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DEAR MISS LONELYHEARTS: I am 17. My new girlfriend and I were peacefully eating a cheeseburger outside VJ's drive-in the other day when she started going on about how this reminded her of when she was with her former boyfriend -- her first love -- and this was their favourite place. Apparently, they used to go there late at night in the spring and sit there feeding each other the burgers and fries. Yuck. I asked her why she would be telling ME this stupid stuff and she said I should be understanding of her life before she met me and how much other people have meant to her. I said that was ridiculous. "How would you like to hear about my first love?" I asked. She said she would. I was mad, so, like an idiot, I told her some sweet things we used to call each other. She said, "Take me home." Now she won't take my calls or texts. -- Is it Over? South End
Dear Over: She dishes out insensitive information and expects to be treated like the queen -- no reprisals, or it's off with your head! You dished it right back and were surprised when she reacted. Look, you have exchanged colourful memories you shouldn't have about other people at a delicate stage, and you've both shown you can be spiteful. This is not a match made in heaven, so don't tire your fingers out texting her. It may not be over, but it's not the same innocent new relationship it once was, so don't put a lot of effort into getting her back.
Dear Miss Lonelyhearts: My wife and I, married over 15 years, tried swinging in the last little while. More so her then me, if you get my meaning -- and always together, so it's not cheating and I don't feel any jealousy about it. But she is wanting to take the next step and see me with another woman. I don't know if I can or if I even want to. How do I break this to her without making her feel like she doesn't love me as much, since she is willing to be with other guys? -- Just for Her, Winnipeg
Dear Just For Her: It seems you were swinging with another couple where both couples went off with each other privately, though under the same roof. Now your wife wants something more. Remember this: Just because you did something considered "alternative" doesn't mean you can't say no to anything else that makes you feel weird or worried. You can stick your toe over the line together as a couple and them say no to other things. You always have the right to veto if something makes you feel uncomfortable. In your case, you might be protecting the emotional relationship, if you think you might show a preference for the new woman, and you should explain it. That might cool her down in a hurry.


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The Iowa farmland Kevin Costner's character, Ray Kinsella, contemplated as heaven in "Field of Dreams" sold last week, but even the land's celebrity status couldn't help it break the state's record high farmland price set earlier this year.
The 193-acre farm and movie site was purchased by Go the Distance Baseball LLC for $3.4 million plus interest, a steal compared to the farm's listed selling price of $5.4 million two years ago when the property entered the market.
The sale includes the field and farmhouse, which the buyers told KRCG they will preserve along with some of the corn fields.
Without the interest, the sale price is over $17,600 per acre, roughly $4,300 per acre less than the record set earlier in 2012 on an 80.47-acre farm near Boyden, Iowa.
The Associated Press reports the investment company plans to convert the cornfields to an All-Star Ballpark Heaven consisting of 24 youth baseball and softball fields. Construction on the tournament complex is expected to begin this spring with the inaugural tournament slated for 2014.
The complex is expected to create 1,400 jobs and eventually bring $40 million to the area.
The sale was delayed as a group of residents attempted to block the zoning change but the petition was denied.

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We live in Virginia which means we rarely see snow... but a girl can dream, right? And as I had visions of snowflakes dancing in my head, I decided to bring the snow to me (even if it is faux snow. Plastic snow to be exact.)
I was tired of last year's wreath. It was very traditional. I wanted something fun... funky... and even something that could hang around through the winter, instead of being forced out shortly after we say "au revoir" to 2011.
So I hit up The Dollar Store and Michaels (Where else? Hold your tongue if you are one of the lucky few that get to experience the greatness that is Hobby Lobby.)
After a couple hours of quality time with my trusty hot glue gun, I was left with this:
(Please excuse the cruddy picture quality. I took them with my phone)
This project was so easy and so quick that I was able to get two wreaths done in one evening.
So here's how the wreath making went down.
You'll need
- 1- styrofoam circle- Dollar Store or Michaels.
- 4- packs of Large Dollar Store plastic snowflakes. They come three per pack for $1
- A bunch of small/medium plastic snowflakes. They come 6 per pack for $1
Using your hot glue gun, put the 12 large Snowflakes on first, in two rows. This will act as a foundation.
After that, glue on rows upon rows of the medium snowflakes (approx. six rows but just eye it and keep stacking until you are satisfied with how it looks.)
Then slap on a bow and it's ready to adorn your door.
I'll snap a pic of the wreath on my front door tomorrow, if I get home before it gets dark.
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I made some beer can chicken today and got burnt one too many times, need to get a pair of gloves for this and other kinds of meats.
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MOVES to boost the hiring of apprentices and older workers in the building industry have fallen foul of the Baillieu government crackdown on union-friendly deals in the industry.
The move has sparked anger from building unions that accuse the government of ''ideological madness'' for its new rules on publicly funded projects. In the latest development the rules have derailed a workplace deal between contractor UGL and the Electrical Trades Union.
In a letter to an employer group, the director of the Construction Code Compliance Unit, Nigel Hadgkiss, warned that an industry-wide deal in the electrical contracting sector - which UGL was about to sign - included 17 breaches of the government's tough new rules.
Among them were clauses that promoted the hiring of apprentices ''to maintain a ratio of at least one apprentice to three tradespeople''. Clauses that include ratios for workers aged over 45 were also found to be out of bounds.
The proposed UGL agreement included a range of measures that the government wants to forbid, including restrictions on use of sub-contractors, unionism promotion at inductions and minimum pay rates for outside labour.
It comes after The Age revealed last week that the government would ban Lend Lease for a union-friendly deal for up to four years - a move that sent shockwaves through the industry.
The state code allows the government to ban builders from bidding for government-funded work if they sign deals with unions that do not comply. The rules took effect from July and apply to deals signed in the private and public sectors.
ETU assistant secretary Troy Gray said the union and UGL executives had shaken hands on a deal that included the clauses, but UGL executives received late legal advice that their deal would fall foul of the rules.
Mr Gray said the government's approach was ''ideological madness'' and a lack of explanations made it hard to re-negotiate. ''Why do they have an issue with clauses that support the employment of apprentices in Victoria, why have an issue with the looking after of older workers in the construction industry?'' he asked.
He said the next step could be strikes and the union would ''go to the ends of the earth to defend'' the agreements.
UGL, which did not respond to requests for comment, was one of about 30 electrical contractors that did not sign agreements with the ETU by July 1. Those that have signed since July 1 are likely to be excluded from government work.
The rest of the electrical contracting industry, which covers about 10,000 workers, signed the agreements before the rules took effect.
Finance Minister Robert Clark, through a spokesman, said its rules were clear.
''The government's construction guidelines are working as intended to make clear to builders and contractors interested in doing state government work that they need to ensure that their industrial agreements and arrangements comply with the law and promote productive and safe workplaces,'' he said.
''Unions will not be allowed to use false or misleading claims about particular groups of workers as a front for trying to impose unacceptable restrictive practices on employers.''


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We're pretty sure you've ever seen that photo effect in which one object is focused an the background is blurry. AfterFocus adds that functionality to your phone camera. You just need to take a picture and start editing it.
