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Supreme Court Rejects Software Patents On Performing Generic Functions; Pretends That Lots Of Other Software Must Be Patentable
from the a-step-in-the-right-direction dept
We had hoped that when the Supreme Court agreed to hear the Alice case it wouldn't miss another chance to actually add some clarity to what is and what is not patentable. It seemed like the perfect opportunity. As you may recall, the original appeals court (CAFC) ruling was a complete disaster, with 135 pages of different opinions -- with only one single paragraph having a majority view, rejecting the specific patent. But no one could agree on why or the larger questions.
It was as if CAFC were practically begging the Supreme Court to provide clarity and guidance.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court didn't really do that. It technically "upheld" the CAFC ruling (that one paragraph) rejecting the patent (which basically covered a computerized escrow service) as unpatentable subject matter. It further makes clear that merely taking an abstract idea and doing it "on a computer" doesn't make it patentable. That's all good... But, while three Justices (Sotomayor, Ginsburg and Breyer) hoped the court would go further and basically say that business methods weren't patentable at all, the rest simply wouldn't go along with that, saying that "many computer-implemented claims are formally addressed to patent-eligible subject matter," but never giving any examples.
Instead, it notes that you can't get a patent if each step claimed in the patent "does no more than require a generic computer to perform generic computer functions." Except, uh, many people will point out that's all that software does. That's basically how software works, but the Justices don't seem to recognize that. So, it's a bit of a conundrum. The court says many software patents are perfectly good because they apply to patent-eligible subject matter, but that if the claims do no more than require a generic computer to perform generic computer functions, it's not patentable. You could read that to mean that basically most software patents are no longer allowed, but... that's going to involve an awful lot of wasted litigation to teach a bunch of courts, including the Supreme Court, that basically all software involves generic computer functions.
Part of the problem is that, like many non-technical people, many of the Justice seems to think that software is a lot more than it really is. They seem to think that there's some magic in software that goes beyond just a bunch of instructions for a computer to follow. So, now they're saying that just taking some ideas and telling a computer to follow instructions to implement that idea is not patentable... but they still argue that there's plenty of software that is patentable. So it's... still really punting on the issue, in part because the Justices don't seem to understand software.
The court relies a lot on two other big recent rulings which we've covered -- the Mayo ruling that rejected medical diagnostic patents and the Myriad Genetics ruling that struck down gene patents, but doesn't quite go as far with software and business method patents. Instead, it sorta half rejects software patents, kinda, without going as far as it needs to go. As some folks are pointing out, the language used in the ruling is "going to tie folks in knots" as they try to figure out what it means.
In the long run, this may be a very important ruling. It's easy to read this ruling to basically reject a very large number of software patents. But, because of the unfortunately all-too-common nature of the Supreme Court semi-punting on clear decisions on this particular issue, it's not entirely clear where this ends up, meaning that there's going to be a lot of patent litigation citing this ruling, with both sides seeking to tap dance around the language choices. And that just means a few years down the road, it's quite likely that we'll be back here again, with the Supreme Court asked to decide, once again, whether or not software and business methods are really patentable.


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Traveling Exhibition FAQs
What is the fee to host a traveling exhibition?
Host sites are required to pay a loan fee, which covers shipping and administrative costs, and a refundable security deposit. Sites will receive an invoice for $1350 for large exhibitions (plus a refundable $250 deposit) and $450 for small exhibitions (plus a refundable $100 deposit). Fees are due no later than one month prior to the first day of the loan period—exhibitions will not be shipped to your site until the fee has been paid.
Is my Affiliate School or Public Library Affiliate eligible for discounts on traveling exhibitions?
Affiliate Schools and Public Library Affiliates are eligible to receive their first small exhibition at no cost. Small exhibitions include: Emancipation and Its Legacies; Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom; Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era; Civil War 150; and The Progressive Era: Creating Modern America, 1900–1917. After hosting the first free small exhibition, Affiliate Schools and Public Library Affiliates are required to pay the standard loan fee and security deposit to host subsequent exhibitions: $1350 for large exhibitions (plus a refundable $250 deposit) and $450 for small exhibitions (plus a refundable $100 deposit).
How big is a traveling exhibition?
Traveling exhibitions are approximately 80" tall. Small exhibitions require 10–12 running feet of display space. Large exhibitions require 60–70 running feet of display space.
Large Exhibitions:
- Freedom: A History of US
- The Many Faces of George Washington
- Alexander Hamilton:The Man Who Made Modern America
- Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times
- Freedom Riders
Small Exhibitions:
- Frederick Douglass From Slavery to Freedom
- Emancipation and Its Legacies
- Looking at Lincoln: Political Cartoons from the Civil War Era
- Civil War 150
- The Progressive Era: Creating Modern America, 1900-1917
Traveling exhibitions are freestanding and can be displayed in a horseshoe, pillar, or "running W" configuration.
What is required for on-site traveling exhibition assembly?
Traveling exhibition set-up does not require any tools and can be done by two people. Detailed assembly instructions will be included in your Site Support Notebook.
How long is the traveling exhibition loan period?
The traveling exhibition loan period is four weeks.
How will my traveling exhibition be shipped to and from my site?
All exhibitions are sent via FedEx Ground. Exhibitions are shipped in high-impact, wheeled, plastic case(s). Dimensions per case are 33 inches x 44 inches x 10 inches. Weight per loaded case is 70 lbs.
Tracking numbers and pickup confirmation numbers for both shipments will be provided by the Gilder Lehrman Institute. All shipping costs will be billed to the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History.
When are traveling exhibitions delivered and picked up?
Traveling exhibitions are delivered 1–2 business days before the exhibition start date and picked up 1–2 business days after the exhibition end date. Because there is a limited time available to get the exhibition from one site to another, sites should have the exhibition dismantled and ready for pick-up the first business day after the exhibition closes.
Whom should I contact with further questions?
For more information, email Exhibitions or call 646-366-9666 ext. 41.

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A living trust is a legal document that, just like a will, contains your instructions for what you want to happen to your assets when you die. But, unlike a will, a living trust avoids probate at death, can control all of your assets even after you are gone, and prevents the court from controlling your assets at incapacity. For more in-depth information about trusts, contact our Rancho Cordova trust lawyers.
Common misconceptions about Trusts
Does a Trust and a Will do the Same Thing?
Not quite. A will requires all of your assets to go into probate, to be distributed at the court's order to the heirs you chose in the will. An estate will usually go through the probate process for an average of 2 years, where a trust can generally be administered and finalized in about 90 days. With a trust you already transferred your assets into the Living Trust during your lifetime, thus, there are no assets to go through probate.
Who should have a Living Trust?
Age, marital status, and wealth don't really matter. If you own titled assets and want your loved ones (spouse, children or parents) to avoid court interference at your death or incapacity, consider a living trust. You may also want to encourage other family members to have one so you won't have to deal with the courts at the time of your loved ones incapacitation or death. Our Rancho Cordova trust lawyers will explain the benefits and help you create an estate plan according to your intentions.
Does my Trust end when I die?
