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The Case Of Colin Kaepernick…To Be The Starting Quarterback Of The N.Y. Giants
September 21, 2018 September 22, 2018 / JQ LLC / Leave a comment
Colin Kaepernick, Giant potential.
Week 2 of the 2018 NFL season for the N.Y. Giants has exposed them and it's franchise quarterback Eli Manning as being a pathetic, ineffective weak ass team. Despite the hiring of a new general manager, head coach and offensive and defensive coordinators, a stellar draft pick for running back, and a massive 95 million dollar contract for a douchebag though phenomenal wide receiver along with another great young receiver and tight end from the last two drafts shoring up a potentially high octane offense. Somehow, although saddled with a porous offensive line that is deservedly and hysterically mocked, Eli is unable to move the chains and get to the end zone with all these weapons that were given to him. As the Giants look like they are going to repeat the low scoring futility, averaging less than 20 points a game, that made them the worst team in their history in 2017. (It should be noted that Eli's ineffectiveness was apparent even in their last playoff season the year before as they couldn't even score 20 in their last 4 weeks and relied on their defense to bail them out.)
It's more than obvious now that Eli is past his prime and has to be benched again. But since the Giants gave up their backup quarterback Davis Webb after letting him play not even one snap and only for few quarters in a preseason game, they don't have much talent waiting there on the bench with another quarterback they drafted and some career bench warmer. Considering that the Giants pick of Saquon Barkley (which was a good move, every team needs a superstar, multifaceted running back to get a ring, examples Emmitt Smith and Marshall Faulk) was motivated to get to and win the Super Bowl this year, they aren't going to get far with Manning's pathetic performance.
The Dallas Cowboys trouncing of the Giants on Sunday night showed Manning throwing short most of the time and frequently missing targets downfield, more specifically not seeing them. Eli's instincts has clearly fell off. One noteworthy play early in the game had him faking to Barkley and setting up to throw and then immediately threw it back to Barkley on the sidelines at the line of scrimmage for no gain. Eli also is afraid to run. Not counting the two quarterback sneaks for first down (showing the O-line is actually not as lousy as they are being portrayed, they just mildly suck), which Al Michaels scoffingly pointed out was the first time Eli had done that in 8 years, he barely moves in the pocket, sometimes not at all, and makes bad rushed judgements leading to easy sacks and interceptions.
At 0-2, the Giants are looking at another lost season, but it can be stemmed if the owners and Gettleman act quick and make a drastic and in this case, revolutionary move. And that is to sign Colin Kaepernick.
Why and how?
Why. Because Eli is going to get worse, the thought that he will win another Super Bowl has been a crackpipe dream for a very long long time. He's lost it, most apparently his instincts to find open receivers. And even though it's still summer in the NFL, it's rigoddamdiculous that he spends 57 minutes of the game barely producing and only gets the offense going in the last two fifteen. And there is also the potential for injury which Eli has admirably avoided throughout his career but now his stability has become a liability as he clearly plays the game like he's trying to save his own ass. And the backups are questionable to say the least (who thinks draft pick Kyle Auletta is going to be Tom Brady?).
In contrast, Colin Kaepernick, who also has never got hurt, would massively thrive with this offensive unit. And not only that he runs. He runs a lot, he has amassed over 3,500 yards rushing in his short and disrupted career, averaging over 5 yards a carry, so even with the Giants weak offensive line, he can still easily evade blitzes and the pass-rush of the best defenses in the NFL. Because of this skill set, he can assuage the mental and physical health of his (possible future) teammates and make them perform better.
And Kap's agility will also benefit the superstar players, Barkley and Beckham Jr., whose personal stats will explode with him in the backfield calling the plays and bring out the massive potential in WR Sterling Shepard and TE Evan Engram. Opposing defenses will be so nervous and overzealous, penalties will happen with regularity giving the Giants gift yardage in false starts, holds and pass interference.
Kap is pure catalyst, motivator and a true leader, as his Super Bowl performance showed when he brought his team, the 49ers, back from certain defeat in the second half but came up short against the Ravens. His acquisition will result in an offensive triumverate since the Dallas Cowboys dynasty in the 90's when they had Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Michael Irvin leading them to three Super Bowls.
How? That's the dicey part, because Kaepernick is in court suing the entire NFL for collusion against his right to play and his right to protest for social justice and against excessive abusive force and endemic corruption by police and the biased justice system that enables it. If the Giants give him a contract, they could exempt themselves from this lawsuit (I think).
The Giants, while turning their team into an unstoppable juggernaut, could also see their viewership and ticket sales go up with signing Kap. Now that his Nike endorsement deal has seen their overpriced wage-starved worker made gear spike up, the NFL and the networks would also see a big jump in their ratings too, for people are going to tune in to see if he kneels again and will be curious to see how he plays. Viewership will certainly go up locally for New York and New Jersey if Kap picks up where he left off and plays great, resulting in wins.
As for the National Anthem, if the Giants win with Kap, nobody is going to give a shit. Besides, the new NFL regulations state that you can wait in the locker room, like they used to until the Pentagon started using our tax dollars to exploit the anthem for advertising and recruitment in 2009. Oh, and other players are still kneeling anyway and without repercussion. And our president, Figurehead Trump, after all his distracting carping and dictatorial demands for standing for the anthem is as of now, tremendously irrelevant now that everyone knows that he is not actually running the country and his aides are doing all the policy work for him, according to the deep state manifesto in the NY Times last week.
Giant fans have been frustrated way too long, despite Eli winning two Super Bowls. Kap getting them back in it will make people forget about his silent protests real quick. But like the free market now knows thanks to Nike's new ad campaign, the majority of people do want equal justice and an end to police abuse and brutality and want widespread change to take place in political office. The Giants really can't go wrong with signing Kap to a deal and the NFL and the team owners would really save and earn a lot of money if they just admit to collusion, agree to a settlement and lift the ban.
The Giants can't go on with Eli motionless and constantly backing up and dumping the ball avoiding encroaching defenders. And if there is an ideal comparison on why Kaepernick needs to be under center is that the last time a professional athlete was this outwardly political was Muhammad Ali and after he got suspended, he came back to boxing and won 2 more championship belts. With all this offensive talent the Giants drafted in the past 5 years, it's just going to waste with Eli Manning's futility and apparent declining skills.
Kaepernick is not only better than Eli athletically but also as a person. He has donated millions of dollars and locally here has contributed over 30 grand to a non-profit that provides suits for unemployed people in Jamaica, Queens. While Eli's off-the-field contributions was only to himself as he tried to pull off a scam selling bogus memorabilia from his playoff and Super Bowl victories. So Kap is way better for the Giants team image wise.
As the Giants face another killer defense, with two rampaging mastodons J.J. Watt and Javeadon Clowney when they face (and get shut down by) the Texans on Sunday, there is no more time to waste. Gettleman and the Mara's have to reach out and fix this pronto. Sign Kap to a temp deal. The transition can be smooth, sign Kap and let him warm the bench for a while and let him get the rust off during practice during the first half of the season and keep Eli starting. If the Giants are 2-6 when week 9 comes around and the division is still tight (and it probably will, the NFC east is looking pretty least especially after the Super Bowl champs loss to Tampa), then tell Pat to give Eli the long overdue benching and get Kap on the field and watch the offense explode. It'll be so natural and right.
Because Eli is not going to win another Super Bowl, no matter how much you wish for it. For the good of the franchise. Put Colin Kaepernick in Giant blue. Don't turn this season into the wretched turd like last year and make this right.
To loosely quote that sport gear corporation, just fucking do it. So the Giants can start fucking winning. Enough of the excuses, the lame hindsight, underachieving and the shit playing. Sign Kaepernick and the revolution will be live every Sunday.
My President Is Irrelevant
October 7, 2017 October 10, 2017 / JQ LLC / Leave a comment
"You're on, dummy" Dotard J. Trump mentally prepares his twitter insult to a dictator and his threat to destroy a country.
What a last couple of weeks for Figurehead Donald Trump. For it might be the most significant time he has spent in his elected position and just may be, with his attempts at conveying leadership and shaping society and the world condition via his jackass social media vomiting, the final defining moment of his current stature.
My president is irrelevant.
The first sign was at the United Nations. There was considerable dread about his first address to the assembly and he did not surprise anyone or presumably himself. In a speech written by his young bald asshole ward Stephen Miller, who for some reason still has a job in this administration of chaos, he declared war on North Korea. Simple as that. He declared war and guaranteed destruction on a nuclear armed nation with a population of millions. He declared war and has put 25 million lives at risk, just hours after Congress approved 80 more billion dollars to fund the Pentagon this year and 700 billion dollars total towards the decade, which already hogs most of the nation's budget. On a platform that usually requires tact and measured words, he called Kim Jong Un "rocket man", which may be the first time in history where a leader used a juvenile insult on a rival sovereign leader and is the second time that Elton John's classic song has been devalued. (We all know who destroyed it first)
