aiken, Larry Schecker, Jim Carr, Nick Alexander, and Rosemary McEnery.
I would like to thank my staff, especially Rebekah Goodheart. I am grateful to you for seeing
this through, and Angie Kronenberg, formerly of my office, who passed to Rebekah an
incredibly stable baton.
But the most important people in the room for me today are the petitioners and their
families, led by Mrs. Martha Wright. Because of your courage and persistence, millions of
families across the country, will soon realize more just and reasonable rates.
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participating in watch parties organized by the campaign for Prison Phone Justice, and thousands
more who worked for and will forever benefit from today's action, we thank you.
It's been a long time in coming, not in time to directly benefit Mrs. Wright, but a change
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Inequality Diminishes America's Freedom
By Warren Reed
One thing has become disturbingly clear during the country's anemic economic recovery. Middle-income jobs are disappearing, and they're not coming back.
The corresponding decline of America's middle class is something that should concern the entire nation, but as a military veteran, this development directly impinges on essential American freedoms, freedoms that I helped to safeguard during my eight years with the U.S. Marine Corps, 2nd Battalion.
Most of the growth in the recent economic recovery has been due to the growth in low-wage jobs.
But how free are you when you're paid poverty wages? Not very free at all.
Examining Veterans In The U.S. Economy
That's what a new report examining the condition of veterans in the U.S. economy, specifically the low-wage security industry, recently found.
The report, called "Underpaid Heroes" found that working conditions for veterans within the industry are poor. The median wage for most security workers is less than $11 an hour, and many security officers are forced to rely on public assistance to make ends meet.
My time in the service taught me a lot about the importance of service, self-sacrifice, and how communities need safety and security in order to prosper.
With one out of five security officers in the U.S. being veterans, we have a responsibility to do right by the men and women that America has asked so much of.
That's why veterans like me are working with other security officers to push for better wages and working conditions for officers throughout the security industry.
I believe that by improving conditions for security officers, we can continue to serve our communities by having jobs that allow us to work with dignity and provide for our families.
This can also help us to preserve and protect Americans' freedom from economic insecurity.
Warren Reed is a veteran of the U.S. Marines Corps, 2nd Battalion and a member of SEIU's Stand for Security Campaign, which represents 40,000 security officers across the country. He can be reached at:
828 West Washington Boulevard Los Angeles, CA 90015 818-691-9878
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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Perhaps it was a bad omen that outside Adrian Peterson's rented suite at AT&T Stadium were two big photos of the Hail Mary pass the Cowboys used to stun the Vikings in the 1975 playoffs.
Sunday, Peterson's friends and family watched as Dallas quarterback Tony Romo threw a touchdown pass with 35 seconds left to send the running back's Vikings to a 27-23 loss.
"I was like, 'We've got to win today,' especially with how much I spent for these tickets,'' said Peterson, who forked out for about 80 tickets for family members and friends to watch him in his latest return to his native Texas.
No, the Vikings didn't win, but at least the Peterson faithful got to see him play by far his best NFL game in his home state.
Peterson grew up in Palestine, 1-1/2 hours down the road from Dallas. He had rushed 12 times for 63 yards in his only previous regular-season trip to Dallas, as a rookie in 2007. He ran 25 times for 86 yards last season at Houston.
Sunday, Peterson carried 25 times for 140 yards and scored on an 11-yard touchdown run with 5:40 left in the game to give the Vikings a 23-20 lead.
But it didn't hold up.
Peterson also had about 60 family members and friends come over to the team hotel Saturday night. They ate a barbecue dinner by the pool with Peterson, teammates and coaches.
That tasted a lot better than Sunday's game loss.
"I've got a sour taste in my mouth now,'' Peterson said. "Sour by not getting the W.
With the lead changing hands five times, the game was up and down. Not surprisingly, those emotions in the Peterson suite followed suit.
"It's a nice atmosphere, but we're giving away opportunities to win it,'' Peterson's father, Nelson Peterson, said during the game.
Not everyone in the suite, though, was disappointed by the final outcome. A few beneficiaries of Peterson's largesse rooted for Dallas, including Marcus Williams, who wore a Dez Bryant Cowboys No. 88 jersey.
"I'm (Nelson Peterson's) barber, so that's one of the perks is that they let me in,'' Williams said.
At least Peterson got going again. In the previous three games combined, he had gained 150 yards while getting just 36 carries.
"It helps when we're converting third downs and he can stay on the field and we can get off the field on defense and getting scores down,'' Vikings coach Leslie Frazier said. "He had a big day for us, unfortunately in a losing effort.''