Unlike a will, a trust doesn't have to die with you. Assets can stay in your trust, managed by the person or trustee you have chosen until your beneficiaries (including minor children) reach the age(s) you want them to inherit, or to provide for a loved one with special needs. Our Rancho Cordova trust lawyers are knowledgeable and experienced when it comes to special needs trusts.
Trust Amendments
A Living Trust Amendment is a legal document that changes specific provisions of a Revocable Living Trust but leaves all of the other provisions unchanged, and can be changed any way you desire, as often as you desire.
- If you are considering making a change to your Revocable Living Trust it must be signed with the same formalities as the original trust agreement.
- Unless authorized in the trust document, if you make handwritten changes to your Revocable Living Trust it will either void the trust or be ignored.
- Trusts should be amended when laws change or when your circumstances or desire change.
- A Trust or a Will should be reviewed at least every 5 years to make sure it is up to date with the law and your desires.
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If you are in need of a trust or have estate planning questions, do not hesitate to reach out to Beyer, Pongratz & Rosen, a law firm of Rancho Cordova trust lawyers experienced and knowledgeable in estate planning. Our attorneys focus on client-centered guidance and representation. Contact us at 916-369-9750 for a consultation with our Rancho Cordova trust lawyers to answer your questions and guide you through the estate planning process.


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5 Just Peachy Eyeshadows
5 Just Peachy Eyeshadows
Peach! What an interesting color–sometimes peach can read almost pink-peach, but I think it's closer to yellow/orange with a general lightness that keeps it from being categorized as a yellow or orange. Here are my top five picks for peachy eyeshadows…
- theBalm Luscious Lani — soft peach beige with a frosted sheen
- Inglot #330 — matte pastel peach-orange
- Chanel Emerveille — shimmery peach beige
- MAC Orb — neutral peach beige
- Inglot #328 — matte yellowed peach


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Quick Weeknight Dinner Recipes with Seafood Quick Weeknight Meals Recipe Contest 2009
Looking for a quick yet elegant dinner recipe for the weekend? Why not try fish? Or scallops? Here's a look back at the quick seafood recipes from last month's Quick Weeknight Meals contest. There's a dozen recipes here: salmon three ways, seared scallops, and more.
• 1 Phoebe's Seared Scallops with Tomatillo Guacamole and Corn Salsa
• 2 Lauren's Shrimp with White Beans and Garlic Toast
• 3 Danse's Green Curry with Seafood
• 4 Elissa's Salmon in Parchment with Curried Yogurt Sauce
• 5 Diana's Quick Jambalaya
• 6 Linzy's Sesame Crusted Salmon over Spicy Tahini Miso Sauce
• 7 Kristopher's Seared Char with Asian Kale
• 8 Julie's Quick and Easy Nicoise-Style Salad
• 9 Catherine's Salmon with Capers and Wilted Greens
• 10 Amy's Penne with Shrimp and Goat Cheese
• 11 Andrea's Spaghetti with White Clam Sauce
• 12 Kevin's Spicy Orange Teriyaki Chicken and Shrimp
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Solar Policy and Program Technical Assistance in 2013
February 5, 2013
This year, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Solar Program will offer four rounds of technical assistance opportunities through NREL for cities and states targeting policy and programmatic improvements that will help open and develop markets for distributed generation (DG) photovoltaics (PV), specifically rooftop solar.
The third round of assistance will focus on partnering applicants with experts to determine the most effective use of assistance to advance market opening policies and programs.
Types of non-financial assistance available include:
- Review of current policies and comparison to best practices with suggestions for policy changes to better serve the solar DG market
- Unbiased analysis of economic and market impacts related to policy changes
- Review of current regulations and comparison to best practices with suggestions for policy changes to better serve the solar DG market
- Unbiased analysis of the economic and market impacts of regulation changes.
The program is led by the Solar Technical Assistance Team (STAT) at NREL. STAT provides timely, unbiased expertise to assist key policymakers and regulators in making informed decisions on various topics including feed-in tariffs, renewable portfolio standards, policy opportunities for high solar market penetration, and project financing.
The fourth round of assistance will be announced April 1, 2013.
For more information regarding future technical assistance opportunities, email email@example.com.
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Masking and Ritual Theater of the Baining and Gimi Peoples of Papua New Guinea
Ceremonies of the Gimi:
Art of the Chachet, Kairak, and Uramot Baining of New
Britain, Papua New Guinea
An overview of Baining Culture
The Baining live on the northeastern tip of New Britain in the country of Papua New Guinea. They are confined to the Gazelle Peninsula (see map, Figure 1) in a mountainous tropical forest. Their environment is hot and humid with constant equatorial rains throughout the year.
The Baining speak a simple object-dominated, non-Austronesian Language (formerly called an "Old Papuan" language) which has several dialects, including Chachet, Randolit, Kairak, Uramot, Mali, and Asimbali Baining.
The name "Baining" refers to all the people who live in the Baining mountains and speak a dialect of Baining. The word Baining comes from the Austronesian-speaking Tolai people, neighbors to the northeast. It is a compound of bad, to go inland into the bush, and nig, a wild uncultivated area, thereby referring to the Baining as wild uncultivated people who live in the bush.
The Baining throughout-the Gazelle peninsula refer to themselves as "the people" or "people" and see themselves as the original inhabitants in the area. While there has been no archaeological research conducted in the Baining areas, a long period of residence in the Gazelle Peninsula is suggested by the lack of migration myths and preponderance of creation myths about Baining ancestors originating in the territories they inhabit. Unlike the Tolai, who appear to have migrated from the Duke of York Islands and Southern New Ireland in the past century or two, the Baining may have resided in East New Britain for thousands of years. They have no tradition of using canoes, either simple dugouts or more complex outrigger types, as do the Tolai, and would have had to arrive at their present location by walking the entire length of the island of New Britain in an early non-Austronesian migration into the area several thousand years before the Christian era.
At the time of early contact with Europeans in the late 19th century, the Baining were loosely organized acephalous (without chief or other stratified leaders) groups that spoke related but distinct dialects. In some cases these groups exhibited mutual hostility toward each other and neighboring non-Baining groups. The three groups represented by the art forms on exhibit here are the northwest Chachet and central Kairak and Uramot Baining (see map, Figure 1). At the time of contact in the late 19th century, it is estimated that there were about 6,000 Tolai living on the northeast coast of the Gazelle Peninsula and about 10,000 Baining spread out over the rest of the Gazelle Peninsula. Today there are over 100,000 Tolai and about 8,000 Baining living in approximately the same territories as they had at the time of colonization by the Germans before the turn of the century. Obviously, the Tolai have prospered during the post colonial period while the Baining have lost, or at best maintained, a level of population equal to the precolonial period, referred to as the "traditional" period.
Some General Notes about Baining Art and Ceremonies
The Baining are unusual among Melanesian cultures in that they create "perishable" art forms in bark cloth, wood, and leaves, which are used only once for a single day or nighttime ceremony, then discarded or destroyed. This artistic tradition serves to articulate, in visible form, the entire sphere of existence of the Baining people. Their art is presented in dramatic ceremonies representing the complementary daytime/nighttime, male/female, and village/bush aspects of Baining life.
