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Arsenal's travelling army of fans could not believe their eyes.
Robin van Persie, once their super hero, silenced their taunts with a goal as Manchester United showed why the Dutchman was right to quit the Emirates for Old Trafford last summer.
Read Sunday Mirror match report - Manchester United 2-1 Arsenal: Robin van Persie downs former club as United go top
And what concerned the unhappy Gooners even more was their team's pitiful performance. This defeat marked the worst start to a league season since Wenger arrived at the club in 1996.
They are already a point worse off than last season, which was deemed a crisis in the wake of an 8-2 drubbing in this fixture.
The Arsenal fans let manager Arsene Wenger and chief executive Ivan Gazidis know their feelings.
"Wenger, Wenger sort it out" was their refrain even before half-time. The fans could already see the way their team were being outclassed.
The abuse aimed at Gazidis was more personal and downright abusive. But the message was clear. The gap between these two big rivals is growing by the season. And everyone in the stadium was astonished to see Arsenal left-back Santos ask Van Persie for his shirt as the players left the field – at half-time!
Van Persie needed just two minutes to score his 10th goal since defecting to United in the summer in a bid to win trophies.
Patrice Evra was also on target for the home side, but Wayne Rooney became the fourth United player this season to miss a penalty and Sir Alex Ferguson was furious about his team's carelessness in front of goal.
Van Persie refused to criticise the travelling fans who targeted him with their obscene chants. "It was a special day for me," said Van Persie. "It was nice to score a goal, but it wasn't about me. It was about the game and we played well. I didn't celebrate my goal because I played eight years for Arsenal and I respect the fans, the manager and the whole club.
"I honestly didn't hear what was sung about me. They are great fans. It was the first time I have ever played against a former club and I could have scored two or three goals.
"But we played well and we are happy that we've got the three points."
Santi Cazorla scored an injury-time consolation for Arsenal, who played the last 20 minutes with 10 men, after Jack Wilshere's sending-off, following a foul on Patrice Evra. Wenger said: "The sending-off was very harsh. Referees are very naive. They tell players, 'One more and you're off' and, once players hear that, they start diving like they've been killed. That's what happened.
"He could have been sent off for a challenge on Van Persie – yes. This is a bad result for us, but we have been to some very difficult places."
United boss Sir Alex Ferguson was angered by his team's profligacy in front of goal.
"I can't believe the chances we have missed," said Ferguson. "The scoreline makes it seem like a close game – and it wasn't. We could have scored five, six or even more, so I am disappointed with the scoreline.
"I spoke to the players about goal difference at the start of the season. We lost the title on goal difference last year and I don't want that to happen again."
Ferguson added: "Van Persie and our back four were fantastic today, but we were sloppy in other areas.
"We have missed four penalties this season and I don't know what's happening with them.
"I think I'll be taking them next week."


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Today I went to see my new 2012 Black Ice SRX. It was raining cats and dogs the time I arrived at the dealership. However, I was able to grab 3 quick photos. I am hoping to pick up my new ride either tomorrow or Saturday.
First Early Imprssions.
New 3.6 badge on rear of tailgate. (one can easily spot the 2012 SRX from behind)
New Door locks located just in front of inside door handles very nice touch. (photo coming soon)
New Machine finish 20" rims. (looks really great in person especially with the Black Ice)
New Graphite/ Black full interior color (to be honest I like either tutone or solid door panels)
I wasn't able to test drive her because the SRX was in the shop right after the rain stopped and was getting her final prep. The prep guy told me he really liked the 3.6 engine and the new look of the 20" standard rims too.
I will be anxious in witnessing the difference in the new added sound deadeners and the new sound note (tone) of the new exhaust. Also I am curious to see if I can hear the difference in the new "insulated" glass in the front and side windows (supposedly very similar to my old Buick Enclave). I believe GM has put a lot of research and effort into "tweeking" and enhancing the SRX to try and make it a more refined and enhanced vehicle for the new SRX owners.
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More to come when I pick her up and am able to test drive her.
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'Dogs Host Tigers Thursday
March 20, 2013
By Stephanie Juncker
By Stephanie Juncker
FRESNO, Calif. ---The Fresno State women's tennis team will host its third of six straight home matches Thursday afternoon beginning at 3 p.m. at the Spalding G. Wathen Tennis Center as the 'Dogs take on Pacific.
The Bulldogs, who are ranked 66th in the latest ITA national rankings, split its opening two matches of the home stand, defeating Cal Poly 4-3 and falling to No. 42 Kansas State 5-2.
About the Tigers
Pacific enters Thursday's match coming off a loss to another Mountain West opponent, Nevada, 5-2. The Tigers have lost five of their last six, with their only win being a 4-3 win over the same Cal Poly team the 'Dogs faced less than a week ago.
Fresno State leads the all-time series 18-9 and have not lost to Pacific since 1995. The teams last met in 2011 with the 'Dogs picking up the win 5-2.
Conference Matches Up Next
The match against the Tigers will be the last before Fresno State's spring break. The 'Dogs will return from the break and round out the season with conference play. Three home matches in three days will close play at the Wathen Tennis Center and then the team will travel for four remaining conference matches.
Home Matches Remaining:
4/4 vs. Wyoming at 1:30 p.m.
4/5 vs. Air Force at 1:30 p.m.
4/6 vs. Colorado State at 1 p.m. (SENIOR DAY)
McQueen Leading The Way
Senior Melissa McQueen leads the 'Dogs this season in singles with eight wins in dual matches and 18 overall victories. Her 18 wins is the highest wins total of her career surpassing the 17 overall wins she recorded last season. McQueen has moved into the top 20 all-time wins by a singles player in Fresno State history as she sits tied for 18th with Valerie Stukovsky with 65 career singles wins.
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You've watched actors grow up on screen before, whether it be Mickey Rooney, Elizabeth Taylor or Jerry Mathers (as the Beaver). But Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" makes cinematic poetry of the experience by presenting us with a single narrative consumable in one sitting.
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In the scramble for financial backing, even big-shot film directors must take money where they find it. Shane Meadows took a £500,000 commission from Eurostar, and turned out Somers Town. Morgan Spurlock made a satirical virtue of it with sponsorship from juice manufacturer Pom Wonderful for The Greatest Movie Ever Sold. That, presumably, is part of the reason why film-makers of the calibre of Gaspar Noé, Laurent Cantet and Elia Suleiman accepted the invitation of rum magnate Havana Club, through its cultural arm Havana Cultura, to collaborate in a short film anthology called 7 Days in Havana. It might, just might, be designed to promote Havana.
As it turns out, 7 Days in Havana treads that fine line between advertorial and artistry, with a distinguished Cuban novelist, Leonardo Padura, overseeing the screenplay, and a seven-part structure that sees each short film identified with a day of the week. Joining the above-mentioned threesome – two Frenchmen and a Palestinian – are Argentina's Pablo Trapero, Spain's Julio Medem, the sole Cuban, Juan Carlos Tabío, and the neophyte director whose contribution is, understandably, generating most of the hype: Puerto Rican-born Benicio del Toro. Strangely, for a film so intimately connected to a socialist paradise, no woman film-maker could be found.
Del Toro's segment, entitled El Yuma, opens the anthology: it is a slight, but entertaining story about an American film-school student, played by Josh Hutcherson (The Hunger Games), who gets overexcited in a sleazy bar. Del Toro appears to have been nursing directorial ambitions for a considerable time (his only other directorial credit was another short, Submission, almost a decade ago), and by his own admission, was happy to be asked. "One of the producers, Álvaro Longoria, proposed to me the idea of directing; he gave me one of the stories written by Padura. I read it and liked it; I said I don't need to read the other ones, I'll go with it. That's how it went."
