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Photos: Whitney Houston Funeral at New Hope Baptist Church in Newark
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NEWARK, N.J. — Whitney Houston's flower-covered casket was at the center of the church where her powerful voice first wowed the congregation, as the biggest names in entertainment solemnly filed in for the pop superstar's funeral in her hometown Saturday.
Mourners at the New Hope Baptist Church fell quiet as three police officers escorted Houston's casket, draped with white roses and purple lilies. White-robed choir members began to fill the pews on the podium. As the band played softly, the choir sang in a hushed voice, "Whitney, Whitney, Whitney." More on the Whitney Houston funeral.
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The ushers will be the first to arrive at the church/register office. They will have several key tasks:
- Distributing the orders of service, leaving some at the front for the wedding party. Ensure that the officiant has an order of service for the bride and groom.
- Checking the reserved seating. Usually a few rows at the front are kept free for immediate family members and the wedding party, but there may also be special seating for elderly or disabled guests.
- Ensuring that seats next to the aisle are allocated to parents with babies or young children.
- Distributing the buttonholes to the groom's party.
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- Supervising the parking and ensure easy access for the bridal cars. A space should also be reserved for the photographer, elderly or disabled guests.
- Making sure that any confetti is in the correct place ready for distributing to guests after the ceremony.
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Grad, I; Hibaoui, Y; Jaconi, M; Chicha, L; Bergström-Tengzelius, R; Sailani, M R; Pelte, M F; Dahoun, S; Mitsiadis, T A; Töhönen, V; Bouillaguet, S; Antonarakis, S E; Kere, J; Zucchelli, M; Hovatta, O; Feki, A (2011). NANOG priming before full reprogramming may generate germ cell tumours. European Cells and Materials, 22:258-274.
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Reprogramming somatic cells into a pluripotent state brings patient-tailored, ethical controversy-free cellular therapy closer to reality. However, stem cells and cancer cells share many common characteristics; therefore, it is crucial to be able to discriminate between them. We generated two induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines, with NANOG pre-transduction followed by OCT3/4, SOX2, and LIN28 overexpression. One of the cell lines, CHiPS W, showed normal pluripotent stem cell characteristics, while the other, CHiPS A, though expressing pluripotency markers, failed to differentiate and gave rise to germ cell-like tumours in vivo. Comparative genomic hybridisation analysis of the generated iPS lines revealed that they were genetically more stable than human embryonic stem cell counterparts. This analysis proved to be predictive for the differentiation potential of analysed cells. Moreover, the CHiPS A line expressed a lower ratio of p53/p21 when compared to CHiPS W. NANOG pre-induction followed by OCT3/4, SOX2, MYC, and KLF4 induction resulted in the same tumour-inducing phenotype. These results underline the importance of a re-examination of the role of NANOG during reprogramming. Moreover, this reprogramming method may provide insights into primordial cell tumour formation and cancer stem cell transformation.
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Citigroup: Documentation of Trades Will Be Key Part of Volcker
Citigroup Inc. Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach said details around banks' documentation of trades are an important part of new rules approved by regulators Tuesday.
The so-called Volcker rule bans banks from making bets with their own money and limits their ability to invest in certain trading vehicles, such as hedge funds and private-equity funds. The rule requires banks to demonstrate how their hedging strategies are aimed at mitigating risks and not disguise bets made for their own profit.
"What's going to be important is the details, and the details will include the documentation to justify or demonstrate [the banks] … should receive exemptions," Mr. Gerspach said to investors at a conference in New York hosted by Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
But Mr. Gerspach declined to elaborate on how the Volcker rule would impact Citi or other banks. "I didn't have time to go through the entire 1,000 pages" before the presentation at the conference, he said.
Mr. Gerspach spent the rest of his presentation painting a mixed picture for the bank's fourth quarter results, set to be released in mid-January.
Revenue from the bank's capital markets and investment banking business will be slightly lower in the fourth quarter than year earlier results, he said. But when compared to the third quarter, Mr. Gerspach said investment banking results in the fourth quarter will be up. The bank's core operating expenses will continue to decline in the fourth quarter but legal costs will stay high, he added.
Banks across the industry have been benefitting from improving credit quality. Last quarter, Citi benefitted from a $300 million reserve release. Mr. Gerspach said the bank does not expect a similar reserve release in the fourth quarter.
Mr. Gerspach said the bank is focused on improving its operating efficiency by exiting or restructuring certain businesses to focus on core markets. Last December, the bank announced it was exiting five emerging markets, including Turkey, Romania, Pakistan, Uruguay and Paraguay.
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College Hockey:Michigan State and Northern Michigan tie, MSU takes shootout
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Sometimes life changes in mere moments.
A traffic accident.
A marriage proposal.
Three unanswered goals three minutes apart.
A tying goal scored with 26 seconds left in regulation.
This 5-5 overtime tie between Northern Michigan and Michigan State saw the Wildcats leading 2-0 by the 10:25 mark of the first on goals tipped in by Brian Nugent and Justin Florek. That was before the Spartans scored three unanswered within roughly three minutes – from 11:16 to 14:18 in the first – with an additional goal at 18:48 to make it 4-2 for good measure.
And, of course, that was before the Wildcats scored at 19:56 in the first. In fact, NMU scored in the final minute of every period of this game, drawing even on Tyler Gron's goal with the extra attacker at 19:34 in the third.
In the shootout, MSU's Drew Palmisano stopped all three NMU shooters while Matt Berry's second-round shot gave Michigan State an extra point. Given the resolution of the game – and a victory that was less than 30 seconds away – it's not surprising that MSU coach Tom Anastos had mixed feelings about the outcome.
"I didn't think our energy level was where we wanted it to be to start the game," said Anastos. "Parts of the game I was happy with and parts of the game I certainly don't feel good about. I'm looking forward to looking back at the game tonight and watching it again."
From the other bench, the emotions were less mixed, but the feedback was similar.
"I thought we did a good job," said NMU coach Walt Kyle. "When we changed our goalie, we changed momentum. Prior to Christmas, we were playing pretty sound defensively, and we didn't [tonight] for a period and a half. I thought we became much better defensively later and we had some timely scoring.
"We got a couple breaks. Both of those goals were tipped in front of the kid. You've got to put pucks to the net and we had people there. It is what it is. They weren't going to back off. There was a lot of hockey left at that point."
Reid Ellingson started in Northern's net but was replaced by Jared Coreau after Tim Buttery scored at 6:25 in the second, giving the Spartans a 5-3 lead.