The elaborate ceremonial presentation of their display pieces, headdresses, masks, and body decorations is in` dramatic contrast to the everyday life activities of the people. The making of the art and its presentation serves as a cultural unifying force among the Baining, who are by tradition dispersed in small family-gardening groups throughout the Gazelle Peninsula, These ceremonies celebrate the harvest and the birth of new children commemorate the dead, and are an integral part of the initiation of male and female youth into full productive adult status within each dialect group.
Baining life centers around two complementary activities, gardening and hunting/gathering. These activities provide sustenance and the materials for shelter. Traditionally, gardening is the province of women, and hunting/gathering, the province of men. Both activities are given symbolic expression in ritual art during the daytime and nighttime ceremonies in the Chachet, Kairak, and Uramot Baining.
In the day-dance ceremony the primary focus of artistic expression is on symbols of female-oriented tasks and products derived from the fruits of the harvest. The colossal display pieces, headdresses, decorated body arts, and composite helmet masks depict growth and fertility-oriented activities related to gardening.
Uramot Baining (Gaulim village)
Mendas mask
Collection: H. Gallasch, South Australia. Corbin Negative 1973.3.27.
Kairak Baining (Ivere village)
G. Corbin, 1973
N.W. Baining
Night-dance mask representing the spirit of a
freshwater fish.
Kairak Baining (Ivere village)
Lingam night-dance mask
G. Corbin, 1973
Uramot Baining
Mendas day-dance mask
Collection: H. Gallasch, South Australia. Corbin Negative 1973.11.1.
In contrast, the art of the night-dance ceremony depicts the products of male activities: the active, chaotic world of the bush. The headdresses, helmet masks, and composite helmet masks made for the night dance incorporate a loosely age-graded series of specialized artistic symbols expressing the fruits of of male-oriented existence in the form of hunted-and-gathered flora and fauna.
The pace and dance movements of the participants the day and nighttime ceremonies express the contrasting actions inherent in female fertility (slow, gradual growth, and ripening), and random active struggle and eventual control of the natural environment embodied in male hunting and slashing/burning.
Making of the Day and Nighttime Ceremonial Art
In all areas, only initiated Baining men create the various display pieces, headdresses, decorated body spears, and masks used for ceremonies. These art forms are constructed in temporary shelters and houses away from the village in the surrounding bush. The various paths to these shelters are marked with taboo signs scaring away men, children, and uninitiated males. In former times, to violate these markers and to walk into a a secret art-making shelter or house was punishable by sickness and eventual death. Even today, nearly a hundred years after first contact with European culture, religion, education, and economic systems, the Baining women and children hold to sacred and secret nature of the male art-making activity and avoid these areas at all costs.
Leaves, bark cloth, bamboo, strips of wood are the primary raw materials of the Baining artist. Bark cloth is stretched and sewn over thin bamboo and wooden armatures. Large leaves are used as filler material. Bark cloth is made by a long and laborious process of beating the inner bark of a paper mulberry or breadfruit tree until the fibers separate and spreading this flattened material out into sections of approximately 18 inches wide by five feet long. The resulting cloth is soaked in a local stream, then laid out flattened on stone stones, and bleached by the sun. After the bark cloth has been cut and sewn over the leaves and the armatures, it is painted with red and black pigments. The red is often derived from chewed tuber roots, or tongue blood mixed with sugarcane water. The black is usually made by scraping the burnt outer husk of a coconut, and mixing it with sugarcane water. A thin stick with a chewed end serves as the artist's brush. In almost all Baining painting, the white bark cloth serves as white negative space surrounded by red or black pigment.
Art in the Daytime Ceremony
In the Chachet, Kairak, and Uramot Baining, the painted bark cloth display pieces, headdresses, and composite helmet masks created for the day-dance ceremonies are worn by men. These men present themselves and the art forms to a female orchestra who sing and beat bamboo tubes on rocks and wood on the ground. To the Baining, these men and the various art forms they present or wear take on feminine identities for the brief period of their presentation to the female orchestra and the audience. After the male dancers remove their headdresses, masks, body spears and other feminine art symbols, they are regarded once again as men. Many of the costumes worn by daytime dancers include women's skirts, thereby adding to the feminine identity of the male dancers. The audience at these presentations consists of men, women, and children from various villages.
In the Chachet Baining, the display pieces, headdresses, and composite helmet masks (See plates 1-2) are painted with "plant-growth" patterns in red and black against a white (bark cloth) background. These patterns are associated with products of the garden as well as useful plants gathered by; women in the bush. In addition, the headdresses are said to symbolize the growth of garden plants toward the sun, and have actual plants sticking out from their top (plate 1). The composite helmet masks of the Chachet (plate a) consist of a lower sculptural form,, which is usually some type of bird, such as a chicken, owl, hornbill, cassowary, or other bush bird. In some Chachet areas the lower sculptural forms also depict tree forks, animal and human bones, and other forms associated with ancestors or spirits. The tapering elongated shape extending diagonally behind the bottom sculptural farm often represents a coconut tree, a common source of food found in many Baining gardens. The trunk-like shape of this type of mask is often painted with the "plant-growth" patterns. Some masks have additional sculptural elements added to the top of the bird's head. These include an airplane shape (left side of plate 2), various human-like faces (to make people laugh), and birds with outstretched wings (see exhibition).
The day-dance art forms of the Kairak and Uramot Baining are stylistically distinct from those of the Chachet, although they have common roots as being related to garden and ancestral symbolism. The composite helmet masks of the Uramot Baining are often as much as 18 or 20 feet in height. The mask represented in plates 3a and 3b has a lower mask-like shape made of painted bark cloth over bamboo and wooden armatures. The shape represents a large rounded leaf of a type used for wrapping ceremonial food before cooking. The tree is also thought to have magical curative powers. The large trunk-like form extending behind the leaf shape represents a special variety of tree found in the bush. This specific tree takes many generations to rot away after it has died and fallen to the ground.
The Uramot Baining are very impressed with its longevity. The patterns painted on the rounded-leaf section of this Uramot mask (plate 3b) include red and black triangular forms beneath the concentric circular eyes. These are the tears of the spirit represented. The Baining assert that the spirit is mourning its death brought about in the service of the Baining. These red and black patterns also create three elongated negative white shapes which represent the tracks made by chickens or other species of bush fowl. The thin black patterns radiating outward from the center of the forehead represent fern leaves, a favorite food of various spirit creatures. The red triangles repeated four times within the center of the forehead represent the cross section of a leaf that has been cut. The patterns painted on the large tree-trunk-like shape behind the lower mask represent the irregular marks made on the ground by caterpillars and snakes and three- and six-part negative shapes created by the intersection of black pointed forms representing spears. The Kairak Baining also use similar red, black, and white patterns on their day-dance display pieces, headdresses, and masks. Plate 4 shows a drawing of day-dance mask motifs collected from a Kairak Baining in 1973 (see other examples in the exhibition). The marks made by a caterpillar or snake and the frequent use of the chicken or bushfowl track patterns are common to their visual design as are the active: use of negative white shapes to create complex patterns vying with the positive red and black forms.
