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Git repositories
Koneki source code is available on the Git repositories of the Eclipse Foundation. There are several repositories:
|Contains plug-ins that aim at being re-used by other Koneki projects (generic UI components, helpers, ...)
|Contains the Lua Development Tools source code
|Contains different sub-projects providing the core components enabling protocols (OMA-DM, ...) manipulation in the tools
|Contains different sub-projects providing the components enabling protocols (OMA-DM, ...) simulation in the tools
Update sites organization
The active Hudson jobs perform the continuous integration of Koneki projects and deploy signed p2 repos to the nightly update sites.
There are 2 kind of nightly updates sites (repositories) :
- nightly: /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/koneki/updates-nightly, which is a composite repo of the last successful builds of the 'master' branch of each Koneki projects.
- nightly-maintenance: /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/koneki/updates-nightly-maintenance, which is the same one but for the active maintenance branch.
All the last releases are stored in /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/koneki/releases repository which is composed of :
- stable: /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/koneki/releases/stable which contains all the last stable releases.
- milestones: /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/koneki/releases/milestones which contains all the last milestones.
All the old releases can be found in /home/data/httpd/archive.eclipse.org/koneki/releases. (with the same structure)
Delivery Process
All the path in this section are relative to /home/data/httpd/download.eclipse.org/koneki on build.eclipse.org
Maintenance version :
- "Commit freeze" on all maintenance branches.
- Be sure the last version build corresponds to the last commit wanted.
- Test the last nightly-maintenance build.
If tests are ok:
- Copy all directories from nightly-maintenance/ to releases/stables/${NUM.VERSION}.
- Check the files permissions.
- Tag the last commit of the maintance branches.
- Increment version to the next maintenance version then commit it.
Milestones version :
- "Commit freeze" on all master branches.
- Be sure the last version build corresponds to the last commit wanted.
- Test the last nightly build.
If tests are ok:
- Copy all directories from nightly to releases/milestones/${MILESTONES.VERSION}.
- Check the files permissions.
- Tag the last commit of the master branches.
Major version :
- Test the milestones version which is the releases candidate.
If tests are ok :
- Copy all the directories from releases/stable/${NUM.VERSION} to /home/data/httpd/archive.eclipse.org/koneki/releases/${NUM.VERSION}
- Delete all directories in releases/stable/${NUM.VERSION}
- Copy all directories from releases/milestones/${MILESTONES.VERSION} in releases/stable/${NUM.VERSION}
- Delete all directories in releases/milestones/${MILESTONES.VERSION}
- Check the files permissions.
- Tag the master branches.
- Create maintenance branches.
- Increment version on master branches then commit it.
- Increment version to the next maintenance version then commit it.
- Change hudson configuration of maintenance builds to build the new one.
Simultaneous Release :
- To be Completed
Increment version Process :
- Increment feature version (pom.xml)
- Increment product feature version (pom.xml)
- Increment product version and its dependencies version
- Increment feature version includes in category.xml
Simultaneous Release migration :
- Update target platform (.target)
- Add the new plaform profile in root pom.xml
- Change the default repo use to build in root pom.xml (<eclipse-site> property)


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Roger Brown's On Baseball: Advice pays offBY ROGER BROWN
New Hampshire Union Leader
June 25. 2013 11:00PM
MANCHESTER -- FATHER knows best. New Hampshire Fisher Cats outfielder Brian Van Kirk was reminded of that recently when his dad, Robert, came to New Hampshire and volunteered a few hitting tips.
His father's advice has helped Van Kirk post some impressive numbers in June. Entering Tuesday night's matchup with Reading, Van Kirk was hitting .333 (19 for 57) with 12 RBIs, 16 walks and seven strikeouts in 17 games this month. He had a home run and a triple in Monday's 6-3 victory over Reading.
"My father pointed out a few little things that I wasn't doing that I used to always do," Van Kirk said. "He knows me better than anyone. I made those adjustments and it's helped me stay on the ball a little more, which helps you drive it a little better. Two little things that helped me a lot."
Van Kirk is hitting .297 with two home runs and 22 RBIs overall this season. He was placed on the disabled list twice earlier this year, and Fisher Cats hitting coach Richie Hebner said Van Kirk has benefited from playing every day.
"He's got a good eye — probably the best eye on the team," Hebner said. "He doesn't swing at many bad pitches."
Van Kirk, a converted catcher, was originally drafted by the Red Sox in 2004 out of Westminster Academy in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but didn't sign. He played at the University of Tennessee for two years, and then transferred and spent his final two college seasons at Oral Roberts University.
He was used as both a catcher and an outfielder in college. Toronto selected him in the 21st round of the 2008 draft.
"I was fairly new to the outfield position when I got drafted," he said. "Obviously confidence comes with success. Confidence also comes from hard work, and applying that work to your game. I feel very confident where I'm at, but every day is a new day. One day you could be not the goat and the next day you're the goat. You have to approach each day with the same demeanor and confidence."
Van Kirk is in his second full season with the Fisher Cats. He also spent some time with New Hampshire at the end of the 2009 season.
At 27 Van Kirk is older than most of his teammates, but he said he has a positive attitude with regard to his future in professional baseball."If you concern yourself too much with the unknown it will eat you up," he said. "Whatever's going to happen is going to happen. I'm just grateful for the opportunity to be on the field playing.
"I just have to continue to play consistent. You don't know what people are thinking above you. We're just the players. You just go out there and take care of what you can take care of. Don't expect anything. Just go out there and enjoy the now."
Fisher Cats relief pitcher Randy Boone hasn't allowed a run in his last 10 appearances (18 2/3 innings). Boone, a former starter, has 15 victories with the Fisher Cats, one shy of the franchise record held by three players: Gustavo Chacin (2004), Ismael Ramirez (2005-07) and Mike MacDonald (2006-08). … New Hampshire will wrap up its three-game series with Reading tonight (7:05). Marcus Stroman is scheduled to start on the mound for the Fisher Cats. Stroman has allowed one earned run in each of his last four starts (21 innings). … The Fisher Cats recognized all of the NHIAA state champions from the 2012-13 school year (all sports) prior to Tuesday's game.

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Apple recently revealed that it's making a $4 billion investment over the next two years for "inventory component prepayments and capital expenditures."
Many conclude this is a big bet on display technology.
Is that because Apple may soon go head-first into the TV business?
A note released today by iSuppli says Apple is betting big to "guarantee availability of advanced liquid-crystal display (LCD) panels for its iPad and iPhone lines."
Specifically, iSuppli believes Apple has established agreements with LG, Sharp, and Toshiba for supply of Apple's retina display, including technologies called IPS ("in-plane switching") and LTPS ("low-temperature polysilicon.")
As Fortune's Philip Elmer-DeWitt notes, Apple isn't just buying displays ahead of time, it's helping build the factories that make them.
