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Text that sings like poetry narrates a gorgeous re-envisioning of "Thumbelina."
Lina's mother discovers her "in a silken flower / in a garden of wishes." She blesses her new daughter, and she worries, "for many dangers wait upon a girl / no bigger than a thumb." This piece shares Hans Christian Andersen's plot but not its old themes of marriage and Thumbelina's prettiness, powerlessness and self-sacrifice. Instead, with lyrical elegance, Krishnaswami gives Lina agency. When a frog traps her, Lina sings: "Wind-swish, bird-flutter, / fish-bubble and all, / come to me now, / come when I call." Lina shows these fish "how to snip and where to chew, / and soon they cut the leaf free of its stem, / so it floated like a raft." When weeds and bugs mire her leaf-raft, tenacious Lina "kicked and paddled with all her might, / until her lily pad pulled free." Left-hand pages feature text on white background; right-hand pages have exquisite, full-bleed paintings in acrylic and tissue. Using sumptuous colors, luscious paint texture, patterns, smudges and delicate lines, Khosravi places characters in arresting, abstract compositions that recall Marc Chagall. "[B]irdsong and lonely fear" are part of Lina's journey, alongside discovery and strength—and her mother, reappearing in "the map of [Lina's] own life / spread out like a carpet" before Lina's next departure.
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When deciding how I was going to model this unit for Brandywine I found this thread at TMP. Following the advice there I proceeded to purchase and paint these figures by Foundry.
They were extremely quick and easy to paint due to their light kit. I used the Foundry Forest Green triad for their jackets and a buff/canvas mix for the trousers, finished with a thinned highlight of Reaper's Buckskin Pale to give it the look I was after. My attempt at painting the flesh featured minor adjustments to my technique and I find myself still wanting to find the look I want.
I'm attempting to take more close-up pictures, but am still working out some lighting techniques.
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Saturday, January 1, 2011
Happy Release Day!
79 comments:
Great Job! It's super cute!ReplyDelete
Love it to bits. That hair rocks and the DP is fab. Great work sweets. Happy new year.ReplyDelete
Gorgeous card Em!! How fun!!ReplyDelete
Your colouring is superb!!
Oh Emma so sassy!ReplyDelete
OMG Emma this is GORGEOUS!!! how sexy is she with red hair!!! Ret rewww! Love your card so perfect! Is that the doohickey die for the scalloped edge? Looks great.ReplyDelete
Happy New Year
Kristy xo
P.s I look forward to catching up soon
So cute love the red hair, can't wait to get this cute new set!ReplyDelete
I love being naughty.. love her outfit.. super cuteReplyDelete
Happy New Year
She's so cute in red hair and pink! Such a fun card. ;DReplyDelete
Okay Emma, she is FAN-FREAKIN-TASTIC! I love how you colored her, seriously! Great idea to keep her gloves and stockings white, love it!ReplyDelete
Love your card and that new little devil!ReplyDelete
Very cute I love how you have coloured her up with the orange and pinksReplyDelete
Love this stamp. Thanks for sharingReplyDelete
Wow! This is really saucy. I love the Magnolia die frame.ReplyDelete
Thanks for your sweet comment, sweetie pie! The colors I used are E21, E25, E27, and E49!!ReplyDelete
Adorable card.ReplyDelete
wow what a great card, really LOVE the colors.ReplyDelete
Hugs Joyce
Lovely card so love this image.ReplyDelete
Hopping from blog to blog... I love the way you've used colors here, it's so crisp! Have a great New Year's Day!ReplyDelete
Lovely card , sweet colors and love the image !!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year
Emma, your card is perfect for a man's bday! I adore your coloring and her hair is amazing!ReplyDelete
OOO so cute. Just love this image, and love what you did with the sketch. TFS!!!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year Emma, hope you have a great year. Wow, just love the colour combination you have used for this card, I can't say that I would have thought of that but it looks great! Must say, your wedding card/favour is super cute too. Have a great day. :-)ReplyDelete
Oh...me like!! your coloring is superb and the papers are rocking it!!ReplyDelete
Happy new year
Hugs Lina
Happy New Year! That's really a she devil!ReplyDelete
Love how you coloured this fun image!ReplyDelete
Awesome red hair and pink outfit!ReplyDelete
amazing card, I just LOVE her hairReplyDelete
Love the red hair! Your coloring is amazing!ReplyDelete
Love the hair. Your colouring is awesome! The orange on the card really pops.ReplyDelete
Haaaaaaa.... OMG Emma, this is Flippin FANTASTIC... I love seeing her all dressed in pink looking so Pretty, but Naughty.... What a fab job....ReplyDelete
Happy new year Emma!ReplyDelete
What a lovely naughty card. I really liked the background on the stamped image!!
Oh my gosh - she is sooo cute, love how you made her a red-head!!!! :)ReplyDelete
Wow! Fab card!! She is smokin hot :DReplyDelete
Happy New Year!
Her hair is totally fabulous, LOVE this!ReplyDelete
Great card! I love her orange hair.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSunday, January 02, 2011
Great card!! I love the way you colored the image!ReplyDelete
I think my hubby would love this birthday card!ReplyDelete
Happy New Year! Thanks for the great card sample! What fabulous new sets, and a great sketch to boot! Thanks for sharing, you are amazing!ReplyDelete
Oh she looks so feisty! ;-) Lovely card and happy new year Emma!ReplyDelete
The coloring on this is FABULOUS. LOVE the color combo too! Great "guy" card! :) Happy New Year!!ReplyDelete
Such a great card! I love her hair and all the orange to go along with it!ReplyDelete
Oh I love your hair coloring, it's fantastic. Actually the whole card is adorable, love your paper/color choices : )ReplyDelete
I'm just loving these new images, and your coloring is gorgeous! What a cute Birthday Card. :)ReplyDelete
- AnnetteSunday, January 02, 2011
so cute...love the choice in colors. awesome awesome...ReplyDelete
Hi Emma, this is just wonderful! You have done such a great job with her hair. It is so life like I love it. It also gives me a wonderful idea for my Sister's Birthday card. She is a redhead and when we were alot younger and she was being me I would tell her she was the Devil... I think she is love this if I color her one. Anyway, great card and great coloring. Happy New Year to you. Hugs, Lisa GReplyDelete
soo sweet. love the pretty colorsReplyDelete
Love your Ms. Naughty color combo! She rocks!ReplyDelete
beautiful card and i love her hair colorReplyDelete
How fabulous, Emma! Adore the colour combo!ReplyDelete
really cute.ReplyDelete
What a lovely card! :) Happy new year to you xxReplyDelete
What a great saying for this cute card!ReplyDelete
She's so adorable!!!ReplyDelete
She is sweet! The pink makes her not so naughty! Love it!ReplyDelete
OMG... very cute love it!!! can't wait to get the new stamps!!!! stamps rock!!!!ReplyDelete
devilishly cute! love the bright colors.ReplyDelete
Great choice of colors, love your coloring skills on the orange hair. Super adorbale!ReplyDelete
This is really cute.ReplyDelete
i love her red hair! fantastic - what round die are you using? it's definately one i want now. LOLReplyDelete
LOVE this card - you totally rocked her red hair!! :)ReplyDelete
wow!!!! I love that hair, it's awesome!!! Have a wonderful 2011.ReplyDelete
The hair looks wonderful! Great jobReplyDelete
Gorgeous coloring, that red hair looks amazing! Such a fantastic looking card!ReplyDelete
Happy new year! :)
wow your card is amazing. love your coloring of her too. tfs!ReplyDelete
~heidi brawley
Hey emma- check out my blog - fromjscorner.bloggspot.com :)ReplyDelete
Happy New Year and thanks for inspiring me
I really like the colors on this one and your coloring is fabulous.. her hair looks amazing!ReplyDelete
Hee hee! That sentiment makes me giggle! Thanks for sharing!ReplyDelete
OMGosh! she is so adorable! what a fun card!ReplyDelete
Thank you for sharing, and Happy New Year!
