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2013 Taça de Portugal Final
|2012–13 Taça de Portugal
|26 May 2013
|Estádio Nacional, Oeiras
|Man of the Match
|Ricardo (V. Guimarães)[1]
|Fair Player of the Match
|Paulo Oliveira (V. Guimarães)[1]
|Jorge Sousa[2]
|Partly cloudy
The 2013 Taça de Portugal Final was the final match of the 2012–13 Taça de Portugal, the 73rd season of the Taça de Portugal, the premier Portuguese football cup competition organized by the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF). The match was played on 26 May 2013 at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras, and opposed Benfica and Vitória de Guimarães. Vitória defeated Benfica 2–1 and secured their first title in the competition after five previous failed appearances in the final.[4][5][6] In Portugal, the final was televised live in HD on RTP1 and Sport TV.[7]
As a result of winning the Taça de Portugal, Vitória claimed €300,000 in prize money.[8] As the winners, Vitória de Guimarães qualified for the group stage of the 2013–14 UEFA Europa League,[9] and played against Porto, the winners of the 2012–13 Primeira Liga, in the 2013 Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira.
Benfica were appearing in their 34th Taça de Portugal final. Benfica went into the match as 24-time winners (1940, 1943, 1944, 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1957, 1959, 1962, 1964, 1969, 1970, 1972, 1980, 1981, 1983, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1993, 1996, 2004). Of their 33 Taça de Portugal final appearances, they had lost 9 times (1939, 1958, 1965, 1971, 1974, 1975, 1989, 1997, 2005). Benfica's last Taça de Portugal final appearance was in 2005, against Vitória de Setúbal. The sadinos defeated the encarnados 2–1.[10] Vitória de Guimarães were appearing in their sixth Taça de Portugal final. They had previously lost all five finals (1942, 1963, 1976, 1988, 2011). The Vimaranenses last Taça de Portugal final appearance was the 2011 final against Porto, where they lost 6–2.[11]
In Benfica's and Vitória de Guimarães' entire history, the two teams had met on 152 different occasions. Benfica had accumulated 104 victories while Vitória de Guimarães had accumulated 24 victories. Of those 152 encounters, 24 of those games had ended in a draw.[12] The last meeting between these two sides in this competition was a fourth round tie in the 2009–10 edition, where the Conquistadores defeated Benfica at the Estádio da Luz.[13] The last meeting between these two sides, prior to this encounter was a domestic league match, which took place on 17 March. Benfica defeated their opponents 4–0 at the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques.[14]
Route to the final[edit]
|Freamunde (A)
|Moreirense (A)
|Desportivo das Aves (H)
|Académica de Coimbra (A)
|Paços de Ferreira (A)
|Paços de Ferreira (H)
As a Primeira Liga team, Benfica entered the 2012–13 Taça de Portugal in the third round, where they were drawn in an away tie against Segunda Liga side Freamunde at the Campo SC Freamunde. Benfica comfortably defeated the second division side 4–0, with goals from Lima, Óscar Cardozo, Eduardo Salvio and André Gomes.[15] Fellow Primeira Liga side Moreirense, were Benfica's opponents in the fourth round. The match which took place at the Parque de Jogos Comendador Joaquim de Almeida Freitas, saw Benfica defeat the side from Moreira de Cónegos, 2–0. A goal near the hour mark through Serbian midfielder Nemanja Matić, and an injury time strike from Óscar Cardozo granted Benfica safe passage to the fifth round.[16][17]
Benfica were drawn to play at home against Desportivo das Aves in the fifth round. Despite Desportivo das Aves being a second division side, Benfica's coach Jorge Jesus opted for a strong starting line-up with first team regulars Artur, Ezequiel Garay, Maxi Pereira and Nicolás Gaitán being selected over players who had primarily been used by Jorge Jesus for the cup competition. Jesus' strong starting XI would pay off as Benfica would demolish the opposition 6–0, with a hat-trick from Óscar Cardozo, a brace from Rodrigo and a second-half penalty from Lima.[18][19] The Encarnados faced cup holders Académica de Coimbra at the Estádio Cidade de Coimbra in the quarter-finals. For a second consecutive cup match, Jorge Jesus utilized another strong side to take on the Coimbra side. Benfica would defeat their opponents 4–0. Benfica's passage to the next round was pretty much sealed within the first twenty seven minutes, after Ola John opened the scoring and Brazilian striker Lima would score two. Argentine winger Eduardo Salvio would close the scoring in the second half.[20][21]
