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Top 5 Weekend Picks! (2/7-2/9)
February 6, 2014 · Print This Article
1. Feeling is Mutual & PREVIEW 3
Feeling is Mutual is curated by Meredith Weber and Anna Trier, with work by Mothergirl, Jake Myers, and Latham Zearfoss. PREVIEW 3 is curated by Christopher Ottinger and Stevie Reynolds, with work by Annette Barbier, Erik Peterson, Jovencio De La Paz, Oliverio Rodriguez, Marissa Lee Benedict, Rashayla Brown, Reut Avisar, and Sabba Elahi.
Chicago Artists' Coalition is located at 217 N. Carpenter St. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
Work by Lena Youkhana and Puppies Puppies.
PeregrineProgram is located at 3311 W. Carroll Ave. #119. Reception Sunday, 1-4pm.
3. Only Real at Public Works Gallery
Work by Peter Jellitsch and Theodore Darst.
Public Works Gallery is located at 1539 N. Damen Ave. Reception Friday, 7-10pm.
4. Violet Fogs Azure Snot at Corbett vs. Dempsey
Work by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung.
Corbett vs. Dempsey is located at 1120 N. Ashland Ave. Reception Friday, 6-9pm.
5. Honor Your Poets at The Franklin
Work by Sarah Weber.
The Franklin is located at 3522 W. Franklin Blvd. Reception Saturday, 6-10pm.
Exit Interview: Carolina Garcia Jayaram
February 6, 2014 · Print This Article
Last week, it was announced that Carolina Garcia Jayaram, Executive Director of Chicago Artists Coalition (CAC) for nearly four years, is leaving her post at CAC for the position of Chief Executive Officer of United States Artists, one of the nation's largest grant-making and advocacy organizations supporting performing, visual, media, and literary artists. Establishing herself as a formidable force for change and opportunity in the Chicago art world in such a short time period, Jayaram has transformed CAC from an organization that had seen better days to one that is now flocked to by contemporary artists of all kinds. Checking in before she steps into her new role at United States Artists, Bad at Sports conducted this "Exit Interview†with Jayaram:
Bad at Sports: Carolina, you had notable success founding and leading LegalArt (now Cannonball) in Miami. What convinced you to come to Chicago to take up the Executive Director position at CAC?
Carolina Garcia Jayaram: I'd like to say it was some benevolent altruistic force, but it was actually love. My husband is from here and longed to return, so we did, and it was the best decision I've made in a long time. Once I arrived, I worked at the Arts Alliance Illinois, doing arts education policy work, which was truly important work but didn't bring the creative challenge I was looking for and so I sought out something new and CAC was looking for a new Executive Director.
BaS: What was the state of CAC when you inherited it? And now, how would describe the organization?
CGJ: To say it was chaotic and rudderless is an understatement. There were a few loyal and vital board members keeping the frayed ends together, but really, I came in at a time when a few more months would have meant the total demise of the organization. It was a challenge I found exciting and felt prepared to take on largely because I was ignorant to the state of things. That's often the best way to go in for someone like me, who likes making order of the chaos. The bones were there, though, meaning a significant history, a dwindling but loyal cohort of members, funders who reengaged very quickly and a larger artist community that was definitely skeptical, to put it mildly, but welcoming once they realized we were in it for them.
BaS: If at all, how have you worked through the organization's history while developing programming aligned with your own vision?
CGJ: In addressing the history [of CAC], or evolving past it, I found the biggest challenges. The majority of people are averse to change and so my initial push to make broad and sweeping changes was definitely met with resistance. For instance, one of the fist things to go was a printed newspaper that hundreds of artists still subscribed to and relied on for Chicago arts news. I had angry calls for months, but it was time to move on from that. It was a strategy embedded in the belief that our history was about advocacy and advocacy had changed from the early days of CAC. My vision was and remains one aligned with economic prosperity for artists, which is directly linked with artistic and creative freedom. I felt that this approach honored CAC's history but shifted it in a way to become a lot more relevant for artists working today.
BaS:Â In your mind, how has CAC best contributed to the growth and sustainability of the arts in Chicago?
CGJ: One of the things I'm most proud of is creating an environment that welcomes partnership. I owe a great deal of our early successes to the partners who took a chance on me and CAC when they knew little or nothing of us, like the Chicago Loop Alliance (our partner in Pop Up Art Loop & Art Loop Open), Groupon, Gensler, The Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events (by giving us Chicago Artists Resource), Pitchfork, Audience Architects, 1871, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Columbia College Chicago, Other People's Pixels, Creative Capital, and many, many individuals who were instrumental in building BOLT, HATCH, A.B.C., Starving Artist and EDITION Chicago into critical and commercial successes. Each of these endeavors have played a role in helping build a sustainable economic marketplace for Chicago's creative community, which I hope is my legacy in the early development of CAC's latest chapter.
BaS:Â What do you think has been your most important success as executive director?
Convincing hundreds of artists that they are capable of more than they believed possible.
BaS: What aspect(s) of Chicago's arts community has had the greatest impact on you—both personally and professionally? And what aspect(s) have most impressed you?
Professionally, it has been to work in a city that knows the importance of art and artists in a way largely foreign to me before coming here. The level of awareness about the arts here is unusual, and even those who may know less are still convinced of its importance and are usually looking for ways to know and experience more. Personally, the arts community has embraced my ideas and allowed me to take risks and to be creative, which has been deeply rewarding and stimulating. I definitely haven't gotten it all right, but I've always felt I could count on honest and constructive feedback from the many artists who have been a part of CAC's growth.
BaS: Let's wrap up with a look ahead: United States Artists. Tell us about this organization. What excites you most about this new position? And though it may be a bit premature to ask, we still want to know, what are some of your plans for USA?
CGJ: United States Artists is driven by a very simple yet revolutionary premise: to best support artists we must first provide unrestricted funding in order for them to have the space and freedom to create work ([which is] wonderful) and second, we must create an environment where the larger public understands the importance of the artist in the world around them ([which is also] wonderful, but harder to attain). I am excited to grow USA's presence, to reengage with hundreds of alumni who, I do not exaggerate, are our county's finest artists across eight disciplines. I plan to take what we do well, with a fellowship program that has to date invested nearly $18 million directly into artists and their work, and do it better, by working with alumni and future fellows to determine how we can make a deeper impact in not only their lives as artists but in their community's lives, which I believe is a desire many artists have but are seeking tools to do better. But, first, we are going to get the 2014 fellowship underway and by year's end, have a new class of fellows, which is the most exciting.
United States Artists is indeed a granting powerhouse that, at $50,000 a pop, has funded and led to the success of a number of household names, including Chicagoans like Douglas Garofalo (architecture), Theaster Gates (visual arts), Aleksander Hemon (literature), and Steven James (film), among others. Though the organization grants to artists living and working all over the country, a majority number of grants go to those based in New York and California. As far as we can tell, Jayaram will conduct her work as CEO from Chicago. If that's the case, the fact that Chicagoans will be better informed about this national funding opportunity and the possibility that they and other Midwestern artists will be better represented is pretty darned exciting.