OMG your card rocks! Love how you coloured her, that red hair is feisty LOLReplyDelete
Very cute!ReplyDelete
Great card and wonderful release!!! thanks for sharing!!!ReplyDelete
wow great card ,really a sexy mans card hugs christaReplyDelete
Wonderful creation!!!ReplyDelete
she's fabulous! I love the red (orange) hair!! ♥ReplyDelete
Her red hair is just freakin' awesome! Love the pink outfit and the doiley(that NEVER looks spelled correctly!)ReplyDelete
thanks for sharing!
Oh, she'sassy!ReplyDelete
What a naughty bday card for a teenage boy. :) Love it. And that coloring in her hair is fabu!!!ReplyDelete
Jess M
She looks fabulous!!!! Super fun card Emma! Love it!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Dena
What a darling card. I love her red hair. It is amazing great job.ReplyDelete
Thank-you so much for taking the time to leave me some love! I love reading all your comments and it always makes my day!


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These easy Copycat McDonald's Egg McMuffins are one of my favorite breakfasts. I made a bunch, then wrapped and froze them for a quick breakfast.
Easy Egg McMuffins are one of my favorite breakfasts. I made a bunch of these at one time, wrapped them up and put them in the freezer. My husband likes to snag one in the mornings and heat it up for a quick breakfast on-the-go (he will usually put it in the fridge the night before so it is thawed out– that way it heats up better).
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Panzanella and Quark Salad with Seared Lamb
Recipe by: Massimo Mele
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- Drizzle lamb in olive oil and season with salt and pepper. In a hot oiled pan cook lamb for 1-2 minutes each side or until cooked to your liking. Allow to rest.
- In a hot oiled pan, toast bread until golden.
- Toss bread, onion, tomato, olives and basil together in a small bowl. Season.
- Slice lamb in half diagonally. Place salad on a plate, top with lamb, a dollop of quark and drizzle with olive oil.
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October 19th, 2013. Interior Designs, Alluring Food and Interior Combination to Entertain the Guests.
Hosting a party can require a lot of preparation, including preparing the food and interior for the party. All of us want the party is beautiful and unforgettable. It makes us think of how to entertain guests so they can enjoy the party and have the good time. Every event needs certain decoration as the decoration theme. The arrangement of the indoor party should concern about decorating interior also besides of the party tables. The creative ideas can make you decorate the interior easily.
The beats of all is if we can combine the food and interior arrangement to decorate the room. The party tables can be decorated with the colorful wheel and ruffle. The desert table will look more interesting and inviting with this decoration since usually the desert consists of colorful meals. If you prefer the warm and glowing colors, you can apply the golden colors or white. Craft the vintage ornaments such as paper flowers. For the main dish such as table for bread and cheese, you can put it close to the chalkboard wall. Write something that wishes the guests enjoy the foods. It will give the French Café touch in your party.
The foods can also be arranged and decorated in the stylish way. The pizza can be placed on the colorful napkins rather than on a pan. The arrangement of the fresh vegetable can also be the greatest decoration of all. Arrange the fresh vegetables with different color such as radish, cabbage, and leeks on the pink napkin. The fiesta foods can also be beautifully arranged on a plate. For the drinks, you can put the paper umbrella on the glass.
Dessert is the meals that always be waited for. The beautiful dessert arrangement will be inviting your guests' appetite and gives them more impression on the design. The combination between chocolate, vanilla, and panna cotta will be the best dessert on the table put in the glassware. Food and interior decoration is needed to be prepared well to appreciate the guests and make your party become the most fantastic ever.
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next to the healing springs in Val di Mello
On a wet hike in Val di Mello
Enjoying the views in Val di Mello
Our Italian hosts Luca and Efrem from Premana, Italy. These brothers can hike and run in the mountains that is for sure. I was out of breath the whole time trying to keep up with these two! Thanks so much guys for all that you did for us.
Its been a busy two months.
Let's see where to begin.
I left at the beginning of June after school let out for Italy to rock climb.
After my knee gave out just a few days into the month long trip.
I flew home and needed to have knee surgery to remove most of the cartilage in my right knee.
Luckily I was able to walk on it just one day after going under the knife.
Also, at that time my wife and I were remodeling the home that we just bought.
Painting and redoing the floors were on the agenda.
Getting all that done before the baby came was the game plan.
After many pitfalls and challenges with the home remodel and the knee surgery we completed the job and took some R&R in Ohio with my family.
It was amazing to rest and relax with my parents and siblings and their families.
Now that we are back home for the first time we are settling in and enjoying the fruits of our hard word.
Also, Jane has begun the prelabor and the baby can come at any time in the next few weeks.
And I am climbing again.
Life is good even though there are many bumps in the road.
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Meat Industry Fights the Bad Fight Over Meatless Mondays
Here's a great article in The Atlantic exposing the meat industry's blundering, bad faith efforts to torpedo the meatless Monday program. Baltimore's public schools implemented this program at the beginning of the school year, and it's off to a great start.
So, naturally, the meat industry is responding with fear-mongering media appearances:
[The American Meat Institute's] Janet Riley gave Dobbs a figure: 75 percent of American children, she said, are not getting enough protein. I was visiting Baltimore the day of the Dobbs taping, and asked her the following day by phone share the source of the number. She promised to email it, but never did.
The meat industry certainly understands that Meatless Mondays act as a wedge, introducing healthful foods into otherwise barren school lunch program menus. Once kids start eating and enjoying their meatless meals on Monday, it's certain they'll want these foods on other days of the week.
Today Baltimore; tomorrow Boston, Seattle, and San Francisco? It takes only a few activists to make this happen. And the meat industry knows it. (Via Starkman.) Link.


