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from __future__ import print_function

import sys
import re
import argparse
import logging
import chronos

def match_prefix(prefixes=[], job=''):
    for prefix in prefixes:
        if re.search('^' + prefix, job):
            return True
    return False

def main():
    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="Monitor the status of Chronos Jobs")
    parser.add_argument("--hostname", metavar="<host:port>", required=True,
                        help="hostname and port of the Chronos instance")
    parser.add_argument("--prefix", metavar="job-prefix", required=False, action="append",
                        help="if set, only check jobs matching this prefix")
    parser.add_argument("--exclude", metavar="job-prefix", required=False, action="append",
                        help="if set, exclude jobs matching this prefix")
    parser.add_argument("--warn", metavar="#", default=1,
                        help="warn if at least this number of jobs are currently failed")
    parser.add_argument("--crit", metavar="#", default=1,
                        help="critical if at least this number of jobs are currently failed")
    args = parser.parse_args()

    fails = []
    ok = []
    unknown = []

    c = chronos.connect(args.hostname)
    cjobs = c.list()

    if not isinstance(cjobs, list):
        print("UNKNOWN: error querying chronos")
        sys.exit(3)

    for job in cjobs:
        if job['disabled']:
            continue

        if isinstance(args.prefix, list):
            if not match_prefix(args.prefix, job['name']):
                continue

        if isinstance(args.exclude, list):
            if match_prefix(args.exclude, job['name']):
                continue

        if job['lastError'] > job['lastSuccess']:
            fails.append(job['name'].encode('ascii'))
        elif job['lastSuccess']:
            ok.append(job['name'].encode('ascii'))
        else:
            unknown.append(job['name'].encode('ascii'))

    if len(unknown) > 0:
        umsg = "(%d waiting for execution or with no data)" % len(unknown)
    else:
        umsg = ''

    if len(fails) == 0:
        print("OK: %d jobs succeeded on last run %s" % (len(ok), umsg))
        sys.exit(0)
    elif len(fails) >= int(args.crit):
        print("CRITICAL: %d failed jobs: %s %s" % (len(fails), str(fails).strip('[]'), umsg))
        sys.exit(2)
    elif len(fails) >= int(args.warn):
        print("WARNING: %d failed jobs: %s %s" % (len(fails), str(fails).strip('[]'), umsg))
        sys.exit(1)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    logging.basicConfig(format='%(asctime)s %(levelname)-8s %(message)s', level="WARN")
    main()


Visual Identity for Art San Diego 2013, with theme [COLLIDE] commenting on different types of creative intersections and how they manifest in both a visual and social setting.
Angeles and I have now worked together for ten years on numerous projects. In 2009, Angeles first helped to design the web and brand identity for the first edition of the Art San Diego Contemporary Art Show. From website, to signage, sponsorship materials, exhibitor manuals, t-shirts, vip-tickets, etc – Angeles has the ability to create a very unique and unified design treatment across all marketing materials, and she has consistently created a new design approach for each year of the show. It is such a pleasure to work with someone like Angeles who understands my sensibility so that there is very little instruction ever needed. Angeles has the excellent ability to translate business concepts into relevant images. She delivers quick work with an amazing temperament (especially under-pressure).


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Пробуди се је српска информативна и ток-шоу јутарња телевизијска емисија коју приказује Нова од 1. јуна 2020. године. Емисија се приказује радним данима од 6 часова и викендом од 7 часова. Водитељка радним данима је Невена Маџаревић, а викендом Данило Машојевић. Уредници емисије радним данима су: Душан Телесковић, Драгана Плазинић, Милош Живковић и Невена Маџаревић, а викендом Вера Николић, Данило Машојевић и Ивана Вуловић.

У другој сезони, која је почела 1. септембра 2020, емисија је продужена. Радним данима за 30 минута (до 8.30), а викендом за 60 минута (до 10.00). У трећој сезони, која је почела 1. септембра 2021, емисија је поновно продужена. Нови термини су радним данима од 6.00 до 9.00 и викендом од 7.00 до 10.30 часова.