Art in the Nighttime Ceremony
In contrast to the clay-dance ceremonies of the Chachet, Kairak, and Uramot, in which a female orchestra sings and pounds percussion rhythms with bamboo on rocks and wood, the night-dance ceremonies have an all-male orchestra seated on the ground before a huge bonfire. They also sing and beat bamboo tubes on rocks and wood to create percussive rhythms. When the night-dance ceremony is about to begin, i.e., when the fire is lighted and the orchestra begins to sing, the women and children retire to their huts in fear. It is believed that the night-dance bush spirits are very dangerous to them.
While day-dance patterns of movement and presentation of art forms were subtle, slow, ponderous, and "feminine," the three types of headdresses and masks presented in the night dance are accompanied by rigorous movement, loud noises, cries, and the additional spectacle of men jumping barefoot into the fire' wearing various masks (see exhibition photograph).
The symbolism of the day dance art refers to feminine garden products while most of the night-dance art: is associated with the wild bush and flora and fauna obtained there through active exploitation by males.. The decorated headdresses,, helmet masks, and: composite helmet masks worn during the night dance also depict male or female spirits. The males donning these art forms wear a penis sheath of a masculine type (a mushroom) or a feminine type (a flower), thereby designating the gender of the spirit represented. Each dancer also wears a long bark-cloth tail attached to the skin at the base of the spine, giving the spirit a bird-like nature. It is believed that these night-dance spirits live in trees like birds.
The piercing of the skin is associated with male initiation at puberty, and traditionally all adult males had a permanent hole at the base of their spine for attaching the bark cloth tail. The masks of the night dance often represent the spirit of animals of the bush' particularly animals associated with the hunt. The list of animal forms is large for all three areas. The Chachet night-dance helmet masks include various pigs (plate a), owls, hornbills (plate 6), rats, fish, fruit-eating bats, and various bush birds (plate 7) as well as human-like and plant-like spirits. Chachet night-dance helmet masks (there are four in the exhibition) tend to be small, and are not very elaborately painted as compared to their day dance counterparts. These helmet masks often mimic some distinguishing visual characteristic of the animal or thing depicted. The helmet masks of the Kairak and Uramot are very different stylistically from those of the Chachet.
The Kairak and Uramot night-dance masks (helmet and composite helmet types) are larger than those of the Chachet, are more elaborately painted with abstract and mimetic patterns, and, by and large, tend to be more abstract. In recent years, however, younger Kairak and Uramot men have begun creating masked spirits that more clearly resemble the original source of their inspiration.In all three areas, the making of the night-dance art is similar to that of the daytime dance similar materials, techniques, and even more secrecy. Plate 8 shows a bent-wood and vine framework for a Kairak Baining night-dance mask of the spirit of a tree fork (which holds up their shelters and houses). It is over this elaborate armature that the artist puts large "filler" and sews sheets of bark cloth to create the "skin" of the spirit. Afterward, the various patterns are painted on in black and red, with white negative shapes being a common visual characteristic. The spirit of a domesticated cat (a night hunter) made by a Kairak Baining illustrated in plate 9. Note that the same visual elements of design (plates 3a and 3b) are to be found. Red and black "tear" patterns, negative white "footprint" patterns, the marks made by "caterpillars" or "snakes," and "spear" patterns can be seen all over the front and back of the mask. A unique pattern here is the centipede pattern in the center of the forehead. The large bark-cloth shapes sticking out at a diagonal from the eyes are the "ears" of the cat.
All three dialect groups make composite helmet masks for for the night dance. Unlike the smaller helmet masks which frequently jump into the fire during the night, the larger composite masks merely skirt next to the fire barely touching it. This is largely due to the fact that the large masks are as much as 12 or more feet in length and at least five or six feet in height. The large composite masks are often similar to smaller masks in the basic identity of the spirit; however, they have a long, painted, bark-cloth-covered bamboo tube sticking out of the mask's mouth (plates 10a and l0b), and horizontal and vertical struts extending out of the basic mask. These struts are used to attach a thin wood-and-vine framework on Which elaborate cut-leaf patterns are created to flank (and nearly completely hide both sides of the mask (see exhibition photographs). The composite night-dance masks of the Chachet tend to be simple cowl-like masks with protruding bark-cloth-covered bamboo tube, whereas the Kairak and Uramot mask are more varied in their basic mask forms. Leaf, tree-fork (plates 10a and 10b), pig-bone, and praying mantis are commonly found among both the Kairak and Uramot Baining. It is evident from the tree-fork composite night-dance masks in plates 10a and 10b that the Kairak excel at creating an exciting blend of sculptural form and painted decorative pattern (see also samples of Uramot painted bark cloth, and Chachet and Kairak drawings in the exhibition). The night dance concludes when the male orchestra successfully "frightens" the masked spirits away from the village back to their home in the bush.
Dr. George A. Corbin, Department of Art Lehman College, The City University of New York
|Exhibition Checklist
N Northwest: (Chachet) Baining
1. Composite helmet mask used in the day-dance celebration. Walmatki village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment. 8' x 14' x 11" (10" x 17 1/2" for the attached oval shape).
2. Composite helmet mask used in the day-dance celebration. Walmatki village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment 92" x 8" x 19".
3. Composite helmet mask used in the day-dance celebration. Malaseit village, 1971-1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment. 9' x 30' x 33".
4. Composite helmet mask used in the day-dance celebration. Randolit village, 1971-72; bark cloth, leaves wood, vines, and pigment 9 1/2' x 14" x 26".
5. Extended cone-shaped headdress for the day-dance celebration. Walmatki village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines,, and pigment. 54 1/2"x 8".
6. Extended cone-shaped headdress for the day-dance celebration.. Walmatki village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment.. 38" x 6".
7. Night-dance helmet mask representing a pig spirit. Walmatki village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment. 23" x 9" x 12".
8. Night-dance helmet mask representing a hornbill spirit. Walmatki Village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment. 23 1/2" x 15 1/4" x 13 1/2".
9. Night-dance mask representing a rat spirit Walmatki village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves' wood' vines, and pigment. 25 1/2"x 11" x 8".
10. Night-dance helmet mask representing a bush-bird spirit. Walmatki village 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment. 16" x 9" x 8".
11. Drawing of day-dance decorative patterns.. Walmatki village, 1972; paper and crayons. 11'' x 15".
12. Drawing of night-dance decorative patterns. Walmatki village, 1972; paper and crayons. 11" x 15".
13. Drawing of the spirit of a bird song in the forest. Walmatki village, 1972; paper and crayons. 11" x 15".
Central (Kairak) Baining
14. Night-dance helmet mask representing a leaf spirit Malabunga village, 1973; bark cloth, leaves, wood vines, and pigment. 54" x 29" x 20 1/4".
15. Night-dance helmet mask representing a praying mantis spirit. Malabunga village, 1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, and pigment. 42 1/2" x 19" x 17" 1/2".
16. Night-dance helmet mask representing a pig's vertebra spirit. Malabunga village, 1971-1972; bark cloth, leaves, wood' vines, and pigment. 27 1/2" x 14 1/2" x 26".
17. Drawing of day-dance decorative patterns. Malabunga village, 1973; paper and pen. 7" x 9 3/4". 18. Drawing of day-dance decorative patterns Malabunga village, 1973; paper and pen. 7" x 9 3/4".