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The Circle of Life (by Elton John - Tim Rice - Zulu lyrics by Lebo Morake) Nants ingonyama baghiti baba [ There comes a lion ] Sithi uhmm, ingonyama [ Oh yes it's a lion ] Siyo nqoba [ We're goning to conquer ] Ingonyama nengw' enamabala [ It's a lion and a tiger ] On the day we arrived on the planet And blinking step into the Sun There's more to see than can ever be seen More to do than can ever be done There's far to much to take in here More to find than can ever be found But the sun's rolling high in the sapphire sky Keeps great and small on the endless round It's the Circle of Life And it moves us all Through despair and hope Through faith and love Till we find our place On the path unwinding In the Circle, the Circle of Life [The Zulu lyrics are trans-scribed to Meyadhew my Bantu-esque lang with different meaning] Nants! iNgonyama ba-ghiti baba [See! Indeed Ingonyama (is)] Kwithi mm-iNgonyama. [there, yeah, Ingonyama] Ziyo ae-nqoba. [We have conquered] Her liyiede qeamangid Alaiya yibalián silted Ú qer iwu ireq, e-ngwat ire taqenn' Ú qer iwu 'djaeq e-ngwat udje Géad úwe yassieq qen Úwu gémeq e-ngwat e-géme Mí ha Ría petend nalton qi diwendi Inqetenna noyadurweq. Ú qe ngit inqeryo Uinqwendi mbenna Taqidul, hawussu Nalíwad, leqed. Gémedwi dagaryunna Gúad ter-engéad Ta Ngitedit Ngited Inqeryo. Here's the literal translation in Long Wer: Her liyi.e.de qe.amangi(t).d Time come.1pl.PPF this.planet.LOC The time I have come to this planet Ala.i.ya yibali.án silte.d stare.1s.P walk.G shining-thing.LOC I stared while I walked in the shininess. Ú qer iwu ir.e.q, e-ngwa.t ir.e taqenn' be.3s now more see.INF.DAT, A-can.2s see.INF what.ACC Now (there) is more to see that you can see Ú qer iwu (u)dja.e.q e-ngwa.t udj.e be.3s now more do.INF.DAT A-can.2s do.INF Now (there) is more to do (that) you can do Gé.ad úwe* yassi.e.q qe.n end.PP much/many speak.INF.DAT this.ADV Thus (there is) far to much to say géad úwe - far too much Úwu gém.e.q e-ngwa.t e-gém.e More find.INF.DAT A-can.2s A-find.INF More to find (that) you can find Mí ha Ría pet.e.nd nalto.n qi di.we.ndi But rise Sun sky.A.LOC-male golden.ADV and give.3s.TR But the Sun rises like goldenand gives Inqet.e.nna noy.ad.u.rwe.q. Life.A.ACC create.PP.PL.3s-gen.DAT Life to his creations. Ú qe ngit inqe.ryo Be.3s this circle life.GEN This is the Circle of Life Uinq.we.ndi mbe.nna make-live.3s.TR every.ACC (Who) makes everything live Taqi(t).d.ul, hawu.ssu fight.LOC.beyond, hope.SOC Beyond fight and hope Nalíwa(t).d, leqe(t).d. Belief.LOC, love.LOC In faith and love Gém.e.d.wi daga.ryu.nna find.INF.LOC.until place.1pl-gen.ACC Till the finding of our place Gúa.d ter.engé.ad way.LOC never.become-end.PP On the way never-ending Ta Ngit.e.dit the Circle.A.LOC.in In the Circle Ngit.e.d Inqe.ryo. Circle.A.LOC Life.GEN In the Circle of Life -- Mau Lelqiendi taqe Ta Neqo Werenna. - Who loves The Lion King.
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Cruz had a really good night. Having spent less than $2,000.00, Cruz got second place in Michigan ahead of John Kasich, who declared Michigan a must win state.
Cruz won Idaho as well.
As of this writing, Hawaii is still outstanding.
Marco Rubio had a terrible night with virtually no delegates won at all. If Rubio were to win Florida next week, an increasingly unlikely proposition, even those 99 delegates would not put him close to Ted Cruz. Neither Rubio nor Kasich have the delegates to take on Trump, but Ted Cruz does.
The field needs to clear for Cruz.
There are legitimate arguments against Cruz as a nominee, but there is one overriding argument for Cruz: he is winning states, even states we have all been told he would lose and could not compete in.
It is time for the field to clear. It is time for Kasich and Rubio to go. It is time for the Republican Party to rally to Ted Cruz to stop Donald Trump.
And it would be very wise for Ted Cruz to go on and make it clear he wants Marco Rubio as his running mate. Doing so would compel party unity at a time Donald Trump remains the front runner.
The call to keep Rubio and Kasich in, at this point, is really about stopping the party from uniting and fighting it out at the convention. It is, after tonight, clear that Cruz is competitive against Trump and can beat Trump even in places like Michigan.
The party must unite behind Ted Cruz now.
It is also time for Cruz supporters to start being gracious and admit they need the other candidates too.


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The latest update to Steam Greenlight brings in a whole host of new features that were, in my opinion, greatly needed.
With this update, you'll now be able to opt out of voting on a game, effectively skipping it. When you skip a game, it (currently) takes it out of your queue for a month. However, if you want to vote on a particular game before that time, you can now view all of your skipped games.
My favorite new feature, is the one that allows you to "favorite" games. This feature allows you to easily find your favorite games, making it easier to follow their latest developments. Alternatively, you can now "follow" games, which will update you automatically when a developer posts new announcements for said game.
If you're an activist, you can help your favorite games out, by spreading the word via your "collection", which is a visible list of all your favorite titles. If you're a slightly more vocal activist, then you can share your love for your favorite games by sharing it with your friends, via the activity feed. Just, uhh, you know – don't abuse it, or anything. That would be annoying.


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Google has been fined a record breaking €4.34 billion (~$5BN) by European antitrust regulators for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system.
Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has tweeted to confirm the penalty ahead of a press conference about to take place. Stay tuned for more details as we get them.
In a longer statement about the decision, Vestager said: "Today, mobile internet makes up more than half of global internet traffic. It has changed the lives of millions of Europeans. Our case is about three types of restrictions that Google has imposed on Android device manufacturers and network operators to ensure that traffic on Android devices goes to the Google search engine. In this way, Google has used Android as a vehicle to cement the dominance of its search engine. These practices have denied rivals the chance to innovate and compete on the merits. They have denied European consumers the benefits of effective competition in the important mobile sphere. This is illegal under EU antitrust rules."
In particular, the EC has decided that Google:
- has required manufacturers to pre-install the Google Search app and browser app (Chrome), as a condition for licensing Google's app store (the Play Store);
- made payments to certain large manufacturers and mobile network operators on condition that they exclusively pre-installed the Google Search app on their devices; and
- has prevented manufacturers wishing to pre-install Google apps from selling even a single smart mobile device running on alternative versions of Android that were not approved by Google (so-called "Android forks").
The decision also concludes that Google is dominant in the markets for general internet search services, licensable smart mobile operating systems and app stores for the Android mobile operating system.
This story is developing… refresh for updates…
The fine is the second major penalty for the ad tech giant for breaching EU competition rules in just over a year — and the highest ever issued by the Commission for abuse of a dominant market position.
In June 2017 Google was hit with a then-record €2.4BN (~$2.7BN) antitrust penalty related to another of its products, search comparison service, Google Shopping. The company has since made changes to how it displays search results for products in Europe.
According to the bloc's rules, companies can be fined 10 per cent of their global revenue if they are deemed to have breached European competition law.
Google's parent entity Alphabet reported full year revenue of $110.9 billion in 2017. So the $5BN fine is around half of what the company could have been on the hook for if EU regulators had levied the maximum penalty possible.
The Commission said the size of the fine takes into account "the duration and gravity of the infringement". It also specified it had been calculated on the basis of the value of Google's revenue from search advertising services on Android devices in the European Economic Area (per its own guidelines on fines).
Google will have three months to pay the fine but is likely to appeal — and legal wrangling could drag the process out for many years. Although if it does not pay the fine within that timeframe penalty payments of up to 5% of the average daily worldwide turnover of the company can be applied.
We've reached out to Google for its reaction.
Prior to the Commission's record pair of fines for Google products, its next highest antitrust penalty is a €1.06BN antitrust fine for chipmaker Intel all the way back in 2009.