First off, AfterFocus asks you to choose between two method to select the focus area "Smart" or "Manual". The "Smart" mode is a semi-automatic mode: you just need to draw lines over objects and it will automatically select areas. However, it won't as accurately as you may think. For this reason, there are "undo" "eraser" and "black lines" correctors. Anyway, the smart mode works pretty good, and is the one I preferred. If you choose "manual" mode you'll have to draw the whole area you want to apply focus by dragging.
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This article was published 10/3/2014 (1259 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Last week, while announcing a new five-year, $1.5-billion core infrastructure spending plan, two of the more articulate NDP cabinet ministers -- Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Steve Ashton and Jobs and the Economy Minister Theresa Oswald -- found themselves unable to answer a simple but essential question.
Ashton and Oswald had just confirmed the province failed to spend about $71 million that had been budgeted for core projects, funded in part by a one-point hike to the PST. When asked where that money had gone, neither could summon an answer.
Was it sitting around somewhere in a sock, ready to be spent next year? Would it be used to lower the deficit, or was this just a case of the province borrowing less money than expected?
Ashton and Oswald kept brushing aside the question, choosing instead to recite tiresome details of the five-year spending plan and how all budgeted expenditures would be rolled over into subsequent years. A later conversation with Finance Minister Jennifer Howard was just as fruitless. To this day, nobody from the NDP government has adequately explained the net impact of spending $71 million less than budgeted.
Before giving in to conspiracy theory, it deserves to be said infrastructure spending is difficult to track. Some projects are funded in cash, while others are amortized over many years. Most projects do not begin and end in one fiscal year, and thus it's hard to produce an accurate snapshot of actual spending.
When you consider the performance of a trio of cabinet ministers, and the inherent problems tracking infrastructure spending, isn't it about time we had a separate, arm's-length body administer infrastructure spending?
It's an idea that is gaining some traction. In a commentary in the Globe and Mail, Van Horne Institute fellow Brian Flemming makes the case for an "infrastructure bank" that would not only fund projects, but also raise money through bond issues and institutional investing. Government could capitalize the "iBank" through cash appropriations and the sale of surplus government land and other assets.
Although Flemming does not make note of this in his article, one of the other undeniable benefits of creating a separate entity to oversee infrastructure investments is it would provide a more comprehensive, transparent and accountable reporting mechanism.
As noted earlier, government uses different mechanisms to pay for infrastructure, from cash to borrowing. The problem is it's extremely difficult to track this spending in the budget documents or in the public accounts. Grants to municipalities are found on one page, while new hospitals, schools and buses for public transit are on other pages. There are summaries, but it's still difficult to nail down overall infrastructure spending.
Add to that the fact it is difficult for government to start every project budgeted in any given year. Weather, unforeseen design problems and tendering snags can derail many overall infrastructure plans.
An iBank, or a Crown infrastructure authority, would not solve all these problems. On the accounting side, not much would change. Any money transferred to a special operating agency would still be captured by the summary budget as an expenditure. However, overall management and -- perhaps most importantly -- transparency would improve in several essential ways.
This was essentially what the province did with the creation of the Red River Floodway Authority. Charged with managing the floodway expansion, the authority issues an annual report that contains all financial information related to the project.
A Crown agency could also ease some of the annual political tango that goes on between local government, the provinces and Ottawa.
Provinces and municipalities are often held hostage by the federal government, which usually keeps its infrastructure spending plans close to its vest. When funding is announced, it's not unusual for the eligibility parameters and application process to change. Confusion predictably ensues. Wouldn't it be preferable for provincial infrastructure agencies to work throughout the year to identify specific sums of money available and to work with standardized eligibility terms?
Right now, we're devoting billions of dollars to a problem that is conservatively estimated to require tens of billions of dollars to solve.
More money will always be needed. But a new way of managing and accounting for infrastructure spending is certainly part of the solution.


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EEOC issues new workplace guidelines to protect victims of domestic violence and stalking
By PATRICIA F. WEISBERG
Patricia F. Weisberg
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Although the legal system still has a long ways to go in developing better safeguards for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking, a recent action by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) signals that the government is taking steps to ensure that employers protect these victims under Title VII and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
While many people may take exception with the fact that the government is classifying victims of domestic abuse, sexual assault and stalking as "disabled", the reality is that these victims could likely be the subject of discrimination—intentional or unintentional--in the workplace because of their circumstances.
Although nothing new is stated in the EEOC's recent guidance which is in the form of a fact sheet entitled, "Questions and Answers: Application of Title VII and the ADA to Applications or Employees Who Experience Domestic or Dating Violence, Sexual Assault or Stalking", it signals a clear area of focus for the agency. As such, employers and, more specifically, HR managers, need to reassess their policies and procedures to make certain they are not inadvertently in violation of Title VII or the ADA.
In the new fact sheet, the EEOC provides an extensive list of questions and answers that provide its position with respect to hypotheticals to guide employers and employees alike. As an example, the EEOC explains that the failure to hire an individual because the individual recently received counseling for depression caused by being the victim of domestic abuse could be prohibited conduct. The EEOC also stresses its position that reasonable accommodations must be provided for a disability caused by domestic violence and/or sexual assault—for example, anxiety caused by a sexual assault.
As has been the case with so many EEOC actions over the past year, this latest publication does not explicitly change the law or create new protected characteristics. Rather, it alerts employers that this is an area being scrutinized as the agency continues in its strategic plan of preventing employment discrimination through education and outreach.
So what should employers do to protect themselves in light of this most recent, expanded interpretation?
• Review and update training materials to include examples of domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking.
• Develop or revisit workplace training programs (such as EEO or harassment prevention programs) to ensure that front-line managers and HR professionals are acutely aware of the EEOC's broad interpretation of who is covered under Title VII and the ADA.
• Understand how the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and state medical leave laws could be implicated by issues arising in the workplace regarding domestic or dating violence, sexual assault or stalking.
• Develop a protocol to ensure a safe workplace when notified of a potential domestic or dating violence situation that could impact an employee and/or that employee's co-workers.
• Review individual circumstances with legal counsel prior to any employment terminations or disciplinary actions that involve victims of these abuses.
For more information on the EEOC's latest interpretation of employees who could be protected under Title VII and the ADA, visit
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- She Wears Many Hats' cheese carrots are perfect for Easter and April Fool's Day. And hey, no victim to the trick will be mad about eating a delicious cheese spread in place of their veggies.
- If you're a fan of the matzo and chocolate, you'll swoon over Cooking On The Side's 9 layer no bake matzo cake.
- These caramel cinnamon rolls by Potato Chips Are Not Dinner were inspired by The Pioneer Woman. Obviously, they're amazing.
- Oh Nuts' homemade crispy candy bars make an awesome Easter basket addition. But with four layers of insane deliciousness, it might be hard to share.
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Of course, there is a constantly changing landscape of consumer preferences in the beauty industry, and consequently, brands continually have to track shifting targets in order to meet demand. During 2013, multifunctional products offering UV protection and anti-aging benefits were in, as were products featuring natural ingredients. And while these trends will continue to evolve in 2014, also expect to see increased demand for hydrating ingredients, new vibrant makeup colors, and men's personal care products.
For the past two years, beauty products offering multiple benefits have been in high demand, with busy, cash-strapped consumers looking for streamlined solutions. As a result, there has been an increased focus on creating products that perform at least two functions—if not three or four. The rapid growth in the popularity of BB and CC creams are just one example of this trend in action.
