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Artopia: December 2008 Archives
The Sins of Synchronicity?
Frantisek Vizner, Blue Bowl, 1996
Sometimes subjects and themes just fall into place. I was invited by American Craft Magazine to write a review of the work of Frantisek Vizner (Czech, b.1936), on exhibit at the Corning Museum of Glass in upstate New York. I had been impressed with Vizner's work, and seeing a goodly collection of it I was not disappointed. His severe cast-glass art - vessels in name and form only - are minimalist concentrations of light and color. Although the juxtaposition was not intended, two much larger exhibitions were complementary: "Glass of the Alchemists" (to Jan. 4), because the history of glass and alchemy are intertwined; and a selection of recent acquisitions accompanied by the publication "Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels: Selections from the Corning Museum of Glass", because, oddly enough, most of the works represented what Vizner's work is not. As glass abandons the intimate and moves further from the utilitarian, it acts like sculpture, feels like sculpture, and, in some cases, actually is sculpture, turning away from the ambiguity that Vizner's suave work presents.
H. P. Lovecraft
Cthulhu or Chihuly?
A few weeks later, on our way back from our winter trip to Provincetown, we stopped at Providence, Rhode Island, not to offer our usual homage to boyhood favorite H. P. Lovecraft's beloved native city -- which nowadays doesn't look particularly possessed by ancient visitors from other galaxies or particularly spooky or eldritch, but to see Beth Lipman's installation at the Art Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design.
Lipman's installation is topnotch. But before we go there, some general considerations are in order.
Harvey Littleton is usually credited with jump-starting the studio glass movement, but it was Dale Chihuly at RISD (and then in Seattle) who pushed it over the top. RISD has a new exhibition space inaugurated by a so-so Chihuly show and a related exhibition of works by those many artists he taught or influenced.
Otherwise, the Museum of Art secretly ambles along behind the facades of several historic buildings. Nice for the preservationist in all of us, but difficult for pedestrians to picture what lurks behind the charming facades: Lovecraft's domains of Cthulhu? His realms of Azathoth?
Here I cannot resist the revelation that Lovecraft's Cthulhu prose cycle - concerning the malevolent presence of an ancient, horrific race from another world, hidden among us, in places like Providence, Red Hook (in Brooklyn, New York), or secluded New England forests further north - begins, it would seem, with the feverish "dreams" of young Henry Anthony Wilcox, a sculpture student at the Rhode Island School of Design. The story is called "The Call of Cthulhu," and the "dreams" it turns out are worldwide and seem to be offered selectively, turning sundry dreamers -- not just art students -- raving mad.
Note here that Lovecraft once escaped from Rhode Island and lived for two years in Brooklyn Heights in demonic New York City, where one of his pals was the great American poet Hart Crane. Returning to Providence, parents both in the madhouse, he spent the rest of his life living with two maiden aunts.
Note also how after reading a volume of Lovecraft even a modernist/postmodernist like myself begins to employ longer and longer sentences under the influence of this pulp pioneer who was truly one of the greatest 19th-century writers of tales of terror, second only to Edgar Allan Poe, although he composed his horrific, horror ouevre in the 20th.
I can report, however, that as of my visit two weeks ago, RISD is not currently the entrance to K'n-yan, Yoth, or N'Kar. In the immortal words of H.P., in Providence there can be no "hellish tracks of the living fungi from Yuggoth." I guess. I will also wager that no library in Providence has a copy of the dreaded, madness-inducing Arabic Necronomicon, so central to H.P.'s literary output.
If you want to get a glimpse of this oddball from Rhode Island, check out YouTube HERE for a WPA snippet filmed in 1937, the year of his death.
Reading the Icebox
What really surprised me was one particular display of permanent-collection items housed elsewhere in the museum. Mid-20th-century objects from RISD's extensive permanent collection are now deployed in several rooms with none of the usual department store divisions. Furniture, fashion, jewelry, dinnerware are offered in conjunction with and placed to demand the same level of attention as, for instance, a painting by Jackson Pollock or Mark Rothko. And it all works. Dare we posit something as backward-looking as a "period style" or a congruence of visual forms within particular time-frames? Is there a "trickle down" from painting to clothing? Or is everyone looking at and being influenced by the same things?
This kind of cross-discipline survey is a great setup for teaching, but even the uncoerced can deduce connections among items usually held far apart for fear of intra-categorical contamination or confusion of price-points. The array seems both charmingly old-fashioned and breathtakingly avant-garde: the former, because in ancient times the various arts were so displayed in academies and homes of the well-heeled; the latter, because separate and unequal is generally the rule.
So why the usual rigidity in most other museums? Retrieval devices for image repositories, like slide libraries, required hard categories before digitalization, but now we should be able to search over a multitude of fields. Yet fiefdoms everywhere have hardened. Is this because they are threatened? Try proposing to a museum an exhibition that will require cooperation among its various esoteric departments. It simply will not work. Professionals will risk their jobs rather than loosen territorial control or dilute the prestige of their uncontested expertise.
Another, but perhaps more amusing, theory is that art categories have to do with storage, preservation, and display. Particularly storage. Backstage, paintings need racks, and everything else needs shelves or specially reinforced floors. Fiber art and paintings have the same climate-control requirements. Metal sculpture probably shouldn't be stored next to glass. And metal, which may rust or oxidize, shouldn't be stored within the same humidity parameters required by cloth, paper, or canvas. But specialization has taken command, becoming a rule rather than a tool.
Although a period style is just as much a construct as anything else, it is also an art angle that could be nicely reinstated. I would like full-blown 20th-century "period rooms" like the "period rooms" in the RISD Art Museum's Pendleton House that provided the inspiration for Lipman's remarkable installation in another building, on another floor.
Installation of Windsor chairs, from "Raid the Icebox With Andy Warhol," exhibition at the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, April 23 - June 30, 1970
Andy's Icebox
Beth Lipman's After You've Gone reminded me of "Raid the Icebox With Andy Warhol," which I saw at Rice University in Houston in 1969. It was Andy at his best: a gigantic readymade consisting of old shoes amassed, chairs on the floor and chairs in the air; everything and nothing. Things broken, things that were fixed, real things and things that were fakes. Everything had been selected from RISD's collection of "decorative arts."
"Decorative arts"? This is a too-fancy and misleading category that some of us prefer to call material culture so that it may include the humble as well as emblems of wealth -- and not exclude meanings, both formal and social. Chairs and guitars, porridge bowls, hat boxes, and chamber pots often have more meanings and tell better stories than ruby-red goblets or paintings.
