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to Alice Adams
of the Paradigm
Nigra Snyder
is how Adams' works negotiate the differences between art and design that makes
them powerful public works. It's commonly said that if it's design, it isn't art,
implying a difference in conception and process of making. But the real differences
lie in how we experience the workthe difference between viewing and inhabitation.
We experience art through its separation from ourselves, we view it and if we're
clued into the language, it speaks to us. But we experience architectural and
landscape works by taking possession of them by our actions, we inhabit them.
Inhabitation is different from occupation, that is, merely being somewhere. When
we inhabit a place there's a give and take between what it is and what we make
of it for our purposes.When we occupy a place, we take it over or it takes us
over. But when inhabitant and place co-exist, one does not dominate the other.
It's a sign of good design when this can happen. Places that can be inhabited
have enough room in their design to allow someone to take possession of them yet,
are strong enough to have integrity about what they are that endures over time.
Alice Adams' public works exist between forms that can be simultaneously viewed
and inhabited. It is how Adams' works negotiate the differences between art and
design that makes them powerful public works. It's commonly said that if it's
design, it isn't art, implying a difference in conception and process of making.
But the real differences lie in how we experience the workthe difference between
viewing and inhabitation. We experience art through its separation from ourselves,
we view it and if we're clued into the language, it speaks to us. But we experience
architectural and landscape works by taking possession of them by our actions,
we inhabit them. Inhabitation is different from occupation, that is, merely being
somewhere. When we inhabit a place there's a give and take between what it is
and what we make of it for our purposes.When we occupy a place, we take it over
or it takes us over. But when inhabitant and place co-exist, one does not dominate
the other. It's a sign of good design when this can happen. Places that can be
inhabited have enough room in their design to allow someone to take possession
of them yet, are strong enough to have integrity about what they are that endures
over time. Alice Adams' public works exist between forms that can be simultaneously
viewed and inhabited.
If we compare Adams' early
temporary installations and her permanent public work, we can see
how these differences between viewing and inhabitation affect our
experience. Three early site projects in Princeton, New Jersey,
Lewiston, New York and Omaha, Nebraska are abstract in form. The
idea behind the architectural line of the top of the earth mound
and stud wall at Princeton (Mound for Viewing Slope and Sky)
was to explore a flat tilted plane (i.e. a large grassy slope) in
the landscape that never has such precision of flatness or straightness.
At Lewiston (Shorings), the enigmatic three-sided enclosure
dug into a slope referred to the mysterious interior of near-by
containment sites like Love Canal. The inverted pyramid of earth
with a skeletal cone structure (Alice's first and only cantilever)
in Omaha (Vertical Up for OOIC) had a precarious dangerous
quality. In fact, all of these works had an air of danger about
them if you were to try to occupy them or, apply standard building
codes. The experience was mostly about viewing but, if you connected
what you saw with the surrounding context, the effect was to place
you in a different relationship to context.
The next set of early
sculptures, more cultural, sculptural and architectural in form
move the viewer a step closer to the inhabitant. Adams' House
and The Lost House look like a house but neither is a real
building, only a fragment. The house forms appear as a dream or
apparition in the landscape creating nostalgia. They are symbolic
and evocative without being real. (But they are real for Adams who
derived them from the childhood house her father built in Jamaica,
New York.) By using recognizable forms to draw you in, Adams is
able to deconstruct barriers between the viewer and her sculpture.
These sculptures aren't unfamiliar or new. They're an extension
of the identifiable world. So you can simultaneously view them and
take possession of them with your mind, a kind of mental inhabitation.
Adams says, "My later
work challenges people. It seduces them. They don't know if it's
art, sculpture or something else. And you have to give them something
once you've drawn them in." It's really the way Adams' work
flows with the familiar world without barrier or boundary that makes
it possible for people to take possession of it on their own terms
and inhabit the place she has created. At the most basic level,
there's a spatial continuity with the surroundings that reinforces
natural patterns. She doesn't create a precinct for the art experience,
it happens gradually. At Thomas Jefferson University, the paths
of The Roundabout entice you in from the sidewalk directly
to the building entrance or to just cut the corner on your way to
somewhere else, much the way it worked with the old grassy corner
that preceded it. At the University of Delaware, Scroll Circle
acts like an interchange connecting all the campus routes that converge
there. Beyond a family of forms and ideas that make Adams' work
identifiable, the public work all has the same purposeto bring
people into something familiar that they will have to think about
in a new way.
Adams uses a kind of behavioral
continuity by anticipating and reinforcing normative urban patterns.
Watching other people while catching the warm sun in the fall or
spring is one of the great pleasures of sitting outside in the city.
Adams has very quietly provided for this at The Roundabout
by offering extroverted grassy slopes and linear walls at seat height
that face both the sun and the streetan invitation that reinforces
natural tendencies. One of her favorite photos is that of a man
sitting with his dog on the grassy mound, gazing out. What a fantastic
reaction her work has inspired by placing this pair in a different
relationship to their neighborhood. She says of this photo, "He
could be looking out across the mountains."
If your
eye can read the scale of the human body, you'll quickly see that it's implicit
in all of Adams' forms without their overtly being furniture. This close attention
to how people will inhabit her places is precise and controlled, but the net effect
is to allow people a freedom in how they appropriate places to sit, to lounge,
to be apart or together. The curvilinear forms offer subtle inflections of one
person to another or a place to form a small group. The curves enliven the space
visually, but what they do to people animates the place. It's not as obvious as
sitting on a bench next to someone, but these spatial inflections can also break
down our inhibitions about talking to a stranger in public while we share a common
experience. Part of the art of Adams' public work is that it quietly manipulates
relationships of body to place and thereby intensifies our experience and awareness
of ourselves to others and to the civic context.
The slopes, grass and
walls, however, are not only about accommodating people. There are
physical things you have to do to experience what's there. As in
the earlier work, there's a spatial challenge involved. At The
Roundabout, you have to climb up on the mound. This elevated
positionit's only a few feetmakes the familiar street
corner seem completely different from this prospect. It's an example
of how Adams can use minimal means to transform our experience of
the familiar. And it's also a good example of how the experience
of her work has changed over time. When we viewed the earth mound
at Princeton, we could think differently about a familiar context.
But at Jefferson, we can actually feel the different experience
of the familiar corner by our physical actions. Alice's art is alive,
not static; open to individual ways of experiencing it, not dictatorial
and never completed until it's physically experienced.
Sometimes she takes on
the familiar by placing us in an unconventional relationship to
it. When walking by The Roundabout on the street, your eyes
are at ground level with the sloping earth mound. Alice describes
this as a subliminal message,"With the growing grass before
you at eye level, you must look at the earth close-up and perhaps
in a more intimate way than you would ordinarily encounter in the
city." Her description is quite abstract for a grassy slope
that's nice to sit on but this is exactly the trick she plays when
she entices you in. What might appear prosaic at a glance, will
in fact sustain wonder when you attend to it close-up.
Other times, she uses
simplified versions of pieces of the familiar local architectural
fabric. She has written in a design manual for a new transit (light
rail) line in Birmingham, England (Midland Metro Line 1: Design
Guide),1"Aesthetic criteria can be found in the fabric and
texture of the built environment of a region. The streets, buildings
and landscapes constitute a living history, that can be read, studied
and understood for its symbolic content and meaning." For The
Roundabout on the Thomas Jefferson University campus, the ubiquitous
marble door steps of Philadelphia row housesthe best place
to sit on the street and talk with neighborsbecome seats along
the entrance path. At the University of Delaware the scroll-like
circular and oval forms evoke the feeling of the work of landscape
architect Marion Kruger Coffin, designer of the campus. At Convention
Place Station in Seattle, the tubular steel entrance marquees echo
shapes from the Paramount Theater across the street. It's this attention
to the local conditions that ground her work in each site specifically.
But it's also important to understand that these forms aren't just
abstractions of the locale. They are layered with references from
Adams' world whose meaning is evident sometimes only if you know
the provenance. The shape of the paving pattern and the mound at
The Roundabout incorporate references to Thomas Jefferson's
designs at Monticello; the stair wings, Mackintosh's entrance stairs
to the Glasgow School of Art. At Scroll Circle, the curved
shapes not only recall Celtic manuscripts but also Adams' childhood
connection to typography at her father's printing business. Removed