Figurehead Trump, and whoever is advising him (no one), must have thought that threatening North Korea was going to rattle the nerves of the pudgy wunderkind leader Un, but all it did was make U.S. ambassador Nikki Haley anxious. For the whole 40 minutes during the speech, she had a look on her face that was nervously anticipating the dreadfully fateful moment of the declaration of war as she was easily distracted and seemingly more interested in the amount of people walking away during the speech. The exasperated migraine expression on chief of staff John Kelly couldn't be more apropos of the population that is sick of seeing Figurehead Trump making our country a laughing stock.
Chief Of Staff John Kelly goes "DOH!" as does the general public.
Besides the aforementioned insult and the world endangering threat, the speech was mostly know-it-all condescension to the other nations for not contributing much, which although not being sympathetic at all to them, it's not entirely their fault when the ol' U.S.A. M.I.C. is the largest military in the world and it's combined human and firepower matches the amount of over 20 to 30 nations, and it's actual budget is bigger than the other 7 superpowers combined, which includes Russia and China. And he also found time in the end to threaten Iran, which responded with missile testing of their own. Figurehead Trump looked and sounded slovenly and left the majority of the crowd bored and unimpressed, even after the threat to attack North Korea, it resembled the cartoon character Peter Griffin when he demanded respect from the UN for his accidental sovereign nation backyard.
The result of this shit talking by the overachieving mook from Queens just riled up his rival despot even more, to the point where Kim even engaged in the verbal snapping by referring to our president as a dotard. A dis that not only is surprisingly apt but actually syncs well with Trump's birth name, making it easy for his domestic critics from DC to the billions of trolls worldwide on social media. Dotard Trump. Wow, it just glides off the tongue like eating a Carvel sundae. And just as fattening. And it surely will unite the NK masses to rally behind Kim, because there is nothing that will bring out national pride like threatening to totally destroy a country of it's citizenry and their leaders, no matter how oppressed or starving they are.
Figurehead Trump, being a former failed casino magnate with the instincts of the shittiest chronically addicted gamblers, decided to let his divisive banter ride as he addressed a crowd in Alabama in his still in-effect MAGA campaign tour by peppering his speech with a warning to NFL players to stand for the national anthem, in a reference to unemployed and blackballed player Colin Kapernick's silent protest last year. Trump decided to pander to the barely audible crowd/his base by grossly generalizing any player that shows solidarity to the banned QB as a son-of-a-bitch, punctuating it with his old shitty show catchphrase "you're fired".
The league responded in kind and in droves, which included all of Trump's billionaire team owner donors.
It's like the NFL came to the realization in unintentional homage of the classic poem during the Nazi siege of East Europe, "First they came…". First Trump came after the Mexicans, and they said nothing because the NFL doesn't have any mexicans playing pro football. Then Trump came after the protesters, but they said nothing because the NFL wasn't protesting his campaign but donating to it. Then Trump came after the women who criticize him, but they said nothing because they don't have a uterus or a pussy to grab. Then Trump came after the NFL and it's brand and the league just collectively said "hey Trump is trying to wreck a billion dollar industry and one of our national pastimes, fuck this asshole!"
The solidarity against Trump's fascist demand for jingoistic and blind loyalty spread to other sports, notably from a rookie catcher from the Oakland A's with his teammate supporting him. And straight from the NBA, the game's most elite and popular player Lebron James responded to Trump's provocation and his petulant disinvite of the Golden State Warriors visit to the White House by referring to him as the classic of all insults as a "bum".
During this humiliating nationwide dressing down of the virtual commander-in-chief, Hurricane Maria, the third major killer storm in barely a month, laid waste to the U.S. Commonwealth State and nation of Puerto Rico, which had it's electrical grid wiped out with the passing of Irma just a few weeks before. Maria, with it's 150 mph winds and incessant biblical downpours, left the streets and highways flooded and destroyed forestation. And it devastated the electrical grid that will leave most of the country without power for months.
The U.S. Commonwealth State of Puerto Rico did not get a response from Trump for days for he was so entwined in persuading professional football players to stand up for the anthem and persuading the owners to fire them for insubordination if they don't. Which resulted in the citizenry starving and dying of thirst for lack of potable water and food, making it impossible to get such sustenance. And no way to get these items for the flooded roads made access to them extremely difficult and no electricity for them to cook or prepare items. Hospitals were also suffering from the lack of power, leaving thousands of patients lives in peril. Initial that came via the Red Cross was insufficient. And Trump did not send the military over in 5 days, and when he did they were understaffed. He also refused to lift the heinous Jones Act against shipping from foreign countries, despite suspending it to aid the city of Houston, Texas and South Florida to assure and hasten the repairs and aid to their citizens and infrastructure. And hundreds of shipping containers containing food, water and medical supplies were left immobile with it's contents left to rot.
When he wasn't bragging about the alleged fantastical response of aiding the nation, which the aforementioned facts clearly belie, Figurehead Trump was making a pathetic excuse for why it was quite difficult to get to U.S. Commonwealth Nation despite having the biggest Navy in the world. That it was the unfortunate fact that Puerto Rico is surrounded by big ocean water.
This pop culture reference might be stretching it, but Trump said this with the same speech pattern as the cartoon death metal band Dethklok in the first scene of their debut film "Blood Ocean".
Anyway, the Mayor of San Juan, Carmen Yulin Cruz, clad in fisherman's overalls surveying the damage of her city waist deep in the polluted water, looking disheveled and like she hadn't even showered, went on television to beg for aid that was not getting to her city and the nation as a whole and to refute the tone-deaf ignorant claims of Figurehead Trump and his Homeland Security patsy of the condition of the ravaged nation state.
How a leader reacts.
So Trump reacted as is his nature of a man who had everything handed to him with a silver spoon and platter, and a deep seated contempt for minorities and did find time during his 50th weekend stay to the golf course he owns in Jersey to disparage her for not showing gratitude, accusing her of partisan political griping that he assumed influence her justified criticism, her not being able to lead and the nation for basically being lazy and not contributing enough. Which led to more universal condemnation of the spiteful Divider-In-Chief.
He finally showed up to Puerto Rico after 2 weeks to again, without the trophy he dedicated to them at the end of the Presidents Cup tournament and not even new caps to wear for the occasion, to once again praise his lousy response and the understaffed military personnel that got there too late and again insulted the people and the elected officials gathered at the conference by reminding them that their existence is costing the U.S.A. a lot of money (He probably deduced this from his avaricious economic advisors, neoliberal Gary Cohn and budget manager Mike Mulvaney, who are probably shitting themselves that they won't be able to enact their American billionaire tax cut budget coming soon). Maybe he should give back the loads of money him and his son Eric got in the U.S. Commonwealth with his bankruptcy claim from his failed attempt to revive a country club with his brand/birth name on it. He also told a conference of elected officials that their fatality list wasn't as bad as the death count in New Orleans (mostly the lower class 9th Ward town) after Hurricane Katrina, which simultaneously undermined and insulted them and their citizens and dementedly justified his willfully ignorant claims of his slow ass response and it's good news story theory.
When he finally met Mayor Cruz, whose presence on the flooded streets is comparable to Rudy Giuliani's on site action on 9/11/01 and should be Time's person of the year, she kindly told Trump that it was about lives not politics and the Bum hastily backed up and ignored her. He spent the rest of his brief time chucking paper towels in a room in a peculiar video with maybe the only group of citizens happy and impressed to see him. No word on the brand of these towels or their ability to absorb.
After this deplorable hat trick of threatening to destroy a nation and it's people; trying to control the beliefs and deny the freedom speech of athletes and you, the people; and his blatant indifference to a nation of people in desperate need, he did not intimidate Kim Jong Un and North Korea and possibly gave them an advantage in a new cold war, and turned Colin Kapernick into a civil rights icon, and Mayor Cruz into a worldwide sympathetic figure and hero, which she certainly is.
And even his Secretary Of State, Rex Tillerson, cannot even contain his rage and emotions by referring to Figurehead Trump as a Fucking Moron who speaks for himself and not for the country, the government and you, the people.
He has no credibility, or dignity, sense of decency or reason. All he has is his fucking twitter to get him by and his undeserved title that you, the people gave him by believing him and voting for him. Whose support for him is now thankfully waning. He will not be redeemed and it looks like he wouldn't want to be. All he wants is to further enrich himself as now he gets to work on the heinous national budget for billionaire tax cuts for greedy dotard bums like him. That's all what he's and what this presidency is about.
As for everything else, his influence and impact and all the words that come out of his halitosis mouth and from his little stubby doodle fingers is jack shit. The President is fucking irrelevant.