Peterson's longest run was 52 yards to the Dallas 20-yard line. That led to his 11-yard TD run on fourth and 1.
Peterson made like Earl Campbell, another star running back from Texas, in the way he plowed over defenders. He did get a push along the way from Vikings tight end Chase Ford, who had been called up Saturday from the practice squad.
"I was very determined, especially when we went for it in the first half on fourth and 1 and we came up short,'' Peterson said of a second-quarter run from the Dallas 16 with the score tied 3-3. "I felt like no matter what, I got to try to make that happen. ... I was trying to get in the end zone any way possible.''
No photo of that impressive run ever will make it onto the wall at AT&T Stadium. But perhaps one of Romo's game-winning 7-yard TD pass to Dwyane Harris will.
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FLAC ripped with EAC, convert to mp3 with proper tags and folder organ
FLAC ripped with EAC, convert to mp3 with proper tags and folder organ
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I ripped my CD collection with EAC to FLAC. Now I'd like to convert the FLAC to mp3 and put it on my android phone. I'll be using PowerAmp to play it on my phone.
Currently I have my folders named and organized as such... Artist/Artist - Album - (date)/01 - songname.flac
With EAC an m3u file was put in the album folder, as well as a text file for EAC. I have copied to each album a "cover.jpg" as the album art
I have CUE files for the rips but they were automatically left out of the Artist/Album folders by EAC
Now I'm not too familiar with m3u's and CUE's and not really sure what use they have exactly.
I just want to convert my FLAC collection to MP3 to play on my android phone (Galaxy S3) using PowerAmp.
How should I convert the FLAC to MP3 (or should I use WMA?) ?
What tags are needed...CUE's, m3u's, etc.?
And how should I name and organize my folders and albums etc.?
Or any other suggestion you might give me here.
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OK, I've got the latest foobar2000 installed, version 1.2.foobar2000 1.2.1 just released; go back and update.
But I've got to ask, why ACC over MP3?Personal preference. This is a question you'll need to answer for yourself. You can start by reading results of various listening tests on this forum. No substitute for trying a few listening tests yourself, however. If you're comfortable with MP3, then go with it (and foobar2000 setup is easier). Get the latest LAME build from Rarewares. Your 60GB of FLAC will compress to about 1/3 that size using LAME -V2 or even smaller using -V4; both of which will be transparent on practically anything you play. (If you ever change your mind, or a new/better codec comes along, you still have your original lossless files, right?)
And I'm a bit hesitant to download from that page you link. What is that?It's a link to the QAAC encoder zip download on its Googlecode page; it's not on Rarewares, but alternative AAC encoders are there.
Is that download at http://www.rarewares.org/index.php ?
You can also use the Nero AAC encoder -> http://www.nero.com/enu/company/about-nero...o-aac-codec.php
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RIT launches nation's first minor in free and open source software and free culture
Responding to student interest and a growing industry demand for workers with such skills, Rochester Institute of Technology is launching the nation's first interdisciplinary minor in free and open source software and free culture.
Starting in Fall 2014, RIT's School of Interactive Games and Media will offer the minor in free and open source software (FOSS) and free culture for students who want to develop a deep understanding of the processes, practices, technologies, and financial, legal and societal impacts of the FOSS and free culture movements.
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A few thoughts on OpenBSD 5.8
I've been using OpenBSD since way back at release 2.3 in 1998, so I've gone through upgrades that took a fair amount of work due to incompatible changes, like the switch from ipf to pf for host firewalling or the change to ELF binaries. The upgrade from 5.7 to 5.8 was a pretty smooth and easy one, for the most part. The two most painful changes for me were the replacement of sudo with doas and the dropping of support in the rc.conf for the pf_rules variable. While sudo is still available as a package, I like the idea of reducing attack surface with a simpler program, so I made the switch. The two things I miss most about sudo are the ability to authenticate for a period of time and the ability to have a single config file across a whole set of servers. The former I'm just living with, the latter I've adjusted to by having a single config file that has lines commented out depending on which server it's on. I did have one moment of concern about the quality of doas when it incorrectly reported the line number on which I had a syntax error in the config file--fortunately, this was just a failure to increment the line count on continuation lines (ending with a "\") which is fixed in the -current release.
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Kroger and Procter & Gamble, the regions two biggest Fortune 500 companies, joined other companies and purchased enough tickets on Friday to close the sellout.