We have no doubt that much of Apple's focus here is for its portable gadgets, such as the iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad, which represent Apple's future (and a huge portion of its revenue and profits).
But might a move into the TV business also play a role in Apple's investment?
For example, IPS technology, as Apple describes on its website, makes displays "look great from almost any angle." That's a nice feature on the iMac and the iPhone. But it would make a really great selling point for an Apple television.
If Apple does eventually enter the TV industry, as many expect it will, it won't be there to compete on price -- it will compete with better software and better technology. Could this $4 billion bet be one of its first steps?


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Exactly you need big government to create the kind of wealth inequality we currently have.
Mitt Romney and the myth of self-created millionaires
The parasitical ultra-rich often deny the role of others in the acquisition of their wealth and even seek to punish them for it
We could call it Romnesia: the ability of the very rich to forget the context in which they made their money. To forget their education, inheritance, family networks, contacts and introductions. To forget the workers whose labour enriched them. To forget the infrastructure and security, the educated workforce, the contracts, subsidies and bailouts the government provided.
Every political system requires a justifying myth. The Soviet Union had Alexey Stakhanov, the miner reputed to have extracted 100 tonnes of coal in six hours. The US had Richard Hunter, the hero of Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches tales.
Both stories contained a germ of truth. Stakhanov worked hard for a cause in which he believed, but his remarkable output was probably faked. When Alger wrote his novels, some poor people had become very rich in the US. But the further from its ideals (productivity in the Soviet Union's case, opportunity in the US) a system strays, the more fervently its justifying myths are propounded.
As the developed nations succumb to extreme inequality and social immobility, the myth of the self-made man becomes ever more potent. It is used to justify its polar opposite: an unassailable rent-seeking class, deploying its inherited money to finance the seizure of other people's wealth.
The crudest exponent of Romnesia is the Australian mining magnate Gina Rinehart. "There is no monopoly on becoming a millionaire," she insists. "If you're jealous of those with more money, don't just sit there and complain; do something to make more money yourselves spend less time drinking or smoking and socialising and more time working Remember our roots, and create your own success."
Remembering her roots is what Rinehart fails to do. She forgot to add that if you want to become a millionaire in her case a billionaire it helps to inherit an iron ore mine and a fortune from your father and to ride a spectacular commodities boom. Had she spent her life lying in bed and throwing darts at the wall, she would still be stupendously rich.
Rich lists are stuffed with people who either inherited their money or who made it through rent-seeking activities: by means other than innovation and productive effort. They're a catalogue of speculators, property barons, dukes, IT monopolists, loan sharks, bank chiefs, oil sheikhs, mining magnates, oligarchs and chief executives paid out of all proportion to any value they generate. Looters, in short. The richest mining barons are those to whom governments sold natural resources for a song. Russian, Mexican and British oligarchs acquired underpriced public assets through privatisation, and now run a toll-booth economy. Bankers use incomprehensible instruments to fleece their clients and the taxpayer. But as rentiers capture the economy, the opposite story must be told.
Scarcely a Republican speech fails to reprise the Richard Hunter narrative, and almost all these rags-to-riches tales turn out to be bunkum. "Everything that Ann and I have," Mitt Romney claims, "we earned the old-fashioned way". Old fashioned like Blackbeard, perhaps. Two searing exposures in Rolling Stone magazine document the leveraged buyouts which destroyed viable companies, value and jobs, and the costly federal bailout which saved Romney's political skin.
Romney personifies economic parasitism. The financial sector has become a job-destroying, home-breaking, life-crushing machine, which impoverishes others to enrich itself. The tighter its grip on politics, the more its representatives must tell the opposite story: of life-affirming enterprise, innovation and investment, of brave entrepreneurs making their fortunes out of nothing but grit and wit.
There is an obvious flip side to this story. "Anyone can make it I did without help", translates as "I refuse to pay taxes to help other people, as they can help themselves": whether or not they inherited an iron ore mine from daddy. In the article in which she urged the poor to emulate her, Rinehart also proposed that the minimum wage should be reduced. Who needs fair pay if anyone can become a millionaire?
In 2010, the richest 1% in the US captured an astonishing 93% of that year's gain in incomes. In the same year, corporate chief executives made, on average, 243 times as much as the median worker (in 1965 the ratio was 10 times lower). Between 1970 and 2010, the Gini coefficient, which measures inequality, rose in the US from 0.35 to 0.44: an astounding leap.
As for social mobility, of the rich countries listed by the OECD, the three in which men's earnings are most likely to resemble their father's are, in this order, the UK, Italy and the US. If you are born poor or born rich in these nations, you are likely to stay that way. It is no coincidence that these three countries all promote themselves as lands of unparalleled opportunity.
Equal opportunity, self-creation, heroic individualism: these are the myths that predatory capitalism requires for its political survival. Romnesia permits the ultra-rich both to deny the role of other people in the creation of their own wealth and to deny help to those less fortunate than themselves. A century ago, entrepreneurs sought to pass themselves off as parasites: they adopted the style and manner of the titled, rentier class. Today the parasites claim to be entrepreneurs.
Twitter: @GeorgeMonbiot
A fully referenced version of this article can be found at www.monbiot.com
Exactly you need big government to create the kind of wealth inequality we currently have.
Stopped reading about there.The parasitical ultra-rich often deny...
All I know is my family came to the U.S. (legally) with less than nothing, and barely high-school level edications.
My father died a home owner, a professional and executive. And thats despite being a total scumbag, frankly.
Apart from my mervelous public education (which I slept through it was so slack-jawed and remedial, aiming to serve the lowest 10% of student best), I have recieved nothing from parents (except heartache and drama) or siblings, and yet I too have created for myself some small measure of success, int he "top 15%" if such numbers are to be believed.
And as I've said repeatedly, I am nothing, certainly nothing special. Average in every way, and probably far more lazy and unmotivated than most.
You can decry the ideal of earning your own success, or play up how vital the various forms of collectivism are (all the better to claim then that we "owe" our success back to those collectivists), but I've lived a life that proves it all wrong.
I will never have patience for those who do not work and earn their own way, outside the truly disabled (for whom I'm happy to have aid programs, if they are efficient and well managed and not simply handouts to anyone who can fake a doctors note).
I remain amazed that we now live in a society where a man who pays over a million dollars in taxe and gives away 3 million dollars to charity if widely described as "greedy", "selfish" and worse by fellow citizens who pay no net federal taxes, and in fact are net recipients of the system.
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George Moonbat?
We get it. The rich are evil. Katie Couric, Matt Lauer, Alec Baldwin, Rachel Maddow, Whoopie Goldberg, Michael Moore and countless other millionaires tell us this every day.
and I will add, many of my clients are millionaires, many earn 7 figures annually. They are lawyers, Dr's, investment bankers, plumbers and various business owners. All live below their means, save a LOT and are totally bewildered why the government spends more than it brings in.