Hot Glass Comes in Out of the Cold
Alembic. Europe. 18th century? Corning Museum of Glass
There is something ghostly about glass. Something both scientific and weird. A smidgeon of research will turn up too many details about the alchemical pursuit of crystal clarity. I was entertained by "Glass of the Alchemist" at Corning, mentioned above. I learned that alchemy, might be seen as merely the mother of chemistry rather than as an occult discipline of personal/universal transformation. I learned how crystal-clear glass, ruby-red glass (achieved by a smidgeon of gold added to the "metal"), and milk glass were invented in the West; how glass discoveries spread throughout Europe and even to China and Jamestown in the New World. I confess I truly hated the profusion of ruby-glass goblets, but loved the few examples of alchemy instruments - an alembic, two retorts, and what is identified as an oil separator. And then there's the little matter of the glob of gold that was supposedly created by alchemist Johann Bottger in Dresden on March 20, 1713, in the presence of King Augustus II of Poland. Now that's exhibition gold!
As partial closure, here's a quote from the sumptuous catalog:
And hence the most ancient Commentators upon the Sacred Writings have told us, that the whole World, when it shall be destroyed by Fire at the general conflagration, will be turned into Glass." -- Herman Boerhaave, London, 1735.
Glass Today
Beth Lipman: Laid Table (Still Life With Metal Pitcher) from 2007. Centerpiece of After You're Gone, 2008.
Beth Lipman's installation (through Jan. 18, at RISD Museum of Art) is primarily made up of clear glass -- blown and/or hot-sculpted with some monochromatic black and white glass here and there. Lipman is known for her blown-glass still lifes, usually inspired by or echoing real-life paintings. Returning the glassware in the paintings to their three-dimensional, glittery glory, paradoxically makes them less real, but also faintly scary.
Lipman: Wallpaper, blown, lampworked and kiln-formed glass. 2008
Glass like gold has an easy beauty, an unearned beauty. But Lipman transforms the glass act into a class act, offerings meanings as well as glitz.
Prediction: Lipman will be the next artist to leap from the glass world to the art world, like the very clever storyteller Josiah McElheny. Like McElheny, Lipman has not shielded herself from the curse of glass (as many have) by hiring artisans to make her work. The blown glass and instances of cast glass are all her own efforts, but they are in service of concepts far more complicated than what is usually found in glass art coming from the studio-craft movement. In any case, some now claim that Post-World War II phenomenon is over and done with.
Corning curator Tina Oldknow, in her catalog essay for her "Contemporary Glass Sculptures and Panels in The Corning Museum of Glass" has this to say:
In the 2000s glass has increasingly been used as a material for sculpture by artists from outside the glass world as well as by artists form whom glass is a primary material. Glass is intersecting with the world of design and contemporary art in multiple directions, and the American Studio Glass movement as it was defined from the 1960s through the 1980s no longer exists..
These statements, on top of rechristening the American Craft Museum the Museum of Arts and Design --do not bode well for art-world alternatives. But now that pricing will drop across the board for all artworks will there be any need for craft to turn its back on crafts? The craft cult will merely be further purified - having been purged of far too many High Art wannabees - and go underground, again.
In the meantime, we gotta have art, in no matter what form. Even if it is made of glass or grass or linoleum or body fluids. Or marble. Or even paint on canvas.
Beth Lipman's fresh work is a case in point.
Lipman: Settee (After Grinling Gibbons), 2008
Who's Going to Miss You?
The centerpiece of Lipman's installation, "After You've Gone," is Laid Table (Still Life With Metal Pitcher) from 2007, which is a profusion of vessels all made of blown glass including the "metal pitcher" of the title. But Lipman has added a jumping squirrel, a sitting squirrel, and lampworked snails on the periphery of vision. But then there are creations inspired directly by the RISD collection and made on site in the school hot-shop, beginning with glass wallpaper. I kid you not. And a glass settee. Meanings proliferate. The spectacular and dangerous double-chair-back settee is based on an early-20th century copy of a 19th-century reproduction of an 18th-century chair that collector/patron Mr. Charles Pendelton thought until his death was "the greatest 18th century English chair in this country."
Still-life paintings are often memento mori. In this case, a whole room is a memento mori. Lipman's After You've Gone is about what we leave behind: piles of drinking glasses, wallpaper, empty picture frames. Art! Ghosts! Glass is usually perceived as glitzy and celebratory; Lipman uncovers the emotions attached to loss and fragility. And of fakery, too.
Like Warhol's surprisingly forlorn "Raid the Icebox" so many decades ago, Lipman's installation points out the stuff - sometimes loveable, sometimes vulgar, always telling - that clutters up the world with fascinating but mostly unintended messages and meanings. Can we see through materialism, or are we possessed by our possessions and afterwards haunted by them? Are we determined by our decor? Isn't there a strange beauty in how we grasp for stability? And how we remember?
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Museums for Sale
Tongues are wagging, heads are shaking. It appears that the highly regarded Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, is doomed. It has been running a deficit for six of the last eight years. It has been raiding its endowment. And now the plucked chickens, the headless fowls, have come home to roost. MOCA might not be able to go on.
What I want to know is where was the MOCA's board of trustees when those deficits were reported year after year? Why didn't the director raise hell? It is all well and good to say that art came before money, but without money the air-conditioning and the lights get turned off. If staff members do not get paid, they walk.
Some nonprofit board members or trustees agree to kinds of bad management they would never tolerate in their own companies; they like to think they are on holiday.
So what are we supposed to do? Cut costs, initiate a hiring freeze, reduce the number of exhibitions. Many museums are already doing this. And then there's prying loose more money from your board members, who are usually well-heeled and are profiting socially and sometimes financially from their positions. This is L.A. Times art critic Christopher Knight's solution. But even in good times, this is like getting blood out of turnips.
In the meantime, will anyone match collector Eli Broad's offer of $30 million toward saving MOCA? Don't think so. Will it be the end of the world if MOCA is absorbed by the L.A. County Museum? Will art stop if MOCA totally disappears?
Along with the strange idea that successful artists, art dealers, and small Obama campaign-type donations could save the day, Roberta Smith of the New York Times offers this odd reason to keep MOCA independent:
Imagine the effect on New York if MoMA or the Whitney Museum of American Art had been subsumed into the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the age of 30. For one thing, P.S. 1, which has been rejuvenated by its MoMA affiliation, might no longer exist.
And exactly what art space in L.A. will not be "rejuvenated" if MOCA is subsumed by LACMA?
In Artopia we have always looked at the bigger picture.
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
A Modest Proposal
In terms of arts institutions, I have not been able to find out or even deduce the cost to taxpayers of the wacky not-for-profit system that allows tax deductions for donations. And if we eliminated these deductions, would we thereby be able to afford better roads, bridges, and universal medical coverage?