Из Београда се укључују репортери Данијела Лазовић, Душан Ивковић и Магдалина Милановић. Аутори наглашавају да су важан сегмент емисије и укључења репортера из осталих већих градова Србије, па сваког јутра гледаоци могу да прате и укључења са терена репортера из осталих већих градова Србије. Водитељ временске прогнозе је Марко Катић, док најновије вести доноси Радован Сератлић.  За најаве предстојећих утакмица, анализе и вести из спорта задужени су новинари са Спорт клуба. Сваког јутра приказују се рубрике: "Прелистај се", "Реч јутра" и "Угломер".

Од 4. јуна 2022. викенд издање приказује се под насловом Покрени се, а воде га Данило Машојевић и Ана Михајловски, која се тада и придружила емисији. Покрени се од 10. септембра 2022. траје пола сата дуже, од 7 до 11 часова, а Ана Михајловски престаје да буде део тима.

Референце

Спољашње везе

Српске телевизијске емисије
Оригинални програм канала Нова С

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var path = require('path');
var Obj = require('./object');
var lib = require('./lib');

var Loader = Obj.extend({
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    },

    emit: function(name /*, arg1, arg2, ...*/) {
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        if(this.listeners && this.listeners[name]) {
            lib.each(this.listeners[name], function(listener) {
                listener.apply(null, args);
            });
        }
    },

    resolve: function(from, to) {
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    isRelative: function(filename) {
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  /**
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    var me = this;
    this.data = {};
    var deferred = $q.defer();

    /**
     * Promise for loading the sites remotely.
     * Can be used to perform action when loading sites has been completed.
     *
     * @type {Promise}
     */
    this.ready = deferred.promise;

    this.doLoad = function(fileName) {
      NdxService.resetData();

      d3.json(fileName, function(error, json) {
        if (error) {
          return console.warn(error);
        }
        me.data = json;
        deferred.resolve(me.data);

        //Evil hacky timeout function to resolve a race condition.
        $timeout(function() {
          Messagebus.publish('data loaded', this.getData);
        }.bind(this), 100);
      }.bind(this));
    };

    /**
     * Load data from server
     *
     * @returns {Promise}
     */
    this.load = function() {
      var dataType = uncertConf.DATA_JSON_URL.split(':')[0];

      if (dataType === 'file') {
        var fileName = uncertConf.DATA_JSON_URL.split(':')[1];
        this.doLoad(fileName);
      } else if (dataType === 'http' || dataType === 'https') {
        me.data = $http.get(uncertConf.DATA_JSON_URL).success(this.onLoad).error(this.onLoadFailure);
      } else {
        console.log('Unknown data type.');
      }
      // return me.data;
    }.bind(this);

        /**
     * Load data from server
     *
     * @returns {Promise}
     */
    this.urlload = function(request) {
      $http.get(request.targetScope.fc.fileName).success(this.onUrlLoad).error(this.onLoadFailure);
    }.bind(this);

    this.onUrlLoad = function(response) {
      me.data = response;
      toastr.success('New data loaded!');
      Messagebus.publish('data loaded', this.getData);
      // Messagebus.publish('new data loaded', this.getData);
    }.bind(this);

    this.onLoad = function(response) {
      me.data = response;
      deferred.resolve(response);
      Messagebus.publish('data loaded', this.getData);
      // Messagebus.publish('new data loaded', this.getData);
    }.bind(this);

    this.onLoadFailure = function() {
      $log.log('Failed to load data!!');
      toastr.error('Failed to load data!!');
      deferred.reject.apply(this, arguments);
    };

    this.getData = function () {
      return this.data;
    }.bind(this);

    this.getFileList = function() {
      return uncertConf.EMOTIONS;
    };

    Messagebus.subscribe('data request', this.urlload);
  }

  angular.module('uncertApp.core')
    .service('DataService', DataService);
})();