Yet only last year Europe's top court ruled that the case against Intel — which focused on it offering rebates to high-volume buyers — should be sent back to a lower court to be re-examined, nearly a decade after the original antitrust decision. So Google's lawyers are likely to have a spring in their step going into this next European antitrust battle.
The latest EU fine for Android has been on the cards for more than two years, given the Commission's preliminary findings and consistently prescriptive remarks from Vestager during the course of what has been a multi-year investigation process.
And, indeed, given multiple EU antitrust investigations into Google businesses and business practices (the EU has also been probing Google's AdSense advertising service).
The Commission's prior finding that Google is a dominant company in Internet search — a judgement reached at the culmination of its Google Shopping investigation last year — is also important, making the final judgement in the Android case more likely because the status places the onus on Google not to abuse its dominant position in other markets, adjacent or otherwise.
Announcing the Google Shopping penality last summer, Vestager made a point of emphasizing that dominant companies "need to be more vigilant" — saying they have a "special responsibility" to ensure they are not in breach of antitrust rules, and also specifying this applies "in the market where it's dominant" and "in any other market". So that means — as here in the Android case — in mobile services too.
While a one-off financial penalty — even one that runs to so many billions of dollars — cannot cause lasting damage to a company as wealthy as Alphabet, of greater risk to its business are changes the regulators can require to how it operates Android which could have a sustained impact on Google if they end up reshaping the competitive landscape for mobile services.
At least that's the Commission's intention: To reset what has been judged an unfair competitive advantage for Google via Android, and foster competitive innovation because rival products get a fairer chance to impress consumers.
However the popularity and profile of Google services suggests that even if Android users are offered a choice as a result of an EU antirust remedy — such as of which search engine, maps service, mobile browser or even app store to use — most will likely pick the Google-branded offering they're most familiar with.
That said, an antitrust remedy could have the chance to shift consumers' habits over time — if, for instance, OEMs start offering Android devices that come preloaded with alternative mobile services, thereby raising the visibility of non-Google apps and services.
Interestingly, Google has been striking deals with Chinese OEMs in recent months — to brings its ARCore technology to markets where its core services are censored and its Play Store is restricted. And its strategy to workaround regional restrictions in China by working more closely with device makers may also be part of a plan to hedge against fresh regulatory restrictions being placed on Android elsewhere.
Although complainants in the EU's earlier Google Shopping antitrust case continue to express displeasure with the outcome on that front. And in a statement responding to news that another EU antitrust penalty was incoming for Android, Shivaun Raff, CEO of Foundem, the lead complainant in Google Shopping case, said: "Fines make headlines. Effective remedies make a difference."
So the devil will be in the detail of the remedies.
Android as an antitrust 'Trojan horse'
The European Commission announced its formal in-depth probe of Android in April 2015, saying then that it was investigating complaints Google was "requiring and incentivizing" OEMs to exclusively install its own services on devices on Android devices, and also examining whether Google was hindering the ability of smartphone and tablet makers to use and develop other OS versions of Android (i.e. by forking the open source platform).
Rivals — banding together under the banner 'FairSearch' — complained Google was essentially using the platform as a 'Trojan horse' to unfairly dominate the mobile web. The lobby group's listing on the EU's transparency register describes its intent as promoting "innovation and choice across the Internet ecosystem by fostering and defending competition in online and mobile search within the European Union", and names its member organizations as: Buscapé, Cepic, Foundem, Naspers, Nokia, Oracle, TripAdvisor and Yroo.
On average, Android has around a 70-75% smartphone marketshare across Europe. But in some European countries the OS accounts for an even higher proportion of usage. In Spain, for example, Android took an 86.1% marketshare as of March, according to market data collected by Kantar Worldpanel.
In recent years Android has carved an even greater market share in some European countries, while Google's Internet search product also has around a 90% share of the European market, and competition concerns about its mobile OS have been sounded for years.
Last year Google reached a $7.8M settlement with Russian antitrust authorities over Android — which required the company to no longer demand exclusivity of its applications on Android devices in Russia; could not restrict the pre-installation of any competing search engines and apps, including on the home screen; could no longer require Google Search to be the only general search engine pre-installed.
Google also agreed with Russian antitrust authorities that it would no longer enforce its prior agreements where handset makers had agreed to any of these terms. Additionally, as part of the settlement, Google was required to allow third parties to include their own search engines into a choice window, and to allowing users to pick their preferred default search engine from a choice window displayed in Google's Chrome browser. The company was also required to develop a new Chrome widget for Android devices already being used in Russia, to replace the standard Google search widget on the home screen so they would be offered a choice when it launched.
A year after Vestager's public announcement of the EU's antitrust probe of Android, she issued a formal Statement of Objections, saying the Commission believed Google has "implemented a strategy on mobile devices to preserve and strengthen its dominance in general Internet search"; and flagging as problematic the difficulty for Android users whose devices come pre-loaded with the Google Play store to use other app stores (which cannot be downloaded from Google Play).
She also raised concerns over Google providing financial incentives to manufacturers and mobile carriers on condition that Google search be pre-installed as the exclusive search provider. "In our opinion, as we see it right now, it is preventing competition from happening because of the strength of the financial incentive," Vestager said in April 2016.
Google was given several months to respond officially to the antitrust charges against Android — which it finally did in November 2016, having been granted an extension to the Commission's original deadline.
In its rebuttal then, Google argued that, contrary to antitrust complaints, Android had created a thriving and competitive mobile app ecosystem. It further claimed the EU was ignoring relevant competition in the form of Apple's rival iOS platform — although iOS does not hold a dominant marketshare in Europe, nor Apple have a status as a dominant company in any EU markets.
Google also argued that its "voluntary compatibility agreements" for Android OEMs are a necessary mechanism for avoiding platform fragmentation — which it said would make life harder for app developers — as well as saying its requirement for Android OEMs to use Google search by default is effectively its payment for providing the suite for free to device makers (given there is no formal licensing fee for Android).
It also couched "free distribution is an efficient solution for everyone" — arguing it lowers prices for phone makers and consumers, while "still letting us sustain our substantial investment in Android and Play".
In addition, Google sought to characterize open source platforms as "fragile" — arguing the Commission's approach risked upsetting the "balance of needs" between users and developers, and suggesting their action could signal they favor "closed over open platforms".
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Induction, in logic, method of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, or from the individual to the universal. As it applies to logic in systems of the 20th century, the term is obsolete. Traditionally, logicians distinguished between deductive logic (inference in which the conclusion follows necessarily from the premise, or drawing new propositions out of premises in which they lie latent) and inductive logic, but the problems earlier subsumed under induction are considered to be concerns of the methodology of the natural sciences, and logic is generally taken to mean deductive logic.
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thought: Induction" Many aspects of problem solving involve inductive reasoning, or induction. Simply put, induction is a means of reasoning from a part to a whole, from particulars to generals, from the past to the future, or from the observed to the unobserved. Whereas valid deductive…
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Western philosophy: Positivism and social theory in Comte, Mill, and Marx…fundamental distinction between deduction and induction, defined induction as the process for discovering and proving general propositions, and presented his "four methods of experimental inquiry" as the heart of the inductive method. These methods were, in fact, only an enlarged and refined version of Francis Bacon's "tables of discovery." But…
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Waunakee, WI
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Waunakee, WI
I like the sound of that recipe, thanks for posting.