Congratulations, Ms. Jayaram.
How We Work: An Interview with Nick Jirasek
February 5, 2014 · Print This Article
Guest post by A.Martinez
Nick Jirasek is a food artist and founder of underground food entity Guerrilla Smiles. He has worked with Tony Fitzpatrick, Links Hall, Redmoon Theater, Linda Warren Projects, Hauser Gallery, Ensemble Dal Niente, High Concept Laboratories, and more. Nick has a strong love of Malort and makes a mean pork shoulder. I got to ask him some questions about who he is, what he does, and his exciting presence in the arts scene.
A.Martinez: What is your definition of a food artist and what you do?
Nick Jirasek: A food artist is one who uses primarily comestible materials to create, explore, or challenge ideas. Â I work professionally in this capacity at exhibition openings, private events, the streets, house-parties, underground dinners, performances, pop-ups, talk-shows, and screenings.
Martinez: You are a self-trained- how did you develop your skills?
Jirasek: Immersion. There are seemingly unending resources, documentation, and wisdom surrounding food. Everyone wants to talk about it, wants to teach you the 'right way to do it,' to share the ritual of eating with you, the most authentic place to buy kielbasa, the healthiest diet, the ethical diet, the best place to eat carnitas. Once I had the feeling that being a food artist is what I wanted to do, I made it my entire life. Some of the learning has been traditional in cooking under trained kitchen professionals, but most of it has been in acute observation and guerrilla learning tactics. I'll sound like a broken .FLAC if I say the internet has been a tremendous resource, so I'll say it's been invaluable. That of course means the usual suspects of e-books, Youtubes, and blog trolling, but also some harder to find fountains of information in more underground and illicit venues of the www. Once one is cognizant of basic technique, cultural/ethnic culinary tradition, and flavor pairing, is when some cooks then begin to hone their craft or get the fuck out; an Italian chef mastering the different regions of Italy, travelling to the Piedmonts to study centuries of tradition in Agnolotti, or a trade-school dropout in search of Tru. They begin to specialize based on their talents, their genealogy, and interests. But, I'm not interested in specializing my edible journey. I want to continually challenge the ideas and traditions of food while building a vocabulary of how to articulate that comestibly, socially, and literally.
Martinez: Who and what is Guerrilla Smiles and how long has it been around?
Jirasek: Guerrilla Smiles started as a social project about 6 years ago; to simply spread smiles in unexpected places and unexpected ways that would serve to beautify our lives and the lives around us.
I was a worn-out, director of food and beverage at Chicago's 4th tallest building, the John Hancock. I worked a ridiculous amount of hours. The dreams at night of P&L's, and the commute home down Chicago on the 66 bus was the cherry on-top of the soul sucking sundae. One day someone at the Hancock had ordered what must have been nearly a hundred gold, helium filled balloons and thrown them in the loading dock after the party was over.  I grabbed all the balloons and walked down the street, handing a floating ball of gold to anyone and everyone that would take them. People like balloons, or maybe just the color gold more than I had thought. I was overrun by would-be gold-diggers by the time I made it to the McDonald's on State street. At that point I walked to the middle of intersection and released the remaining bouquet of gold into the sky. Similar projects came in weeks following like cashing half my paycheck at the currency exchange in quarters and handing them out, then throwing them in the air and off bridges. Safety became an issue.
Around the same time my good friends Claire Molek and Erin Babbin were starting a gallery practice called Studio1020 (later theStudio and thisisnothestudio).  Building on the ideas put forth on the street, I pleaded with them to seize the opportunity of the ubiquitous gallery food & wine table.  The idea was simple; to mirror the displaying artists' work aesthetically or thematically in comestible form. This way the dialogue of what the artist's message was, was literally palatable and hopefully led to broaden and ease the discourse.  Through the past 5 years, a changing cast of cooking professionals, artists, and friends have helped carry on this mission from private dinners of 9 to public events of 900.
Martinez: The Break The Bread series focuses on your collaborations with visual artists at galleries around the city. How do you choose what artists and galleries with which you're going to collaborate? Or do they choose you?
Jirasek: For the vast majority of gigs, the artist, gallerist, or curator approaches us. Guerrilla Smiles does not advertise, has no website, and uses social media sparsely as a means to communicate. That is to say, we truly relish our underground disposition. My time with Studio1020 afforded me a great opportunity to interact and network directly with interested parties, interesting artists, and share lots of ideas through food. It all started from there and kind of naturally branched out by word of mouth. I have, in special situations, approached artists I want to work with and am looking forward to doing so more in the near future, as well as producing independent original work.
Martinez: What is the process of trying out new dish?
Jirasek: I kind of have an ongoing list of techniques, ingredients, serving vessels, equipment and ideas I'm waiting for the right opportunity to try. When it seems appropriate, I get to try out new stuff. In general, the basis for everything I make is a new dish as every exhibition or performance is new. There is some safety in knowing my control of flavor is adept, my technique is solid, but conversely an exciting trepidation in knowing that this dish has components I have done before, but altogether is completely new.
Martinez: What is the biggest revelation you've had about the way you work?
Jirasek: One needs to be aware of their work patterns and not sabotage their opportunities. I don't like asking for help, and no one will ever work for me for free.
Martinez: Is shopping for ingredients an important part of your creative process?
Jirasek: Extremely. I devote at least an entire day to shopping for an event that can completely change the menu. The Green City Market is a staple and only occurs on 2 days of the week. But generally I go to local specialty stores and markets that take me from 113th to Skokie. This process of traveling all around the city, of breathing in the lifeblood of our diverse culture, of interacting with ethnicities whose only commonality with me is Chicago and food, is probably my greatest inspiration. It's not dissimilar to the interaction I have with people on the night of an event. Most 'food people' will disagree with me on this, but I'm less interested in the local food movement and more interested in small, local family businesses, and traditions in Chicagoland.
Martinez: What is your favorite ingredient to work with?
Jirasek: Celery or Popcorn.
Martinez: Guerrilla Smiles has a dish called Oak Street Beach. Describe this dish and how it came about.