On behalf of the entire Bengals organization, I want to thank Procter & Gamble and Kroger for their great leadership, helping the team and Cincinnati region get the game sold out and on television for everyone, Bengals executive vice president Katie Blackburn said in a release.
Bengals announce sellout for playoff game
Kroger officials said the amount of tickets purchased numbered in the hundreds.
The Cincinnati-based supermarket will give them away free to local veterans and active duty members of the military.
This is an exciting time to be a Bengals fan, said Sukankya Madlinger, President of Krogers Cincinnati/Dayton Division. And, Kroger is a huge supporter of the brave men & women who protect and defend our country. Giving them the opportunity to watch the undefeated at home Bengals in action is a great way for us to say thank you for your brave service.
The Bengals will play an AFC wild card game against San Diego on Sunday.
Kroger released the following statement:
Kroger has purchased a large quantity of tickets to Sundays Bengals playoff game at Paul Brown Stadium.
Kroger will distribute the tickets to US Military veterans and Active Duty service members at several store locations in the area. Customers just need to show their Military ID for two FREE tickets to Sundays game (while supplies last).
The distribution will take place on Saturday, Jan. 4 at the following Kroger store locations:
4100 Hunt Road in Blue Ash from 4 to 6 p.m.
262 Main Street in Amelia from 10 a.m, to 12 p.m.
7300 Yankee Road in Liberty Township from 12 to 2 p.m.
130 Pavilion Parkway in Newport from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
5830 Harrison Ave. in Dent from 1 to 3 p.m.
10101 Landing Way in Austin Landing from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
885 Union Blvd. in Englewood from 12 to 2 p.m.
Fifth Third Bank, Cincinnati Insurance Co., Cintas, United Dairy Farmers, Liberty Mutual/Safeco, WCPO/Scripps and Jeff Rubys Steakhouse are among companies who have helped provide tickets to military families through the Armed Forces Ticket Association. Duke Energy has also purchased tickets.


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NBL star Adam Gibson won't give up on Tassie stint
- From: Mercury
- January 25, 2014
NBL star Adam Gibson has represented his country at the Olympics, won two NBL titles, a host of individual accolades and captains his side, yet still yearns to play in front of his home fans at the highest level.
It might be a dream that could potentially happen sooner rather than later with the push to see a Tasmanian outfit re-enter the league gathering serious momentum.
Following chief executive Fraser Neill's visit to the state two weeks ago, the NBL officially advertised expressions of interest to run the Tasmanian licence in today's Mercury.
It is the start of a process which is almost certain to see a team from the Apple Isle back in the top flight for the 2015-16 season, nearly two decades after the state's last NBL side, the Tassie Devils, was kicked out in 1996.
For everything Launceston born Gibson has achieved in the sport -- which includes being picked in the 2012 London Olympics squad, NBL championships in 2007 and 2009, All-Star selection last year and being named best defensive player in 2009 -- running onto the court in his home state is the one missing ingredient.
Along with the likes of Lucas Walker (Melbourne) and Brandon Knight (Perth), the 27-year-old guard is one of a number of Tasmanians currently playing in the NBL who could return to represent Tasmania at some point.
"Most of our team get to go back to their home states and play in front of their home crowd and since I've been in the NBL I've never been able to do that," the Adelaide 36ers skipper said yesterday.
"To be able to get back and play in front of friends and family would be awesome.
"I'm hoping I have got a good 10 years left in me if I can pull off a CJ Bruton. But you would never write it off [coming back to play with a Tasmanian side].
"I'm contracted here in Adelaide for at least another couple of years but I guess it is something you would have to think about if they did come up with a team.
"Just the chance to be able to play in front of your home crowd would be unreal, I haven't done that since my first year in the NBL when I played with the Hobart Chargers [in the off season] and that is nearly 10 years ago."
Gibson, who equalled his career high of 28 points in a win against the Townsville Crocodiles last weekend, backed the vision to expand the league from eight to 12 teams in the coming years.
Tasmania is firmly at the forefront of expansion plans, alongside reviving a team in Brisbane and seeing another Melbourne-based franchise.
"I've definitely seen some improvements with the new league, we are doing a lot more media stuff and I guess here in Adelaide we have been winning games so our crowds are up and all the stuff we are doing in the community has picked up as well.
"If we keep doing this there is no reason that in three or four years the NBL can be back to where it was.
"Take out the import spots, there are probably only 70 spots available for Australian basketballers to play in the NBL at the moment.