The goals weren't Ellingson's fault, said Kyle.
"He played just fine," Kyle surmised. "Goals went in and the momentum needed to be changed. We win the game if I do that earlier."
The final two goals allowed by Palmisano were fluky as well. Scott Macaulay floated one from the left circle over Palmisano's shoulder at 19:47 in the second, and Gron's tying goal, well, is best described by Anastos.
"That last goal was a series of both mistakes and a bad break," said Anastos. "Torey [Krug] had a play and it ends up in their bench so now the faceoff's in our zone. For a start, it's there. The play goes to the point. The linesman – I believe it's the linesman – has not been able to get out of the zone yet. They threw it along the boards. The linesman's along the boards. Torey cheated behind the net because he was on the guy who scored the goal. The puck went off the linesman's skate [and] bounced right on their stick and he threw it across.
"Tough break, and you make your breaks, and we didn't tonight."
"Certainly," said Kyle, "I was proud of the way the guys were able to get that goal in the end."
The teams will meet again Saturday night at 7:05 p.m. in Munn Ice Arena.
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Last week GamePolitics broke the news that troubled game publisher Take Two Interactive had filed suit against anti-game activist Jack Thompson in Federal District Court in Florida.
Late yesterday, Thompson sent out e-mails containing a copy of his response to Take Two's suit as well as a counter claim which, among other things, alleges the Grand Theft Auto publisher is at the center of a vast conspiracy to deprive Thompson of his civil rights.
Referring to Take Two in the court filing as "thuggish pornographers," Thompson charges that the company violated federal RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) statutes, commonly used to prosecute organized crime syndicates.
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Take-Two has, since July 2005, been at the center of an effort to violate Thompson's civil and constitutional rights… In addition to… extortion (intimidation) of Thompson… Take-Two has committed other predicate RICO acts, including but not limited to fraud, distribution of obscene and/or sexual material harmful to minors…
Additionally… Take-Two, through its Blank Rome lawyers, sought in Alabama to tamper with a witness in a pending criminal case, according to that witness' lawyer.
Neither the witness nor the lawyer are named in Thompson's filing. The Alabama reference would be to the Strickland vs. Sony case in which an 18-year-old GTA player killed two police officers and a police dispatcher. Thompson represents the families of the victims in a $600 million lawsuit against Take Two, Rockstar, Sony, Wal-Mart and GameStop. The judge in that case, however, revoked Thompson's pro hac vice (visiting) admission to the Alabama Bar in November, 2005.
Later in the 37-page filing, Thompson adds perjury and obstruction of justice to his allegations against Take Two. He claims that Take Two has "collaborated and conspired with third parties to commit these racketeering activities." As alleged by Thompson, these "third parties" include many influential video game websites and publications, including this one as well as Kotaku, Joystiq, GameSpot, IGN, Penny Arcade, EGM, Game Informer and Spong.
Thompson also claims that game industry groups including the ESA and ESRB are involved as well as consumer group the Entertainment Consumer Association (ECA). The ECA is the parent company of GamePolitics.
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Viewerships for 'Total Divas' and Smackdown
Sep 4, 2013 - by Steve Gerweck
– The 9/1 episode of WWE Total Divas on E! drew 1.53 million viewers. This number is up from last week's show that drew 1.46 million viewers.
– Friday's episode of WWE Smackdown drew 2.79 million viewers, up 9% from last week's 2.57 million. It's the highest viewership since 4/12.


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We are looking to (finally) implement a cable labeling procedure.
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TREASURE ISLAND - The "Bionics for Vets" concert series will make it's return this Sunday, March 16th in Treasure Island. Originally conceived of by Buddy King of Buddy King's Shotgun Junkies, Bionics for Vets is a concert series that helps raise money to purchase prosthetic limbs for Veterans. The first Bionics for Vets concert took place in St. Petersburg on September 21st, 2013.
"This event has a very specific goal. We are raising money that is being handled by "50 Legs" to buy our veterans arms and legs that are much better quality than anything the US government will supply for them. We are not just throwing a benefit to generically write a check to an already government funded veterans program. We have taken the incentive to make sure that the money we raise goes directly to purchase better prosthetics for US soldiers who have lost their limbs defending our rights. We took it upon ourselves to work with this wonderful non profit called "50 Legs" because as we all know, government run agencies are not always the best at balancing their checkbook." - Buddy King
Presented by KAM-BABS Promotions, Sundays concert will take place at CJ's On The Island and feature performances by Buddy King's Shotgun Junkies, Zig Zag America, Disciples Of Mayhem and Autumn Kinney.
Formed in February of 2013 by singer/songwriter/guitarist, Buddy King, Buddy King's Shotgun Junkies consists of Buddy King (lead vocals/guitar), "Skindoctor" Joe (bass), John Spinelli (drums), Sunnie Ray (backup vocals), and Cherie Okie (backup vocals/percussion).
ZigZag America is made up of Jimmy Starr on lead vocals, Miki Tabakovic on guitar, Jake Schaffer on bass, and Chad Henderson on drums. Originally formed over 16 years ago by Starr and Tabakovic, ZigZag America has been making waves in the Tampa Bay area with their highly energetic live shows. The band released their debut CD, ".COM," last year.
Disciples of Mayhem is a hard rock/metal band that fuses power-groove metal and blues. The band consistes of Craig Blackwell (lead vocals/guitar/keys), Mark Lair (guitar/backing vocals/keys), Jon Baptist (drums/backing vocals) and Rob Findley (bass/backing vocals).
Aside from the live music, Sundays event will also feature 50/50 Raffles as well as games including "Toss The Skunk," "Card Roulette," "All American Sling," and "Irish Candy."
Raffle tickets will also be sold at the event for a chance to win a guitar signed by the members of Queensrÿche. Drawing for the guitar will be held at the next Bionics For Vets concert scheduled for July of this year.
All proceeds made from the event will be donated to the 50 Legs organization.
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CJ's on the Island is located in Treasure Island at 115 107th Ave. The event starts at 2:00pm, admission is free.
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In a recent conversation with some close friends, they begin discussing their plans to build a new home. However, this is not just any ordinary house. It is an earth-covered, cement framed, solar powered dome house. Confused? I was confused and thinking they were a little crazy until they described it further. Upon further research, I discovered these homes are called monolithic dome homes and are actually quite popular.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In a marked escalation in attacks, suspected insurgents tried to shoot down a U.S. transport plane with a surface-to-air missile Wednesday, killed an American soldier in a convoy and gunned down the mayor of an Iraqi city.