Jirasek: Oak Street Beach started as dish for a thisisnotthestudio show featuring artist Xiao Tse at High Concept Laboratories. Tse took upwards of a thousand pictures from the concrete pavement of Oak St. Beach's shore, facing the lake and narrowed it down to one piece that combined around twenty of the most discerning shots. It is essentially a deconstructed soup, with the broth held separately so as not to affect the aesthetic and textural integrity of the dry ingredients. The dry ingredients are held in a ten ounce clear plastic glass. The sand is a combination of ground peanuts, cashews, and maltodextrin.  The grass is julienned wild ramps. The trash is a candied ginger chip. The fish is a rice flour fried smelt. The towel is a soy and turmeric based spring roll wrapper. The wet ingredients are suspended above in a fitting five ounce plastic glass, rimmed with suntan lotion that is garlic mayo. The Lake Michigan water is a kombu dashi. The eater is instructed to take a small mouthful of the dry ingredients and wash it down with a swig of the wet ingredients, going back and forth in a double fisted affair like they are swimming, until they are finished.
The service of Oak St. Beach was very much so inspired by a dish put forward by Michael Carlson of Schwa at Redmoon Theater's Spectacle Lunatique 2011 called "Walking Through the Forest.â€
Martinez: You were born and raised in Chicago and this has a strong influence on the food you make. Are there any other cities or cultures that you either look to for inspiration or are inherent in your work?
Jirasek: I think Mexican food simply got everything right. We obviously have a large population of Mexican-Americans in Chicago, and benefit greatly from the cornucopia of ingredients, flavor, and culture they have imbued upon us. Aside from that, I took great inspiration from my time cooking in Panama City, whose flavors are a great amalgamation of the diverse foreign cultures who have occupied the area and the local flora and fauna. I look forward to delving into historical American First Nation culinaria as a geographical inspiration, and look forward to marrying Filipino and Czech food with acidic flavors.
Martinez: Food-wise, what do you think are some exciting places or events happening around the city?
Jirasek: I think The Plant in The Back of the Yards is going to be a blueprint for metropolitan farming worldwide. Asado Coffee's recent expansion plans and concept of 'nano-roasting' is next level. Smalls BBQ is the kind of approachable, forward thinking neighborhood restaurant that Chicago has lacked to put it on the level of NYC. Floriole's baguettes are worth lining up for a la Paris when they come out fresh at 11am everyday. Three Aces is what every gastropub should strive to be. I also think we'll see a boon in quality independent food writing like Graze, Middlewest and whatever Anthony Todd has up his sleeve.
Martinez: What is your favorite Chicago-style food? And where's your favorite place to get it?
Jirasek: Chicago's hot dog is unmatched. Though not all the classic ingredients are included, Gene & Judes' can't be contended with because of the volume they go through and the freshness that entails, and fries like woah. Gotta go with underdog Chickie's for beef because their giardiniera is only quickly cured and crunchier. Salerno's for pizza because the true Chicago slice is thick crust and party cut.
Martinez: What does Guerrilla Smiles have lined up in the coming months?
Jirasek: In the great tradition of former Redmoon Theater Development Director Sean Kaplan, we will be curating the amuse-bouche portion of the upcoming fundraiser Spectacle Lunatique, outfitted Guerrilla style, primarily by the underground supper clubs of Chicago. We are in post-production for the next episode of our Break The Bread series with OnTheRealFilm for last year's THAW fundraiser for Links Hall, as well as designing a menu for a soon opening southside cafe with one of Chicago's champion contemporary artists.
Martinez: Is there a piece of advice, food-related or not that you think of often?
Jirasek: Don't crowd the pan. When it rains, it pours. Be safe, be strong.
All photos courtesy of the artist.
A.Martinez is a freelance art and music organizer living in Chicago, IL.
By Kevin Blake
Chicago Imagism represents something more complex than a published manifesto, an aesthetic engagement, or a theoretician's aim at creating an avant-garde. One might argue that Chicago Imagism, an internationally recognized movement with roots in the late 1960's and early 1970's, is still alive and well in the second city. On his 90th birthday on January 26, 2014, Richard Loving explained to a rapt audience at the Hyde Park Art Center, that his work–like the work of other "Imagistsâ€â€"were simply about making the work that they wanted to make.
In their current exhibit, Inside the Outside at the Hyde Park Art Center curated by Aaron Ott, Richard Loving and Eleanor Spiess-Ferris's works on display span two careers that aptly describe the very complicated historicity of the Chicago Imagist movement. Inside the Outside is a critical investigation of the ambiguous framework of Chicago Imagism and how these two very different artists bound geographically but also aesthetically chose to utilize its tenets to spur their artistic visions.
The works are hung chronologically–a relatable choreography that adequately stresses the aesthetic distances traveled and the hard earned merits of two lives of artistic engagement. In relation to the Imagists' aesthetic–high key color strategies, figuration, symbology, and text to name a few–these works can fit the bill. However, the distinction as Imagist work may also deprive them of the singular translation they so deserve.
Spiess-Ferris and Loving's works are clearly about themselves. Throughout the show, there is an overwhelming sense of self discovery or exhibitionism that develops into a confident vernacular that is uniquely their own. In Loving's case, this idea takes the shape of a materials quest, that over decades evolves from small enamel works that become large format abstractions and matriculate to color drenched dreamscapes that embody the entire narrative. They are Loving's accumulated wealth of knowledge with his materials, and a pointed emulsion of his interests. Loving's work "Fire and Smoke†is one such amalgamation.
Hovering above the very unnatural bands of lush color is a curved horizon that encloses the space of the painting and alludes to an inevitable ending–a forced punctuation. This curvilinear maneuver has become a staple in Loving's later works and allow for the landscapes to remain in the netherworld of abstraction while maintaining the graphic qualities central to the Imagist aesthetic. Loving's narratives are not forthcoming, but they reveal enough of itself to spend time with their mysteries. The paintings can operate as storyteller or simply as an object of contemplation, and therein lies their success.
On the surface, the narrative elements seem to be more readily available in such works as Spiess-Ferris's "Resignation,†where the viewer is immediately immersed into a parallel universe that is completely her own. The cast of characters is the entry point–as there is a familiarity that grows from one piece to the next. Everything in Speiss-Ferris's paintings is as familiar as the paint itself, yet there are no answers to her riddles either. The paintings allow you to meander through them, but never actually be a part of the place–it is her singular experience of a world in which the viewer has no role. It is in the moments of expectations unmeant that the viewer can understand their exclusion. "Resignation,†exudes Speiss-Ferris's anguished charm while allowing for self discovery through her range of emblematic totems that find their way into her imagined worlds.
The show also presents some of Speiss-Ferris's drawings where one can see the artist looking at her creations from without, while also participating in the ironies and chagrin of human awareness. In "Acquisition†the sketched portions of the drawing remain as portals into her studio–a nod to herself and remnant of her hand.
This elusiveness and earnest approach to her materials has kept Spiess-Ferris on the periphery of Imagism. Her work is an acidly good-natured view of human follies, largely concerned with the roles and relations between women and nature. She presents the human comedy through her imagined places that are often absurd, charming, hostile, seductive, and ridiculous. Charged with strong doses of painfully comic self-discovery, her host of symbols, images, and characters all play theatrical roles in the ongoing comedy that is a perpetual remix of itself.
