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(Excerpt) Interview with Paul Stet : Frank Scott: What is the main principle, idea and inspiration behind your design?. Paul Stet : Soldiering on the daily tasks we often need to carry all sorts of items: a tablet, a book, a notebook, phone, wallet. The containers for that are often too large, too sloppy, too heavy or simply dull. Sometimes all you need is simply an XL pocket tight to your body. .Frank Scott: What has been your main focus in designing this work? Especially what did you want to achieve?. Paul Stet : Being able to safely and comfortably carry just a few essentials and not sacrificing the look. .Frank Scott: What are your future plans for this award winning design?. Paul Stet : I intend to do a smaller version of it. .Frank Scott: How long did it take you to design this particular concept?. Paul Stet : It took a year, from first sketches and prototypes to getting stock of components and building the first batches. .Frank Scott: Why did you design this particular concept? Was this design commissioned or did you decide to pursuit an inspiration?. Paul Stet : I designed this particular concept because I saw a lot of potential to it's uniqueness and problem-solving. I had this idea and decided to take action encouraged by tons of good feedback. .Frank Scott: Is your design being produced or used by another company, or do you plan to sell or lease the production rights or do you intent to produce your work yourself?. Paul Stet : I am producing it at the moment. .Frank Scott: Who is the target customer for his design?. Paul Stet : Mostly male, 30-50 .Frank Scott: What sets this design apart from other similar or resembling concepts?. Paul Stet : The suspenders and the connecting system are unique to all the other shoulder holsters, the secured magnetic closing and the overall look. .Frank Scott: Which design tools did you use when you were working on this project?. Paul Stet : Sketchup, Solidworks, Keyshot, scissors, thread and needle, cutter, etc. .Frank Scott: What is the most unique aspect of your design?. Paul Stet : The strap system, it is very comfortable, adjustable and versatile. The long suspender can be clipped in many positions (front-side-back) or even detached. It is great for servicing reason or if user wants to wear the holster just as a bag. .Frank Scott: Who did you collaborate with for this design? Did you work with people with technical / specialized skills?. Paul Stet : I collaborate with a fashion Designer and a leather specialist (shoemaker). .Frank Scott: What are some of the challenges you faced during the design/realization of your concept?. Paul Stet : Working with leather is different than working with any other material. We had to create a bespoke manufacturing flow for the holster, particularly the thermo-forming of the wall hardener required refined craftsmanship. .Frank Scott: How did you decide to submit your design to an international design competition?. Paul Stet : I received very good feedback from anyone who saw the holster and tried it/buy it and because it was a personal project I decided to see if a specialized board would appreciate it too. .Frank Scott: What did you learn or how did you improve yourself during the designing of this work?. Paul Stet : I basically learn from the scratch how to work with leather, I wa.[ End of Excerpt: Read complete interview with Paul Stet on Carter Tablet Shoulder Holster at design-interviews.com ]
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Ovel Watches:Tornado and Grand Prix
Ovel's intriguing descriptions for their watches are far more fun than some of the more painfully portentous press releases so beloved of major Swiss watch brands.
Ovel Watches describe their two models Tornado and Grand Prix as:
'Modern and effective with a brand-new manufacturing method, the chronograph is the wristwatch of the future which sheds light and transparency through the darkness of the past. Thanks to its extravagance, it has escaped the classical estimation criterion and projects itself as a reference for the new generation.'
With the imposing 44mm case for Grand Prix and the 42mm case for Tornado, Ovel are out to make a fashion statement with watches that show themselves not merely beyond the shirt cuffs but also the jacket sleeves.
That's fine as long as the jacket sleeve isn't tucked under the watch in a desperate attempt to show it off.
As Ovel confidently states: "the harmonious proportions and the classical design make of this blend of Swiss quality and contemporary styling, an everlasting timepiece that will never go out of fashion."
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Oct. 28 – Six engine manufacturers will pay $83.4 million in fines in an agreement reached with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in the government's lawsuit over diesel emissions – the largest civil penalty ever for violation of environmental laws, the EPA announced last week.
The EPA alleged the engine manufacturers programmed 1.3 million electronic engines sold since as early as 1988 to act one way during the agency's emissions tests and another way during actual operation. The EPA test simulated urban, stop-and-go driving, but the agency said the engines' fuel-saving mode at highway speeds produced higher levels of toxic emissions, in effect making the computer chips "defeat devices."
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In addition to the $83.4 million in fines, the engine makers agreed to spend another $109 million on environmental projects. Cummins, Caterpillar, Detroit Diesel, Mack Trucks, Navistar International and Volvo Trucks each signed a separate consent decree. Fines ranged from $2.9 million to $25 million.
It is unclear how the accelerated emissions timetable will affect the trucking industry. Many in the industry are worried that changes to the engines will significantly reduce fuel economy.
Stephanie Williams, head of environmental policy at the California Trucking Assn., was furious.
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"A lot of the people who bought those trucks to get a certain mpg will no longer be able to afford them," she said.