But the big draw, clearly, was Cuba itself, where Del Toro has assumed cult status after playing revolutionary hero Che Guevara in Steven Soderbergh's mammoth 2008 biopic. "Yeah," says the actor-director, "it was a chance to shoot in the country, and to participate in it, as well as to be part of a movie."
Trapero, whose segment featured fellow director Emir Kusturica on a furlough from professional duties, said his was conceived as "a little tribute to the Havana film festival; it's one I love, and it's very important to the people there. There are always lines round the block."
Medem, the Basque director best known for Sex and Lucia and The Red Squirrel, contributed a love-triangle melodrama, and said he was given a free hand as to how to interpret his story: "We wanted to make an accurate portrait of the people of Havana, how they feel, how they live; and we wanted this portrait to be useful for them also. We offer a very realistic view of Cuban society in this film."
The strongest sense you get from the film, however, is that of outsiders peering in, a theme that is especially strong in the hands of Del Toro, Trapero and Suleiman. It is Suleiman who turns out arguably the most interesting of the seven films: he essentially plays himself, a watchful middle-aged Palestinian, hanging around in Havana waiting to conduct an interview. He makes no claim to inside knowledge; his film is a quiet, deadpan statement.
Quite how unsparing a portrait you could seriously expect from a film with a promotional agenda is a moot point: 7 Days in Havana is an essentially feelgood operation, with only occasional toe-dips into darker worlds. Noé, for example, suggested that homophobia is rife, in describing how hard it was to find a female actor prepared to kiss another woman. Little of that insight, however, made it on to screen in his section, a depiction of a "cleansing" voodoo ritual.
Del Toro, however, bridles at mention of Cuba's troubles. "A lot of people talk about the internal problems, but there are two sides: you also have to mention the US embargo. One affects the other. There have been some little changes – now you can own your car, and you can sell your car – to give people incentive. They know they need to change in that direction, but they have managed to sustain dignity despite the embargo. Obama has certainly made a difference; if he gets re-elected I hope he starts some sort of dialogue." Says Medem: "We made the film a year ago, and nothing has changed. The country is in a standby situation, waiting for something to happen, but it hasn't happened yet."
Still, Del Toro is hopeful for the future. "There may be a fear that things go too fast, but that's like anywhere. Cubans are survivors."


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I've had two great trips back to Austin. It was still warm on the first trip back, and I was able to go out to a small private lake with some of my old UT Diving teammates.
It was then back to DC where Fall was setting in nicely, and gave this Texan a better idea of what actual season changes are like. My touristy event in DC this time around was a visit to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. Very cool exhibits, but the highlight for me was an IMAX film on skydiving. Awesome!
Though the trip was short, I had a lot of fun in the Big Apple (as usual). I went to the famous Metropolitan Museum of Art, where they currently have a nice Egyptian Art exhibit. (FYI if you ever go... the admission prices are suggested donations, ie. You can give as little or as much as you want for entry). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damien_Hirst I didn't know it was forbidden to photograph till after I snapped a quick one.
It was the weekend before Halloween and I was able to go to a fun costume party with some friends. I usually get pretty creative with my costumes but I had to quickly get a store-bought one this year. However, it actually got a pretty good response at this party as well as the one I went to in Boston.
I'd never been to Boston and didn't really know what to expect. I think even if I went there with high hopes, it would have exceeded my expectations. I wasn't there long but I was really impressed with what I saw. The areas I explored were clean with nice architecture, and a sense of history that you don't get in most US Cities. I stayed at a nice hotel across from a beautiful park called "Public Garden." I also happened to be there when there was a large anti-war march going on in Boston and many other major US cities. That night, I met up with a friend who took me to a costume party near Harvard. It was a good party but we ended up following the urge to go to a club as well. The club was lively and I continued to meet very nice and interesting people all night long.
The next morning I had my first experience on a private jet... very cool!
It was then back to NYC for a week which included a couple fun events. One was an awesome night of salsa dancing with one of my friends there. And another friend who works at Carnegie Hall took me to an open rehersal of the Berlin Symphony, which was incredibly beautiful... Not to mention the beauty of Carnegie Hall itself.
Thanksgiving week was upon us and I headed back to Austin again. My Buddhist Teacher, Lama Ole Nydahl, came to Austin for a night and gave a wonderful lecture at a local University. http://www.lama-ole-nydahl.org/ It was great to see him, and I was also very happy that many of my old friends in Austin came to the lecture. My Mom and I ate Thanksgiving dinner with a past college teammate and his family. The food was awesome and we all played some music afterwards which reminded me of the good ol' days in college. The Smith's changed their plans right before I was to leave, so instead of leaving the day after Thanksgiving, I was able to stay till the next Wednesday. It was really nice to relax in one place for a while, and I was able to get a few things done around my Mom's house. As always, leaving Austin was very hard and makes me wonder how long I'm willing to stay with this job. Of course on this blog I only discuss my non-work life which is filled with really cool travel and experiences. On a professional level, I don't feel that I'm progressing the way I should, given that I just earned my doctorate two years ago.
Shit this is getting long. Better wrap it up...
After Thanksgiving, I met the Smith's in New York where we spent about a week. The highlight of the week was being surprised by an old friend from Europe whom I hadn't seen in years. I've traveled with her and her husband through parts of Europe twice, and it was so great to see her again. I had a little time open up one day, and we were able to go to a really nice Himalayan Art exhibit at the Rubin Museum of Art.
I then went back to DC for a couple days, before returning to LA. This time around, we stayed in a hotel in Santa Monica and were there a less than a week.
I returned to the east coast to find DC blanketed in snow... seems like we almost skipped fall and went straight to winter here. It looks like we'll be here and possibly in New York till I go back to Austin for Christmas. Happy Holidays everybody!


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This morning [4.9.10] I moderated a panel called "Writing In(to) the Age of Obama." The purpose of the panel was two-fold: to talk about the experience of participating in a blog-turned-book project I co-edited with Arielle Greenberg and to speak about occasional poetry and political poetry. It also afforded me the opportunity to further investigate this question that has lately obsessed me: what can poetry do?
I started my intro by talking about the inception of the blog project, particularly about the nearly hysterical pitch of excitement I felt after the election and leading up to Obama's inauguration, a feeling that things were changing and that as poets and as citizens we should do something. Here's an excerpt of what I said next:
"The blog attracted that which some poets deride and other poets value highly: a general audience. People cared about the poems because they were good, because they were timely, relevant, current, because they were about something. I remember, as a grad student at the University of Iowa Writer's Workshop , a professor of mine that I admire read us 'Young Sycamore,' a beautiful poem by William Carlos Williams that begins
I must tell you
this young tree
whose round and firm trunk
between the wetpavement and the gutter
(where water
is trickling) rises
into the air…
Much was made of the missing word in the first stanza—"about." Williams does not say I must tell you "about" the tree, and I was taught that poems should not be about things. Poems should be things; aboutness is an impure propensity for a poet.
