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Hon. Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey (MP), Minister for Foreign Affairs and Regional Intergration led a five-member high level delegation to deliver a special message of gratitude from H.E. President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to his Ivorian counterpart, H.E. Alassane Dramane Ouattara for his gracious acceptance and presence as the guest of honour at President Akufo-Addo's inauguration on 7th January, 2017.
Other members of the delegation included Hon. Cecilia Dapaah, Minister for Aviation and Hon. Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, Minister of Information.
The Hon. Foreign Minister indicated that the gesture was highly appreciated by all Ghanaians, and acknowledged that it was a reflection of the value President Ouattara attached to the unique fraternal bond between the peoples of Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire.
H.E. President Ouattara responded by indicating that he owed it a duty to the people of Ghana to attend the event, emphasizing that Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire were indeed one country divided by incidents of history. He continued to explain that the time was ripe for the two countries to take their relationship to greater heights for the benefit of not only their peoples but for the Sub-region as a whole. President Ouattara further noted that there were several avenues through which both Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire could intensify their bilateral cooperation, including the Cocoa Industry, enhanced Trade, Regional and International Diplomacy.
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Sew Red aims to spread awareness of the importance of women's heart health one stitch at a time. The book has a wonderful collection of 27 projects - each one from a leading designer in the sewing and quilting industry - beautifully sewn in RED. Anna Maria Horner, Denyse Schmidt, Amy Butler, Tula Pink, Aneela Hoey, Patty Young and Vanessa Christensen to name a few.
This project summary page is at the front of the book. I wish all pattern books would do this. It's a visual collection of all the projects in the book. Eye candy - and so easy to see what projects appeal to you at a glance. With 27 to choose from, I found quite a few. Of course, I am drawn to the quilts, but the garments look so fun too!
Each pattern is accompanied by notes from the designer either sharing how heart disease has touched their life or their favorite tip for living a heart healthy lifestyle.
Share what you learn with a woman who's important to you by sewing up one of the beautiful designs in this book and giving it as a gift along with a note letting her know how much she means to you and asking her to take steps to take better care of herself. --From the Forward by Deborah NorvilleThis book concludes with heart disease facts, exercise recommendations and even 15 recipes for heart healthy cooking. Talk about all inclusive!
Overall, Sew Red looks to be a nice compilation of sewing and quilting projects - all beginner to intermediate in skill level. It has a great line up of today's top designers and communicates an important message.
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It looks like Gov. Jon Corzine is serious about making sure employers don't misclassify their employees as independent contractors to avoid paying taxes. Corzine has directed the state's Department of Labor and Workforce Development to step up audits on worker classification.
The state is cranking up the audit heat because New Jersey loses about $5 million in gross income taxes per year due to employers misclassifying workers. In 2005, the state discovered 26,000 workers misclassified as independent contractors.
Organizations have long known that using independent contractors (rather than employees) saves money and hassle. Companies that hire contractors don't have to withhold payroll taxes from them, pay them benefits or worry about workers' comp insurance for them.
If you misclassify workers, you risk paying hefty penalties even if your mistake is unintentional. And it doesn't matter that the person you hired signed an agreement saying that he or she is an independent contractor. What matters is the relationship you have with the person and how he or she performs the work.
Advice: With more audits on the way, make sure you're in compliance. New Jersey has one of the toughest tests in the country. The state defines an independent contractor as one who:
- Retains all control or direction over his work.
- Engaged in the established trade or business before you engaged him.
- Would still be engaged in the business if you terminated your relationship.
- Risks making a profit or loss, advertises his business and has invested in his business.
If a person doesn't meet these tests, he must be your employee, not an independent contractor.
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First Official Batch of Where the Wild Things Are Photos!
by Alex Billington
March 23, 2009
Source: USA Today
With the official trailer for Where the Wild Things Are due out sometime this week, it's fitting that USA Today debut the first batch of real photos from the film. In addition, the newspaper talked with director Spike Jonze about the production and gots a few interesting details out of him. "As a kid, I just connected to it. I wanted to hear it over and over," Jonze says of Maurice Sendak's 1963 book about Max, an angry boy who escapes to a mythical land of untamed giant beasts. "It's like trying to explain why you love somebody. To me, the Wild Things are both cuddly and dangerous. I wanted to climb atop of them like Max."
Jonze talks about his choice to make this live-action as opposed to animated. "I wanted them to actually be there," he says of the looming creatures. "I think as a kid I wouldn't imagine it as a cartoon. I would imagine they were in my world. There's a danger with Max being there on a real location. Dangerous and exciting. I wanted it to feel that you could hug them." I pretty sure you'll feel that exact way when you see these.
"I never thought of it as a children's movie," Jonze says. "My intention was to be true to how it felt to be 9 years old. Maurice's whole thing is to be honest. You can say anything to kids as long as you are respectful and not pandering." The boy you see above who plays Max is Max Records, who Jonze says, "is a very special sort of kid. Deep and thoughtful. Sweet and sincere. Wild, imaginative and caring. He brought all that to the film." Voice actors in the film include James Galdofini, Catherine O'Hara, and Lauren Ambrose.
Where the Wild Things Are is directed by visionary filmmaker Spike Jonze, of films like Being John Malkovich and Adaptation previously as well as numerous famous music videos as well. The screenplay was co-written by Spike Jonze and author Dave Eggers, a former Salon.com editor who also wrote Sam Mendes' Away We Go. This is based on Maurice Sendak's beloved children's book of the same name. Warner Brothers will finally bringing Where the Wild Things Are to theaters everywhere in October 16th.
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Last night, emotions spilled over in the Hattiesburg City Hall building where Mississippi Democratic Trust's Executive Director (and former state representative and attorney for Johnny Dupree) Brandon Jones got into an altercation with a local
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Oh, by the way, there was an election in Hattiesburg last night. Challenger Dave Ware leads by 32 votes with about 1,000 absentee ballots to count starting at 9:00 a.m. Turnout was heavy.
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|Young farmers setting up for flood irrigation on their tomato farm.
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However, water, just like land, is essential in determining what livelihood opportunities will be available to young people now and in the future. In Kenya, young farmers, who had failed to find jobs after completing their education engaged in horticultural farming for local and export markets. A commendable self-employment initiative to earn them a living and support their families, but their practices had an adverse impact on the water resources and the wider landscape.
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|One of the farms practising drip irrigation and crop rotation
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Taking an action research approach, I later got involved in exchange visits between these kind of young farmers and others whom I found using water sustainably. My aim was to ensure that all young farmers were aware that not only a livelihood was important, its sustainability mattered, and therefore, smart approaches such as water conservation and organic farming were essential. There was a small group of young farmers who had invested in rain water harvesting technologies and used the water for irrigation and agroforestry practices. Others practised drip irrigation ensuring water efficiency and overall protecting the soil from forming a hardpan. Planting drought resistant crops, which were also indigenous, was not only a water conservation strategy, but also a practice that contributed to agrobiodiversity conservation and increasing the resilience of the farmers.
|Thriving agroforestry trees watered with rainwater in Kitui Kenya
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Overall, my biggest lesson was that conservation efforts, in the context of sustainable development goals, need to consider the challenges of creating new sources of livelihoods; involving new actors such as young farmers, often disenfranchised and seeking quick sources of income; but also often unaware of the need to engage in sustainable practices. With collaborative programmes embracing the food-water-environment nexus, we will be better positioned to address unemployment and livelihood challenges, safeguard our soils, conserve water, conserve agrobiodiversity while at the same time, increasing the resilience of the young people and the landscapes to the impacts of climate change.