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Wang Lei was born in 1980 in Henan, China, and is one of the
most prominent contemporary artists in China. Wang Lei has an eye for intimate details and subtleties. He brings an art piece to life by
absorbing all historical and social factors as a subtle culture within layers of time. We see this not only in the context of his artwork but
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He uses paper and twists it into long, delicate threads which are then woven into reproductions of Chinese robes. The manipulation of this tough-textured paper into the composition of such an exquisite garment highlights the problems surrounding the relationship between viewer perceptions and reality. Wang Lei also draws attention to the often-disputed interconnectedness of traditional and contemporary art, focusing on the reverence for history and tradition as a central obstacle which hinders the acceptance of contemporary art in China. Read More
Wang Lei was born in 1980 in Henan, China, and is one of the most prominent contemporary artists in China. He gained an MA in Arts from the Department of Experimental Art of Central Academy of Fine Arts and currently lives in Beijing and Luoyang. Wang Lei has an eye for intimate details and subtleties. He brings an art piece to life by absorbing all historical and social factors as a subtle culture within layers of time. We see this not only in the context of his artwork but also in the process of designing and creating. Wang Lei's artworks succeed in its contemporary agenda to communicate with a vast range of audiences from different backgrounds.
This series is based on traditional clothes and costumes during the Ming Dynasty. The routine of donning the uniform was not solely for fashion, but has always been a marker of social status. Wang Lei challenges the costume's subject matter of taste and class by casting it in a completely different framework. Wang Lei employs materials that have always been defined as non-wearable. Yet, he chooses materials which have meaning that are open to interpretation, based on how people perceive its use. This leads everyone's thoughts to a paradox, and paradoxes are deeply entangled within our contemporary lifestyles. The duplicities and multiplicities in meaning exist to inform our improvement, growth, comfort and enlightenment. It is within these paradoxes that we seek individualism and attempt to create a new identity. Similarly, in Wang Lei's art, he weaves paradoxes into the creation of his traditional details and delicate craftwork. The devotional application of his knitting method seemingly disregards the conceptual and reckless approach of his extrapolated artistic inspiration. It is within this dialogue that his artworks may be discussed in a pro-conceptual manner. For example, in his Ming Dynasty Customs series, Wang Lei reproduces one of the famous designs with a completely new material – paper from a Chinese-English dictionary. He tediously knits the paper in an accurate manner such that all the textures and patterns follow the right traditional process. He dedicates himself to this process of creation as he believes that such commitment will raise the concept of his art to a sacred position that will be deemed worthy.
Wang Lei questions the quality of everyone's approach to the matter of creating a new social identity in this innocuous series of toilet paper cloths. The process of making the artwork with his own hands and the dedication he puts in to knit each one of the cloths accurately, demonstrates how he admires the traditional ways of reproducing time-consuming handmade traditions in different designs, forms, patterns and styles in order to create profound visual conversation. The primary feeling that is evoked when one views Wang Lei's artworks is the sanctity contained in a delicate piece of handicraft work. As we reflect on this feeling of warmth, it is perhaps a candid recognition of the quality of choices and the background of our customs that define us as a responsible member of our society.
2007 My Story - Nominated Award Exhibition of the 5th Light of Academe, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2008 Art Basel - Miami, Miami, USA
2008 China - Europe Exhibition of Paper Art, Austrian Museum of Paper-making, Steyrermühl, Austria
2008 Chinese Contemporary Art Documents, Wall Art Museum, Beijing, China
2010 The Start of a Long Journey: 2010 CAFA Excellent Graduation Works Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2011 The Decade of the Rabbit, White Rabbit Collection, Sydney, Australia
2011 Harmonious Differences-Second Experimental Art Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
2012 Unimaginative: Installation Art Exhibition, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2012 Second Art Stage Singapore, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2012 Starting: China Sculpture Institute Tour for Young Artists, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2012 The Conversation: Wang Lei Solo Exhibition, Modern Art Gallery, Taiwan; Found Museum, Beijing, China
2013 Chengdu Biennale, The New International Exhibition Center, Chengdu Inter-Vision, A Contemporary Art Exhibition Across the Straits
2013 National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Taiwan Art Museum, Taiwan
2013 Gradualness: 2013 Young Artists Research Exhibition, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China; Wuhan Art Museum, Wuhan, China
2013 Dancing Soul on Paper: Wang Lei's Art Exhibition, International Financial Museum, Beijing, China; Chinese Museum of Funds, Suzhou, China
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Thingamajig Theatre Company has added adult scene study classes to their schedule, alongside the Whatchamawhozits Children's Theatre Camp that runs in July.
The adult classes are open to beginners and advanced performers alike, ages 16 and up, and are taught by Thingamajig summer stock actor Kurt Brighton (Sir Bevidier in "Spamalot," and Harry in "Full Monty").
The classes will be held on six Saturdays from noon to 2 p.m. starting Saturday July 6. Actors can sign up for one class at a time at $25 each or by registering for all six classes for only $125. Class space is limited. Call 731-7469 to register or come by the Pagosa Springs Center for the Arts.
Registration is also open for Thingamajig Theatre Company's children's summer camp. The Whatchamawhozits' Summer Camp runs July 1-18, Monday through Thursday, from 9 a.m.-3 p.m., with a performance of the Disney musical "Aristocats" on July 20.
Camp is run by Laura Moore, who has years of experience running the children's theatre program at the Backstage Theatre in Breckenridge, being the educational director for the Lake Dillon Theatre Summer Camp, as well as performing in and direction numerous professional productions, including the nationally-renowned Arvada Center Children's Theatre program.
Camp is taught by the professional singers, actors and dancers in Pagosa Springs for Thingamajig's summer season. This is a wonderful summer activity for kids that strengthens their confidence, expands their horizons, teaches them the crafts of theatre, exposes them to professionals in the field and is simply a rambunctious fabulous summertime activity.
The summer camp is a bargain for early registration at only $300 for the full three weeks or $150 for the first week.