But in Artopia we are visionary. Think how much more efficient it would be if museums and other art venues were totally government-funded. Or, on the other hand, if they were for-profit. In both cases, the savings would be enormous.
For instance, a large chunk of any museum budget is development. Development is artspeak for fundraising, begging, or whatever you want to call it. Not only are development officers and their staffs employed to get the money, but curators and, yes, even directors spend a lot of their time soliciting, a term I have chosen with great care.
Most readers understand that grants need to be written and that exhibitions and special projects have to be created to qualify for money from governments, corporations, and foundations. But do readers really know how much time is spent on what in artspeak is called "cultivation," i.e. just sucking up to potential patrons and donors? Even the amounts derived from membership fees call for the creation and the maintenance of endless perks and far too much face-time. Moving members up a notch to donors requires a mind-boggling array of inane lunches and stupifying gallery tours.
Hasn't anyone noticed that what donors want is love? I don't just mean tête-à-tête encounters with the director or access to the charisma and the sexiness of live artists at special openings and, best of all, intimate dinner parties. I don't mean exhibitions for relatives of board members or the artists they collect. I mean total, floor-scraping, fiendishly servile, always-on-tap, ever-expanding adoration.
MOCA Pacific Design Center
Plan A: The Bail-Out
Museums already pay for themselves. You just have to do the numbers right. And if you do, it might even turn out that they can bring in much more money than they burn up, particularly in big cities. Please figure out tourist dollars. What percent of cab fares, hotel rooms, restaurant dinners are generated by people going to museums? Even locals spend when they go to museums. Lunch? Of course. Not everyone leaves a museum empty-handed: catalogs, postcards, dolls, and all the other art junk on display in logoland migrate from the premises.
And then there is the nasty business of art sales. A particularly tasty exhibition increases the perceived value of all art. And when a living artist is shown, guess what happens to his or her prices in Chelsea? They don't sink, I'll tell you that.
The rising tide raises all chips.
There are, of course, other dividends that are incalculable by present methodologies. Museums not only peddle art, they also peddle hope. How many impoverished, sex-crazed, drug-addled adolescents have been saved from a life of crime by the hope engendered by a trip to an art museum? If this drunken bum can become a famous artist, then so can I. Those words are sweet to the ears of art educators everywhere. How many mass murderers have been nipped in he bud by the sight of an Andy Warhol Marilyn? How many addicts have been cured by Sol LeWitt? How many pill-popping housewives have been given a new lease on life by Alice Neel? How much child abuse has been eliminated by the hope conferred by the works and life stories of painters, sculptors, and conceptual artists?
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Plan B: Interest Rather Than Conflict of Interest
And now for something different: the for-profit museum.
The fiduciary transparency of for-profit museum drives people in the nonprofit museum world crazy. See, for instance, the current issue of Museum, the official magazine of the American Association of Museums, with its entirely predictable cover story. Oh, yes, for-profit museums (The Sports Museum of America, The International Spy Museum, The Biltmore Estate, etc.) are vulgar; and, by the way, they are not really museums.
And why not? Some even claim to maintain nonprofit museum standards.
But here's the problem: aura.
According to Artopia, without nonprofit status for-profits do not have the do-gooder aura or the aroma of artistic objectivity. So self-improvement should be for free? Excuse me, self-improvement is an important industry, and I don't mean only in Los Angeles -- where, believe it or not, my entrepreneurial niece is the owner of a "Zen" exercise studio/gym and bills herself as a celebrity trainer.
And the notion that art museums can be artistically objective is nonsense. We know how class, nationalism, economics, sexism, racism influence art history. If the art story is iffy, so are all its products and clients, which includes museums.
Ages ago I took a stab at the for-profit museum concept, but it was disguised as satire. Inspired by the Biltmore Estate in North Carolina, which now charges up to $59 for adults, I had indeed figured out that the non-profit art space I was running on Staten Island, without grants and subsidies of various kinds, would have required an admission fee of $28 per visitor to break even. Costing this out is simple; you divide your budget by the number of visitors. But here the Swiftian waters were muddied by my proposal for The Museum of Itself (MOI), an institution that would document only itself - budgets, minutes of board meetings, et alia - and create exhibitions of same, both temporary and permanent.
Although the idea that an art museum should be totally supported by paying customers may be too radical or even offensive for some, I say what was good enough for P. T. Barnum is good enough for us. We may have substituted dead sharks in tanks of formaldehyde for taxidermy mermaids, but we have not outgrown cabinets of wonders. It's just that now the wonders range from blank canvases to hypnosis by video art to digital murals and sculptures made of body fluids.
Yet I want to go further. In addition to charging the public the real cost of an exhibition, plus a modest profit for the owners, I propose that for-profit museums also sell shares. These, however, would not be merely shares in the business itself.
You could also buy shares in the output of artists featured at the museum. An exhibition would increase the value of that work, just as it does in a not-for-profit museum, where board members or trustees sometimes own examples of work by the artists whose works are on display. My approach is much more democratic. Anyone could come on board and get a piece of the action.
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by Terrance McArhtur
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As a child, Marissa Locks was sold to Grimm, the Fairy Godfather in Kingdom, and is now a partner in his Wish Agency. The Black Queen, who was dead and/or confined in a thorn tree for several centuries, is back, and has claimed Marissa as her handmaiden. The not-so-normal realms are getting interesting in J. C. Nelson's Wish Bound.
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During the trip we had our fair share of memorable moments. Of course a lot of them came from the various routes and problems we climbed, but I'm sure just as many came from the many entertaining people we met.
One of the funniest moments, at least for us, came when we were at Lake Louise,in Alberta, when some other climbers walked past us. One of them stopped, looked at Kristal and I, and excitedly said, 'I know you guys!" It's actually not that uncommon to run into the same climbers in multiple places, so for the next split second I was desperately trying to remember where we had met this guy before. He finally said, "From the boulder video of Hazlet!" It turns out this guy had not only seen our video of bouldering in Saskatchewan (probably one of only a few hundred people), but he actually went to climb the Hazlet boulder after watching it. And to top it off he actually recognized us! We were laughing about it the entire rest of the day.
When we met Smiling Wes the first time, it was an unforgettable moment in its own right. He came rolling in to Horse Pens 40, Alabama, at about 11pm, set up beside us, cooked himself some supper and headed into the woods to work on his project by lamplight. Naturally we joined him, and were thoroughly entertained for the next few hours. Then we met him again, 7 months later, in the exact same spot, still working on the same problem, and neither of us had been back to Horse Pens since the first time we met there!