UV protection is one of the key benefits consumers often look for in multifunctional products, with 46% of consumers in 2013 asking for makeup that provides all-day sun protection.2 For a population increasingly concerned with skin cancer and preventing signs of aging, the incorporation of UV absorbers has grown from just typical sunscreens to a wide variety of sprays, lotions, makeups, serums, creams and gels—even into hair products.
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Another trend, consumer demand for natural products continues to grow, challenging product developers to keep pace and find new ingredients that are natural while still providing the same results consumers expect from synthetic ingredients. To meet this demand, manufacturers are innovating with vegetable oils and butters like sunflower and shea, and natural gums for rheology modifiers—xanthan, carrageenan and gellan gum, as examples. Active ingredients from corn or beets also are being used to derive lactic acid for beauty products.
Univar engineers also have been seeking out natural ingredients for multifunctional products. For example, CP Kelco's natural polymer AquaMax LM is used to help retain the body's natural hyaluronic acid, enhance the structural integrity of skin and moderate undesirable immune effects associated with photoaging. Meanwhile, Purasal MoistXS from Purac is an example of a newer natural ingredient blend that moisturizes effectively.3 This leave-on moisturizing ingredient improves transepidermal water loss (TEWL) and skin elasticity while also improving the sensory experience with a less tacky after-feel.
The beauty industry has made great strides in natural products, but there still is opportunity for innovation here. The cost of natural ingredients often exceeds synthetics, creating challenges for product developers tasked with keeping costs down. Natural products also can be very chemically complex, and extensive testing must be done to determine any toxicological issues and to identify allergens. Achieving the same functionality, feel and aesthetic as products with synthetic ingredients often requires a combination of natural ingredients, further challenging formulators and product developers.
While trends for multifunctional, anti-aging and natural products seem poised to continue, there are a few new trends on the horizon that are likely to emerge in 2014, including hydration, vibrant lip color and men's personal care.
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I often wish that life was as simple as it is digitally.
Hit the delete button, erase or simply cut something out.
Try in someway to forget, but life doesn't work that way.
and to be honest I'm pretty glad it doesn't.
The other day I was walking to the train to go to the dentist and I heard this song for the first time in years.
This is fact not fiction, for the first time in years ….hmmm
Relating to art for myself I can say that… but I still find it hard to put the pen to paper with paint.
There is a huge amount of inspiration and thought going through my head, but now that the feelings are real again, I don't know what to do with them…
I used to record all the art I made, mainly because I forget how I did it…
I have an incredible lack of confidence right now when it comes to painting, but an incredible amount of confidence with it comes to a lot of other things in my life.. trying to make sense of it all, fuck this shit isn't easy.
Tag Archives: love
A lack of something real
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Pechakucha Vancouver
About a month ago, I was asked to be a speaker at Vancouvers 24th volume of Petchakucha.
Without hesitation, and without knowing what a "Petchakucha" was, I said "of couse, that sounds fun."
Well as it turns out, this is a pretty big event held at the Vogue Theatre that sells out.. I wasn't really nervous, until the morning of the event, when I found out that I would be presenting last..
Now all of a sudden I felt pressure to perform in front of the 1400 or so in attendance.
If I was somewhere in the middle and totally blew it… who cares, no one remembers the middle people that suck, right ? but when the last guy blows it….
there isn't a video or anything like that of my presentation, so I thought I'd share my 20 slides and an outline of my story with you here..
The idea behind the event is that you have 20 images that will be shown for 20 seconds each….
and somewhere in that mess, you should make some sort of point.
1- Present:
I figured the only way to really start something like this is to set it up with what your life currently is… Kitty and Me, this is it.
This how most of my mornings start…
2. Birth:
In my introduction, they made fun of the fact that I was from Red Deer, Alberta… Well, I showed them!
This is what it looked like, when I was birthed upon this earth…
Born from a shooting star and brought down from the clouds, on a cloud, a little, fat, blonde locked, ball of joy.
3. Youth:
Things soon changed though..
At age 13, I found skateboarding, and a band called Gwar.
My home situation wasn't ideal so I spent 99% of my time rolling around town with my friends trying to kill ourselves by jumping off everything in sight…
This is how your classic 90's "fuck up" kids life looked. I'm not too sure how I managed to escape and become who I became today.
Oderous was my Father figure, and skateboarding was my means of expression.. I never saw it, but my friends said I was "evil" thier parents called me "the Devil" and a teacher once told me that I was "incapable of being serious" Oh and Nora at Allrose asked if I was Gay?
4. Art as Expression
Enter art…
Growing up, I found it very difficult to express how I felt verbally, I still do to this day.
"Art" became a way that I could say exactly how I felt, without feeling like…. I was bothering anyone, or going to be judged in some way.
Art became my safe place, to share but still sort of hide how I felt,
"Dear Father" was a perfect example of that.
Growing up I hated my father. I hated him right up until the day that he died in 2002.
I didn't cry for for even a second, I felt literally nothing…
When I was 8 years old my father drank and drove with me in the car,
when he lost control , swerved across the 2 lanes of traffic and we were hit by an oncoming car.
I remember seeing an image of the accident in the newspaper.
The red car the woman was in was totally fucked, and they needed the "Jaws of life" to get her out…
I also remember the little picture of my Father next to it, saying he was in jail.
The car struck the trunk of our giant brown 80's Crown Victoria, displacing it about 3 feet to the side…
We spun a mellow 720 and hit the ditch.
I was sitting less than a foot away from where the car hit us, and sometimes feel lucky to be alive.
This incident immediately led to the separation of my partens, and I was crushed.
Up until that moment my father was my hero, A brilliant athlete, cook, funny man and artist in his own right.
His first night back I stayed with him and begged him to stop drinking…
He ignored me, walked away and mixed up another cocktail..
I didn't realize how much his death and everything surrounding it bothered me until I started to read some of the things I was writing in and around 2005.
"Dear Father" was a painting/ video I made in one night, around what would have been my fathers 62 birthday.
I recorded myself writing him a letter, one that I would have loved for him to read.
I don't off the top of my head remember it exactly, but as the image here shows, I wrote that I hated him, and I hated that… Something I don't think I had ever expressed to anyone.
I also referenced his will, which I then read quietly over the video, well hidden under the music…
5. Writing as Expression
I didn't like this image much , but it was the only example of something I wrote where you could see what it says
Art,was the place that I could say all the things that I wanted to say. I hate you, or I miss you… Or in this case, call myself out as a liar. This one has actually a pretty hidden message… one that I'm not about to share but I like it. I think this piece was called "O K_I_am_a Liar"
6. Happy
Or "you make me smile". "Somethings more beautiful" was the name of this piece.
I chose to use this image because if it's contrast to the majority of my other work.
It was the first piece I had made of a girl that literally stopped me in my tracks. I met her at a party, the next day we met by her house and the next we shoot this..
That night I made this and 1 other painting.
We spent every possible day for the next 22 months together after that..
Growing up I had never heard of DIY.. "Do it yourself" was just how we did it…
This video was the first time I saw that other people were like me in the sense that, they were making things happen happen with little to no means.
They saw what they wanted, and however possible, they did it.
In 1995, I wanted to make a snowboard video… I didn't know how to edit, or have a computer… so I made due with what I had, A VCR, a VHS tape recorder, and a stereo.
The result was super ghetto, but it was that kind of thinking that made me who I am today.