For the semi-finals, Benfica were drawn against fellow Primeira Liga side Paços de Ferreira. The semi-finals were contested over two legs with the first leg taking place at Paços de Ferreira's Estádio da Mata Real. The first half of the first leg saw Benfica dominate possession but not break threw Paços de Ferreira's defense, but the second half proved to be different. Benfica broke the dead lock on 58 minutes, after Eduardo Salvio obtained the ball on the right hand side and took on Paços' Vitorino Antunes, where Salvio crossed the ball to an unmarked Lima to tap in Benfica's first goal of the game. Benfica's second came on 75 minutes threw substitute Ola John. The goal arose after Rodrigo's shot was saved by Cássio, and John followed up to tap in Benfica's second to take a two-goal advantage back to Estádio da Luz.[22][23] Benfica's first leg win had marked five consecutive cup games where Benfica had kept clean sheets. The return leg in Lisbon was played in mid April, over two months after the first leg. The game saw the home side not take many risks, whilst the away side opted for an attacking approach in order to reduce the two goal deficit. After a quite first half, Benfica broke the deadlock in the second half near the hour mark through Óscar Cardozo to score his sixth overall goal of the competition. Paços would tie the game ten minutes from the end threw Cícero. The game would end tied, and Benfica would win the tie 3–1 on aggregate to progress to the final for the first time since 2005.[24][25]
Vitória de Guimarães[edit]
|Vilaverdense (H)
|Vitória de Setúbal (A)
|2–2 (aet), 3–5 p
|Marítimo (A)
|1–1 (aet), 4–5 p
|Braga (H)
|2–1 (aet)
|Belenenses (A)
|Belenenses (H)
Just like their opponents, Vitória de Guimarães entered the 2012–13 Taça de Portugal in the third round, where they were drawn in a home tie against third division side Vilaverdense. The Vimaranenses defeated their opposition 6–1 thanks to braces from El Arbi Soudani, Marcelo Toscano and Ricardo.[26] Fellow Primeira Liga side Vitória de Setúbal were Vitória de Guimarães' opponents in the fourth round. Played at the Estádio do Bonfim, the game was heavily contested which featured four goals. The home side scored first threw Cameroonian striker Albert Meyong on 13 minutes. João Ribeiro equalized from the penalty spot on 50 minutes for Vitória de Guimarães. The 1–1 result would require extra-time to settle a winner. Six minutes from the end in extra-time, Freire would give the away side the advantage, but the home side would equalize a minute later through Jorginho which would require the tie to be settled by a penalty shootout. Vitória de Guimarães would win the penalty shootout, 5–3 after Setúbal's Albert Meyong missed his spot king.[27][28]
The fifth round saw the Conquistadores face another Primeira Liga side which was Marítimo. The fifth round cup tie saw the away side face another penalty shootout for a second consecutive match. The match went to penalties after each side were tied after 120 minutes. Marítimo scored the first goal of the game on nine minutes through Fidélis, and Vitória de Guimarães would equalize in the second half through Ricardo. After each side had taken six penalties each, the score was tied 4–4. João Diogo missed Marítimo's seven spot kick, and Amido Baldé converted his penalty kick to send his side to the quarter-finals.[29][30] The quarter finals saw a home tie against Minho rivals Braga. Despite both sides competing for a European place in the domestic league, both managers opted for strong starting line-ups in order to win the tie. The game opened up with an early goal. The first goal of the game came in the first minute as Braga's Ismaily played the ball into his own penalty box where Uruguayan midfielder Jean Barrientos intercepted, and scored the first goal of the game from ten yards out. The Vimaranenses would go in at half time with a goal advantage. The second half began with the away side applying the pressure on their opposition to score an equalizer. As the game drew to a close, Braga's manager José Peseiro opted to play with an extra center forward and one less defender in order to take the game to extra-time. Peseiro's risk would pay off as Braga's Éder would score equalizer five minutes from the end. Éder's goal would force extra-time to settle the tie. Extra-time opened up with a goal from Jean Barrientos, who would score his second of the match. Vitória de Guimarães would hold on in extra-time and win 2–1 and book their place in the semi-final.[31][32]