They get so little from government in comparison to what they pay and they work harder, from all I can see of them, than 99 percent of Americans. THATS why they are the 1 percent.
But......wasn't he on welfare?
He invested his money and the money he has was a return on that investment. Sounds reasonable to me. I love rich people
You want to find a place to start some rational discourse?
How about some honesty in the debate? Someone making $250,000 Houshold Income is not strictly "Millionaires and Billionaires".
A little less newspeak would go a long way.
We dont look at color, race, etc....
I simply dont see how poor people are better off since 1964. The only people helped are the government employees administering these so called programs.
Thankfully, the far right nuts and far left screwballs cancel each other out.
The average republican as seen by this board's democrats.
The average democrat seen by this board's republicans.
I simply don't understand how you can comment on the thought process of millions of people that you have never met. I will save you the suspense; as there are with democrats, there are a lot of racist who are registered republicans.
Beyond that, do you honestly believe everything about conservatives is to help people better themselves? The idea that you could believe that a major political party does that is mind-blowing.
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| » PHOTOS: Team USA women's soccer
London — For Team USA, Thursday's soccer match with Japan isn't just a battle for gold. It's also for cold hard cash.
The U.S. women will share $1.5 million dollars, U.S. Soccer President Sunil Gulati said, if they win the anticipated rematch of last year's World Cup title game at historic Wembley Stadium.
"There's a lot of money at stake,"said Gulati, who met in London with a small group of reporters Wednesday morning.
If the bonus were simply split evenly among each member of the active roster, every player would receive more than $83,000. However, Gulati said the players' association had the freedom to divide the bonus however it likes, such as including the alternates or the training staff.
Generally, members of the national team are either under contract – which each women playing at the Olympics is – or gets paid per game. At the Olympics, however, the player's association will receive the $1.5 million bonus, which can be divided in any manner. The bonus is in addition to the cash prizes awarded by the U.S. Olympic Committee to its medalists: $25,000 for gold medal winners, $15,000 for silver and $10,000 for bronze.
Gulati said U.S. Soccer also awards a bonus for winning silver at the Olympics, the least the Americans are assured by virtue of reaching the championship match. He said he did not know how much.
It's the same bonus the women would have received had they defeated Japan in the World Cup.
Because national team soccer players do not receive the compensation of other high-level, marketable athletes, it can be tougher to make a living.
Gulati said U.S. Soccer continues to evaluate the options for its players, including starting a league – there is presently not a major professional league – or establishing a permanent residency program.
"We're in some around the clock detailed discussions about what a framework might look like for a set-up starting next spring," Gulati said.
Women's soccer has struggled to attract mainstream fans in non-Olympic or World Cup seasons, even when games like Monday's thriller against Canada became top-of-the-list water cooler conversation.
Close games, which the U.S. women have made a habit of being in, raises interest in the sport temporarily. And don't think American leadership will waste the opportunity to raise its team's profile in the wake of at least a silver medal at the Olympics.
Starting Sept. 1 in Rochester, N.Y., the team will go on a national tour, playing up to 10, but at least friendly matches, against international opponents.
The number of games, Gulati said, will be dictated by whether the U.S. wins or loses. Rochester is the only confirmed site for the tour, and it makes plenty of sense. The 32-year-old Abby Wambach of Hermosa Beach is a native of the upstate New York town. U.S. Soccer CEO Dan Flynn said the team tries to schedule games in players' hometowns if possible.
"You do factor in a little bit if you can get a hometown," Flynn said. "It's a nice thing, particularly for the veterans."
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To: AAPT Executive Board
Subject: SPIN-UP/TYC Update
The Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges project, SPIN-UP/TYC, is funded by the Advanced Technological Education program through the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation. This project, award DUE-0203862, is funded for 18 months (starting June 1, 2002) for $270,540 and is awarded to the American Association of Physics Teachers. Elizabeth Teles is the Program Officer at NSF. The Principal Investigators are Thomas L. O'Kuma, Lee College; Mary Beth Monroe, Southwest Texas Junior College; and Warren W. Hein, AAPT. Mary Beth Monroe will serve as the Project Director with Tom O'Kuma and Warren Hein as Co-Project Directors. The External Evaluator for the project is Karen Johnston of Momentum Group. AAPT will provide fiscal management of the project. Lee College and Southwest Texas Junior College also provide support for the project.
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A new study in the journal Neurology suggests that working out is the most effective way to protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease. Researchers studied roughly 700 study participants from Scotland, all of whom were born in 1936. Each participant reported their levels of leisure and physical activity at age 70, rating their physical activity on a scale from moving only to perform household chores to participating in heavy exercise or competitive sport several times per week. Participants were also asked to rate how often they engaged in social or intellectual activities. At age 73, participants received an MRI to measure certain biomarkers in their brains. Those who participated in more physical activity showed less brain shrinkage and fewer white matter lesions, both of which can be signs of Alzheimer's disease. And while social and intellectual activities can be beneficial in preventing Alzheimer's disease, the study found that social and intellectual engagement weren'tas helpful to the brain as physical exercise. The types of physical exercise most beneficial to the brain are still being studied, though information presented at the 2012 Alzheimer's Association's International Conference suggested that strength training is perhaps the most effective form of exercise. (Metro)
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BRUSSELS, Belgium - Vowing to arrive at a common stance on U.S. import tariffs on steel and aluminum, which the Trump administration has threatened, European leaders met on Wednesday.
EU heads clarified at the outset that the bloc will not negotiate with a gun held to its head.
Donald Tusk, who chaired the summits, said that EU unity was key in dealing with the import duties of 25 percent on steel and 10 percent on aluminium announced by the U.S. President Donald Trump.
Trump announced the tariffs on grounds of national security, but due to protests by longtime allies, he granted EU producers a temporary exemption until June 1 pending the outcome of talks.
The European Commission, which oversees trade policy for the 28 EU members, is insisting that the European Union be granted a permanent exemption without conditions.
EU leaders, some of whom have met Trump since the tariffs were announced and others who have held meetings with U.S. officials, have said that they are now seeking to agree a common stance and want to balance the views of those most fearful of a trade war and those determined not to be bullied into concessions.
Earlier in the day, French President Emmanuel Macron and other EU leaders met for a summit in Bulgaria that began on Wednesday and stressed that the "bloc would not negotiate with a gun held to its head."
Addressing a news conference before the dinner discussion, Tusk reportedly said, "Here again, unity is our greatest strength and my objective is simple - we stick to our guns. This means a permanent exemption from U.S. tariffs on aluminium and steel if we are to discuss possible trade liberalisation with the U.S."