"If you add in a Tassie side if possible, a second Melbourne side, a Brisbane team, there is another 20, 25 jobs you can give to players
"More teams, more games and it's more exciting to watch and play in."


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LINCOLN — The Lincoln Historical Society's latest exhibit is full of familiar names and faces: those of neighbors, brothers, fathers, grandfathers and great-grandfathers. For each one there are many other men and women who've represented Addison County in the armed forces.
Ask Norman Steadman, the curator at the historical society's museum, and he'll tell you that these are the faces of service, the embodiment of the sacrifices that Addison County residents have made for their families, towns and country over the decades.


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When you order lunch in a restaurant in Accra, Ghana or shop in one of the grocery stores in the upscale Osu neighborhood, there's a good chance the bill will include an unfamiliar brandname at the bottom: "SOFT".
SOFT, or "the Soft Tribe", as it's become known in Africa tech circles, is one of Africa's most interesting software development firms. Led by Hermann Chinery-Hesse, Soft's 65 employees maintain dozens of pieces of software that help Ghanaian companies manage payroll, total restaurant bills, manage government documents and pay taxes.
Soft's success gained the attention of the BBC, which declared that Soft was outcompeting Microsoft in Ghana. Now Chinery-Hesse has turned the tables, signing an agreement with Microsoft that makes him a local representative for Navision, an application suite designed for mid-sized businesses. Soft has access to the Navision source code and is working on add-ons for the tool, which support microlending transactions, opening a new market for the package.
Pascal Zachary - who profiles Chinery-Hesse in a recent article for an IEEE website and in a paper in online journal First Monday - mentions that he first met the entrepreneur as he was pouring diesel fuel into a generator to power his developer's computers. When I first met Hermann, we were sitting in a metal shipping container that housed roughly a dozen Soft developers - the ambient temperature was about 130 degrees and I wondered whether Hermann's computers or the Geekcorps volunteer I was about to send him could survive the heat.
The local conditions in Ghana - extreme heat, harmattan dust storms, uncertain electric power and, above all, old, slow computers - have inspired Chinery-Hesse's philosophy of "tropically tolerant software". Tropical tolerance means that programs write to disk often, anticipating power cuts, and send data to central servers when connectivity is available. They often run on 386 and 486 hardware, sometimes using forgotten development environments like Clipper, a database development language for early DOS machines.
Imported software rarely runs well in the challenging environments found in Ghanaian businesses. And very few accounting packages have built-in support for transactions in cedis (the local currency) - since there are roughly 10,000 cedis to a dollar, some accounting packages choke on the nine and ten-digit numbers needed to represent major transactions in Ghanaian currency.
With the knowledge of local conditions and a willingness to target products to markets that are initially very small, Chinery-Hesse is running a successful business and, in the process, helping to train the first generation of Ghanaian programmers. And that may turn out to be at least as significant a contribution to technological leapfrogging in Africa as the concept of "tropical tolerance" and the idea that locally-made software may make more sense than imported code.
Thanks to Emeka at Timbuktu Chronicles for the pointer to the IEEE article.
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Out for a day with CmdCord visiting a few places we had seen before we stumbled across this sugar factory.
I couldn't find much information about it other than it was founded in 1876 before been extensively rebuilt in the 1960's Continue reading
The Film Studio was a buzzing studio for various films spanning from the nearly 1950's to the latest full production in 1990.
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Theres not been many updates here on Urbanpixels.co.uk in the past few months, i've found myself extremely busy with other issues and tasks that life throws at you. Alas things will start to improve shortly. More explores and more pictures are coming soon and i can't wait to get going. Continue reading
The cooling tower at the IM power plant in Belgium has been visited many times by many other explorers but they often miss one of the most captivating parts of it, underneath. Continue reading
This power station has been supplied with some steroids at some point, it's one of Germany's "Mega" power stations with the main turbine hall consisting of 14 turbines producing a peak power of 3520mw. I'm certainly glad i visited here and was worth the 1200miles driven. Continue reading
It's nice to see something new* I struggled to find any pictures or other reports from here regarding the newer part of the 3 plants on the site (the euro boys probably been on it for months, probably) Continue reading
Water on an explore is usually bad (unless you're draining) however when you are trying to get across a 6m wide moat it's more of a problem.. Especially when the tree you are trying to walk across is full of moss and branches which snap as soon as you look at them never mind when you grab them for dear life. Continue reading
I've had my eyes on Dr. Anna's house for a while now, i've seen many other reports which shows the beauty of decay along with other fascinating items which proved a visit was needed before the inevitable happens. Continue reading
It's been 3 years since i first set foot in Chernobyl and Pripyat over 8 days later and 2000 pictures i decided to put together a collection of Chernobyl pictures which sums up my visits to the Zone. Continue reading
I get around quite a bit with my photography and urban exploration, the last few years i've visited the abandoned city of Pripyat in northern Ukraine where in 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded.