For the semi-finals, Vitória de Guimarães were drawn against the lowest ranked team still active in the competition which were Belenenses of the Segunda Liga. The semi-finals were played over two legs with the first leg taking place at the Estádio do Restelo. The first leg was primarily dominated by the home side but the away side where more clinical in front of goal and managed to score a goal in each half to take a two-goal advantage back to the Estádio D. Afonso Henriques for the second leg. Ricardo would score both goals, his fourth and fifth goals of the campaign. Ricardo's first came about from a long ball in which Ricardo capitalized on a Belenenses defense mistake and found himself unmarked in the penalty box to beat Belenenses' Matt Jones, whilst Ricardo's second came in the 76th minute as he headed the ball into the net from a free kick on the edge of the box.[33][34] The return leg in Guimarães saw the Vimaranenses win 1–0 with a 14th-minute goal from Marco Matias, and thus win the tie 3–0 on aggregate to progress to the final for the first time since 2011.[35][36]
Match officials were confirmed on 21 May, when Jorge Sousa of Porto was named the referee for the final.[37] This was the first time that Sousa officiated a final of the Taça de Portugal. Sousa was assisted by Bertino Miranda of Porto and Álvaro Mesquita of Vila Real while the fourth official was Bruno Esteves of Setúbal.[2]
Tickets for the final went on sale on 12 May.[38] The FPF allocated tickets for both finalist clubs varying in price between of €15 and €30.[38] On the 13 May, the FPF announced that all tickets for the final had been sold after only one day after its release to the public.[39]
Traditionally the final of the Taça de Portugal has been played at the Estádio Nacional in Oeiras since 1946. Five cup finals since the inauguration of the stadium in the 1940s have been played outside the Estádio Nacional. In January 2013, President of the Portuguese Football Federation Fernando Gomes announced his concerns over the conditions of the Estádio Nacional. He expressed his desire for the final to be held elsewhere.[40]
Following Gomes' announcements, the Portuguese Football Federation sent a letter to the Secretary of State of Sport and Youth Alexandre Mestre, where the FPF expressed its concerns over the current conditions of the Estádio Nacional. The FPF cited the degradation of the internal and external conditions of the stadium as it main concerns. The FPF proposed renovations that needed to take place in order for the stadium to play host to the final.[41]
On 30 January 2013, Minister of Parliamentary Affairs Miguel Relvas publicly announced to newspaper A Bola that the final of the cup should be hosted at the Jamor.[42] Relvas went on to say that the government and the Portuguese Football Federation (FPF) agreed that the stadium should hold the Portuguese Cup final, but in order to do so major improvements need to be made in order to host the game.[43] On 4 February, the Portuguese Federation announced the final to be held at the Jamor.[44] On 5 February, Secretary of State of Sport and Youth Alexandre Mestre announced that the Portuguese government would invest €2.3 million into the stadium to improve its facilities with work to commence following Mestre's announcement and to conclude before May so that it can be ready to host the final of the Taça de Portugal.[45]
Benfica v Vitória de Guimarães
26 May 2013
|Vitória de Guimarães
|Gaitán 30'
|Soudani 80'
Ricardo 82'
Estádio Nacional, Oeiras
Attendance: 36,850[3]
Referee: Jorge Sousa[2]
Vitória de Guimarães
|2012–13 Taça de Portugal Winners
|Vitória de Guimarães
1st Title
|Vitória de Guimarães
|Goals scored
|Total shots
|Shots on target
|Ball possession
|Corner kicks
|Fouls committed
|Yellow cards
|Red cards
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Despite Hateful Rhetoric, Muslim Leaders Urge Community Against Living in Fear
the Madrasah Islamiah mosque where Dr. Arslan Tajammul was headed to pray.
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It was around 5:30 a.m. Sunday when Dr. Arslan Tajammul left his car for the mosque to pray, when he was shot.
Police say he was in a parking lot near the southwest Houston Madrasah Islamiah mosque when the armed man and others attacked and robbed him. Thirty-year-old Tajammul was taken to Ben Taub Hospital shortly after, where he is recovering.
Police have not identified any motive in the crime — and that's partly why Tajammul's wife and various faith leaders called a press conference Monday outside the hospital, to ask the community not to jump to conclusions in thinking this was an anti-Muslim hate crime.