The new American commander in Iraq acknowledged for the first time Wednesday that coalition forces are facing a "classical guerrilla-type war situation" against opponents ranging from members of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party to non-Iraqi fighters from terrorist groups. Gen. John Abizaid spoke on the eve of a banned holiday Saddam loyalists could use to demonstrate their power.
The U.S. military said one surface-to-air missile was fired on a C-130 transport as it landed at Baghdad International Airport.
It was only the second known missile attack on a plane using the airport since Baghdad fell to U.S. forces April 9, Spc. Giovani Lorente said.
Lorente did not know where the plane came from or whether it was carrying passengers, cargo or both, Lorente said.
Meanwhile, Mohammed Nayil al-Jurayfi, who had actively cooperated with U.S. forces as the new mayor of Hadithah, was killed when his car was ambushed by attackers firing automatic rifles as he drove away from his office in the city 150 miles northwest of Baghdad, police Capt. Khudhier Mohammed said.
On Guard: U.S. soldiers stand guard atop their armored vehicle Wednesday while former Iraqi soldiers wait for their first back wages from the coalition interim government in Baghdad, Iraq.
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One of the mayor's sons also was killed.
Mohammed said the mayor, who took office after Saddam's fall, was slain because he was "seizing cars" from Saddam loyalists who used to work in the deposed Iraqi leader's offices in Hadithah, a city in the restive "Sunni Triangle" that is home to many supporters of the ousted dictator.
The American soldier was killed and three others were injured in a rocket-propelled grenade attack west of Baghdad near the Abu Ghraib prison, a U.S. military spokesman said.
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One of the greatest myths about childhood development is where a dad can make a difference. While many theories exist, the truth is right from conception. Dad's can provide comfort to mom and baby by massaging mom during the prenatal development cycle. In fact research has concluded that fathers can impact all of the senses. Consider the following fact: "Prenates can see, hear, feel, remember, taste, and think before birth," says Luminare-Rosen, founder and co-director of The Center for Creative Parenting in Marin and Sonoma counties, Calif."
Can a dad impact the love of reading before birth? Absolutely. It all starts around 18 months when the prenatal child develops auditory abilities. A dad can give 15 minutes of reading before birth in the last three months of pregnancy. The baby's cognitive and auditory system have developed enough to hear and recognize sounds. Attachment and bonding to a fathers voice can also be a benefit of this time.
The amazing science of learning truly provides factual evidence that dads can make a difference from the start of conception.


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Bayern Munich v City: Thomson Sport package
- 04 September 2014 10:45
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City's new official travel provider Thomson Sport are offering a one day travel package for our first UEFA Champions League game of the 2014/15 season against Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena.
Supporters will receive return flights and transfers to the city centre and to the Allianz Arena on Wednesday 17th September, allowing them to take in the local sights before City's opening game of their Champions League campaign.
Supporters should note that due to the close proximity of the game, spaces on this package are extremely limited, and supporters will travel on a scheduled flight to Munich with Singapore Airlines.
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Ducks In A Row Entertainment announced that starting Monday, February 1st the documentary film 'Beer Wars' will be widely available On Demand and for Download.
Originally released theatrically on April 16th, 2009 as a one-night event, the film has now found digital distribution through Warner Bros. and Netflix.
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Livelihood, and Trade
Almost all of the families affected by the disaster have lost not only their dwellings but also their means of livelihood. Attempts are now being made by banks, Government and the Ministries concerned to rehabilitate the industries etc., so that normalcy returns speedily. However, such efforts will bear results only after a few months. During this period it is necessary that the families are provided with some income support, so that the day to day needs of the family can be met. More importantly, there is a danger that the relief will create a DEPENDENCY SYNDROME amongst the affected communities. Therefore it is necessary that the rehabilitation process is based on a scientifically designed empowerment programme.
It is unfortunate that a large number of fishing communities got affected and the tourist industry too got badly hit by the tsunami. Since the Government. is looking in to these two areas with considerable emphasis, Sarvodaya will go by case to case basis in assisting families whose livelihood is connected to these two sectors. How ever all the other needs of these communities will be in Sarvodaya focus until they settle down to a stable future.
The Goal of the proposed plan is to assist in the relief and rehabilitation of the victims through an Income Support scheme in order to mobilize them to participate in the rehabilitation and reconstruction process.
The Sarvodaya concept of 'self help' will be the guiding principle in engaging both directly and indirectly affected villagers and IDP�s in camps. The programme will deploy the services of both skilled and unskilled workers among youth and adults while women, able elders, and children can be engaged in a productive manner as well.
The cash for work program will also support the associated project dealing with water, sanitation and solid waste disposal. The requisite skills training for the project will be facilitated through training and development programs.
The Government has announced that they would be introducing a coupon system by which each family affected will be able to obtain their food requirements through the co-operative society network. The income support scheme will therefore aim to provide some supplementary income by employing a member of each family affected in gainful work associated with the rehabilitation effort. It is hoped that at least 10 days of work could be provided to each individual in any month, so that they could expect an estimated income of Rs.3500 per month on a regular basis for a limited period of 4 months. The basic nutritional requirement for a family of four has been estimated by a nutritionist to cost Rs 7440 per month. The cash for work programme will deliver around fifty percent of the required income per family engaging at least one member for at least ten to fifteen days a month. The balance income necessary to meet basic nutritional requirements will be supported by networking family members with deployment and engagement opportunities in rehabilitation work and in the business sector. The micro finance sector including Sarvodaya Economic Enterprise Division (SEEDS) will be encouraged to support the early reestablishment of the retail and wholesale trading sector, fisheries sector and tourism services sector. These three sectors were the backbone of employment and income generation for the affected people in the coastal areas.
The intention of deployment and engagement is to avoid creating a culture of dependency on a dole, but rather provide Cash for Work scheme for a limited period, during which every effort will be made to rehabilitate them in a regular economic activity.
The programme will provide the necessary skills training and transfers of best practices for upgrading skills levels in the affected communities.
Women, elders and youth who can be actively engaged in simple community support activities 'Full engagement' is a concept developed by Sarvodaya leader Dr. A.T.Ariyaratne which ensures that Women, elders and youth who cannot be a part of the labour force can be mobilized, instead, to contribute to community development in other capacities. The engagement process will specifically address the setting up of community peer groups (Pre School, school children, women, youth and elders) who will set the stage for self help programs and harmonious community participation.