8. CAPiTA
CAPiTA.. in 2001, I was a professional snowboarder for then Vancouver/ Seattle based CAPiTA snowboards.
We were a collective of individuals that shared that same DIY mentality.
A few people really inspired and pushed me into the person that I am today.
Human 5 (Blue) , Jason Brown (Green), Tyler Lepore (Yellow).
I think back to those days and im really impressed with the group of people that came together so organically.
Guys like Tyler Morten and TJ Nelson who to this day remain good friends.
9. Inspiration
Human 5 were the frist people that I ever met that were "Artists".
They took what was in their head and consistently made it into "art".
Tyler was someone that, rather than talking about doing thing… Was doing them.
This Zine came out of a conversation that started on his back deck at a party in late 2003..
Something along the lines of "How fucked would it be to make a naked zine, and sabotage the new CAPiTA catalog be?"
That would be rad in my mind … turned into Gregovoytek in his and was produced… FUCKING BRILLIANT!
Jason Brown, pushed me to share everything… He encouraged every line I drew, every word I wrote every idea I had.
Jason inspired me to be more than just a professional snowboarder..
I was always someone that drawing and doodling but I never saw anything I had ever made as "art" until I met hese guys.
10. Truth
H5, Jason, Tyler, CAPiTA… Their influence spread to my friends also.
Truth Zine was a small mag that I helped my friend and roommate Mike Carter with..
The idea was born at a strip club on the south end of Calgary.
I was driving Mike over to the mall to meet his girlfriend, but we were super early… Soooo with an hour to kill we crossed over to the "French Maid" He started talking about how he wanted to start a zine… Snowboarding, Art, Music and Prono ! Perfect! … This I remember because, I had never won anything at the peelers before, and I haven't since.
That day though, I bounced 3 bucks off of Miss All NIght Maddy McKnight into her bucket to win her poster.
When Mike and I went to get it signed, I told Maddy that we were working on a magazine, that she should give us her number… Her number, Nope! but her email, yes!
Thus the porno element of Truth was born.
Aside from Maddy and being one of the main subjects in Turth, my only other contribution was the cover and back cover of issue one.
I remember suggesting to Mike that the cover should be a photo looking out, and the back cover, should be an image looking into his room where he made the zine.
Truth went on to make 4 brilliant issues.. and helped land Mike some pretty heavy gigs..
Through my sponsors advertising, Mike met some people in California, that eventually hired him for some free lance work while in school, which helped him land a job at JDK with Burton… eventually leading to a position at Nixon and now owning his own design firm…
11. Prophecy
This was just another image from Truth issue 1.. Mike used me for a 1/2 day in the life… which I found kind of interesting since it actually became the next 12 years of my life.. Snowboarding, painting and sleeping.. that's who I was.
12. World Wide Web
After a few years, CAPiTA and my life started to change, The people that made CAPiTA what it was to me had mostly left, and well… Art was something that I was using more and more as a tool to communicate when I literally could not say anything. In 06-07 we filmed a movie called "First Kiss" with CAPiTA…
I knew that nothing would ever match what we had done that year, and that I would never want to film with another film company, so I started my own. Thesnowboardrealms.com and tjschneider.com were born.
The whole goal of the sites, was to connect with people.
Yeah there was Facebook, myspace, friendster and all that shit.. but this was something that was mine and would be more personal.
13. Connecting
"Seventy Some Faces" Was a project 100 percent about connecting with the people that viewed my site anonymously. While in Europe I bought a small note book and painting set.. I had no idea what to paint but had the idea to make portraits of the people I share my art with. 3 months and seventy some images later… this book and video was made.
14. Schiele
An interesting connection that also came out of my web site was with the woman that found and wrote a book on Egon Schiele, and his time in Prison.
Egon Schiele is by far my favourite artist, so to connect with someone who has spoken to his sisters, and multiple people that sat for him, his was pretty amazing.
15. Tears and questions
I used this image just as a transition between art and motorcycles..
And kinda segway from how I was feeling so frustrated about art and snowboarding…
Why do you always paint girls crying?
The answer to that shares a ton about how I feel, and why I make art.
For anyone reading this…. this is a pretty big secret of mine that very few people know.
Why nude woman ?
I paint nudes because of their immediate association with sexuality, their vulnerability and because they are beautiful, I love their lines.
I use women because I can hide myself in woman so much easier.
No one will look at a portrait of a woman, and think or know, that it's actually me crying and sharing everything,
I'm far too insecure for that…
Everything, is a self portrait, They're just as another person.
The last few years I've actually been pretty happy, which, is a bit of a double edge sword.
Art for me, usually comes from a pretty unhappy space.
From that unhappiness though, came something that I personally found very beautiful and rewarding…
So many wonderful paintings and videos, came from something that hurt me so tremendously.
I started to associate my paintings and videos with who I was, and the only thing that made me special.
If I made nothing, I felt like I was worth nothing.
I think there is a line in the Basquiat movie that said something about "the total of one mans worth could be seen in someones art …" I cant remember, Ill look it up later.
My last girlfriend said she loved the work I had made, and was making when we met.
As I fell in love with her, my art suffered, and it frustrated me to no end…
I still produced videos and paintings, but I was desperately trying to make pieces that gave me that same satisfaction, but
the "feelings" were borrowed, and no longer "real".
Art has became very difficult for me.
For someone like me that uses it to communicate.. this is not a good thing, and left me feeling pretty poorly about myself.
I started to substitute The Snowboard Realms and other non personal video projects for painting.. It pushed my videos to a new space and made them something I was really proud of, but it wasn't really enough…
This was confusing
16. Motorcycles
Motorcycles gave me something to sink my love into.
I took the photo of Ben, on our trip to California in June along the Oregon coast highway, and this photo of Tyler a couple weeks before he finished his BornFree 4 build. Also the picture of "The Sex Carpet" my recent 1967 Triumph project I put together. Motorcycles reminded me when I started skateboarding or snowboarding..
The solo element; when you're in your shop working away or the freedom to do whatever you want out on the highway.
The artistic element; of taking an idea and making it something real that you can see, feel, touch and ride.
The Connection: of being a part of some bull shit "scene", hitting the road with a group of friends or just having a brew with a homie talking shop and blasting ideas of each other.
I sunk myself into my motorcycles, because aside from my Girlfriend and my dog, this was the only thing that I was excited about.
17. The Shop
Tyler and I had spoke briefly about doing something like this a couple years ago… but he wasn't into doing retail again..
In passing, I mentioned it to another homie that I met through riding and voila…
A few months later he called and said "Are you serious about wanting to do a shop ?, because I found a space"
I was a little hesitant on jumping in with Two feet but, I wasn't really stoked on the job I was working for the last 6 months.. and I was letting that frustration leak into my home life, and I let it was put a lot of unnecessary tension on my relationship. I saw as an opportunity to work doing something I really enjoyed again, and ultimately, strengthen my damaged relationship… by being a project that my significant other and I could do together… get our feet wet so to speak in the "owning your own business" game. The plan was by no means perfect or what either of us wants to do for the rest of our lives, but it was a start down a path I hoped would lead us to bigger and better things…
18. The Shop Vancouver
The space was a shit hole, and the situation I found myself in left me a lot of time and let me focus all of my energy on the space. My partner and I, together with Devon our contractor.. went to town for the next 4 months transforming this shit box, into what is now The Shop Vancouver.