from original context and imbued with associations from Adams' vision,
these forms are both familiar and new simultaneously.
In all built works meaning
resides somewhere between the intentions of the makers and the manipulation
of the users for their own ends. Adams considers her message to
be democratic, that on whatever level it should touch people who
are there. This begins with the craftsmen that make the work. Adams
says, "In interpreting the shop drawings, the construction
workers find that the artist has led them to build something that
they may not have seen before. This is a challenge; it's exciting
and those of us who work on public projects see it as returning
an ancient sense of craft to the building trades." Jack Mackie
observed about the paving patterns Adams and Sonya Ishii had designed
in the Downtown Seattle Transit Project, "Alice wasn't there
when they were constructing them, but the bricklayers were doing
block after block of herring-bone brick, and when they got to these
they all really wanted to express their skills and craft and argued
over who got to do them. The engineers worked on the project, but
the brick and tile-layers found that the things the artists brought
in were the really exciting ones that challenged their skills."
Arthur Danto says, "Public art is the public transfigured:
it is us, in the medium of artistic transformation." Adams
draws you into an art experience when you were merely going about
a normal day.
the fluidity of context (both physical and mental) in Adams' work blurs boundaries
between where the art begins and ends, then it's not surprising that her design
process also blurs established procedures of making art with the architectural
process. The architectural process involves working with a team of consultants
to understand the issues the project presents for different disciplines and then,
synthesizing this into a design that meets a budget and schedule. A lot of work
is in systems that are hidden from viewthe infrastructure of the project.
Architects typically are the team leaders of this process. It's complex and requires
a breadth of knowledge that comes from education and apprenticeship. So to find
an artist who works comfortably in this process is unusual. Adams has learned
much of this on the job. From fabricators she learned about construction details.
She taught herself how to read drawings and what the conventions of the disciplines
were. Adams characterizes her role as "making sure you get what you want
into the documents." Adams has a light touch but she's firmly in control.
Adams first worked as
part of a design team, along with other artists, for the Downtown Seattle Transit
Project and later in St. Louis, on Metrolink. These teams included architects,
landscape architects, engineers and public officials. Noting that many artists
aren't challenged except by the art world paradigm and often walk away if they
can't maintain their vision, she says that working side by side with other design
professionals taught her adaptability, "If you don't get something in one
form, push it in another way." This process gives the artist the possibility
of extending ideas. It also taught her that working with others is not making
art by committee, another popular misconception about public projects. Working
as part of a team and presenting work as it develops to review groups means that
you'll be endlessly questioned about what you're doing. In some cases, Adams works
as a team leader with consultants who develop her designs from knowledge of their
own disciplines. In other instances, it's a collaboration. The architectural process
demands constant interpretation and refinement and, in the public art process,
endless meetings to defend decisions. This may be daunting to artists who wear
their hearts on their sleeves and are easily wounded. But for Adams, her strength
of conviction and flexibility enable her to achieve her designs.
The methodology of the
architectural process involves attention to simultaneous scales
while designing. Adams' studies and sketches show a facility for
going back and forth between detail and whole. She works comfortably
at the scale of the urban fabric, seeing her project as an extension
of the street or campus and, at the scale of construction details,
thinking about how it is made and what it will communicate. The
architectural process also involves expressing an idea in the language
of various disciplines in the way Adams' work integrates construction,
landscape and sculptural expressions. It's interesting to note that
in her early projects, the wooden structures were rigorous examples
of framing practices and made the construction explicit in the expression.
The later work at The Roundabout and Scroll Circle
seems to sheath the construction and become more expressive of form
and shape. It seems that the more her work is embedded in the architectural
process, the more sculptural the forms have become. Similarly, a
comparison between the relationship of planting in these two projects
shows a tendency toward more sculptural form. Adams used planting
at The Roundabout to establish a sense of place by echoing
the intent of the design: a straight formal entrance path planted
as an allée, a fragment of a formal garden; and a curvilinear thicket
path planted more like an orchard or a bramble. Here the spatial
arrangements established the design, all planting and material choices
only amplified it. But at Scroll Circle the planting is integral
to the forms. It would be impossible to remove it and retain the
spatial intent.
Methodology and structure of design
teams are objectified examples of how Adams blurs boundaries between disciplines
in creating her art. More fundamental, however, is how she thinks about her work.
In talking about her early projects at Princeton University and at Bemis Park
in Omaha, she says, "Both create a sense of excitement by placing one on
a level platform above an uneven terrain." Neither project would be confused
with architecture but both embody an attitude toward site that is architectural:
using a platform to mediate our relationship to the context. For Thomas Jefferson
University, Adams was one of five entries in an invited competition.2 She was
unique in noticing the slight level change, four feet, over a long distance from
street corner to door. This attention to slope is more likely to be noticed by
a landscape architect concerned with paving and drainage. But Adams did more than
note a condition. She saw the possibility of relative level changes that enabled
her to construct the earth mound, keeping the ascent at five feet but the level
above the street at eight feet. What Adams sees in the context of her projects
isn't bounded by each discipline's established paradigms, so it's not surprising
that her beginning vision leads to designs that can't be stereotyped.
Adams' public work breaks
down boundaries between art, related disciplines and site context
in both experience and creative process. Although Adams' work might
be called "public art" and thus explain why it's different
from "gallery art" this is too easy and imprecise. First,
there are common misconceptions about "public art" that
should be dismissed. They offer simplistic and superficial criteria.
Identifying the work as "public art" by virtue of its
location in a public place, or funding, or chronological dates that
reflect art-world trends or styles are all merely descriptive and
don't begin to address the significance of Adams' work. Public art
is better defined by the way it works. Public art always works in
the margins of established disciplines: it is not wholly art, architecture
or landscape. The instant it sits too comfortably inside a discipline
it becomes merely a sculpture, or merely a building or merely site
furnishings and cedes its power to convention. Public art also always
works at the edge of people's expectations: it is encountered in
the routine of life, not in the circumscribed art arena. Adams'
art clearly works in these margins leading those who think in paradigms
to be unprepared for how she is defining her medium.
notes that the single most unfair preconception of the twentieth century is that
of the solitary artist as the only valid expressive voice in art. Her public works
are complex projects in size, scope, budget and audience. Like movies, architecture
and urban works, these projects require a large number of people to address the
implicit issues. Adams says, "Works of intense feeling and emotion can be
accomplished by a group of people. It's a fallacy that emotional content exists
only in work by single individuals (painting or sculpture) and is dissipated rather
than intensified in work by a group." Reflecting on how many but not all
of her colleagues understand what she does, Adams is aware that she is constantly
defining and refining what she does as each new project presents a new set of
conditions. Her work is not "about art," it's about defining what art
is today when it's part of the world.
The design manual for the Centro transit agency was written with Jack Mackie,
Andrew Darke and Geoff Wood. 2 The competitors were Alice Adams, Alice Aycock,
Patsy Norvell Martha Schwartz with R.M. Fischer, and Meg Webster. Jenny Dixon
was the art consultant for the competition.
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A handful!
Posted by Smokey Stover on March 21, 2004
In Reply to: Thanks posted by Miri Barak on March 19, 2004
: : : context:
: : : "But just as they start to dig in, the party is crashed by a pack of Troodons. Smaller and smarter than Pod, these predators are *a handful*".
: : : Yes, another kind of dinosaurs.
: : : My question: a handful has two meanings: a few and wild, uncontrollable. According to this sentence, which meaning do you think right? Because there is some kind of contrast in this sentence which doesn't suit the first meaning of few, but I might be wrong, of course.
: : : And thank you of course.
: : The second meaning is closer. The invading dinosaurs are "a handful" FOR POD. That is, Pod has difficulty dealing with them. "Handful" in this sense always appears in the context of someone (this time it's Pod) facing the challenge of coping with something troublesome.
: Thank you Berg - you are fast and helpful as ever.
The phrase "He's a real handful!" is most often used to describe tykes like the protagonist of "The Ransom of Red Chief." But just today I was talking to my neighbor, whose new (and young) dog stands (when he stands) taller than his wife, and acts like a good-natured but willful boy. Says my neighbor, "He's a handful." SS