In addition to surprising coincidences, we often got interesting reactions from Americans when they found out we were from Canada. Like the over the top climbing guide we met in Joshua Tree, who proceeded to tell his client all about how awesome the Tragically Hip were. Or the hippie we met in Tuolumne Meadows who said, "Right On!! You must own, like, every Rush album!"
Then there was this guy we met in Lake Tahoe, who related his story of planning a road trip to Alaska. He was thoroughly confused about why the mileage wasn't adding up, until he finally realized there was an ENORMOUS COUNTRY between Alaska and the continental United States. I felt a little sorry for his kids.
Some memorable moments fell into the 'tents are not soundproof' category. One evening in Arkansas we shared a campfire with the couple camping next to us, and were entertained by what we thought was some fun witty banter between them. Later that night, as we were trying to sleep, we had to listen to them arguing about it: "Why do you always make fun of me in front of other people!?".
But of course, nothing quite beats the countless moments like the one below, enjoying the company of new friends at some amazing climbing destination. I hope those moments never end.
|Kristal hanging out with Max, Dan, Laura and Chelsea.


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|This parody of Bibi's infamous bomb visual at the United Nations in 2012
refers to Israel's war crimes in using white phosphorus to bomb civilians in Gaza.
According to CODEPINK's Ann Wright, who helped deliver the petition, "Vice President Winnie Stachelberg said CAP is feeling the heat on the invitation, but it will stand." Allegedly it will be okay because CAP President Neera Tanden plans to ask Bibi hard questions.
Wright reports, "We told Winnie to expect lots of hard questions to be tweeted to CAP." You can tweet your questions to @amprog and @neeratanden using hashtags #NotProgressive
and #ProgressiveExceptPalesti ne.
Being progressive except on Palestine is an oxymoron of our times that is coming unraveled as Israel's occupation terrorizes children, frequently shoots and kills unarmed civilians, and viciously attacks Boycott, Divestment and Sanction (BDS) organizers on U.S. college campuses.
Former Knesset member Uri Avnery wrote on Gush Shalom's blog about the latest twists and turns that Israel must execute in order to sidestep its own rule of law:
This week, the Knesset enacted a law compelling judges to condemn
stone-throwers – including 13 year old children – to a minimum prison
term of two or four years, depending on the circumstances. In Israel,
children under 14 bear no criminal responsibility, but a remedy has been
found for that: government attorneys just drag out their court cases
until the accused reach their 14th birthday.
The parents of children so condemned will forfeit any social security payments for the same time, and are also liable to a fine of 10,000 Shekels, more than $2,500.
Israel is already an apartheid state, building roads that only Jewish people may drive on and a huge separation wall that stretches 400 miles. How progressive is that?
Bibi is a strange choice for a featured speaker. For example, just last month he made a complete fool of himself when he claimed -- and then quickly retracted amid universal hoots of derision -- that the former Mufti of Jerusalem gave Adolf Hitler the idea for the Holocaust.
It's hard to see why CAP would even consider him as a speaker unless one follows the scent of cash and lots of it; Bibi and his violent foolishness are well-funded by right wingers like U.S. casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. You would think that a"liberal" think tank like CAP has no business getting in bed with world leaders in the field of human rights violations.
If you're in the DC area and want to help provide facts about the impossibility of being progressive except on Palestine, you can help with leafleting before Bibi's talk at 3pm on November 10.
You can also call CAP at 202-682-1611.


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Saturday 19th January 12:00am - 6:00pm
Open Day at Mittagong Pool
Saturday 26th January 9:30am - 3:00pm
Australia Day 2019
Wingecarribee Shire Council has an animal shelter located inside its Resource Recovery Centre complex on the corner of Bowman Road & Berrima Road, Moss Vale.
All visitors to the shelter should report to the shelter office on arrival.
There are opportunities for volunteers to assist with the work at the shelter. More details are provided further down this webpage.
Opening hours at the animal shelter are:
Monday to Friday 10am to 4pm
Saturday, Sunday 10am to 12 noon
Closed Public Holidays
Upcoming closures :
The Wingecarribee Animal Shelter is planned to be closed on the following dates (to coincide with Resource Recovery Centre closures):
Wingecarribee Animal Shelter
Telephone: (02) 4868-1520
Location: 177 Berrima Road (Resource Recovery Centre), Moss Vale
Find us on Facebook (external link)
Here at the shelter we have a large number of committed volunteers.
Some attend weekly to either walk the dogs and/ or socialise with the cats and kittens. Others volunteer their time when and where they can.
Volunteer Roles at the shelter:
Our dog walkers attend the shelter from 8.30am- 9.30/10am depending on the number of dogs and volunteers on the day.
Dog walkers are welcome 7 days a week at this time, except public holidays/ days the shelter is closed to the public. We provide vests, dog treats, harnesses, toys and leads- and assess what dogs suit each volunteer.
Cat cuddling happens from 10.30am-3pm, Mon- Fri and 10am-12noon Saturday and Sunday. Closed public holidays/ days the shelter is closed to the public. This includes socialising with kittens and cats. It is just as important for cats to be comfortable with new people as it is for the dogs. The volunteers offer great experiences and enrichment for the animals. This assists the animals become more adoptable. Cat treats and toys are available for volunteers to use while in the cattery.
If you are interested in volunteering with the Wingecarribee Animal Shelter please call (02) 4868 1520.
All impounded animals are held for the statutory periods:
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Berrington Hall
History, tourist information, and nearby accommodation
A neo-classical mansion built to a design by Henry Holland, set in superb gardens by Capability Brown. The exterior of Berrington is restrained classical design, the interiors are stunningly ornate, with painted ceilings and an exceptionally fine entry staircase. Berrington is home to the Wade Costume Collection.
Thomas Harley made a fortune supplying the British army with clothing and pay. When Harley decided he needed a new house to showcase his family's prestige and wealth, he called on landscape gardener Capability Brown. It was Brown who chose the location for Berrington Hall, selecting a site that gave sweeping views to the Black Mountains of Wales. While Brown busied himself with creating the parkland and semi-natural landscapes for which he was famous, the task of building the house itself fell to Brown's son in law, architect Henry Holland.
The Garden
Berrington Hall represents the last major garden designed by 'Capability' Brown. Brown was responsible for Berrington Pool, a lake created entirely by hand. The Pool covers 14 acres in area, and lies at the foot of a sloping hill that extends to the very steps of the house. As with most Capability Brown designs, the parkland is dotted with carefully arranged trees and shrubs, planted to create a landscape at once pastoral and elegantly restrained formality.