19. Come together
It's a space where like minded folk can have a coffee, play some crib, and shoot the shit… oh and buy some fine lookin duds also
20. The message
This is a shot from one of my videos.
In 2008, I bought this desk to give myself a spot where I could make things, I wrote "Create something" on it and used it as a reminder..
It never had to be good, I just needed to share ideas and make them appear on paper, and that's the whole idea of my 6:20 worth of slides
I know it's cliche to say, "the only failure, is something you dont try" But it's the truth.
You never know where some, inspiration, fan zine, or chance encounter will lead you.
The greatest things happen, when you least expect them to.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 5/11/2012 (1750 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
HENOC Muamba finished a breakout season with a career game in a win over the Montreal Alouettes at Canad Inns Stadium last weekend.
And now the Winnipeg Blue Bombers middle linebacker has a second CFL Canadian Player of the Week honour to show for what turned out to be a truly remarkable season for the second-year pro.
Muamba was named on Monday by the CFL as the week's top Canadian player for a 10-tackle, one-sack performance in a 19-11 Bombers win over the Alouettes in the farewell to Canad Inns Stadium on Saturday.
It was the second time in six weeks Muamba had been named the league's top Canadian and follows last week's announcement he is also Winnipeg's nominee for Most Outstanding Canadian -- all of it indicative of the huge strides the first overall pick in the 2011 CFL draft made during the 2012 season.
Muamba began the season as the backup at middle linebacker to Pierre-Luc Labbe but he quickly played himself into the starting job and by season's end finished with the second most tackles on the team with 65, plus a team-high 20 special teams tackles, three sacks and a league-leading five forced fumbles.
"I feel like I definitely improved from the start of the season to the end of the season and from week to week as well," Muamba said Sunday as he cleaned out his locker at Canad Inns Stadium. "I expected to get some playing time this year and I came in prepared to do that.
"It took a few games but I found some patience in life. And when it came time to make some plays to give the coaches some confidence in me, I think I did that."
Muamba's performance paid off a big gamble the Bombers coaching staff had made at the start of the season to make the middle linebacker position a non-import spot so that they could go with an all-import defensive line.
The front-four mostly delivered, registering the second most sacks in the league and stifling the running game, and Muamba's performance would suggest he has the potential to be a 'ratio changer' for the club for years to come.
The job will get more challenging next season, however. "My name's out there a little bit now," said Muamba, "and it's definitely going to be a little harder. It's not going to be the same as this year.
"It's going to be a lot of working on the mental game... I feel like sometimes this year I was a little too aggressive when I could have been more passive and I was passive when I should have been more aggressive. I need to work on reacting a little better."
A soft-spoken, deeply religious man, there were some observers who wondered whether Muamba had the kind of mean streak and internal menace that so often seems to go with the game's top middle linebackers.
So, are you mean enough? "Why don't you step on the field with me," offered Muamba, "and you can find out for yourself."


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This week, Freedom to Marry and the Human Rights Campaign sent a joint letter to United States Attorney General Eric Holder urging the Department of Justice to act now and ensure that the marriages of same-sex couples performed earlier this year in Arkansas, Indiana, and Wisconsin are respected by the federal government.
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text: Gallery-2000 collected great collection of rare paintings and shows them here! Also especially for GoAntiques we present collection of giclees and lithographs of these rare paintings. Our gallery brings together examples of vivid and stylistically varied art - pointillism, symbolism, avant-garde, expressionism and impressionism. We do not hide our attraction to the older schools of art. We like well-drawn paintings showing painstaking detail, where you can see not only the exceptional ideas of the artist but also his artistic technique. Although you also can find in our collections very recent works with bold, open colors and temperamental, energetic and very strong technique. We can offer you both general catalogs of our paintings as well as detailed catalogs of individual artists where their paintings are displayed in all of their rich color. All original painting are in Gallery-2000.com. You can look at our remarkable collection there.


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SEC halftime report
Published: Friday, October 12, 2012 at 11:00 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 at 10:35 p.m.
We're only halfway done with the season, but it's time to look at the standouts and surprises so far:
Florida RB Mike Gillislee
He isn't a very vocal player, but Gillislee's effort against LSU came straight from a megaphone.
The well-rounded workhorse of a running back punished the third-ranked defense in the country last week, running it 22 times for 112 yards in a second half that saw him score both of Florida's touchdowns in the 14-6 win. His 34 total carries was tied for third most in school history.
Gillislee leads the SEC in rushing with 109.6 yards per game to go with seven touchdowns.
But aside from his production, Gillislee has helped shape the character of his team.
"I certainly feel like a lot of times teams take the personality of their feature players, and Mike is kind of who we are right now," said Florida coach Will Muschamp.
Honorable mention: Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel and Alabama QB AJ McCarron.
Georgia LB Jarvis Jones
Apparently, Jones doesn't need to be at 100 percent to produce like an All-American.
Georgia coach Mark Richt said last Friday that he believes his linebacker has been playing through a groin injury from Week 2 that forced him to miss the team's following game.
Still, Jones has managed 36 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss (third in the SEC), 5.5 sacks (second in sacks per game), 3 forced fumbles and an INT.
Jones is dealing with an ankle sprain from last week, but he has a bye to rest up.
"He's a guy that, if he had to play this week, he probably could've played this week," Richt said. "Since we don't, he's definitely one guy that we're going to allow to get as healthy as possible before we get going again for Kentucky on Monday."
Honorable mention: South Carolina DE Jadeveon Clowney.
Texas A&M QB Johnny Manziel
The redshirt freshman is doing it with his arm, throwing for 257 yards a game (third best in the SEC), completing 69.3 percent of his passes while tossing 11 TDs and 2 INTs. He's also doing it with his legs, running for 99 yards a game (also third best in the league) and seven scores.
If Manziel hadn't already turned heads, he definitely did two weeks ago against Arkansas when he racked up an SEC-record 557 total yards.
"(Offensive coordinator) Kliff Kingsbury has done an excellent job with him," said Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin. "We've tweaked some things offensively to give him a few more tools in his toolbox. We really limited him in that first game."
Honorable mention: Georgia RB Todd Gurley.
Florida's Will Muschamp
No team has been better after halftime than UF .
That's a product of Muschamp, who's made sound second-half tweaks on a team that now plays with the identity and philosophy he wants. Florida convinced the nation of its transformation last week, moving up to No. 4 in The AP poll.
"Coach Boom" has brought the electricity back to The Swamp and has the Gators feeling confident with a key, three-week stretch coming up.
Honorable mention: S. Carolina's Steve Spurrier.
Slumping Arkansas
Even after the fiasco in Fayetteville with Bobby Petrino, Arkansas was still a preseason Top 10 team and many felt the Razorbacks had the talent to compete in the SEC West.
However, the head injury to quarterback Tyler Wilson that forced him to miss the second half of the loss to Louisiana-Monroe and the loss to Alabama seemed to derail the Razorbacks. Plus, running back Knile Davis — a second-team All-SEC selection in 2010 — hasn't shaken off the ankle injury he suffered before last season.
Dishonorable mention: Auburn.
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Eric Weddle did not want to hear it.
In a recent press conference, a TV reporter asked the Chargers safety about lowered national-media expectations for the team. Weddle cut him off — "the expectations aren't lower around here, " he said — but the question continued.