subset: commoncrawl


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Report on London Linux Expo
While most headed off to the LinuxTag event, a handful of brave KDE people decided to tackle the London Linux Expo. Read Anne-Marie's entertaining account for some of the great stuff that went on there -- including photos of the bar encounter with a friendly gnome. Also check out Lee's site for more photos. Many thanks and kudos are due to Giles, Anne-Marie, Oliver, Lee, Jono and Mark who staffed the booth (and did an excellent job), our sponsors, and anyone else who helped, including: the KDE League, SuSE UK, Nick Veicht from Linux Format, and Cheep Linux. Oh, and bonus points if you can spot the Adobe inside joke.
Inside joke
For those who don't want to spend a while trying to find the joke, look at the picture of annma (near the bottom). On the wall there's a piece of paper which says 'KIllustrator', but that's crossed out and written below it is 'KPhotoShop'.
Do I get a prize? :)
By David G. Watson at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
database tool
How is the work on rekall going? the article says that a lot of companies want a simulair tool.
By Jasper at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
Re: database tool
Rekall is coming along nicely, we have another beta with the Python scripting active that should come out next week. Final release should be the first of October.
By Shawn Gordon at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
KDE merchandise?
Hey, does KDE have any cool things to buy? I'd like a stuffed KDE dragon, thank you.
From Linux.com's photo of the day archive:
By Justin at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
Re: KDE merchandise?
By Per at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
Database integrated in KOffice
Very important, yes... even a like-integrated database...
By Alain at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
Re: Database integrated in KOffice
Perhaps one could be quickly put together in the following way:
Just a thought. Maybe if I ever have time I'll start to do something about it.
By Seth Davenport at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Rekall, Killustrator, KPlato
I see in a previous thread that there is the Rekall project.
It is explain here :
But nothing is said on the Koffice site... However Shawn Gordon says here "Final release should be the first of October"
Will it be integrated into KOffice ? (not 1.0, of course, but after ?)
In www.koffice.org, I see that Killustrator has not still a new name, I hope it is not going to give some lateness for KOffice 1.0...
And I see KPlato... I think I never saw it before (?)... Good ! Ready for KOffice 1.0 ?
By Alain at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: Rekall, Killustrator, KPlato
Actually, the next release of KOffice will be 1.1. It was already released as 1.0 some time ago, although it was a mistake. None of the apps were really useable for anything at that time and they crashed a lot. The 1.1beta1 that was released was actually much more stable and useful than the 1.0 release (especially KWord).
By not me at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: Report on London Linux Expo
One thing I would've loved from the KDE stand is a CD with the latest stable/devel tar balls (and maybe RPMS).
Nothing fancy, just a CDR to save me the hours of downloads that I've just done!
By Darren Poulson at Thu, 2001/07/12 - 5:00am
The Problem with KDE distribuition !
You know, KDE people keeps us stuck to older versions of KDE by their kind actios ;)
1. Not giving out upgrades like windows' IE upgrades for Konq and other imp. tools/app.
2. There must be KDE-Installer to install KDE upgrades and applications for a distribution-free binary upgrades.
I know you would say that KDE works on Unices and not just linux but if you look at Netscape, Adobe Acrobat, Word Perfect, StarOffice and other commercial apps, they just work fine on Unices including Linux-es. Here we are just forced to get Mandrake RPMS!!! Oh for God Sake get us Distribution free KDE upgrades.
By Asif Ali Rizwaan at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: The Problem with KDE distribuition !
You pay for the huge amount of time it takes to create such binaries, and then YOU use them: they are slower.
You are using a distribution. A distribution´s main job is to get you the software we produce nicely packaged and optimized for you in a convenient and speedy fashion.
If your distribution is not doing that for you: change distribution to one that does. I repeat: THAT IS THE DISTRIBUTION´S JOB. The unspoken social contract between distros and developers includes a tiny clause saying "you distro guys take care of making the packages for your distros once many users use the things we write".
But the KDE project is not going to waste time making universal binaries: days have only 28 hours!
On the other hand: sure, netscape produces binaries that work on all distros... except they don´t, they crash in some because of incompatible libraries. And even they only produce such beasts about twice a year. KDE produces way more frecuent releases.
Wordperfect costs a few hundred bucks: pay me what WP costs, and I will hand-compile all of KDE and a bunch of other apps to be perfectly optimized for your computer ;-)
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: The Problem with KDE distribuition !
This is needed - like the Ximian setup tools for Gnome, KDE needs some standard configuration tools. I think it's a bit stupid that every distribution makes their own tools.
It would be much easier for the users if the same configurations tools were available no matter what distribution you use or if you change to another distribution.
It is said here :
By Alain at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: The Problem with KDE distribuition !
Configuration tools should not be desktop-specific.
Further, configuration tools should not require a graphical environment. What can a config tool need that can not be done in a slang app?
I can´t think of anything, and I would much prefer such tool to work over ssh from a windows box without a X server, really.
By Roberto Alsina at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: The Problem with KDE distribuition !
yes!!! i agree totally
By Rick Kreikebaum at Fri, 2001/07/13 - 5:00am
Re: The Problem with KDE distribuition !
look at sysconfig module in kde cvs.
These setup tools look like they
By Rob at Sat, 2001/07/14 - 5:00am
Re: Report on London Linux Expo
I found the London Linux Expo rather disappointing.
By Michael at Sat, 2001/07/14 - 5:00am
Re: Report on London Linux Expo
The lack of exhibitors was rather limited, and it was much smaller.
I am organising the KDE presence at the Birminham expo so expect to see us there as well. :-)
By Jono at Sun, 2001/07/15 - 5:00am


text: MONTREAL — The strong Canadian dollar, surging production costs and the worldwide economic downturn are all being blamed by the Cirque du Soleil for its decision to lay off 400 employees.Most of the layoffs will be at the artistic giant's Montreal headquarters.Company spokeswoman Renee-Claude Menard moved to dispel speculation the Cirque is flailing."The first thing to say is that the Circus is not in crisis," Menard told a news conference Wednesday. "Let's get that straight."We had a record year in terms of tickets sold. We sold more than 14 million tickets this year. We had a record year for total revenue, with more than $1-billion."Despite that, the Cirque didn't make money, Menard said.She said the powerful loonie hit the Cirque hard in that its profit is affected by nearly $3-million for each cent the currency gains against the U.S. dollar.The layoffs will begin by the end of this month and continue until the end of March.The Cirque employs about 5,000 people worldwide, including 2,000 in Montreal.It still has 19 productions being presented worldwide and is currently working on a new show that will open in May in Las Vegas.Another touring production that will open in the spring of 2014 in Montreal is also in the works.But four shows besides the 19 that are still on stage have closed recently.The Cirque's performances have played to an estimated 15 million people since it was founded by street performer Guy Laliberte in 1984.It has undertaken several years of unprecedented expansion amid the world economic meltdown that began in 2008 but has been foreced to close the four shows in the last couple of years."Zed," which was playing to solid audiences at Tokyo Disney, ran from 2008 to 2011, when it was retired in the aftermath of an earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. The popular "Saltimbanco," which originally ran from 1992 to 2006, ended last year after a new tour."Viva Elvis," which got mixed reviews, ran from February 2010 in Las Vegas and wound up last August. "Zaia," the Cirque's first resident show in Asia, ran from 2008 until last year and recorded lacklustre attendance.A fifth show, "Iris," is due to end its run in Los Angeles on Saturday although there are reports the Cirque plans to take the show on tour.The Cirque's 3D movie is reportedly doing respectable business internationally. Box Office Mojo, which tracks how much money movies are raking in, reports "Cirque du soleil: Worlds Away" has made more than $23-million worldwide since it opened Dec. 21.The Cirque is credited with breathing new life into the concept of a circus. It threw out the traditional playbook, which concentrated on animal acts, and instead used colourful acrobatics, a narrative framework and music to replace lions, tigers and monkeys to stir crowds.It soon gained renown beyond its Quebec base and expanded into an international operation, its name becoming a pop culture shorthand for circuses. It was even satirized in an episode of TV's "The Simpsons," although it was identified as the "Cirque du puree."Laliberte has become a multibillionaire, space tourist and advocate for clean water.The Cirque, which initially got financial support from the Quebec government, stopped getting government subsidies in 1992 and now offers support to other artistic organizations. It engages in philanthropy by aiding at-risk youth and contributes one per cent of its gross revenues to help resolve accessible water issues.


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Cao Son asked 7 years ago:
Does UTS have access to Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS)?
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33501 views
Hi Cao,
As stated in the other question you posted, I don't think so. It's owned by Bureau Van Dijk I beleive and we do own their Mint Global service but I can't find any record for Wharton.
David @ UTS Library