The affinity to nature, the paint handling, geography, and the parallel working timeline are enough to link these two artists, but the strength in this show comes from both artist's unflinching dedication to their practices. Decades in the making, their works have evolved and remained on the edges of a discussion that Chicago painters cannot seem to avoid. Imagism is the staple, the running joke, the license, and liberator for Chicago painters. It is the all-encompassing genre most aptly described by Richard Loving as "just making what we wanted to make.â€
To pair these two artists in a conversation about the reaches of Imagism was to operate on the periphery–to think outside the proverbial box. As the Hyde Park Art Center enters into its 75th anniversary year, a show to kick off the celebration that commemorates a pivotal moment in the center's history as well as the history of Chicago image making was a grandiose gesture, most welcome.
Out of the Mouths of Artists: Nicole Mauser
February 4, 2014 · Print This Article
"Out of the Mouths of Artists" is a new bi-monthly series on the Bad at Sports blog. The series presents a space for guest artist bloggers– of varying career statuses– to write, to reflect, to pontificate on their current situations, failures and/or successes, and ideas on what it means to be an artist. "Out of the Mouths of Artists" also gives readers a glimpse into artists' portfolios and studios.Â
Relocating a Center
By Nicole Mauser
Just last week, a question was posed to me: "Where is the epicenter of Chicago's art scene?†This was part of a casual elevator conversation with someone who had just moved from the East Coast to Chicago. I was struck by this question because it made me pause and consider where I geographically invest my time and conversations about art and research. Having relocated back to Chicago from Kansas City, MO, for a second time this past summer, I found myself picking up where I left off. In some respects, I am engaged in existing dialogues and structures, while in other professional respects I have set out to tackle completely unknown territories and new challenges.
With the question, I realized how fascinating it is to be an observer on the periphery (even if only temporarily) and see what galleries have disappeared, endured, and emerged, while exploring a 'new' to me Chicago in terms of private collections and historic venues such as The Arts Club or Union League.
I had no short answer for the East Coaster-cum-Chicagoan: 119 Peoria has been all but dismantled (will Three Walls stay or go?); however, there is still a bastion of galleries in the West Loop on Washington. Mana Contemporary is becoming a household by name teaming up with various institutions. Each university with a MFA program from the universities—Northwestern, UIC and U of C—to the art schools—Columbia College and SAIC—has is its own mini-epicenter with concentric circles emanating outward into the art scene. A handful (a few handfuls, really) of Chicago artists are being highlighted in the upcoming Whitney Biennial by Michelle Grabner and Anthony Elms. The MCA has gone through upheaval. Art Expo is back. Ultimately, there is no dominant discourse. In dynamic and thriving arts ecologies, there is a multitude of rich conversations happening. These conversations are being instigated by the artists themselves and to varying degrees by the institutions.
One thing I do know: my life now in Chicago is an inversion of the one I led in KCMO.
After an initial brief stint as an art handler in Chicago, I learned a difficult lesson that not all businesses touting the arts support artists; some exploit employees who make the ultimate sacrifice to pay their bills: no longer making their work. Currently, I juggle a full-time administrative job at one local art school while teaching painting as an adjunct at another local university. And I recently struck up a relationship with Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia, to exhibit a few pieces of my work. While all of these roles help me pay the rent and gain professional experience, they combine to make ends difficult to support a studio practice.
This is the predicament that many conversations with artist friends revolve around: balancing studio/research time with demands of a job to afford overhead. Whereas in KCMO, many artists cobble together part-time teaching, waiting tables, and selling work to afford three times the living space and a studio. In that smaller metropolis, it is a choice to leverage income to focus on the studio practice. It is an option to survive on much less. Therefore, it has become an environment that lends itself to risk taking and igniting experimental collaborations. I found that I was able to do many things, and still work to afford an artist's necessities. With a number of others, I founded and rigorously participated in two artist enterprises: PLUG Projects and Kansas City's Plein Air Coterie (KCPAC), both of which are going still going strong. The collaborative work I did (from 2011 to 2012) with the always professional co-founders and artists at PLUG was rewarding, and I am grateful to my conspirators there for their mutual desire to shape unique exhibitions and ancillary programming, all from the perspective of the artist as curator. Also, this time at PLUG helped me hone my ability to simultaneously hold down a full time staff job at SAIC and an adjunct teaching appointment at UIC. I believe my experience as part of KCPAC, in which I was working from observation in the elements, helped to erode any assumptions about the relationship between abstraction and perception.
Recently, in Chicago, a few artists and I rekindled a critique group consisting of grad school colleagues (and friends!) for studio visits. Inscribing this regular practice into our studio research is gaining terrific momentum. I truly value these relationships and the quality of our conversations. I am continually blown away by the multitude of in-depth cross-conversations, generosity, and ferocity of investment in each other's development. In this context, which is a kind of epicenter for me, criticality is not a rebuff but a way of asking better questions. I find that I am now breaking rules that I once set for myself in the past. I am working to explore abstraction through a host of reference materials, including still lifes, photos, Xeroxed images, and art historical references, in order to push against my own non-objective proclivities.
Through it all, though, I find myself returning to ponder the eternal question, what is the healthiest scenario to support my work? It is the gallery system? Is it the academic system? None of these scenarios are necessarily the sustainable answer. Constantly having open conversations negotiating alternative models and redefining healthy arts ecology seems the best start for me.
In summary, it appears that the current epicenter in Chicago, and in all cities, is a moving target—for me and for others. This scenario seems to simultaneously present plural opportunities and elusive support mechanisms for one's longevity in the arts. And yet, it feels like a great time to be an artist in Chicago.
I hope someone asks me where "the epicenter†is again in five years.
Nicole Mauser (b. 1983, Indianapolis) currently lives and works in Chicago, IL. She obtained a MFA from The University of Chicago (2010) and a BFA from Ringling College of Art & Design (2006). Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally. Mauser was a 2011 recipient of a Post-MFA Teaching Felllowship at The University of Chicago and a recipient of a Student Fine Art Fund Grant for travel and research in Berlin from The University of Chicago. Exhibitions include Ft. Gondo Compound for the Arts (St. Louis), Carrie Secrist Gallery (Chicago), The Dolphin Gallery (Kansas City), H&R Block Artspace (Kansas City), DOVA Temporary Gallery (Chicago), Gladstone Community Center (Gladstone, MO), Center for Art+Culture (Aix-en-Provence) and AR Gallery (Milan). Collections include The Alexander (Indianapolis) and The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS). Mauser's writings have been published in 8 ½ x 11 and Art Practical. Mauser is also a co-founder of the artist run gallery, PLUG Projects and co-founder of the Kansas City Plein Air Coterie (KCPAC).
See more of Nicole's work at www.nicolemauser.com.