He added "The EU and U.S. are friends and partners. Therefore U.S. tariffs cannot be justified on the basis of national security. It is absurd to even think that the EU could be a threat to the United States."
Later in his address, Tusk said Trump has rid Europe of "all illusions" with the trade dispute and by pulling out of an international agreement on Iran's nuclear programme.
He even took to Twitter later and said, "Looking at latest decisions of @realDonaldTrump someone could even think: with friends like that who needs enemies. But frankly, EU should be grateful. Thanks to him we got rid of all illusions. We realise that if you need a helping hand, you will find one at the end of your arm."
Wednesday's meeting came days after the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, in a move that EU diplomats believe poses a threat to European companies doing business there.
Further, it has blocked appointments to the World Trade Organization, undermining its ability to settle trade disputes.
EU diplomats stressed during the summit that the bloc now has to find a unified stance that goes beyond just tariffs.
Yet, reports pointed out that Germany is especially worried about the tariffs in the run-up to the June 1 deadline.
With German cars set be hit in case the trade conflict escalates, Germany has urged its EU partners to show more flexibility.
However, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier acknowledged that finding a common stance with France and formulating an offer to the United States were "equally difficult."
The European Commission has stated that it would respond to tariffs with its own duties on U.S. products, including motor bikes and whisky and is expected to notify the WTO of its potential plans this week.
According to reports, the Commission is said to have mooted the idea of negotiating an agreement with the United States to lower import duties, but only once the permanent exemption is granted.
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As you may be aware, netbooks started out as connected, notebook-like products that were very cheap, did very little, and had high return rates. Thankfully, they quickly evolved into cheap notebooks and in certain ways some of them (especially the ones with NVIDIA Ion graphics) outperformed their much more expensive notebook competitors. It just goes to show that the market was looking for something different and in 2010 two competing ideas will come forward to provide more category differentiation still. First is the tablet, which is being spearheaded by Apple and led to market by offerings like those from the undermarketed Archos and the troubled JooJoo. Second is the "smartbook," which appears to be favored by the other PC OEMs, cell phone companies and wireless carriers. Let's talk about this impending battle.
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It is often kind of funny to see Steve Jobs do his hypocritical dance. He didn't like video on MP3 players until he sold the video iPod, didn't like multi-button mice until the Mighty Mouse, and thought Intel processors sucked until he used them. He has also been outspoken about how stupid tablet computers were because, OMG, you needed a keyboard until he brought out the iPhone and iPod touch, both of which are mini-tablets without a keyboard. He also appears to think screen touch is stupid, but making a touch mouse, multi-touch pad, and the coming Apple Touch Pad is brilliant. Wait until touchscreens get cheaper for laptops.
However, the big question is was he right? Do we really need a keyboard in a small laptop-like device or can we live on touchscreens much like we do with the other Apple tablet-like products? Tablets haven't historically done that well, but then phones like the iPhone didn't sell well either until Apple built one.
If you think of this device as more of a big iPhone or iPod touch which allows you to interact with content, provides a vastly better web browsing experience, and is a great platform for a new class of entertainment and short communications applications (like Twitter or Facebook on steroids) this could be the ticket to greatness and the hot product for 2010. Apple does these things almost like clockwork and this could be one heck of a kick-ass product class.
Still, I think it needs a better reading experience to hit its potential, so that it covers both the eBook and multimedia space, and while there is such a display coming to market in the Pixel Qi, it doesn't look like Apple will be initially getting it. (In fact, only Acer seems to be playing with it at the moment.) So it likely will be great, but it may not be Apple who has the coolest product.
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Jodie Foster steps out to run some errands on Wednesday (March 6) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
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Inside this plastic tube is a homeopathic remedy called Silicea 200 K, which has been prepared by Doctors Shachindra and Bhawisha Joshi, homeopaths based in Mumbai, India. Homeopathic medicines have been popular in India since the 1840s and rely on the idea that 'like cures like'. For instance, if you are vomiting, your treatment will be something that causes vomiting but in a smaller, much diluted dose. Homeopathy is one of several medical traditions recognised by the Indian government.
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Like many other explorers, Henry Hudson stumbled upon North America almost by accident. Employed by the Dutch Republic to find a sea passage to the Far East, Hudson and the crew of his ship the Halve Maen landed at what is today New York on September 11, 1609, claiming the region for the Dutch.
Efforts to map the region began almost immediately after Henry Hudson landed and culminated with this map, made by Nicholas Visscher and printed in 1682. This map depicts not only the former Dutch holdings of New Amsterdam (which had been taken over by the British), but also New England and New Jersey. The lower right-hand corner features a panoramic view of New Amsterdam and its harbor.
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Once the playoffs get started next week, Bruins winger Shawn Thornton should be fully healed and cleared to play.
So time is running short for those players that want to be Boston's 12th forward once Thornton is back in the lineup.
The battle will continue tonight in New York, as Thornton is "doubtful" to face the Rangers because of the stitches over his right eye, according to head coach Claude Julien. That means Tyler Seguin, Daniel Paille and Michael Ryder, the players most likely on the bubble, get another chance to make their pitch.
Paille has made great strides lately serving as a perfect left-wing complement for the fourth line and solid penalty-killer, as he displayed Saturday against Atlanta.
In that same game, Ryder made up for a mostly non-descript performance by scoring the game-winning goal on a penalty shot.
Seguin, meanwhile, hasn't hurt the Bruins, but hasn't helped much either. He's gone eight games without a goal and has fired just two shots on net in his last three contests. He's creating chances on a line with Rich Peverley and Chris Kelly, but not seeing results.
During his media briefing this morning in New York, Julien offered his opinion on Seguin's play and how playoff-ready the rookie might be.
"I think there's still time to see that. I can't stand here and say he's in, and I'm not going to say he's out," said Julien about Seguin and the playoffs. "I think we're going to keep seeing him play and the one thing that I can tell you is I feel that in the last month, month and a half, he's taken some good strides in regards to feeling more confident about his game. Like any other young player, there's better games than others. But certainly, he's built more confidence in his game for himself and even for us watching him than he had in the first half. That's a good sign."
"He's got to get that confidence and be able to understand that he can go in the corners and come out with the puck," the coach continued. "He doesn't have to run anybody over, but you have to have that confidence. We've seen him get better in that area."
A game with the rugged Rangers could be the perfect opportunity for Seguin to make his physical statement to the coaches.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Scotland's own Sean Connery and Alex Ferguson crashed Andy Murray's post-match news conference after he won his U.S. Open semifinal Saturday.
"Excuse me for interrupting," Connery, the Oscar-winning actor, said right after the Scottish tennis star answered a question about getting a day of rest before the final.
He then introduced Murray to Ferguson, the Manchester United manager. Murray and his mother, Judy, posed for pictures with the two.