It's true that I do not usually sit down to write about something, but more and more I want poems to be about something—something important and meaningful—and I want poetry not just to be something or be about something but to do something. I'm not even sure what I mean by this, but I know that I'm rethinking the snide grad school attitude against occasional poetry—poetry written for a specific occasion like a birthday or wedding or death or birth. I'm rethinking the cringe that accompanied the idea of poems that were intentionally and overtly political or that actively seek a general audience. It seems clear to me now that the devaluation of these kinds of poems has racist, sexist, classist, heterosexist, and elitist overtones.
We are often taught that to be serious poets we should not to write poems about the births of our children or because we want to bear witness or for a specific community even when these are often the very desires that brought us to poetry in the first place and the times when poetry actually feels useful and important.
I've asked the poets to take up this subject in whichever way appeals them. I'm hoping that they will speak about the experience of writing occasional poetry, what makes a poem political, whether or not all poetry is political, how poetry has changed or should change since Obama's election, the role of activism in poetry—and if we don't get to all of this, I hope that some of you will take up these subjects in your own writing."
I'd like to summarize what the other panelists—Matt Rohrer, Cate Marvin, Major Jackson, Brian Teare and Patricia Spears Jones—said. They were quite wonderful and all approached the subject from a different angle. Maybe next time. Until then, here's something I cut out of my panel as I didn't have time for it.
In remembering the "Young Sycamore" I remembered also that much used grad school directive that the poem is (to quote Wallace Stevens) the "cry of the occasion." I was trying to make sense of how a poem could be the "cry of the occasion" and resist aboutness so I went looking for the original Stevens quote and found this, from "Of Modern Poetry":
- It has to be living, to learn the speech of the place.
It has to face the men of the time and to meet
The women of the time. It has to think about war
And it has to find what will suffice.
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It was certainly not all fun and games getting here. Not the 8hr overnight bus from hell, Merida - Maracaibo. Not the 4hrs in an hilariously crammed "colectivo" taxi from Maracaibo - Maicao, scampering across the border only after 10-or-so military/police stops. No, most enjoyable was the Maicao - Santa Marta leg of the trip, which seemed to go so well until 8km from our destination a terribly enthusiastic customs official stopped us for 2hrs to unpack/repack our bus several times and generally screw us around. Keep in mind there was no hint of drugs or guns, simply some poor bastard importing too many floor fans
And so I made it. In reality, I was the least hassled passenger on any of the buses as soon as the army/police/random bloke spotted my passport. Seems they only care about locals skipping across the border, so I will see what I can strap to my body for the exit border crossing (just joking - please don't hurt me scary men with guns). The security checks were sooo tedious, and often a police checkpoint was only a few hundred metres from a military checkpoint making it a stop-start affair. One cop, who incidentally was sporting the greatest pair of post-80s aviators I am likely to witness, momentarily relaxed his steely gaze of terror long enough to lower his fantastic lenses and take the piss out of me - "This crazy gringo has been all over the place, even fucking China!"
Colombia is cheap. The food is better. The people are nicer. The place is safer. You read right - safer. A lot of this can be attributed to the US sponsorship of about US$640M this year (and previous years) that goes directly to the police force - intended to give them a fighting chance against the various cartels and to protect visiting foreigners. I'm yet to discover what it is they expect in return, but there is sure to be an angle they're working. Maybe it's a downpayment on health care plans for all the highlanders being poisoned by the indiscriminate spraying of crops with defoliant (as part of the brilliant "war on drugs" initiative).
I admittedly spent my first week here relaxing on a beach to escape the suffocating heat, but it doesn't seem to work so I'm now resigned to a 24-hour sweat. The last few days I've been trying to accumulate enough momentum of motivation to take myself to visit Taganga - a mere 5km away. Getting to Tayrona, 65km away, could be tough. The thing is - heat aside - Santa Marta is a pretty great place to just hang out on the cheap
Oh, I almost forgot. In a couple of weeks I will venture to Cartagena - I assure you it is merely coincidental that the rigorous process to find Miss Colombia happens to be booked for the same dates. I will of course do my best to avoid the commotion and crowds, but on the off chance I have to suffer through a pageant or two I will post the photos here so that you can all suffer along with me (McKee).
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In Part 1, we looked at just some of the many ways turbo technology has shifted on in the last quarter of a century, but there are more.
Turbocharging in the early Eighties was very much in its infancy although the technology had moved forwards rapidly by its closure in 1988. It's a technology that has become the norm in road cars since and, with 21st century know-how applied plus the modern-day desire to push new boundaries when it comes to energy efficiency, F1's engine manufacturers have a much broader base from which to work.
Take, for example, 'turbo lag', that horrible delay between throttle application and power delivery. It's actually a thing of the past in many respects for modern designs and it's hard to imagine anyone going to the grid in 2014 with the two-second plus 'nothing then everything' experiences from the Eighties.
Bear in mind, too, that in the early Eighties many chassis were still made of aluminium and would actually flex from the strain exerted on them by the turbo engines. With less power plus state of the art carbon fibre chassis, that simply won't happen this time around.
It's also fascinating to consider the fuel allowances then and now. In 1984 fuel tanks were capped at 220 litres, in 1986 that became 195 litres and in 1988, the final year for turbos, 155 litres. It was all in an attempt to cut race speeds with drivers needing to go into 'conservation mode'… only for the boffins of top engine manufacturers, such as Honda, Porsche and Ferrari to swiftly overcome such limitations. Fast forward to 2014 and consider that the same race distances will have to be achieved with just 100kgs of fuel… now that is a test for the manufacturers.
There are other obvious differences that spring out, too. Mid-Eighties F1 engines varied from 1.5-litre and four cylinders to 1.6-litre V6 designs revving upwards of 12000rpm. For 2014 one rule fits all with 1.6-litre V6s capped at 15000rpm.
Now also consider that three of F1's current engine manufacturers – Ferrari, Renault and, when it re-appears in 2015, Honda – also raced in the mid-Eighties turbo era. Be clear on one thing, though – what they learned then is meaningless compared to 2014 turbo designs.
And there's another factoid to throw in – a 2014 turbocharged F1 grid will, unless someone else surprises us all, boast just four different engine manufacturers; flash back to 1986 when every team had finally gone turbo and there were nine – TAG Porsche, Honda, Ferrari, Renault, BMW, Ford, Zakspeed, Alfa Romeo and Motori Moderni.
Seven of today's circuits – Hockenheim, Interlagos, Monaco, Monza, Silverstone, Spa-Francorchamps – were also used by the first breed of turbocharged F1 cars. Comparing lap times will be almost futile with four in particular having undergone significant alterations to their lay-outs. Spa, Monza and Monaco still retain their inherent shapes so perhaps some parallels can be drawn in terms of time to complete longer straights. Straights? Actually just make that Spa and Monza…


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Coachella Sunday: Thom Yorke, Gorillaz, Pavement, Spoon, Deerhunter
Also Charlotte Gainsbourg, Yo La Tengo, Julian Casablancas, Jonsi, more
Above: Thom Yorke by Natalie Kardos
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival concluded with performances by Thom Yorke, Gorillaz, Pavement, Deerhunter, Spoon, Julian Casablancas, the Big Pink, Matt & Kim, Florence and the Machine, Charlotte Gainsbourg, and many more.
Check out a selection of shots by Natalie Kardos and Chris Tuite after the jump, then head over to our photo book for a complete selection of full-size photos.
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A Massive Tax Cut: A Leap Of Faith We Can't Affordby
Another autumn--and it looks like another tax-cut confrontation between the Clinton Administration and the Republican Congress. The GOP majorities in both houses have passed sweeping proposals that the President has repeatedly promised to veto. The veto threat is understandable. What's surprising is that the Republicans are espousing a program that is highly dubious on political grounds and largely indefensible on policy grounds.