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Dr. Donna Woolard is pursuing new scholarship interests. After years of sharing her expertise in the professional preparation of physical education teachers and serving as a consultant to the Educational Testing Service in its development of the Praxis II Physical Education Exams, she has teamed up with the department's former chair, Dr. William Freeman. Together they have collaborated on research into the nation's nomenclature of departments and programs in physical education, exercise science, and kinesiology, presenting their findings at the Association for Kinesiology in Higher Education's annual conferences. Their latest work focuses on the preparation of college-level teachers.
Ms. Catherine Simonson is active in the National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) and the North Carolina Athletic Trainers' Association (NCATA) and serves as a peer reviewer for the NATA Educational Council. Her areas of interest include evidence-based practice, injury prevention, performance enhancement, and community health education.
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Amok has decided to try and fill out his Targaryen portraits by doing drawings of other, notable Targaryens. He's calling for names of those Targaryens, and descriptions (if any can be found), so as to try and produce this work prior to Christmas. You can read about it here. While you're at it, go and vote in the polls for which other characters Amok should try his skilled hand at in the future.
Locus's November 2005 issue features GRRM on the cover. Inside, there's an interview as well as a review of the book. Locus has now released some choice excerpts from the interview on its official website.
Mike S. Miller, artist on The Hedge Knight graphic novel and holder of the license to produce official "A Song of Ice and Fire" lithographs, has opened a new site that features his work: Firebrand Fantasy Art.
GRRM's official site has been updated with new details regarding George's A Feast for Crows tour in Canada. He'll be starting in Toronto and going on from there to Calgary, Edmonton, Victoria, and Vancouver. Our calendar will be updated shortly to reflect this.
GRRM's official site has been updated with news regarding the A Clash of Kings limited edition and new cover art. Also, George has updated his blog with a post-signing tour report.
Via Emerald City, we learn that Fast Forward TV features an 18 minute interview with George discussing A Feast for Crows. An audio-only download is also available for those with slower connections.
A report from GRRM's signing in Petaluma indicates that he has just gotten word that ... will enter the November 27th New York Times' Bestseller list at #1. This has now been confirmed by Bantam Dell. The bestseller lists for the Wall Street Journal and Publisher's Weekly also place the book at #1, while USA Today's list places it at #2. Congratulations, George!
Amazon.co.uk is now taking orders for the limited edition of A Feast for Crows. As we posted before, only 1,000 of these slip-cased, signed books will be made available, so they're likely to disappear pretty quickly.
Slightly late, but the webcomic "Least I Could Do", created by Ryan Sohmer, made the release of A Feast for Crows a key player in one of their strips. Good fun.
Fantasy Flight Games has now made the limited edition of the Art of George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire art book available on its website. Only 230 copies are available out of the initial 250 at this time; supplies seem to be dwindling fast. The book can be purchased via their online store.
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For the week ending November 15th, A Feast for Crows hit the number two spot on the BookSense Bestseller List . Booksense is a website for a coalition of independent booksellers throughout the 50 states, and appears to compile its list from sales from participating stores.
The Brotherhood without Banners is organizing a charity drive this holiday season to raise money for two charities chosen by GRRM and Parris, the Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary and Child's Play. Please support this worthy cause. To learn about it, go here.
George's classic short story of doomed romance, "A Song for Lya", is now available for download at Fictionwise.
Lev Grossman of Times Magazine, who has been cited before for his positive remarks concerning GRRM and A Feast for Crows, has now written a write up boldly titled, "The American Tolkien".
Guardians of Order are pleased to announce that GRRM's special appearance at GenCon Socal on the 19th will include a period in the Orange County Ballroom, Salon 1, between 8 and 10 PM where he'll be available to sign books.
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On November 25, 2014, Ansell Capital Corp. filed a Notice of Alteration with the Registrar of Companies of the Province of British Columbia to change its corporate name from "Ansell Capital Corp." to "BriaCell Therapeutics Corp." The name change followed a 3.25 to 1 share consolidation both of which were approved at the company's Annual General and Special Meeting held on the same date. The name change was approved and the company's proposed nominees, Rahoul Sharan, and new directors, Dr. Charles Wiseman, Dr. Saeid Babei and Isaac B. Maresky were all appointed to the Board.
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SAY What? You mean that democratic bastion SLC is not in the top 50? How can that be Becker? How can it be that three GOP/Tea Party Communities beat the likes of SLC, Park City, Price? Must be the leadership.....
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Good job, Utah. But I will only ever visit the Beehive State. BYU was enough
winter for for me, and I was born in Idaho! Love to visit ya in the summer,
maybe a Christmas or two, but nothing beats the beaches, mountains, culture,
museums and pure outdoors of the Sunshine State for those who have to have
variety and internat'l exposure.
I do love St. George. Would live there if push came to shove...
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@Truth: You may have missed the title of the article: "Best SMALL towns...". If you would bother to look, not one town on the list has a population over 50,000. Furthermore, if you would do just the tiniest bit of research, you'll see that many towns are not tea party/GOP ruined. I know it may be difficult for you to hear this realization, but cognitive dissonance does no one any good.
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Why all the negativity? Utah is a great place to live. If you don't think so, don't live here. Glad to live here!
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Jason Zengerle gets even-handed:
There's no denying that liberals who once derided Maliki as a Bush administration stooge are now touting him as the authentic and sovereign voice of the Iraqi people; but conservatives are doing their own flip-flop as well.
I think that's wrong in a whole bunch of ways. For one thing, it's not some kind of crazy inconsistency to deride someone as a stooge while he's being a stooge, and then to stop deriding him when he stops being a stooge. I don't think anyone can deny that over the past couple of months Maliki has moved to a position more independent from the Bush administration. Meanwhile, nobody's "touting" Maliki as the "sovereign voice of the Iraqi people" but he is in fact the Prime Minister of the sovereign government of Iraq just as Hu Jintao is President of China whether or not he's also the voice of the people. Last, the one thing everyone, right and left, agrees on about this is that Maliki is taking this position in part for political purposes. In other words, his position (and Obama's) is popular among the Iraqi people.
Maliki is still Maliki — a fairly weak leader trying to hold onto power by hook or by crook. The significance of his government's pro-timetable position has nothing to do with turning him into some kind of folk hero.


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Upon completing military service, I was an attorney with the Enforcement Division of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission in Washington, D.C. While with the SEC from 1990-1993, I investigated and/or litigated civil violations of the federal securities laws. I served as a federal prosecutor (Special Assistant U.S. Attorney) in Miami and Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, assigned to the Securities Fraud Unit. While assigned to that Unit, I prosecuted criminal violations of the federal securities laws, including insider trading, market manipulation, money laundering, mail and wire fraud, perjury, and making false statements to a government agency. I obtained convictions in cases involving a nationwide broker payoff scheme; a multi-state financial fraud involving cellular telecommunications; insider trading by principals of a publicly traded company; and embezzlement by a registered agent. Representative of the nature of the cases handled by me, I also investigated the marketing and sale of certain limited partnerships by a major broker-dealer, resulting in the establishment of a $292.5 million claims fund for investors, and the payment of fines to the U.S. Treasury.