The Houston chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations also called for increased security measures at mosques and at today's end-of-Ramadan holy celebration, Eid Al Fitr, which will take place at NRG Stadium.
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In an interview Tuesday, Executive Director Mustafaa Carroll echoed those security concerns, and while he also reiterated there is no evidence to suggest this was a hate crime, he said it's understandable why the Muslim community would be, on first look, concerned that it was. Given the current political climate, he said, any news of an attack on a Muslim man outside of a mosque is sure to shake the community.
"People are afraid when they hear that someone got shot. I'm not sure that the reason really matters," he said. "But it does matter in the sense that we've seen an increase or a spike in hate incidents across the country. So when you factor all those other things in, then you're really concerned that hate speech is actually having ascendancy, and it's having it not just in the underbelly of society, but in high places, like in Congress."
Carroll said that CAIR has seen a dramatic increase in discrimination complaints at its office this year, particularly related to the workplace. While on average CAIR would receive 80 discrimination complaints a year, Carroll says the organization has already received well over 200 already this year. He believes the jump in complaints is the result of a combination of hiring a lawyer to handle the cases and the rhetoric spewed about Muslims in public: conflating them with radical terrorists and calling for surveillance on them within their communities, as presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has suggested various times.
On the local political level, Carroll pointed to the time a city councilman's "director of community outreach," Trebor Gordon, said at a local GOP meeting that he wanted to block a Muslim man from joining the Republican Party because he didn't think Islam was a real religion. (Yeah, he was fired.)
But Carroll and MJ Khan, president of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston, who will lead today's Eid Al Fitr prayer at NRG, said they frequently remind the community that rhetoric is just that, and it should not influence the way Muslims go about their daily lives.
Khan, pointing to the times a woman wearing a hijab and a Muslim man with a beard were taunted for their faith in Houston, conceded that it may not be "the best of times for the Muslim community," but said he would never want isolated incidents such as the shooting near the mosque or Gordon's ignorance to instill fear among Muslims.
That's why, Khan said, he opposes stationing security guards, for example, outside the mosques.
"We have to have some commonsense security measures, but mosques are not fortresses," he said. "They're places of worship, and they should be open to all."
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Ben Weinman is a Jewish American guitarist who plays for the band The Dillinger Escape Plan. He is the founder and only original member remaining in the band.
Weinman attended Fairleigh Dickinson University in Madison, New Jersey where he received a degree in psychology. He then went on to study corporate communications at Fairleigh Dickinson University.
Ben Weinman, Chris Pennie, Dimitri Minakakis and Adam Doll began The Dillinger Escape Plan in 1997. Weinman has been involved in the production of all the band's releases since their self-titled debut EP, as well as various other musical works. The band's second full-length album, Miss Machine, was the first album released by record label Relapse Records to make the Billboard charts.
Weinman's first full-length studio album with the Dillinger Escape Plan, entitled "Calculating Infinity" was listed in the book "The Top 500 Heavy Metal Albums of All Time" by Martin Popoff. Calculating Infinity was also recently named one of "100 best rock albums of all time" by Kerrang magazine, who recently presented Weinman with a spirit of independence award.
Weinman was named one of Guitar World Magazine's 50 fastest guitar players of all time alongside Guitar players such as Eddie Van Halen and Les Paul.[1] He was also recently named one of Guitar World's Top 25 Cult Guitarists.[2]
Weinman remixed "Digital Sea" off of Thrice's The Alchemy Index Vol. II Water, as a bonus track for their "Come All You Weary" Single.
In 2009 he worked with Ephel Duath on the song "Bark Loud" off of their album "Through My Dog's Eye". He also contributed to Bring Me The Horizon's remix album "Suicide Season - Cut Up" by remixing the track "No Need For Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You on the Backs of Toilet Doors".
The Dillinger Escape Plan
See The Dillinger Escape Plan discography on Wikipedia.
|Zach Hill
|"Tastes Like Kevin Bacon"
|Lil' Wayne
|"Mr. Carter"
|The Secret Handshake
|"Too Young"
|"Digital Sea"
|Come All You Weary
|"Paradigm Shift"
|Toying with the Insanities, Volume II [Vinyl LP]
|Bring Me the Horizon
|"No Need For Introductions, I've Read About Girls Like You on the Backs of Toilet Doors"
|Suicide Season: Cut Up!