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The Alexander Wang Croc-Embossed Small "Liner" Tote is definitely a bag I would buy in a heart beat. This would make the perfect handbag to travel with especially on an airplane. It looks like I could easily throw all my makeup, a pair of shoes, a jacket, some magazines in it and I would still have room! It almost looks like a piece of luggage that you could use as a small carry on bag or an over sized purse.
This is the type of bag I would use constantly. Wouldn't matter the season or time of day. The "Liner" tote has a casual look but it can also play off that elegant look. I could see myself carrying this bag around when I'm in jeans and high heels or when I'm in a bandage dress. It's a great bag to add to any handbag collection because of it's versatility. I love it!
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CD Projekt RED Shares Sales Records of Last Year – Massive Profit in Line
Polish publishers and developers CD Projet RED has gone ahead and shared near-final estimated earnings that the company managed to reach in 2020. The posting reveals that the company has gone through record sales of 2,139 million PLN which is roughly around $563 million, and that is not all, the company also shared the net profit of 1,154 million PLN, which roughly becomes $303 million.
CDPR has also talked about how they will be sharing the final audited results that are going to be revealed on April 22nd, later this month but things might not be changing.
For those wondering, the company managed only 521 million PLN ($137.17 million) in sales revenue and 175 million PLN in net profit ($46.07 million). The revenue and profit from 2020 are also a lot higher than what the company managed to make back in 2015 when CDPR was launched.
Cyberpunk 2077 1.2 Patch Notes are Massive
The major reason behind this success is of course the release of Cyberpunk 2077, which ended up being one of the biggest sales in gaming history, and despite the game still being in a dire state, the revenues are telling a different story, altogether.
Of course, all this success might lead one to believe that this is going to hinder the development of Cyberpunk 2077 and its future, but CDPR has ensured that the company is thoroughly working on the game and will be improving the game even further. Cyberpunk received another incremental update in the form of 1.2.1 earlier this week but the game still requires a lot more ironing out to take care of all the issues.
With that said, we also need to know that CD Projekt RED is also working on a couple of DLCs as well as next-gen console update for both The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077, so if you are still waiting for the games, you can actually get the full experience if you wait just a while longer.