I next entered private practice as a partner with a national law firm based in Richmond, Virginia, where my practice was concentrated on the representation of a major brokerage firm. In 1999, I began practice as a solo practitioner.
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I served as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Richmond School of Law, where I taught a course entitled, "Enforcement of the Federal Securities Laws."
I have formerly served as both Co-Chair and Chair of the Securities Arbitration Subcommittee (Corporate and Business Litigation Committee) of the Business Law Section of the American Bar Association. I also previously held the position of Chair of the ABA's Securities Enforcement Subcommittee (Business Law Section). For many years, I served as Chair, and then, Vice-Chair, of the Criminal Laws Committee of the ABA's Section of Business Law. In conjunction with my work for the ABA, in 2003, I was appointed by then-ABA President Dennis Archer to serve on a 14-member commission. This special commission was formed to examine criticisms of mandatory minimum sentences raised by U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, in his August 2003 speech to the Opening Assembly at the ABA's Annual Meeting in San Francisco. After holding extensive hearings, the Commission presented a detailed report to the ABA.
I earned a Master of Laws degree (Securities Regulation) from Georgetown University Law Center, and J.D. and B.B.A. degrees from Baylor University. I was admitted to the Bar Associations of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the District of Columbia, and the State of Texas (inactive). Additionally, I am admitted to practice in the federal court system. Also, I practice regularly before FINRA. I estimate that I have handle represented over 200 claimants in securities arbitrations. I dedicate a portion of my practice to pro-bono representation.
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David Stein (@Made2Mentor) started a neat new post My McGuyver Moment and tagged Brent Ozar (@BrentO) who tagged me. In David and Brent's post they talked about building something from nothing that the company ended up needing for several years.
I to have had my share of shoestring budget projects that I've had to deal with putting together. The one that I'm probably the most proud of was when I worked at EarthLink. We had a rather large call center, at the time it was a single office, but over time it grew to 7 offices and 3 outsourced call centers, but I'm skipping ahead here.
On the things which our call center supervisors were supposed to do was grab the call center queue stats every 4 hours and email them to management's pagers. Needless to say this seemed like a rather big waste of time to actually have a person sum up these numbers in Excel and then send out an email.
So I built a quick VB app which would log into the PBX, gather the required numbers and send out the email. This was cool and all, and took about a day to put together. After this I decided to put the data out on a web server so that everyone else that didn't have access to the rather expensive Lucent PBX software could see the data. So once everyone thought that was awesome, we look it to the next logical step and started exporting all the call center data and created web pages which would allow anyone to see the data.
Now these weren't fancy dynamic pages. They were just static HTML files that refreshed themselves every few seconds and were rewritten by the app I wrote every few seconds. Now on the server side of things the PBX server that I had to connect to was a closed system meaning that my only option to connect to it was via the management tool. At the time there was no scripting support in the app, so I had to write an app which would send keystrokes to the client app and export the data to flat files, then process the files into the needed html files.
This lasted for a couple of weeks until we started adding more groups into this mix. It would end up taking several minutes to process everything. I then started loading the data into an Access database and using classic ASP to allow the users to select the data that they wanted to see. After a couple of weeks of loading data into Access every few seconds Access blew up so we upgraded to SQL Server.
After some time we added more and more call centers to the company we added more and more computers doing processing. Now when all this started we were running on old P2 400Mhz workstations all running like 128 Megs of RAM for each machine. By the time we were done with this we had a view computers all these crappy workstation class machines except for one rack mount server (see the picture of my desk below).
By the time I left EarthLink (more specifically I was tossed out kicking and screaming as all our jobs were off-shored) we had equipment in 5 offices in additional to all the machines running under my desk. There were somewhere around 4000 internal users accessing the web app and we were actually feeding hold time information to the customer facing website so that customers could see what the wait time would be in real time. By the time everything was said and done we had saved hundreds of thousands of dollars in Lucent/Avaya licensing fees as each new Lucent PBX we brought only the server and only needed the default 5-10 licenses that came with the PBX system.
Needless to say this was probably the biggest spit and chewing gum project that I've ever worked on. The total cost to the company was only a few thousand dollars (the rack mount server). Our SQL License was covered under our Enterprise Agreement, and all the workstations were older machines which weren't in use any more by Tech Support (they liked it when we stole the old machines, it gave them an excuse to order new ones).
Now, as for the people that I'm going to tag I'm going to go with some people that don't always get pulled into these.
Jessica and Goeff haven't been going a lot of blogging recently. Hopefully this will help them start writing more often. Tom blogs like crazy, and one more just isn't going to hurt him. I picked these three because I'm curious to see what these folks have had to band-aid together with duct-tape over their careers.
I must have had a great time at the MVP summit, I'm sick as hell
I'm not that kind of sick, any hangover would be long gone by now. But the lack of sleep has caught up with me. I've got exactly 5 days to get over it before my next trip, which will hopefully be much more tame.
So last week was the MVP Summit (#mvp10 for those of you on Twitter). While I can't really go into what was covered at the sessions because it is all covered under NDA.
What I can tell you is that we had some great sessions (and some not so great sessions) and gave the product groups some great feedback (hopefully they think that the feedback was great as well).
We also partied, and did we ever party. Over the four days the highest number of parties that I heard one person attending is 12. Now I don't care who you are, that's a lot of events to make it to in one week, especially when you remember that we were in session from 9-6 each day, and you have to sleep at some point. Continued »
Heading to SQL Saturday 33 in Charlotte, NC
In about a week I've got the pleasure of attending my first SQL Saturday. Of course I've submitted some sessions to present at the event, because we'll I'm a sucker for a speaking event where I can meet SQL Server Professionals, and catch up with some friends from the East Coast.
Most of my SQL Server friends on the East Coast I'm only able to see once or twice a year, MVPs I get to see at the MVP Summit and at PASS, while the non-MVPs I only get to see once a year at PASS. This gives me a chance to meet up with a ton of friends and make some new ones.
So if you are going to be in the Charlotte, NC area on March 6th, 2010 I'd highly recommend coming to the SQL Saturday event.
If you see me on Saturday you'll probably see me with coffee or soda in my hand. If I don't have something with me, I'll probably be on my way to getting coffee or soda. The reason for this is that the week before I'll be in Vegas (I know, poor me) at EMC Training for the entire week. The training class ends at 5pm on Friday, then I've got to hop a red-eye from Vegas to Charlotte, get a few hours of sleep (if I'm lucky) then off to the event.
Why I don't buy big name laptops any more
There are tons laptops out there which you can buy. HP and Dell are the biggest sellers in laptops these days. However for the last couple of laptops that I've purchased I've stayed away from the major brands.