"You smell of wine," Murray told his mother.
"He made me have wine," she said of Ferguson. "He's just been telling me that Scotland invented the world."
It was the first time Murray met Connery or Ferguson, though Connery had offered him encouragement over the phone before.
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CAIRO (AP) — One of the top officials in charge of overseeing Egypt's vote on a contentious Islamist-backed draft constitution resigned Wednesday, citing health problems, a judicial official said, in what critics saw as another blow to the legitimacy of the process.
The resignation comes amid allegations of vote irregularities and follows boycotts of the referendum judges and others leaving the voting process with a severe shortage of monitors to oversee it.
Secretary General of the Election Committee Zaghloul el-Balshi attributed his resignation to "a sudden health crisis," according to a copy of a letter he sent to the committee that was published by several Egyptian dailies including the privately owned el-Watan.
The official confirmed the authenticity of the letter. Relatives told local Egyptian media that el-Balshi has undergone eye surgery.
"The effort I put in over the past period has caused a sudden health crisis," the letter of resignation read. "As you know, it is impossible to carry out my mission with this health condition," it added.
The judicial official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the press.
However, critics believe the resignation was prompted by widespread irregularities.
"The violations were blatant, and he couldn't bear more, so he resigned. Don't believe what is said about his health condition," said Hossam Eissa, professor of law in Ain Shams University and a leading opposition member. "Half of the people will not recognize this constitution."
In an interview with daily al-Masry al-Youm, a senior member of the committee, Mahmoud Abu-Shousha, warned the opposition "not to exploit the sickness of the man and describe his resignation as caused by what they consider violations in the first round."
Rights groups and opposition say they filed complaints of violations including replacing judges with employees. Egypt's Justice Ministry ordered investigation into allegations.
Many of the country's judges boycotted overseeing the referendum, though the law requires that each polling station must be supervised by a judge. The boycott is a protest against Islamist President Mohammed Morsi's actions which judges.
The latest branch of judiciary that decided to boycott is the administrative prosecution union. At a news conference on Wednesday, they protested what they called the "abduction" of the Supreme Constitutional Court, which Islamists have accused of conspiring against the referendum. Islamists held a sit-in for weeks to prevent members from convening.
One of the Muslim Brotherhood's allies, Gamaa Islamiya, which once waged a terror campaign against the regime but later renounced violence, said in a statement, "the Supreme Constitutional Court is now a clear enemy of the presidency and the constitution," warning the court against issuing any verdicts that would hinder the vote, else, "it will be waging an assault against the popular will."
The resulting shortage of supervisors has added to doubts about the referendum. The first round was held on Dec. 15 and the second round is scheduled for Saturday.
El-Balshi had himself threatened to boycott following deadly clashes between liberal and Islamist demonstrators earlier this month, one of several incidents that have increased the sense of crisis in Egypt since Morsi last month issued a decree giving himself wide-ranging powers.
Morsi rescinded the decree, but his move set the scene for further polarization when an Islamist-dominated constitutional drafting panel rushed through the draft opposed by liberal parties, secularists, Christians, and many Muslims skeptical of the Brotherhood.
The constitution received 56 percent of the vote in the first round of the referendum. The Brotherhood says the opposition needs to respect the voter majority. Its critics say the process was rushed, the vote was rife with irregularities, turnout was a low 32 percent, and that a constitution needs consensus, not just a simple majority, to gain legitimacy.


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Donna La Mattino Pagakis 11/30/2005 6:34:40 PMWell you did an excellent job on this Timothy. Awesome lighting and detail!! #352327
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Brian Lobdell 11/30/2005 11:24:47 PMSubtle color, lighting and shadows like this are so difficult to do well, but you have mastered all three here Timothy! Great work! #2140400
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BOSTON (AP) — Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick is set to hit the campaign trail in New Jersey.
On Tuesday, Patrick will stump for Newark Mayor Cory Booker, a Democrat running for the U.S. Senate. Booker and Republican Steven Lonegan are vying to replace the late Sen. Frank Lautenberg, who died in June.
Next Saturday, Patrick travels to Dallas to deliver the keynote address at the Texas Democratic Party's Barbara Jordan Legacy Dinner.
Patrick is using money from his political action committee to pay for the trips.
Patrick formed the Together PAC, in 2011 to help pay for travels around the country campaigning on behalf of President Barack Obama .
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Many of us think of recycling as a recent trend but humans have been recycling for a very long time, all the way back to prehistory. Early man would rework broken arrowheads so that they could be reused and not thrown away. In 1690 the first recycled paper manufacturer in the U S was established near Philadelphia using cotton and linen rags to make paper.
My daughter, Donna Leeward and I were showing in the Spring Art Show in Cedar Key this past March. When I looked at the old Island Hotel I was getting a strong feeling of déjà vu.
In my mind I was going back 59 years to my first trip to Cedar Key. It was funny because at that time I didn't even know where Cedar Key was.
One day out of a clear blue sky my dad asked me, "How long has it been since you had turtle steak?"
Well, I guess it was at the Green Turtle Inn, halfway down the over-seas highway to Key West.
If you watch the news on a regular basis, you know that good news is hard to come by. The nightly news content is usually about war and hatred, crime, natural disasters and various other sad stories with a feel good story thrown in at the end of the broadcast. But there is good news, especially concerning the environment. You just do not hear about it very much. So the following is just a few of the positive stories about the environment.
By Tom Deverin
Special to the Beacon
While walking past the park in Cedar Key, a woman, a visitor to our islands, was observed taking discarded plastic and aluminum beverage containers from a city trash container and putting them into the green wire recycle bin.
Being sort of curious, I walked over and started a conversation.
"Pretty day."
"It sure is that."
M. C. of Alachua asks, "What's the deal with the new marijuana law? Someone told me that it didn't apply to too many people. Is that true? So what is being voted on in November? Is that something different?"
Dear M. C.:
By Bob Denny
My friend's blood pressure jumped to 160/110! He told me he thought he was going to explode! It was a serious clash with a dominating supervisor. That was one of the most painful and challenging times of his life! It hurt so bad that he took a month off of work. With some helpful counseling, he worked out a good solution with the employer, and was able to return to his job and stay on until a happy and successful retirement. (His supervisor was transferred and given appropriate training on "management skills.")
A couple of years into my cowboying in Marion County I got a call from a man who was living on the Castro farms, northwest of Ocala on Highway 27. He told me he managed the cattle operation for Bernard Castro and he had heard that I was day working and had some good dogs. He had a similar arrangement with Castro that I had with the Double F Ranch out at Moss Bluff - we could day work on the side on our own time.
The Double F at Moss Bluff in Marion County was like about every other ranch I ever worked on; it had one or two bad cows that would go out of their way to hook your pants off. Once we identified them, we made it a practice to tip their horns, so they couldn't do as much damage.