My first 2 trips to the zone where fantastic, but i only had paper maps, so for my 3rd trip i decided to make some digital maps which could be viewed on my iPhone, with the help of Galileo offline maps which is an excellent program for the job and doesn't need a data connection!
Quite a lot of people are visiting the zone these days so i decided to put together this little guide so you can also have these excellent maps on your phone so your visit doesn't turn into a snippet from Chernobyl Diaries. Continue reading
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Candidate filing brings primaries in local legislative districts
May 20, 2014
By Peter Clark
NEW — 6 a.m. May 20, 2014
Local voters will have to choose candidates in two primaries in August.
King County candidate filing week ended May 16 with contested spots for local legislative district races.
In the state Legislature, Rep. Chad Magendanz (R-5th) seeks re-election after his first term against one of the two Democrats who filed to run against him.
David Spring, who Magendanz defeated for the position two years ago, and newcomer Colin J. Alexander will run in the Aug. 5 primary. The winner will vie for the state seat in the general election. Ryan Dean Burkett also joined the contest for Magendanz's seat with no party preference given.
At the federal level, incumbent Rep. Dave Reichert (R-8th) drew two Democratic challengers. Jason Ritchie, of Issaquah, and Keith Arnold, of Auburn, will run in the primary.
Also in the state Legislature, longtime Rep. Jay Rodne (R-5th) will face Democratic challenger and Issaquah-resident Essie Hicks in the Nov. 4 general election.
Rep. Judy Clibborn (D-41st) will run for re-election against Alex O'Neil, who did not identify a party affiliation.
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Steel City Con brings the joys of fandom to old, young
Do you remember the sheer joy you experienced as a kid, when, on Christmas morning, you tore open the wrapping paper to find that "Star Wars" figure/Matchbox car racetrack/Barbie doll that you really wanted more than anything in the world? Can that feeling ever be recaptured?
Of course not. You're old now. Deal with it.
Then again, there is a way to bring back the glory days of die-cast metal cars and action figures with six fully articulated joints. For those wandering souls still seeking their own Land of Misfit Toys, the Steel City Con is this weekend — Pittsburgh's own "Toy, Comic & Pop Culture Convention."
The Steel City Con, like the many other Cons (conventions) for comics, toys and pop culture out there, is kind of having its own pop culture moment right now. As geek culture and mainstream pop culture are increasingly becoming one and the same, the only difference is really in the intensity of one's fandom. Sure, we all love "Star Wars." But do you love it enough to want to meet Peter Mayhew, the guy who played the hairy, hulking hero Chewbacca?
Well, you can at the Steel City Con. The usually well-shaven (yet still giant) Mayhew will be there, as will other iconic geek-friendly actors like Cassandra Petersen ("Elvira: Mistress of the Dark") and Richard Hatch (Apollo from the original "Battlestar Galactica"), and lots of photo-ready "Star Wars" Stormtroopers.
There's a distinct "A-Team" vibe this year, with Dirk Benedict ("Faceman") and Dwight Shultz ("Murdock") making an appearance.
The big draw this year is probably Louis Gossett Jr., who won an Academy Award for his role in "An Officer and a Gentleman" (1982). Still, he's probably better known for roles in geek-friendly fare like "Enemy Mine" (as the alien), "The Dead Zone" (1983), "Iron Eagle" (1986), "Stargate SG-1" (1997), and more recently, jokey cameos on "Family Guy."