The walled garden contains rare species of old fruit trees; apple, plum, cherry, and more. An unusual feature is the Drying Ground, a special lawned area set aside to air washing well out of sight of the family in the house. Mundane things like wet sheets would supposedly spoil the elegant mood created by the house and its sumptuous furnishings.
Children will love visiting the well that runs under the inner courtyard, and our children, ages 5 and 11, very much enjoyed the play area in the walled garden. There is also a children's quiz which may make touring the house more enjoyable for the younger generation.
About Berrington Hall
Address: Leominster, Herefordshire, England, HR6 0DW
Attraction Type: Historic House
Location: 3 miles north of Leominster off the A49
Website: Berrington Hall
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Reds Winter College Showcase
Each year, Liverpool FC International Academy MA hosts two annual college showcase tournament events in an effort to provide our players with ample opportunities to showcase their skills in front of the region's top collegiate programs. Each tournament features partner clubs from across the country in a competitive format guaranteeing a minimum of two (2) games.
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- new RFees 11, full or partial refund of the examination fee: conditions and amounts have changed per 1 July 2016 - see OJ 2016, A48 and A49 (old version in GL (2016) A-VI, 2.5)
- Spain was added to the exemptions of the utilization scheme (R.141(2) EPC) per 1 June – OJ 2016, A18 & A19 (missing in GL (2016) A-III, 6.12)
- the streamlined opposition procedure per 1 July 2016 - OJ 2016, A42 and A43 (GL (2016) Part D)
Friday, 20 January 2017
Preparing for D 2017
10 comments:
- Anonymous9 February 2017 at 20:59
according to my experience from last year, there is not much time to do research during the exam, i.e. the guidelines may be of little help.
Can you recommend how the additional 30 min should be spent?
For example, taking 3.5 hours for D2 or 2hours for D1, 3 hours for D2 and 30 min for additional research.
As an alternative, 30 min could be used for additional PCT research.
Your response would be highly appreciated. Thanks,
It should be part of your preparation to discover how to allocate your time to DI and DII.Delete
In general, DI questions can be done or skipped individually, so you can do as many as you want. And can skip the ones you donot know to save the time for questions you do know: being stuck for 30 minutes means loosing about 10 marks.
In DII, the analysis takes a considerable time, and scoring marks tends to get more and more efficient when you come closer to the end. So make sure to get to the end.
As said above, you have to find out yourself what is best for you.
If you donot yet have a clue, I would advise to check whether 1,5-2,0 h DI and 3,5-4 h DII works for you.
Good luck!!
NB: In DI, I advise to assume that you donot have time to lookup topics that you do not know at all (you also donot have experience with applying them to the facts of the case) -- you only have time to lookup details of topics that you do know. DI requires a thorough preparation, so that you are familiar with all the topics. If not familiar, you will not be able to answer within time, probably not even in double time. As a rule of thumb assume you can only look up to confirm or supplement an answer that you already know, not to find an answer that you donot know.Delete
- Anonymous12 February 2017 at 19:33
Isn't Visegrad Patent Institute (OJ 2016 A2) also missing from the GL/A/X/9.3.1?ReplyDeleteReplies
Yes, it is. There are more omissions of changes in 2016, as I indicated with "Not incorporated are _for example_".Delete
- Anonymous15 February 2017 at 21:04
are there any other important possibilities to accelerate proceedings than:
PACE request,
Requesting early publication,
Waiving 70(2) or 161 communication,
Omitting of filing time extension requests,
Waiving second 71(3) communicaion, and
Requesting early entry?
How much time can be saved? Years? (Of course,this depends on the subject matter :)).
See OJ 2015, A94 "Notice from the European Patent Office dated 30 November 2015 concerning ways to expedite the European grant procedure" for an overview and for indications as to time saved.Delete
- Anonymous16 February 2017 at 18:44
Dear Sir, I would like to know if Deltapatent sill plans to provide a free printable version of PCT AG for EQE candidates this year, like previous years. Thank you.ReplyDeleteReplies
Available via http://www.deltapatents.com/course-links.html, close to the bottom of the left column, link "PCT References EQE 2017".Delete
- Anonymous26 February 2017 at 18:10
how many days of regeneration before the exam are required?
What should we do next week? Want to write D tomorrow. 6 months of preparation are enough.


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All Films.All Above Board.NOW INCLUDES TV SHOWS & TV LISTINGS
Documentary examining the semi-Irish roots of today's worldwide surfing phenomenon. The film explores the little-known story of George Freeth, the son of an Irishman, who re-introduced the ancient Polynesian art of wave riding in Hawaii in the early 1900s after it had been stamped out by missionaries. By the time of his untimely death at the age of 35 he was renowned for his legendary skills as a surfer and lifeguard. The film also features footage of Irish and British surfers in action along with world champion Kelly Slater, soul surfer Kevin Naughton and the renowned Malloy brothers as they ride some of the most exciting surf ever seen in Ireland, including a monster 50-foot wave off the coast of Mullaghmore in Sligo.


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Washington: Researchers from University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have said that chronic depression originates from more ancient mechanisms used by the body to deal with physical injury, such as pain, tissue repair and convalescent behaviour.
Athina Markou professor of psychiatry, and Karen Wager-Smith, a post-doctoral researcher, integrated evidence from diverse clinical, biological and behavioural studies to create a novel theory they hope will lead to a shift in thinking about depression.
"Once we had a theoretical model for the biology of a well-functioning depressive response, it helped make sense of all the myriad differences between depressed and non-depressed subjects that the biomedical approach has painstakingly amassed," said Wager-Smith.
According to the new theory, severe stress and adverse life events, such as losing a job or family member, prompt neurobiological processes that physically alter the brain.
Neurons change shape and connections. Some die, but others sprout as the brain rewires itself.
This neural remodelling employs basic wound-healing mechanisms, which means it can be painful and occasionally incapacitating, even when it`s going well.
Real problems occur only "when these restructuring processes go into overdrive, beyond what is necessary and adaptive, and for longer periods of time than needed. Then depression becomes pathological," Markou said.
If psychological and physical pain responses share similar biological mechanisms, then analgesic agents could be useful in treating at least some symptoms of depression.
Similarly, if chronic depression is proven to be a neuroinflammatory condition, then anti-inflammatory treatments should also have some antidepressant effects.
However, Markou cautioned that much more specific research and larger clinical trials are required.
The study is published in the September online edition of Neuroscience and Biobehavioural Review.