There once was preseason talk, heard it every year, about the Chargers being Super Bowl bound. All that talent. So much talent. Maybe, hype's absence can benefit them?
Weddle, a man whose book "No Excuses, No Regrets" gets released next month, still did not want to hear it. His response of ignoring outside chatter and his vows that "we're not rebuilding" and "we want to win" were consistent with an attitude he expects from every square inch of Chargers Park — be damned with what lies off its grounds.
But a truth is rooted in the reporter's topic.
This roster has changed. Thursday's NFL Draft is a reminder how.
Through the draft, the Chargers built arguably the league's richest assembly of talent. And through the draft, as that talent was lost to free agency or injuries, they struggled to find replacements and sustain production.
Over the five drafts between 2005-2009, San Diego selected 35 players. Of them, only four are on the current roster. Of the six first-round draft choices, one is still on the team, and that is 2009's Larry English, an outside linebacker with four career starts and none since 2010.
Weddle, a 2007 second-rounder, is the only impact player still on the team from the five-draft period. Right tackle Jeromey Clary, a 2006 sixth-rounder, is the only other current starter. Reserve quarterback Charlie Whitehurst, a 2006 third-rounder, rounds out the group.
That's it. No players from the 2008 class. No players from the 2005.
Given the Chargers' three-year playoff drought, a focus on this five-year draft period was applied to the 31 other teams with an eye on how unique San Diego's roster composition is and the relationship, if any, that drafting and retaining players has on a team in the standings. It showed that, while not a hard-and-fast rule, the teams that retain more of their draft picks win more games.
Tom Telesco said it in January at his first public address as Chargers general manager: He wants to build through the draft and keep his own players.
New coach Mike McCoy has been right on board.
"You always want to keep the guys you draft and re-sign them," McCoy said last week, "so it's not just a developmental for some other team. You want to try to keep your guys whenever you can. With today's salary cap, you've got to make tough decisions at certain times. We're going to do everything we can to draft the right guys and re-sign them and keep them long-term."
No one has drafted and retained better than Atlanta and Green Bay.
Their 36-game win total the past three years is tied for second most in the NFL, and their 13 draft selections still on roster is tied for first. The Packers won the Super Bowl in 2010, and the Falcons lost in January's NFC Championship Game to San Francisco, which located five starters for its Super Bowl team in the 2007 draft.
Thirteen of the Falcons' 43 picks, or an NFL-high 30.3 percent, remain in Atlanta. Ten of 17 choices in the first three rounds are among them, as are four of five first-round draft picks and the first six picks in the 2008 class, including first-rounders quarterback Matt Ryan and left tackle Sam Baker.
Thirteen of 51 Packers picks from 2005-2009, or 25.5 percent, are in Green Bay. That includes four of five first-round choices, like quarterback Aaron Rodgers, outside linebacker Clay Matthews and defensive tackle B.J. Raji, and seven of 14 selections from the top four rounds in 2007-2009.
At 39, New England owns the most regular-season wins over the past three years.
Its draft-day success is typically viewed as a key part of that, but for this five-draft period, the results, while solid, were not spectacular.
Seven of 46 picks are still on the roster, a 15.2 percentage that ranks 16th in the NFL. Zero of nine picks remain from the 2007 class. While the Patriots landed four second-round selections in 2008, none of those four are on the current roster.
Personnel acquisition also involves free agency and trades, and New England has success stories there. But its win total also helps underscore the importance of having a quality quarterback, like eight-time Pro Bowler Tom Brady.
Compare this to Kansas City.
It statistically had the AFC's best draft success from 2005-2009 while twice drafting in the top-five position. Nine of 43 picks (20.9 percent) are on the roster, including five of six first-rounders. Running back Jamaal Charles, wide receiver Dwayne Bowe, outside linebacker Tamba Hali, inside linebacker Derrick Johnson and punter Dustin Colquitt have been selected to at least one Pro Bowl.
Still, the 2-14 Chiefs had the worst record last season. Their team quarterback rating of 63.8 was the league's second lowest. Kansas City traded for quarterback Alex Smith last month and owns Thursday's No. 1 overall pick.
Elsewhere in the division, Denver has kept five of 36 drafted players (13.9 percent). Quarterback Jay Cutler, outside linebacker Elvis Dumervil and wide receiver Brandon Marshall were part of the 2005 class. Marshall and Cutler were traded, the latter in a deal that led to selecting defensive end Robert Ayers in 2009 and wide receiver Demaryius Thomas in 2010.
The Marshall trade helped the Broncos package a deal for Tim Tebow in 2010, but they'd solve their quarterback dilemma through free agency in 2012, courtesy of Peyton Manning.
Meanwhile, the Raiders simply struggled.
Despite picking seventh or higher in four of five drafts, only two of 37 draft choices are on the roster.
The Chargers retained 11.4 percent of draft picks between 2005-2009, tied for 22nd lowest in the NFL. They're one of five teams ranked in the bottom 11 in retainment percentage to hire a new GM this offseason. Ten of the 16 top teams in draft-pick retainment averaged a winning record the past three years. Three of the bottom 16 teams were winners in that same span.
First-round draft choices come at a different quality, but from a quantitative standpoint, San Diego is one of 10 teams with exactly one first-rounder still in their building. Arizona, Chicago and St. Louis have zero.
It's clear hitting on prospects is easier said than done.
"It is a complete inexact science," Telesco said last week. "We try and prepare and do all this work and all these numbers, testing and everything. But in the end, there's just a lot of things you can't grade. That's why it's hard to hit on every single guy, all seven guys or eight guys or nine guys."
In January, Telesco inherited a roster that has improved its draft fortune of late.
Defensive ends Corey Liuget and Kendall Reyes, inside linebacker Donald Butler, wide receiver Vincent Brown, outside linebacker Melvin Ingram, running back Ryan Mathews, nose tackle Cam Thomas and special teams ace Darrell Stuckey are part of a young core, although it's too early to tell what exactly will develop of their careers.
Not long ago, there was preseason talk, heard it every year, about the Chargers being Super Bowl bound.
Players like Weddle didn't need to hear it then, and they don't want to hear it now.
It is more important they be reminded what a successful draft can do for a franchise, and for that, there are seven chances this week.