A massive tax cut that eats up future budget surpluses is ill-advised for several reasons. First, budget projections are inherently uncertain and subject to a wide range of error. It is true that both the Congress and the Administration have used eminently reasonable economic projections in their budget forecasts. But both have optimistically assumed that the unanticipated and largely unexplained surge in tax revenues during the past six years will be sustained in future years.
DOWNSIDE SURPRISE? John Kenneth Galbraith once quipped: There are only two kinds of economic forecasters-those who don't know and those who don't know they don't know. During the past several years, the economy's substantial surprises have been on the upside. What if the surprises are on the downside in the near future? Tax cuts promised today could easily produce ballooning deficits tomorrow. In just a few years, the elimination of the economy's structural budget deficit, arguably the major economic policy accomplishment of the 1990s, could fall victim to an unexpected tide of red ink.
Second, most of the projected budget surpluses outside of Social Security assume significant real cuts of 20% or more in discretionary federal spending. That means deep cuts in defense, law enforcement, and science and technology. Is it reasonable to believe that Congress will agree on such cuts in light of our educational shortcomings, scientific challenges, drug and crime prevention agenda, and defense commitments? Would such cuts serve the national interest? I don't think so. Nor am I alone. Polls indicate that most Americans are more concerned about crime, education, health care, and Social Security than they are about taxes.
Third, the Republican tax cuts would largely take effect just as the majority of Baby Boomers reach retirement. Would-be tax-cutters argue that future budgetary surpluses belong to the American people. They may be right, but so do the future liabilities of Social Security and Medicare. These programs face long-term financing shortfalls despite the improved budgetary outlook over the next 15 years. Lowering taxes now will only increase the tax burden on future generations to pay for these popular retirement benefits.
Both the Clinton Administration and congressional Republicans agree that the projected surpluses of the Social Security fund should be dedicated to ensuring its future solvency. But they disagree profoundly over what to do about Medicare. The President proposes to allocate 15% of the projected surpluses outside of Social Security to Medicare. Part of the money would be used to cover the cost of a new prescription drug benefit for Medicare beneficiaries. The remainder would extend the life of the Medicare Trust Fund for a quarter of a century.
Meanwhile, congressional Republicans are content either to assume Medicare's future financing gap will solve itself or postpone grappling with it until it reaches crisis proportions. But procrastination will only make solving the shortfall more painful in the future. Even without drug benefits, Medicare will need more revenues unless health-care costs take an unlikely nosedive.
Finally, there is no economic justification for big permanent tax cuts. Temporary tax cuts could be justified to revive the economy if it were sinking into recession. But that's not the case. Or they might be justified as part of a major tax simplification/reform proposal, or as part of a concerted effort to reduce income inequality. But the Republican proposals do not simplify the tax code nor do they reduce the burden of payroll taxes on working Americans. And the majority of the benefits of these proposals are targeted to families in the top 20% of the income distribution.
INCREASE SAVING. The American economy does not need more consumption. It needs more saving and investment. And the best way to increase saving is to use the surplus to reduce the national debt and thus reduce interest rates. Over time, saving the surplus will put more dollars into the pocketbooks of American families than cutting their taxes. And dedicating a portion of this saving to Medicare will reduce the future burden on working Americans to provide for the health care of their elderly family members.


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partypoker WPT Montreal: Break Time at the Bar
The rail hits the bar for a beverage as the final two players break before the heads up battle and Caitlyn catches the buzz from friends and fans on the final day of WPT Montreal.
partypoker WPT Montreal: Mukul Pahuja Counting His Blessings
Following up a 2nd place finish at WPT Montreal with a 3rd place finish the following year at the same event, 2013 Player of the Year Mukul Pahuja still has no title, but is living his dream.
partypoker WPT Montreal: Fifth Place for Picasso
After making the final table in his home town, Sam Chartier may have been the most popular player in the room on Day 5, breaking a few hearts when busted in 5th place at WPT Montreal, but he is feeling great about it.
partypoker WPT Montreal: Guillaume Nolet's First Main Event Finish
6th place at the final table of WPT Montreal is not too shabby for the first main event of local Guillaume Nolet, who caught up with Caitlyn as he left the felt.
partypoker WPT Montreal: Lights, Camera, Action! Day 5
The final six players have returned for Day 5 and Caitlyn brings us the action kicking off on the WPT stage in Playground Poker Club.
partypoker WPT Montreal: A Final Table at Home for Sam Chartier
Sam Chartier may have had to bust good friend Marc Andre Ladouceur to get there, but he completes all 4 days of WPT Montreal to capture his seat with the final six players.
partypoker WPT Montreal: The Final Six
Au update from the felt! Day 4 at WPT Montreal said farewell to some notable players but leaves Mukul Pahuja and Sam Chartier still in the running for this year's title.
WSOP 2014: Main Event Champion Martin Jacobson
After months of preparation and countless hours of playing, Sweden's Martin Jacobson will be leaving the Rio with the bracelet and 10 million dollars!
WSOP 2014: Runner-Up Felix Stephensen Plans to Drink Away Sorrows
Felix Stephensen gives credit to both his opponents today and admits that some portion of his prize money will have to go to drinking away his sorrows.
WSOP 2014: 3rd Place Finisher Jorryt van Hoof
Jorryt van Hoof raw and uncut after his 3rd place finish at the World Series of Poker Main Event.
WSOP 2014: van Hoof, Jacobson, Stephensen Returning
There are only Europeans left standing in the WSOP Main Event and Jorryt van Hoof is leading the way. Sarah talks to the remaining three about their feelings going into the big day.
WSOP 2014: Billy Pappas Still Full of Energy as he Walks Out in 5th
After a long day of play, Billy Pappas is exiting in 5th still full of energy and great positive attitude.
WSOP 2014: Andoni Larrabe Explains His Play as he Exits in 6th
Many people took to Twitter to criticize some of Larrabe's early plays but he explains that he feels he played great and is leaving happy.
WSOP 2014: Dan Sindelar Shares About His Experience Getting to 7th Place
Dan Sindelar battled for six hours and ultimately captured 7th place for his Main Event run. He shares about his experience on the WSOP Main Event stage.
WSOP 2014: The Evolution of the Rail with Jason Koon
The rail is no longer just a showcase of the drunkest or most rowdy friends and family. It has evolved into a complicated system to give each player an edge depending on the astute nature of his rail. Sarah talks to Jason Koon about this change.
WSOP 2014: Mark Newhouse Explains Bust Out Hand in 9th
Mark Newhouse explains the final hand that brought an end to his 2014 Main Event run.
WSOP 2014: A Look at the Pre-Game Halls of the Rio
Sarah takes you on a tour from the start of the line to get in, to the actual stage of the Penn and Teller Theatre.
GPI Fantasy Poker Central: Chad Holloway Makes November Nine Picks
With the WSOP Main Event Final Table just around the corner, PokerNews' own Chad Holloway joins Fantasy Poker Central host Eric Danis for a look at their picks for the 2014 November Nine.
UKIPT IOM: Josh Hart is the New Champion!!
The chip lead changed many times at the Final Table but eventually all the chips were pushed to British player Josh Hart.
WSOP 2014: November Niner Felix Stephensen
Felix Stephensen is the first Norwegian Main Event finalist since 1997, and he looks forward to being an ambassador of the game of poker in his home country.