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Welcome to CARGO!
CARGO (Cryospheric Autonomous Robot for Greenland Operations) is a student group at the University of Vermont CEMS. Our mission consists in the design, develop and deployment of an autonomous vehicle that will carry scientific equipment to perform field measurements within the Greenland Summit.
This mission is sponsored by NASA and it will assess the spatial variability surrounding Summit using microwave radar and temperature instruments. The data collected from this mission will be used to determine the subpixel variability of temperature and accumulation within 4 different passive microwave pixels surrounding Summit, by imaging the top 10 m of near surface firn in a 50 by 50 km grid.
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PITTSBURGH, Pa. - Evgeni Malkin scored in his return from a lower-body injury, Sidney Crosby added his 16th goal, and the Pittsburgh Penguins beat the Columbus Blue Jackets 2-1 on Monday night.
Marc-Andre Fleury stopped 32 shots for the Penguins, who won their sixth straight home game.
Malkin missed two games last week after being injured during a morning skate. He looked fine while bulling his way toward the net 4:16 into the second period for his eighth goal of the season. Crosby pushed his season-point total to an NHL-best 43 when he deflected in a shot by Pascal Dupuis midway through the third.
Matt Calvert scored with less than a minute left for Columbus, spoiling Fleury's shutout bid. Curtis McElhinney made 28 saves but the Blue Jackets struggled again in Pittsburgh.
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Gold Stocks Are Leading the Yellow Metal Lower
Przemyslaw Radomski, CFA
The situation for metals and mining stocks remains bearish, and the correction is likely still not over.
T.S. Eliot called April "the cruelest month" in his famous poem, and without a doubt April was cruel to many gold investors. Probably no one suffered more than hedge fund manager John Paulson. He is joined by hedge fund manager David Einhorn whose Greenlight fund took a big hit on its gold miners ETF holdings. Einhorn said recently what we would consider an understatement: "We were somewhat surprised by the swift decline in the price of gold in April." If they were following fundamental valuations and analysis only, then that's not surprising. Paying attention to the breakdown below the key support level at that time provided a sell signal.
According to reports, Paulson's $700 million gold fund lost 27% in April due to leveraged bets on gold, when the price of the metal swooned by 17% over a two-week stretch. What must hurt is that the majority of the money invested in the Paulson gold fund is believed to be the billionaire's own. Regulatory filings show that at the end of last year Paulson's firm was the largest holder of the
SPDR Gold Trust ETF
(NYSEARCA:GLD), with 21.8 million shares. Paulson made his fame and fortune after he made $15 billion for his firm in 2007 by betting against subprime mortgages before the housing collapse.
Paulson started his gold purchases in early 2009, betting that gold would rise due to the government money-printing machines. Paulson took a $1.3 billion stake in
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(NYSE:AU) and $2.8 billion of GLD when the metal was trading around $950 an ounce. He was the biggest holder of both at the end of last year, the most recent figures available. Even with all the negative press gold is still trading more than 50 percent higher than when Paulson started investing in the metal.
To analyze whether or not there is more pain to come for Paulson in the coming weeks let's take a look at one of the more interesting ratios there are on the precious metals market – mining stocks vs. gold and gold to silver ratio (charts courtesy of
Before we being, we would like to point out that we believe that the long-term picture for gold remains bullish, as the fundamentals remain in place. This, however, does not mean that gold can't move even lower temporarily.
The above chart (gold stocks' performance relative to gold) provides a very bearish picture. Please note that the trading channel and the next horizontal support intersect at a point much lower than where this ratio is today. Of course, the existence of a target level by itself is no indication that it will be reached; the trend has to be in place as well. The point here is that the ratio has already broken below the previous late 2008 major low and is now a bit more than 5% beneath it. This is a major breakdown and it was confirmed. The implication is that the trend is still down.
With the trend being down and accelerating and the recent breakdown being confirmed, there is a good possibility that the miners will decline significantly once again. This makes the previously mentioned target level a very important one. At this time it seems likely that the ratio will move to its 2000 low – close to the 0.135 level.
If gold stocks decline relative to gold as they did late in 2000, and gold declines to $1,300 or slightly higher, the target level for the
HUI Index
(INDEXNYSEGIS:HUI) would coincide with a Fibonacci retracement level.
Market Vectors Gold Miners ETF
(NYSEARCA:GDX) to GLD ratio chart (another way to look at the miners to gold ratio), seems to confirm that the mining stocks are clearly not leading gold higher also from the short-term point of view. Volatile back and forth daily moves have been the norm recently, and overall the situation is unchanged -- it still looks like a consolidation within a bigger decline and most likely is one.
Additional confirmation comes from the silver to gold chart which is an extension of our analysis from the essay on
silver's underperformance against gold
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We see there has still been no sharp drop in the ratio, which indicates that the silver bulls are not giving up just yet (or that lots of short positions are not being opened just yet). This is something that's usually seen in the final part of a major decline, so it seems that this decline has some time to go yet.
Summing up, the situation for metals and mining stocks remains bearish and the correction is likely still not over.
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Tension is rising between Egypt's powerful military and the country's Islamist president.
Since President Mohammed Morsi took office last spring, the military has made it clear it will step in if Egypt descends into another political crisis.
Military leaders have openly defied orders from the president several times.
The latest friction comes after rumors that Morsi plans to replace Lt. Gen. Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, his defense minister and army chief, who does not want to bring the military under the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government.
El-Sissi has been quoted as saying he would not allow the Brotherhood, or any other group, to dominate the military's national identity.
According to some analysts, the "rumor" about Morsi firing his defense minister was meant to gauge the military's reaction.
Attempts by both sides to quell the tension are falling short.
"The two sides may be publicly dismissing reports of tension, but the army is making it very clear to the presidency that any attempt to dismiss el-Sissi would backfire," Ret. Gen. Mohammed Qadri said. "They claim mutual love and respect, but what is happening is not indicative of this."