- ↑ "50 Fastest Guitarists of All Time". Guitar World. Future US, Inc. 2008-11-20. http://www.guitarworld.com/article/50_fastest_guitarists_of_all_time?page=0,2. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
- ↑ di Perna, Alan; Gill, Chris; Grow, Kory; Lalaina, Joe; Scapelliti, Christopher (2009-05-26). "Cult Leaders". Guitar World. Future US, Inc. http://www.guitarworld.com/article/cult_leaders?page=0,8. Retrieved 2009-06-29.
|This page uses content from the English Wikipedia. The original article was at Ben Weinman. The list of authors can be seen in the page history.


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In the final volume of Lethal Desire, Chaz and Aspen are on a wild ride of passion and danger. If they survive, will they be able to walk away from each other when the time comes?
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Jonny Evans insists he did not intend to hurt Stuart Holden but admits his tackle was not 'good'.
Last Updated: 24/03/11 10:51am
Jonny Evans insists he did not intend to hurt Stuart Holden after acknowledging his tackle on the Bolton Wanderers midfielder was not 'good'.
The Manchester United defender was sent off during last week's 1-0 win over Bolton for the challenge which has left Holden facing six months on the sidelines with a knee injury.
Holden has absolved Evans of any blame and the USA international revealed earlier in the week that he had received a 'sincere' phone call from the centre-half.
Evans admits he was quick to realise he was guilty of a poor challenge and the Northern Ireland international hopes Holden appreciated his call.
"I just said (to Holden) I was sorry, and that I didn't mean to go in and hurt him," said Evans.
"At the time I did think I'd gone in for a fair challenge and I'd won the ball.
"But looking back on it when I went straight off the pitch and into the changing rooms and saw the tackle again, I realised it wasn't a good tackle from myself - and my concerns were immediately with Stuart.
"Bolton's doctor was keeping me informed, and gave me a call on Monday.
"It was disappointing to hear the news, (so) I just rang him straight away to apologise.
"I think anyone appreciates a phone call if someone's caused them an injury.
"Not many footballers like to be on the treatment table, it's just unfortunate that someone else has caused an injury to you."


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Im a student who have just started trying MQL4. Im having issue finding the function to count the number of open position. Also, confused with the jargon so there may be some error in the words.
Lets say the price is 80 and i put an pending order to buystop at 90. To count the number of pending order, i use OrdersTotal() . correct?
if the price hits 90 and the buystop get triggered, but not the stoploss or takeprofit, it is a open position right? is there a function to count this? Do not count if the stoploss/takeprofit is triggered (close position).
OrdersHistoryTotal() would count both the open and close position right? Is there a way to count only the open position? or a way to count all the closed position so i can work backwards?
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Light and Quirky Reading for the Dog Days
by Susan Withee, Adult Services Manager
The long hot days from late July through August have been known as the Dog Days of summer since ancient times, when the proximity of Sirius, the Dog Star, to the sun at that time of year was believed to cause of the hottest days of the year and all the evil thereof. This year our Dog Days have set new records for high temperatures and duration, causing us grave discomfort and occasionally short tempers, so this August especially is a good time to pour a tall, cold drink and read something short, light, and quirky. Try something from this list of books that take unexpected subjects and make them delightfully entertaining.
Just My Type: A Book About Fonts by Simon Garfield. For over 500 years the printed word has surrounded us, usually without our appreciating the artistry and graphic nuances of the typefaces we see. With the arrival of the IBM Selectric typewriter and its revolutionary changeable typeballs in 1961, this began to change. Suddenly, an ordinary individual was able to change the typeface on a document at will and creative sensibilities were piqued, although at the time our choices were limited to such sober typefaces as Courier or Prestige Elite. Just over 20 years later, Steve Jobs marketed the first MacIntosh computer with a selection of typeface choices and suddenly "font" became a household word and the creation of new and more evocative typefaces exploded. Now there are fonts for every emotion and message. We all have our favorite classic fonts – Helvetica, Goudy Old Style, Albertus – and some fonts have acquired the stature of pop cultural icons. There are even a few fonts – Papyrus, Brush Script, Comic Sans – that have caused the occasional online "font war" or have been reviled for misuse or overuse. This amusing and enlightening book will introduce you to the social history of type design and the words we see all around us.