My last laptop was an Acer Aspire 5610, and my new laptop is an Asus UL50AG.
My Acer laptop was a tank. Hell my wife accidentally ran it over with a car, and the only problem the laptop had was that the screen was cracked. I was able to plug in a monitor and copy all the data off of it over the couple of days after that without issue. The monitor was replaced thanks to Best Buy's Accidental Damage replacement policy.
But with a new year comes new toys, and it was time for an upgrade to a 64bit machine since the Acer only had a 32bit processor.
The Asus is a total new direction for me. This time I went with an ultra-light laptop. It weighs in at just 4.2 lbs and is 1″ thick and I've seen it run for 5 hours on a single charge. But there is a heck of a lot of performance in this little package. It comes with 4 Gigs of RAM which I've already upgraded to 6 Gigs, and I'll be going to 8 Gigs later on. It has a 64bit processor, and I've got the 64bit version of Windows 7 installed along with 64bit Office 2010, SQL Server 2008, VPN software, all the Twitter and IM software that one could ever want. I've got Windows Live Sync, Carbonite, Interguard and Laptop Cop (Interguard and Laptop Cop are my companies products so they are installed for testing purposes, so I usually have beta versions of them installed) all running in the background.
Now since there isn't actually anything wrong with the Acer and the Asus has a slower processor in it (it has a 1.4 Ghz Centrino 2), I've re-purposed the Acer as a portable VMware server. It has been reformatted with Ubuntu on it and has VMware Server installed on it and it is now my portable data VMware machine so that I can do demo's, presentations, etc without slowing down my new laptop. I tried putting VMware ESX 3.5 on it but it couldn't find the NIC, and Hyper-V 2.0 only support x64.
Depending on how things look next year, and depending on how much use the VMware laptop gets (having the two laptops did give me an excuse to buy a new laptop bag) I may buy a new laptop next year just to be a VMware laptop (this gives me a free try run at it). My hope there will be that I can put vSphere (or Hyper-V, but I'd prefer vSphere since I know that better) on it so that I don't have to run Windows then run the VMs inside of that. Running it under vSphere would also give me the ability to start and stop the VMs from my main laptop without needing to log into the VMware machine's console, as I already have all the vSphere tools installed thanks to my normal job. It is going to be tough getting the guys at Best Buy to let me drop in the vSphere DVD to see if installer can find the NIC and hard drive of their machines. If anyone has gotten ESX or vSphere to run on a laptop please let me know what model in the comments (or via Twitter if you don't have an account here and don't want to create one).
But I've veered off topic here.
I moved away from the big laptop companies for a couple reasons.
1. Cost: The name brand laptops are expensive.
2. Finding drivers: Like all good geeks I like to format my laptop and get rid of the crap the vendor installs since I know what I want better than they do. Getting all the drivers from HP and Dell can be a pain. Acer didn't make it all that easy, but Asus included 2 DVDs with the laptop. The first the was the restore DVD to make the laptop all factory fresh, and the second was the driver and utility install disk which had all the drivers and extra software. I just checked the boxes for what I wanted installed and click install. It rebooted a few times during the process, but installed everything automatically.
I know that in the past the non-big brand laptops where not up to par with the big name laptops. However I can say without a doubt that these Acer and Asus laptops are up to just about any job that you give them (or at least that I've given them so far).
Now my last laptop was an HP, and it was kind of a crappy laptop. When I bought it it was a brand new laptop, and I ended up with one of the first ones off the assembly line. It was a 17″ desktop replacement laptop and weight in at like 100 lbs or so (probably only 10 or so, but it was still insanely heavy). The laptop used so much power that it would only run for like 30 minutes on its battery, and when the CPU was running at full speed it would actually use more power than the power supply could output and the battery would actually drain while plugged in. This was pretty much the last straw for the big name laptops for me. Especially with how happy I've been with the smaller companies laptops recently.
Now if Acus or Acer (or anyone else for that matter) has a laptop that they'd like me to put through the passes let me know. So far I'm only able to review the equipment that I buy, and I'm not exactly made of money.
Dealing with a digital "chicken or the egg" situation.
Recently I had the opportunity to upgrade my computer desktop from 2 Gigs of RAM to 8 Gigs of RAM. This required that I reinstall Windows 7 to replace by 32bit OS with a 64bit OS.
This presented me with a problem as I work from home full time and I have to VPN in. You see we use a Cisco VPN router as our VPN server so I can't use the standard Windows VPN client which allows you to VPN in from the login screen. You have to log into Windows before you can start the VPN client.
So I could login to my computer with a local account, VPN in, then add my computer to the domain. But when it becomes time to login with my domain account. I can try and login with my domain account but I can't access the domain. I can login with my local account and start a VPN tunnel, but if I log out then the VPN tunnel will be closed, preventing me from logging in with my domain account.
The solution that I came up with was to login with my local account which was created when my Windows 7 was installed. I then granted my domain account admin rights to my workstation (so that I can install software). I then remote desktoped into the workstation from my laptop and logged in with my domain credentials. This triggered by local account to log out, but not before the domain account was authenticated. I then rebooted my desktop and was able to log into my newly formatted desktop using my cached domain credentials.
Windows then built my new profile just like it normally would. After the desktop appeared I was able to VPN back into the office and begin installing the needed software.
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Taking backups is good, but testing them is better.
I bet that if asked when the last time the database backup was taken and if it succeeded you would know off of the top of your head when that was. But if I asked you when the last time your database was restored successfully would you know?
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Pavilion dv4-1220us quickly draining battery?
I just bought a dv4-1220us today (1/4/2008) and have noticed that the battery life stinks. I charged it up completely and then unplugged it to see what kind of battery life I would get... I was replacing my Dell whose battery recently kicked the bucket and got less than an hour so I was excited for a NEW laptop with a decent battery.
Within 10 minutes of unplugging it, the battery was at 95%, which definitely had me worried. Within an hour, the computer shut down because the battery was completely drained. Hoping that it was some first-time charge fluke, I charged it up again and unplugged it. It was 100% when I looked first and within a few minutes, it was already down to 98%. Right now it's at 85% and I haven't even had it on more than 15 minutes.
Should a battery on a brand new laptop go so quickly like that? I'm not running any big programs - all I have is an internet window open - so I can't figure out why it would be running down so fast. I think it's pretty crazy that my 2.5 year old Dell battery can outlast a battery in a computer that was just removed from the box this afternoon.
Is this something that I should contact HP about? Would they replace the battery?
Re: Pavilion dv4-1220us quickly draining battery?
as far as i know with initial use of battery it should be charged with the notebook off and at least 8 hrs or overnight.
if worried for battery efficiency, run battery check
batery check can be found on help and support , troubleshooting tools, battery check
if it passes then calibrate battery
help and support will also give you steps how to do battery calibration
Re: Pavilion dv4-1220us quickly draining battery?