I'm still not convinced that the beer can does much more than hold the chicken vertically and looks/sounds cool.
North Texas
XL and Small BGE
Here's the Naked Whiz test.
Beer can chicken has been debunked (as far as the liquid evaporating and keeping the chicken moist) on numerous sites, but I do like the idea of chorizo under the skin.
@vSNOWMANv No need to adjust the vents after opeing the Egg or adding food. Give it time and it will return to its previous temp.
Rowlett, Texas
Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook
The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings
I have had the same problem for years (since my early 30's). I think it affects people with astigmatism.Botch said:2. Does anyone else over the age of 50 have an extremely hard time reading anything, either in print or on a screen, using white type on a black background? I sure do, and it gets worse the older I get. My solution on a screen: hit Command-A, or Control-A (depending on your operating system) and the colors, both background and typeface, will change, almost always more readable than the original white-on-black. For print, I've actually had to drop a couple magazines because their artsy-fartsy format made them unreadable to us older folk; I've written a letter to each explaining why I dropped them. Sport Rider magazine will probably ignore this old fart, but hopefully my BMW magazine, catering to an older crowd, will take note.
Rowlett, Texas
Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook
The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings
bingo. It's a gimmick (the beer or whatever liquid in a can). But, in an egg, cooking the chicken with the dark meat up is a good way to cook the dark and white meat properly. They make chicken stands (but you could use a beer can). You need shielding under the bottom. I believe I'm regurgitating Little Steven's diatribe on this subject. And he's usually spot on (unless he's been on a binge).Griffin said:I've made more beer can chickens than I can count using various beers, juices, liquids and adding spices, herbs and rubs to them. Never once did I pick up a hint of flavor from any of them. The liquid simply never gets hot enough to produce any kind of steam to impart flavor. Believe what you want, look up the facts, but I'll go with straight science. Try sticking a temp probe in the beer next time, monitor the temps and report back. I'll be shocked if you get anywhere near 200 before your chicken is way over done.
Rowlett, Texas
Griffin's Grub or you can find me on Facebook
The Supreme Potentate, Sovereign Commander and Sultan of Wings
I've spatched on my gasser, it turned out fine although it does take a little extra watching. I didn't do the entire thing direct; I've got a 4 burner Weber, I had the 2 left burners on medium to medium-high to keep the temp somewhere between 380-425. I started direct and got some color on both sides, and moved it to the indirect side, skin up until it came to temp, or just before. Then I'd move it back to the direct side for a minute or so to crisp up the skin if needed.Skiddymarker said:Beer canning on a gasser required a spooge pan under the bird as it was an indirect cook, IMO. I think the moisture in the pan contributed more to the taste of the bird than the beer can. The preferred method was using a spit, rotisserie.Once in the humid, temp and air controlled egg, the spit is not needed. Spatchcock is the winner hands down, either raised direct or indirect.Have done a few low temp directs of spatched chicken on the gasser, but you really have to watch it. Anyone else spatched on a gasser? How did that go?
Pikesville, MD
Wow, great pic, Walrus!
Love spatchcock too!
The only time I do beer can is for the grandkids, because they think it looks cool. I have a double Papa Jeabert's double stainless holder. It has spikes that we do corn on the cobb or baked potatoes on, as well as 2 chicken holders.


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Hey peeps. There's so many back dated entry i don't know where to begin! lol. I was featured in TCR recently. Hhhhmm totally forgot which color palette..lol anyway it was the layout above. Thanks TCR team! :)
I did another layout for TCR too. This one uses a lot of reds n pinks.
Sorry peeps, rushing again to do errands. Will blog when i've got time to spare! Thanks for being here. :)))


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Jewish World Review Dec. 23, 1999 /14 Teves, 5760
Lawrence Kudlow
http://www.jewishworldreview.com -- BOND TRADERS LIVE IN FEAR and trembling that too many people are working, producing, consuming and importing. So the bond market is getting slammed.
The bonditos believe that too much growth causes inflation. They gagged on 3% growth a few years ago. Then 4% growth was worse. Now, 5% growth is off the charts.
Oh, my G-d. How long can this go on? It must be stopped. We've got kids to feed, private kindergartens, prep schools, Ivy League! Stop this growth, it's killing us. We've got bonuses to collect.
A lot of smart people believe that rising long rates imply higher inflation and therefore will force the Fed into a rapid-fire series of tightening moves next year. Make 1994 look like a picnic. Drive up long rates to 7%, then 8%, maybe even 9%.
Credit quality spreads are widening. Y2K is coming. The big one is out there. All caused by unending prosperity. It's got to stop.
Rapid economic growth is bad enough, but now the bonditos have to swallow a seemingly never-ending rise of the Nasdaq. Two-percent a day, every day. This thing is up 80% this year. Greenspan must hate it. Irrational exuberance gone over the edge. It will prompt even more tightening. This prosperity has got to stop.
Before my bondito friends go completely off the cliff, I have a suggestion. There is a way out. Please note the two accompanying charts. Pictures are worth a thousand words.
For most of the year bond rates have been rising in tandem with the Nasdaq stock index. But not simply market rates, rising real yields have accompanied the Nasdaq explosion. This is very important.
This year we have witnessed an abrupt technology-driven surge in real economic and investment returns. This surge in real returns has centered on the Nasdaq explosion, whose technology stocks comprise the epicenter of the new information economy.
As a consequence of these technology-linked returns, real economic growth, the real dollar exchange-rate and real interest rates have all risen together. It's one of the rare moments when rising interest rates are consistent with a rising stock market.
Why now? I don't really know. Nobel prize winner Friedrich Hayek always called the market a discovery process. This year's market seems to have discovered a technology breakthrough effect, and this is being capitalized into stock and bond prices.
Consider it yet another gale-like force released by Schumpeterian creative destruction. Perhaps it's a leap in the Internet diffusion and mass consumerization rate. Perhaps it's a breakthrough in molecular electronics, or other nano-technologies, or biotechnology, or fuel cell technology, or some other invention.
Perhaps it's the spreading globalization of the Internet, which will generate higher real returns worldwide. I note that foreign interest rates and foreign stock markets are rising in tandem with ours.
Perhaps the likelihood of U.S.-China free trade, suggested by the explosion in Hong Kong stock market prices. Or the capital gains tax cut coming in England. Or the new round of personal tax cuts in Ireland. Or the possibility of German corporate tax cuts. Or the Japanese tax cuts already in place. Or the possibility of a Chicago School president in Chile. Who knows?
We don't have to know the exact trigger for these technology breakthroughs, or the economic growth policies that nurture them. All we need to know is the market price signal which infers an explosion of new wealth. That is what the Nasdaq is telling us. And the rise of real bond yields.
Then there's a second important chart. The spread between 10-year Treasury notes and inflation-indexed 10-year Treasuries has remained steady during the second-half-of-the-year Nasdaq takeoff.
This Treasury spread has basically hovered around 200 basis points, suggesting a 2% consumer price outlook. A 2% CPI forecast is roughly consistent with about a 1% to 1 1/2% rise in broader GDP-type price indexes. In other words, virtual price stability. No need for Fed tightening.