In Praise of Chickens: A Compendium of Wisdom Fair and Fowl by Pulitzer-prize nominee Jane S. Smith offers a sublime escape into poultry lore galore. A bright and sunny book of chicken history and trivia with excerpts and quotations from Aristotle to Twain, filled with antique illustrations and handsome portraits of chicken breeds, this small book is a summer delight.
In London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets, Peter Ackroyd, prolific author, historian, and biographer, tells tales of the thousands of years of history buried beneath the streets of London. Underground rivers, forgotten prisons, buried monasteries, ancient sewers and canals, Roman galleys, Anglo-Saxon graves, hideouts, tunnels and shelters, creatures of the underworld real and surreal – all appear in their own time and context in this absorbing and atmospheric book.
Sister Bernadette's Barking Dog: The Quirky History and Lost Art of Diagramming Sentences by Kitty Burns Florey. If you're a Person of a Certain Age like me, you may remember diagramming sentences on the blackboard for your sixth or seventh grade teacher (requiescat in pace, Miss Johnston of MJHS). Diagramming was introduced to American schools in 1877 as a standard technique for teaching grammar and it endured through most of the 20th Century before being largely abandoned. Sentence diagramming was a way to visually depict the structure of sentences, a cross between puzzle-solving and graphic design. It was an illuminating and effective way to learn grammar and an oddly satisfying mental exercise. In this charming and humorous book, author Florey revisits her own memories of sentence diagramming and the challenges, elegance, and clarity offered by this forgotten skill.
Good to Go: A Guide to Preparing for the End of Life by Jo Myers. What?! A book about dying that's quirky and light? Yes, and it's fun to read as well. Myers offers practical advice and a basic template for preparing for the end of life, your own or another's, with acceptance and love. With chapter headings like "Making an Ash of Yourself" and "Let's Put the Fun Back in Funeral," this book offers reassurance and encouragement with tenderness and humor.
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:)by Gail Quagliata
Magic, Luck and Friendship: the very idea has been trademarked by Samuel Borkson and Arturo Sandoval III, founders of the commercial art collective with the most affable moniker around. The collective's current exhibition, titled simply :), extends FriendsWithYou's New York City "cultural ambassadorship" tour and irrepressible good cheer into the Hole's new space on the Bowery. In the hands of a less gleeful empire, the concept of claiming ownership of such benevolent terms might seem rather deplorable, if not openly nefarious, but in this instance it feels quite right.
The exhibit features a series of subtly to overtly anthropomorphic figures created largely out of geometric abstractions, from "giggle sticks" to "smiling puddles," advertising a giddy sense of humor that could cause uptight, enchantment-impaired detractors to label this work vacuous entertainment, or, worse, purely commercial. Gazing at the irrefutable optimism depicted in these glossy candy colors and wee winks and smiles, it is difficult not to refer to Takashi Murakami's Superflat movement, and the associated (total bringdown) criticism that the work is little more than lowbrow, pop-concepts thrust into a highbrow arena. The artist is accused of simply skillfully creating a recognizable, trademark-worthy product (a la Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, or Jeff Koons). FriendsWithYou takes commoditization a step further, by existing as a commercial entity that produces "designer toys" and other decidedly high-end, lowbrow goods; this flies in the face of the bizarre logic that authentic artists should not actually make money intentionally.
At first glance, much of the work could be viewed as a celebration of formal sublimity, until the added dimension of a rudimentary face staring back at the viewer becomes undeniably apparent. FriendsWithYou create literal friends with you, the viewer, transforming austere art objects into relatable entities. Are these "splat-happy wall works," (to quote their makers), swirling, grinning heads, and supermassive inflatable atomic candy-like creatures the blithe new mascots of art? The tall, thin vertical beam painted in fat, glossy white and red horizontal stripes—that, in the FriendsWithYou universe, serves as one in a herd of "giggle sticks"—could function in any other gallery space as minimalist sculpture. It could be a staid study in color, space, and technical precision, were it not for the subtle addition of what a tuned-in viewer sharply perceives as round black eyes and a tiny, coy mouth at the very top of the form, transforming an inert object into a tall, thin Friend, guarding over the massive, inflatable Friend quietly humming adjacent. Several pieces contain kinetic elements which serve only to highlight their creatural qualities, rendering them something like rather absurd, high art versions of those kitsch Kit-Cat Klocks®, with rolling eyes and gently buzzing electronic innards.