It's incredible to see so many women in 2016 carving out their perfect career, challenging perceptions and turning the usual nine-to-five into somewhat of a vocation. Rachel Kavanagh, Managing Director and Global Brand Development Advisor for Glossybox UK & Ireland, is the perfect example of that; that's a pretty impressive title for a woman of only 32. Her entrepreneurial spirit has lead her to not only launch her own beauty brand and dabble in the world of acting, but at the age of 29 she moved into an MD role at one of the UK's most exciting new companies. During her exceptionally busy schedule (and juggling two children under the age of four,) she was kind enough to give us ten minutes of her time to let us in on her beauty secrets, career advice and daily routine. Enjoy.
As well as my day job, I'm a married mum of two: Rhys is now 4 and Esme is 6 months old. Originally from Dublin, I moved to West London three years ago for my role at Glossybox. Life is pretty hectic, but I think I'm balancing well-ish! I've been in the beauty industry since I left collage, having started my own beauty brand (an organic self-tanning line) in 2007, and I moved on from this to take the job with Glossybox in 2009.
Pretty manic! The baby wakes around 6am, I feed her, put her back to sleep then get ready myself while everyone is still sleeping. I make a smoothie and a coffee and I'm out the door by 7.40am to be in work at 8.30.am. Work hours are filled with on and off-site meetings, usually with brand or box partners, and these are squeezed in between ensuring each month's campaign is executed and rolled out as planned with the team. I get home in time to spend an hour with the kids and then put them to bed. When I've eaten, I usually pick up the work I didn't have time to do during day and I'm normally in bed by 9.30pm.
Trying to prioritise my time between work and family life. Both are so busy and require my full attention, so when I'm doing one I need to focus solely on that.
CAN YOU PINPOINT A PARTICULAR HIGHLIGHT TO DATE?
I guess my appointment as MD for Glossybox. I was 29 at the time so I was pretty young, but I was ambitious and thankful that they believed in my ability.
I'm an entrepreneur at heart, so for me Glossybox, as a concept, has just turned sampling on its head in terms of innovation. It's so fast-paced and no two days are the same, so I'm always excited about what's next as the sky's the limit with this company!
Nothing commands respect more than a good work ethic.
WHAT ONE PIECE OF ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO OTHERS WANTING TO GET INTO YOUR FIELD?
I'm in a tech beauty business, so I guess my job covers many areas; beauty, e-commerce, subscription models etc. It shows you can cover several fields at one time-but it's important to be able to single out which part of the business really drives you and where you can add value.
I'm obsessed with DVD box sets; I literally binge on them. That and boxing.
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The University promotes community-building activities for its faculty, staff, students, and visitors, and recognizes that tailgating has the potential to enhance athletic event experiences within a safe, responsible, and controlled environment.
Tailgating is permitted on football game days in designated areas, during specified hours, and under the conditions specified in the Tailgating Rules. The Chancellor must approve all changes to tailgating in Parking Lot E and any associated permits.
Individuals who violate this policy, the Tailgating Rules, or applicable policies, rules, or law may be assessed fines; lose their season tickets, parking, or tailgating privileges; be removed from campus; and, for students, be subjected to disciplinary action under Board of Regents Policy: Student Conduct Code.
In rare instances, the Chancellor may grant exceptions to the Tailgating Rules within the scope of the law.
This policy applies to the Crookston campus only.
To provide the framework for responsible tailgating on football game days that enhances the event experience, promotes a safe campus environment, and preserves the beauty of the campus.
Eating food and drinking beverages (alcoholic or nonalcoholic) outdoors as part of pre-and post-game festivities in designated tailgating locations.
Open and close designated tailgating areas on football game days.
Enforce applicable laws and Tailgating Rules on football game days.
Administer the policy, including maintaining Tailgating Rules and communicating policy and rules for responsible tailgating to participants.
Determine, in consultation with appropriate University administrators, the University-authorized locations and hours for tailgating on football game days.


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Импийчмънт (среща се и като импичмънт) (от англ. – обвинение, дискредитиране) се нарича процедурата, с която законодателен орган официално подвежда под отговорност лице, което е висш представител на властта, за държавна измяна, корупция или друго тежко престъпление. Импийчмънт невинаги означава отстраняване от длъжност – това е само формалното отправяне на обвиненията, подобно на обвинителния акт в наказателното право, и е само първата стъпка за евентуалното отстраняване. След като лицето бъде подложено на импийчмънт, законодателният орган провежда гласуване за вината му, което, ако е успешно, води до отстраняването му от длъжност.