19. Drawing of day-dance decorative patterns. Malabunga village, 1973, paper and pen. 7" x 9 3/4'.
20. Drawing of night-dance decorative patterns Malabunga village, 1973; paper and pen. 7" x 9 3/4'.
21. Drawing of night-dance decorative patterns. Malabunga village, 1973; paper and pen. 7" x 9 3/4'.
22. Drawing of night-dance decorative patterns. Malabunga village, 1973; paper and pen. 7" x 9 3/4". Central (Uramot) Baining
23. Night-dance he/met mask representing a seed spirit Kainagunun village (?), 1972-1973; bark cloth, paper, wood, vines, and pigment. 51" x 9" x 28".
24. Night-dance helmet mask used by women at the beginning of the ceremony Gaulim village, 1972-1973; bark cloth, leaves, wood, vines, raffia, and pigments. 17" x 8" x 8"" (without raffia).
25. Day- and night-dance decorative patterns painted on bark village, 1982; bark cloth and pigment. 51" x 17 1/2".
26. Day- and night-dance decorative patterns painted on bark cloth. Gaulim village, 1982; bark cloth and pigment. 50 1/4" x 14". 27. Day- and night-dance decorative patterns painted on bark cloth. Gaulim village, 1982;; bark cloth and pigment. 46" x 15".
28. Day- and night-dance decorative painted on bark cloth. Gaulim village, 1982; bark cloth and pigment. 521/2-x17 1/2".
29. Day- and night-dance decorative patterns painted on bark cloth. Gaulim village, 1982; bark cloth and pigment. 59"x16 1/4".
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1. Chachet Baining day-dance headdresses
on display in the mask making area in the
2. A pair of Chachet Baining day-dance masks
on display in the mask making area in
3a. Uramot Baining day-dance mask from Gaulim
village. Collection: The National
3b. Detail of the Uramot Baining day-dance
mask in plate 3a. The lower section of the
4. Detail of a Kairak Baining (Malabunga
village) drawing of day-dance patterns of a
5. Chachet Baining night-dance mask from
Walmatki village representing the spirit of a
6. Chachet Baining night-dance mask from
Walmatki village representing the spirit of a
7. Chachet Baining night-dance mask from
Walmatki village representing the spirit of a
8. Kairak Baining (Ivere village) night-dance
mask framework. The mask represents the
9. Kairak Baining (Malabunga village) night-dance
mask representing the spirit of a
10a. Kairak Baining (Ivere village?) composite night-mask representing
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The midfielder won his second international cap for Spain in a 2-2 draw against Chile last September but was not called up to the World Cup squad.
A statement on the City website read: "Everyone at the club would like to thank Javi for his contribution and wish him all the best in his future career."
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This is my beautiful daughter Isabel modeling. She was very patient with me while taking pictures on a cold day. Thanks Boo boo! Its getting REALLY cold here in Kansas! Hope some of you will enjoy this pattern too.
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CRESTVIEW � Following a work-induced hiatus from the creative world, a prize-winning local artist is once more at his easel and letting his muse run free.
CRESTVIEW � Following a work-induced hiatus from the creative world, a prize-winning local artist is once more at his easel and letting his muse run free.
Daniel Reid, 18, who graduated from Crestview High School in June, had been working so many after-school hours at a local burger joint he barely had time for homework, let alone creating art.
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A Mississippi patron, a co-worker of Daniel�s grandmother, commissioned the three-panel work.
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Landing somewhere between the abstract of the dancers and the detail of the gator is his recent painting of a goose flapping its wings, in which Daniel played with a feathery, soft style.
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The spring/summer 2012 season has been so entirely saturated with colour (perhaps to make up for those permanently grey skies) that I was actually stopped short by this image of Anne Hathaway in New York wearing black. Looks kind of fresh, no?
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It's a Stella McCartney dress and, with its slim silhouette and fabulous swingy fringing, an absolute winner - a classic that would see you through any cocktail party in any decade of the last sixty years.
Aside from that, what I find interesting about Anne Hathaway at the moment is how her latest haircut is dictating her dress sense. The Devil Wears Prada star always been fond of classic style - loves a tuxedo trouser, does Anne - but with her new dark crop, she's now working a very feminine Audrey Hepburn look from dawn to dusk. Her Little Black Dress quota is definitely on the up. And to great effect.
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text: The Supreme Court is suppose to use our consitution to decide if something is legal or a right or not and who can make what law and who cant. They are suppose to interput our constitution, not use that someone else thinks to justify their own personal opinions. The personal opinions of people should not matter (in most cases, yes the judges must decide what is say cruel and unsual but that is explicitly written in the constitution), the opinion of the judge or any foreign judge should not matter. Everything they need is in the constitution, not what some non-American said or thinks.Just because some Chinese judical expert believes there is no fundamental right to have an abortion, that does not mean that should be used to justify our supreme court ruling against allowing abortions.


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It's entirely possible that you have CMV, and transmitted it to the baby while you were pregnant. So if you test positive for CMV, I wouldn't necessarily let anyone claim that it had to be the breastmilk. CMV sheds in breastmilk, but the CDC here in America does not recommend against breastfeeding in CMV positive moms. Usually infections via breastmilk transmission are asymptomatic for infants, so they just don't worry about it. And at this point, what's done is done anyway--once baby is exposed to CMV, they can't get "unexposed," so there is nothing at all to gain from withholding your breastmilk.
I'm not sure if the statistics are any different in Sweden, but here in the US, something like 50-80% of adults are infected with CMV by age 40. It's very, very common.


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Woods hangs tough, sets up a chance for major win
GULLANE, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods couldn't get anything close all day except for the one place that mattered at the British Open.
His name high on the leaderboard.
Woods didn't charge into contention Friday at Muirfield as much as he kept from falling back like so many others. Not only did he go 12 holes without a birdie, he only had two reasonable chances before finally cashing in with a 15-foot putt on the last hole for an even-par 71.
It looked even better as the day went on, and more players ahead of him kept dropping shots on the some of the fastest greens at the British Open. When the second round ended, Woods was at 2-under 140, only one shot behind 49-year-old Miguel Angel Jimenez. Woods was tied with Lee Westwood (68) and Henrik Stenson (70). He plays in the penultimate group Saturday with Westwood.
"Just continue plodding along," Woods said. "Just continue being patient, putting the ball in the right spots. We're not going to get a lot of opportunities out there, but when I have, I've been able to capitalize. And hopefully, I can continue doing that."
It was enough to impress Graeme McDowell, who found himself caught up in watching golf's No. 1 player work his way through the wind.
"There will be no surprise to me if he's picking up the claret jug on Sunday night," said McDowell, who also had a 71 and was 4-over 146. "But I'm not writing off the rest of the field. There's quality players there in this field, and I'm certainly not writing myself off. But if he continues to play the way he's playing, he's going to be tough to beat."
For three hours in the middle of his round, Woods looked like he was trying to hang on.
Getting the speed of the green was tough enough after officials hand-watered the greens overnight, making them slower than what Woods faced Thursday afternoon. The real problem was judging the speed of the fairways. Six times he came up short of the greens as he tried to bounce his shots off the firm turf and onto the putting surface. On consecutive holes, Woods finally saw the ball run onto the green and over the back.