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Re: st: Wilcoxon symmetry
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Hi Simone,
check out Corrado's (1989) rank test.
CORRADO, C.J. (1989), A non parametric test for abnormal security
price performance in
event studies, Journal of Financial Economics, vol. 23: pp. 385-395.
Please let m know if this has helped.
2010/3/6 Simone Spleis <email@example.com>
> Dear all,
> I am implementing an event study and testing absolute(!) abnormal returns since I cannot classify the news (positive or negative). Now I am trying to find a cross-sectional test for detecting abnormal returns on the event date. In a paper I read that the author implemented the Wilcoxon-signed-rank-test for the event date. But this test assumes a symmetric distribution, or am I mistaken? Since absolute abnormal returns will not be symmetric (something close to a half-normal-distribution) I am therefore looking for a test that does the trick to avoid the symmetry assumption and still detects abnormal performance.
> I would greatly appreciate a hint!
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Groupon CEO Andrew Mason has been fired after another quarterly earnings whiff from the onetime darling of the daily-deals business. It's a business that doesn't really have any darlings now.
Groupon under Mason's leadership infamously spurned Google's $6 billion buyout offer. Google promptly turned around and launched its own daily deals site. Today Groupon is worth less than half of what Google offered, and less than a quarter of its value following its 2011 stock market debut — at the time the biggest internet IPO since Google's in 2004.
Google's own daily-deals endeavor didn't so much kill Groupon's business as a competitor, but rather exposed the whole business model as flawed.
As many others have pointed out, Groupon was never really a tech company but for some reason was perceived as one. In reality, Groupon is a sales business that uses technology but still relies intensively on human labor to do the selling. As it turns out, the barrier to entry into a business like that is nearly nonexistent. Competitors proliferated just as businesses and consumers started losing interest in the whole concept.
Since then, Groupon has tried to diversify into other businesses such as discount e-commerce and mobile payments. But the changes seem like too little, too late for investors and for Mason, who confirmed his departure in a note he posted online. "The events of the last year-and-a-half speak for themselves," Mason wrote. "As CEO, I am accountable."
Here's the full text of Mason's note:
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(This is for Groupon employees, but I'm posting it publicly since it will leak anyway)
People of Groupon,
After four and a half intense and wonderful years as CEO of Groupon, I've decided that I'd like to spend more time with my family. Just kidding – I was fired today. If you're wondering why… you haven't been paying attention. From controversial metrics in our S1 to our material weakness to two quarters of missing our own expectations and a stock price that's hovering around one quarter of our listing price, the events of the last year and a half speak for themselves. As CEO, I am accountable.
You are doing amazing things at Groupon, and you deserve the outside world to give you a second chance. I'm getting in the way of that. A fresh CEO earns you that chance. The board is aligned behind the strategy we've shared over the last few months, and I've never seen you working together more effectively as a global company – it's time to give Groupon a relief valve from the public noise.
For those who are concerned about me, please don't be – I love Groupon, and I'm terribly proud of what we've created. I'm OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through. I am so lucky to have had the opportunity to take the company this far with all of you. I'll now take some time to decompress (FYI I'm looking for a good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40, if anyone has a suggestion), and then maybe I'll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive.
If there's one piece of wisdom that this simple pilgrim would like to impart upon you: have the courage to start with the customer. My biggest regrets are the moments that I let a lack of data override my intuition on what's best for our customers. This leadership change gives you some breathing room to break bad habits and deliver sustainable customer happiness – don't waste the opportunity!
I will miss you terribly.


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Join The Conversation
Feb 4 Posted 4 years ago
Hey Darren, Thanks for the interesting comment. I agree with you that products are considered replaceable as there as so many substitute products in the market these days. So at times what makes the diffrence is the service and feeling towards the brand that make customers make a decision. A brand will not have to die a slow painful death if service quality is up to standard.
Regarding the Geteco tool you mentioned, i just happen to visit thier website and i must say it is something that really peaked my interest and can come in handy for business as well. Thanks for the tip. Cheers :)
Jan 28 Posted 4 years ago
Interesting article, Thanks for the write-up. I would just like to add that in my opinion, I feel that people only shift those brands that aren't responsive to their needs. Brands that listen to them and interact on a 1 on 1 basis will usually not be replaced by promotions.It comes down to the value offered by a brand - is it only the product (replacable) or is it also the service and feeling of mattering to that brand which is irreplacableRecently my business started implementing a tool for communication called Geteco that essentially allows the customer to leave a comment (Speak into a phone or use in room phones) and for management to directly respond to that. It all goes into a database and brand managers can analyze feedback given on site. This is an example of clear 1 on 1 interaction between brands and customers which can make the diffrence between on going brand loyalty or a slow painful death for brand loyalty. Just thought i would share my thoughts. Cheers :)
Jan 13 Posted 4 years ago
This is a great post.
Could the lack of brand loyalty be attributable to being able to get high qualiy on demand? As consumers, we have so much available 24/7 that we can virtually bid every transaction and find exactly what we want or a close comparable almost instantaneously.
If survivor bias has created excellent choices across the spectrum, then price becomes the only discriminator for many products (service is another issue).
With "sharing" growing in popularity - are we all now trading in an electronic souq?
Jan 11 Posted 4 years ago
In a word - no. Now, can we stop with the "brands are dying" articles and posts, please??
Jan 10 Posted 4 years ago
Are brands dying? In a word… Apple. How many kids have iPods and how many have Microsoft zone (or whatever the hell it was called)?
As a professor at an urban university, I have ask students questions about their brand preferences every semester for the past 1 years; amazingly number one detergent is Tide, toothpaste - Crest.
Why? Brands live in communities called families - passed down from one generation to the next. Are these kids price conscious of course, but trust and ease of purchase still stand strong.
Your example of retail yes is a good one. I can remember shopping at Sears for virtually everything when I was a kid, but what millennial today would be caught dead in that place for clothes (that's why Sears as well as JC Penny's are bringing in outside branded clothing).
But look at just one haul video on YouTube and you'll see brand names a plenty. Wills some of these brands come or go? Sure, it's called fast fashion, but there is still is some loyalty to brands such as Discovery (here in the Midwest) which have stood the test of time for over 20 years.
Finally, what is amazing, kids are even remembering brand names amid all the culture they endure each day.
Lee E
Associate Professor
(Former agency creative for 20 years)
Jan 9 Posted 4 years ago
You raise some valid questions. I don't think brand loyalty is dying at all. Smart brands are finding ways, such as mobile (like you mentioned) to provide value. Value isn't always in terms of dollars. Digital and social have allowed us to form a tighter relationship with customers and potential customers, find out what their triggers are and reward them accordingly.
Retailers like Urban Outfitters and Aeropostale, which both are doing quite well and both continue to post increase in sales numbers, offer value. Sometimes it's price-based, other times it different forms of rewards. But both of these brands have a high sense of loyalty from their consumers. And now, they're both doing a great job leveraging technology to increase that loyalty.
Price is an easy excuse for people. People are, and always have been, willing to pay a premium for quality products and services. Think about it...if price was the absolute #1 driver, why do we still see SUVs driving on the road?
So no, brand loyalty is not dying. It's stronger, and more important to grasp, than ever before.