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New: ENDORSEMENT SPECIAL: Berkeley Mayor and City Council
As promised, Labor Day has passed, and we're following up on our promise to publish endorsements as quickly as possible. Today, the Berkeley City Council candidates, including the Mayor, are before us for consideration.
We're pleased to learn that the three best candidates for Mayor of Berkeley seem to have created a mutual support pact which responds to the dynamics of ranked choice voting. They're collectively urging voters to vote for all of them in one-two-three order. The consensus among them and their supporters seems to be that incumbent Mayor Tom Bates has passed his pull date, and it's time to replace him—not that they agree on everything else, of course.
For Berkeley's genuine progressives, the tipping point seems to have been Bates' full-throated promotion of Measure S, the anti-sitting initiative which he ramrodded onto the ballot at the last minute by calling in all his chits with the Faux-Progs who make up his council majority, a couple of whom should actually know better. Everything that annoys anyone about street behavior is already illegal in Berkeley, so this measure represents nothing more than another swift kick aimed at the down-and-out. Those of us with long memories remember that then-Assemblymember Bates backed a similar proposal about 15 years ago, which was thrown out in federal court on constitutional grounds.
But Bates(whose only non-political employment, way back when, was as a developer) never met a real estate speculator that he didn't like. Not coincidentally, the Downtown Berkeley Property Owners Business Improvement District (PBID), an association of commercial landlords, is the principal instigator of Measure S. If you've ever wondered why there are so many empty storefronts downtown, the rents charged by some PBID members have a lot to do with it. But they prefer to blame Downtown's problems on the downtrodden, and Bates is happy to aid and abet them.
Mysteriously, a couple of senior stalwarts of Berkeley's Older Left, regrouped now under the banner of the Oakland-based Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club, have endorsed Bates while simultaneously denouncing Measure S, according to their list-serv posts forwarded to me by annoyed civil libertarians who expected better. Go figure. I guess it's become politics above principle (or perhaps just cronies above credo) in some quarters these days.
Environmentalists are especially annoyed by two of the other Bates-backed measures up for vote in November. Measure T rezones West Berkeley, mostly to benefit a few owners of large parcels which they wish to develop, with no guarantees that already threatened Aquatic Park won't be further impacted. Measure M authorizes issuance of a general obligation bond "for Streets and Related Watershed Improvements" which is dangerously non-specific, essentially a blank check for spending the proceeds any old way. Continued neglect of watershed problems, including pollution at Aquatic Park and flooding in Southwest Berkeley, is anticipated by opponents of this measure.
More on these later, when we discuss the ballot measures in detail.
We're with the critics of Bates'stances on the issues—no supporter of either Measure S or Measure T deserves your vote if you call yourself progressive. We would be more than happy to see either Kriss Worthington or Jacquelyn McCormick as Berkeley's next mayor. Both have resoundingly denounced Anti-Sit Measure S and also Measure T. McCormick is more conservative than Worthington on some fiscal issues, but she's equally progressive when it comes to civil liberties and the environment.
Which one you rank first or second on your ballot is a matter of individual taste—the main difference seems to be that Worthington is more savvy about facts and figures and has had a lot more experience in local government (which might be the good news or the bad news.) He's already the real policy wonk on the council.
Third candidate Kahlil Jacobs-Fantauzzi's heart is in the right place, but it's not clear that his head follows. He'd make a good Number Three on a ranked choice ballot.
There are also two excellent challengers for District Two councilmember. Incumbent Darryl Moore has forfeited any claim to being a progressive by his lock-step fawning over the Mayor, including mindless support for both Anti-Sit Measure S and the wholesale sellout of his district which Measure T, the West Berkeley re-zoning proposal, represents.
Denisha DeLane, who's lived a long time in West Berkeley though she's pretty young by Berkeley council standards, has a long history with the NAACP and learned a lot about city government as the late Councilmember Margaret Breland's aide which she would put to good use as councilmember. Adolfo Cabral has been an active member of the West Berkeley Project Area Committee and many other civic organizations. They each have a long list of impressive supporters.
We're glad we don't live in District 2, because we'd have a terrible time deciding which of these two to rank Number 1 and which Number 2. It's too bad we can't have both on the council. Needless to say either would be head and shoulders above Moore—voters aren't required to specify a Number 3, and he doesn't deserve even a third place vote.
There's really no contest for District 3, where Councilmember Max Anderson has consistently been an eloquent spokesperson, not only for Berkeley's African-Americans, but for all residents of Berkeley's lowest-income area, Southwest Berkeley. Opponent Dmitri Belser, Executive Director of Center for Accessible Technology, appears from his ballot statement to have concentrated his civic activities primarily within the disability rights movement.
But in District 5, there's a real choice in an old-fashioned two person race. Incumbent Laurie Capitelli's main claim to fame is that he's become a loyal cog in the Bates machine—his ballot endorsers are predominantly fellow-cogs. He also sells real estate and has been an executive in a major real estate firm, though you'd never know that from his ballot statement, which coyly says just that he's a councilmember/businessman.
Challenger Sophie Hahn, on the other hand, is a smart, energetic woman, raised in Berkeley and active in important community organizations ranging from the PTA to the Zoning Adjustment Board. A graduate of Stanford Law, she's been putting her legal expertise to good use on the ZAB. By Berkeley City Council standards she's a youngster, probably in her late 40s or early 50s, and would bring a breath of fresh air into the increasing airless council, which looks more and more like a happy hunting ground for UC Berkeley retirees with time on their hands..
As we speak, things are heating up fast. We're hoping to list as many candidate forums and endorsement meeting as we can. One's coming right up: the Wellstone Club endorsement meeting this Thursday, September 6.. It's time to make up your own mind and join in the electoral process.


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ANAHEIM – With Boston's Dustin Pedroia on the disabled list, there is a strong chance the Angels will have three All-Stars in uniform when they host the July 13 Midsummer Classic at Angel Stadium.
Torii Hunter and Jered Weaver certainly deserve to represent the American League, and Howard Kendrick also has moved front and center as a legitimate candidate.
Kendrick, who banged his 50th RBI with a first-inning double against C.J. Wilson and the Rangers on Thursday night, is the logical candidate to join the Yankees' Robinson Cano on the American League roster.
Kendrick has been the most durable of the Angels, and one of the steadiest offensively and defensively. Only Cano among Major League second baseman have driven in more runs than Kendrick, who flourished in the leadoff role when Erick Aybar was out with a knee injury.
Kendrick went through a stretch when he was hitting in terrible luck, drilling balls at gloves on a nightly basis, but the hits started falling and he's been on a roll, batting .342 over his past 18 games.
A natural hitter with a stroke reminiscent of Derek Jeter's, Kendrick has put in most of his work on the defensive end – and it is paying off with improved glove work, notably in turning the double play.
"Howie's having a terrific season," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He's certainly deserving of All-Star consideration."
Hunter makes an even stronger case.
"Howard belongs on the team," Hunter said. "He deserves it." – Lyle Spencer
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Howie deserves to be an all star. He did a good job when Erick Aybar was out. Torii &Weaver is going to be an all star.
it's disappointing to only see Torii representing the Halos. As the host I was expecting more than one D:. I too am disappointed and I question why Jered Weaver is not in the AL roster! He is certainly deserving and so is Kendrick. OH well, not much we can do now. I am still excited to have the all star game in the Big A. It's a great place to play ball!


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Flags fly at half staff on the lawn of the Fountain County Courthouse in Covington, in honor of Marine Lance Corporal Joshua Witsman. Corporal Witsman was killed in action in Afghanistan Wednesday. He was on his second tour of duty.
Fountain County Clerk Patty Gritten knew Corporal Witsman his entire life, and said his dream was to serve his country.
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Abstract: Measuring innovation is a notoriously difficult task. Agricultural firms present additional complications due to the complexities and uncertainties linked to the sector. Among the increasing literature available on innovation, there is plenty of information about innovation measurement in manufacturing industries, but scarce contributions for the case of agricultural firms. Currently there is no concerted and/or published methodology for innovations measurement for such firms. This research proposes a methodology for measuring innovation and its key determinants in agricultural firms, based on three main tools. The first one is the Innovation Matrix (IM), an approach to a structured catalogue of the technology in the agricultural subsector under study. IM includes information about innovation technological level, in terms of its place on the technological spectrum of the subsector. IM also includes information about the frequency of innovation, which refers to the degree of adoption of a particular innovation among the farmers. The second tool is the Innovation Index (II), a single number that combines information about the technological level and frequency of the observed innovations. The basic idea of II is to assign higher values to firms that implement either less frequent or comparatively advanced innovations, relative to the ones implemented by its competitors. Since II is always a real non‑negative number, it is possible to use OLS estimation procedures (third tool) to enquire about the factors driving innovation processes in agricultural firms. We have applied this methodology to four agricultural subsectors in Colombia. The II results reveal relatively small values for most of the surveyed producers. At the same time, they provide evidence to support the claim that there are just a few innovative leaders in every chain. In general, the factors determining innovation are subsector‑specific, but there are still some general stylized facts for the whole agricultural sector. The main consequence of this finding is that innovation policy design for the agricultural sector must take into account the existence of both sectorial (common) and subsector (specific) factors.
Keywords: innovation matrix, innovation index, measure of innovation, agricultural firms, innovation drivers, transactional model
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Hulk Hogan is ready to talk.
Hogan, whose real name is Terry Bollea, is finally speaking out after a secret recording that showed him making racist remarks was leaked earlier this summer. In a pre-taped interview with ABC's "Good Morning America," Hogan admitted that this scandal has been harder than anything that he's ever been through, but he insisted he wasn't racist.
"I never should have said what I said," he confessed.
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The former WWE star opened up about the home environment in which he was raised and said that the n-word, which he used repeatedly in the recording while talking about daughter Brooke Hogan's dating life, was thrown around like it was "nothing." He also said he was infuriated about a situation that happened between Brooke and her boyfriend.
He also revealed that he was having suicidal thoughts around the time that he was taped. "I was at the lowest point of my life to the point where I wanted to kill myself," Hogan said. "I was completely broken and destroyed and said, 'What's the easiest way out of this?' I mean, I was lost."
As a result of the video leak, the WWE cut all ties with the wrestler and even erased all signs of him from their website.
NEWS: Hulk Hogan's attorney claimed he resigned before WWE terminated his contract
In a statement to E! News, the organization announced that it "terminated its contract with Terry Bollea (aka Hulk Hogan). WWE is committed to embracing and celebrating individuals from all backgrounds as demonstrated by the diversity of our employees, performers and fans worldwide."
After the announcement was made, Hulk issued his own apology. "Eight years ago I used offensive language during a conversation. It was unacceptable for me to have used that offensive language; there is no excuse for it; and I apologize for having done it," he told E! News.
"This not who I am. I believe very strongly that every person in the world is important and should not be treated differently based on race, gender, orientation, religious beliefs or otherwise. I am disappointed with myself that I used language that is offensive and inconsistent with my own beliefs."