From just short of the 10th green, he knocked his putt some 15 feet past the hole and made that coming back for par. He was short enough on the 11th that he chipped over a hump about 10 feet by the hole, and missed that putt to make bogey. On the 14th and 15th holes, his shots landed 30 yards short of the green and both times ran off the back edge. He hit a flop shot from mangled grass to 3 feet on the 14th, and he chipped to 5 feet on the 15th. Both times, he saved par.
It was hard work, and Woods looked the part.
"I was having a hard time to get the ball to chase, and then on top of that, trying to hit the putts hard enough going up the hills," Woods said. "But then toward the middle part of my round, I lost the pace and was blowing it past the hole. But finally got it fixed at the end."
The key for Woods comes on Saturday. He had a share of the 36-hole lead last year at the U.S. Open and PGA Championship and fell too far back after the third round to seriously contend. And he has never won a major when he wasn't atop the leaderboard going into the last round.
"I'm not going to win every major I play in," Woods said. "But certainly I can try and put myself there. If I give myself enough opportunities, I'll get my share. And I think I have so far in my career."
McDowell wasn't sure what impressed him more — the clutch putting or control Woods had of the flight of his irons. Friday's round was played in an opposite wind out of the east, and it led to some significant adjustments.
Hit 3-wood off the tee and a 6-iron onto the green at the 448-yard 15th on Thursday. The next day, it was a 5-iron off the tee and sand wedge just over the green. The par-5 17th hole was downwind in the opening round, so Woods hit 4-iron off the tee and 4-iron onto the green. On Friday, he hit 3-wood off the tee and for his approach, leaving that some 50 yards short of the green.
As for the driver? That remains a rumor.
McDowell said he had to check twice with Joe LaCava, Woods' caddie, "that the driver head cover actually had a driver underneath it."
"Because it actually hasn't seen the light of day — not even close," McDowell said. "He's playing the golf course conservatively, using his iron play to devastating effect. Very impressive. I said to him on the 18th green, 'That was a clinic the last two days. That was very impressive.' Combo that with some great putting, he's going to be dangerous."
Woods was asked how many drivers he has hit this week.
"I've hit, I believe, about eight or 10," he said. And then when he was asked where, Woods smiled and said, "On the range."
McDowell has seen plenty of Woods over the last few years. He played with Woods in the final group at Bay Hill last year, which Woods won by five shots. He played with him in the final round at Doral this year and made a strong run until Woods won going away.
"He was very, very impressive the last two days," McDowell said. "He will not be far away this weekend the way he's playing. Iron play, the flight control that he has in his irons ... he just hits the shot that you're supposed to hit at all times."


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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 149 diseños de 38 diseñadores freelance.
We consider ourselves to be the grown-ups in the social media space.
We understand business, economics, politics and the world (as compared to former baristas who wear black t-shirts and tweet every detail of their lives). Our roots are at Harvard (somewhat academic approach with a lot of student involvement) and now have 10+ yrs experience assisting big companies and big brands around the world (Presidents/Prime Ministers, CEOs, Marine Generals) on social media/new media strategy.
We believe great things happen when our clients identify their most passionate advocates, empower them and ask them for more. We believe in the wisdom of crowds and connecting CEOs with citizens.
Clients consider us smart, insightful, wise, strategic, analytical -- and cooler than they are.
This is the challenge -- our brand and website needs to connect with and speak to two audiences at the same time: 1) CEOs or very senior managers at large companies and organizations around the world; 2) young, talented analysts and consultants who want to work with us.
Both audiences need to believe we're smart, insightful and cool.
Be creative. The back of the business card should allow enough space to write notes if necessary.
Use our new logo which is attached.


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My Various Hobbies... Chores and Duties...
The new shelves in our shed, pictured above, are my handiwork. They're made with 2x4 uprights, 2x3 shelf supports, and 1/2 inch plywood, all held together by decking screws. I had the lumber yard rip the sheets of plywood in half for me.
I built the set of shelves on the left last summer, and I just got finished with the other set.
A real carpenter could probably have put these together in a few hours. I built the first set in one day, but it took me a couple of days to build the second set around the two windows. I had to contemplate a while between some of the construction steps. I also had to do some extra bracing.
Even though my techniques are rather primitive, I try to keep it neat and square and make it sturdy. I enjoyed doing the woodworking. That's why this post fits into the category of "my various hobbies."
I should add that if I had to use hand tools, I wouldn't be so enthusiastic. Power tools are wonderful.
The "chores and duties" part of this post pertains to the job of organizing all that junk, hauling it up the ladder and putting it in place. My extra canning jars are on the top shelf at right. (Yes, the entire shelf, except for the fishing poles.) I washed them all and repacked them before putting them up there. Oh, the virtue of it all.
At least the shed is nice and neat, even if my house became a wreck while I was working on the shed!
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Your work is vital. We are raising funds to support it.
Hi everyone,
Diagramming software has changed a lot in the past three years, so we decided it was time to update the article using a lot of your suggestions from this thread. Of course, there'd be no way to list every diagramming tool in one article, so I'll leave it up to you to share your favorites or least favorites here.
The biggest thing that's changed since the original article is that online tools are much more popular. I wrote on the blog about my experience playing with some of these tools.
Best regards,
Elliot Harmon
Staff Writer, TechSoup
I love Dabbleboard. Simple, easy to use, and easy to share and collaborate.
We use Visio 2007 from the Microsoft donations on Tech Soup. I have all my APC racks nicely diagrammed with amazingly accurate pictures of our equipment.
Gary Network/Systems Admin Berlin, NHHost Non-profit Tech Careers, Security ForumsCo-Host Networks, Hardware, & Telecommunications Forum
Thanks for pointing out the Visio donation, Gary. I'm excited to see the new features in Visio 2010, particularly the online components (PROTIP: If you request Visio now, you'll be able to get the upgrade through Software Assurance).
firstgentrekkie, I have a big soft spot for Dabbleboard too. I even wrote a blog post about it last year. I chose not to include it in the article because I think it's a slightly different class of tool than the ones in the article. At least for me, I consider it more a tool for whiteboarding and brainstorming in meetings than for more permanent-ish diagrams. But obviously that's a distinction with a whole lot of gray area.
And speaking of that gray area, I got a tweet this morning from Daniel McQuillen, creator of a new diagramming app called SimpleDiagrams. There's a free version with a few missing features and a $19 paid version. Aside from the low price, how Daniel really differentiates his product from the rest of the market is in its decidedly "non-professional" look and feel. Here's a useful diagram I spent about 30 seconds making.
Since it's a new product, SimpleDiagrams still has some kinks, but it's one I'm definitely going to keep an eye on. The paid version enticingly includes an "export to Basecamp" option. Also interesting, SimpleDiagrams saves its files as XML, which makes me wonder how it would fare in version-control systems.
Finally, I wanted to let you all know that last week I blogged about free and cheap alternatives for building charts. As I said in the blog post, it never fails to amaze me how many truly poor charts I see in fundraising letters, even from nonprofits that should know better.