Stripped of this gleeful context, several of these pieces could be perceived as anything but living creatures. The show's titular work, :), depicts a field of thick, precisely wrought, eye-melting black and white lines streaming vertically down the vast expanse of the frame, interrupted in three crucial instances by much shorter horizontal black lines. To the anthropomorphically minded, clearly, these are the eyes and mouth of some living being. But couldn't this just as easily exist as some formal meditation on the purity of the line, an ultra-rigid homage to, say, Frank Stella's Black Paintings? It is in this odd space between hyper-Formalist FINE ART (in all caps) and collectible, accessible FUN ART that FriendsWithYou rests comfortably.
There is something defiantly unpretentious about every piece in :), an overarching sense that FriendsWithYou (as a company, art collective, and glorious alternate universe) actually practice what they preach in terms of playfulness as unquestioned gateway to pure creative expression. Quite naturally, some of us may even wish to fall into a cheery "smiling puddle," in the hope that there will be some joyous, FriendsWithYou-style art world existing blissfully on the other side.
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Chapbooks are magic. For those who read them, for those who publish them, for those whose work lives in themwe know this to be true. How exactly to pinpoint that magic or break it down, well, that would be revealing the trick. But even if we could, chapbooks aren't objects to be explained.
Behind the Myths: A Reviewby Peter St. Clair
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What do Moses, Jesus, and Muhammad have in common? Well besides being the acknowledged founders of the three great monotheistic religions, none of them ever existed.
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JUNE 2016 | Art Books
In 1975, Robert Motherwell bought a chair from a young sculptor and designer named John E. Scofield. The two developed a friendship and Scofield became Motherwell's studio assistant.
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It tastes funny.
It's perfectly safe, I drank tap water exclusively for my first three weeks here in Zaragoza (I'm someone who drinks a lot of water on a daily basis, partly because I run several times a week), and I had absolutely no problems whatsoever. It's fine.
However…it does taste weird. I don't know how to describe it, but it definitely is noticeable (I've done a blind taste test: yes, I can easily distinguish Zaragoza tap water from bottled mineral water), it tastes different from tap water at home which tastes like nothing (like distilled water, very neutral), and it tastes different from the mineral water here which is why mineral water is so popular in Spain and Europe in general: because the tap water doesn't taste as good, that's why.
A clarification on what "mineral water" in Europe is…
It doesn't usually refer to Perrier, it is not carbonated…usually. This is what Americans normally think of when you say "mineral water". Yes, mineral waters can be carbonated here, yes Perrier is one of them, yes they are sold here…however, that's not what people mean when they say "mineral water", or "agua mineral", that's not what you'll get if you ever ask for an "agua mineral" at a bar or restaurant here. What you'll get will be what we would call "bottled water", that is plain, flat (non-carbonated), bottled water that came from a spring. Fiji and Evian are examples of what I'm talking about that you may be familiar with.
If you want carbonated mineral water – like Perrier – what you'll need to specify is "agua mineral con gas" (literally "mineral water with gas").
So do Spaniards drink the tap water?
Yes, but not if they can help it, it seems. That is, drinking solely mineral water can get expensive, depending on how much of it you're drinking (or your guests, like at a dinner or party, are drinking), and what your budget is, but it's not that expensive. Like almost everything else in Spain, especially food and drink, it's really quite cheap.
For example, a 6-pack of 1.5 liter bottles (so 8 liters in total) of my preferred brand (described below) at the local grocery store (Eroski) costs €4.14 ($4.56US or £2.95GBP at this writing).
Ok, so what's good? What should I buy if I go there?
Solan de Cabras. There are others I've tried, they're fine, it's not like this really matters that much…but that's my preferred brand. I've tried others, I didn't like them as much. This one tastes like water should: nothing. It tastes like water and nothing else.
I've noticed that almost always when there's some sort of high-level political meeting on the news and there's water on the table, it's this particular brand (there are a lot of Spanish mineral waters and no, this one isn't state-owned or anything).
I know that's maybe not the strongest endorsement but I figure they can afford anything they want for those events so whatever they pick is going to be pretty good at a minimum.
I'll leave it at that for now. Later I'll probably come back and edit this a bit after I ask some friends about this topic.