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Week in Review: Running the Gamut
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Thea Liberty Nichols writes about a new independent film project by Laura Stewart:
The two main protagonists of Laura Stewart's latest film are the titular "Shooter,†motorcycle gang leader of Green Bay, Wisconsin's Black Pistons, and Whitley, a young woman who is both his partner in crime and charity project….Shot without a script, the film uses voice-over narration to reveal the thoughts, fears and desires of Shooter and Whitley, and we experience the filmic world Stewart creates through the lense of their impressions and experiences. Although Stewart confesses that a typical days shoot would involve "having a general idea what I'd want to film,†she cultivated a collaborative relationship with her actors and actresses wherein they would agree or decline to proceed given the premise she would establish. The goal was always to produce scenes that most realistically reflected their lives, so although the relationships and events of the film are all constructed, the characters had, "the freedom to expose the parts of their lives that they want(ed to).â€
Another fantastic post from our game blogger, Paul King:
The world of Dark Souls is, as the title would suggest, dark. It's a classic, worn down fantasy world where everything is crumbling. Your character begins in a prison for the lost and undead; your default state is one of decay. Even as you continue to a city meant for gods, all is in dangerous, ruinous disrepair.
And most of the game is spent alone. Save a few neutral, stationary characters, any sort of dialogue is non-existent. Your hero never speaks, only grunts in the heat of battle, and these stationary merchants quickly run out of new phrases, things to sell you, or purposes to exist.
But at a certain point, your character may buy (or steal) a chunk of soapstone from one of these merchants. Once you obtain the soapstone, you may use it to write, coating the floor in incandescent orange scribbles that, upon interaction, reveal their text.
During the course of Dark Souls, no fix for the broken world emerges. At times, other characters hint that the universe has descended into darkness from a former glory, and your lone hero's quest might be the thing to restore it. But nothing you do on your journey really changes anything; felled enemies reappear upon your death and subsequent rebirth, and also upon the saving of your progress. But while your standard fantasy actions yield no change and are easily erased, the soapstone allows you to impact the game's world in a singular, everlasting way: through writing.
Repost on Ana Mendieta;  as her tragic end  seems so often to eclipse her narrative, I was especially excited to read more about her life:
Cuban-born and American-raised, Mendieta described her work as "earth-body†art. From 1971, when she had her first solo show while an MA student at the University of Iowa, until her death, she created a diverse collection of work that included silhouettes of her body created in mud, earth, rocks, wild flowers and leaves, performance pieces that evoked the folk and occult traditions of her native Cuba as well as her beloved Mexico and subversive self-portraits that played with notions of beauty, belonging and gender. In her performance pieces, where she sometimes used blood "as a very, powerful magical thingâ€, she evoked the power of female sexuality as well as the horror of male sexual violence. In her photographic self-portraits, she pressed her face against glass to distort her features or pictured herself dripping in blood or disguised as a man with glued-on facial hair.
Mendieta's art, like her spirit, was feuled by a restlessness rooted in her exile from Cuba. Friends described her variously as "sparkyâ€, "provocativeâ€, "tempestuousâ€, "outspoken†and "fiercely ambitious.†After her death, many saw, in her often dark and ritualistic art, a foreshadowing of her fate – she once staged a performance in which visitors came upon her prone under a blood-splattered white sheet. Others claimed her as the freest of female free spirits in a male-dominated art world. The curator and scholar Irit Rogoff, her as "essentialised through an association of wild appetites and with unbounded female sexuality.†It is only now that the power of her art is finally taking precedence over the stereotypes that were thrust upon her and the darkly dramatic manner of her death.
Repost from Dezeen on curation and design, wherein 96 Curatorial Theses are propsed:
I interviewed Andreas Fischer who forever transformed my thinking about painting with the following statement (and the rest of the conversation is just as good):
Well, I think of painting as decidedly not static and that is a big reason I am interested in it. I do think that so called fixed images are different from what we more clearly accept to be in motion. Paintings are moving perhaps more slowly and can be understood as attempts to visualize actions in a heightened way. Literally and chemically paint is  moving and changing over time from the moment pigment is ground, through the gesture of applying paint, to the drying; shrinking; aging and cracking that paint undergoes over time.
Mairead Case continued her lovely series, Maintenance this week, opening with a quote from Mierle Laderman Ukeles' 1969 Manifesto for Maintenance Art: "The Life Instinct: unification, the eternal return, the perpetuation and MAINTENANCE of the species, survival systems and operations, equilibrium" Case discusses books:
Here are five books I read this month, and pictures of three more. An asterisk means the book (or zine) came out less than 365 days ago. (The green polish is Selena Gomez Nicole by Opi. I don't own the bottle but I did bonk my thumb running for the #18, and a nice lady at the library let me do a touch-up. The silver is Wet n Wild.)
+ Library Mixtape (exhibition catalogue) (John M. Flaxman Library at SAIC, 2013)*
+ Radon by Travis Fristoe and Aaron Cometbus (Salad Master, 2013)*
+ The Wayside by Julie Morstad (Drawn and Quarterly, 2012)
+ The Long Goodbye by Meghan O'Rourke (Riverhead, 2011)
+ You're So Sexy: When You Aren't Transmitting STDs by Isabella Rotman (self-published, 2013)*
The Moving Surface : An Interview with Andreas Fischer
October 3, 2013 · Print This Article
This summer I visited slow gallerys' group show, Rehearsal Attire. It was an exhibit about painting and something about what slow's Director Paul Hopkin said has stuck to my ribs. Hopkin talked about how many Chicago painters created flat canvases, with a picture plane that stands parallel to the viewer, suggesting this predisposition might have something to do with our immediate landscape — the way we live in a flatland, on urban streets crowded with buildings. By comparison  Southwestern painters are prone to pictures with expansive skies and topographical landscapes  stretching indefinitely out. Hopkin admitted that conversations like that — about horizon lines and abstraction — led Fischer and Hopkin to organize Rehearsal Attire together. In this case, however, landscapes were not expressly present, nor limitless topographies. Rather, Fisher's abstract paintings hung alongside Meg Duguid, Mindy Rose Schwartz and Charles Fogarty. Duguid disassembled a wall in the gallery and packed it in a suitcase. Fogarty removed a wall from his studio, on which he had painted a gingham cloth and re-situated it inside slow, beside a pile of campaign-like baseball hats that read "LUNCH". Mindy Rose Schwartz sculpted a figure out of plaster cast with an unprimed, and partially stitched canvas face; in another work a delicate series of hoops reach off the wall at variant angles. Between the hoops' bounds, flowers and thread weave in abstract, figurative compositions. I was drawn into these works with many questions — questions about limits, deconstruction, assembly and abstraction, questions that brought me to Andreas Fischer's studio, where we discussed his approach to painting, and how Rehearsal Attire came about.
Caroline Picard:Â How do you think about horizon lines in paintings? Can you have multiple limits operating at once in the same piece?