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Watch 50 Cent's 'Lost' AOL Sessions
In the winter of 2008 50 Cent, on the verge of releasing his fourth studio album, 'Before I Self Destruct,' came into AOL's New York City studios to perform five songs for a Sessions taping behind the album. The setlist included 'The Massacre' tracks 'A Baltimore Love Thing' and 'Ryder Music,' 'Movin On Up' off 'Curtis,' 'Close To Me' from G-Unit's new album 'T.O.S: Terminate on Sight' and the first single off 'Before I Self Destruct,' the Scott Storch-produced 'Get Up.' Eventually 50 put a hold on the album as it was "not up to standards." Subsequently his AOL Session taping behind 'Before I Self Destruct' was "lost."
When 'Before I Self Destruct' finally surfaced this past November, 'Get Up' and other proposed singles didn't make the final cut, despite premature releases. When the BoomBox met up with Fifty, this time in our Los Angeles studio, the rapper revealed that a total 43 songs had been made for 'Before I Self Destruct,' although the tracklist is only 16 deep. "The other material [will] sit there until I'm inspired to write a song similar to what I've already written," he said of his canned material, "and then I'll have that as an example or I could take pieces or elements from it to create the new song that I feel is for that moment." More interestingly, he was even able to pinpoint the exact moment in time the world started calling him adopted nickname, Fiddy.
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"Don't be afraid to make a move. The biggest mistake is not making a decision. Don't be afraid to take a risk." Charlie Vogt
"Don't be afraid to make a move. The biggest mistake is not making a decision. Don't be afraid to take a risk." Charlie Vogt
Texas-based telecom company GENBAND has some of the world's largest service providers on its books — but it wasn't always playing at the top end of the market, CEO Charlie Vogt explains.
Vogt likes to swing a baseball bat back and forth while deep in thought. Perhaps it's the repetitive motion that helps the former college baseball player concentrate.
"I carry the same bat I had at St. Louis University," he explains. "I keep it with me in my office for inspiration I occasionally take a few practice swings with it when I want to work something out in my mind."
Today, his main game is leading GENBAND, a global telecoms leader in internet protocol (IP) telecoms infrastructure solutions and services. These services include Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), which allows users to make calls over the internet.
These days, he is savoring the company's recent successful acquisition of Nortel's market-leading Carrier VoIP and Application Solution (CVAS) division, which took 18 months of intensive legal and financial wrangling and saw GENBAND outmaneuver the competition.
The acquisition has meant a sea change for both the telecommunications industry and the company. Overnight, its team of 400 grew to 2,200 full-time employees and roughly 800 contractors in 50 countries.
With this latest acquisition, the 47-year-old Vogt is well on his way to building the company into a billion-dollar enterprise. It sells IP switching and networking products and services to mobile, fixes line and cable service providers, allowing them to provide consumers with advanced voice and data services over the internet.
The firm's growth is nothing less than phenomenal. Under Vogt's leadership, GENBAND went from being a troubled US$5m start-up in 2004 to a global leader with US$750m in orders by the end of 2010.
Few corporations can boast a 130% compound annual growth rate over six years. At a time of significant investor caution, Vogt convinced JPMorgan's One Equity Partners to increase its investment to US$400m in debt and investment capital to further GENBAND's growth.
While the public may not be familiar with GENBAND, they will recognize some of its 600 customers. They include two-thirds of the world's largest service providers, including Verizon, AT&T and British Telecom.
GENBAND, originally dubbed General Bandwidth, was launched in 1999 by a handful of Austin, Texas, entrepreneurs. Since that time, Vogt has transformed the company into a market leader through aggressive organic growth, unique partnering strategies and bold acquisitions.
The company initially sold a voice-over-broadband IP product called the G6 Universal Gateway. By 2004, however, the telecoms industry had plummeted. John Bayless, a key investor, recruited Vogt, who had an excellent track record with turnarounds, to come in as CEO and rescue the beleaguered firm.
He set about crafting a plan to resurrect the company. He put General Bandwidth under "lockdown mode" for 90 days as he examined its pitfalls and strengths. The company continued its day-to-day operations, but undertook no major spending decisions during that time.
Vogt then ushered in a savvy, handpicked management team, a new round of funding and experienced sales warriors. He visited potential customers and vendors to strike new deals, and renamed the company GENBAND. By 2006, revenues had leapt to a healthy US$25m. Now it was time to decide whether to stay independent or entertain offers for a sale.
The company opted to stay independent, undertaking a series of acquisitions to expand the product portfolio, grow the customer base and expand into new territories. To date, it has acquired five companies and Vogt is planning to purchase more, aided by the company's dedicated M&A team.
Vogt has been polishing his entrepreneurial skills since he was young. "I come from a blue-collar family in St. Louis," he says. "I mowed lawns in the summer, and in the winter I shoveled snow from driveways. In my house, if you didn't do it yourself, it didn't get done."
He was 17 when his father died, and he immediately took over the family carpet-cleaning business, learning as he went. His mother held two jobs to keep the family afloat. "I was pretty much 100% on my own, and so I grew up with a very strong work ethic," he says.
He earned enough money to buy his first car for $300 when he was 16, then fixing and later selling it for $900. "Whenever I wanted something, I always wanted to earn it myself," he says. "So when I set the bar high for my company, it's because I set the bar high for myself first."
By the time he was in his mid-30s, Vogt was Executive Vice President of Sales for Lucent Technology. With several executive positions on his résumé, including a stint as President of Taqua, he has become a seasoned player in the telecommunications market, logging 25 years in a field where many have dropped out or been replaced.
Today, Vogt's biggest concern is how to keep GENBAND successful and innovative. He spends half his time traveling around the world meeting suppliers, clients, partners and, of course, potential customers.
"I don't want to sound trite, but it is true: I want to continually exceed our customers' expectations," he says.
"We need to stay ahead of the game technically and in our delivery. A lot of companies think, 'We will build it and they will come,' but I believe you have to listen to the customer first, and meet their needs with the products and services that they want."
His advice to other CEOs? "Don't be afraid to make a move," he says. "The biggest mistake is not making a decision. Don't be afraid to take a risk."
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Portfolio: Michel Lamoller's space and time-bending tautochronos project
Michel Lamoller's space and time-bending tautochronos project
Tautochronos #1 - photography courtesy of Michel Lamoller
In his series 'tautochronos', Berlin-based artist and photographer Michel Lamoller takes multiple pictures of the same scene at different times, before physically combining the prints and using a scalpel to cut through the layers. In doing so, Lamoller's 'layerscapes' offer a vision of time and space that would be impossible in a conventional single exposure. His work is hard to describe in words - click through this slideshow to read our Q & A and take a look at his work.
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*** IMHO *** Photography is a 2D representation of 2D or 3D subjects / objects. Photographers have been cutting & splicing photographs for more than 100 years. While Lamollers work is EXTREMELY well executed, there is NOTHING in the examples shown which cannot also be created / reproduced in Photoshop / Barco Creator or similarly capable software. In fact, it can ALL be done on computer quicker, cleaner AND BETTER in 2D representation than THE MOST dexterous person on the planet would be able to achieve without computer.
Pro Photographer - 45yrs photography experience - own studio 37yrs - computer graphics / image retouching 34yrs
Great idea but, personally, I find these examples missing the artistic potential of illustrating interesting connections in time and the same location, or connections in space at different times. The obvious use of layering is distracting.
But there's potential here for something interesting.
Not photography in the traditional sense of capturing a viewpoint. At least not a technical geek's sense of what photography is. This is abstract, legitimate, art. Not only extremely complex to put together (requring much skill on the part of the artist), but also a great play on the metaphor of peeling back the layers on an onion. Although personally I don't really see much of the time-shift aspect, so perhaps different subject matter would bring that more to the fore.