I agree - both Inspiration and Mind Mapping work particularly well. Inspiration is very intuitive - easy to figure out/guess how to do and show what relationship is between ideas -- think of this as a electronic flip chart. Easy to move elements around and then to generate an outline (in a Word format)
Inspiration has been used by kids in schools as much as by business which indicates ease of use as well as its visual appeal.
I really enjoy using open source software called FreeMind it has a really easy to use interface, and can export into several file formats.
I've used FreeMind also, pretty good program. Another excellent free mind mapping application is Mind42. It's web-based and it also allows you to share and work on your maps with others in a collaborative way.
Yann ToledanoForum Moderator, TechSoup.orgDigital Marketing ConsultantYTConsulting.com@MarketingYann
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Good news if you haven't yet bought a Lumia 920 as AT&T and Nokia have extended the free wireless charging plate bargain, which was supposed to end at the beginning of January. The free deal for the $49 item is now extended through February 21st, which is a nice addition of 6 weeks.
The Nokia branded Qi wireless charger allows users to plop their new 920 for a quick and effortless re-charge of their new device. While many have scoffed at the idea of wireless charging as "nice but gimmicky" we're 100% converts here and recoil at the idea of having to physically plug in our phone.
Whereas getting people to adopt wireless charging through an extra purchase is a bad idea, Nokia and AT&T's offer is crucial for good word-of-mouth via new customers who embrace the technology.
Source: AT&T; Thanks, Joseph S., for the tip
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Apple's iPad Mini may be a "concentration" of the iPad's best features. But, it's also a concentration of the worst. And as I show in this week's Cracking Open episode, it's small size, extremely fragile LCD, and super-tiny screws actually make it more frustrating to crack open and work on than the larger iPad.
The iPad Mini is Apple's answer to the rapidly growing market for 7-inch tablets—currently dominated by Amazon's Kindle Fire HD and Google's Nexus 7. The Mini has a 7.9" IPS display (1,024 x 768), a dual-core A5 processor, 512MB RAM, a 5 megapixel rear camera, 1.2 megapixel front camera, and comes in either Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi + Cellular models. Our test unit had 16GB of storage, but 32GB and 64GB versions are also available.
For more information on the iPad Mini, including for real-world tests and pricing, check out Scott Stein's full CNET review. And for a comparison of the iPad Mini against the Nexus 7 and Kindle Fire HD, Jessica Dolcourt has you covered.
Full teardown gallery: Cracking Open the Apple iPad Mini
Cracking Open observations
- Extremely difficult to open: Like the larger iPad, the Mini's front glass panel is held to the metal body with extremely strong adhesive. Removing the panel involves heating the panel's edges (loosening the adhesive) and very gently prying it away from the body. This is a time consuming process that often take 30 minutes or more.
- Digitizer cable relocated: On the larger iPad, the digitizer ribbon cable is located along the left edge in the lower corner. Apple moved the Mini's digitizer cable to the lower-right corner along the bottom edge.
- Must remove LCD to remove front glass: The motherboard connectors for the glass digitizer are located under the LCD and two internal metal plates. You'll need to remove the screen and plates to disconnect the front panel.
- Fragile LCD panel: The iPad Mini's LCD has a plastic backing, and the panel is much less rigid than the larger iPad's metal-backed LCD.
- Internal metal plate: Like the iPod Touch, a large metal plate is located between the LCD panel and other internal components.
- Adhesive overload: Not only are the front panel and battery held in place with adhesive so are the motherboard and just about every other component. Although the components are accessible, removing them is no easy task.
- Tiny, tiny screws: Apple used standard Phillips #000 screws inside the iPad Mini, but they are some of the smallest screws I've seen and there are lots of them.
- More difficult than iPad to repair: The fragile LCD panel, copious amounts of adhesive, tiny screws, and unit's smaller size actually make the iPad Mini more difficult to repair than its larger sibling.
Internal hardware
Our iPad Mini test unit had the following hardware:
- Dual-core Apple A5 processor
- Hynix H2JTDG8UD2MBR 16GB NAND Flash
- Apple 343S0593-A5
- Apple 338S1116 Cirrus Logic Audio Codec
- Fairchild FDMC 6676BZ
- Fairchild FDMC 6683
- Apple 338S1077 Cirrus Logic Audio ICs
- Murata 339S0171 WiFi module
- 7.9" IPS LCD screen (1024 x 768 pixels at 163 ppi)
- 3.72 V, 16.5 Whr, 4440 mAh Li-ion battery pack
- 5 megapixel rear camera
- 1.2 megapixel front camera
Bill Detwiler has nothing to disclose. He doesn't hold investments in the technology companies he covers.
Full Bio
Bill Detwiler is Managing Editor of TechRepublic and Tech Pro Research and the host of Cracking Open, CNET and TechRepublic's popular online show. Prior to joining TechRepublic in 2000, Bill was an IT manager, database administrator, and desktop support specialist in the social research and energy industries. He has bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Louisville, where he has also lectured on computer crime and crime prevention.


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|Survival Research Labs:   Shows:   Berkeley Art Museum Show
Those of us who live in the Bay Area are fortunate in that we're occasionally able to experience, firsthand and in the flesh, a Survival Research Laboratories event. A live SRL performance offers so much more than a video/film ever can, including any Virtual Reality invention of the future. Although--I personally would like to see an Imax film of an SRL event...even then, multiple viewings would be necessary. Attending a live SRL show is tantamount to participating in a huge, amazing "crash test" which challenges the legal and physical limits of one's own vision, hearing, and sense of smell--not to mention one's philosophical framework. Earplugs are supplied free at the door for a good reason--they are absolutely essential. Experienced SRL crew members use expensive shooting-range hearing protector headsets which can be quickly removed and placed around the neck. Safety glasses wouldn't be a bad idea, either, and waterproof clothing could prove useful indeed.
The implications of just one SRL performance and its iconography could easily fill an artist's monograph--not surprising, considering that an SRL show consists of the creative output of some fifty artists working together, co-operating (in the original sense of the word) to produce a disturbing, amazing, full-fledged, multi-centered "art" experience ... one which raises myriad questions, and probes the taboos, aesthetics and laws which circumscribe [read: imprison] our daily lives. All this without a taint of academicism, elitism or intellectualism--the shows are actually very funny, that is, if your sense of humor is black.
Experiencing a blazing, thunderous SRL show in full fireworks amidst sulphurous fumes reminds us anew how tepid our daily lives (or rather, what passes for them) have become. It's as if our eyes had become accustomed to only "tasteful, muted" shades of teal, beige, moss, and caramel--and had forgotten that violent reds and deep satanic blacks once existed (and still do).
Upon arriving at 5 PM (Nov. 12, 2003) at the U.C. Berkeley Art Museum, a Bauhaus-like concrete assemblage of superimposed blockhouses and overhanging balconies next to high-rise dormitories, trees, and residences, we noticed large trucks and a crane parked outside. Because of severely limited viewing area, this particular SRL show was dubbed "secret" and for tactical reasons limited to friends of the 50-member "crew," who were each allowed a mere two guests each. Apparently this SRL show had been arranged for the private viewing of an international conference of about 100 art curators from around the world.