One time while receiving cattle from Dixie County for the Perry Brothers at the Baseline cow pen at Belleview, one of the semi-drivers told us to watch out for a little scrub cow and don't turn your back on her. She had killed a horse back in Dixie County.
By Bill Roberts
I was day-working in Marion County for a group of cattlemen that had cattle in several pastures, including the Ocala National Forest, where the cattle, more or less, roamed over a large area.
This was the end of the open range, as encounters with automobiles became more frequent, especially of Highway 40 from Ocala to the East Coast.
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WASHINGTON — The Senate on Thursday cleared the way for debate on the first piece of major gun-control legislation to be considered in that chamber in two decades.
With families of victims of the Newtown, Conn., massacre watching silently from the chamber, the Senate thwarted a threatened filibuster with a vote of 68 to 31 and will proceed next week to debate a package of legislation that would expand background checks for gun buyers and increase the penalties for criminal sales, in addition to a variety of other amendments. Those include the renewal of the assault weapons ban that expired in 2004.
Twenty-nine Republicans voted against the measure, as did two Democrats. Sixteen Republicans joined 50 Democrats and 2 independents in voting to cut off the debate and proceed to consideration of the legislation.
"Americans across this great country are looking to us for solutions and for action," said Senator Patrick Leahy, Democrat of Vermont and chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, "not for filibustering or sloganeering."
Senator Mike Lee, Republican of Utah, served as the voice of the opposition, reading letters from gun owners who fear infringement, like a pair of first-time-gun-owning senior citizens. "Protecting our rights, the few the government has left us, is of utmost importance to us," Mr. Lee said.
The vote, while a short-term victory for gun-control advocates, in no way presages passage of new gun laws. The impending bill will again need 60 votes to end the debate after consideration of contentious amendments offered by both supporters and opponents of new laws.
Should it climb that mountain, 51 votes would be needed to get to final passage, and many Democrats from conservative states who face re-election campaigns next year have indicated that they do not intend to vote for the bill.
A sense of the oncoming debate could be seen Wednesday and Thursday as senators from both parties took to the floor to make their case for and against new gun laws.
Senator Chris Murphy, a freshman from Connecticut who in other circumstances would draw scant notice, spent hours both days on the floor with large poster-sized photos of the children killed in Newtown in December. He described their quirks, like an interest in the piano or proclivity for sharing a tiny bed with a sibling.
Mr. Murphy also spoke of other victims of gun violence across the country. "We deserve to talk about them as well," he said.
The families of the dead from Newtown, who visited with several senators this week, overshadowed the discussion.
"Tears were shed as you might expect," said Senator Dick Durbin, Democrat of Illinois, who met with them. "In their grief they have come forward and shown extreme courage to walk through the corridors of power in Washington."


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The only missing trade for me was the one Ed and I made last year which gave me the option to switch first round draft picks this year. The website doesnt support the "option to switch" so we'll have to do it manually.
I have no recollection of this trade.
also, do we have a new commish yet?


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In the bright surge of liberal commentary that accompanied Barack Obama's electoral triumph, a sense of historical redemption was palpable. As Obama told the huge crowd that gathered on election night in Chicago, "The dream of our founders is alive in our time." If anything, Obama seemed happier to connect his candidacy with George Washington than to present himself as the heir of Rosa Parks or Martin Luther King Jr. From his celebrated speech on race in Philadelphia to his inaugural address, Obama embedded black history in the broader American story. The founders had produced a Constitution filled with noble promises; it was "signed but ultimately unfinished" and relied on the efforts of generations of Americans—white and black, men and women—to extend the franchise, extinguish slavery and conquer prejudice.
Obama's deft deployment of these arguments played an important role in his victory. During the spring of 2008, when critics were looking to corner him as a racial firebrand, Obama used what we might call the integrationist version of American history to sidestep the controversy. But he was hardly straying from academic orthodoxy. Like Obama, liberal historians have long viewed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as watershed documents that established freedom and equality as the guiding lights of American history. These high ideals, the argument goes, first hastened the demise of slavery in the Northern states, then created such unbearable pressure in the "house divided against itself" (in Lincoln's memorable phrase) that a terrible Civil War became unavoidable. During the 1860s a second American Revolution secured political and legal equality for the 4 million people who had been enslaved. But then the racism of Southern whites (and the apathy of the North) curtailed the march of freedom. Still, the pressure of American ideals inspired the civil rights movement of the mid-twentieth century. With Obama's victory the final barrier to black achievement fell, and the integration of black people into the mainstream was complete.
The appeal of the integrationist story is obvious. It presents the founders as visionaries whose legacy eclipsed their mistakes and the prejudices of their day. We may lament their failure to rivet abolitionism to the Constitution, but their love of equality ensured that America's institutions had a kind of egalitarian inevitability about them. (As Obama put it in his Philadelphia speech, "The answer to the slavery question was already embedded within our Constitution.") The integrationist story also sets American history on an upward track: it suggests that the nation started out with great ideals, then strived to expand their reach and meaning. It is a story of reconciliation, not opposition or confrontation. For more than two centuries, Americans have looked to "narrow that gap between the promise of our ideals and the reality of their time"—Obama again.
But is this the only way of looking at black history? Or the best way? During the 2008 campaign, Obama famously denounced his former pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, when the press began replaying snippets of sermons in which Wright offered an unsparing interpretation of American history. The media found it hard to get past the bracing refrain of "God damn America!" in a sermon Wright delivered just after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. But Wright's confrontational oratory was hardly grounded in racial or political nihilism; he drew upon a rich black tradition of holding the United States to account. For Wright, the integrationist version of American history had whitewashed the past. In fact, the American story had been punctuated by injustice and blindness toward nonwhite peoples, from the seventeenth-century Atlantic Seaboard to the twenty-first-century Middle East. The problem, Wright held, was not some innate evil on the part of Americans but the tendency of Americans throughout history to confuse the actions of their government with the will of God: "We believe God ordained African slavery. We believe God approved segregation…. We believe God was a founding member of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund." Black history was important precisely because it provided a vantage point on this flattering but delusional sense of America as a redeemer nation, a city upon a hill.


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The Friends sponsor at least four programs during the academic year. The programs are free and open to the public. Topics are wide ranging and speakers come from the local community, Ball State, and throughout Indiana. The presentations are held in either Bracken Library room 104, room 215 or the Helen B. and Martin D. Schwartz Special Collections and Digital Complex.
Frank A Bracken Civil War Collection
From Magic City to Middletown: 150 Years of Muncie History
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Fiscal Cliff: Will Dems Pass Bill? Frustration Continues as Deadline Nears
The public may be frustrated over Congress unable to resolve the "fiscal cliff" in time for the holiday season, but they may want to consider this point: lawmakers probably could enact a quicker compromise easily if Republican Democrat leaders could compromise, even possibly giving Democrats most of the votes.