Andreas Fischer: Things like horizon lines and spatial boundaries come from  conventions embedded in the images I have been using.  The starting points for all of my recent work are what I would call conventional everyday image types -the kinds of images that are so present that they often get taken for granted or ignored.  At the same time, though, they have a problematic status because they are completely  contested territory even though they might look stable.
On  one hand I am using various aspects of the conventional states of these images, which are socially determined. On the other hand I am  materializing a reaction by trying to reconstruct these images, which I see as an example of how any individual might react. So, yes there are definitely multiple limits and they are directed by moving changing negotiations that I see as a kind of intersection of one idea of what is social and another idea of what is individual. Painting in this sense is a kind of materialization of reception or reaction — action painting in a sense, but not as a statement — maybe more like the way an electronic instrument might monitor a changing environment.
CP: Wait — that's exciting. How is a painting like an electronic instrument? Is it responding to you or the viewer?
AF: Well, I think of painting as decidedly not static and that is a big reason I am interested in it. I do think that so called fixed images are different from what we more clearly accept to be in motion. Paintings are moving perhaps more slowly and can be understood as attempts to visualize actions in a heightened way. Literally and chemically paint is  moving and changing over time from the moment pigment is ground, through the gesture of applying paint, to the drying; shrinking; aging and cracking that paint undergoes over time.
More importantly, though, a painting is an  action or gesture that begins to happen under certain circumstances and changes as the context around it changes. Our perceptions and interpretations of paintings change as the changing chemical compounds intersect with worlds that are always trying to figure themselves out. In this sense painting is like an electronic instrument in that it is a kind of sensor and feedback system that outputs interpretable data as the world moves — the meaning of the painting (or its output) changes as the stuff around it changes.
I am interested in the act of painting as a way of thinking, sorting or  diagnosing. Both painting and electronic instruments come into being in a sense because of what they need to be able to do with their environments. Electronic instruments are programmed to track, calculate, and relay data based on socially developed criteria or perceived need. Maybe we do a version of this too as individuals  and if so I think painting is likely a materialization of this kind of reflection of a larger social environment.
CP:Â Â How do you think about the logic of a single composition?Â
AF: The operating functions for composition and formal relationships for me are negotiation and process. In a sense each work is compositionally and formally its own activity. The kinds of reactions and procedures that an image seems to provoke on a given day especially as these bounce off of different patterns of thought and expectation floating around in the world vary quite a bit. This part of the operation  is not a logical progression — it is more preformative, maybe a bit like the way a player responds to the action in many kinds of sports.
CP: But in that case are you playing against yourself? Like a soccer player bouncing a ball against a concrete wall with static, physical and predictable qualities? Or do you feel like the canvas/paint/medium brush are less predictable and somehow capable of responding to you, like — say — another player on the field?
AF: I definitely experience it as the latter.  What I was thinking about was the way a body navigates and responds to various barriers and desired outcomes in real time — the spontaneous interaction of it all is so much like the act of painting for me.  Maybe the ingredients of painting are not quite like another player, but more like the entire context of the game. So yes, the medium is not predictable for me. If I could control it I wouldn't paint.  Furthermore,  I suspect that I am deciding or acting and reacting coextensively with social interactions I have had or might anticipate having in the future.  I think this is where the distinction between  what is social and what is individual falls  apart in an interesting way because each of these determine the other and maybe there is not really even a distinction in the end.  Maybe we are really post-individual.
CP:Â How did your recent show "Rehearsal Attire" come together?
AF: Paul Hopkin and I have been talking about doing something for a while and when we started to think seriously about what a project might look like we started trying think of way to  acknowledge conversation as a generative tool. I was making work that was in many was the product of specific conversations I was having with a few people and was very interested in a group show as a way to extend that dialogue.  I think Paul had been on that page for a while before we started working on the project.
Much of art history is really the act of watching very particular materialized conversations between a surprisingly small group of people. One could argue that the real content of much art is the function of conversation or relatively intimate social interaction. I wanted to start acknowledging my work as a set of  indexes of  lines of conversation.  I wanted to take that system  into a gallery and mix it with a different group of people  having different conversations so that one conversational context would bounce off of a few others to see how they would co-mingle and resisted each other.  There are so many amazing ways that groups or specific conversations out in the world intersect with other groups.  There is something fundamentally fascinating about a semi closed circle bumping into another semi closed circle.   That vibration, that negotiation is incredibly exciting to me and has been a huge motivator for my work over the last several years.
CP:Â How do you see that fitting into the more general dialogue of painting at the moment?
AF: I see a great deal of coolness of one kind or another in painting right now. I might be interacting with that characterization in the sense that, even though I kind of love much of the work I would characterize this way, I am much more interested in a state of being thoroughly tangled in the messiness of thought, struggle, material, and process.  I am probably not anything like cool in my interaction with painting. I think I embrace a kind of sloppy affirmational complexity that has more of a diving-into-the-muck quality to it.
CP:Â How do you think about deconstructing frames? Is that something of interest to you in painting?
AF: I love deconstruction and the expectation that it will yield different layers of meaning. But I don't think of my work in those terms right now. I think the negotiations that I see the work enacting are more like a struggle to bring things together. There is the familiar idea about early modernism that at a certain point painting became more opaque, more interested in its own materialism as a way of enacting skepticism toward unified illusion and its ability to function as a vehicle for certain idealisms, perhaps dangerously so. This is a way of seeing materially oriented painting as engaged in negation, criticism or the act of taking apart to an extent. Now that the idea of a unified illusionistic painting is historical and the more usual way for painting to function is through assertions of materialism over illusion, I think materially active painting has executed one critical task that maybe does not need to be rehearsed as insistently anymore meaning that materialism is a kind of free floating signifier that can attach itself to a much wider range of potential functions.  The range of possibilities for material activity has opened  up.
One of the possibilities can be a link between opacity and the act or struggle to form an image or to produce rather than take apart. Painting can be expected to  create a narrative construction relative to images we know to exist or not. For me the act that is most important is the act of framing in a sense, or getting an image to grow and take shape inside a frame, on a surface, or within a field.  In that case when we watch a painting we are watching something grow.
CP: One of the things I often struggle with in abstract painting is how to understand the meaning, or what is at stake in a given work. Taking what you said into account, I wonder if this idea of emergent order (is that an accurate paraphrase for "getting an image to grow and take shape inside a frame") is at the heart of the matter. Namely, whether or not a painting succeeds and/or fails at that — whether it makes the pursuit of that order interesting, and — if you'll allow a sentimental tone — heartbreaking (again, because it succeeds, or almost succeeds)?