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|Yellow Rhododendron 'Capistrano' with Japanese Forest grass (Hakonechloa macra aureola) in the Woodland at Havenwood.
|Shrub Fothergilla major with its white, bottle-brush flowers in spring.
|A new addition to the Hydrangea bed, Gaulteria procumbens, American Wintergreen.
|White-variegated Brunnera 'Jack Frost', a beautiful plant for the shade garden. This one is in the Lenten Rose bed that I shared last month.
|Polemonium 'Touch of Class', which looks like it should be the home of fairies in the springtime.
|Salmon-colored azalea that I could not resist placing near the blue flowers in the Woodland... bluets and bluebells.
|Bluets, Houstonia caerulea, covering a large area under our maple trees.
|Spanish bluebells, Hyacinthoides hispanica, coming up in the shade.
|Trillium grandiflorum covering a large section in near our dry stack wall in the woodland.
|Trillium grandiflorum
|The Virginia bluebells, Mertensia virginica, are so close to the door color on this side of the house, as the forget-me-nots are in the Rose Garden.
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A storm has been brewing for a few hours and the dark clouds started gathering and moving in.
I headed for the beach trying to capture the dramatic sky when I noticed a few kangaroos grazing on the dunes.
Just as I was photographing the shore a couple of kangaroos hopped right down to the water's edge wanting to dip their toes. A few minutes later a few more came and soon there were twenty or so.
In a rather bizarre moment they all lined up and started to wade, mother with joey in pouch, letting the spilling waves lap up to their bellies
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The dark sky served me a surreal scene with the parting clouds and the bright sun complements to the moment. I stood in awe and observed what was going to happen next.
Some hopped around, some just let the waves wash them a bit to then gather again and slowly retreat to the dunes again to forage.
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The evening brought some very soft light where I could capture them again in a large grassy field.
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These are wild kangaroos, free to roam without enclosures, as nature intended.
I can not bring myself to enjoy observing wild animals in any other way...


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Hey loves! So I recently got a new backpack, sun hat, and accessories bag (it came as a set, but someone stole the other one). I'm obsessed with a desert theme right now.
Definitely bring a hat! Doesn't matter the kind! And sunscreen 😛 of course I packed more than this ity bity bag.
See what I mean by obsessed with the desert theme lol. So I figured I would take photos for a "what's in my bag", but instead of my purse or backpack, I shot my essential tool bag for trips or camping (it's clothes, gloves, beanie, etc) I am going to show you inside of my "camping tool bag". That would be this guy! My favorite bag of all time right now!
I PERSONALLY need 😛 So, first things first, my phone case is "Armour Shell" a very strong super protective phone case. Heavy duty! If you drop it, the screen won't be anywhere near the ground. The case goes almost a half an inch on each side plus top and bottom!
Definitely needed for trips especially camping (not like your phone will really live too long to begin with… unless you have a generator hah!
Starting at "9 o clock" and working clockwise: I have my cords, wall plug and not pictured my car adapter too. You know for the ride. Next is my glasses, followed by my necklace on a lanyard that holds my flashlight, my pepper spray, and a knife (again, not pictured sorry!). It's my "protection" necklace if you get what I mean (duh…)
Next to my phone case is my stylus. Two portable chargers (explains the cords right? Lol), an LED reading light, and now, we made it to the FUN SIDE!
I of course brought my pipe, a torch lighter (probably a good idea to bring a spare lighter and matches…) plus my grinder that holds my green, grinds it, collects the keef, etc 😉 and lastly my wax pen & wax container.
Manditory shot. I have to show the color details on my bag cuz I went hog wild on photos…
See the beautiful magenta mixed in 🙂 it's canvas material… needs to be washed lol
Remember you also need a bunch of other things, batteries, check the weather before the trip, etc. pack accordingly even if it's a road trip, beach trip, Vegas trip, etc.
What are some things you would put in YOUR "tool kit" for a trip? Anything special? xoxo
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By Pvt. Lee Min-hwiMarch 25, 2008
YONGSAN GARRISON, Republic of Korea - A U.S. Forces Korea senior spouse toured Yongsan Garrison facilities last week.
Donna Winzenried - whose husband, Command Sgt. Maj. Robert Winzenried, the new command sergeant major for U.S. Forces Korea and 8th U.S. Army - got an up-close look at family and morale, welfare and recreation activities and programs March 13.
Command Sgt. Maj. Ralph Rusch, USAG-Yongsan's command sergeant major, and his wife, Julie, showed Winzenried around Yongsan Garrison, which is one of four finalists in the 2007 Army Communities of Excellence competition.
"The activities the facilities have for the spouses and the children of the Soldiers are incredible," Winzenried said.
She toured Hannam Village, service organizations, fitness and chapel facilities, and child and youth services facilities.
"They have something to do every day in here," Winzenried said after the day-long tour. "Activities for children like free movies and the classes for the family members in Arts and Crafts really cover the family needs.
Winzenried, who worked in child development centers during previous assignments in Germany and North Carolina, also said she was "impressed" with Yongsan's CDC, which was accredited earlier this year by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.


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My counterpoint: It's not how much you know, it's whether you have access to me at the particular point in time that matters. In today's world, where online is still heavily driven by performance, that will matter more than anything. Maybe some time in the future when brands start to really value online ads, Facebook may have a chance. Time is against them and they are definitely not as well funded as their competitors. That's why a marriage with Microsoft makes more sense to me than anything else. It basically means I don't think brand dollars will come online before Facebook runs out of money.
Unlike Google and Apple, Facebook doesnt have 10s of billions of dollars in cash to subsidize development and distribution. They can't outlast a direct assault from Apple or Google.
Enter Microsoft. Already a shareholder. Already with a mobile and desktop operating system /development platform. Most importantly, already with billions in cash and the capacity to pay 15 or 20 Billion dollars or more to acquire Facebook.
via Is Facebook the new internet and how soon before Microsoft tries to buy it ? « blog maverick.


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We´re a group of three 20 somethings looking to spend around 7 days in the Galapagos. We´re currently living in Quito for two months. It seems tours etc. are quite expensive, so we´re investigating alternatives.
We´re going in the first week of December. We know flights and park entrance fees are pretty much static, but any other hints and tips would be much appreciated. Secret tips for keeping costs down, if it really is just better to go with a tour (educated guides bring you to the best places etc.), what islands should be visited (considering we´ve only got a week). Anything at all really!!


text: Am I the only one that would like to buy a Tesla branded windbreaker? I already have a black corporate jacket but would like something lighter. I envision a nice Signature red with the Tesla T and name in white on the left chest area. Maybe some white trim. Heck while I'm at it how about a heavier winter type jacket? I could get one made but that would probably violate the trademark. What do you think? Chime in and maybe we can talk TM into making them.