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COVINGTON - Dozens of area residents are expected Saturday at a motorcycle ride that will raise money for high school graduates.The 2008 Chase Cain Memorial Foundation Motorcycle Ride starts at 10 a.m. Saturday at the Sharp Learning Center gymnasium, across from the Covington YMCA on Newton Drive in Covington. Registration, which is $20 plus sponsor-level donations, begins at 9 a.m. This is the fourth year for the event, which was started in memory of Chase Cain, a 2004 graduate of Eastside High School who died in a car accident in late October 2004. "He was a great kid and empowered other kids," said his dad, Eddie Cain. "Chase made a difference in people's lives; I wasn't aware of a lot of that until he passed. I'm still learning this." He said Cain worked at the Covington YMCA with the after school and soccer programs and was involved in soccer and the Fellowship of Christian Athletes at school. The ride will help raise money for the Chase Cain Memorial Foundation, which provides scholarships for Newton County high school graduates and also donates to other student-based organizations, like Future Farmers of America and the Covington YMCA. Four years ago, a scholarship was only given at Eastside High School. This year, a scholarship will be given at both Eastside and Alcovy high schools. Next year, Cain said it's likely to be given at all three Newton County high schools. Students who apply for the scholarship have to write an essay about what they've done to make a difference and must already be accepted to a college. Chase was attending Georgia Perimeter College at the time of his death. The motorcycle ride is one of several fundraisers the foundation holds every year to raise money for scholarships and donations. Last year, the foundation gave away more than $5,000, Cain said. "Our mission is to empower young people to make a difference in their school and community," he said. The ride, which was organized by Eddie's brother, Covington Police Department's Sgt. Chris Cain, will travel about 60 miles through Newton County with a police escort. After the ride makes its way back to the Sharp gymnasium, the foundation will hold raffles, drawings and giveaways. Items include University of Georgia memorabilia and gift certificates to local restaurants, Eddie said. The foundation plans to have a volleyball tournament in May and a golf tournament in the fall. More information about the foundation and its events can be found online at www.chasecainfoundation.org. Donations can be sent to the Chase Cain Memorial Foundation at 130 Tanyard Court, Newborn, GA 30056. Michelle Floyd can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. SideBar: If you go · What: 2008 Chase Cain Memorial Foundation Motorcycle Ride, featuring a 60-mile ride through Newton County and raffles, drawings and giveaways after the ride · When: 10 a.m. Saturday (registration at 9 a.m.) · Where: Starts and ends at Sharp Learning Center gymnasium, across from the Covington YMCA on Newton Drive in Covington · Cost: $20 to register, plus sponsor levels · More information: www.chasecainfoundation.org
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The streets of downtown Pittsburg will transform into an open-air marketplace in September as vendors from all over East Texas converge on the city for Chickfest/Pioneer Days.
The food vendors - most will be set up in the food court area along Tapp Street - will fill the air with the tantalizing aromas of festival favorites such as corn dogs, funnel cakes and nachos.
The annual festival, named in honor of Pittsburg's pioneering spirit, is expected to draw thousands of people for not only shopping and food. There will be lots of activities to fill the day.
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London - Beyoncé was among the performers at Michelle Obama's 50th birthday bash.
The 'XO' hitmaker, who is a good friend of the US first lady and performed at two presidential events in the past, jetted to Washington D.C. to sing a few of her biggest hits at the White House on Saturday night (18.01.14).
The 32-year-old star posted a series of pictures from the party on her Tumblr blog on Sunday (19.01.14), which showed her posing in a gold mini-dress and nude heels while petting one of Michelle's dogs.
John Legend also performed at the event, according to EOnline.com.
Other VIP guests included model Chrissy Teigen, R&B star Mary J. Blige, fashion designer Michael Kors, celebrity chef Rachael Ray, singer Gladys Knight, entrepreneur Sheryl Sandberg and Oprah Winfrey's best pal Gayle King.
'The Avengers' star Samuel L. Jackson told reporters on his way into the party: "I am looking forward to saying happy birthday to her, being able to celebrate this great milestone in her life."
'I Can't Describe' hitmaker Jennifer previously revealed she didn't get Michelle a birthday present.
Asked how easy it was to pick out something special for Michelle, the 32-year-old star said: "You don't. You just go and be there and show your support, that's all you can do." - Bang showbiz
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So I got to splerge a little this year with my income tax return and got an eatable image printer. So I used it to make my daughters 13th birthday cake. She loves pizza rolls and Fitz's cream soda (bottled in St. Louis). No one could believe it was real. My skills as a graphic designer are more evident in this than my decorating skills, but it was such a fun cake to make. This is also the first time I had made poured sugar bottles.
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I confess that my little eyeballs have been scoping the web for a PINK machine. Ever since Brother came out with that darn Laura Ashley that I still drool over despite being perfectly happy Pfyodor and Nina. I KNOW MDH will notice if I pick up anything larger than a breadbox so I am relying on you to talk me out of a vintage pink Morse.
I probably won't even use it. It's just for decor I tell myself. Talking to myself, I am starting to sound like The Hobbit. Sigh then the SMAD kicks in high gear. It's dirt cheap. Less than dinner and a movie. So hard to resist!