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The Fourth International Moscow Festival comprises a series of exhibitions devoted to fashion and style including an exhibition of photographs by Horst P. Horst. Another major event is the exhibition Hollywood Celebrities: Edward Steichen's Vanity Fair' Portraits, drawn from the collection of the International Museum of Photography and Cinema George Eastman House, USA.
Also of special interest are two Russian historical projects: Life is Beautiful, Kitsch on Postcards and Photographs from the Mikhail Golosovski Collection, analyzing the popular notions concerning beauty and their evolution from mid-19th to the early 20th centuries; as well as Rodchenko's circle. People of Style, showing men and women from Aleksandr Rodchenko's milieu: photographers, artists, poets, the charismatic figures of Russian Avant-Garde.
The festival also includes the works of contemporary photographers, influential in shaping new trends in fashion and style: Sarah Moon, Miwa Yanagi, Erwin Olaf, Elaine Constantine, Joel-Peter Witkin , Alan Fleisher, Alya Esipovich, Marina Chernikova among others.


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|System: X360, PS3, PC
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|Dev: 2K Marin, 2K Australia, Digital Extremes, and 2K China
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|Pub: 2K Games
|2.0 - 2.4 = Poor
|4.5 - 4.9 = Must Buy
|Release: Feb 9, 2009
|2.5 - 2.9 = Average
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|Players: 1-10
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Certainly all of this combines to make you one of the toughest denizens of Rapture. Regardless, you'll need all the Plasmids you can harvest to survive the waves of Splicers, Big Daddies, and Big Sisters (new foes that are lithe, ADAM-seeking minions of Sofia Lamb). That's because BioShock 2 employs excellent level design. Choke points with multiple areas to defend abound, and there are a lot of environmental hazards of which to take advantage and be wary. Throughout the game you will be forced to use defensive and offensive strategies in order to defeat the waves of skilled and varied enemies that come for you.
Combat in BioShock 2 is marked by difficult pitched battle sequences. It is often impossible to properly protect your six, so you're forced to use a varied arsenal of mines and traps in addition to outright offensive capability. This game is rife with challenging situations that will send you to the Vita-Chamber (spawn point) if you're not meticulous in the way in which you bunker yourself. Though I was often frustrated by seemingly impossible odds, proper placement of booby-traps and well-timed use of weapons and Plasmids got me through even the excruciatingly difficult areas near the end of the game. In fact, in spite of the often grueling challenge, I recommend playing at a difficulty setting that is more advanced than your comfort zone; combat in BioShock 2 loses a lot when you fight below your weight.
Combat does get repetitive after awhile even if you're constantly challenged, and the game ends up feeling very formulaic. Essentially, you'll be doing the same things over and over throughout: Take out the Big Daddy, adopt its charge, harvest ADAM a couple times, kill or save the Little Sister, deal with the Big Sister, do it over again, take out the level boss, move on to the next zone. I really wish there were some puzzles to resolve (the new hacking sequences definitely don't count). Alas, you're simply a hulk blasting your way around the game.
The environments are as interesting as ever. From Pauper's Drop to Fontaine Futuristics, the world is full of details that make the setting feel real. The Art Deco style is wonderful, and the degraded halls of Rapture lend spookiness to the title that is greatly enhanced by the excellent lighting techniques. The enemy designs are creative, the Plasmids look great, and the textures are shiny and gritty in all the right spots. What's more, though the game is constantly rendering lots of action and effects at the same time, it runs very smoothly. There's no doubt this is a polished and beautiful game to play through.
The aural complements are just as engaging. The background themes truly heighten tension and intensity - the whine of screeching violins always brings the horror home. Effects are brilliant - I especially loved the squishy thuds and gory grinding sounds my drill would make against soft Splicer skin. Best of all, the voice acting is perfect. From the diary recordings to the often hilarious insane rumblings of the residents of Rapture, all the dialogue serves to deeply immerse the player in the world.
In addition to single-player, BioShock 2 offers a multiplayer experience. The multiplayer maps in BioShock 2 are quite different from the ruinous zones found in single-player. That's because multiplayer serves as something of a prequel to BioShock. Taking on the role of Plasmid test subjects for Sinclair Solutions, players will combat each other just before the absolute downfall of Rapture. As such, players will get to see the watery metropolis in its full grandeur, save for a few strategically-placed pools of water and flammable spills. Heading back into familiar areas such as Neptune's Bounty, Mercury Suites, and the Medical Pavilion, but in their heyday, is a visual treat that adds another layer of depth to the online action.
The multiplayer side of BioShock 2 is quite good. Familiar competitive and cooperative multiplayer game modes feel fresh and unique when contested in the halls of Rapture. The use of Plasmids, obviously, adds an element that makes multiplayer standout. Being able freeze competitors in their tracks, setting them alight, bashing their faces in with makeshift melee weapons (my favorite's the golf club), and suiting up as a Big Daddy (in certain game types) all combine to make for quality multiplayer gaming.
Furthermore, as is the case in single-player, you'll accrue new powers as you level up in multiplayer. In addition to Plasmids, Tonics (similar to perks), and varied weapon types (machine guns, revolvers, shotguns, etc.), levelling will give your characters more options and enhanced performance. In order to keep them all organized, you'll be able to save a number of load-outs depending on which maps and game types your set to play in. Multiplayer isn't going to blow you out of the water, but it is compelling enough to keep you in Rapture for a few dozen hours longer.
BioShock 2 is a great game that I thoroughly enjoyed playing. Unfortunately, the experience wasn't as fresh as I'd have liked. It seems like the dev teams didn't take enough chances for fear of alienating the rabid fan base. Still, despite the overwhelming familiarity of the title, there's a load of quality gaming to be found here. It's definitely worth suiting up and heading back into Rapture.
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Spring technically starts with the vernal equinox, defined as the moment when the sun crosses the celestial equator and day and night are of equal length. That happened while most of us were sleeping, at 1:14 a.m. Eastern time today, March 20. Factor in the time change and spring actually started on Monday, March 19, for the Mountain and Pacific time zones.
This year's vernal equinox is the earliest one since 1896, Scientific American reports. As the sun now moves north of the equator (at equinox, the sun hovered above the Indian Ocean, southeast of Sri Lanka), the technical early start to spring comes from the inexactness of our calendar and the Earth's slightly shifting orbit in relation to the sun.
Since our calendar was designed to chop up the seasons in four orderly sections, the changing position of the Earth in relation to its orbit around the sun (which gets even more convoluted when you factor in gravitational pulls from other planets) can slightly alter the length of each season. All that tugging pulls the equinox to and fro, but leaves it hovering around March 20. It isn't even uncalled for to have spring kick off on March 21, but that hasn't happened for 30 years.
Of course, all this talk of spring starting a tad early is purely astronomical. What most of us really care about is having the sun shine brighter, and more often. The warm weather doesn't hurt, either.
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Rhythm and blurs: Every day in NO is different
Normally a Charlottesville-based home inspector, Peter Drenan is on special assignment as a FEMA leader and a Hook stringer. This is the third in a series of dispatches from the Hurricane Katrina-ravaged Gulf Coast.
Life as a FEMA person is a little strange. The work days are long, but there are some funky aspects to the job that nobody really knows about.
While it's true that the days all blur together, the day and weeks actually have a funny little rhythm. Because of the Mayor's "look and leave" program, only about 25 percent of the population is living at home. A good number of folks come in for the weekend– I suppose that's when they're available from whatever they're doing during the week. They come back to town to work on cleaning their houses, cutting tree limbs, salvaging what they can before leaving again on Sunday.
It's a lot like being in Charlottesville when the students come back after the summer break. The roads are suddenly crowded, the restaurants full, and the stores mobbed. But after the weekend, everybody goes away and we pretty much have the place to ourselves again.
The "look and leave" policy creates a weekly rhythm in the debris world, too. We're stymied by the weekend traffic, so we damp down our efforts and catch up on past-due reports. Come Monday morning, after everybody has spent the weekend gutting and cleaning their houses and businesses, the piles of debris, damaged house sections, and private garbage overwhelms the narrow city streets again.
It takes us several days to work through the city– even with regular routes– and we've gotten through all the streets by Wednesday or Thursday. Friday is our most productive day of debris clearing since the streets are once again passable. And then all the folks come back for cleaning and demolition, and we start all over again.
All sorts of folks are here– the entire alphabet soup of governmental agencies– EPA,GAO, FBI, IRS, and on and on. There's more government business going on, so security is heightened: every gun-toting agency is represented, even government agencies that you wouldn't think of as being law enforcement– postal service, forestry department, park services, federal protective services, and a host of regular police and sheriff's departments, Army reserve and National Guard units from across the country.
We get our food at a little place called the "Feed Zone"– a hand-painted cardboard sign calls it the "French Quarter Café." Meals are free, and they're surprisingly good. It ain't New Orleans cuisine, but it's way better than fast food.
We have a medical tent, laundry facilities, bag lunches, ice and drinks. All free. Twice a day crowds of federal workers and support teams bunch together to share bread. Way too many guns and too much testosterone permeate any given meal in the "Feed Zone." Heaven forbid that a local police car should turn on a siren– half the people in the room whip their heads around, reach for their sidearms, and instinctively go into a protective crouch.
I'm living in a nice 4-Diamond hotel called the Omni Royal Orleans– sister hotel to our very own Omni at home. This is a beautiful place right in the heart of the French Quarter. Actually, "living" isn't really the right word. Most days run from 5am till about 8pm– and I run hard the whole time. Six days out of seven I get back to the hotel and just manage to make it to the other side of the room before falling asleep.
My fourth-floor room has a balcony overlooking Royal Street with wrought-iron chairs and a café table that make for a delightful respite. I would love to be able to spend a few days with my wife in this room– it would be almost perfect. But for now it's simply a place to take a quick nap and change clothes.
On Sundays I steal a little time for myself. I go out for a morning run atop of the levees along the Mississippi River where I can watch the sun rise over the water as I trot along. At the end of my run, over by Jackson Park at the Café Du Monde, I get a large black cup of their famous chicory coffee and a bag of beignets. I've been suspicious of beignets for some time now. I'm sure they have about half the nutritional value of funnel cakes, but the bakers make up for it by dunking them in a bag of powdered sugar.
For years I was convinced that no native New Orleaneans actually eat beignets– there's simply no practical way to eat them without getting covered in white powder. I believed that was the way the locals marked the tourists– they just looked for folks dusted with white powder.
Anyway, I take my chicory coffee and beignets to my little perch above the small streets of the Quarter and steal an hour for myself, sipping, eating, and reading the Sunday paper. This is my biggest treat of the week, a little time for me, a quiet morning and a stretch of solace.
This is my respite: it reminds me of being home on a Sunday morning in Charlottesville.