That would give Democrats a bigger voice in the bargain, of course, which could make the Republican-led House weary. That's why about 10 percent of the House's members were able to thwart Speaker John Boehner's bid to pass a narrowly crafted bill that might have strengthened his bargaining hand.
By trying to pass his plan with GOP votes alone, Boehner could afford to lose only two dozen of the 241 House Republicans. His private headcount found nearly twice that many defectors, party insiders say, forcing Boehner to give up without seeking a formal vote. The miscalculation left negotiations in disarray as the Dec. 31 deadline nears.
The House's 192 Democrats essentially sat on the sidelines, bit players in last week's House drama.
House speakers traditionally advance major legislation only if most of their party's members support it. It's called the "majority of the majority" rule of thumb. But past speakers, including Democrat Nancy Pelosi and Republican Dennis Hastert, have ignored the rule at times.
Some Democrats are now calling on Boehner to do the same to avert the "fiscal cliff" of big tax hikes and spending cuts scheduled to take effect in the New Year.
Veterans in both parties say many House Democrats would likely join a sufficient number of Republicans to pass a compromise along the lines that Boehner and President Barack Obama seemed to be nearing last week before Boehner struck out on his own. Such a compromise plan might preserve Bush-era tax cuts for all couples making less than $400,000 or so a year.
While Obama did not explicitly embrace such a plan, he and Boehner appeared to be edging toward some variation of it. But Boehner abruptly launched his separate proposal — he dubbed it "Plan B" — which the conservatives' revolt killed late Thursday.
Boehner's plan would have spared anyone making less than $1 million a year from a tax rate hike in 2013. At least 40 House Republicans refused to back any tax rate increase at all, lawmakers said, dooming the plan.
GOP leaders note that virtually everyone's taxes will rise Jan. 1 without congressional action. They say sparing 98 or 99 percent of Americans is the best political alternative, given Obama's negotiating strength.
It's not known how many House Republicans would vote to avert the "fiscal cliff" by supporting a tax-and-spending plan closer to Obama's liking.
An Obama-backed deal presumably would draw the overwhelming support of House and
Senate Democrats. But even if every House Democrat backed it, it would need another 25 votes in that chamber.
"If Speaker Boehner is willing to bring to the floor of the House a bill, and just let this House work its will, Democrats and Republicans voting as their conscience determines, then I believe we can get something done," Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., told Bloomberg TV.
He noted that Pelosi, as House speaker in 2006, violated the "majority of the majority" rule by letting Republicans provide most of the votes for an Iraq war funding measure she disliked.
Aides to Boehner say he believes in, and abides by, the "majority of the majority" rule without declaring it an iron-clad requirement. They did not respond to messages asking if Boehner might consider ignoring the rule to avert the "fiscal cliff."
John Feehery, who was a top aide to Hastert, said he doubted that would happen.
Then early next year, Feehery said, lawmakers could "vote to cut taxes rather than vote to raise taxes."
Based on reporting by the Associated Press.
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With the waning days of summer upon us, take some respite from the August haze to cool off and refresh at our area museums. The region's vibrant artistic rhythms are reflected in what's on view nearby.
Alex Katz at Nassau County Museum of Art
New York's Whitney Museum comes to Long Island in the form of a solo exhibit of works by painter Alex Katz, in "Alex Katz: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art." This exhibition, which opened in late June and runs through Oct. 13, includes early landscapes and collages, as well as the enormous and brilliantly colored portraits of family and friends that are the hallmark of the artist's career.
"He's one of a very few living artists with a highly recognizable style. People adore his work," said Karl Willers, the Nassau County Museum of Art's director. "He stands out in that circle of [Roy] Lichtenstein, [Andy] Warhol and Larry Rivers as one of the premier pop artists of the '60s. He has hung on to develop a style that he has made completely his own."
It's an approach that draws inspiration from the boldly colored billboards of the 1960s and movies, which resulted in Katz's seminal works. "These were a series of large paintings, among them The Red Smile and Eli, both done in 1963, that used bright color on large canvases that almost seem to take over the wall," explained Willers. Also in that style, Katz's later work Apple Blossom, in which he focused on blossoming apple trees to similar affect.
His technique reflected the pop art and culture of the time, including advertising and panoramic film. Using large canvases, Katz painted people — often his wife and muse Ada and their circle of friends and others in the artistic community — in a portraiture style, according to Willers, that captured the subtleties of his subject's features. "He painted with broad, flat strokes and made great use of color," Willers said. "He gave them the appeal of Hollywood glamour. His portraits reflect a a classic movie style image, as if they were getting a screen close-up."
The exhibit, which includes 33 paintings and 28 prints, is culled from the Whitney's extensive collection of Katz's works. "The Whitney has substantial holdings that they generously permitted us to use for this exhibit. It's similar to a 2007 retrospective that traveled to Albany. For us, it was re-evaluated and revised," said Willers.
Katz, who was born in Brooklyn in 1927, grew up in the St. Albans section of Queens and attended Cooper Union's School of Art where he was trained in modern art theories and techniques. He later earned a scholarship to continue his studies at Maine's Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture. He has said that Skowhegan's plein air painting gave him "a reason to devote my life to painting."
In New York during the 1950s, resisting the dominant abstractionism of the time, Katz associated with other figurative painters, among them Rivers and Fairfield Porter. Toward the latter part of the decade, his work evolved towards greater realism as he became increasingly interested in portraiture with monochrome backgrounds, painting his friends and family and especially his wife.Katz began creating large-scale paintings, often depicting dramatically cropped faces in a style that was to become his signature.
The power of Katz's portraits, said Dana Miller, Curator, Permanent Collection, of the Whitney Museum of American Art, "…comes from their color and their scale."
This retrospective, which includes works rarely on view, is divided between Katz's well-known portraits and his landscape paintings. "It gives a comprehensive overview of the artist's career," said Willers. "It is a very solid body of work that includes his early studies, to much more recent and large scale pieces. It shows all the different mediums and sizes he works in."
And it's an ideal summer exhibit, according to Willers. "Even though much of it is portraiture, it has an ease and glamour that is very fresh and summery, " he said.
As always, the museum offers additional programming to enhance the viewing experience. Lunchtime lectures on Katz's work are scheduled on Aug. 22 and Sept. 26. The influential art critic Bill Berkson visits, on Oct. 12, to share his insights on Katz's painting. For details on these and other events, visit nassaumuseum.org/events.