Maybe I am the only one who has these little guilty conversations. But perhaps, just perhaps there are others who want to sneak just one (or two or three) more machines into the herd. -- Edited on 2/27/13 10:20 AM --
------Stitching, sharing every day, makes life sweet in every way, just add a friend and a family and the days drift by so merrily!
Which pink Morse did you find??? There is a straight stitch that comes in a raspberry/cream combo and the metallic rose color of the MZZ....both beautiful!! The rose color does contrast nicely with the Pink Atlas and my turquoise Brother...it does make a very nice display when they are not in use....
Can you tell that I'm not about to talk you out of this!! White machines are so boring..and a little strip of color doesn't make up for it!!
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Go for it how often do pink machines come around
I'm just lucky very few machines are green. I have an avocado Bernina 731 which is completely redundant in my collection, but I can't let go of it.
If those Janome 90th anniversary Cherry Blossom machines had been available in the US, I'd mostly likely have one.
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I suppose you've seen the new Viking Eden Rose series?:
and there's the Janome DC4030P on hsn.com
OhhhhI had just managed to put those out of my mind!
Still, I can get around it because those cost A LOT more than dinner and a movie for one person.
Pink, purple and yellow. All downfalls for me. My Dad came for a visit earlier this month and for my birthday he helped me to build a small but functional sewing room. Nina and Pfyodor fit perfectly and my little Brother stays in the closet until I need him for a class. There really isn't room for another machine. Sigh. My plan was to sell/donate little brother and my serger and replace them with upgraded machines but nothing that could not live happily in the closet until needed.
I love the raspberry cream combo but this one is a hot metallic pink. Like a 70's disco dress lol
I think I may cave in. I get paid tomorrow. If it is still available then I will count it as fate maybe
I think PP has gotten into our heads!
Or it's because we all wore pink as little girls, so now we can get a fix without looking silly wearing it?
Perhaps they should alternate SM's as washers/dryers over the years--
gold, avocado, copper, black, white, red, green, cream, stainless....
I love it I remember my parents had a gold fridge and stove from Sears that lasted all the way into the 80s. Avocado sounds wonderful, and we could swap yellow for gold and pink for copper. How fun.
You can take your appliances to an auto body shop and have them spraypainted PINK.. or any color you choose.. other than pfurple..
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Introduction / History
The Yabong people live in eight villages located in the eastern part of Madang Province, about 20 kilometres to the west of Saidor and within 10 kilometres of the northern coast of Papua New Guinea. Many Yabong villages are in the foothills of the Finisterre Mountains.
Their diet consists primarily of sweet potatoes, taro and greens. Houses are made with black palm floors and woven bamboo walls. Roofs are thatched with dried sago palm leaves. Houses are set on posts 2-3 meters above the ground. They have woven bamboo walls with thatched roofs made of palm leaves.
What Are Their Beliefs?
The Yabong people generally live in villages of 100 to 300 people, although some have moved to smaller settlements.
The first church in the Yabong area was a Catholic church established in the 1930s by a German missionary named Father Offinger. There are now both Catholic and Lutheran churches in the Yabong area.
The Yabong people do not have the Bible in their mother tongue. During church services the Bible is read in Tok Pisin, the language of wider communication.
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It may be difficult to visualise a prominent art piece smack in the
heart of bustling Mong Kok, better known for brothels and cheap and
cheerful fashion than its cultural atmosphere.
But a towering new bronze stick-man sculpture is about to change that.
The 2,700-kilogram figure called Happy Man, was installed on Tuesday
by its American designer Larry Bell outside the soon-to-open Langham
Place shopping centre.
Together with the polished glass surfaces of the Langham Place
complex, which comprises a 15-storey shopping centre, a five-star
hotel and 59-storey office towers, the sculpture is set to become a
new icon in the old and colourful district. Happy Man, so named by
Langham Place architect Brian Honda, is number 26 in a group of 27
similar figures in Bell's "Sumer" collection.
Born of spontaneous sketches, the collection was named Sumer for its
links to ancient Sumerian culture.
"The Sumerians first invented bronze and this is my first bronze
project," Bell, 65, said. "Their calligraphy [like my figures] also
consisted of a lot of triangular forms."
"It's a crazy and fun area," Bell said of Mong Kok. "The sculpture
is casual and spontaneous, so I thought it was a good combination."