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Deepika Kumari wins bronze in World Cup
Antalya (Turkey): Ace Indian archer Deepika Kumari outclassed Chang Hye Jin of Korea in straight sets to clinch the bronze medal in the women's individual recurve event of the World Cup, here yesterday.
Deepika Kumari. Pic/Bipin Kokate
Seeded ninth in the event, Deepika came out all guns blazing to deflate her second-seeded opponent 6 (26, 29, 26, 28)- 2 (25, 26, 28, 27) to come up with a clean performance.
Korea though did not return disappointed as their archers stood first and second on the podium with Deepika at third.
Earlier, the 20-year-old archer put up a brave fight in the semi-finals but was denied a place in the final by Olympic gold medallist Ki Bo Bae of Korea.
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Are you always depressed? Do you know someone who is always depressed? Have you gotten so sick of the always depressed person being in your life that you avoid contact with that person? It is really hard to be around someone who is complaining all the time, especially if that person is you. So you ask how to stop being always depressed.
First and foremost, what is it that has you always depressed? What are you lacking in your life that you think you need? That is the first step. Find out what it is that you think you are missing. Most of us are always depressed because we feel that we are sad and unfulfilled. Some of us want a relationship and don't have one. Some of us have a relationship but do not want to stay in it. Some of us live in the wrong geographic location, work in the wrong field, or are married to the wrong person. Those things are rather simple to fix. You and the Universe work as co-creators. We proved this to ourselves when we were children. We did not have any income or any way of buying anything when we were small. We would think about something, ask for it, wish for it, picture us having it, etc. and somehow, that item would show up. We never lost that power. We just grew up.
This brings us to our second step. We are the only ones who know how we want our lives to be. If we are always depressed, our lives obviously are not working for us. We can use that power we learned as children to create a new life around us. It does take effort and some faith. Always depressed people lack faith so that may be difficult for us to muster. We only need to have the faith of a mustard seed, as we were told by Jesus. Mustard seeds are really small. If we can just have one second of, "I can have this.", we would see changes in our lives and our mindsets.
The third step is to be willing to make the changes as they come into our lives. If we are in a miserable relationship that is making us always depressed and we see the relationship as a problem, then action is the next step. We have to take some action to change things in our lives. The beautiful thing about this is that if we follow these steps, things just kind of fall into place for us. Granted, it's never easy to make vast, sweeping changes in our lives. It does not have to be as hard as we think it is. It can and will be a whole lot easier.
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Efficient Markov Chain Monte Carlo Samplers for Bayesian Image Analysis
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Zoltán Kató
Location of studies (in Hungarian): SZTE
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Description of the research topic:
Many image processing tasks can be formulated in a probabilistic framework. In particular, the Bayesian approach provides a powerful and generic modeling tool for a wide range of inverse problems in image analysis. In this context, we are given a set of observed image properties (like the color of pixels) and from these observations, we want to infer some higher level properties of the image (like a segmentation, 3D depth, etc..) that are hidden. Such an inverse problem can then be treated as a probabilistic inference of the hidden entities from the observations. Once a probabilistic model is constructed, we are given an optimization problem where one has to find the most likely settings of the hidden variables. However, due to the high complexity of the underlying
probability measure, gradient-based optimization techniques cannot be applied. Therefore such problems are often solved using Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods. Although the general theory and methodology of these algorithms are fairly standard, they have their limitations in case of image processing problems (dependence of neighboring pixels or varying dimension of model parameters, to name a few). Hence the construction of such samplers, possibly tailored to a particular probabilistic image model, remains a challenge.
Specific aims of the proposed work
- Study a novel probabilistic image model
- Develop an MCMC method which can generate samples from the image model. This sampler will be used to solve the optimization problem.
- Analyze the convergence properties of the algorithm.
- Apply the algorithm to a practical problem, such as automatic segmentation of images, or automatic detection of objects represented by a template shape.
Number of students who can be accepted: 1
Deadline for application: 2018-01-31
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Why did people fall out of love suddenly?Even in marriage.
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I find it to be the opposite much of the time. Most people fall "in love" (suddenly) and fall out of love (gradually).
Usually what happens is their mate slowly STOPS doing all the things that caused one to fall in love with them. Romance & passion dies.
(It's easier to maintain a fire than it is to reignite a spark!)
"We treat the (new) better than the tried and true." In the beginning both people made it a (priority) to add joy and happiness to each other's life. Oftentimes once people get married they scratch that off of their "things to do list". It's not uncommon to hear someone say: "He/She is NOT the same person I fell in love with." When we change our circumstances change.
Another possibility is sometimes people evolve in different directions. There is no neutral in relationships. You're either "growing together" or "growing apart". If one is not careful it's very easy to (sleepwalk) through a marriage/relationship. One person assumes that is the way things are supposed to be and the other person quietly longs for the way things use to be. Words may hurt but silence kills.
"There is no amount of (work) or (communication) that can overcome being with someone who does not want what you want."
There are only two ways to experience joy and peace of mind in relationships: we either get what we want or we learn to be happy with what we have.
Last but not least sometimes people wake up and feel like they "settled" not just for the person they're with but in life in general. Some people call it a "midlife crisis" others call it a "midlife awakening". Either way it's the recognition that one has more years behind them than they do ahead of them and they want to make the (most) of those remaining years. It's not unheard of to hear about people quitting established jobs, ending marriages, or relocating in order to pursue dreams they gave up on.
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Part of it is not constantly working on it, and some is perhaps because people get to know each other better over time. Sometimes, the person just isn't who you thought they were.
On the other hand, life is going to have ups and downs with plenty of hardship to go around. When we feel bad about something else in life, or are displeased with life, those feelings sometimes get displaced on our partners. You don't have the emotional energy left for someone at that moment, and some people think that means the emotion simply isn't there anymore. It takes work to get back to an emotionally healthy point and re-connect with your partner. It's also necessary to take responsibility for your own responses, and not blame someone else because life isn't going right. Of all the relationships I know that have "gone south," most of the people involved seem to think the other person couldn't make them happy anymore, never realizing that no one can MAKE you happy or unhappy in the first place. Unreasonable expectations lead to a lot of discontent within a relationship, and may make people think that it's just not working anymore.
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I agree with DDE. Relationships are work. It's easy to start taking someone for granted whom you see on a regular basis and when this happens and neither partner does anything to stop it things begin to spiral downward. It's important to take time to show appreciation for each other and do things together such as a regular date night, surprise each other with gifts, compliment each other, etc. With everyday life getting in the way, it's easy to forget these things.
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Love does not last when the little things are taken for granted. Love is like dough it is needs to be kneaded continuously stay in good texture. If you don't pay attention to your partner they go astray and feel lonely the need to drift away the immediate answer is to get away from that relationship takes two to tango.
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The Vendor Files
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Vendor names are clickable links, unless otherwise noted.
Retail Supply Houses
Beaver Dam Decoys Cortland, OH – tools, supplies, books, decoy roughouts, turnings, lumber
Belcher Carving Supply Tipp City, OH – tools, supplies, books
Carve4Less Estes Park, CO – Discounted and closeouts on books, tools and kits
Chipping Away WoodCarving Store Kitchner, ON, Canada – Carving tools, supplies, books, videos
Christian J Hummul Co. Tools, supplies, books and videos, lumber
The Duck Blind Hickory Corners, MI – carving and art supplies
EC Tools Online Sarasota, FL – tools, supplies, cutouts, etc
Feather Animation Wood Carving Supplies, Sarnia, Ontario – tools, supplies, bird feet, eyes, etc
FishCarver.com Novi, MI – tools, supplies, patterns, roughouts, classes, videos etc for fish carvers
Gene Webb Woodcarvings – Townsend, TN – Tools, supplies, kits, DVD's, classes and more
Greg Dorrance Co Attleboro, MA – tools, books, roughouts, etc
Jan's Carving Studio, Bowmanville, ON, Canada – tools and supplies
Klingspor's Woodworking Shop, North Carolina – tools, supplies, etc
Little Shavers Woodcarving Supply Seattle, WA – tools, supplies, etc
MDI Woodcarvers Supply Bar Harbor, ME – tools, supplies, books, patterns
Mountain Woodcarvers Estes Park, CO – carving tools, supplies, books. material
Mountain Heritage Crafters Bluefield, VA- wood carvers complete tool and book shop.