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Recently the idea of taxing billionaires out of existence was brought up by Elizabeth Warren as part of her run for president. She wants to use the proceeds from this tax to fund her idea of Medicare for everyone, so she thinks that a tax that discriminates against some people is a good idea, even though it would be a statutory taking and a violation of due process. Such ideas have come up in the past, but the basic problem with it still is that removing the incentive to be successful will stop
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Its too early to predict a winner in the 2020 presidential election with much confidence, but a few things have happened recently that provide some reasonable ideas. In early October, the Dems had another debate, and the alleged pundits think that Elizabeth Warren came off the winner, and Biden was in second, but Lizzie has since then come out with her 70 trillion dollar medical insurance plan, and Biden continues to plug along. I get the impression that Sanders is seen as falling, and the munchkins
Today (mon. 10/28/2019) I had a conversation about the 2020 presidential election. Over the weekend, Trump was booed and treated to the chant "Lock him up" at a World Series game. I recalled how I had thought a few years ago that 2020 may look a lot like 1860, when it comes to the presidential election. The person I was talking with agreed. Then we tried to figure out who the four major candidates will be. I don't recall who we determined on, but we didn't have confidence in the choices,
A few hours ago, I had a brilliant thought. I decided that I should investigate it, before I try to capitalize on it. Alas, I learned that others have had very similar ideas, so I cant make all of the money from it. But I realized that there is a good reason that can explain why we havent encountered any intelligent alien life, yet. The reason is: mitochondria, a sort of bacteria that provide energy to the eukaryote cells. Mitochondria are symbiotic cells that have their own DNA. It is thought
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I frequently wonder about those silly Earthlings. Most of them Have serious problems with science, math, mathematics, and logic. How did they manage to develop anything even vaguely like civilization? But I haven't been able to figure out why they have such problems. But I haven't been able to figure out why. Is it herd mentality (which would be an inborn tendency) that makes them believe without question anyone who is said to be an authority, or what, but most humans seem to have a need to agree


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All the word-number-picture games on UF have their own sub-forum now: Community Cafe Games. This will help not having the game threads cluttering the Cafe, and allow to have more fun going on. Some of the Cafe and Backyard discussions can be heavy, controversial and heated. This area is for fun stuff only, thanks u-g :)
PS: as of now, bean count is on in the forums games. Hum, fortunately (or not ;)) some have noticed :D