Практиката показва, че на импийчмънт обикновено биват подложени само такива висши чиновници, за които бъдат доказани особено сериозни злоупотреби с положението им във властта.

Една от традиционните форми на импийчмънт съществува в законите на Англия, където процедурата за последно е била провеждана през 1806 г. Такива възможности са предвидени и в законите на много други страни по света, например САЩ, Бразилия, Русия, Филипините и Република Ирландия.

Процедурата се задвижва по инициатива на Камарата на представителите, която приема решение за виновност на президента. Окончателният акт за отстраняването му се взема на заседание на Сената, под ръководството на председателя на Върховния съд.

Държавни глави, отстранени след импийчмънт
 Фернандо Колор, президент на Бразилия – през 1992 г. (след това подава оставка).
 Карлос Андрес Перес, президент на Венецуела – през 1993 г.
 Раул Кубас Грау, президент на Парагвай – през 1999 г.
 Ро Моо-Хюн, президент на Южна Корея – на 12 март 2004 г.; конституционният съд на Корея отменя решението на 14 май 2004 г.
 Роландас Паксас, президент на Литва – на 6 април 2004 г.
 Алфред Масенг, президент на Вануату, напуска поста си след импийчмънт на 11 май 2004 г.
 Дилма Русев, президент на Бразилия, напуска окончателно поста си след импийчмънт на 31 август 2016 г.
 Пак Гън-хе, президент на Южна Корея, напусна окончателно поста си след импийчмънт на 10 март 2017 г.

Импийчмънт в САЩ
Конгресът на САЩ използва правомощията си за импийчмънт само в крайни случаи; 62 пъти от 1789 насам е била започвана процедура по импийчмънт, която е била изпълнена докрай само за 16 лица на федерални постове:
 съдията от Върховният съд на САЩ Самюъл Чейс през 1804 (впоследствие оправдан)
 11 други федерални съдии (впоследствие трима оправдани, шест отстранени и един подал оставка)
 един член на кабинета (впоследствие оправдан)
 един сенатор (впоследствие отстранен)
 трима президенти – Трима са признати за виновни от Камарата на представителите, но след това оправдани от Сената:
 Андрю Джонсън, през 1868 Оправдан от Сената само с един глас повече в негова полза
 Бил Клинтън, на 19 декември 1998 е обявен за виновен от Камарата на представителите по две от обвиненията (съответно с 228/206 гласа и 221/212) и оправдан по други две (205/229 и 148/285 – последното е за злоупотреба с власт).
 Доналд Тръмп, на 18 декември 2019 е обявен за виновен от Камарата на представителите по всички обвинения (съответно с 230/197 гласа и 229/198).

Импийчмънт в България
Българската конституция не използва термина импийчмънт. Народното събрание може да повдигне обвинение срещу президента с мнозинство от поне 161 (от общо 240) народни представители. Ако установи държавна измяна или нарушение на Конституцията, Конституционният съд прекратява пълномощията на държавния глава.

Президентската институция в България е относително млада – от 1990 г. до 2017 г. само с петима президенти от шест мандата.

 За импийчмънт на Георги Първанов по време на втория му мандат многократно са предлагани аргументи, но подписка за процедура се събира март 2010, като на 31 март 2010 предложението е отхвърлено, заради недостатъчни 6 гласа в парламента .

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Biden's DOJ Defending Major Trump Immigration Policies
The Biden administration is actively defending two key Trump-era immigration policies in court, Vox is reporting.
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"The government's goal is to get back to a state of orderly immigration processing for everyone, but currently, in CDC's view, the public health realities don't permit that," said Swingle, who also cited the recent rapid spread of the omicron variant.
Enacted in March 2020, the Biden administration extended Title 42 indefinitely last summer, CBS News noted. The Biden administration has carried out over 1 million expulsions citing the authority. The Trump administration carried out 400,000 expulsions. Continue reading at Newsmax.