Stan Brodsky: A Retrospective
The career of another current artist, Long Island's Stan Brodsky, is celebrated in The Heckscher Museum of Art's new exhibit, "Stan Brodsky: Retrospective." The exhibition, which opens Saturday and runs through Dec. 1, traces the artist's evolution from early representational works that focus on city structures, through the minimalist landscapes executed during the artist's early years on Long Island, to the Abstract Expressionism that manifest Brodsky's deepest engagement with the painting process itself.
"Stan Brodsky has made Huntington his home for almost 50 years and during that time has been included in many group exhibitions at the museum, as well as the subject of two solo shows, the most recent more than 20 years ago," said Lisa Chalif, curator of the Heckscher Museum of Art. "Since then, Stan's work has continued to evolve towards dense, multi-layered compositions full of animated gesture, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself. This retrospective spans almost his entire career, including recent work executed earlier this year."
For 50 years Brodsky has created abstract works of lyrical beauty inspired by the Long Island landscape and his travels in the U.S. and abroad. His multi-layered paintings exude dynamic energy and reveal an elegant sensitivity to color rare among his contemporaries.
Brodsky, a professor emeritus at LIU Post, draws his primary inspiration from his surroundings. He has transformed his personal experience of the landscape — and its light, color and mood — into abstract paintings. His earliest landscapes, executed while he lived in New York, explore how light suffuses objects, reducing rigid, grid-like structures into unmodulated bands of color that define the fore-, middle-, and background of the pictorial space.
After he moved to Long Island in 1965, the horizon — marking the division between the shifting surface of the water below and the empty sky above — replaced defined elements as an anchor in minimalist works of blended color that derived from his experience working with pastel.
By the early 1980s, Brodsky's approach involved an exploration of flattened pictorial space built up from layers of pigment that create an overall surface pattern of light and shade, animated by energetic ribbons of color that dance across the canvas, attesting to his engagement with the process of painting itself. His frequent travels — to New Mexico, Greece, Israel, Sicily, Arizona, Prague, Ireland, France, California, and Tuscany — are documented by his many series of paintings whose varied palettes capture the essence of place.
The Lyon, the Which, and The Warhol Redux
Over at Hofstra University, the museum continues its 50th anniversary celebration with "The Lyon, the Which, and The Warhol: The Sequel," through Sept. 15.
It is indeed a sequel to the museum's early spring 2013 exhibition (The Lyon, the Which and The Warhol) and focuses on themes of gender and identity while highlighting photography from the Museum's permanent
As with the exhibit's first round, this current installation is again culled from the museum's extensive photography collection, combining photos by photojournalist Danny Lyons and pop icon Andy Warhol juxtaposed with contributions by other photographers and artists in various mediums. Works by Diane Arbus are also on view, as well as works in other media by Oskar Kokoschka, Alfred Maurers and Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi.


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I'm completely new to this forum as far as participating goes, but have been lurking for a while, and so I hope you don't mind (and discard) this thread completely.
Perhaps this forum needs for some discussion to occur by its users and by OLPC volunteers about where the forum is at, and where it should be. I hope you don't mind me saying, but olpcnews forum is doing a better service in some areas than this one (nevermind its parent site, the sometimes trashy, sometimes interesting tabloid): support for once.
Having said that, I don't mean for forum.laptop to stop being a place where we can find and give technical help and support; what I'm asking is to more pervasively focus on the goals of OLPC, of learning learning with computing technologies.
What changes am i talking in concrete? I'm asking for the discussion and your opinions on:
1 - containment of mailing lists to a specific sub-forum tree, "OLPC Mailing Lists" .
2 - redesign of current forum categories/structure to help create a community focused on the goals of the OLPC. I'm amazed that olpcnews forum contains a Constructionism sub-forum, and this one doesn't!
Looking forward to your opinions and comments


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Summer is a time for exploring and growing, and there is no better place for learning and fun than at HMNS Xplorations Summer Camps!
As a child, my very best teachers taught English and American History, so I grew to love these subjects. Either my science teachers were not my strongest teachers or I fell into the trap that existed at the time—science was for boys. Because of my background (or lack of background) in science, it is very important to me that my granddaughters love the excitement and wonder around them. Summer camp at HMNS is the perfect place for this love to be planted and nurtured.
In addition to camps at HMNS, camps are held during selected weeks in The Woodlands and in Sugar Land.
Camp topics are age-appropriate. For example, my oldest granddaughter, Abbie, has taken Amazing Animals, Booms and Blast-Offs, Build it Big, Art Smart, DinoMite, Bug-a-Boo and Waterworks. Last summer during Waterworks, the students made bubbles. In the photo to the left, Abbie is concentrating hard on a bubble made from soap, water, glycerin and straws.
In the same class, the students were fascinated when a Hula Hoop and wading pool plus the bubble ingredients created a bubble that surrounded each of them. Magic!
This amazed camper pictured below is totally surrounded. What child would not be fascinated by experiences like this?
For summer, 2009, the Youth Education Programs Staff headed by Nicole and Kat have added three new camps: Wild, Wild West, It's Easy Being Green and Freeze Frame.
Wild, Wild West will be held at the Museum and at both The Woodlands and Sugar Land locations. This camp will help cowboys and cowgirls discover the science and symbols of the Wild West as they try lassoing, churning butter, branding and participate in a cowpoke cookout.
It's Easy Being Green will be held at the Museum and in The Woodlands. As campers discover that it is easy being green they will experiment with water, wind and alternative energy powered model cars and design a miniature green city.
Freeze Frame will be held only at HMNS. This camp teaches about old fashioned photography as campers discover the inner workings of a camera by dissecting an eyeball, constructing a pinhole camera, using the sun to make prints, and much, much more.
Its not to late to join in the fun, we still have spots available for the summer! You can register for Xplorations Summer Camps online. If you have a question about camp, please call the camp registrar at 713 639 4625.
I usually write about books, so I'll close with a quote from Stuart Littleby E. B. White. Stuart reminds us to "Treasure the summers of your life." A great way to give your children a summer to remember is to enroll them in Xplorations Summer Camps and watch their sense of wonder grow!


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Jessica Bradley of Jacksonville
Jessica Bradley of Jacksonville
Where are you originally from? Greenback, Tenn.
How long have you lived in this area? A little over a year.
Where are you employed? I�m a full-time nursing student and stay-at-home mom.
What do you like to do for fun? I like to go to the beach and read.
What do you like about living here? We�re close to the beach.
What�s one of your favorite places to visit? I love going to the mountains.
What is one of the biggest problems our community faces? I think we ought to have more organic markets here.
What�s your favorite sports team? The Atlanta Braves.
What�s the one junk food you can�t resist? Sweet tea.
Who are you most proud of? My oldest son. He overcame difficulties in school last year and is on the honor roll now.
Who has had the greatest influence in your life? My grandmother and her humility, love and support.
Would you give an interest fact about yourself? I�m a painter. I enjoy painting landscapes and abstract pieces.


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