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Facebook co-founder and chief executive Mark Zuckerberg was awarded his first patent -- after first applying in 2006.
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Playing in his first French Open final and facing the King of Clay, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic did amirably well in a four-set in a 64, 63, 26, 75 loss this morning.
Djokovic had won 27 straight Grand Slam matches to reach his first final and Paris and at stake for the Serb was the historic "Djoker Slam". Nadal, who also denied Roger Federer a similar feat, was too strong in the end breaking Djokovic's serve twice today.
Djokovic will gain ranking points from last year when he reached the semifinals. He is not entered at any Wimbledon grass warm-up events. He will defending his Wimbledon title two weeks from today when he opens first round play.
Here's Novak after the match:
Q. I guess of course you're disappointed. What maybe are you regretting the most about this final in two days? How have you lived with this tension?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, this has been a strange final with delays and conditions and two days' length of match. I'm just happy to be in this position, you know, to be playing finals at Roland Garros.
I could easily have lost the match in fourth round or even more against Tsonga, but I managed to come to the finals for the first time in my career. I should be happy about that, of course. I will be and I am, but in this moment I am disappointed about this loss because I thought I started to play better in the third set and felt like I could take this match to a fifth set, and then, you know, everything could be possible, but, yeah, unfortunately there has been a rain delay yesterday when I started to feel really good on the court.
But look, you know, I don't want to find an excuse in that, because the first rain delay maybe helped me a little bit; the second helped him.
So that's the way it goes, and the better player won today. So congratulations for that.
Q. Just to take you back to last night, did you think that the conditions, when you went off, were any worse than the conditions when you actually resumed?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Yeah, they were really bad, the conditions yesterday, because it was raining for a while, but, you know, going back now, it's really hard to say and to put a you know, there are decision makers, and there are people who know what is good for players and what is not good for players.
Of course we were all communicating in the locker rooms with the ITF and ATP officials and tournament organizers in order to come up with the best decision, and I was ready to continue on and play last night. I thought around 8:00 the rain stopped, but they decided to stop because the weather conditions were not good and the court was not in a good condition.
So I was okay with that. You know, I am not putting a blame on anybody. No, no, look, you know, I'm not going back and saying, Okay, it's your fault, your fault, because I lost.
It's unfortunate, because I think I was playing better and I was feeling really well on the court. Today he started off really strong. I started a bit slower. It was a little bit unfortunate in that first game, and things turned around.
Q. Regardless of the outcome, what could you say about the quality of tennis you played the last two days? Is it probably some of the best you played this tournament?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Oh, for sure, you know. First two sets I was serving really bad, and I think I allowed him to put a lot of pressure on my serves and made a lot of breaks.
After that, I started serving better and I was in the court, and, you know, I was playing really aggressive. Finally I felt, you know, great on the court.
You know, we almost played four hours. I thought we played a fantastic match where people hopefully enjoyed yesterday and today, and I was even surprised with the number of people who attended this match today. It was a working day, but it was still a full stadium.
It's beautiful, you know. These matches make you feel like all the work that you put into it is worth you know, you're living for this moment to play finals of any Grand Slam, and sometimes you win; sometimes you lose.
I lost this time. But I believe that there are still many years to come, and hopefully I can come back stronger.
Q. You have been chasing the dream of the Novak Slam, and I know that you said that it's been in your mind but not in the front of your mind all year. Do you think that the disappointment that's now gone for a little while will affect you now for the next few days?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Disappointment is there because I lost the match. You know, I lost the finals. Yes, there was obviously opportunity to make a history, as well.
But it was not a primary thought in my mind, so right now I am still under impression of the match, so I have now a week off. Then I'm going to go to practice on grass before Wimbledon.
Q. I have two questions. First one is you played much better always in this tournament in like the second half of the match against Seppi, Tsonga and even the final. So starting from zero today, how long did you make your warmup before, and was it a problem for you, the fact that the second half was that now the beginning of the match? And the second question is do you think that you won the hearts of the French crowd with this final more than ever?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: As I understood the first question, you are questioning my warmup, if it's good enough or…
Q. You always play better…
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I understand what you're saying. You are saying that I'm not warming up well? I warm up very long, trust me. I'm warming up very long, and we are taking care of the routine that I have, so maybe it happened now, but usually I am always aware and ready for the start of the match, okay.
Maybe it happened that a couple of matches I started worse than I've played in the second part, but okay, you know, I cannot get into the details now.
But regarding the French crowd, I hope I did, you know. I thought I had lots of support, and I'm very thankful for that. You know, in these matches, when you're playing top player, somebody that is recognized all over the world, you know, a true champion, Nadal and Federer and all these guys have so much fans and so much support, and to be able to have, when I play against them, this much support, is really something, you know. I appreciate that.
Q. I know it's very early to look back on stuff, but it's the only chance we've got to ask you. How much of a factor going through this tournament was the four Grand Slams in a row, and did that affect you moving through the rounds?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: It didn't. It really didn't. I mean, I was excited about this opportunity. Nothing more than that, really.
Q. Were you at all distracted by what appeared to be a noise from the crowd before that last serve?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: There was a lot of noises between the serves throughout the whole match, so I can't really no, I wasn't.
Q. What can you say about Rafa? Still you feel like the best clay court player in the history of tennis? Do you recognize him like still is big, big rivalry between him and you in the coming years?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, he's definitely best player in history, I mean, on this surface, and results are showing that he's one of the best ever players that played this game. I mean, he's only 26 years old.
We are very young, and we played over 30 times against each other, and hopefully we can have many more battles in the next years.