AF:Â I totally agree with what you are suggesting at least in terms of how I would like my work to live or die. Â Heartbreak could very well be a part of it all.
I like that you use the term emergent order as well. I understand that to be a bottom up kind of growth based on a kind of exchange and growth where no one entity is in charge, is designing or directing the process or even knows what is going on, but great innovation or development takes place anyway. I think social interaction that flows beyond individual intent or understanding (or maybe just determines it in the end), but operates none the less is totally fascinating and it might be that many kinds of paintings are symptomatic of this kind of function somehow because they happen through a group of impulses, gestures, thoughts, urges, curiosities that just move around an individual  kind of unknowingly. There is an argument about Cezanne, for example that his supposedly individualistic innovations in paint handling are really just marks that anyone could make, which means that Cezanne is not an old fashioned modernist genius, but a kind of repository of commonality and his brilliance is really in his assertion of a shared, common, everyday kind of simple mark that anyone could make.
In the end if all of these interactions somehow reflect something valuable  then they work. And as you suggest, maybe if this kind of thing is true then it establishes a different way for painting to function than relying on what we might have called meaning in the past.  Maybe it is not really about the question of where or even if it ends up, but a kind of empathetic struggle to move toward something.
In the first of his monthly columns for Dezeen, V&A senior curator Kieran Long argues that today's obsession with authorship and celebrity "leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world" and calls for an overhaul of the way design is curated in the twenty-first century.
Long, who was an architecture journalist before being appointed to curate design, architecture and digital at the V&A last year, points out that museums like the V&A focus on handmade, one-off objects at the expense of the mass-produced, anonymous objects that predominate in the real world. "The museum is more or less silent on the era of extraordinary Chinese manufacturing we are living through," he says.
Below he sets out "95 Theses" for contemporary curation, including provocative statements such as "Ugly and sinister objects demand the museum's attention just as much as beautiful and beneficial ones do" and "Museum curators have as much in common with investigative journalists as they do with university academics".
Every morning, on the way to my office, I pass a sign that reads: "Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might.†At the Victoria & Albert Museum, the building is always telling you to do something. The didactic, Victorian and Edwardian decoration asks you to pay attention to nature, to design and manufacture, to the provenance of objects, even where your food comes from. But this particular sign is deeply serious in its upper-case, gilded typeface. It can be seen only by V&A staff, and most often by the people who empty the bins in the service road at the back of the museum.
As a motivational slogan, it's espresso-strength, but it also betrays an emphasis at the V&A on the handmade, the artisanal and the one-off that design institutions, the media and designers themselves share. An object that an artist's or craftsperson's hand has touched has far more chance of making it into the V&A's collection than something mass-produced or anonymous.
In our China gallery, for very good institutional reasons, there are no contemporary, mass-produced objects. The twenty-first century is represented by artisanal glass and works of conceptual furniture design: the museum is more or less silent on the era of extraordinary Chinese manufacturing we are living through. Dezeen has a similar emphasis: while the site is catholic in its tastes, the anonymous, the mass-produced and the semi-designed are suppressed in favour of the work of a fairly coherent group of designers.
There are all sorts of pretty reasonable explanations for this. The most banal is, of course, that star designers are click bait: celebrity matters, especially in the media. On the other hand, some might argue that designers' work is simply better than the anonymous manufactured stuff that surrounds us. It's easier to love the milled aluminium monocoque of Jonathan Ive's Macbook than the awkward black plastic housing of a traffic light.
The emphasis on the authored leads to serious imbalances in the way we see design in the world. In future months, I will use this column to try to broaden the conversation about what design is, to try to move beyond a myopic interest in what designers and architects do, toward understanding what their work tells us about the world we live in. The others writing here (Sam, Alexandra, Justin and Dan) are all much better at this than me: I'm looking forward to reading their work. read more
Repost: Ana Mendieta: death of an artist foretold in blood
October 1, 2013 · Print This Article
The following article about Ana Mendieta has been circulating quite a bit lately, and as such I thought I'd repost it here. Bear in mind, I've copied an excerpt beginning a third of the way through the original. The original begins with a long description of her devastating death out of a 34th floor window in Manhattan. As her tragic end  seems so often to eclipse her narrative, I was especially excited to read more about her life (which is where this excerpt begins):Â
by Sean O'Hagan
published on The Observer,Â
Until recently, the question asked by those feminist protesters might have been amended to "Who is Ana Mendieta?", so unknown was her art outside the rarefied world of feminist art criticism. But, as the recent big show of her work at the Whitney Museum in New York and theimminent retrospective at the Hayward gallery in London attests, Mendieta is undergoing a reappraisal as a pioneering artist whose work, as the Hayward's artistic director, Ralph Rugoff, notes "ranged nomadically across practices associated with body art, land art, performance, sculpture, photography and film".
Cuban-born and American-raised, Mendieta described her work as "earth-body" art. From 1971, when she had her first solo show while an MA student at the University of Iowa, until her death, she created a diverse collection of work that included silhouettes of her body created in mud, earth, rocks, wild flowers and leaves, performance pieces that evoked the folk and occult traditions of her native Cuba as well as her beloved Mexico and subversive self-portraits that played with notions of beauty, belonging and gender. In her performance pieces, where she sometimes used blood "as a very, powerful magical thing", she evoked the power of female sexuality as well as the horror of male sexual violence. In her photographic self-portraits, she pressed her face against glass to distort her features or pictured herself dripping in blood or disguised as a man with glued-on facial hair.
Mendieta's art, like her spirit, was fuelled by a restlessness rooted in her exile from Cuba. Friends described her variously as "sparky", "provocative", "tempestuous", "outspoken" and "fiercely ambitious." After her death, many saw, in her often dark and ritualistic art, a foreshadowing of her fate – she once staged a performance in which visitors came upon her prone under a blood-splattered white sheet. Others claimed her as the freest of female free spirits in a male-dominated art world. The curator and scholar Irit Rogoff, her as "essentialised through an association of wild appetites and with unbounded female sexuality." It is only now that the power of her art is finally taking precedence over the stereotypes that were thrust upon her and the darkly dramatic manner of her death.