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Brush with Genius
Andrew Butterfield
Catalog of the exhibition edited by Miguel Falomir
an exhibition at the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, January 30–May 13, 2007.
Museo Nacional del Prado/Ediciones El Viso, 472 pp., €48.00; €35.00 (paper)
The paintings of Jacopo Tintoretto come as a revelation. According to standard opinion Michelangelo, Titian, and Raphael were the supreme artists of the sixteenth century; yet often during the last four hundred years, viewers have gazed in awe and surprise at works by Tintoretto, and wondered if he might be the greatest painter of all. Thus John Ruskin during his first visit to Venice wrote:
I never was so utterly crushed to the earth before any human intellect as I was today before Tintoret. Just be so good as to take my list of painters, and put him in the school of Art at the top, top, top of everything, with a great big black line to stop him off from everybody…. As for painting, I think I didn't know what it meant till today.
Tintoretto was a painter of daring originality and dazzling technical command. He was also an artist of epic breadth and profound human sympathy. Henry James compared him to Shakespeare; Bernard Berenson likened him to Tolstoy.
The full measure of Tintoretto's colossal achievement can only be grasped in Venice, the city of his birth where he worked for his entire career. It is only there that one can see his most important pictures, above all, the series of paintings he made for the confraternity of the Scuola di San Rocco between 1565 and 1588. Covering the walls and ceilings of two floors of a large building, these include a monumental Crucifixion, a work El Greco called the greatest painting ever made. Not only are such pictures rightly considered too precious to travel, many of them are also simply too big to move. Tintoretto worked on a vast scale the likes of which had never been seen before. The Crucifixion in the Scuola di San Rocco is more than twelve meters wide; the Last Judgment and the Worship of the Golden Calf at the Madonna dell'Orto, Tintoretto's parish church, are nearly fifteen meters high, the tallest paintings on canvas made during the Renaissance.
Daunted by the practical challenges of doing a show about Tintoretto, no one has tried for the last seventy years. Now, however, the Prado museum in Madrid has mounted an exhibition of his works, organized by Miguel Falomir, a curator at the museum. Lacking so many of the artist's masterpieces that could not come from Venice, the show does not give a full sense of the painter. Nonetheless, with some forty-nine paintings and thirteen drawings on view, it is a beautiful exhibition, with an excellent catalog, and it is certain to stimulate new interest and research. There are also considerable advantages to studying Tintoretto not in isolation but rather at the center of one of the great museums of European painting; it makes it easier to see what was new and influential about the master's work. This is especially true at the Prado, owing to its incomparable holdings of El Greco, Rubens, and Velázquez, three artists who drew the deepest inspiration from Tintoretto's example. One can even look from the exhibition space into the main gallery of Velázquez and thus view almost simultaneously Tintoretto's monumental Washing of the Feet (see illustration on page 12) and the painting it did so much to inspire, Las Meninas.
Jacopo Robusti was born in 1519, the son of a wool dyer; it is from his father's profession that he derived his nickname Tintoretto (little dyer). He is said as a youth to have studied for a few days in Titian's studio until the older master recognized his immense potential, and, feeling threatened, kicked him out. Early biographers report that Tintoretto thereafter worked with a variety of artisans, from muralists to furniture painters, to learn his craft. Although he may also have apprenticed in the shop of a second-tier painter, he was essentially self-taught as an artist.
From the start Tintoretto was a figure of titanic ambition and absolute self-confidence. Even before he could paint or draw with complete professional skill, he felt certain he would become an artist of the highest stature. The pictures he made in his early twenties are rudimentary in execution. Nonetheless, they show an impatient disregard for the traditional norms of Italian painting and an intense desire to achieve something bold and new. The figures in his early pictures twist and thrust with restless energy, and the paint is slapped on with startling abandon.
The steps in Tintoretto's progress from his crude but powerful paintings of the early 1540s to the first masterpieces of his career in 1548 are not completely known; simply too much of the record has been lost. Yet in broad outline the means of his self-transformation are clear. All early sources stress Tintoretto's huge intelligence and relentless determination. Giorgio Vasari, the Florentine artist and writer, disliked Tintoretto's work, yet nevertheless proclaimed he had "the most prodigious brain ever seen in the art of painting." Pietro Aretino, the poet and chief arbiter of taste in Venice, said he was brilliant and headstrong. Carlo Ridolfi, Tintoretto's main biographer, stated that his mind was "filled to the brim with countless ideas" and that "he was always thinking of ways to make himself known as the most daring painter in the world."
Tintoretto's early self-portrait of the 1540s confirms the truth of these characterizations (see illustration on this page). Painted on life scale, and focusing solely on the artist's head and shoulders, the picture presents a young man of smoldering intensity. With eyes as big as a hawk's, he looks straight out, implacable and unflinching. Many have commented on the concentrated force of Picasso's gaze and how it seemed to take in everything around him; Tintoretto's eyes appear to display the same directness and power of observation. The handling of the paint in the picture is also noteworthy. The brushwork is evident and animate, flickering with highlights and shadow across the surface of the skin. The velvety blacks of the hair and the warm golds and reds of the face add to the impression of heightened sensitivity. A friend of the painter described him as being "All dash and verve…he is full of spirit, and conveys a notable sense of profundity." These are the very qualities on view in the portrait.
In the Dialogue on Painting written in 1548 the Venetian art theorist Paolo Pino stated,
If Titian and Michelangelo were a single person, if the drawing of Michelangelo were added to the color of Titian, then we would have the supreme god of painting.
Tintoretto shared this ideal and applied his formidable intelligence to its achievement. We know from the testimony of Raffaele Borghini, a contemporary Florentine humanist, that he copied the works of Michelangelo and Titian above all. Ridolfi says the artist even hung the words "the drawing of Michelangelo and the color of Titian" on the walls of his studio.
Tintoretto hardly ever left Venice, and he appears never to have seen a sculpture or painting by Michelangelo in the original, but he did acquire prints, drawings, and statuettes made after the sculptor's works. According to Ridolfi:
He had brought from Florence the small models that Daniele da Volterra had copied from [Michelangelo's] Medici tomb figures in San Lorenzo, that is to say Dawn, Dusk, Day, and Night. These he studied intensively, making an infinite number of drawings of them by the light of an oil lamp, so that he could compose in a powerful and solidly modeled manner by means of those strong shadows cast by the lamp. Nor did he cease his continuous study of whatever hand or torso he had collected, reproducing them on colored paper with charcoal and watercolor and highlighting them with chalk and white lead. Thus did he learn the forms requisite for his art.
Some of these drawings survive and as one can see in the Study of Michelangelo's Dusk in the show, they are among the most astonishingly inventive copies one great artist ever made of another great artist's works. While faithful to the poses, Tintoretto routinely chose viewpoints one could never have of the originals, such as from above or behind the sculptures. He also changed the forms of the statues, adding muscles where none appeared on the originals or in the copies. More radical still was Tintoretto's stylistic transformation of the material. The standard practice of drawing in Renaissance Italy stressed the contours and surfaces of the volumes depicted, features also emphasized in Michelangelo's sculptures. But Tintoretto drew his copies in a wholly original manner whereby the contours were broken into a series of wavering and interconnecting outlines and the surfaces were rendered as aggregates of shimmering darks and lights. In his drawings Tintoretto accentuated the dynamic play of the illumination, rather than the stable solidity of the underlying form. Copies after Michelangelo's figures appear in Tintoretto's paintings from the beginning. They reach a crescendo in The Miracle of Saint Mark Freeing the Slave, the artist's breakthrough picture, painted in 1548.
Tintoretto's approach to Titian and to Venetian methods of oil painting was even more original and inventive. While borrowing freely from many techniques in the local tradition, Tintoretto conceived new ways of painting. For his contemporaries this was the most striking and controversial feature of his art.
Several characteristics of Tintoretto's painting technique stand out. One is the relative simplicity of layering in the application of successive strata of paint. A Renaissance painting is built of many layers of different hues that combine to create the desired colors and effects. This is especially true in the paintings of Titian and the other Venetian artists who pioneered the technical and pictorial capacities of oil, a comparatively new medium. Painting slowly over many work sessions, Titian would lay down a series of translucent glazes on his pictures, each layer adding to and blending with the pigments already applied.
Not Tintoretto. He devised a new method that entailed a minimum of layering. Working on top of a substratum of dark pigment, he would, with some exceptions, first paint a middle value of the color of an area of the picture; then he would add broad swaths of brighter or darker intensities of that color to indicate passages in light or shade; finally he would apply the highlights and shadows in large and bold strokes of the brush. Even sections of chromatic complexity, such as the mauve jacket with pale blue and pewter gray highlights on the man at the left of center in The Washing of the Feet, are painted with far greater simplicity than they would have been by any other Venetian painter, such as Titian or Veronese.
Using his method, Tintoretto sacrificed much of the subtlety and luminosity that had been characteristic of Venetian painting ever since Giorgione in the early sixteenth century. The body of Titian's Danaë at the Prado glows with soft, warm, radiant light. This is not the case in any of Tintoretto's nudes, whose skin by comparison seems dull and lusterless. Tintoretto did not really care about this loss, however, because he was interested in something else: dazzling brushwork.
Accustomed as we are to evident brushwork as a stylistic feature in the history of art from Rubens and Rembrandt to Franz Kline and William de Kooning, we tend to take its existence for granted. But painters did not always think brushwork should be seen, and it was Tintoretto more than any previous artist who made it a central part of the painter's repertoire. To be sure, Giorgione and Titian had begun to explore the use of visible brushwork at the beginning of the sixteenth century, but they did so in comparatively restricted ways. Its use was limited initially to a few, select highlights; and even when in the middle and late periods of his career Titian displayed brushwork more liberally, he would routinely brush or glaze over the freer passages to tone them down and make them less obvious.