Old Texas Woodcarvers Spring, TX – carving tools, supplies, etc
Quality Carving Supplies Venice, FL – complete line of woodcarving supplies
Rockler Woodworking and Hardware Medina, MN – catalog sales and local stores – carving and general woodworking tools, supplies, lumber, books
Smoky Mountain Woodcarvers Supply Nawger Nob, Towsend, TN – carving tools, supplies, books, material
Stoney Point Decoy Carving Supply Salisbury, MD – tools, wood, paint
Sugar Pine Woodcarving Supplies Lebanon, OR – carving tools, supplies, books
Tools For Woodcarvers Farwell, MI – (formerly LeatherPlus) A complete line of wood carving supplies at competitive prices.
Treeline Provo, UT – The wood craft specialists – carving tools, supplies, sticks, etc
Vic Kirkman Originals Raleigh, NC – Carving tools, supplies, books. material for the wildfowl carver
Walnut Hollow Dodgeville, WI – Carving and woodburning tools, unfinished wood products, clocking supplies and more
Windsor Woodcarver Museum Windsor, ON, CA – The Museum Shop carries a wide range of tools, supplies and books; proceeds help support Museum operations
Wood Carver's Store and School St Louis Park, MN – Tools. material and classes
The Woodcraft Shop Bettendorf, IA – Wide selection of books, tools, supplies – Downloadable catalogue on web site.
Wood Carvers Supply, Inc Englewood, FL – A wide selection of books, tools, supplies
Wood 'N Wildcraft Westbank, BC – carving tools, supplies, books, classes
Woodchip Shop Des Moines, IA – Carving tools, supplies, books. material
Woodchips Carving Supplies Port Moody, BC, Canada – Carving tools, supplies, books. material
Woodcraft Supply Corp Parkersville, WV – catalog and local stores – carving tools, supplies, books, lumber
Woodcarvers Warehouse Faribault, MN – woodcarving tools, books, kits, wood and supplies
Wood-n-Feathers Merrickville, ON, CA – carving supplies, tools, etc
Tool Manufacturers and Distributors
Hand, Mallet, and Power Tools, Pyro Tools, Duplicators, Workholders, Lighting, Etc
Some of these manufacturers/distributors sell tools and supplies directly from their web sites – others only through authorized retailers. For those manufacturers The Carver's Companion suggests you contact the supply houses listed above.
Abranet & Tools Rotonda West, FL – Abranet abrasive sheets, tools and supplies
Ashley Iles Tools (UK) – Woodcarving and turning tools made in the old tradition
Arbortech Woodworking Tools – grinder mounted cutting tools and power chisel tools
Badger Airbrush Co – air brushes, accessories, compressors, paint check this connection
Bailey's Laytonville, CA – Chain saw carving supplies
BlueMax Lighting Jackson,MI – home of BlueMax full spectrum lighting
Cape Forge Tools Dayton, ME – traditional hand-forged carving tools
Colwood Woodburning Tools Farmingdale, NJ – Wide variety of tips (including fish detailing tips}, replacement and fixed tip handles, books, cases and more. . .
Copycarver Novi, MI – The woodcarvers' copy machine – plans for a build-it-yourself duplicator for woodcarvers
Creative Technologies Inc Casper, WY – home of the Rotary Chisel, a carbide cutter check this didn't load
Delta Machinery – band saws, table saws, thickness planers, jointers and other quality shop equipment
Diefenbacher Tools St Louis, MO – tools by Stuabi, Two Cherries, Diefenbacher
Dura-Grit Toronto, ON, CA – Long lasting carbide coated high-speed rotary tools, 1/4″ drill bits, hand sanding tools and sanding disks
The Endura Engraving System – The Endura Engraving System – the one high speed engraving system built to last for a lifetime of use . . .
Fan Carvers World Fennville, MI – Tools to support your fan-bird carving habit
Flexcut Tools Erie, PA – home of Flexcut carving tools
Foredom Bethel, CT – home of Foredom Power Tools and accessories
Frank Mittermeier, Inc Bronx, NY – US distributor of Dastra Tools
GRS Emporia, KS – Gravermax power engraving systems, tools and training
Hartville Tools Hartville, OH – woodworking equipments, accessories, supplies
Helvie Wood Carving Knives – Timton, IN – Helvie knives made by Rich Smithson
Henry Taylor Tools Sheffield, England – Woodturning and Woodcarving tools
Highland Hardware Atlanta, GA – woodworking tools, accessories, supplies change to Highland Woodworking
Craft Supplies Ltd Faraday Close, Harworth, Nottinghamshire, UK – tools, supplies, materials
Jerry-Rig West Caldwell, NJ – The Jerry-Rig 360 degree rotatable work positioner
Knotts Knives Salisbury, MD – knives, Dust Demon
Lee Valley Tools & Veritas Ogdensburg, NY – woodworking tools, accessories, supplies
Log Home Store McMinnville, OR – chainsaw carving tools and supplies, books
Mastercarver Englewood, FL – Manufacturer of Mastercarver flexible shaft machines, Micro-Pro micro-motor tools, Woodhog wood grinders, Hand-forged tools, Mallets, Hawk and Eagle Burnmaster wood burning (pryrographic) tools. Power tools are available in 110V or 230V. Dealerships available worldwide.
Nibsburner Colorado Springs, CO – Nibsburner pyro and woodburning products
OCC Tools – Dora. MO – Quality knives and gouges by Mike Shipley
PJL Enterprises Browerville, MN – Optima wood carving and pyrographic tools from SMC, as well as the Safe Air dust collection PJL did not load on last check
Preferred Edge Knives Maple Ridge, BE, CA – high-quality handmade carving knives and supplies
PROX-Tech Hickory, NC – Proxxon motorized carver
PS Wood Machines Bethel Park, PA – band saw blades, scroll saws and blades, scroll saw and intarsia patterns
Razertip Industries Martinsville, SK, Canada – pyrography and carving supplies, dust management systems
Robert Sorby Sheffield, England – Woodworking Tools Specialist
Saburr-Tooth Sterling Heights, MI – Carbide coated rotary tools: 1/4″. 1/8″ and 3/32″ shank tools, sanding sleeves, carving sheels and Buzz-outs
Stubai Direct – US Distributor of Stubai palm and mallet tools
Terrco, Inc Watertown, SD – single and multiple spindle duplicators
Tools For Woodcarvers Farwell, MI – (formerly LeatherPlus) A complete line of wood carving supplies at competitive prices.