New wealth from economy-transforming technological innovations, applications and spillovers cannot possibly be inflationary. Nor can it cause "excess demand". Remember Say's Law of Markets: true purchasing power comes only from production. We produce to consume.
Now here's some good news for the poor, oppressed bonditos. Real interest rates don't have to keep rising in order for the benefits of technology breakthroughs to keep spreading through the economy. It's the world-changing one-time breakthrough event itself that increases the productivity of capital and labor, leading to increased real interest rate returns.
But the wealth-enhancing real return-increasing technology benefits can boost the Nasdaq (though more slowly), without continuously rising real interest rates. The technology breakthrough rate slows, and real rates can descend.
What's more, high real returns to capital will attract more savings, and real interest rates can move down toward a more normal level -- though that level in a period of rapid technology advance will be higher than historical experience might suggest.
Perhaps the most intriguing part of this story is the potential for additional waves of disinflation stemming from the productivity-enhancing breakthroughs in technology. Think of it this way. If inflation is caused by too much money chasing too few goods, and if technology advances promote more goods (with greater productivity), then the future may hold more money chasing even more goods.
This is counter-inflationary. It may even result in technologically-induced deflation, which would throw off even greater economywide benefits.
It could even lead to lower market interest rates, across-the-board, in my lifetime.
Think of
JWR contributor Lawrence Kudlow is chief economist for Schroder & Co. Inc and CNBC. He is the author of American Abundance: The New Economic & Moral Prosperity. Send your comments about his column by clicking here.
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Transalpina (DN67C)
|Drumul Național 67C
|Route information
|Maintained by Compania Națională de Autostrăzi și Drumuri Naționale din România
|Major junctions
|Major cities
|Novaci, Sebeş
|Highway system
|National roads in Romania
The Transalpina or DN67C located in the Parâng Mountains group, in the Southern Carpathians of Romania, is one of the highest roads of the Carpathian Mountains. It connects Novaci, south of Parâng Mountains, to Sebeş in the north.
It is said[by whom?] that the road was built under King Carol II and rebuilt during World War II by German troops. Also a story has it that Nicolae Ceauşescu had the Transfăgărășan Road (DN7C) built during the communist regime just to surpass the Transalpina.[citation needed]
The road has its highest point at the Urdele Pass, where the elevation is 2,145m above sea level. Given the high altitude, the road is closed during the cold months of the year. Works began in 2007 in order to transform this spectacular road into a modern highway (148 km), allowing a rapid transit between Oltenia and Transylvania.
Rânca, a newly developed resort, is located towards the south end of the Transalpina road.
See also[edit]
External links[edit]
- Media related to DN67C at Wikimedia Commons
- Transalpina Informations
- Transalpina Road Site
- Transalpina Photo gallery - July 2011
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Police believe a man arrested for stealing packages in Plano is actually the leader of a credit card crime ring operating in North Texas and throughout the country.
On Monday, FOX 4 told you about the Plano fire chief who says someone stole his credit card information, ordered $6,000 worth of stuff to his home, and then stole the shipments. That's until Plano police intercepted the package and arrested Dayo Anisulowo for the crime.
He has been arrested in the past for theft, identity theft and fraud in Dallas, Denton and Collin Counties.
The Colony Police are working to put him in prison for the scam they say he's been running there.
"How can we allow a person to continue this behavior?" said Sgt. Jay Goodson.
Last October, Nebraska Furniture Mart caught Anisulowo trying to buy laptops, iPhones and iPads. Colony police say he was using a Nebraska Furniture Mart credit card he got using someone else's information. Once the company caught on, he was arrested.
But Sgt. Goodson says he kept coming back to try the same con with different identities and a dozen accomplices.
"There's a lot of them that are doing that, and it is a ring," he explained.
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Police say they've encountered several Zimbabwean people who help Anisulowo. The say he sometimes used Uber or Lyft drivers to pick up items he's ordered fraudulently.
Unless detectives can prove he stole the credit card information himself, he can't be charged with identity theft. He can only be charged with attempted theft. It's part of the reason police say he's not in prison already.
"You've got to build that foundation first," said Goodson. "And sometimes, that might take months or years for that kind of criminal activity to catch up with them before we have a real solid case."
And now, police might have a solid case. Investigators in Plano, The Colony, McKinney, Sachse, Denton and Irving are aware of him.
"He is a big fish," said Goodson. "He's probably one of the leaders that's organizing this. He always seems to pop up."
Police in The Colony say none of their charges against him have gone to trial because some of the victims live there and others live out of state, which takes time to investigate.
One alleged victim said Anisulowo used her credit card information to buy things at Best Buy, a diamond store and tried Target and Nebraska Furniture Mart. She said, "He's living the American dream by stealing from us."
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A Yoga Reality Check
By Yogacharya
I know what it's like to walk into a yoga class and feel completely out of place (I still do, actually, but for other reasons now ;O). When I first tried yoga, oh way back when, I couldn't even touch my toes … not even close!
Fortunately for me, I was persistent … and also [...]


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On Day 6, we explored the ship (Superstar Virgo), explored Malacca (in Malaysia), the island near which the ship had docked for the day, and then came back to the ship for a bit of rest and total entertainment at night!
Malacca: When you get off at Malacca, there will be various taxi drivers offering a tour of the city (rates based on the no. of hours). My suggestion is to take one of these tours and explore the city from the comfort of the taxi. Must see places are Christ Church with the river on the opposite side of the road, Cheng Toon Heng temple (Chinese temple), Malaysian Navy Museum and Malacca Straits Mosque.
Night entertainment on the cruise: For hubby and me, this was the highlight of the cruise! The entertainment started with a live show by a couple from Las Vegas (sorry, forgot their names) which included hit songs and dancing with the crew (they even sang Sheila ki jawani!). After this, we rushed off to see "Somewhere in Time" in the auditorium. This show was awesome and really, really worth it. If you are on the cruise in 2013, DO NOT miss this show! After this, we went for Bollywood Night with the crew which involved Bollywood songs and dancing :)
In addition to the night entertainment, the ship offers a lot of activities throughout the day, including entertainment for children. So if you decide to spend the whole day on the ship, you won't be bored.
One piece of information for everyone - while the crew of the ship comes from South East Asia and Australia, the passengers are mainly Indians and Chinese. By my estimation, 60% of the passengers were Indians, 35% were Chinese and the remaining 5% were other nationalities. I am giving this statistic since a part of the night entertainment (and one of the restaurants) is specially designed for Indians and might be a "novelty" for other nationalities :)
It will be return to Singapore and Sentosa Island in the next post!


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Ad Extirpenda are a band from France that plays a symphonic form of black metal with some death metal influences and this is a review of their self released 2014 album "Cathartic".
The album starts out with a very symphonic sounding intro and after the intro the music goes for a more modern and heavy sound while also keeping around the symphonic elements as well as adding in more black metal screams and melodic riffing and after awhile powerful bass guitars and solos are added into the music and they also bring a progressive feeling to the recording.
After awhile clean guitars and spoken words are added into certain parts of the recording along with a small amount of clean singing being added in at times as well as returning on some of the other tracks and on the following track classical guitars become a part of the recording before returning to a heavier direction along with the vocals adding in a bit more of a death metal influence while also mostly sticking to a melodic black metal direction.