Once through the gate, we were exhorted to go to a certain balcony and stay out of the way. The performance area, a klieg-lit courtyard outside the museum, was crowded with SRL performance machines and generators. Really, this was an extremely confined space for an SRL show--which means that those lucky enough to experience it were also placed in dangerous proximity to the happenings. The constant growlings and rumblings of metal-insect machines being tested were pseudo-soothed by mawkish symphonic tides of sonic valium--Yanni was being played at full volume! Dialectical pre-show music.
SRL shows usually feature puzzling thematic or iconographic imagery, which sometimes gets destroyed. Tonight, beautiful high-resolution photographic blow-ups displayed a dwarf in boxing gear (Was he the handsome star of The Station Agent?), a man crouched inside a dog-carrier, a classic Charles Manson-esque hippie flexing his muscles while two women "wrestled" in the background, and a shaven-headed SM-clad man sporting semi-erect male plumage. Dominating the plaza was a gigantic cyclops wearing a loincloth, hoisted high in the air. About 15 feet above the ground, a statue of Jesus Christ with His arm raised in benediction hung horizontally from a monorail-like wire stretching across the courtyard. This plaster "Super-Hippie" had been blessed with a bicycle attached to his back, like some kind of Duchampian prosthetic update.
Shortly after we arrived, the crew of men and women, mostly dressed in jumpsuits, gathered for a final meeting (and burritos and chips) under the shade of a small grove of trees covered by huge strips of silver foil. Each machine had its own group of "handlers" (or is it the other way around?), and crew members were exhorted to perform their own quality control checks--e.g., "Make sure you've got a full tank of gas!" We also overheard remarks like, "This is the best food we've ever had!" Artists, like an army, need food to perform, and if anything in the Bay Area resembles an army of revolutionaries, this would be it. Explosives, incendiary devices, remote-control detonators, motion-sensing devices ... the kinds of diabolical knowledge Vietnam Vets utilized in full combat, are here turned toward...the Creation of Art.
The SRL set was short--just 20 minutes. We recalled how some of our best memories in history were a mere 20 minutes long: seeing the Ramones in August 1976 at The Savoy, and the Damned at the Mabuhay, March '77. Because of the proximity to the machines and the confined architecture of the limited viewing spaces, this particular performance seemed the most dangerous we've ever seen...yet no curators were harmed in the performance of this art. It must be noted that whether intentionally or not, it was the curators--the target audience privileged with the best viewing balcony in the museum--who were drenched with a literal explosion of water (yes, some expensive blonde coiffures collapsed into skullcaps), and shortly thereafter were engulfed in a sweeping 30-foot-tall upswept wave of flame, generated by the Flame Tornado (created by Kevin Binkert). These flames whirled around in a circle faster than we've ever seen before, and in a Marinetti/Futurist way could only be described as "beautiful." We were reminded of those "fountains" in New York City's Wall Street which shoot water horizontally across blocks of stone at 60 (or is it 100) miles per hour.
We could go on and on about the amazing (and beautifully designed) Tesla Coil, the Flippy Box (a personal favorite, for minimalist reasons), the various machine/animal/personalities such as Violet Blue's Air Launcher, the Hovercraft, the Inchworm, the Running Machine and The Big Arm (all identified on the srl.org website) with their posturing, bluffing, challenging and withdrawing; the awesome power of the Shockwave Cannon or V1 in action; the physical effects of explosions and dazzling light-rays on one's nervous system... A good art show raises questions--the better the art, the more the questions--and we found ourselves speculating as to whether machines can express emotions, how much one's physical body affects one's personality and outlook ... indeed, for a while it seemed that all the possible speculations regarding the realm of the interaction between the physical and the conceptual were in front of us, just beyond our reach. While we fancy ourselves capable of limitless imaginings in our minds, nevertheless the truth is that our own physical limitations can impose themselves on our theorizings in subtle and sometimes invisible ways.
The "Sculptural"Iconography Which Must Be Destroyed included a very large and cute brown (teddy) bear, apparently smoking a large spliff; the aforementioned Cyclops (reminiscent of those wonderful Ray Harryhausen Sinbad movies of the Sixties, but sporting an enormous penis and balls, once the loincloth had been ripped down); and the aforementioned Jesus Christ of the Bicycle (aka Super-Hippie)--perhaps if a large crowd had been present, that lone bicycle would have replicated itself into 5000 Provo-like bicycles for all, like the Feeding of the Five Thousand.
Suddenly the show ended--to the keening sound of fire engines which had just pulled up (they were quickly sent back)--and a huge wave of applause, cheers and whistles burst forth from the audience. A complicated mess remained to be cleaned up--obviously, this was the true test of character and commitment: to stay or not to stay (and help clean up). We couldn't help but think that not only had we experienced art which tested the legal and physical limits of our eyes, ears, noses, and the conceptualizing machines in our brains--i.e., Are we closer to total liberation of the mind and body yet?--but, that we had also gotten a glimpse of a more liberated society of the future, in action, now. A society of artists. A society without hierarchy. Where members act with the goal of mutual aid and personal responsibility. Where artists express uncensored, focused, complex personal creativity while co-operating with other sympatico independence-loving artists of all genders and backgrounds. Great Art is always ahead of its time, isn't it? The Best Art, as Dubuffet once said, never calls itself art.
Postscript: We couldn't help but recall that first public Survival Research Laboratories show, on a sunny afternoon in 1979, at Alex's Service Station in North Beach, San Francisco, at the corner of Columbus and Filbert Streets adjacent to Washington Square Park. This premiere machine performance, when Mark Pauline first staged his "art attack" on the Oil Crisis (which still exists, with the current Bush Administration), featured a conveyer belt-run machine chewing up and spitting out dead pigeons dressed as tiny Arabs, to the soundtrack of noise plus the Cure's "Killing an Arab." (The U.S. government is still killing Arabs, right?, under the guise of "liberating" them.)
This 1979 show seemed to have been totally organized and executed by one artist--one person's vision, undiluted--which must have meant hundreds of solitary hours of conceptualizing and executing the performance, from the oversize black-and-white posters and images on a roll of paper, to the scavenging for materials and the welding and assembling of the machine creatures themselves. The memory of that solitary performance to a crowd of less than thirty people, almost 25 years ago, (with no video or photography) stood in poignant contrast to the bustling November 2003 performance in which fifty-odd people worked in hyperactive harmony in the midst of explosions, smoke and chaos, criss-crossing and streaking through the courtyard on urgent "art" missions, and with nobody killed, despite the rocket blasts and deadly projectile fire. Art after all is theater, not reality.
It is a rare, amazing thing that one person's vision can continue to develop for 25 years to date, and along the way magnetize some of the best people on the planet (so far, we've met Karen Marcelo, Scott Beale, John Law, Eddie Codel, Brian __, Kevin, and That Accordion Guy) into being collaborators, cohorts and even spin-offs. Particularly since this is not done for the profit motive. Today the "Laboratories" part of the SRL name has come true; SRL is definitely a complicated collaborative enterprise.
Having not seen the television shows and whatever else may be out there, we have no comment on the watered-down corporate ripoffs televised under titles like "Robot Wars," which never pay a royalty nor give a credit to the originator, the archetype maker, of violent machine-performance art: Mark Pauline. (Unless this itself is a comment...)
-V. Vale
V. Vale's Newsletter, November 2003