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The travel shaman
As head of Design Hotels AG, Claus Sendlinger shaped the hotels we like to stay in when we are abroad. After 25 years as CEO, he is now switching to a consulting role – we met him on Ibiza.
A cool breeze wafts in off the Mediterranean, caresses the hills and sets the shade-giving pines by the 200-year-old farmhouse swaying. A man with a bushy beard, sporting straw hat and poncho, strides across the open space. His eyes betray a strict but kind nature as he directs the Spanish workers busy bringing the building and garden up to scratch. The La Granja is putting on the style for the coming season – although "style" is the wrong word. The 11-room hotel in the north of the party island of Ibiza is, of course, an amazing place to stay, with its L-shaped pool, heavenly views, and rooms done out in the simple luxury of the Japanese wabi-sabi style. But the place aspires to greater things: to serve the creatives of the modern working world as an ark; to bring calm to hectic lives in which stock-market worlds collapse and shit storms rage.
This refuge was created by the man with the beard, Claus Sendlinger, 55, founder and CEO of Design Hotels AG. An excavator rumbles over the ground, shoveling away the gravel with its hefty bucket. "It's far too gray, makes it look like a parking lot!" barks Sendlinger. The man is a perfectionist, austere simplicity is what gladdens his heart. As head of the global consulting and marketing platform, he has seen countless hotel dreams blossom and fade in the past 25 years. His exclusive club started out with ten members, and by the end of 2018, it had 330 hostelries vying for guests under the Design Hotels banner. They pay good money for membership, and based on their contribution, they receive marketing and consulting, a corporate design or an interesting story in the company's internal media. Quite clearly, this is a win-win situation.
When this story is published, Sendlinger will no longer be in office, having relinquished his boss's chair to a long-serving manager from the Marriott Group. The U.S. hotel group has already been the majority shareholder since 2015. The old boss has now switched to a consulting role, initially for two years, meaning it's time for a résumé – and a conversation about the important things (in life).
Mr. Sendlinger, on the surface, La Granja looks like an exclusive boutique hotel. What do you see in it?
A mix of members' club and agritourism, farm-to-table restaurant and feel-good oasis. But most of all, a place that enriches and inspires. Take a look at the terraced beds sloping down from the main building: We have artichokes and cucumbers growing there, lots of different types of radishes, and kale, which recently joined the superfoods. All organic, of course. The chickens are clucking, and the scents of lemon and basil waft across the gardens. Only Coco, our domestic pig, doesn't smell so good, but that is also an experience for the senses.
You've already had many guests from Silicon Valley here, big names who got rich digitalizing the world. What can a converted farmhouse possible offer them?
What we're talking about here is a group of guests I like to call the "Utopian elite." They are the drivers of the digital revolution, the children of Californian hippy capitalism, people who, if they spare a thought for money at all, then only as philanthropists. They have radically changed our work environment and in the process became nomads themselves: Because a laptop and a stable WiFi connection is all it takes, surroundings have become a more important factor. These people are more interested in experiences than possessions, in a sense of community than going it alone, and in a certain spirit that manifests itself in places like the Burning Man Festival, in Berlin clubs and on the beach in the small Mexican town of Tulum.
Can you explain what you mean by spirit?
You find it in places that radiate spirituality. I am a great believer in geomancy, that's the art of recognizing and sensing good places. Take Ibiza, for instance. Before it became the symbol of party tourism, it attracted dropouts and free spirits, people searching for meaning encountered healers and shamans. Then came the techno disciples and together they celebrated rituals and worshipped nature. These days, there's a great longing for this kind of thing because being online nonstop leaves many people with a sense of emptiness. With projects like the La Granja, we try to fill the void. What we are aiming for here is a holistic concept of hospitality, where body and soul come together again.
At the La Granja, guests can also book a perfectly ordinary massage, but we take wellness a lot further. On a sand-colored stand hewn from local natural stone, we pay homage to the setting sun. We hold slow food workshops at the chef's table in front of the open kitchen. A meditation room reverberates with sounds emanating from singing bowls. And the predominant color in the spacious rooms is an ash gray reminiscent of a monk's cell. Stylish asceticism for upwards of 350 euros a night – always fully booked. And that is precisely why it would also be wrong to take Sendlinger for an unworldly esoteric. He is first and foremost a businessman, constantly on the lookout for the next big thing – and so far, his instincts have served him well.
You founded Design Hotels AG 25 years ago with the idea of marketing small, superior hotels with a good story. Where did you spot the gap in the market?
It was a terrible time for hotel guests back then. The U.S. chains were expanding, so that every city in Germany ended up with its American "embassy": poor design, a squishy club sandwich, and faceless rooms like so many identical shoeboxes. My partners and I were organizing training camps for professional soccer teams at the time. We also held raves in the Augsburg area featuring top DJs from Frankfurt, Detroit and London. These people hated their hotels. That's where we spotted an opportunity.
But DJs are a very small demographic…
…but an immensely important one! Techno was making the long journey from underground to mainstream back then. The heads of that movement, people like my good friend Sven Väth, all came from the same set from which all the important trends still emerge to this day. The U.S. sociologist Richard Florida dubbed them the "creative class": musicians, media makers, and artists. There's a strong sense of community within that group, and we put it to good use in the first design hotels: We revitalized the lobbies, played good music and developed bar and restaurant concepts that resonated with the neighborhood so that the hotel became a social venue. There was nothing new about the idea: Think of the Waldorf Astoria in New York and the Adlon in Berlin back in the Roaring Twenties. Hotels were once the center of social life.
So far, we have talked about people and their needs, not about facilities and furnishings. Why did you call your company "Design Hotels"?
For one thing, our target group had a keen aesthetic awareness, and for another, we had role models like the Paramount Hotel in New York, for instance, which was reopened in 1990 by Ian Schrager, who once ran the Studio 54. The French designer Philippe Starck was responsible for the entire interior design – a sensation. People would pay any price for a room! The third reason was more prosaic: We lacked the money to promote an invented name. The term "design hotel" was already out there, but no one was called that. We recognized that and shamelessly capitalized on it. From then on, every journalist writing about a well-designed hotel was doing free PR for us.
Today, there are hundreds of hotels from Göttingen to Bali under the brand umbrella,. The majority shareholder is the Marriot Group, a giant in the industry and naturally fixated on turning a profit. How can it still be possible for all of these hotels to share a common identity?
We receive membership applications from around 400 hotels each year. Only five percent are accepted. The human factor plays a very important role for us at every stage in the selection process. What's behind the concept? Who will be the face of the hotel? Does that person fit into our truly very large family? Our slogan is: "Made by Originals" – because every house party is only as good as its host.
What other criteria are there?
Design is still relevant but nowhere near to the extent that it used to be. You'll find every Motel One has an Arne Jacobsen chair in its lobby today. So what? We go for a mix of art, architecture and the desire to follow our own path. How does the hotel restaurant aim to influence the city's gastro scene? What kind of relationship will we have with the neighbors? Are we landing a UFO on a district or will it be an exciting place that enriches local life? These are some of the questions we have to ask the applicants. After all, it's our credibility that's at stake.
Sendlinger has invited us to dinner at his home. Reporter and photographer climb with him into an old Land Rover Defender. On the short drive, he talks about his most recent trip, to the Kingdom of Bhutan. The country made a deep impression on him. Can he actually switch off on a trip like that? "I had my cell phone in flight mode for two weeks," Sendlinger claims. That's hard to believe of a CEO, but leadership really does seem to work through trust with him. He has every faith that the 100-strong team staffing his Berlin headquarters has everything under control.
A little later, José Catrimán, the Argentine head chef of the La Granja, is cooking up a storm at the stove in Sendlinger's old finca. He serves up fennel soup with almond milk and edible flowers followed by hummus-filled celery ravioli, lemon chicken and papaya cheesecake. Sendlinger's Spanish girlfriend, Lorena, a nutritionist, fills our glasses with organic wine. Alec and Neo, Sendlinger's two sons from his now-divorced Russian wife, are flitting around. Lorena and the cook speak Spanish with each other, the sons speak English with their father, and he responds to interview questions in German.
The concept of "Heimat," which has no exact equivalent in English but denotes a sense of belonging, or home, is celebrating a comeback in Germany right now. There's even a federal "homeland ministry" devoted to it. What do you, a notorious cosmopolitan, associate with the word?
The feeling I get when I step onto a Lufthansa airplane after an exhausting day in Delhi.
Seriously …?
Absolutely. After all the noise, all of the intense smells and impressions, that's when I feel I'm coming home.
Thank you, the Lufthansa crews will be pleased to hear that.
Otherwise, Augsburg will always be my home. I have the great good fortune that my parents are still alive. I try to visit them as often as I can with my kids. I want my sons to get to know it all: typical regional specialties, like Spätzle mit Soß'(a kind of pasta with sauce) and schnitzel with potato salad, the mountains, the language – and of course, FC Bayern, my soccer team.
Does a global life need a local anchor?
Good question. I am a great beneficiary of globalization, which is why I am in favor of the process. But it also needs to be well presented and properly implemented or people soon feel left behind. And I regard a sense of or connection with home as something that should be cultivated and not thrown away. Regional identities aren't just a matter of emotional value for people. Take UNESCO and its seal of Intangible Cultural Heritage, for example: A seal awarded for a custom, a tradition or a dish also gives its native town or region an advantage on the world tourism map.
There is currently a rising fear of mass tourism in many parts of the world …
Overtourism is a huge problem. Sadly, many regions have not learned from the mistakes of others. History is repeating itself. Many coastal strips in Southeast Asia are simply being built up in the same way as southern European coastlines were when tourism boomed after World War II – a sad development.
What can be done to prevent it?
We have to be more aware and more careful in what we do, live more sustainable, environmentally friendlier lives, learn and share our insights and knowledge. We can make a start in our private lives: I have already planted several trees with my sons, for instance. I want them to grow up with a respect for nature. And I am going to work on SLOW hotel concepts that I hope will have a lighthouse effect on the entire industry. The name is an acronym for "sensitive, local, organic and wise."
One more question for instinct person Claus Sendlinger: What destination is set to boom in the next few years?
Portugal. The country has the potential to become the California of Europe.
This story first appeared in Lufthansa Exclusive, the frequent traveller magazine. For more information about Lufthansa Miles & More offers, please click here.


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Tucked neatly inside today's Monday Morning QB is Jim Trotter's report on the tense moments leading up to Thursday's original lockout deadline, and one player who — complete with throat-slashing gesture — jumped the gun on decertification. But what's most fascinating, as a seven-day extension ticks away, is that the players seem to hold the biggest bargaining chip.
Wrote Trotter:
With only five minutes to go before the union's deadline to decertify last Thursday — a move that might have obliterated the NFL as we know it today — a player walked into the negotiating room that included commissioner Roger Goodell, league attorney Jeff Pash, NFLPA executive director DeMaurice Smith and union president Kevin Mawae and declared: "We're done! We're decertifying."
At that point the aforementioned player — whose name is being withheld because of the sensitivity of ongoing negotiations — walked into the room upstairs, tapped Mawae on the shoulder and made a quick hand-across-the-throat gesture while making his decertification declaration.
According to sources, the union had a member of its legal team on the phone with the clerk of the court in Minneapolis, where U.S. District Judge David Doty presides over the case. Cooler heads ultimately prevailed, and the league agreed to the first of two extensions.
The issue here is not who the anonymous player was (despite Pro Football Talk devoting many words to an educated guess of Drew Brees). The issue here is just how powerful decertification is as a weapon. The players know it, and you're damn right the league knows it.
The crux is this: if the union decertifies before the CBA expires, the players would bring an antitrust case in the event of a lockout. That case would be heard by Judge David Doty, who's already taken the players' side in one crucial decision.
That would explain our unnamed player's pantomiming a mortal blow, and it would explain Patriots owner Robert Kraft's attempt to head off decertification "by striking a point he has repeated through the process, that it was 'time to the get the lawyers out of the room' and 'let the business people do a deal.'"
Smell that? That's fear, fear that a federal judge may not see things the way the owners want us to see them. Sense that? The fact that for once, the players have leverage on their side. All those reports throughout the season of teams voting to decertify have finally paid off, with a nuclear option that the league may not be willing to face. And if they're not, the only remaining option is to get a deal done.