Triton Manufacturing (AU) home of the Triton Superjaws, a portable work holder with rubber faced and timber jaws (also available from US distributors)
Turbo Carver Federal Way, WA – Turbo Carver highspeed rotary tool and accessories
U.J. Ramelson Co. Newark, NJ – American-made woodcarving tools
Vac-U-Shield Philadelphia, PA – for virtualy dust-free power carving
ViceTight Carving Fixture Mariposa, CA – home of the ViceTight carving fixture – designed by a carver for carvers
Warren Cutlery Reinbeck, NY – wood carving tools – interchangeable blade and handle sets
Wood Carvers Supply, Inc Englewood, FL – Manufacturer of Mastercarver flexible shaft machines, Micro-Pro micro-motor tools, Woodhog wood grinders, Hand-forged tools, Mallets, Hawk and Eagle Burnmaster wood burning (pryrographic) tools. Power tools are available in 110V or 230V. Dealerships available worldwide.
Wood-Carver.com – home of the Gemini Universal Carving Duplicator
Wood Suppliers –
Lumber, Roughouts, Bandsawn Blanks, Kits, Boxes
Lumber, Bark, Diamond Willow
American Basswood Carving Noblesville, IN – Basswood, Butternut and Eastern White Pine did not load
Be So Good Wood Billings, MT – Cottonwood bark and diamond willow from Alex Bisso in Montana
Bethlehem Olive Wood Brownwood, TX (US contact) olive wood carving and turning blocks
Copperhead Road Logging and Lumber (AKA Joe's Carving Wood) Palisade, MN northern MN hardwoods – basswood, buternut, cedar, more
Exotic Lumber Annapolis, MD – Domestic, imported, and exotic timbers
Fan Carvers World Fennville, MI – White cedar blanks for fan-bird carving
Hardwoods of Michigan Clinton, MI – commercial lumber supply
Hardwood Connection Sycamore IL – hardwoods, custom glue-ups, etc. Click the link or email to firstname.lastname@example.com
Heinecke Wood Products Cumberland, WI – quality carving lumber and roughout dublicating service
Itasca Wood Products Deer River, MN – specialist iin thin craft wood and carving wood
Krantz Wood Sales Forest Lake, MN – quality northern basswood – email to jkrantzATusfamily.net or call 651-464-5632
Ken Laninga Diamond Willow – Diamond willow from northern Alberta, Canada
Louisiana Swamp Products LA – Cleaned and kiln dried cypress knees, sunken cypress, driftwood
Northeastern Scale Lumber Co Methuen, MA – complete line of scale hardwoods for carver, model builders, etc
Ocooch Hardwoods Richland Center, WI – carving stock, intarsia lumber, unsurfaced hardwood lumber
Texas Woodcrafts Katy, TX – Texas grown wood for carving and turning
Slim's Woodshed Harmony, MN – Lumber, sawn blanks, tools, carving museum
Full Cycle Woodworks Rogersville, TN – basswood lumber
Tupelo Timber Brantford, Ontario, CA – Tueplo and White Cedar
Roughouts, Band-sawn Blanks, Kits, Boxes, Roughout & Duplication Services
Phil & Vicki Bishop Elk City, OK – Roughouts designed by CCA member Phil, as well as Vicki's popular roughouts are now available from Steve Brown – click the link
Steve Brown Woodcarving Freeport, FL – Collide-A-Scope kits, carved Pen kits, rough outs by CCA members Phil and Vicki Bishop, books, CD's and more
Boxes N Such North Royalton, OH – Boxes, plates, etc
Heinecke Wood Products Cumberland, WI – quality carving lumber and roughout dublicating service
Gene Webb Woodcarvings – Townsend, TN – Turnings, roughouts, canes, wood and more
Stu Martin's Woodcarving Goddard, KS – roughouts and videos by Stu Martin
Masterwerkes Garland, TX – Custom production services for woodcarvers
Bob Reitmeyer Whittler Supplies Pittsburg, PA – Cub & Boy Scout neckerchief slide blanks & instructions
Moore Roughouts – a wide variety of roughouts designed by various carvers and duplicating services
Floyd Rhadigan Saline, MI – Roughouts and bandsawn blanks, kits add Fantasy Woodcarving to name
Gerald & Barb Sears Southwest City. MO – Roughouts designed by CCA member Gerald Sears
Harley & Midge Schmitgen Blue Earth, MN – Roughouts designed by Harley & Midge Schmitgen
Greg Wilkerson Woodcarving Branson, MO – Roughouts of Greg's designs of Native American
Pattern Portfolios, Custom Patterns, Projects Books & DVDs/CDs
Art Designs Studio – Lora S. Irish patterns, collections, e-projects, e-books, etc for carving, pyrography and other crafts
Clanbadge.com Celtic Knot Font for Mac & PC at Clanbadge.com – free knotwork patterns available
Susan L. Hendrix – Utah – Books and CD for carving woodspirits, Santa ornaments
LSIrish.com – Projects and tutorials by Lora S. Irish
Nora Hall Carving Designs – Patterns from Nora Hall
Woodcarving Shirts, Aprons, Gifts, Etc
Carvers' Companion Shop – T-Shirts, sweatshirts, carving aprons, mugs, mouse pad, greeting cards and more – designs can be customized with your club or studio name
Just4Yucks – Funny woodcarving designs on shirts and other items
Woodworking Gifts – Shirts and other gifts – woodcarver, chipcarver, decoy carver
Magazine and Book Publishers, Book Sellers
Some publishers sell directly and some do not. The Carver's Companion suggests you make your purchases from book sellers listed here or from one of the many quality carver supply houses listed above.
Carving Magazine Newton, NJ – This publication, unfortunately, has gone out of business. Web site is still there but not much is happening.
Chip Chats – The magazine of the National Wood Carvers Association.
For an index of selected articles in Chip Chats click HERE; for an index of selected patterns click HERE.
Wood Carving Illustrated East Petersburg, PA – For an index of recent WCI issues click HERE.
Woodcarvers Gazette – The magazine of the British Woodcarvers Association
Fan Carvers World Fennville, MI – Sally and David Nye have almost single-handedly preserved the art of fan-bird carving in North America, and have published two how-to books on the topic.
Fox Chapel Publishing East Petersburg, PA – Carving & woodworking books books.
Guild of Master Craftsmen England – publishers of Wood Carving Magazine
Linden Publications – Woodworker's Library and Woodworkers Newsstand
Sterling Publishing – wood carving and other books
Schiffer Books – publishers of wood carving and other books
Taunton Press – publishers Fine WoodWorking magazine and a variety of books
Wildfowl Carving Magazine – publishers of Wildfowl Carving Magazine
Meredith Corp – publishers of Wood Magazine and others
Moldmaking and Casting Supplies & Services
Alumilite Cast Materials – mold making and casting materials
Castcraft – informational books and videos about casting
Enviromold – downloadable Artmolds' catalog for mold making and casting materials
Lone Tree Creek LLC Olivet, SD – Moldmaking and casting services
Smooth-On Moldmaking and Casting Materials – Mold making rubber to capture fine woodcarving detail and casting resin for accurate reproductions
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Outside the Box: eBeauty Summer Bag
I loooove the internet, I find the most fantastic things. In a recent adventure I came across www.ebeauty.ca they have some fantastic deals on brand name beauty goodies as well as ….wait for it….a seasonal glam bag. Of course I had to have one and it arrived today. This is a first impression of the contents since obviously I haven't had a chance to really try anything. Hopefully a more in depth review of the contents will follow after I've had some time to 'play' with everything.
For $29.99 I received 14 products and a cute toiletry bag, a pretty good price point to be able to sample a lot of different goodies at once.
First up are the Katy Perry "Sweetie Pie" Lashes ($8) with adhesive. I must admit I don't use false eyelashes, they just don't seem to work into my lifestyle. Easier to sweep on mascara and go on about my business but these are really natural looking….honestly. So if I ever would try a pair, it would be these. I may just have to find an occasion special enough to throw these on. Will report back if/when I do.