Tintoretto used the brush with a degree of spontaneity and boldness never seen before. Painting at great speed, and with large brushes, he would apply the highlights in long and rapid strokes. These shoot with astonishing force across the surface of the canvas, giving form and creating life as they go. Contemporary observers compared Tintoretto's brushwork to flashes of lightning and it is easy to see why, so great is the display of energy. Recording the impetus of the painter's hand, the brushwork looks dynamic, as if even now it were in motion and might never come to rest.
Brushwork is the key to Tintoretto's artistry. Given the relative simplicity of layering in the preliminary strata of paint, the forms in Tintoretto's pictures would appear nearly unmodeled were it not for the strong brushwork on the surface. It is with the final mighty blows of the brush that Tintoretto gives shape to the figures and objects in his paintings. It is with these same strokes, too, that he adds the accents of hue and light that so powerfully enliven his pictures. For Tintoretto, it was through his new method of painting that he could achieve his ideal and unite drawing and color.
No artist before Tintoretto had ever painted with such radical economy of means. For example, in his portrait of a Procurator of St. Mark's from the National Gallery of Art, shown at the Prado, the preliminary layers of color were laid down with broad sweeps of a large brush and have a loose and lively irregularity. Tintoretto kept the folds in the procurator's magnificent red cloak to a minimum and these he has dashed on with power, speed, and confidence. A few electrifying strokes are enough to indicate the highlights and shadows on each massive sleeve; and down the front of the cloak two or three highlights cascade nearly the entire length of the figure, glinting and shimmering as they fall. The result is an image of charismatic energy and extraordinary authority.
Tintoretto's technique made it possible for him to paint with breathtaking velocity. The early sources are full of startled comments about the speed and mastery with which he worked. This was seen as evidence of his complete technical and intellectual command of the art of painting. In 1580 the painter and writer Cristoforo Sorte wrote,
In one second he places with perfect judgment shadows, half-tones, highlights and well-imitated flesh tones with such bold expertise, speed and verve that it is amazing to watch him work.
Likewise Pietro Aretino commented,
Certainly the brevity of execution depends upon knowing exactly what one is doing…. Because of this total understanding, the naked and clothed figures emerge almost of their own accord.
Four hundred years later, Tintoretto's paintings retain this sense of magic and immediacy. Standing before his pictures in the Prado, one still has the impression that the figures are materializing right in front of one's eyes, whether for example in the allegory of Summer of circa 1546 (see illustration on page 14) or The Martyrdom of Saint Lawrence of 1569–1576. As Aretino's remark indicates, the speed of execution was not merely for the display of virtuosity; it was also the source of the vital spark of life that animates the paintings. Writing in 1611 Alessandro Guarini commented,
He was as fast with his hand as he was with his brain…and with only two touches of the brush he would make all appear more living and breathing than others could have by touching and retouching them a thousand times.
Throughout the process of making a picture, Tintoretto sought to augment the life-giving sense of spontaneity in his paintings. This comes across well in one section of the exhibition that unites a late narrative picture, the Rape of Helen, with an X-ray of the underdrawing on the canvas and the surviving preparatory figure studies for the picture. The figure studies are small rapid sketches, in which Tintoretto intentionally eliminated all detail, concentrating instead solely on the kinetic force of the undulating outlines. When he transferred these studies to the underdrawing on his canvas, he made sure the designs kept the sketchy brevity of form. The X-ray of the underdrawing shows a tumble of swirling, tangling, and pulsating lines; these appear more like a field of energy than a blueprint of solid forms. Working on top of the underdrawing, Tintoretto then painted the figures at full speed. The body of Helen in the foreground is wrought with just two tones, one for the portion in light, and the other for the section in shadow. A handful of jabs with the brush suffice to indicate her diaphanous bodice and the jagged folds of her dress. Only a supremely gifted artist can do so much with so little.
Speed and boldness also made it possible for Tintoretto to work successfully on a gigantic scale. It was only thanks to the extraordinary dispatch of his technique that he could produce one colossal picture after another. Each of the main canvases in the Scuola di San Rocco is about twenty-five square meters or larger in dimension and Tintoretto made many dozens of paintings on that scale or bigger. No wonder visitors to Venice, then and now, can come away with the impression that the entire city is covered by the hand and the mind of Tintoretto.
Moreover, it is the boundless creativity of invention and the prodigious strength of execution that gives these pictures the pulse of life. A colossal canvas filled with hosts of figures could easily become a chaotic mass of indistinguishable particulars. Yet Tintoretto was able to make his monumental pictures seem vivid and animate. It was the ability to invest panoramic visions of heaven and earth with the precise observations of living details that has compelled the admiration and the envy of John Ruskin, Hippolyte Taine, and many other writers. Of the many accounts in praise of this side of Tintoretto's genius, perhaps the most telling is that by Henry James:
Titian was assuredly a mighty poet, but Tintoret—well, Tintoret was almost a prophet. Before his greatest works you are conscious of a sudden evaporation of old doubts and dilemmas, and the eternal problems of the conflict between idealism and realism dies the most natural of deaths. In his genius the problem is practically solved; the alternatives are so harmoniously interfused that I defy the keenest critic to say where one begins and the other ends. The homeliest prose melts into the most ethereal poetry—the literal and the imaginative fairly confound their identity.
This, however, is vague praise. Tintoret's great merit, to my mind, was his unequalled distinctness of vision. When once he had conceived the germ of a scene it defined itself to his imagination with an intensity, an amplitude, an individuality of expression, which make one's observation of his pictures seem less an operation of the mind than a kind of supplementary experience of life…. You get from Tintoret's work the impression that he felt, pictorially, the great, beautiful, terrible spectacle of human life very much as Shakespeare felt it, poetically—with a heart that never ceased to beat a passionate accompaniment to every stroke of his brush.
In the same vein, Henry wrote in a letter from Venice to his brother William,
But you must see him here at work like a great wholesale director to form an idea of his boundless invention and his passionate energy…. I'd give a great deal to be able to fling down a dozen of his pictures into prose of corresponding force and color.
Not everyone was always so pleased with Tintoretto. In his own period the innovations of Tintoretto's style were considered by many to be an outrageous break with decorum. According to the norms of Renaissance art criticism, sketchiness and brevity only had a place during the initial design phase of creation. Completed works of art should show the artist's diligence and thoroughness in their execution and finish. Thus Vasari, although impressed by Tintoretto's manifest brilliance, was alarmed and offended by his paintings. Vasari wrote that they were
executed by him in a fashion of his own and contrary to the use of other painters…. This master at times has left as finished works sketches still so rough that the brush-strokes may be seen, done more by chance and vehemence than with judgment and design.
Vasari was not alone in this view. In his book The Lament of Painting, written in 1605, eleven years after Tintoretto died in 1594, Federico Zuccaro, the Central Italian artist, even blamed Tintoretto and his followers for the downfall of painting.
When Zuccaro made these remarks, the Baroque, a new period in the history of art, was already dawning. Two of the main instigators of the Baroque, Annibale Carracci and Peter Paul Rubens, looked to Tintoretto as one of their models, and later, Bernini, Velázquez, and others joined in the chorus of admirers. Through them the legacy of Tintoretto became an integral part of the Baroque and of the European tradition. All these artists were attracted to the extraordinary brushwork, the technical mastery, the colossal scale, the visionary sweep, and the forceful detail of Tintoretto's painting. Above all, they were inspired by a fundamental principle they found in Tintoretto's works, the idea that art should be a form of energy made visible.
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Montana judge helps Dem Sen. Jon Tester, removes Green Party from ballot
Democrat Sen. Jon Tester is one of several vulnerable Democrats in a red state won by President Donald Trump that has been targeted for replacement by a Republican in the 2018 midterm elections.
But Tester's re-election bid just received a solid boost from a district judge in Helena, Montana who ruled to invalidate a number of signatures submitted by the state's Green Party, a move that will remove the far-left party and its candidate from the state's ballot in the November election.
According to The Hill, Helena District Court Judge James Reynolds declared a number of signatures gathered and submitted by Green Party backers to be invalid due to those signatures either not matching signatures already on record, not matching registered voters or being gathered in an improper manner.
The invalidation of those signatures dropped the Green Party below the threshold of 5,000 valid signatures from registered voters in at least 34 of Montana's 100 state House districts that are required to appear on the state-wide ballot.
The state's Democrat Party had sued to block the Green Party from being on the ballot, and suggested that a Republican consulting firm from Nevada was behind a signature-gathering effort that saw the Green party submit more than 7,000 signatures on the final day.
The judge's ruling was celebrated by Nancy Keenan, head of the Montana Democratic Party, who called the decision a win "against the tactics of out-of-state Republican dark money groups that are blatantly trying to interfere in Montana's democracy."
The judge's ruling means that artist and gallery owner Steve Kelly will not appear as a choice for the Senate for Montanans in November, a move that will certainly assist Tester as Green Party candidates tend to pull left-leaning voters away from Democrats in much the same way that Libertarian candidates tend to pull support away from Republican candidates.
Indeed, Tester's allies were accused of providing significant financial backing to a Libertarian candidate named Dan Cox in the 2012 election that saw Cox pull in 32,000 votes while Tester beat his Republican challenger Danny Rehberg by a margin of only 18,000 votes.