When we get more into the album the music starts bringing in a mixture of both clean and heavy parts along with the synths utilizing more avant garde sounds and at times you can hear traces of medieval folk music in the guitar leads as well as the synths on the last song and after awhile the music starts utilizing a brief use of blast beats and classic metal influences in some of the tracks.
With this album Ad Extirpenda add a modern approach to symphonic black metal along with a powerful sounding production and lyrics that cover the French Inquisition of the 14th and 15 centuries.
In my opinion Ad Extirpenda are a very great sounding symphonic and melodic black metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Gnosis" "Holocauste" "The Inquisitor" and "Ego Te Absolvo". 8 out of 10.
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Yale will not pursue disciplinary action against a fraternity that students say turned away people of color during a supposed "white girls only" party in October, according to a message sent by the university's dean.
"The investigation found no evidence of systematic discrimination against people of color," Dean Jonathan Holloway said in a Wednesday message to all Yale students about the Sigma Alpha Epsilon party. "Students inside the party reported that early in the evening, before the party became crowded, guests were granted admission on a first-come basis; men and women of color were among those admitted."
Holloway said that two students provided "credible accounts" that up to two SAE members said "white girls only" but members of the fraternity denied the statements.
The incident was one of recent complaints of racial tensions at the prestigious Ivy League school. A teacher from the university resigned after backlash about an offensive Halloween email she sent to students in October.
Thousands of Yale students and faculty members protested in New Haven in a "march of resistance" in November, calling for justice amid racial concerns on campus.
Marchers chanted, "We out here, we've been here, we ain't leaving, we are loved," along with, "We are unstoppable, another Yale is possible." Students carried signs bearing messages such as,"I Stand With My Sisters" and "United We Stand."


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The garment-inkjet floodgates are wide open, leaving many screen printers who want to boost revenues with complementary digital technology drowning in options. This article will help you wade through the crowded pool of printers.
Garment screen printers who are looking to digital technology to handle the short runs, one-offs, walk-in business, and other opportunities that might not be profitable on their presses now have more choices than ever. The market for direct-to-garment inkjet printers is now occupied by nearly five times more manufacturers than those mentioned in Screen Printing magazine's first look at the technology ("Garment Printing Joins the Jet Set," Sept. 2005, p. 66).
The past four years have ushered in a greater number of printers that offer the ability to print white ink as an underbase or highlight on dark garments, faster print speeds, more colors, solutions for tighter registration, controls for ink saturation and vibrancy, and more. Read on to find out more about the direct-to-garment inkjet printers available today and the models some manufacturers plan for launch in the near future. Contact information for each manufacturer is provided in the source list on page 24.
AnaJet Inc.
The FP-125 from AnaJet offers printers the ability to manage ink flow via a 15-level ink-volume control and five levels of fabric-dependent volume adjustment. The inkjet printer can image onto garments made of 100% cotton, poly-cotton blends, and certain types of 100% polyester. It's designed to deliver full ink saturation in a single print pass. The FP-125 uses water-based, pigmented inks from AnaJet and features a closed-loop ink-delivery system with sealed ink cartridges, a feature engineered to prevent air pockets and foam formation. Users can switch between a CMYK and CMYK + White configurations. A 12.5 x 16-in. (318 x 406-mm) shuttling print table takes care of garment handling, and the printer supports a maximum garment thickness of 0.6 in. (15 mm) and imaging resolution of 720 dpi. AnaPrint software is for decorating white, pastel, and light colored garments. An optional software RIP is available for printing onto black apparel. The device's three-step workflow includes image selection, printing, and setting the image in a heat press or conventional garment dryer. The FP-125 runs on Windows XP or Vista (32-bit version) or on a Mac running Boot Camp or emulation software.
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Biggest environmental story of the year? Ask 7 green bloggers and you get 7 different (but good) answers.
We're a little more than halfway through the year and I decided to ask 7 leading green bloggers what they thought was the biggest environmental story of the year so far. I asked them to choose something other than the BP oil spill, since I thought that was sort of the obvious choice, but it turns out most of them wouldn't choose that story anyway.
In the end, I got 7 interesting and completely different answers to this question. I think they are all great responses.
The specific question: "Other than the BP oil spill, what do you think is the biggest environmental story of the year so far?"
The answers:
Beth Bader
"Never underestimate the impact of the choices people make daily as the greatest environmental impact. From my perspective, the meal choices we make three times a day is tremendous. Which is a direct tie to our very broken agriculture system. The biggest untold story? As the president's wife goes on tour against childhood obesity and food deserts, the president quietly keeps appointing Big Ag lobbyists and former employees to key positions that govern our food policy and safety. Seems to be quite a contradiction."
Beth Bader is the author of Expatriates Kitchen, a writer on Eat Local Challenge, and co-author of the upcoming book The Cleaner Plate Club: Recipes and Advice for Getting Real Kids to Love Real Food.
Nathan Schock
"The decline in public concern for the environment that occurred while environmental news and communications were at an all-time high. Mainstream media coverage of the environment peaked late last year during COP15 and this year with the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. But rather than increase the concern that Americans hold for the environment, it appears to have had the opposite effect. A Gallup Poll in April found that for the first time in ten years, Americans prioritized energy above the environment and another saw a nine point drop (from 70% to 61%) in the overall percentage of Americans holding a positive orientation toward the environmental movement in the past three years. In May a Pew Research poll found that less than a third of the public thought Congress should address Climate Change. These largely continue a trend in public opinion from last year: the more we talk about the environment, the less the public seems to think that it is an important issue. As always, there are extenuating circumstances. The global economic crisis put more emphasis on jobs and the economy. Political polarization seems to be at an all-time high. Climategate. etc. etc. But some of the responsibility for the declining public support likely lies with the environmental community. They need to take this as a wake-up call and commit to finding better, more convincing ways to talk about the environment. If they don't, these numbers can be expected to get worse."
Nathan is the director of public relations for POET, the largest producer of biofuels in the world. He is also a digital advocate of sustainability and corporate social responsibility. He wants to help communicators improve their delivery of this information to the public in order to drive social change. He blogs about these topics on his personal blog, Greenway Communique and is a regular on Twitter. Nathan also contributes to the blogs of The Inspired Economist and 3BL.
Rhishja Larson
"I think the biggest environmental story of the year so far is a war that is being waged under the Western radar: The resurgence of rhino poaching.
"In South Africa, the total number of rhinos killed so far this year (124) has surpassed 2009's total (122).
"And during the World Cup festivities, seven rhinos were butchered in South Africa's Kruger National Park.
"The increase since 2007 is staggering:
2007: 13 rhinos killed
2008: 83 rhinos killed
2009: 122 rhinos killed
"This crisis threatens to undermine decades of conservation efforts. Let's do something – before it's too late."
Rhishja Larson is the founder and Program Director for Saving Rhinos, a public awareness program focusing on the illegal trade in rhino horn. She shares news, opinion, and commentary on her blog Rhino Conservation: Rhino Horn is Not Medicine.
She is also a writer for Bush Warriors and has been a guest blogger on National Geographic's NatGeo News Watch (Rhino horn: All myth, no medicine)


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Art Expo 2012
There was less of everything in this scaled-back version of the annual Chicago international art fair, but still I'm finding many things to enjoy -- especially that previous generation of abstract painters who liked to spill their guts on the canvas. Jack Roth (1927-2004), a professor of mathematics, was one of them. I've later seen his work from the 60's and can't stand it. But, happily, by the 80's he was creating a delightfully measured visual world.