Next in the box were these Professional Quality 'Soft Touch' Eyelash Curler and Dual Tip Tweezer from Danielle Creations (Upper Canada Soap Company) They look to be of good quality and the soft touch handles are really nice to hold. The curler comes with 3 pads total and the tweezer has two ends (hence Dual Tip). Slanted tip for larger area removal and pointed tip for smaller ingrown hairs (or slivers!). You can pick up both items for about $12 in the ebeauty shop.
Marc Anthony Pro Finish Ultimate Hold Hair Spray – you can't have too much hairspray! It's impossible. I've used other Marc Anthony products before and they've all been great so I'm sure this is no exception. It's a nice travel size and claims to have hydrolysed silk in it. Won't really know about the hold or scent until I use it. Results to follow.
I'm about as pasty white as pasty white can be. During the summer my skin tone goes from off-white to ivory. I've used self tanners in the past, some to less than stellar results. I've never tried a foam mousse though, so this should be interesting. Pretend Tan Instant Self Tan Bronzing Mousse is paraben free and only comes in one colour. It claims to be odour free, but all self tanners seem to have that …..smell to them. Will have to post again after use to show you some before and afters and whether or not the claim of non-odour is accurate.
As with hairspray, you can't have too much mascara! I have never tried NYX mascara so this is going to be fun. The formula I received is the Faux Lashes – Luscious Volume in a FULL SIZE ($9) There are 7 variations to choose from and I'm glad this is the one in my bag since I have fairly long lashes just not a lot of volume. I'm currently loving my Jelly Pong Pong (just love saying that) mascara at the moment, but am eager to try the NYX and report back.
I have never used a Stila lip product….I know, I know! I am thrilled to have the Stila Sparkle Luxe Gloss to play with. The colour is Fairy Dust and is a super sparkle filled, coraly/pinky colour. It's retail value is $29! That's the price of the entire box!
Another 'never tried before' is the Cheeky Monkey Cosmetics Nail Colour. It's a $15 polish that boasts a 3-free formula. The colour is 'Spank Me' a coral/peach cream shade that looks like it would be 1-coat true. I'm looking forward to swiping this on my digits in the very near future and will include this in a future follow up post.
Next up is the GO Smile Luxury Toothpaste AM/PM Duo. These travel size tubes are perfect for a trial run. The AM Formula contains essential oils of lemon, orange, mandarin and peppermint to wake you up while the PM formula has the calming extracts of chamomile, lavender, valerian root, vanilla and spearmint to help you (and your teeth) unwind at the end of a long day. The system contains fluoride and promises to keep your smile white. Everybody uses toothpaste (in some form) so this is definitely a nice add to the box.
I'm not a 'blotter paper' user at all. The concept intrigues me and certainly the Lavender Blotting Linens from Boscia intrigue me. 100 sheets are included in the little purse/pocket size pouch and the fact that the linens are made from the exotic Abaca Tree plant and infused with Lavender make them very….cool. Still not sure if I will use them, but I'm sure I can find a shiny skinned friend to share them with.
Rodial Dragon's Blood Sculpting Gel claims to work by forming a second-skin around the face helping protect, reduce redness and firm the skin for a smoother, plumper, younger-looking complexion. Interesting concept, going to definitely try this. I'm not uber-wrinkly ….yet. But I'm sure a little help won't hurt. The retail on the full size is $95 (the sample size would price out to just over $28 for 15ml….SCORE!)
Almost last but not least is a sample packet of Mereadesso Face & Neck Toning Gel. It contains over 4o botanical extracts, minerals and antioxidants that promises 'you're sure to see a difference in just 3-5 days' It is a pricey one at $130 for 1.7 oz. the luxury sample prices out to just over $14. The reviews on this product look really good and I'm eager to give it a try.
Finally…..to wrap up the summer bag of goodies they've included a…..bag! A really nice quality, good sized, zip-top toiletry/cosmetic bag in a pretty shade of pink. Also a super-cute round bedazzled two-sided mirror. The 5x magnification is a scare at times, but certainly will come in handy as will the little velvety pouch that came with it. Perfect to safely tuck in your purse or travel bag.
Final thoughts: Well, it's a pretty good assortment of goodies for the price point. A lot of things I wouldn't normally have ordered for myself, but that I think I can certainly get some use out of. I like the 'deluxe' sample sizes of the pricier gels/creams as I certainly wouldn't just go out and purchase these things without knowing if it's worthwhile first and they've certainly given enough of a sample that I'll be able to tell (unlike some sample packets that are so teeny tiny that you don't even get a single application) <<very long sentence!
Based upon my math skills and the prices listed on the site itself it looks like I've scored over $160 worth of product for $29.99, that's pretty awesome. I'm looking forward to trying a lot of these things out and I will certainly do a follow-up post when I've done so. If you're interested check out the site and the bag for yourself.
I think the eBeauty Summer Bag is: Totally Frantastic!
Until next time 🙂


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Reporting to the Director of the Center for International Programs, with dotted line accountability to the VP of Enrollment Management, this position is responsible for the recruitment of international degree-seeking and sponsored students to the College's undergraduate, graduate, and ESL programs. The Coordinator will organize and travel internationally to actively participate in recruitment and yield events including tours, fairs, international high school and university visits, U.S. transfer fairs, and visits to sponsored student program managers, as assigned by the Director of the Center for International Programs.
The College of Saint Rose is a dynamic, comprehensive college of about 4,500 students. Located in the city of Albany, the heart of New York State's Capital District, the College is a private, independent, coeducational institution, sponsored by the Sisters of Saint Joseph of Carondelet. Through a strong liberal education curriculum and progressive academic programs, Saint Rose serves traditional students and working professionals in undergraduate, graduate degree and certificate programs.
The College of Saint Rose is an award winning employer. We are a 7 time recipient of the Chronicle of Higher Education's prestigious "GREAT COLLEGES TO WORK FOR award, and have been recognized by the Capital District Business Review and the Times Union as a top workplace . Our employees enjoy a close-knit community based on the values of honesty, trust, respect, fairness, responsibility and the free exchange of ideas.
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, Full time, Full year
Salary: beginning at $37,000 depending upon experience
This position requires flexibility of schedule to include frequent international travel, evening and weekend hours, especially during the recruitment season of September-May.
Compensation includes comprehensive health and dental benefits, generous time off, a tuition remission plan to further enhance your knowledge and skills, retirement plans through TIAA-CREF, and wellness programs including the use of our extensive fitness center.
The College of Saint Rose values diversity and abides by federal, state and local law in admissions, employment and all services and programs provided. It does not unlawfully discriminate on the basis of race, color, sex, religion/creed, disability, age, national/ethnic origin, sexual orientation or any other condition established by law.
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History including origin & shepherds Summary Status at other RIRs Staff/legal assessment PPML discussion overview. Draft Policy 2011-2 Protecting Number Resources. 2011-2 - History. Origin: ARIN-prop-120 (5 Nov 2010) AC Shepherds: Marc Crandall and Scott Leibrand
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History including origin & shepherds
Status at other RIRs
Staff/legal assessment
PPML discussion overview
Draft Policy 2011-2
Protecting Number Resources
Origin: ARIN-prop-120 (5 Nov 2010)
AC Shepherds: Marc Crandall and Scott Leibrand
AC selected as Draft Policy (28 Jan 2011)
Posted to PPML with assessment (3 Feb 2011)
Current Version dated 28 Jan 2011
Text and assessment online & in Discussion Guide
This policy directs ARIN to pro-actively identify and research abandoned, unused, or fraudulently obtained number resources for the purposes of trying to reclaim them when appropriate. It would require staff to report on the activities associated with this policy (without improperly disclosing details of individual matters) during ARIN's Public Policy meetings.