Mendieta was born in November 1948, the second of three children to Ignacio and Raquel Mendieta, a well-off, upper-middle-class couple. Her father, a supporter of Fidel Castro, was made an assistant in the post-revolutionary ministry of state in 1959 but, disillusioned with the anti-Catholicism of the new Cuba, later became involved in organising counter-revolutionary activities. As did his two daughters, Ana and Raquelin, aged 12 and 14. Fearing for their safety, he arranged for their passage to America, in 1961 through Operation Pedro Pan, a scheme organised by a priest in Miami that allowed around 14,000 children to leave the country and enter the US under the guardianship of the Catholic church. "For Ana, it was an adventurous thing," her sister Raquelin later remembered, "When we arrived in Miami, she kissed the ground."
Her euphoria was short-lived. After a time in which they were given over to the care of an Iowa reform school, where beatings and confinement were common punishments for the slightest misdemeanour, the sisters were separated and spent several years being shunted from one foster home to another. Ana felt abandoned by her family and isolated from her homeland. She did not see her mother and brother again until 1966, or her father, who was jailed for disloyalty to Castro, until 1979. He died soon after arriving in America.
"You have to understand she came to America with nothing," says Victoria. "That sense of exile was something she carried with her as well as a fierce independence of spirit. She would talk about it sometimes when she'd had a few drinks. I mean, coming from the heat and fire of Cuba to puritan Iowa would leave its mark on anyone and she had that survivor's spirit.
"She was driven in everything she did and that made her feisty and combative as well as great and generous company."
Mendieta began making art at the University of Iowa, where she had a decade-long affair with the artist and academic Hans Breder, perhaps her most important formative influence. It was Breder who drew her attention to the notion of cross-disciplinary practice, citing the likes of Marcel Duchamp, Yves Klein and the Viennese actionists as creative touchstones as well as organising visits by contemporary avant garde artists such as Hans Haacke and Vito Acconci. read more
Week in Review: Tactile Representations
September 30, 2013 · Print This Article
The podcast! This week: Duncan and Richard talk to Spencer Finch about his current exhibition "Study for Disappearance.â€
What is the color of the threshold – of that liminal space before day plunges into night? Spencer Finch attempts to answer this question through his most recent body of work created specifically for Study for Disappearance, his fourth solo exhibition at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
An essay by John Preus about making a table:
Quilting, a designation generally reserved for things made of fabric, is the result of surplus parts. It is not quite an assemblage or collage, although that history certainly relates to what is interesting to me about the table. An assemblage has to incorporate disparate parts, disruptions, things that were not meant to be together, a forced marriage, so to speak. Being that all of the table parts are wood, it isn't suitable to describe it as an assemblage or a collage. And it is not marquetry, which is an image or pattern-making technique using veneers of different colors to develop a picture. Quilting takes parts of other things to make a new thing. I would venture to guess that it comes out of a utilitarian folk tradition in which materials were limited and people had to make do with what was around. That may have been true long ago, but I am sure that quilting happens now more among folks with time to kill, than among low income folks trying to save material, textiles being as inexpensive as they are.
I put together a list of articles written about the Expo art fair spree here.
Britton Bertrand thinks back on 2005:
The years 2005 and 2006 were ok years for Chicago Art. It seemed to be an upswing couple of years when apartment galleries and art interest were peaking. (These things come in waves – I'd put us in a upward motion now after reaching the bottom in 2011.) The MCA was showing interesting work (a Dan Flavin Retrospective, Deb Sokolow and William J. O'Brien had 12 x 12's), blogs were percolating with critical activity (anyone remember panel-house.com or iconoduel.org?) and this new fandangled thing called a podcast had people sitting with their bulky desktops and REALLY listening.
Amanda Browder says GOOD MORNING New York:
"Good Morning!â€Â is a fabric installation that will be draped on the facade of the building located at 72 East 4th Street, NYC. All the fabric is donated by people from the neighborhood, as well the generous support from Materials for the Arts.Â
read an interview with Browder about the piece here.
More on the subject of John Preus — Thea Liberty Nichols posted an incredible essay about Preus', who's work she recently curated at the Experimental Sound Studio:
John Preus is an artist, musician, carpenter, woodworker, and magpie. In the long-standing tradition of Chicago artists scavenging for "trash treasure,†he lets serendipity and the thrill of the hunt guide him in sourcing discarded materials. Each new piece is a design challenge, contingent on entropy and surplus, to revive what others have cast-off or given up on. His materials offer up an infinite number of solutions which he is constantly attempting to "extract and exploit.â€
Juliana Driever posted an artist profile about  Ernesto Pujol:
Pujol is a site-specific public performance artist and social choreographer. He has a long record of intellectual and interdisciplinary art practices which have dealt with concepts of collective and individual and collective identity, the sacred, social and political issues, and public/private space. Since the late 90′s, Pujol has also been working on public group performances, where the focus has rested with action, movement, the journey – and the central concept of the "artist-as-citizen.†Additionally, he is the founder of The Field School Project, where  young and emerging artists are individually mentored in site-specific practices.
Atlanta-based Meredith Kooi writes about a photo show curated around feminism, performativity, and photography organized by the Hagedorn Foundation Gallery:
The works in the show by the artists Jill Frank, Mónika Sziládi, and duo Double Zero (Hannah Ireland and Annie Vought) examine how to make a photograph of someone, a person, a woman (perhaps) and what that means. One of the organizing principles of the show – performativity, a buzz word indeed especially since the 1990s with Judith Butler's work on gender – finds itself in relation to photographs that draw attention to the process of their making. Alongside considerations of gender and femininity as performative gestures, the works in the show investigate the apparatus of photography and imagistic representation itself – Jill Frank's work in particular. Adding to this work by Frank is the Untitled (Projection) series by Steffani Jemison presented in her solo exhibition, When I Turn My Head, in the upstairs gallery at Hagedorn.
Stephanie Burke's TOP 5, baby.
Monica Westin posted an interview between Yolanda Cesta Cursach and Tolcachir about Tolcachir's upcoming performance at the MCA:
 Tercer Cuerpo is partly about labor and identity, particularly the disappearance of sustainable, meaningful jobs for people. What happens to these characters, and us, when we must find meaning in our lives apart from a career or calling? The always-already obsolescence of the form of theater makes the piece of interest to representing labor in contemporary performance and medium specificity in dealing with contemporary collapses of space and time. But the company Timbre 4 is also a landmark for contemporary Argentinan art practices; their home base in the working-class Boedo neighborhood of Buenos Aires has become a hotbed and model for independent, experimental theater and performance.
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