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Course Objectives:
- Understand and anticipate the ups and down of implementing strategies
- Initiate dynamic plans and bring them to concrete conclusions
- Sustain momentum to bring the plans to implementation
- Review and reposition projects that are in process
- Bring closure to plans and celebrate the team's work
Pre-requisite: None (ToP Facilitation Methods and Strategic Planning are helpful, but not required)
Course Description: Sustaining a plan, once it has been implemented, can be challenging. Sometimes staying on track is difficult, especially when new people are introduced after the plan is developed. This course is designed to help you keep plans and projects alive, relevant, doable and achievable
See course dates and times here
Course Participants:
- Consultants
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- Community workers, planners, project managers
Benefits to your organization
- Lead groups that continue to be enthusiastic from start through implementation
- Get plug-in tools
- Ensure the hard work of planning is realized with concrete accomplishment
- Get personal consulting advice on plans brought to the class
- Learn 40 keys to implementation
- $645 ($595 Early Bird fee paid 3 weeks in advance of the course)
Continuing Education Credits:
- APA Members will receive 14.5 CM units from the AICP
- PMI Certified Project Managers will receive 18 PDU's


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Welcome to my online CV! I'm Ralph, a half British – half French guy, living in Germany. That mix makes me have British eating habits, French criticism habits, and a German efficiency attitude 🙂
I'm curious by nature, I love traveling, discovering, and tinkering (nice way of saying hacking) just about everything. I'm also a data freak, I have my whole life organized in Excel sheets.
I'm interested in new technologies and tech startups. I enjoy discovering the hidden potential in businesses, projects and ideas. You'll often find me backing Kickstarter projects or watching TED videos.
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• To improve and maintain the admedia portfolio
• To analyze the performance
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Visual Meta: "All shops, one site."
By connecting to the product catalogue of over 7000 fashion and furniture shops, Visual Meta offers users a unique online shopping experience to visually compare and discover similar items.
As a Quality Manager, my role is:
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• To develop backend and frontend category structures (one for the machine learning and the other for the users)
• To optimize data samples for product classification (text and image based supervised machine learning)
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• 2nd runner-up in a company hackathon for a product improvement
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• Finding the right person of contact from each of these brands
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Many of the top February 2016 tech ideas stem from the Consumer Electronics Show, a tradeshow that sets the tone for what to expect from the technology industry going forward. Some of the most exciting new technologies include next-generation mobiles, photography tools, gaming equipment, as well as wearable technology for just about every purpose under the sun. As wearable technology advances, biometric clothing designs are also becoming better able to pass as ordinary clothing pieces with extraordinary abilities that will react to stress or particular movements in the body.
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Fireside chat with Janet Bannister, General Partner at Real Ventures
Thursday, February 18
Real Ventures is the leading source of seed capital for entrepreneurs in Canada. Launching their first fund in 2007, they have invested in some of Canada's most successful young companies, including PasswordBox (acquired by Intel), Hubba, Frank & Oak, Beyond the Rack, VarageSale and Breather. Real Ventures recently announced the launch of their third fund, $89 million to be co-managed by Janet Bannister with a goal of investing across Canada focusing on the Toronto-Waterloo corridor. We're thrilled to have Janet here at Bitmaker for this fireside chat. Janet has led investments in 9 companies at Real Ventures and works actively with portfolio companies to help them grow and make a big impact. Prior to Real Ventures, Janet launched Kijiji, one of Canada's most visited websites and was with eBay in Silicon Valley where she helped transform the company into a mainstream market place.
Open Mic We'll begin with pitches from a few startups from MaRS and The DMZ, looking for an opportunity to showcase their company and get constructive feedback on their product and pitch. Fireside Our fireside chat will focus on: What is Janet's background, how she got started at Real Ventures and what are her plans for their latest fund? How does the low Canadian dollar effect our startup ecosystem and young companies looking to raise money? What industries and sectors are most attractive right now and what metrics does Real Ventures value most? What advice would you give young entrepreneurs looking to get noticed?
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Jacque Fresco from Project Venus 20/01/2010 pt4
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When you tell China it'll cost so much to do something, they don't come out with a different answer. When engineers talk to each other, the language is not subject to interpretation. Otherwise, you couldn't build bridges. "I think the structure meant this." "Oh no, the structure should be this thick." No, you can't do that. In science, technology, mathematics, chemistry, pharmacology, all that language is not subject to interpretation. When a doctor prints a prescription, no matter where you take it, the pharmacist does not interpret that his own way. So it's possible, to try to prove to you- it's possible to develop a language not subject to interpretation. The every day language used by people has argument in it; it has confusion. That's why you have to go to a psychologist, or a counselor. 'Cause your language is not clear. 'Cause when you say something, I interpret what you say, goes through my head and comes out different. If he says, "I never said that." Oh says, "Yes you did." See? So, that doesn't happen in mathematics, technology, banking, [unintelligible], chemistry. So, I'm just saying it's the old language. Now, any psychologist that would adjust you to this system has to be stupid, or a victim of this system. A psychiatrist also tries to adjust you to this system, which is completely fouled up. So, I'm trying to tell you something. Your schools, your social institutions, your universities, your commercial radio and television, are all operated, 90% of them anyway, by the monetary system. So you don't get truth anywhere. There's a person comes to see me sometimes and says, "I'm a truth seeker." You'll hear that time and time again. In order to seek the truth, you'd have to know everything. How would you know what you're seeing is true, or not? You'd have to be smart beyond description. So there's no such thing as a truth seeker. Then there's a person that says, "Well Jacque, you're a utopian, you wanna build Utopia." There's no such thing as Utopia. Any city that's designed today will be improved tomorrow. There's no final frontiers. You can't design the best lap top, 'cause next year it'll do more. Today most camaras don't have film. They have solid state systems. So, what will the future be like? No one really knows the detail of the future, but, it'll never arrive at the ideal society. It's like saying, "Design the best television set." You can only design the best television set up to now, with what you know. But a person talks about final frontiers. That's stupid. They also talk about intelligence. There's no such thing. An intelligent electrical engineer of 75 years ago, couldn't get a job today. So what you call intelligent then, is not intelligence now. So intelligence is an on going process. The more you learn, as time goes on, you never get there. Is that clear? You can't design the best of anything. It's an... Then they tell you "at least we're civilized". No way. It's an on going process. A civilised country would not have war, crime, prisons, police. All those are by-products of an insufficient culture. An insufficient culture, makes laws. All man-made laws- I should say most of them- are worthless. When we sign treaties with other countries, if that treaty