So in other words, this doesn't jive with the majority of DPReview thinking. Not enough brick walls to detect vignetting and barrel distortion.
It's creative, certainly. The concept of "space and time bending" is intriguing, but I don't see that on these images; I see layering.
The phrase "tautochronos" suggests some sort of "time equivalence", but I don't see that either.
Whether it be done by hand with physical media or by digital, the compositions are excellent, the technique, exquisitely handled. Exquisite eye candy belittles it but it is very pleasant and very well done. I don't get any messages here (which is Ok, because not all art requires a concept) but I do enjoy it! :-) Seems more (entirely?) about technique than subject matter, but I don't know the artist and what he's trying to express if anything. Its not quite David Hockney's "Pear Blossom Highway" using lots of polaroids to make up pieces of one scene. There are some street "painters"/artists with chalk where piece of the street turn into almost trompe l'oil (pardon my French, literally!) holes in the ground, or vaulted arches - and there' also that guy (artist) from out West (I forget his name, but his works are everywhere, no, not Ansel Adams or any other photographer, he probably uses either paints, etc.) who draws/paints? camouflaged animals. Interesting work - "I smell bacon!" ;-)
I like the goal of showing a time shift in a single image. I'm not seeing it in these images. Maybe this technique could be used in a more obvious way.
I do find the method of excavating image compelling, and it does not strike me as gimmicky, as some suggest. Physically altering photographic prints is a well established vein in the history of art photography. I certainly do agree with some that certain works here are stronger than others. But overall these physical alterations of surfaces successfully invite investigation and contemplation.
Very interesting / cool!
Some people mention it's too chaotic, but that seems to me to be intentional, to throw off the senses, if it was too perfect it might be too slick and "easy". Just my 2c.
Interesting idea but the execution is too chaotic in some shots, not in a good way.
Nice work. Creative. Thanks for sharing these.
Anyone who thinks these are odd or strange, well, you've seen something new. And that's not a bad thing.
Thanks DPR for posting these. I'm not going to enter the debates in the preceding posts about whether it's art, photography, useful, pointless or whatever. As far as I'm concerned those debates are pointless because they revolve around classifying these pieces. They simply are as they are, and I simply enjoyed them. Original, different stuff from my own, and entertaining.
More predictable than the sun rising, the collection of people here calling someone else's work nonsense and worthless. Probably the same people who walk into a modern art museum claiming, "I can do this...what's the big deal?" Well, here's the thing: you did NOT do it. Someone else did, and this is the case here, too. Maybe one day your pictures of puppies, cute kids, sunsets, and flower macros will be in an art gallery, but until then, try to be more respectful and understanding. Maybe you'll actually learn something.
Thank you Jeff for taking the words right out of my fingers. So predictable are those here on this forum. The work presented here has forethought and vision, not just a click of a shutter that yields the next cat, flower, sunset, blah, blah and on and on.
Indeed, Jeff. The artist's work is definitely not traditional photography, but more of photomontage. The picture of the man clinging/merging into the brick wall was quite fascinating, and difficult to execute, but the overall effect of surreality is just about right. Some of the other images aren't as successful. This is an artist saying to himself, what can I do differently with the camera as an artistic tool? Something rather unexpected, it appears.
But if your idea of photographic art is a single image perfectly exposed and processed, yet similarly jarring, perhaps you'd like Art Wolfe's Human Canvas series. There, the camera records the creation of artwork on/with the human form. Perhaps painters should be as outraged as the photographers here are.
... although let's not forget, both art and photography are subjective and everyone is welcome to their views. Personally, I didn't like these or the process, but each to their own. I think it's ok to say 'I don't like these' as long as its polite; and for people to lecture others for not being impressed or admirable ... Well, that's unfair.
Politeness is the key here. Although I'm more favorably inclined to the artist's work here, if I weren't I would not disparage the artist himself for presenting, and I would hope that others would be similarly measured in their invective. That is the crux of what Jeff is saying.
@chadley_chad So, you don't like them? No harm in that.
The normal etiquette among the more considerate posters is to compliment or encourage whenever comment has not been sought from you. Where you disagree or express dislike for another artist's creative viewpoint, such comment is backed up with fair access to your own work. That's essential to avoid being just another internet 'hater'.
Too many people use the internet as a form of therapy and a vent for self esteem issues, with little regard for other artists and photographers efforts.
That's not so say there isn't a market for ignoramuses spouting criticism to rile up an audience. Whole TV series revolve around that concept. But the 'critics' aren't people you would admire, or necessarily want to know.
@Eric: While I mainly agree with you comment, this part: "Where you disagree or express dislike for another artist's creative viewpoint, such comment is backed up with fair access to your own work." is kind of completely off in my opinion.
I mean, one does not have to be a painter to like or dislike a painting. Or to have the right to hang one (or not) on his wall. Or a photo. Or a photo-montage like this.
However, expressing opinions politely is what makes sense, and what makes a discussion work. As an artist you want (or you should want) to hear the criticism as well as constructive opinions, and know how to benefit form it. Of course "I hate it" is not criticism, as "I love it" is not "positive feedback". It's only that the "love" ones we like, and appreciate them, as they grow our pride.
@badi: You're right that opinion of any kind has more validity [and value] if it is backed by some reasoned argument. But 'I like it' is of course a positive and if we accept that affirmation is in itself a constructive thing this does at least give it SOME value. The opposite 'blind criticism' is of course merely negative, so intrinsically has no value. Other than that is reflecting badly on the manners of the would-be critic.
@Jeff Seltzer: "Maybe one day your pictures of puppies, cute kids, sunsets, and flower macros will be in an art gallery..." Why do I feel that this was directed at me? :D You ticked off the majority of my "collection" in one sentence. Guess I'm the poster child for "wanna be photog." LOL! (fyi - no sarcasm here. Honestly thought it was funny.)
@cris: well, actually my idea was that "I like it" or "I hate it" are in essence the same = no value. And we consider the "i like it" to be constructive, just because it pleases us. And it does please us. But that does not change the fact that one "I like it" from AnonymousX has no more value that "I hate it" from the same online user.
I am not arguing with the fact that, more often, "I hate it" comments come from haters or trolls, and the "I like it" from lovely persons. But we share the same internet :)
So, because I don't upload any of my work to the forums, I don't have the right to say I don't like someone else's work? As badi rightly says, one does not have to be a painter to like or dislike a painting.
Indeed, one doesn't have to be a painter to like or dislike a painting. No one is expecting you to paint.
If you are going to make disparaging or discouraging public comments on another person's work, it would help a lot if you tried. Let others see the results of your efforts to put your criticism in context.
It's not a question of rights. It's a question of being fair, as you might rightly expect to be treated yourself.
:) it's an interesting discussion, so I'll continue a bit.
Being fair has nothing to do with liking a work of art, or just any work. You can like one camera design, and dislike another (I don't give examples not to go off-off-topic), that is my right to choose the one i like, as well as to say that i don't like some model (and why).
I don't have to try to make a camera myself, realize how hard it is, and say they are both nice.
As to painting/taking photos/sculpting/etc every one has his values and tastes. I like both abstract and realistic paintings, but when i look at one painting i like it or not for what it is, i don't report it to "my skills". If i suck at drawing, it doesn't mean i have to be in wow at every ugly painting just because the painter has slightly more skill than me. I compare it to other arts.