Q. This is obviously the fourth Grand Slam that you have played against him in the final. Do you think it's good for tennis that you two are so dominant at the biggest tournaments?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: I think so. I believe so. I mean, obviously Federer and Nadal have still, I think, the biggest rivalry in the sport, I mean, because they have been at the top for so many years, they have been so dominant. I mean, I just joined that rivalry, I think, you know, just recently, couple years ago.
You know, I think the sport is experiencing some really good times now. We're attracting a lot of attention to men's tennis because we have, you know, these two great players, and Murray, myself, and we really have some great players, some charismatic players, a lot of personalities. This is good for tennis.
Q. This season on clay, Nadal was the most consistent player while you were less consistent than him. Do you think the final reflected the season on clay? If you could look back on the clay court season, is there anything you would change?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Well, I don't think I was not consistent enough. I mean, I was less consistent than him, if you want to say that. Yeah, I played three finals. He has won three finals against me. It's tough to be more consistent than that, you know, on this surface.
Okay. Last year I lost only one match on clay, French Open semifinals. But look, you know, things happen for a reason, you know. As I said, I could have lost in this tournament earlier. I managed to get to the finals for the first time, so I wouldn't change anything, you know. I don't like going back and saying, Okay, maybe this could have gone better.
Everything in life is a lesson, and that's the way it goes. I hope I can come out stronger and better from this experience.
Q. How difficult is it to win eight games in a row against Nadal on clay?
NOVAK DJOKOVIC: Very difficult. Very difficult.
His on-court speech:
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BOCA RATON, FL-- Brockway Moran & Partners Inc., along with significant investors Kirk and John Galiani, announced the closing of the sale of Gold's Gym International Inc. for a purchase price of $158 million to a group led by TRT Holdings Inc., a privately-owned, diversified holding company whose assets include the Omni Hotel chain.
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Nashville, Tenn. – The Tennessee State football team was picked to finish third in the Ohio Valley Conference at Monday's Media Day. The Tigers received a pair of first-place votes and 90 total points in the 2013 poll which is a vote of league head coaches and sports information directors.
The Tigers' preseason ranking is the highest for the team since the 2002 season.
TSU got more good news when redshirt junior cornerback Steven Godbolt III was selected as the conference's Preseason Defensive Player of the Year. Last season, Godbolt ranked first nationally in interception per game (0.60), and hauled in six picks to go along with 45 tackles and six pass break ups.
Godbolt was also chosen to the Preseason All-OVC Team and joining him on the defensive side of the ball are senior defensive end Antonio Harper, junior linebacker Nick Thrasher and junior safety Daniel Fitzpatrick. Thrasher led the team in tackles last year (105) and tackles-for-loss (9.0) last season while Harper was second on the squad in sacks (3.5) and Fitzpatrick was first in pass breakups (8) and second in tackles (61).
On the offensive side, the Tigers had three players selected including preseason All-American tight end A.C. Leonard. Leonard had 51 catches for 733 yards and six touchdowns a year ago. Also on the team are senior left guard Kadeem Edwards and senior center Demetrius Rhaney.
Big Blue will open camp on Aug. 4 in preparation for the John Merritt Classic versus Bethune-Cookman on Sept. 1.
2013 OVC Preseason Football Predicted Order of Finish
1. Eastern Illinois (12 first-place votes) - 122 points
2. Eastern Kentucky (4) - 114
3. Tennessee State (2) - 90
4. Jacksonville State - 87
5. UT Martin - 78
6. Murray State - 53
Tennessee Tech - 53
8. Southeast Missouri - 35
9. Austin Peay – 16
2013 Preseason All-OVC Football Team
Preseason Offensive Player of the Year: Erik Lora (WR), Eastern Illinois
Preseason Defensive Player of the Year: Steven Godbolt III (CB), Tennessee State
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RB - Jaamal Berry, Murray State
WR - Erik Lora, Eastern Illinois
WR - Walter Powell, Murray State
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C - Demetrius Rhaney, Tennessee State
OG - Kadeem Edwards, Tennessee State
OG - Collin Seibert, Eastern Illinois
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OT - Tarik Milner, Jacksonville State
OT - Wesley Sherrill, Tennessee Tech
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DL - Shawn Shupperd, Eastern Kentucky
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[UPDATE] [Deadline extended] [email correction] Teaching Heart of Darkness and Other Texts by Joseph Conrad (by June 20, 2014)
For the 86th South Atlantic Modern Language Association (SAMLA) conference in Atlanta November 7-9, 2014: While taking into consideration the special focus for SAMLA 86, we will consider the importance of artfully and effectively introducing Conrad to undergraduates. Making Conrad authentic, pertinent, and interesting for students as we go forward can contribute to the goal of sustainability in the Humanities. How might such lesson be designed? What might a student-centered class period (or several periods) devoted to a Conrad story look like for the student? What sequence of activities might the facilitator, the professor, choose to guide the students in a way that allows them to make crucial discoveries about Conrad on their own? For this session, one might take a paper already presented or one newly written and think about creative ways to help the student apprehend the meaning while minimizing lecture in favor of a series of activities designed to foster insight and discovery, as well as to promote engagement. This might be a pre-reading activity, during reading, or a post-reading activity, or a combination of all three. It might involve multiple media and multiple class days. It might be centered on Conrad and his themes and techniques and meanings, or it might use Conrad to illuminate aspects of Modernism or Romanticism or perhaps to exemplify the processes or perspectives of a particular school of literary criticism. There can also be a sense of assessment of learning outcomes, and—particularly useful—suggestions for how different teachers in different learning situations can modify the lessons and activities for their own use. By June 15, 2014, please submit abstracts of about 300 words on any example of teaching Conrad in the classroom, along with A/V requirements, to Chris Cairney, Middle Georgia State College, at firstname.lastname@example.com or email@example.com.