Similar policy in effect for years
Policy to reclaim "under and incorrectly utilized" resources.
Staff Comments: Issues/Concerns?
The process of identifying and reclaiming resources (especially due to fraud or misuse) can take anywhere from a few days to several weeks from start to finish. There will be a significant time factor involved.
This policy could have very significant financial implications due to the need for additional staff, the time involved in identifying, researching, and reclaiming these resources, and the potential additional legal fees involved for review.
Reclaiming legacy resources is more complex than reclaiming ARIN issued resources. Therefore, ARIN staff would need to carefully consider this complexity when determining which number resources to seek out first. Implementation: Resource Impact? – Moderate
Moderate to implement, but significant to execute
Significant staff training
Additional staff
Software tools
No legal comments.
Little discussion of Draft Policy
Earlier discussion of proposal: 39 posts by 11 people (2 in favor and none against)
"support the concept… though I believe it needs more wording and guidelines to appropriate fit better. I also don't classify it as emergency."
"The most important thing to me though is that ARIN is actively taking care of the space. Unfortunately one of the duties of a good steward is to clean up the mess when someone else just walks away. I'd prefer folks return addresses when they are done with them rather than leave them by the side of a road somewhere like a discarded pop can. But if they do leave them by the side of the road ARIN should pick them up, dust them off and recycle them."
"How big an effort? Should ARIN dedicate 1 individual to proactively looking for abuse? 20? 100?"
Protecting Number Resources


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This book describes the development of Modern Chinese from the late nineteenth century to the 1990s.
Ping Chen s Modern Chinese: History and Sociolinguistics is a very valuable book. Grounded in the tradition of Chinese philology and Western linguistics, Chen provides an unusually deft and clear-sighted synthesis and presentation of complex material. He creates and applies a series of conceptual frameworks for the description and analysis of the Chinese language. He marshals a wealth of detail which helps him to place linguistic issues in a wider social and historical context. His broad comparative perspective draws attention both to the features which Chinese shares with other languages, and those which are unique to the Chinese case Chen Ping s thoughtful work sets a new standard for the discourse in English on the Chinese language.


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At a time when natural history museums are moving away from taxidermy, a resurgence of interest has been manifest in the popular culture—in internet blogs and image collections, in fashion and commercial advertising—and in the visual arts. Dead Animals surveys current artistic usage of taxidermy through the work of eighteen artists: Maurizio Cattelan, Kate Clark, Mark Dion, Nicholas Galanin, Thomas Grünfeld, Damien Hirst, Karen Knorr, Annette Messager, Polly Morgan, Deborah Sengl, Angela Singer, Bryndis Snæbjörnsdóttir/Mark Wilson, Richard Barnes, Jules Greenberg, Sarah Cusimano Miles, Richard Ross, and Hiroshi Sugimoto.
The exhibition and accompanying symposium will examine the cultural history of taxidermy, social factors that have contributed to artists' interests in the "idea of the animal," and the ways in which these interests are manifest in artists' works. It will question how taxidermy, with its inherent association with death, differs from the use of live animals or animal substitutes such as stuffed animals, and why taxidermy may be particularly relevant to the exploration of the human-animal question. Finally, it will examine ethical issues surrounding the incorporation of animals in art.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: Thomas Grünfeld, Misfits (penguin/peacock), 2005. Copyright 2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn
The 2015 Faculty Exhibition presents new and recent works by 20 artists from across Brown University's faculty at the David Winton Bell Gallery. Reflecting the creative, cross-disciplinary spirit that is integral to the arts at Brown, the exhibition features work in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, video, sculpture, installation, music, and literary art.
Curated by: Alexis Lowry Murray, Ian Alden Russell
The Bell Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of works on paper by Chicago-based artist Tony Fitzpatrick. In conjunction with the exhibition a performance of Fitzpatrick's "Stations Lost" (2010) will be staged at the Granoff Center for Creative Arts on October 9th, 2015.
Curated by Alexis Lowry Murray
Image: Tony Fitzpatrick, Blackburnian Wobblers, 2015
Acclaimed conceptual photographer Hank Willis Thomas is known for commandeering American advertising strategies in order to challenge constructions of race and gender in the United States. For several years he has also been appropriating the historical artifacts of past social struggles, from the holocaust, to the civil rights movement, to apartheid, and transforming these records into primary sources that can speak for today's cultural conflicts. Thomas is particularly drawn to certain hand gestures that are universally legible as acts of protest. He isolates these non-verbal modes of communication from documentary photographs and reconfigures them into sculptures and retro-reflective prints that offer compelling moments of agency and resistance. The Bell Gallery will bring together these resonant gestures alongside mixed media sculptures and a five-channel video installation. The work included in this exhibition communicates contemporary acts of protest even as they are mediated through the events of history.
Curated by Alexis Lowry Murray
Image: Hank Willis Thomas, Amandla, 2013
As the summer months unfold, the David Winton Bell Gallery is pleased to present Flora, an exhibition of works on paper from the permanent collection. This eclectic group of photographs, drawings, and etchings re-imagines the traditions of landscape painting, still life, and floral portraiture through unconventional techniques and unusual subjects, while bringing together unexpected works by well-known artists.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: Tom Baril, Three Poppies
The Mobile Museum of American Artifacts (MMoAA) is a touring museum of personal objects and their histories. Housed in a small vintage trailer, MMoAA travels from town to town, conducting an "archeology of the present" that uncovers objects of significant (and insignificant) connection to everyday American life. MMoAA will be making its debut visit to Providence May 11-16th. Mark your calendars and find your objects!
Hosted by the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities, the MMoAA will be at the Bell Gallery on Monday, May 11 from 11-4, and at other locations in Providence throughout the week.
The David Winton Bell Gallery is pleased to present a mid-career survey of Dave Cole's sculptural practice. This exhibition will focus on Cole's exploration of notions of childhood in America. It will present such monumental works as Music Box (2012), a vintage 1980s CAT CS-553 steamroller that has been refashioned into a giant music box that plays the first stanza of the national anthem, and Fiberglass Teddy Bear (2003), knit from iconic pink Owens Corning Fiberglas. While both works are whimsical and fun, resembling giant children's toys, they are also poignant reminders of the intimate relationship between the construction of national identity and infrastructure building in the United States. In knitting industrial materials such as Fiberglas, lead, and Fiberfrax porcelain into quotidian objects such as teddy bears and baby blankets, Cole presents a literal portrait of the fabric of American life. Opening Reception, 5:30pm, May 8th, 2015 in List Art Lobby.
Image: Dave Cole, The Music Box, 2012
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art present the work of forty-four artists in Brown's 35th annual Student Exhibition, on view at the Bell Gallery from Saturday, April 11 to Sunday, April 26, 2015. An opening reception will be held Saturday, April 11, from 7:00pm until 9:00pm. There will be two performances during the reception. The exhibition and opening reception are free and open to the public.