"The Montana Democratic Party's deep pocketed effort to suppress the vote in Montana has, for the moment, succeeded," stated Green Party spokeswoman Danielle Breck. "The (Montana Green Party), however, understands that it is not only our right, but also our duty, as citizens to do everything we can to stand up against such efforts."
Interestingly, while the Green Party candidate won't be on the ballot — and thus won't be siphoning away leftist votes from Tester — a Libertarian candidate will remain on the ballot in November who will potentially siphon right-leaning votes away from Republican state Auditor Matt Rosendale, who has the backing of President Trump in his challenge against Tester.
If there truly were issues regarding the validity of the signatures gathered by Green party backers, then the judge's ruling was proper and it is a mere coincidence that the ruling will have a positive effect on Tester's re-election chances.
But pure coincidences are rare in politics, and this whole affair reeks of a deliberate effort to aid Tester's re-election bid by removing from the ballot a third-party candidate that would undoubtedly draw away some of Tester's supporters in an exceptionally close race that is a must-win for Democrats.
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[Early Review] Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood (2019)
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie, Emile Hirsch, Margaret Qualley, Timothy Olyphant, Austin Butler, Dakota Fanning, Bruce Dern, Al Pacino
Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino
161 mins. Rated R for language throughout, some strong graphic violence, drug use, and sexual references.
I'm a sucker for movies about making movies and Hollywood. I also adore the 1960s as a setting. Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is a film seemingly tailor-made for me, including having my favorite director, Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight, Django Unchained) at the helm. So what did I think?
The year is 1969. The once-bankable film star Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio, Inception, The Revenant) is making his living by appearing in guest roles on various television series, usually as the villain. His agent, Marvin Schwarzs (Al Pacino, Serpico, Paterno) doesn't think these roles are helping his career, and he tries to push Dalton into doing Italian Spaghetti Westerns. Rick's stunt-double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt, Moneyball, Deadpool 2) is searching for work himself as Rick needs a double less and less, but he has a bad reputation in the industry. Rick's concern over his career is causing him to have a personal crisis, but he is reinvigorated when he discovers that he is living next to director Roman Polanski and his new wife Sharon Tate (Margot Robbie, Suicide Squad, Mary Queen of Scots). All the while during this, out on the Spahn Movie Ranch, a cult is forming led by Charles Manson.
Many have come to the belief that Margot Robbie's Sharon Tate is a central element to the film. Her character, in fact, is a lot more like a looming presence that the 1960s and the free-love hippie culture are coming to an end very soon. She's not featured as much as one might think in the film, and neither is Charles Manson, who barely has any dialogue whatsoever.
The stars of the film are DiCaprio and Pitt, and they are the two characters that are most engaging, and they are the two with the best chemistry in the film. Don't kid yourself about this being a Manson family film because it isn't, and that's fine because the incredible Rick Dalton and Cliff Booth are worth the price of admission alone. They are two fully-realized, equally flawed, and equally enthralling. These two are some of Tarantino's best characters in his entire career, and both actors put their all into it.
The third big character in the film is Hollywood, and it is gorgeously shot. This is Tarantino's love letter to a world that has changed and, for the most part, disappeared. It's a rare glimpse into an aging has-been's world as it begins to crumble and the stunt-double/driver/entourage/friend who tries to keep him in one piece, and without the amazing production design, costuming, and cinematography, the film wouldn't work half as well.
The pacing is rather strong here as well. I didn't notice the time flying by and I was surprised when the film had concluded because I didn't think nearly three hours had gone by that quick. It's a testament to the world that Tarantino puts to the screen, and it didn't take me out of the film to see actors I knew from today playing actors I know from decades ago because each was so meticulously collected for the cast, and it's an impressive damn cast.
If there's a flaw with the film, it's only that I'm somewhat divided on its conclusion. I will have to see it again to know for certain how I feel about it. I'm not going to get into any specifics but it is definitely an exciting finale to say the least.
Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood is a very strong Quentin Tarantino that's more melancholic and thoughtful. He takes his time building the story and seemingly every sequence has a purpose in developing character or moving plot. This is a film that may divide audiences more than some of his previous outings, and I'm not sure yet how I feel about everything that takes place, but I loved the theatrical experience, the characters, and the world. Go see it as soon as you can…and don't spoil it for others.
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24 April 2015 – Yesterday, the 25th session of the UN-Habitat Governing Council concluded in Nairobi, Kenya. The session addressed the broader subject of sustainable urbanization and human settlement, and witnessed the launch of the new Urban Data web portal, which you can now use.
"Our struggle for global sustainability will be won or lost in cities," said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in a message to the Governing Council.
Mr Ban emphasized the challenges that need to be addressed to ensure that urbanization will contribute to sustainable development.
These include e.g. inadequate urban planning; low levels of employment (especially among young people); the contribution of cities to global warming due to urban sprawl and the excessive dependence of urban settlements on cars and fossil fuels.
The 25th Governing Council saw the launch of a new UN-Habitat web portal, called Urban Data, featuring a wealth of city data based on its extensive research into some of the most pressing urban trends of recent decades.
You will be able to use Urban Data to explore data from a number of cities and regions around the world and compare indicators such as slum prevalence and city prosperity.
Furthermore, an online interactive tool is at your disposal to generate basic infographics that can be saved and downloaded for use in your own work or research.
In addition to this launch, UN-Habitat also released a new report on its work and activities. The report emphasizes the organization's work in developing global norms and supporting innovative models. These assist national governments and local authorities to increase their knowledge on sustainable urbanization and to improve national and local policies on housing and urban development.
Habitat III, the United Nations Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development, will take place in Quito, Ecuador.
The Conference's objective is to secure renewed political commitment for sustainable urban development and to rethink the Urban Agenda.
In preparing for the event, a wealth of urbanization aspects are being addressed. An example of this is women's empowerment. At a recent event running up to Habitat III, Dr Joan Clos, UN-Habitat Executive Director, reinforced the organization's position that in order for urbanization to be an engine for economic growth and social development, women's empowerment and gender equality needs to be at the centre of the New Urban Agenda.
In looking ahead, this echoes Mr Ban's underlining to the Governing Council of SDG 11, dedicated to making cities and human settlements "inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable" for all.
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The Lapponian Herder traces its roots to Finland approximately 200 years ago. Although it has not been proven, people who love this breed believe it to be the oldest from the region. Throughout its history, this breed has been used for guarding, driving and herding reindeer from predators. Lapponian Herders have exceptional abilities when it comes to working in harsh climates and on rough terrain. Close to extinction after World War II, enthusiasts from Finland and Sweden worked tirelessly to bring the breed back from the brink. The breed is now stable in number, but it has yet to gain popularity outside of Sweden and Finland.
The Lapponian herder is longer than it is high with a long body, a strong back and the groin is tucked. The chest of the dog is deep but not broad. There is a thick, double coat of fur covering the dog's body. Acceptable coat colors for the breed are gray, black or dark brown. White markings on the legs, chest and neck are permissible. The inner coat is gray, brown or black. Personality: In general, the Lapponian Herder is a gentle, friendly dog. As with any breed, individual temperaments vary. The dog is a high-energy breed, requiring a job to do or a sport to play. Daily exercise is an absolute must for this herding dog. These dogs are typically accepting of any animal in the home, but herding instincts must be curbed. Lapponians are friendly towards children but, again, herding instincts must be curbed, especially when there are young children or toddlers in the home. This breed is known for being excitable during play and while greeting humans. Excessive jumping, barking and body wiggles can be curbed by early socialization and training. This type of exuberance is acceptable in a puppy but not in a large adult.
The Lapponian herder is longer than it is high with a long body, a strong back and the groin is tucked. The chest of the dog is deep but not broad. There is a thick, double coat of fur covering the dog's body.
Acceptable coat colors for the breed are gray, black or dark brown.
White markings on the legs, chest and neck are permissible. The inner coat is gray, brown or black.
In general, the Lapponian Herder is a gentle, friendly dog. As with any breed, individual temperaments vary. The dog is a high-energy breed, requiring a job to do or a sport to play. Daily exercise is an absolute must for this herding dog. These dogs are typically accepting of any animal in the home, but herding instincts must be curbed.
Lapponians are friendly towards children but, again, herding instincts must be curbed, especially when there are young children or toddlers in the home.
This breed is known for being excitable during play and while greeting humans. Excessive jumping, barking and body wiggles can be curbed by early socialization and training. This type of exuberance is acceptable in a puppy but not in a large adult.
These dogs are not hypoallergenic as they shed quite regularly. Daily brushings remove loose hairs from the coat and keep the dog looking its best. The dog can be bathed as little or as often as the owner desires. Ears and toenails should be given monthly attention, and a daily tooth brushing is a must for a healthy mouth.
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Back in 2010, Google introduced WebP image format which is up to 45% smaller than PNGs for similar quality. Google WebP image format is obviously supported by Google Chrome and the Chromium-powered browsers such as Opera. Windows 10 October 2018 Update introduced support for WebP image format in Microsoft Edge and it appears that Mozilla is also embracing Google's technology. According to CNET, Mozilla's Firefox browser is...