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The findings were delivered in a report Wednesday by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) at the 2011 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium. The research, begun in May 2010, was conducted with a grant from Susan G. Komen for the Cure. The independent committee of experts was charged with assessing what is known, as well as what is not conclusive, about environmental risk factors for breast cancer.
The evidence also indicates a possible, though currently less clear, link to increased risk for breast cancer from exposure to benzene, 1,3-butadiene and ethylene oxide, which are chemicals found in some workplace settings and in gasoline fumes, vehicle exhaust and tobacco smoke.
The committee found that avoiding personal use of hair dyes and non-ionizing radiation emitted by mobile devices and other technologies likely will not impact a woman's risk for breast cancer, as multiple studies have found no connection between these factors and the disease.
Because of insufficient or contradictory evidence, the committee determined that the scientific jury is still out on whether many chemicals of concern, including bisphenol A (BPA), pesticides, ingredients in cosmetics and dietary supplements, and other substances, alter the risk for breast cancer. Women may choose to minimize their exposure to some chemicals, but the committee found the research inadequate to draw conclusions about the potential benefit of such actions. Chemical ingredients in cosmetics, dietary supplements and other products undergo only very limited testing before they are put on the market, and the committee noted the value of efforts to help consumers become more aware of this issue.
According to the IOM, the steps identified in the report have the potential to reduce the risk for breast cancer among women in general, but the committee cautioned that the evidence on how much risk reduction any of these steps offers is inconclusive. Whether it is small or significant, the impact on individuals will vary considerably because women are exposed to a range of substances throughout their lives; in addition, biological, physical and genetic factors influence their individual chances for developing the disease.
"Breast cancer develops over many years, so we need better ways to study exposures throughout women's lives, including when they are very young," said Hertz-Picciotto, professor and chief of the Division of Environmental and Occupational Health with the UC Davis Department of Public Health Sciences. "We also need improved methods to test for agents that may be contributing to breast cancer risk and to explore the effects of combined exposures."
She said, for example, that research is needed on the effects of exposures at specific stages of breast development, and on the cumulative effects of exposures at different life stages or multiple exposures.
An arm of the National Academies of Science, the IOM is an independent, nonprofit organization that works outside government to address pressing questions about health and health care and provide unbiased and authoritative advice to decision makers.
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Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Paul Strand: The Philadelphia Museum of Art Acquired 3,000 Photographs by Paul Strand
Paul Strand's "Blind Woman" (negative 1916, print c. 1920s), "Mlle. Pogany, New York (Brancusi)" (1922), and "Man Carving Chair II, Mr. Bolster, Vermont" (1943) are among the more than 3,000 works acquired by the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art acquired, through several gifts and a purchase agreement with the Aperture Foundation, the core collection of photographs by Paul Strand, one of the pre-eminent photographers of the 20th century. Through the generosity of philanthropists Lynne and Harold Honickman, Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman, and H.F. "Gerry" and Marguerite Lenfest, the Museum has received as partial and promised gifts 1422 images from The Paul Strand Archive at the Aperture Foundation, as well as 566 master prints from Strand's negatives by the artist Richard Benson. The Museum has also entered into an agreement with the Aperture Foundation to purchase an additional 1276 photographs. As a whole, this acquisition comprises more than 3000 prints and lantern slides, including the finest examples of every image in the Archive. Together with other photographs by Strand already owned by the Museum, this acquisition makes the Philadelphia Museum of Art the world's most important repository for the study of his work.
All of the photographs and lantern slides are now housed at the Philadelphia Museum of Art where they are being studied in preparation for a major retrospective devoted to the artist that is scheduled for 2014.
Timothy Rub, the George D. Widener Director and Chief Executive Officer, stated: "The Paul Strand Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art will rank among the finest and most significant groups of works by key figures in the history of photography held by any museum in this country. As the definitive collection of one of the 20th century's greatest photographers, it will also be a critical component of the Museum's internationally distinguished holdings of modern art, which include the renowned Louise and Walter Arensberg and A. E. Gallatin collections. Given the significance of Strand's achievement as an artist it will, I believe, become a cornerstone of the Museum's collections, much like our extensive holdings of works by Marcel Duchamp and Thomas Eakins.
"This is a major achievement," Mr. Rub went on to say. "We are exceptionally grateful to the dedicated support of our enlightened donors, the Honickmans and the Lenfests, who recognized the value of their gifts to the Museum's mission and to the study of the history of photography and worked together to help us strengthen the Museum's collection. Our longstanding relationship with the Aperture Foundation, in particular through the work of the late Michael E. Hoffman, who formed the Strand archive at Aperture and served for many years as the Museum's Adjunct Curator of Photographs, has enabled us to create a repository of the work of this artist that will chronicle his seminal contributions to the development of modern art and will advance the study of his remarkable body of work and prominent place in the history of photography."