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Poshmark: Buy & Sell Fashion 4+
Shop & make money from home
Poshmark, Inc.
- #19 in Shopping
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Poshmark is the leading marketplace to buy and sell fashion.
***Shop over 5,000 brands in every size—including plus size, petites, and juniors—at up to 70% off retail
***Sell and turn your closet into cash. List your items for free!
Shop. Sell. Style. Party.
Whatever you're shopping for, Poshmark's got it—for much less than at discount clothing retailers and outlets like Nordstrom Rack and TJ Maxx. With over a million dollars worth of new and gently used merchandise added to the marketplace daily, you will find amazing fashion and beauty finds from the hottest brands like Louis Vuitton, Michael Kors, MAC Cosmetics, Nike, Brandy Melville and more!
Need ideas for what to wear to your next date or that upcoming wedding? Do you hate getting dressed in the morning? Poshmark has millions of of outfit ideas for you. Shop the personal style and closets of other Poshers today, or request to be styled by your favorite Stylist!
Do you have items in your closet that didn't work out? Maybe a designer handbag, statement shoes, or even your old wedding dress you wore once and won't ever wear again? Poshmark is the #1 online consignment solution for a girl to sell her unwanted clothing in order to buy new things she's coveting, providing an alternative to Goodwill and other consignment stores like Buffalo Exchange. 1 in 50 American women have their closets open for sale on Poshmark—you could be next!
Party on the go, no matter where you're at! Join the thousands of women who come together three times a day, seven days a week to participate in our themed virtual Posh Parties. Create new listings, share and shop together! Have Tory Burch, Forever 21, or Zara on the brain? There's a party for you.
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My 1st year on Poshmark
I started selling on Poshmark in January of '19 to sell a pair of expensive shoes that I just couldn't wear and was hoping to recoup some of my investment. I've always just given my clothes away or donated them but my husband saw an ad for PM and said I should give it a try. I was so impressed and relieved to discover how easy it was to create a page, list an item and sell it! I sold my shoes within a week and decided to list a few more things. Well a few things soon evolved into a few hundred then several hundred and I realized I was running a small business. My first year as a part time seller was very successful and I decided if I could work a little harder this could be a full time business. Unfortunately this past December I was hit with a cancer diagnosis and am now going through a treatment process of getting myself well. But the great news is that I am still able to continue with my Poshmark business, although part time, because it's so easy to do! I may have had a slight set back but my closet is still going strong and I am loving it. My goal is to get well then eventually be a full time seller & business owner. My husband even wants to get involved. He could be my first employee 😉. Thanks so much Poshmark with providing an excellent selling platform! I'm loving it💖
All the best & Posh On!
Great selling & buying platform
I've been a seller & buyer on Poshmark for about 2 years now. I've made many sales. It's not my main source of income but I make lots of extra spending money! There are definitely some bad sellers out there as well as scamming buyers, but the ratio of good to bad is slim. Before purchasing, I always check for Love Notes (reviews), what their ship time avg is, and if they've been active recently. I've had nothing but good purchases from Doing so! Also if something ever goes wrong as far as not getting the right item or item is damaged, you can always open a case and return and/or get a refund. The one thing that ticks me off about posh is the amount of junk & replicas being sold when they are clearly either not allowed or illegal! And we as sellers/buyers are the ones who basically have to get them removed. I wish posh had more security and was able to instantly remove listings that are unallowed. This is a clothing/accessory/shoes/new, not swatched makeup platform ONLY. I wish they would do more to keep it so! Its also really frustrating when I'm trying to find something from a certain brand and there are so many items from a different brand mistagged for "exposure". I could report them all, but that would take months! There are so many unallowed listings and rules being broken and they need to do something about it besides having us sort through them in our own time at no cost.
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Better for buyers
I buy and sell, and it's def better for buyers than sellers. You can make offers and communicate easily with sellers. There are some great deals to be had. Just make sure you ask all your questions and request pics until you're confident you want to buy since there are no returns (except when something has been blatantly misrepresented).
Selling, on the other hand, has downsides that are the flip side of the same coin. People make ridiculous lowball offers. For example, say I've used a $200 handbag just a few times but then for whatever reason need some cash. I list for $100 which is a fair price and very good deal (keeping in mind I won't be getting the full $100 anyway), and someone comes in offering $40. It's just insulting and a waste of my time and I don't even want to bother negotiating. This obv isn't the app, but worth mentioning because it's part of the overall Poshmark experience. I'd say the vast majority of buyers behave like this. Out of every 25 transactions, probably only 1 is a straight up purchase at listed price. Plus, you have to put a LOT of work into keeping your items visible and be super active on the app.
But the worst part about selling is the 20% fee. I've ended up making $2 on an item before. The best part about selling is how the shipping label is just emailed to you so you can just pop the item into the drop box. Honestly not sure I would do this over again - I'd look into other apps for sure.
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I felt a great disturbance in the Gayzzoli last night, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. And those millions of voices were crying, "Wait, what? No gayzzoli before the opening credits?" Sorry, no gayzolli before the credits. Just a father and his grown son assaulted by an armed gunman who then kills the older man. What is this, a real crime show or something?
At Casa Isles-Rizzoli, Dr. Maura Isles is working late when there's a knock at the door. It's Ian. We don't like Ian immediately. We don't like Ian because as soon as Maura opens the door she jumps into his arms and they start making out. In fact, we hate Ian. That lucky bastard.
I think the only way we're all going to make it through this episode is if we pretend Ian isn't Ian at all, but Maura's butch first girlfriend from college. In fact, if you squint and tilt your head you can totally see it. And, as we all know, our relationships with our first girlfriends are often complicated and unresolved. So, now it all makes sense. Also, from this point on Ian will be referred to only as That Lucky Bastard – because he is one.
At the crime scene, Det. Jane Rizzoli limps over to examine the body. She's having a problem with her toe, but even Jane's limping has swagger. Also, please note the convenient placement of her glove. Tucking your latex glove into the front of your chunky belt is kind of like Handkerchief Code for dummies.
Jane asks Korsak impatiently, "Where is Maura?" Korsak retorts, "Can't do this without your BFF?" That's LLBFF to you, buddy. And, no, clearly she cannot. Jane calls her confidential informant Rondo instead to get some scoop. You've got to admire Rondo's gumption, calling Jane "Vanilla" and hitting on her openly. A for effort, F for any possibility of success.
Maura finally arrives, a little winded. When Jane asks where she had been, she replies "bed." Well, that's probably not technically a lie. They could have gone from the couch to the bed. Jane senses the disturbance in the Gayzzoli, and also notices Maura has on two different kinds of shoes – one back pump and one blue pump.
Maura makes an excuse about getting dressed in the dark. And then quickly deflects when she notices Jane's limp. She says it's because Jane buys her boots a half size too small – and stomps. Even after her unfortunate interlude with That Lucky Bastard, Maura manages to slip in a little quickie eye sex with Jane. I've got to give it to her: The woman has great stamina.


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3 Reasons You Need SEO: An Argument
The Dissolution of SEO Misinformation
Scouring the blogs lately, I've seen a couple get frank with the SEO community about respecting one another and "SEO haters" and misinformation. So a special thanks to Graywolf's SEO Blog and Search Engine Roundtable and for leading the way with two good posts on the subject.
Myself, I've never really been accused of "ruining search" or manipulating search engines for my own gain (or my clients'). In fact, I've never really heard anything but thanks for helping to stave off a massive decline in leads and sales with the work I do.
A SEOs mission, at least it should be, is to make, like Google and other SEs, the best possible information available to users. I don't consider it "manipulation" or "spamming" by following the rules set in place in order to give you, the user, the most relevant information available.
We're not saintly, none of us can claim to be, but we are Good Samaritans. There isn't an industry I can think of that is virginal and doesn't have the "smudge" they'd rather not talk about. I've dropped the holier-than-thou act, and you, as a "hater" or whatever negative attitude you bring to the SEO party, should as well. We all have dirt under our fingernails.
Here's why you want SEOs to continue doing SEO for you:
SEOs clarify and refine page information in SERPs
SEOs make the web a better experience for you:
SEOs help Mom and Pop level the playing field:
So, the next time you're about to bash, hate, or be disrespectful to an SEO, think about these three reasons above, and think about your own industry.


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