I let it charge for several hours with the laptop off and it still drains very, very quickly (like 12% in 10 minutes). I tested the battery and it claims that it is "good". I read through the instructions on calibrating the battery and it sounds pretty much like what I did when I ran it down the first time which didn't help anything.
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01-05-2009 11:09 PM - edited 01-05-2009 11:13 PM
Have you checked the power setting? Click on the little battery symbol in the lower right part of your screen. There are three choices, balanced, power saver and high performance. If you have it set to high performance you will go through your battery very quickly. Power saver makes you machine run a bit sluggish. Balanced is preferred for battery power. You can also check the power settings through control panel. You can configure your monitor to dim on battery power thereby saving lots of juice. I have a new dv7 with 17 inch screen running several applications and still get a couple hours out of the battery. In fact I was able to watch an entire movie on battery power and still have power to spare. Of course I did spend the extra to get the high capacity battery for my system.
Check you power settings to see if there are changes you can make there first. If you are still having a problem then contact HP. If it is a new machine they might well replace the battery for you.
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Re: Pavilion dv4-1220us quickly draining battery?
I ran into the SAME EXACT problem as you are. I had this new computer (mine's version HP Pavilion d6), in which I upgraded the battery to be the "HP LONG LIFE CELL BATTERY" and I paid extra for this.
I have this computer for about a month now and I notice the battery drains unusually fast, even though I have the power setting as "HP Recommended / Balanced". I called the support and they asked me to calibrate on my own by draining my battery completely before charging it. This process does not improve the battery life. I am so frustrated! The longest time I got out of this battery was almost one hour - without watching movie, just simple web browsing.
I think I just need to accept (or probably it is already known to mankind) that HP battery simply is not durable. When I purchased this computer over the phone, the sales guy said that this upgraded battery should give me an extended 3 - 6 hours of battery life. I should have known that I could not trust the claim. I feel your frustration - sorry.
Re: Pavilion dv4-1220us quickly draining battery?
I just purchased the dv4. I stopped buying HP products back when they merged with Compaq and their quality went down the toilet. Before that, I would own nothing else. Well it's been a few years and HP seemed to have regained some of their reputation so I decided to give them a try again and purchased this dv4. HP boasted "A standard 6-cell Lithium-Ion battery (up to 4.25 hours of life3".
If that's not false advertising, I don't know what is!!! I have the power setting on the HP recommended settings and I get 45 minutes battery life tops. That's running nothing but a couple of browser windows. Switching to the power saver mode extends battery life to slightly over one hour. I guess the only way to get the 4 hours is to turn it off!!!!
Made a mistake going back to HP - won't ever do it again.
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i got my laptop about a year ago and so far the battery life on it satisfied me i get around 3/5 hours on a single charge and 2/1 hours when playing hd games such as battlefield bad company 2. if you are really unsatisfied buy a 12 cell battery.....
my friend has that and he can get 7/8h on it
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I have a HP Pavillion Entertainment PC dv4 1225x, need replace the battery 6 cell lithium Ion not able to determine compatiable one
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County CEO Mike Giancola prevailed in a retaliation and harassment lawsuit Tuesday.
A Superior Court judge dismissed the suit brought by Kathleen Tahilramani, former head of human resources at the county's waste operation.
The legal victory comes as the county defends itself against high-profile allegations of employment law violations, including harassment. Two other senior female employees have taken legal action, the most recent a $10 million whistleblower claim filed by a former deputy CEO.
Tuesday's ruling stems from when Giancola was the OC Waste & Recycling director, before his appointment as CEO in May.
Superior Court Judge John C. Gastelum granted the county's motion for summary judgment. In a tentative ruling issued earlier Tuesday, he wrote Tahilramani did not fit into a protected group or engage in a protected activity when she was disciplined. For this same reason, it says her harassment claim was unfounded.
"I never understood her case to have anything to do with retaliation," county Supervisor Shawn Nelson said Wednesday. "Some people may say they're whistleblowers, but it doesn't mean they're whistleblowers."
Tahilramani said she refused to break county recruitment policies, and complained about Giancola's handling of a sexual harassment case. Then, she alleged, Giancola retaliated by refusing to talk or work with her. She was transferred to another position and she ultimately retired. Tahilramani filed the suit in April 2012.
Her attorney, Stephen Dial, did not return calls seeking comment. She has 60 days to appeal the decision, according to a county news release.
In its motion for summary judgment, the county argued Tahilramani had no grounds for a retaliation or harassment claim. Instead, it says she was a disgruntled former employee who argued with Giancola, her boss. It also says she disclosed confidential information to a job candidate and that Giancola transferred her out of the position after the misconduct.
Giancola was unavailable for comment Wednesday. Before county supervisors chose him as chief executive, officials said an outside investigation had found no substantiation of Tahilramani's claims.
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Questa è la 14 edizione da noi organizzata in concomitanza del Beach Clean Up International 2015.
Una bella esperienza di volontariato per liberare le spiagge ed i fondali dai rifiuti abbandonati, un gesto di grande valore civile da condividere con la famiglia, gli amici e i subacquei.
Appuntamento presso la nostra struttura "Orca Diving Center" per la registrazione e poi vi sarà assegnato il gruppo con cui partecipare.
On Wednesday 4th February, PADI Pros and dive volunteers celebrated their shared passion for diving and ocean protection by taking part in a PADI Dive Day event with the Hurghada Environmental Protection and Conservation Association (HEPCA) and Project AWARE.
What if we told you the effort you put forth as a diver to complete a PADI certification course could also support ocean protection initiatives? These initiatives include securing conservation measures for the most vulnerable shark and ray species, and providing the tools and resources to volunteer scuba divers to take action against marine debris in their local communities and to collect data critical to working towards solutions to this global issue.
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Manta rays, close to the heart of every diver, are at risk of extinction. The time is now to protect them! If you take a PADI course in 2013 you can choose the Project AWARE limited edition manta ray card and make a donation to help protect manta rays.
FACT: Manta ray catch has nearly quadrupled in seven years according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
Our second beach clean up day is confirmed for February 25, 2012. Once again, we'll be collecting trash on the east side of Cozumel where the sand, sun and surf deserve our attention in more ways than one. We can make a difference! If you're around, join us; the more the merrier.
Thanks once more to Cozumel's own chac choc tours for assisting with transportation! And as always, to Blue Angel Resort for being such an awesome, supportive place to work, dive, stay, and hang out!
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As part of an annual fish and marine life census and monitoring course in the Great Mercury Bay area New Zealand, Bay of Plenty Polytechnic students studying the Diploma in Marine Studies and Bachelor of Science will be undertaking some underwater cleanups in bays frequented by passing vessels. Hopefully Video and Pics to come…
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