doesn't serve our interests, we will violate it. So treaties and laws are made- attempts made- to control human behavior. The only laws that really count, is natural law. If you don't eat nutritious food, get enough sleep, no matter what your philosophy is, you get sick. So, if you have a population larger than that which the area can support, you'll have starvation and territorial disputes. As long as you have a population that coincides with the carrying capacity of the Earth, you'll be able to get on. As long as you use science and technology, and make all it's findings available, without patents, free of charge to all the nations of the world, when you own patents on nutrition, drugs, medical devices, you hurt people. So the future, every human being will live very well. I'm not talking about a handout society. I think that, what the Venus Project proposes, is a society where everyone will live better than the wealthiest people today. Everyone. Now is that possible? Let me give you an example: The middle class American today, or the middle class person in any advanced society, lives better than kings. They have air conditioning in their car, they have communications in their car, telephones. They fly and fly. Even the arabs used to think of a magic carpet. The guy sat on the...and they flew around, they thought that was fantastic. But they never told you when it rained, the carpet got soaked, everybody got wet, or you had to go to the washroom. What did you do on a magic carpet? Now you have airplanes with television in the airplanes. Even the magic carpet, was considered- "oh, that's too far out." Nothing is too far out. Anything a person can conceive of, can be built. So, you have to... instead of making soldiers, which are killing machines, I hope I'm getting to a lot of soldiers... they are killing machines. We would educate soldiers to become problem solvers. Send them to universities free of charge, so they learn how to solve problems, rather than kill. When you kill, you build hatred for the future. You kill children, you kill adults, and that nation that you did all the killing in, doesn't have pleasant associations with our nation. The Jewish and Arab situation, Palestinian problem, will go on and on and on until the Earth is declared common heritage. And all the artificial boundaries that separate people will be dissolved. And when all people are brought up together, then you have the brotherhood of humanity. When you, when you... it's gonna take an economic crash so that the public loses confidence in their leaders, but if they don't see our films, they wouldn't know which way to go. So we are offering a system, a sane system for all the world's people. A high standard of living. You cannot solve a problem in your country alone. Like the technocrats want to develop America into a highly technical society. If the Russians and Chinese and the French do nuclear experiments, that air goes all over the world. Look, today America has 300 submarines. Each one has more destructive power, than all the wars in history. How stupid can you be? Then you've got a building in Washington called The Pentagon, comprised of super-stupid people. They are men there- military people- who think in terms of defending the country. There is no way to defend the country- really no way. 'Cause we have radar and yet these people hijacked airplanes and flew into the towers. 'Cause they didn't have an air force. I lived and worked at Pearl Harbor, years ago, and I went to see military intelligence. This was ten years before the attack on Pearl Harbor. And I said, "All the planes are in a row. You should stagger them." So they said, "Don't you think we know what we're doing?" I said, "No". And they said, "Well we do". I then went to the FBI, in Hawaii, and said, "My name is Fresco. All the airplanes are in a row in Pearl Harbor". "Well, we've got radar in there and everything else." I said, "They can be picked off". They said, "Well, when they get past Wake island, we'd know about it." "What if they hit Wake and Pearl Harbor at the same time? The airplanes ought to be staggered." I'm telling this to the FBI and they said, "Well don't you think military intelligence knows what it's doing?" I said, "No." And they said, "Well, we do." There was no recording made of that. So, I told Larry King once on a show, "If you have an airbag in front of you, and you get hit on the side, your head goes right through the glass. The whole inside has to be an airbag." Do you understand what I'm saying? That's the way you solve problems. So, instead of making killing machines, imagine what kind of world we would live in if we gave everybody a free college education, gave books to children free, and upgrade every child. Do you know that high school kids today hang out in malls? There's no place to go. There should be art centers, music centers, cultural centers, and we should give books to people for nothing.
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Find the differences: medieval fighting manuals
Spot the differences on these pages of medieval fighting manuals. Click on the parts which are not the same in both images. Don't forget to use the hint button if you have too much trouble finding something.
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ElectroComponent Science and Technology
Volume 8, Issue 3-4, Pages 189-197
Thick Film Temperature Compensating Circuit for Semiconductor Strain Gauges
1Production Engineering Research Laboratory, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
2Naka Works, Hitachi Ltd, Japan
Copyright © 1981 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Thick film circuits were developed for temperature compensating of semiconductor strain gauges and for connecting the gauges to amplifiers in electronic pressure and differential pressure transmitters. In each circuit, ten Au pads for Al wire bonding and thirteen Ag/Pd pads for soldering must be fabricated on a small substrate. The results of the research are shown below.
(1) The resistance values and the thermistor constants required for the thermistors are 0.9 ± 0.09 kilo-ohm and 2500 ± 40 Kelvin, respectively. Those characteristics are realized by developing a paste composition composed of a new spinel type oxide (Mn1.6Co0.8Ni0.35Ru0.25O4) RuO2 and glass.
(2) Accelerated life tests of the thick film thermistors reveal that the resistance drift rates of the thermistors are less than ±0.02 %/year at 120°C.
(3) Life tests clarify that the wire bonding pads fabricated by using ESL 8882 Au paste keep more than 4 grams in pull strength, and that the soldering pads fabricated by using Sumitomo CLP 495A Ag/Pd paste are more than 1 kilo-gram in pull strength.
(4) The temperature dependence of zero shift and span shift in the pressure transmitter are suppresed within ±0.2% between –40°C and 120°C by using the thick film circuit developed.


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The art deco-inspired spring/summer issue of Love Magazine is titled 'After Taste,' "celebrating the end of elegance," and features a tiara-wearing Linda Evangelista on the cover and too many models of the moment to mention by name. The colorful, bold editorial is an interesting mash-up style and models with naturalistic beauty looks.
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- By: Rebecca ByersFeb 13, 2012
References: fashionista & thingsilike-rotex.blogspot
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I have used my Office Outlook 2016 syncing with my Msn.com email for years, and as of 10/12/16, my outlook started to have issues. Nothing I did on the outlook synced up with the online emails nor anything that attacked that account (my iPad/iPhone) but whatever I did on those reflected.
For example, I deleted out my junk on Outlook, and it would not reflect that change, but I was still getting new emails into my Outlook.
I tried a couple of things, then removed my msn.com email, and restarted. When I tried to reconnect back to my email, (add email) it would always restart office outlook. Has done this every single day, though I can retrieve and do everything from my apple products or through the online Outlook (aka outlook live). But since I have tons of windows open, I don't need to try to keep track of my email when outlook did this. (the office products)
To make it more interesting, my Gmail accounts are still all linked and working through the office outlook. (it's sad when google is working better than their Microsoft's own email system!) I have restarted, repaired and done everything, even checked my privacy settings which are all set up correctly.
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