Celso Gonzalez-Falla, the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Aperture Foundation, commented on the placement of this extraordinary collection. "Given Aperture's long association with Strand and the commitment that the Philadelphia Museum of Art has made to the development of its world-renowned holdings of photography, it is an ideal place for these works. This is true not simply because of the Museum's long association with Aperture, but also because this gift and purchase, when added to the Museum's existing collection of more than 600 exceptional works by Strand, provides a full picture of his remarkable achievement, adding strength to strength and creating a true and enduring public benefit. We salute the vision and perspicacity of Peter MacGill of Pace/MacGill Gallery, who has worked closely with Aperture to ensure that this important collection would find a permanent home in a great museum."
The portion of The Paul Strand Archive that the Museum has made a commitment to purchase from the Aperture Foundation includes many remarkable photographs. Among them are two of Strand's rare gum bichromate prints, which date to the earliest years of his career. Also included are masterpiece platinum and silver portraits of his first wife, Rebecca Salsbury, and several other key portraits of his circle in the 1910s and 1920s, including his father Jacob, painter John Marin, and fellow photographer Kurt Baasch; unique prints such as a 1922 image of Constantin Brancusi's sculpture Mlle. Pogany and a solarized portrait of the architect Henry Churchill (1922); major examples of his nature and machine abstractions, including the unique Rock, Georgetown, Maine (1927) and a rare pair of vintage platinum and silver prints of Fern, New England (1928); and superb prints from his early sojourns to the Gaspé Peninsula, the Southwest, and Mexico.
"Combined with the Museum's existing holdings, this acquisition will give the Museum an unrivaled collection of Strand's critical early work and his photographs of the Southwest and Mexico, all recognized as high points of his career," commented Peter Barberie, the Museum's Brodsky Curator of Photographs. "Added to the recent gifts to the Museum from the Honickmans and Lenfests, the acquisition will also enable us to assemble nearly complete sets of vintage prints from all of Strand's later projects, beginning with his prized New England photographs of the 1940s and running through the final series he made in the garden of his home in Orgeval, France."
The Paul Strand Collection will permit the study of Strand's career with prints from the majority of his negatives, including most known variants and croppings of individual images. It will, moreover, enable the Museum to keep together several prints made from a single negative using different processes, at different times, and with different papers. As such, The Paul Strand Collection will be an essential resource for any scholar of 20th-century photography. In addition to 2,768 prints and lantern slides by Strand himself, the acquisition includes the gift of 566 gelatin silver and platinum prints from Strand's negatives by the eminent American photographer Richard Benson, made for Aperture in the 1980s. Benson has printed Strand's negatives since the early 1970s, when he worked closely with the artist. As part of its ongoing publishing initiatives, the Aperture Foundation will prepare a Paul Strand catalogue raisonne in cooperation with the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
About Paul Strand
Paul Strand (American, 1890–1976) is widely recognized as one of the most significant artists in the history of photography. He first studied with the social documentary photographer Lewis Hine at New York's Ethical Culture School from 1907-1909, and subsequently became close to the pioneering photographer Alfred Stieglitz, America's greatest champion of modern art at the beginning of the 20th century. Strand fused these powerful influences and explored the modernist possibilities of the camera more fully than any other photographer before 1920, producing a celebrated series of abstractions that reduced still life and architectural elements to simple arrangements of shapes, while at the same time creating some of the earliest "street photographs" of people he caught unawares in urban New York settings. These diverse experiments produced iconic masterpieces such as Wall Street (1915) and Blind Woman (1916) and are now acknowledged as major contributions to modernist art, having introduced subjects that influenced leading photographers of the twentieth century such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Robert Frank.
In the 1920s, Strand explored the camera's potential to exceed human vision, making intimate, detailed portraits, and recording the nuances of machine and natural forms. He also created portraits, landscapes, and architectural studies on various travels to the Southwest, Canada's Gaspé Peninsula, and Mexico. The groups of pictures of these regions, in tandem with his documentary work as a filmmaker in the 1930s, convinced Strand that the medium's great purpose lay in broad and richly detailed photographs of specific places and communities. For the rest of his career he pursued such projects in New England, France, Italy, the Hebrides, Morocco, Romania, Ghana, and other locales, producing celebrated books including Time in New England (1950), and Un Paese (1955), about the village of Luzzara, Italy. Together, these later series form one of the great photographic statements about modern experience.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art has had a special relationship with Paul Strand's work since 1971, when Adjunct Curator of Photographs Michael E. Hoffman organized for the Museum Strand's first major retrospective since 1945. Paul Strand: A Retrospective, 1971, debuted in Philadelphia and traveled to St. Louis, Boston, New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. In 1972, Strand gave the Museum one of his most important early platinum prints, City Hall Park, New York (1915), along with six other works, and the Museum purchased 10 prints including The Family, Luzzara, Italy (1953). These acquisitions were followed by further purchases in 1974 and gifts from Strand's widow, Hazel, in 1977 and 1978. In 1980, the artist's estate gave the Museum the entire contents of his retrospective exhibition, which numbered 497 prints and included an unparalleled group of seven of his early exhibition platinum prints, among them the masterpieces Wall Street (1915), Man in a Derby (1916), and Telegraph Poles, Texas (1915).
Highlights of the acquisition
Railroad Sidings, New York
Platinum print, 1915
Promised gift of Lynne and Harold Honickman
The Museum already owns an unparalleled group of masterpiece platinum prints of Strand's breakthrough photographs of 1915-16. Railroad Sidings is one of the last such prints still in private hands. Alfred Stieglitz included it in Strand's first exhibition at 291, in March of 1916. It shows Strand moving from the Pictorialist example set by Stieglitz (as in his iconic 1902 picture The Hand of Man, possibly made in the same rail yards), towards the abstraction that he would explore most fully in his still life photographs of the same moment. When Strand, together with Charles Sheeler, made the 1922 film Manhatta, about New York City, he returned to the sites of two of his photographs—Railroad Sidings and Wall Street—to include them in the film.