The 2015 NCECA Biennial is an international juried ceramics exhibition organized by the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts and presented at the Bell Gallery in conjunction with Lively Experiments, the 49th Annual NCECA Conference, which will be held in Providence from March 25-28. Jurors for this year's exhibition are Linda Christianson, Minnesota studio potter; Jo-Ann Conklin, Director of the Bell Gallery; and Anders Ruhwald, Head of Ceramics, Cranbrook Academy of Art. From a slate of 1147 entries, the jurors choose fifty works issuing from 22 states and Canada, Hong Kong, Italy, Romania, South Korea and Sweden. Works range from functional pottery to installations with associated video or computer programs.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: detail of Karin Karinson Nilsson, We Take a Deep Breath, 2013
Spanning a period of twenty-four years—from 1989 to 2013—the paintings, sculptures, and videos in SHE present a broad-ranging selection of contemporary depictions of women. Drawn from a private collection, the exhibition includes work by artists, such as Jenny Saville and Cindy Sherman, for whom the position of women in society is a primary concern, along with others who depict women more incidentally. Candice Breitz focuses on the portrayal of women in films, while the sometimes-controversial Lisa Yuskavage and John Currin reproduce images from popular magazines and soft-porn. The comic imagery of R. Crumb is channeled in Rebecca Warren's crudely rendered female figures. Reworking historic painting styles, Glenn Brown and George Condo create outrageous and gloriously painted women. The idiosyncratic work of Yayoi Kusama is represented by an unusual painted self-portrait, while Chris Ofili's Orgena depicts an iconic African beauty (The title is a reversal of "a negro"). Finally, for Jeff Koons images of women are purely incidental—part and parcel of his Pop renderings. Reflecting the taste of the anonymous collector, the works in SHE combine to present a select overview of art and its approaches to women at the turn of the century.
Curated by: Jo-Ann Conklin
Image: George Condo, The Banker's Wife, 2011
This exhibition of works on paper from the permanent collection is organized around the David Winton Bell Gallery's recent acquisition of twelve Hilla and Bernd Becher duotone lithographs, Framework Houses, (1970/1993). In 1959 the Bechers began meticulously documenting Germany's industrial landscape and arranging groups of like images into gridded typologies. Their use of serial order and the grid as organizing principles paralleled the systematic procedures deployed by many minimalist and conceptual artists of the 1960s and 1970s. This exhibition features work by the Bechers alongside that of Jennifer Bartlett, Agnes Martin, and Frank Stella.
Curated by Jo-Ann Conklin and Alexis Lowry Murray
Image: Hilla and Bernd Becher, Holzhäuser Straße 2, Allendorf, 1973/1993
Tristan Perich opens at Cohen Gallery on August 23
Audible Spaces presents three sound installations that encourage participants to explore the subtleties of listening. Tristan Perich, Zarouhie Abdalian, and [The User] have each created immersive environments using seemingly uniform sounds that dissolve into tonal, tactile, and temporal variations as participants engage with them. Unified by a shared economy of means, all three projects prompt participants to consider the dynamic relationship between sound, space, and personal subjectivity, while addressing a distinct set of historical, social, and sonic concerns.
Curated by Alexis Lowry Murray
Image: Tristan Perich, Microtonal Wall: 1,500 divisions of four octaves from C3 to C7, 2011
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Currency trading markets around the world serve as trading anchors and worldwide decentralized markets between buyers and sellers of different currencies. The values of the traded currencies are speculated by the participants. When you participate in a foreign exchange currency deal, you buy one currency and pay in another currency.
As background info, the currency trading market originated in 1944 after World War ll with the institution of the International Monetary Fund. It tied up the major currencies to the US Dollar which was the least affected at that time. Subsequently, the market was converted to a global free floating currency system in 1978.
In view of the technological advancements provided by the computer and the internet age, the speed of international monetary transactions greatly increased. In the foreign exchange market, the most traded currency pairs are the EUR/USD, USD/CHF, GBP/USD and USD/JPY. So far, the UK has the biggest volume of trading in currency followed by the United States and Japan.
According to reliable estimates, the trading center in London, UK has accounted for an increase in foreign currency transactions from 34.6% in 2007 to 36.7% in 2010. This is why the London market price is the usual quoted currency price in FX trading. The New York, HongKong, Singapore and Tokyo are also very important currency trading centers which transact with banks all over the world. Currency trading goes on systematically. As the Asian trading session finishes, the European session starts. Then, the North American trading session follows and it completes the cycle. Then it goes back to the Asian session.
When it comes to the market participants, they are composed of central banks, commercial banks, investment companies, hedge funds speculators, money remittance companies, non bank forex companies, forex fixing groups and the individual retail speculative traders where you can belong. The retail investors segment has grown rapidly due to entry of retail forex platforms. This group usually trades through brokers/dealers or banks When you deal with a broker, he tries to negotiate the best price in the market for a transaction and charges a mark up fee. You can deal with various dealers particularly those who have connections with the large forex trading banks. These dealers usually get better pricing due to their large transaction volumes. The biggest currency trading banks as of May, 2011 are the Deutsche Bank, Barclays Bank, UBS AG, Cityi, JP Morgan, HSBC, Royal Bank of Scotland, Credit Swisse, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley.
If you are serious in getting into forex trading, knowing some historical facts will be of some good use to you. Trading volume had jumped from a billion dollars a day in the eighties up to almost $2 trillion a day. According to the latest figures, from daily trading volume of $2 trillion, it has grown to over $3 trillion broken down to $1.4 in spot transactions, $475 billion in outright forwards, $1.765 trillion in foreign exchange swaps, $43 billion in currency swaps and $207 billion in options and other products. In 2010, can you imagine that retail trading has grown up to $150 billion volume a day?
The phenomenal rise of electronic execution technology and the various transaction centers have reduced execution costs, developed bigger liquidity and attracted more participants. With the use of online electronic trading, transactions and executions became a lot more convenient for retail investors to trade in the foreign exchange market. Foreign exchange rates are governed by market psychology perceptions, economic factors as well as political conditions. Well experienced forex traders always keep themselves updated with latest developments. Marked by the market's extreme liquidity, it has become a global and popular trend among the retailers group composed of individual traders to invest in currency trading markets.


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Welcome to brianmacintosh.com. I'm Brian MacIntosh, and I am a game programmer in the Orange County area of Southern California. This site serves to host and distribute some of my games and my blog, below.
I have developed games and apps for the XBox 360, Windows PC, iPad, Amazon Alexa, and Windows 7 Phone. I'm particularly interesting in procedural generation, pixel art, and emergent gameplay, and I'm looking forward to developing more games with these technologies.
Necromasser Release
March 25th, 2017 @ 15:50
Tags: necromasser, threejs, javascript
We just released a new online, in-browser game called Necromasser. Necromasser is an always-on multiplayer world where you try to build the most massive zombie horde to hit the top of the leaderboard. You can play it in your browser right now!
Procedural Potion Icon Generator
March 08th, 2017 @ 2:35
Tags: random, javascript
Randomly inspired by a coworker, I took a weekend afternoon and made a webpage that procedurally generates 32px potion icons.
Persistent data in the Alexa Skills nodejs SDK
February 05th, 2017 @ 0:59
Tags: alexa, nodejs, random
I recently started use the Alexa Skills Kit SDK for nodejs to write an Amazon Alexa skill. I ran into one rather silly roadblock, which I will now share so others can avoid.
This SDK handles persisent data (with the same session and across sessions) by providing an
attributes property on the skill handler (accessed by
this.attributes). My problem was that sometimes properties I set on this object were apparently completely ignored by the next request (even if I kept the session open with an
this.emit(":ask", ...) response). It is perhaps obvious in hindsight, but you must make all your changes to
this.attributes before calling
emit, as
emit will immediately and synchronously prepare and send the response to Alexa, including the attributes you're trying to persist into the next session. But it took me quite some time to figure this out.