I merely said I didn't like the work; there's nothing disparaging or discouraging about that; and again, I don't see why I have to show my work to make my comments more valid. I remain polite and civil and stand by my original statement that the technique may be clever, but the outcome, for me, is not something I like or what I find pleasing or impressive to view (more confusing ... and should we really have to explain an image; surely a good image says it all!). Guess I'm not 'arty' enough lol!
Art using photographic images for base material. Interesting, unique and clever stuff.
As the saying goes- "To each his own".
Any photographer/artist doing something creative and showing something different is way better than the armchair critic who has no work to show.
Nonsense. You produce pointless stuff it remains pointless stuff. Arguably you should do something useful instead.
But in this case that's not the problem. The problem is that it isn't about photography at all.
"....the problem is that it isn't about photography at all"
Nope. The mere fact that there was a camera involved in the making of these images and light was captured to make an image possible qualifies this as an entry in the realm of photography
Also, the artists, inventors, photogs who dared to step out of the norm were once called out for pointless work. This reminds me of how some early photographers who played with separate red, green, and blue filters to create the first color images were once thought of as people wasting their time in an era of B&W.
@The Name is Bond That's your criteria? Something USEFUL?
FYI one could say ALL art is pointless. That's why it's art, it's made to be appreciated, not to be USEFUL. A painting won't get you to work, a novel won't cook your food, a song can't put a roof over your head. Is the Mona Lisa "useful"? Is watching "Romeo and Juliet" useful?
A map is useful, so should I start taking aerial photos as my "art"? That would be useful right? Would it satisfy your criteria for what photographers should do?
Is it ... Can we not be critics unless we've published work ourselves???
Paper layers instead of Photoshop layers.
Brilliant idea!
This must be art!
I appreciate the hands on approach. Makes it more intimate to me. Probably is more enjoyable having everything out in the open in front of you instead of having to use a mouse or tab, zooming in and out, clicking, dragging, etc.
Doing something like this by hand makes it more of a "one of a kind" instead of being able to mass produce it with a sterile digital file.
Gimmickry, not photography.
In the same way that Ansel Adams' stuff was gimmickry, as it also didn't reflect what was captured by his cameras.
I don't think so. His was real photography; a close representation of something substantive.
This is just pointless silliness to wow the easily wowed.
And just who exactly are you to decide that someone else's work is pointless?
"Gimmickry, not photography."
More like creative, thought provoking, original, fresh, etc. A photographer that's saying something with his work instead of repeating the same old photos everyone else is doing.
Whether you like his work or not, at least he's trying to be original and doing a pretty good job at it. And this could lead to bigger and better things in the future that maybe you might actually appreciate.
If people like Michel Lamoller didn't take risks, photography would be pretty boring at times.
"Gimmickry, not photography"
And if you were alive when the camera first came out, you would have said, "gimmickry, not a real painter". The artist probably doesn't care if it's considered "photography" by you or anyone else. Newsflash: creative artists probably shouldn't spend time worrying if their work conforms to definitions set by others.
"Gimmickry, not photography."
@"The Name is Bond" : Oh yes, the artist is definitely trying to trick you into thinking there is something creative there. Make sure you alert the world to the "gimmickry", ye? We need more protectors from "gimmickry" like you.
Any chance you can now wow us with "something substantive" of your own? Anything at all? You absolutely have to now, given your comments above.
We are waiting.
Seems like something you could do a lot more easily with digital layers and save loads of printing paper.
Ah, spoken like a true technical pixel peeper!
To me, exceptionally creative.
I've done a fair amount of Photoshopping, and some composites with layers. However, I think it would be very time consuming to accomplish the effect with layers, so that it had the same look.
So yes, it would save paper.
But ... my speculation is that the actual art work would have a very, very different feel, in person. We have to use our imagination from the small JPEG's from DPR to visualize the real art.
There would also be a "tactile texture" as you handled it, that would be missing from a 2D print.
Yes, creative and inspiring!
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By Joan Ward George
As was expected when The Wave went to press last week, the six individuals arrested early Thursday morning in a local drug raid were arraigned later that night and charged with possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to sell it from a Belle Harbor home at 128 Beach 127 street.
Those arraigned late Thursday were Theresa Myers, 50, a New York City intermediate employee, Keith Pryde, 21, Kevin Pryde, 22, Joseph Colangelo, 41, Jean Fitch, 40, all of whom reside at the Beach 127 address, and Elizabeth Ott, 37, of 723 Walton road, Broad Channel. According to the Queens district attorney's office, all of the defendants have been charged with criminal possession of a controlled substance with intent to sell it. They each face up to 25 years in prison if convicted.
Theresa Myers, owner of what the neighbors call a "drug horror house", was out on the street just a short time after her arraignment and a $30,000 bail judgment. Apparently back in business within days, she was re-arrested Tuesday night, April 25 at approximately 6:45 p.m., by plainclothes drug enforcement police officers, for allegedly selling drugs to an undercover officer on a prior date.
"What do we have to do to let the authorities know that this house is no good for our block, our neighborhood," said a Beach 127 resident. "It is a known drug house, with people going in and out all hours of the day and night. A second arrest within three days is comical. These people were back in business right away. Is it going to take a shootout or some other violent action to put these people behind bars for good? I hope that DA Brown makes good on his quote in last week's Wave, 'There is no such place as a safe house for drug storage and sales', because apparently the dealers think it was a big joke."
" What do we have to do to let the authorities know that this house is no good for our block, our neighborhood. It is a known drug house, with people going in and out all hours of the day and night. . .Is it going to take a shootout or some other violent action to put these people behind bars for good?"
According to a police spokesperson, under New York City's drug laws, Myers' Lexus automobile has been seized since it is believed to have been used in the commission of drug purchases and/or sales. According to some neighbors who have been following this case very closely, it is also expected that the authorities will try to vacate the Belle Harbor home under the Nuisance Abatement Law if it is proven that a felony has taken place there.
Myers' Beach 127 neighbors, who were upset about her getting bail on the first arrest, are taking the district attorney's office to task now, and reportedly have been contacting anyone they can to ask that pressure be placed so that these perpetrators can be incarcerated until their trial date is set.
At the time of the first arrest last week the defendants possessed more than 40 bags of cocaine, more than 30 bags of marijuana, and ecstasy tablets, as well as scales and pipes in the home. Myers, who is said to be the owner of the home, has lived there for more than seven years. Neighbors on Beach 127 street and adjacent blocks have been complaining for years over the suspicious activity that goes on at that address and were not in the least surprised to find out that it was a drug haven.
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The ongoing investigation is being conducted by the New York Police Department's Queens South Narcotics District.
Assistant District Attorney John H. Lee of District Attorney Brown's Narcotics Investigations Bureau will prosecute the case. Neighbors and concerned citizens of the affected area have told The Wave that they expect the district attorney's office to come down hard on these perpetrators, who allegedly have been living among them and dealing drugs for years without arrest or prosecution and undermining the quality of life for the people who live in the nearby community.
It is to be noted that a charge is merely an accusation and a defendant is presumed innocent until proven guilty.
As reported in last week's Wave (See Wave, April 22, 2000, Drug Raid On B. 127), neighbors in the area of this drug bust should not be surprised if they see similar operations undertaken in the near future.
As The Wave went to press Thursday, the DA's office informed the paper that Myers was arraigned Wednesday night and was released on her own recognizance, and, although the district attorney's office asked for bail to be set at $15,000, Criminal Court Judge Mullings let Myers walk with no additional bail.


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