Blind Woman, New York
Gelatin silver print, c. 1920s (negative 1916)
Partial and promised gift of Marguerite and H.F. "Gerry" Lenfest
This early gelatin silver print of one of Strand's iconic images will join seven other versions—including his 1916 lantern slide, a 1916 photogravure from the journal Camera Work, and five variant gelatin silver prints Strand made at various times after the 1940s, permitting comprehensive study of how he presented and thought about the picture throughout his career. The Museum will have similar groupings for a number of other important works, including Wall Street, Man in a Derby, and The White Fence, Port Kent, New York.
Georgia O'Keeffe, Texas
Platinum print, c. 1917
Promised gift of Marjorie and Jeffrey Honickman
This sensitive portrait of the painter is a very personal document of Strand's visit to Texas in 1917 and the blossoming of what became a lifelong friendship. It is the only portrait Strand made of O'Keeffe, and perhaps the only print he made of the image. The Paul Strand Collection will include masterful portraits of other figures in Strand's circle, including painters John Marin and Marsden Hartley, sculptor Gaston Lachaise, photographer Kurt Baasch, and critic Waldo Frank.
Rebecca, New York
Platinum print, c. 1921
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
Strand photographed his first wife, Rebecca Salsbury, in many sittings between 1919 and 1933, exploring the camera's ability to record details of the human visage and emotions. This introspective platinum print is among the most riveting portraits he made of her. The Paul Strand Collection will include 24 vintage portraits of Rebecca Salsbury, including seven platinum prints.
Mlle. Pogany, New York (Brancusi)
Platinum print, 1922
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
The acquisition includes many unique works by Strand, which together greatly enrich the depth and complexity of The Paul Strand Collection. Aside from individual works such as this photograph of sculptures by Constantin Brancusi, a remarkable document of Strand's commitment to modernist art, the collection will include all 70 of Strand's extant lantern slides, which are critical for studying his practice between 1909 and 1917; 34 small platinum prints made on his first, formative trip to Europe in 1911; three of his gum bichromate prints, of which he made very few; two experiments with a Rectoflex camera, made in Italy in 1952; and the maquette for his 1950 book La France de profil, which includes 44 gelatin silver prints.
Fern, New England
Platinum print, 1928
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
Fern, New England
Gelatin silver print, 1940s
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
Strand's exploration of the camera's objectivity in his nature and machine studies of the 1920s included his thoughtful analysis of the differences between platinum and gelatin silver prints, each of which he preferred for certain subjects. This pair of prints from the same negative shows the nuances Strand sought in his photographic prints. Altogether, the Paul Strand Collection will include more than 50 vintage or early prints of Strand's key photographs of plants, driftwood, rocks, and machine forms in the 1920s.
Hacienda, Saltillo, Mexico
Platinum print, 1932
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
This subtle platinum print shows Strand's sensitivity to architectural motifs. In its emphasis on geometries and worn surfaces, it relates both to his contemporaneous work in the Southwest, and to the masterful architectural views he would make in New England in the 1940s. Strand's 1932-33 Mexico photographs, which comprise portraits, landscapes, and views of art and architecture, are widely considered to be one of his greatest bodies of work. The Paul Strand Collection will include 28 vintage platinum prints and twelve vintage or early gelatin silver prints of his Mexican subjects.
Man Carving Chair II, Mr. Bolster, Vermont
Gelatin silver print, 1943
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
Strand's 1943-46 New England photographs mark a turning point in his career: his decision to methodically document specific regions through a mix of landscapes, artifacts, and portraits, and his endeavor to produce books of his pictures, the first of which would be the 1950 publication Time in New England. Strand's choice to focus on the hardy culture of New England during the difficult years of World War II contributes to the great power of these photographs, as seen in this riveting portrait of Mr. Bolster, an 83-year-old man crafting a chair outside his barn. Strand would go on to produce groups of photographs comparable to his New England series in France, Italy, the Hebrides Islands, Egypt, Morocco, Roumania, and Ghana. The Paul Strand Collection will include nearly-complete sets of vintage prints of all these projects, beginning with the New England pictures.
Place to Meet, Luzzara, Italy
Gelatin silver print, 1953
Purchase from the Aperture Foundation
In 1953 Strand travelled to the village of Luzzara, where he made an incredible group of photographs including portraits of many individuals who are identified simply by their role in the community—the mayor, the cheese maker, the baker's wife. He also made group portraits such as this one of elders gathered in a small piazza. Strand was drawn to candid portraiture throughout his career, and he was also attuned to the ways public social gatherings—however informal—can reveal volumes about a time and place. This is one of many superb pictures he made of similar subjects throughout his career.
Paul Strand, Rebecca, New York, ca. 1923, Palladium print 19.4 x 24.6 cm (7 5/8 x 9 11/16 in.). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Marilyn Walter Grounds, 1989. Aperture Foundation, Inc., Paul Strand Archive.
The Family, Luzzara, Italy. 1953
New York, 1916
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In remote Russia, 'Murziki' bring cheer to orphans
By Fred Weir, Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor / December 26, 2006
Children pour out of Rybinsk's orphanage No. 72, laughing and waving, when the Murziki pull up in their mud-spattered convoy of cars. The kids know many of these adults from distant Moscow by name, and they hurry to help unload the cars, stacked with boxes of toys, sports equipment, and coats – as well as cutlery and a new VCR with a selection of cartoons, needs the Murziki carefully noted on their last visit.