Claudio Bravo, 1979
It was sad to note that Claudio Bravo (1936-2011) has died since I last saw his work at the Chicago art fair back when the Marlboro Gallery still had a booth.
This piece still seems to revel in the world of human activity, but his images kept on getting more mysterious as he got older. The later paintings that I saw ten years ago represented nothing more than crumpled wrapping paper.
Here's a nice tribute to him, but I think the author has made some mistakes in chronology. Here's his own website that shows work from every decade.
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 – 1939)
Forum Gallery is the only gallery left in the Chicago art fair that specializes in figure painting. Usually, their tastes in contemporary realism are too dark for me - but here's a bright, sunny painting from a hundred years ago that they brought to the show. The girl looks quite pensive - despite living in such a beautiful world.
Gwynn Murrill
And here's a sculptor who does what I do -- i.e. keep the focus on the song of mass and space, while incorporating the gestures of living creatures.
She prefers cats -- I prefer people.
Regarding those cats, she has some distance to go to compete with the ancient Egyptians. But then ... an even greater distance separates me from the ancient Greeks.
David Hockney
The presence of this large pastel portrait jumped right off the wall, so I was a bit surprised that it's not a pastel at all. It's a digital print that was enlarged more than 100X the size of the computer tablet that Hockney used to draw it.
Michael Goldberg (1924-2007), 1960
One of the main delights of these fairs is the opportunity to see the work of non-iconic, but very good, ABX painters.
Here's a fascinating interview, including this quote about the heyday of ABX:
"Around that time, 1954 or 1955, everybody and his cousin was doing gestural work; a lot of wishful art was being made. People thought that if they whipped it up a lot, sooner or later they'd find something to hang a painting on, something redeeming. Those years produced some of the worst shit I've ever seen.
Here's a bit of self reflection:
I consider myself an old-fashioned modernist in that I think painting could change the world. And the desperation is about the fact that I know it can't.
and finally, this little question/answer:
What is uppermost in your mind?
The burning condition of our world.
Michael Goldberg, 1956
Joel Shapiro
Back in the early 50's, the director of the Cincinnati Art Academy asked my father to teach this kind of sculpture - he refused, and he never had a full-time job again.
But still -- I can't help liking these pieces that seem to be balletic figures even if they're chunks of construction lumber.
And more than once, I've stared at construction leftovers and felt that they were well on the way to being sculpture.
Joel Shapiro
Katsura Funakoshi
Here's a sculptor who is already featured on my web site, and I'm glad that I finally got to see his work in real space -- though it does feel kind of creepy -- like a rubber chicken.
Here's his own website.
Ted Gahl (b. 1983)
Here's a young abstract painter whose work I enjoyed.
Milton Resnick (1917-2004), 1957
And here's one of the original 10th Street ABX painters.
A few weeks ago I read this reminiscence from a student who remembered that his appearance was so shabby, he was mistaken for a homeless beggar by his students on the first day of class.
My kind of guy!
This small piece did feel grim and gritty -- but still I enjoyed it.
Pam Sheehan
This is one of the several perceptual artists that the Thiebaud Gallery brings to the Chicago international art fair every year. (and they are the only such gallery, besides Forum, in this event)
(an interesting visit to her home/studio can be seen here )
No surprise that she says Corot, Constable, and Turner are her favorite painters.
Pam Sheehan
How can anyone look at this image and not feel damp, cold, and eager to sit by the fire ?
Picasso (detail)
Here's a large Picasso that an investment-grade art gallery from Montreal brought to the show. Regretfully, I forgot to note the date it was painted - I'm guessing it was around 1960.
I haven't really been attracted to these later works. They seem to have been dashed out without a whole lot of care.
But this piece compares so well with all the other funky abstract paintings in Art Expo. It's on the other side of powerful.
News Flash: I've just found this piece on the internet
It's called 'Les Dormeurs", it was painted in 1965, it is said to have hung for several years behind the desk of the renowned art historian and dealer, Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler .
Its current owner has been hauling it around to art fairs at least since 2002


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College Student Smartphone News Consumption Infographic
"We're in college, and we want our news now!"And that's exactly what's happening. These days, students don't have to grab a newspaper at the student union or wait to log on to their computer to get the news. And, college students certainly don't have to get up early to catch the weather on their local news station. For most students, all they need to do is reach in their pocket and grab their smartphone. From the weather pinpointed to your exact location, to local and national news and sports, students are using their smartphones to read, listen and watch just about everything, and they're not using just one news source. In fact, a recent study by the University of Colorado Boulder on smartphone use found 24 percent of students often skim news articles and content from multiple sites. Check out the infographic below to learn how college students are consuming news on their smartphones.


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Thursday, February 9, 2012
A moment to remember...
Recent antique store find. It was in a bin with bunch of others; I had little cash with me so I took just this one. It was color one day in... 40s? 50s?
Posted by Emir Shabashvili at 12:02 PM
Labels: 2012, 40s, 50s, Florida, Found images, Miami Beach, USA
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New Extensive PSYCHO LEGACY Interview On RetroSlashers.net!Share on Facebook
For the last 2 years, Icons Of Fright has been producing an extensive documentary on the entire PSYCHO franchise titled THE PSYCHO LEGACY! You can check out 12 minutes of footage from the doc right down below:
An extensive interview with PSYCHO LEGACY director/producer Rob Galluzzo (yours truly) just went up over on the Retroslashers.net website. It's one of the more lengthy & candid chats about the documentary, so have a look by clicking the following link!
Here's the introduction by site webmaster John Klyza:
"Alfred Hitchcock's PSYCHO can be considered prime among the progenitors of the slasher genre. Many talk about its impact on the film world, but few pay attention to the second, third and forth chapters which each brought something unique to the compellingly tragic story of Norman Bates. Enter director Robert Galluzzo who has spent the past few years pouring himself into a landmark documentary on the complete saga, aptly titled THE PSYCHO LEGACY. We stole Robert away from his project long enough to discuss all-things PSYCHO!" (Click the image below to read the full interview!)
See some screen-grabs of Anthony Perkins from the documentary at our previous news post HERE!
And click the frame below to read the complete transcript from THE PSYCHO LEGACY panel - Guest included Hilton Green (PSYCHO), Tom Holland, Chris Hendrie, Andrew London, Lee Garlington (PSYCHO II), Kurt Paul, Juliette Cummins, Donovan Scott, Katt Shea (PSYCHO III), Mick & Cynthia Garris (PSYCHO IV).
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There were more line alterations by Avalanche coach Joe Sacco at practice today, including the reunion of Matt Duchene and Paul Stastny on the top trio.
Duchene is back at left wing on a line with Stastny and Milan Hejduk, a unit that saw success recently. With the Avs in an offensive slump, Sacco will again shuffle things up as the team prepares for its next opponent, Edmonton Saturday night at the Pepsi Center.
Also reunited today was the line of Gabriel Landeskog, Ryan O'Reilly and Daniel Winnik. One of their other top three lines saw TJ Galiardi at center, between Cody McLeod and David Jones.
Avalanche defenseman Erik Johnson did not practice today because of a groin injury and it is doubtful he'll play against the Oilers.
Peter Mueller did not skate at practice either, but it was not because of post-concussion symptoms. Mueller now has a groin injury and has not skated for the last three days.
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