The sculpture will welcome shoppers into the glossy shopping centre
due to open next month. The mall features more than 300 retailers
targeting the young and trendy, and boasts such novelties as Hong
Kong's longest indoor escalators, a Digital Sky, where computerised
images are projected on to the ceiling, and a bold facade design
called The Rock.
The complex also includes Kowloon's tallest office towers and a
42-storey futuristic hotel.
Langham Place is part of a 15-year urban redevelopment project.
Dev-eloper Great Eagle Holdings spent HK$10.5 billion to complete the
1.8 million square-foot project.
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duane hanson (1925 - 1996) / the largest retrospective is on show in europe since the death of this artist
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duane hanson: 'more than reality'
pac - padiglione d'arte contemporanea, milan, italy
may 29 - september 01, 2002
kunsthalle rotterdam, netherlands
september 14 - november 24, 2002
scottish national gallery, edinburgh, scotland
december 14, 2002 - february 23, 2003
kunsthaus zürich, switzerland
march 22 - july 13, 2003
the retrospective
of the late photo realist sculptor duane hanson is currently in the
midst of an extensive tour of european museums.
30 sculptures are on show.
hanson describes the masses, their loneliness, their isolation
and despair, with deeply sorrowful humour.
the 'people' are so ordinary and living such ordinary lives that are
borderline boring. this aspect is what makes them so incredible.
they are mostly overweight, unattractive, and dirty.
hanson found these people in american everyday life,
and he replicated them and placed them in the museums
of this world, people who in their artificial perfection, in their artificial
lifelikeness brought forth bewilderment, astonishment, and dismay
in all viewers.
pop 'til you drop
the contemporary fetishization of the human body.
the simulacrum, whose peculiar function lies in the derealization
of the whole surrounding world of everyday reality.
your moment of doubt and hesitation as to the breath and
warmth of these polyester figures, tends to return upon the
real human beings moving about you in the gallery ...
and to transform them also for the briefest instant
into so many dead and flesh-colored simulacra in their own right.
the world thereby momentarily loses its depth and threatens to
become an illusion, a rush of filmic images without density.
super-realist-life-sized sculptures
hanson's sculptures are cast from human models and rendered in
polyvinyl, auto body filler (bondo), or bronze.
each figure was cast in several sections before being joined together.
the 'skin' of the sculptures is painted in such detail as to resemble
human flesh. the sculptures are then finished with clothing, hair,
jewelry and other accessories.
hanson used direct casting.
it usually is assumed that each hanson figure is the likeness of a
real person, but this is not the case.
'I'm not duplicating life. I'm making a statement about human values,'
hanson said.
when searching for a model for 'cowboy', for example, he met with
several cowboys and rodeo workers, but all lacked the machismo he
was looking for. instead, a carpenter served as the model for the cast.
similarly, hanson sometimes would construct a single figure using
molds of several people. he used the same body for 'queenie II'
and the female in 'tourists II', but with different heads and different
treatments of skin tone.
duane hanson was born in alexandria, minnesota,
in january 17, 1925.
he received his BA from macalester college in 1946 and
his MFA from the cranbrook academy of art in bloomfield hills,
michigan in 1951.
from 1953 to 1960, hanson lived in munich and bremerhaven,
germany, working as an art teacher for the u.s. army dependent
school system. it was in germany that he began to experiment
with synthetic media, in particular polyester resin and fiberglass -
materials that would become his signature media.
hanson moved back to america in 1960.
from 1962 - 1965 hanson was an art professor at oglethorpe
university in atlanta. during this period he was commissioned
to produce several large decorative sculptures for the exterior
of the university building.
by mid decade, he was conceiving his sculptures in the spirit of
contemporaneous social protest and political agitation movements.
the works dealt with issues such as racial inequality and the danger
of illegal about which the artist held strong convictions.
such confrontational sculptures as 'abortion' and 'gangland victim'
force the audience to face challenging issues without the psychic
distancing inherent to television and newspaper reports.
after hanson moved to new york in 1969, his works were
shown in solo exhibitions in new york and germany.
because of their politically charged subject matter, several
scuptures were banned from museum exhibitions and denounced
by reactionary critics.
from 1976-78, a major retrospective of his sculptures went on an
extended museum tour throughout the united states.
hanson was named florida ambassador of the arts in 1983.
hanson died january 6, 1996.
192 pages, 170 illustrations by hatje cantz
museum guard, 1975
courtesy pac milan
queenie II, 1988
courtesy pac milan
supermarket shopper, 1970
courtesy pac, milan
self-portrait with model, 1979
courtesy pac, milan
tourists II, 1988
courtesy pac, milan
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