The Murziki tell the kids that they come from the mythical country of Murlandia, a kind of cross between Neverland and Santa's Village. In reality, they're something almost as rare in Russia, where the volunteer spirit has been dead for the past century: a self-organized band of middle-class people devoting their resources and spare time to a sustained effort to change hard facts for a few hundred children.
"We decided not to sit around waiting for the state to do something about the human crisis we saw unfolding," says German Pyatov, a Moscow surgeon who founded the group after the 1998 financial crash in Russia.
It's now grown to about 700 supporters, connected by the Internet, and a hard core of several dozen Muscovites who regularly make the 300-mile drive out to the chain of poor Volga towns, with their teeming orphanages, that they've targeted.
"I've found that interacting with these children charges me with the energy to keep going," says Mr. Pyatov. "It's enough to look in their eyes to realize that not enough is being done."
They have their work cut out for them. Russia's orphan population has ballooned in the past 15 years, particularly in the economically blighted hinterland beyond booming Moscow.
Rybinsk, a formerly closed defense-industry town of 250,000 on the Volga River, had one orphanage in 1991; now it has six. This reflects a widespread post-Soviet tendency of impoverished families to abandon children.
Forty out of the 52 inhabitants of orphanage No. 72 have living parents who won't, or can't, care for them. "Most of the factories around here went bankrupt, and people lost everything," says Nina Kornyushkina, the orphanage's director. "Many people sank into despair and alcoholism, and the children were just lost."
About 760,000 children are classified as orphans in Russia, according to the Ministry of Education, while a further 1.5 million are thought to be "homeless." Statistics cited by Pyatov suggest that existing institutions do little to help them.
"Roughly 45 percent of children land in prison within five years of leaving the orphanage, 35 percent become drug or alcohol addicts, 10 per cent die – of accidents and suicide – and just 10 percent are considered relatively successful," he says.
"Being sent to an orphanage is a catastrophic route for any child," says Sergei Korobenko, the Russian head of Hope International, which runs programs in large cities to persuade parents not to give up their children to orphanages. "There are very many families at risk, and we try to work directly with them, to find ways to ease their problems and keep the children in the home setting."
Pyatov says the Murziki are beginning to follow children who "graduate" from the orphanages they sponsor to find them jobs and help them deal with problems of real-world adjustment.
"Most of our supporters are professionals or business people, and that makes a practical network," he says. "We have a few successes already."
State funding better, but not enough
Most experts agree that state funding for orphanages and children's services has improved since Russia's oil-fueled economic growth began seven years ago. But an official report by Deputy General Prosecutor Sergei Fridinsky earlier this year found that 40 percent of orphanages are in dire need of repairs, six percent have no indoor plumbing, and five percent lack central heating. In some provincial institutions, the report said, funding amounts to just $0.01 per child per day.
Corruption and theft in the system are little-discussed problems. The Murziki combat this with vigilance, and by printing their logo on all donations. On return visits, they check to make sure the things they gave last time are still in place.
At one children's home, in the tiny Volga town of Miushkin, for example, Pyatov sent a car to locate the institution's director, who wasn't at her desk, and bring her back to sign for the load of clothes, blankets, and snowboards that he was delivering.
"If you don't ensure that someone takes direct and personal responsibility, it's likely that everything you bring will turn up on the local market the next day," he says. "People don't see it as stealing from children – they just think about how miserable their salaries are, and how hard their own lives are. It'll be a long time before that changes."
Some child-care specialists decry what they call the tendency of state officials to play politics with Russian orphans. An ongoing crackdown on foreign-based adoption agencies has squeezed, but not halted, the adoption process.
According to the Education Ministry, about 130,000 new orphans were registered last year, while fewer than 30,000 were adopted – about half by foreigners. Last week, Health Minister Mikhail Zurabov pledged to shut down all orphanages and place children in foster homes within five years.
"Our goal is that every child should have a family," he was quoted as saying in the daily Noviye Izvestia.
But experts say that's unrealistic. While some 100,000 children are placed with foster parents yearly, the majority of those families are the children's grandparents or other relatives.
"The vast majority of Russian families are not psychologically ready for this, much less financially," says Ella Pamfilova, chair of the Kremlin's human rights commission. "A lot of social reforms will have to be accomplished before this idea can be placed on the agenda."
The best idea, say some, is for the state to get behind grass-roots initiatives like the Murziki. Though charitable giving is on the upswing in Russia, the total was still under $1.5 billion last year, mostly from big corporations. By contrast, charitable giving in the United States totaled about $260 billion in 2005, according to Giving USA.
"What the Murziki are doing is great, but there are just too few groups like them compared to the scale of the need," says Mr. Korobenko. "Things will get better when more people get involved."
Nikolai and Sergei enjoy the visits
At orphanage No. 72, the children welcome the cheer that Murziki visits bring.
"They often come here, help us, and bring us things," says Nikolai Sergeev, who is 14. "I have been here for six years, and our group looks better now that we have computers and TVs – it is more fun."
Sergei Sokolov, who is 16, has been at the orphanage for five years. He remembers an excursion that the Murziki organized for them to Moscow.
"They do positive things for us," he says. "Our rooms are cozier and there is equipment for us to use, so I think that will be useful for our future and self-education."
Sergei says that the Murziki even cook with them at times.
"I think if there were more good people like Murziki," he muses, "the future of Russia would be better."


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