Contact Listeners in box2d.js
April 20th, 2015 @ 17:49
Tags: box2d, javascript, contactlistener, emscripten
To implement physics in Porcupine Dogfight, I used Alon "kripken" Zakai's emscripten port of Box2D to Javascript. It was very easy to get working and almost entirely identical to the original Box2D implementation, however, it lacks documentation for some of the differences. After some experimentation and trying to read the crazy auto-generated source code, I finally figured out how to implement a Contact Listener. There are two things that are not immediately obvious: the listener must be an instance of JSContactListener, and the parameters passed in are not objects, but pseudo-pointers that need to be dereferenced with wrapPointer.
I post some sample code on Github for the benefit of anyone else who has this problem in the future.
Ludum Dare 32 Brainstorming
April 18th, 2015 @ 12:31
Tags: ludum dare, game jam, threejs, javascript, box2d
Brainstorming thought process for Ludum Dare 32: An Unconventional Weapon.
- I like airships.
- Unconventional airship warfare?
- Porcupines.
- What's more fun than airships slinging porcupines at each other?
- Porcupines flying airships, slinging themselves at each other!


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by M. J. Joachim
Something was lost in transition, however. The story went from a mischievous bunny, to a bunny that shrunk in size, and I'm not sure exactly how or why it happened. I get that the bunny wanted to reach the candy. I get that he got very creative in his efforts to do so, and I get that his creativity landed with a bang. What I don't get is how that bang managed to shrink him.
I like the premise of this book, and I think kids will get a kick out of Jimmy, the mischievous bunny. They probably won't even notice that he shrunk for no reason, ultimately causing him to eat his fruits and veggies so he could grow big and strong. As a writer and reviewer, however, I did notice the less than stellar transition, and I was confused and bothered by it.
This is a cute story, and the illustrations are lovely. The story itself is okay, and the premise of getting kids to eat healthier is dynamite. Anything we can do, right?
I hope this post finds you and yours well,
©2015 All Rights Reserved


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UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) is a UN organization dedicated to building peace through cooperation between Member States in education, science, culture and communication/information.
UNESCO was founded in 1945 and has 195 Member State. Sweden has been a member since 1950. UNESCO is not primarily an aid organization; it is an organization for cooperation between Member States with global development as goal. Member States of UNESCO agree on common goals and discuss the future of education, science, culture and communication/information and it's the Member States who primarily implement the Organization's four year programme. Member States pay membership fees to UNESCO.
The UNESCO constitution states that all Member States should have a national commission as a national advisory and expert body, which in Sweden's case is the Swedish National Commission for UNESCO. More information is available at www.unesco.se. All Swedish cooperation with UNESCO is guided by the over-all strategy for the period 2014-2017, e.g. Swedish representatives in UNESCO steering committees and expert programs, NGO:s with cooperation with UNESCO etc. Download the strategy here.
UNESCO is headed by a Director-General, it has a Board with representatives of 58 Member States which is responsible for implementing the programme adopted by the General Conference which meets every second year and consists of representatives of all Member States.
The Director-General (currently Mrs Irina Bokova) leads the work of the UNESCO Secretariat in Paris and its field offices. Sweden is a member of the UNESCO Executive Board until November 2017.
For more basic information go to a 12 minutes' film in English History of Unesco
The Swedish National Commission for Unesco
In May 1949 the Swedish Government appointed a committee to investigate if Sweden should join UNESCO, and if so how to organize a Swedish National Commission for UNESCO. Their conclusions were presented to the Government in the autumn of 1949 and Sweden joined UNESCO in January 1950, and thereby became Member State number 52.
The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO was established in the autumn of 1951, in accordance with the Constitution of UNESCO (art VII) which says:
'Each Member State shall make such arrangements as suits its particular conditions for the purpose of associating its principal bodies interested in educational, scientific and cultural matters with the work of the Organization, preferably by the formation of a National Commission broadly representative of the government and such bodies'.
The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO has its office at the Swedish Ministry of Education and Research. The 12 members of the Commission are appointed by the Government for a period of four years. The members represent UNESCO's fields of competence and the standing committees for education and culture of the Swedish Parliament as well as the umbrella organization for Youth Organizations.
The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO has two tasks: to advice the Swedish Government on UNESCO related matters and to inform in Sweden about UNESCO's fields of competence and the results of its work.
There are many actors working with UNESCO matters in Sweden: NGO:s with working relations with UNESCO, individual Swedes who are appointed or elected to perform various expert tasks in UNESCO organs, scientific bodies working in relation to UNESCO, 15 World Heritage sites and six documents/archives listed in UNESCO's international register of Memory of the World among many others.
Agenda 2030
In late September 2015, the UN General Assembly decided on the new global goals for sustainable development, known as Agenda 2030. The new agenda has 17 goals ranging from education to sustainable cities.
These global goals replace the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) that world leaders agreed on in 2000. Despite major progress in several of the eight Millennium Development Goals a lot of challenges remain, for example, eradicating hunger, achieving full equality and improving health care. The new development agenda is universal and therefore applicable in all countries.
UNESCO has an important role to support countries worldwide in the implementation of the new global agenda. Several of the goals are within UNESCO's mandate:or example development goal 4 on education.
UNESCO's work in education covers the entire field of education, from pre-school to university and adult education. Education is an effective way to combat poverty and contribute to long-term peace and security, democracy and justice. UNESCO's work in education focuses on creating opportunities for quality lifelong learning for all, assist countries with expertise in education and to strengthen countries' capacities in educational issues and to spread information on educational development and good practices through networking and dialogue.
UNESCO's work in education also encompasses projects such as the teaching of human rights, environmental education, education in science and technology, education to counter the spread of HIV / AIDS, information technology in education, renewal of secondary schools, improved training and more. Sweden shares UNESCO's vision of education for all and the need for education for sustainable development.
UNESCO's scientific work is conducted through international cooperation between countries and researchers and gives advice to decision makers. UNESCO also develops guidelines and ethical principles, and disseminates research findings to low-income countries. UNESCO is not a research funding organization: the work is done primarily through networking and partnerships between researchers in different disciplines and continents.
Sweden shares UNESCO's vision that scientific cooperation can contribute to an inclusive knowledge society for sustainable development. Sweden is working to ensure that UNESCO's work in science will foster knowledge-sharing and knowledge-building in low-income countries, and that UNESCO's organizational structure can facilitate interdisciplinary research through closer cooperation between the natural and social science sectors. Sweden also emphasizes gender equality as a catalyst for sustainable development, and encourages UNESCO to take on a normative role by formulating global guidelines for research.
There are several inter-governmental UNESCO Conventions within the cultural field that have been ratified by many Member States (which then are called Signature States). UNESCO's cultural program is dominated by the process of implementation of these conventions. Preservation of heritage and culture and sustainable development are important themes.
UNESCO also runs programs to strengthen museums, language and creativity as well as developing methods to protect cultural heritage in disasters and armed conflict. UNESCO publishes books, reports and journals in the field of culture, such as the World Heritage Review. Sweden follows the work of all the conventions but is not a member of the committees (with Signature states) which are the steering organs of the normative instruments.
The strengthening of free speech and the right to information are key elements in the construction of modern knowledge societies. Overall objectives for UNESCO's work in communication and information are access to information and knowledge for all and the use communication technology as a tool for developing press freedom. Sweden shares UNESCO's vision of building knowledge societies based on freedom of expression and access to knowledge and information for all.
"Can I apply for an internship?"
We usually offer one to two internships per semester (starting in January and September respectively). The Swedish National Commission for UNESCO works mainly in Sweden and interns need to be fluent in Swedish. Find more information here.
Those who want to apply for an intership at the UNESCO secretariat in Paris can find information on the UNESCO central web www.unesco.org
Swedish National Commission for UNESCO has published books, pamphlets and posters that can be downloaded in PDF format from our website.