No. of 2005-2009 draft picks on current roster; win total 2010-1012
Falcons: 13 of 43 (30.2 percent) Wins: 36
Packers: 13 of 51 (25.5); 36
Vikings: 7 of 31 (22.6); 19
Panthers: 9 of 42 (21.4); 15
Chiefs: 9 of 43 (20.9); 19
Titans: 9 of 49 (18.4); 21
Steelers: 7 of 41 (17.1); 32
Ravens: 7 of 41 (17.1); 34
49ers: 7 of 42 (16.7); 30
Giants: 6 of 36 (16.7); 28
Jets: 5 of 31 (16.1); 25
Bengals: 7 of 44 (15.9); 23
Saints: 5 of 32 (15.6); 31
Eagles: 7 of 45 (15.6); 22
Broncos: 5 of 36 (13.9); 25
Patriots: 7 of 46 picks (15.2); 39
Redskins: 5 of 33 (15.2); 21
Lions: 5 of 40 (12.5); 20
Bills: 5 of 40 (12.5); 16
Cowboys: 5 of 42 (11.9); 22
Bears: 5 of 43 (11.6); 29
CHARGERS: 4 of 35 (11.4); 24
Texans: 4 of 35 (11.4); 28
Jaguars: 4 of 39 (10.3); 15
Dolphins: 4 of 41 (9.8); 20
Seahawks: 3 of 37 (8.1); 25
Browns: 3 of 38 (7.9); 14
Colts: 3 of 43 (7.0); 23
Buccaneers: 3 of 45 (6.7); 21
Cardinals: 2 of 34 (5.9); 18
Raiders: 2 of 37 (5.4); 20
Rams: 2 of 44 (4.5); 16
No. of 2005-2009 first-round picks on current roster
Chiefs: 5 of 6
Jets: 4 of 6
Falcons: 4 of 5
Packers: 4 of 5
Panthers: 4 of 5
49ers: 4 of 7
Broncos: 3 of 5
Ravens: 3 of 5
Steelers: 3 of 5
Titans: 3 of 5
Lions: 3 of 6
Giants: 2 of 4
Patriots: 2 of 4
Bills: 2 of 5
Browns: 2 of 5
Jaguars: 2 of 5
Texans: 2 of 5
Vikings: 2 of 5
Cowboys: 2 of 6
Eagles: 1 of 3
Colts: 1 of 4
Redskins: 1 of 4
Seahawks: 1 of 4
Bengals: 1 of 5
Buccaneers: 1 of 5
Rams: 1 of 5
Raiders: 1 of 5
Saints: 1 of 5
CHARGERS: 1 of 6
Cardinals: 0 of 5
Dolphins: 0 of 5
Bears: 0 of 3


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Eric has been CFPA's Executive Director since May, 2008 and comes to CFPA after serving for over five years as the Executive Director for the Farmington River Watershed Association based in Simsbury.
Eric holds an M.S. in Environmental Science/Range Management from U.C. Berkeley, and a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.
Through his work at the Farmington River Watershed Association, Eric spearheaded the ongoing effort to conduct a Congressionally-authorized Feasibility Study to evaluate whether the Lower Farmington River and Salmon Brook should be added to the National Wild & Scenic Rivers System (a distinction recently achieved in CT by the Eightmile River). In his 18-year conservation career, Eric has also worked for the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation on both coasts, the Center for Ecological Technology in Northampton, and for the late Congressman Silvio O. Conte who represented Western Massachusetts. Eric currently serves as the President of the Board for Rivers Alliance of Connecticut.
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WINTER PARK, Fla. - For the second straight week, Saint Leo freshman Tereza Novotna has been named the Sunshine State Conference Women's Cross Country Runner of the Week, it was announced Monday by SSC Commissioner Jay Jones.
Novotna, a native of Opocno, Czech Republic, finished seventh of 142 runners at last Friday's USF Invitational.
Novotna posted a 5K time of 18:06.83, breaking her own program record from a week earlier. She was also the top SSC runner in a 13-team field that featured four of the league's six teams.
In addtion, Novotna defeated more than 40 Division I competitors.
Novotna is the first cross country student-athlete to earn back-to-back SSC Runner of the Week awards.
After taking a week off, the Lions will hit the course again on Saturday, September 24, in Gainesville, Florida for the Mountain Dew Invitational. The early morning run is set for 8:30 a.m. For the latest news, information, and updates on the women's cross country team, visit SaintLeoLions.com.


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Spiral galaxy
From Conservapedia
A spiral galaxy is a galaxy consisting of a rotating disk of stars, gas and dust which has a number of arms extending outwards from the galactic centre. Some spiral galaxies have a prominent bulge around the centre, while others have a bar crossing the centre with the spiral arms extending from the ends of the bar.
Some Creation scientists have argued that spiral galaxies are evidence of a young universe.
The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy, as is the Andromeda galaxy, the closest large galaxy to the Milky Way.


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Renowned Digital Artist Mark Tribe Partners with LG for THE ART OF THE PIXEL Competition; Vote Online thru 7/31
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS, N.J. -- Mark Tribe, renowned digital artist, curator and founder of the not-for-profit arts organization, Rhizome, is partnering with LG Electronics USA to celebrate and evaluate work by the nation's top art students for the new- media competition: The Art of the Pixel: Powered by LG Ultra HD 4K and OLED TV. Beginning today, LG is also giving America a voice in the competition, inviting art enthusiasts from around the country to cast their votes online through July 31.
"I have always been inspired by technology, and I appreciate the potential of Ultra HD 4K technology to advance how artists display their digital work," said Tribe. "I love what LG is doing to support emerging visual arts and look forward to seeing how some of the brightest young talent from around the country takes advantage of the clarity and detail of this new technology."
Tribe is one of the foremost authorities in new media art today. Since founding Rhizome in 1996, he has curated shows at the New Museum of Contemporary Art and the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, among others, and currently serves in the Fine Arts Department at School of Visual Arts in New York City. He is the author of New Media Art (Taschen, 2006) as well as numerous articles on the subject. His latest exhibition, Plein Air, features the aerial perspective of landscape photography through computer simulation and is on display July 19 through Sept. 28 at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington.
"Mark Tribe embodies the intersection of art and technology at the forefront of new media," said Dave VanderWaal, head of marketing for LG Electronics USA. "His accomplishments and passion for advancing the visual arts make him an ideal partner to help us celebrate the student artwork submissions that our Ultra HD and OLED TVs will help bring to life with incredible detail and brilliance."
The public will also have a voice in The Art of the Pixel, as LG opened public voting for the competition today. Through July 31, art enthusiasts can visit the Contest Gallery on www.lgusa.com/LGSupportsTheArts to cast one vote daily for their favorite submissions. The school whose students collectively generate the most popular votes will win a $25,000 grant for its new-media art program. Additionally, individual students whose submissions receive the most votes will gain key points towards representing their schools as a finalist.
The Art of the Pixel is a new-media competition challenging students from nine art schools across the country to create digital masterpieces using LG Ultra HD 4K and OLED TV for a chance to win prizes for themselves and their schools. Participating schools are: the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Laguna College of Art and Design (LCAD), Maryland Institute College of Arts (MICA), Pacific Northwest College of Art (PCNA), Parsons The New School for Design, Pratt Institute, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) and School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA).
Finalists from each participating school will be announced in August. The Art of the Pixel program will culminate with an art gala event in New York City in September where LG will provide more than $250,000 in student and university awards.
As the first to introduce Ultra HD TV to the United States and as the industry leader in OLED TV, LG is uniquely positioned to provide the canvas for today's digital artwork with its latest display technologies. LG's Ultra HD TVs offer increased resolution more than 8 million pixels which means the finer details of artists' work will come to life with incredible clarity and brilliant detail as compared to Full HD displays. LG's OLED TVs offer the ultimate in display technology with incredible color accuracy and an infinite contrast ratio for brighter, more vibrant images within a super-slim and elegant display.
For more on The Art of the Pixel and to vote on your favorite submission, visit www.lgusa.com/LGSupportsTheArts.
*NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest Entry is not open to the general public. The Contest is open to students, 17 years or older at the time of entry, who are enrolled at a participating school and are legal residents of the United States. Voters must be legal residents of the 50 states or the District of Columbia. and 17 years of age or older. Contest Entry starts at 12:00:01 AM ET on 6/1/14 and ends at 11:59:59 PM ET on 7/13/14. Void where prohibited by law. For complete official rules, visit www.lgusa.com/LGSupportsTheArts.