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LIVE REVIEW: The Sick Tour w/ New Found Glory and Bayside
June 27, 2018 June 27, 2018 Kristina Haney	bayside, concert tickets, infectious magazine, live, music, new album, new found glory, new music, new song, photo, photos, pop, pop punk, rock, the movielife, tickets, tour, tour dates, William Ryan Key, yellowcard0 comment
They say that seeing your favorite band from high school as an adult is a life changing experience. They're not wrong. When I saw Bayside and New Found Glory on the same ticket, I screamed out loud. It was a pop-punk dream come true. Opening for them was William Ryan Key, that concert goers would recognize and the former frontman of Yellowcard. Key took to the stage with just himself and his guitar and played through his entire EP, Thirteen. He knew he couldn't get off the stage without playing…
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Album Review: William Ryan Key – 'Thirteen'
May 24, 2018 Sarah Spohn	arun bali, ep release, Lone Tree Recordings, new found glory, pop punk, ryan key, Sick Tour 2018, singer songwriter, summer tour, Thirteen, William Ryan Key, yellowcard0 comment
There's a place off Ocean Avenue, you know the one — we were both 18 and it felt so right sleeping all day staying up all night. In Spring 2017, pop punk rockers Yellowcard announced their farewell tour. Tears were shed as the violin shred for the last time on stages all across the world. Now, a year later, vocalist/guitarist William Ryan Key is releasing a new solo debut EP, Thirteen, out May 25 via Lone Tree Recordings. Key and his fans may no longer be 18 anymore, but after nearly two…
YEAR IN REVIEW: Coolest Pieces Of Merch
December 27, 2017 December 26, 2017 Sami Marshall	brightside, coolest pieces of merch, fall out boy, household, infectious magazine, issues, justin bieber, maggie schneider, Microwave, music, new found glory, rivals, Silent Planet, Sleep On It, Tyler Carter, year in review, Year In Review 20170 comment
In a year full of fidget spinners and blink-and-you'll-miss-'em trends, coming out with a piece of merch that fans would remember for months afterward was quite the challenge. But we have a list, thanks to a wonderful group of our friends, recapping the coolest merch that came out this year! Be sure to check out all the merch below, and if that particular item is still available, you can find links to purchasing it within the description of each item! What was your favorite piece of band merch that came…
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ROAM to support New Found Glory on fall tour
September 19, 2017 Kerry Uram	20 years of pop punk, alex costello, chad gilbert, fall, infectious magazine, new found glory, north america, north america tour, pop punk, roam, tickets, tour0 comment
The highly anticipated New Found Glory headlining tour fittingly titled "20 Years Of Pop Punk" is setting up to be one of the best tours to hit this fall. The support was recently announced as U.K pop-punk band ROAM will be joining the tour run. This will be the first time ROAM will play songs from their upcoming sophomore album Great Heights & Nosedives in the United States and Canada. The tour kicks off in Columbia, SC and will be hitting major cities including Baltimore, Brooklyn, Toronto, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland. The tour…
WATCH: New Found Glory, "The Sound Of Two Voices"
September 6, 2017 Brooke Daly	"The Sound Of Two Voices", billboard, chad gilbert, cyrus bolooki, hopeless records, Ian Grushka, infectious magazine, jordan pundik, Makes Me Sick, music, music video, new, new found glory, nfg, pop punk, premiere, video0 comment
New Found Glory released a brand new album, Makes Me Sick, earlier this year. To celebrate their single "The Sound Of Two Voices," the group released a new music video. The clip is a take on the album's cover. And according to an interview with Billboard (who premiered the video), it is mean to illustrate the struggles of addiction. Check out the clip after the jump! For more New Found Glory, you can purchase a concert ticket here or buy a CD here! Please follow and like us:
ALBUM REVIEW : 18th & Addison – 'Makeshift Monster'
February 11, 2017 February 11, 2017 Kerry Uram	18th & Addison, 2016, 2017, album review, alternative, chad gilbert, fall out boy, infectious magazine, Kait DiBenedetto, Makeshift Monster, new found glory, pop punk, spotify, Tom Kunzman, we are the in crowd, what's eating gilbert0 comment
With humble beginnings, forming in 2013/2014, the New Jersey acoustic duo Tom Kunzman and Kait DiBenedetto of alternative rock band 18th & Addison set their sights to bring something new and unique to the ever growing music industry. From formerly playing alongside pop-punk musician, Chad Gilbert of New Found Glory and What's Eating Gilbert, DiBenedetto met Kunzman and from a few acoustic sets, the band 18th & Addison was formed, bringing both of their musical backgrounds into something new and collaborative. Having a debut EP under their belts, 2015's Little Parasites, the duo set…
New Found Glory Announce Support for U.S. Tour
January 30, 2017 Brooke Daly	announcement, direct support, hopeless records, new found glory, nfg, north american tour, pop punk, Slick Shoes, support, tour, trash boat, U.S. tour0 comment
New Found Glory dropped a huge bomb when they announced a tour in celebration of their 20 years as a band. Though there were plenty of dates and details, a crucial one was missing: which band(s) would support them on said tour. The godfathers of pop-punk announced that Trash Boat will join their U.S. tour, and Slick Shoes will join the two bands April 22 for one show. Check out the details in a tweet from New Found Glory after the jump! For more New Found Glory, you can purchase…
New Found Glory Finish Recording New Album
November 16, 2016 Brooke Daly	album, announcement, chad gilbert, cyrus bolooki, hopeless records, Ian Grushka, infectious magazine, Instagram, jordan pundik, music, new, new found glory, nfg, pop punk, recording, update0 comment
They have been teasing a new album for a while and working hard, and now, New Found Glory will soon have something to show for it. The group have officially finished the first phase of creating new music. According to a post on the group's Instagram, New Found Glory are done recording their next release. All that is left is the mixing and further fine tuning. Check out the Instagram photo after the jump, and get stoked for some new pop-punk jams! You can purchase a concert ticket here or…
New Found Glory Working on New Album
October 2, 2016 Brooke Daly	chad gilbert, cyrus bolooki, hopeless records, Ian Grushka, infectious magazine, jordan pundik, music, new, new found glory, news, nfg, pop punk, rock, update0 comment
They have been relatively quiet since their stint on this summer's Vans Warped Tour, but New Found Glory have been working hard. Currently, the band is working on a follow up album to 2014's Resurrection. On their social media channels, the group have been updating fans on new development. It looks like everyone in the group is getting started! Check out a few tweet updates after the jump! You can purchase a concert ticket here or buy a CD here! Please follow and like us:
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More Warped Tour Coverage: A Chat with Ernie Ball Winners, Actor|Observer
July 14, 2016 Ashley M. Jacobs	Actor Observer, Actor|Observer, chad gilbert, Ernie Ball, Greg Marquis, Heads Up Records, infectious magazine, kevin lyman, kyle kowalsky, music, new found glory, sum 41, unsigned, vans warped tour, Vans Warped Tour 2016, warped, warped tour, warped tour 20160 comment
Every year, guitar string manufacturer, Ernie Ball, holds a huge Battle of the Bands competition for Vans Warped Tour. Artists submit music and the public votes. This year, 41 bands for 41 dates were chosen to perform on the Journey's main stage. Yesterday was Day 17 and the day Boston-based post-hardscore band, Actor|Observer, got to live their dream. It was their third time playing Vans Warped Tour, their second time winning the competition, but their first playing the main stage. "It was pretty unreal," frontman, Greg Marquis said. "We had a huge crowd and so many familiar faces, but also…