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About LG Electronics USA
LG ElectronicsUSA, Inc., based inEnglewood Cliffs, N.J., is the North American subsidiary of LG Electronics, Inc., a$52 billionglobal force and technology leader in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications. Inthe United States, LG Electronics sells a range of stylish and innovative home entertainment products, mobile phones, home appliances, commercial displays, air conditioning systems and solar energy solutions, all under LG's "Life's Good" marketing theme. LG Electronics is a 2014 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year. For more information, please visitwww.lg.com.
About CalArts
Ranked America's number one college for students in the arts by Newsweek/The Daily Beast, CalArts is recognized for its commitment to creative thinking and risk-taking. With its six related schools: Art, Critical Studies, Dance, Film/Video, Music and Theater, CalArts is unique in its multidisciplinary approach to studying the arts and is one of the first schools in the country to offer a program in World Music for performance. CalArts encourages students to recognize and explore the complexity of the aesthetic, social and political aspects of the arts. It is supported by its distinguished faculty of practicing artists and provides its BFA, MFA and DMA students with both the hands-on training and the engagement with the cultural community necessary for artists' growth. CalArts was founded in 1961and opened in 1969as the first institution of higher learning in the U.S. specifically for students interested exclusively in pursuing degrees in the visual and performing arts.
About Laguna College of Art and Design
Laguna College of Art and Design is one of an elite number of institutions that has both regional accreditation from the Western Association of Schools and Colleges and national accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design.The LCAD Design and Digital Media program offers an intensely creative, digitally advanced and professionally relevant educational experience. LCAD believes designers are problem solvers who work across all areas of media, therefore all design students receive a comprehensive education in print, 3D, video, motion, and UI/UX design. The reputation of LCAD's Design and Digital Media program has given graduates exclusive entry into the professional design community and employment with the world's most recognized brands.LCADBachelors of Fine Arts degrees are offered inDesign and Digital Media,Drawing and Painting, Illustration, Animation, and Game Art. The graduate program awards aMaster of Fine Artsin Drawing and in Painting.
About Maryland Institute College of Art
Founded in 1826, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) is the oldest continuously degree-granting college of art and design in the nation. The College enrolls nearly 3,500 undergraduate, graduate and continuing studies students from 48 states and 61 countries in fine arts, design, electronic media, art education, liberal arts, and professional studies degree and non-credit programs. Redefining art and design education, MICA is pioneering interdisciplinary approaches to innovation, research, and community and social engagement. Alumni and programming reach around the globe, even as MICA remains a cultural cornerstone in the Baltimore/Washington region, hosting hundreds of exhibitions and events annually by students, faculty and other established artists.
As Oregon's flagship college of art and design since 1909, Pacific Northwest College of Art has helped shape Oregon's visual arts landscape for more than a century.PNCAstudents study with award-winning faculty in small classes. In the last seven years,PNCAhas doubled both the student body and full-time faculty, quadrupled its endowment, and added innovative undergraduate and graduate programs.PNCAis now embarking on its boldest venture yet by establishing the Arlene and Harold Schnitzer Center for Art and Design as an anchor for the College's vision of a new campus home on Portland's North Park Blocks. Focusing on the transformative power of creativity, the capital campaign, Creativity Works Here, was launched in June 2012 with a lead gift from The Harold & Arlene SchnitzerCAREFoundation of $5 million. PNCA's new home will be a bustling hub for creativity and entrepreneurship, reflecting the influential role of art and design in our 21st century economy both in Portland and beyond. For more information, visit pnca.edu.
About Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Designis one of the leading institutions for art and design education in the world. Based in New York but active around the world, the school offers undergraduate and graduate programs in the full spectrum of art and design disciplines. Critical thinking and collaboration are at the heart of a Parsons education. Parsons graduates are leaders in their respective fields, with a shared commitment to creatively and critically addressing the complexities of life in the 21st century. For more information, please visitwww.newschool.edu/parsons.
About Pratt Institute
Founded in 1887, Pratt Institute is a global leader in higher education dedicated to preparing its 4,700 undergraduate and graduate students for successful careers in art, design, architecture, information and library science, and liberal arts and sciences. Located in a cultural hub with historic campuses in Brooklyn and Manhattan, Pratt is a living lab of craft and creativity with an esteemed faculty of accomplished professionals and scholars who challenge their talented students to transform their passion into meaningful expression.
About Rhode Island School of Design
Rhode Island School of Design(RISD) has earned an international reputation as the leading college of art and design in the United States. Recentlyranked #1 inBusiness Insider's survey of The World's 25 Best Design Schools, approximately 2,400 students from around the world study at RISD, pursuing full-time bachelor's or master's degree programs in a choice of 19 studio majors.RISD is known for its phenomenal faculty of artists and designers, the breadth of its specialized facilities and its hands-on, studio-based approach to learning one in which critical thinking informs making works by hand. Required courses in the liberal arts provide an essential complement to studio work, enabling graduates to become critical and informed individuals eager to engage with the world. Through the accomplishments of its 26,000 alumni, the collegechampions the vital role artists and designers play in satisfying the global demand for innovation. Founded in 1877, RISD(pronounced "RIZ-dee")and the RISD Museum of Art help make Providence, RI among the most culturally active and creative cities in the region. For more information, visitwww.risd.edu.
About the San Francisco Art Institute
San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI) is a magnet for individuals who push beyond what is known to discover uncharted artistic terrain. This has been true since its doors first opened in 1871 and why we can say that San Francisco Art Institute's "history" is of always being contemporary. SFAI artists learn to think expansively, research infinitely, question everything, shatter existing paradigms, and redefine and contest cultural "norms." This relentless boundary breaking is not merely rebellious; it reflects a collective goal: to create new ways of looking at and living in the world. Through its many facetsdegree programs, exhibitions, public programs, non-degree courses, and artist-driven educational experimentsSFAI nurtures an eclectic range of independent minds under its roof, approaching learning and thinking about art and its critical contexts without fear, shame, or intellectual/artistic constraints.
More information about SFAI's programs, including BFA and BA degrees, MFA (academic year and summer options) and MA degrees, a dual MA/MFA degree, a Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, and a range of continuing education and public programs, please visit www.sfai.edu.
About the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Founded in 1876 and accredited by the National Association of Schools of Art and Design, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is one of only two art schools in the country affiliated with a major museumthe Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Our mission is to provide an education in the fine artsfor undergraduate and graduate artiststhat is interdisciplinary and self-directed. This education values cultural, artistic and intellectual diversity; it embraces a wide range of media; it stresses the development of individual vision and its relation to culture in general; it values equally the knowledge gained by thinking and doing; it is deeply engaged with the world as a whole. If the mission is constant, its practice is always transforming. For more information about our programs and partnerships, visit www.smfa.edu.
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Monday, April 30, 2012
JustEnough Wins Online Retailer
Newport Beach-based JustEnough Software, which develops software used by brands to manage demand planning, reported a win today, with online retailer Advanced MP3 Players. Financial details of the customer win were not disclosed. JustEnough said that Advanced MP3 Players is using its software, JustEnough Advanced Planning for NetSuite, to manage the demand forecasting, inventory planning, and replenishment for managing the inventory of MP3 players and accessories that it carries. Advanced MP3 Players said it is using the software to solve issues with over-stocking and under-stocking products.