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She also joined the Society of Women Engineers and was elected vice-president her freshman year, chaired the Evening with Industry event for two years, and currently serves as treasurer. Eager to network with her fellow aerospace engineering students, she also joined Virginia Tech's student chapter of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. A natural leader, Duetsch has now served as the organization's president for the past two years.
Pat Artis, professor of practice in the aerospace and ocean engineering department, recalls arriving on the first day of his Introduction to Aerospace Engineering class in 2016. Duetsch had arrived early and was ready and eager to learn.
"While many students do not have the intellectual capabilities or dedication to realize their dreams, it soon became clear that Julie was an outstanding student capable of focusing on and mastering aerospace engineering," Artis noted. "Moreover, she was clearly the most organized and disciplined student I have ever encountered."
By her sophomore year, Duetsch felt more confident in her place within the college had experienced successes in her coursework and established a supportive network of peers through her involvement with various extracurricular activities.
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Today, Duetsch is still relentlessly motivated and filled with an unstoppable energy, pushing herself to take advantage of more opportunities for growth. She applied to and was selected to join the College of Engineering Dean's Team, where she felt she could make a broader impact on engineering students and the college as a whole. She enthusiastically jumped into this new role, hosting information sessions and helping to organize the college's open house event. She had found her home, and wanted to help others envision how they could also succeed in engineering.
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Duetsch's hard work and breadth of experience has earned her well-deserved accolades on a national level. As a member of the national aerospace engineering honor society, Sigma Gamma Tau, Duetsch represented Virginia Tech as the Mid-Atlantic regional winner in the society's Annual Undergraduate Award competition. More recently, she was named the national winner amongst the nine regional winners and was awarded Sigma Gamma Tau's top honor, the Ammon S. Andes National Award.
Duetsch's impressive record of research and dedicated service as a Hokie is not yet complete. As a participant in the accelerated undergraduate/graduate degree program, she has already begun to earn credits toward her graduate degree and plans to stay at Virginia Tech to earn her doctoral degree in aerospace engineering, specializing in aero-hydrodynamics.
Duetsch plans to return to Boeing for another internship this summer and dreams of working there as an aerodynamics engineer in the future. She is excited by the prospect of working in research and development, brainstorming new aircraft configurations that could revolutionize aviation.
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It's taken me about a week but I finally finished this game! I can give you a couple of tips that may help those of you that are struggling. 1- Make sure you put something on the manequine. You get extra points if someone orders something on the manequine. 2 - color match whenever possible 3- serve the impatient customers first 4- use the bottled water to keep customers from leaving 5 - buy the accessories as soon as you can. Purchasing shoes and sunglasses make some of the customers very happy. 6 - if you get overwhelmed with the number of fabrics and color choices don't use all the mirrors. Use a couple and get those customers done and go on to the next. If you get too many customers leaving you will be left with a lot of clothes you can't use and trashing them takes away points.
Do you have any pointers for level 9? I've tried all those tips and I still can't seem to get the points no matter what I do. Thanks!
Never mind, I finished it. The mannequin and drinks are definitely your best friend, because they give bonuses and keep the hearts for the customers. It was really challenging!


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Q: rails undefined method 'has_many' I'm making a database:
class CreateUsers < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    has_many :listings, :dependent => :restrict #won't delete if listings exist
    has_many :transactions, :dependent => :restrict #won't del if trans exist
    create_table :users do |t|
      t.integer :key #it's hard to use string as primary
      t.string :identifier_url
      t.string :username
      t.integer :rating

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

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class CreateListings < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    has_one :book
    belongs_to :transaction
    belongs_to :user
    create_table :listings do |t|
      t.integer :key
      t.integer :condition
      t.decimal :price

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    end
  end
end

I can't find anything anywhere on this so I'm guessing it's something really basic.

A: The associations (has_many, belongs_to etc...) should be declared in the model, not in the migration.
This is a good read to start with migrations:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/migrations.html
And this one for associations:
http://guides.rubyonrails.org/association_basics.html

A: You don't have to declare the associations in the migration, but in the models!

A: Put your association in the model
class Member < ActiveRecord::Base

has_many :listings, :dependent => :restrict
has_many :transactions, :dependent => :restrict

end

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