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Fujii v. California
The 1952 California Supreme Court case Fujii v. California (38 Cal 2nd 718) overturned California's historic Alien Land Act , which barred Japanese and other Asian aliens "ineligible to citizenship" from owning agricultural property. Together with Masaoka v. California , Fujii finally put a stop to decades of legal discrimination against Asians. The Fujii case also led to a serious public controversy over whether the United Nations Charter represented a legal basis for striking down state-sponsored discrimination.
Land Law Background
The Fujii case grew out of California's "Alien Land Act," enacted in 1913, further amended in 1920, and originally upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court three years later. According to this law (and the copycat laws subsequently enacted in other Western states) Japanese and other Asian immigrants who were "ineligible for citizenship" under federal law were forbidden to own agricultural property, although provisions of the law limiting the right of aliens to act as guardians of property for minor citizens were successfully challenged in court. The law was widely evaded and seldom enforced during the prewar period. However, following the wartime exclusion of West Coast Japanese Americans, California legislators enacted provisions in 1944 and 1945 providing funding for "escheat" suits to challenge property ownership by Japanese aliens. The goal of the suits was to express hostility to Japanese Americans and discourage them from returning to California after their release from camp. Within a few years, some 59 cases had been brought. Even though by 1946 there were barely 10,000 "aliens ineligible to citizenship" farming in California, most of whom were elderly, these escheat proceedings left title to land uncertain, and made it onerous and expensive for all Japanese Americans to obtain insurance or secure funding for improvements. In numerous cases, Japanese American families were forced to pay a ransom to the state, usually half the assessed value of the land, in order to quiet title—a profitable racket for the state of California.
In mid-1945, Kajiro and Fred Oyama challenged the law in court, with assistance from the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL). In January 1948 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in their favor in the landmark constitutional case Oyama v. California . However, the Court's majority opinion struck down the law based on the equal rights of American citizens of Japanese ancestry to receive property from their alien parents. Although California's attorney general, recognizing that the law would likely not stand, froze all escheat suits following the Oyama decision, the Alien Land Act remained theoretically valid as applied against Japanese aliens.
Mounting a Test Case
It was in the face of this uncertainty that Sei Fujii decided to undertake a test case to determine the law's constitutionality. Fujii, who had immigrated to the United States from Japan as a young man in 1903, was a visible figure in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo, most notably as editor of the crusading daily newspaper Kashu Mainichi . With assistance from J. Marion Wright, his onetime law school classmate, and the American Civil Liberties Union (although not the JACL, which he had long opposed) Fujii purchased a lot in the Boyle Heights district and filed suit to clear title so that he could build a home there. While this hardly constituted agricultural land, California's Attorney General Fred Howser stepped into the case and argued that under the Alien Land Act Fujii could not purchase any property.
The Fujii case was argued before Judge Wilbur C. Curtis in the Los Angeles Superior Court, who in March 1949 issued a ruling upholding the state law. Fujii and Wright then appealed to the state supreme court, which remanded the case to the appellate level. Fujii and Wright argued that the Alien Land Act represented race-based discrimination, which was forbidden both under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protection clause and the United Nations Charter. Fujii's case was strengthened by the Oregon Supreme Court, which struck down that state's alien land law in Kenji Namba v. McCourt (1949), and by a favorable Superior Court ruling in Masaoka v. California , which addressed the right of citizens to make gifts of property to alien parents. Nevertheless, most observers expected the California court to uphold the law, since the U.S. Supreme Court had not specifically overturned its original 1920s rulings establishing the law's constitutionality, and because the court had previously validated it in Oyama .
In a surprise ruling, in April 1950 a three-judge panel of the California's District Court of Appeal unanimously overturned Curtis's lower court ruling. In his opinion, Judge Emmet J. Wilson found that the alien land law was unconstitutional because it contravened Chapter I, Section I of the United Nations Charter, which stated that one purpose of the United Nations was "promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all, without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion." Since the United States had ratified the Charter in 1945, it took the form of an international treaty whose provisions took precedence over domestic laws. The law likewise contravened the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to which the US was a signatory.
The ruling unleashed a storm of controversy nationwide. While the Alien Land Act itself found few defenders, legal scholars and political thinkers nevertheless expressed dismay over the court's contention that the UN Charter had become fundamental law. Isolationists who worried about encroachments on national sovereignty denounced the ruling as interference with the nation's domestic institutions. (Conversely, Admiral Chester Nimitz, an internationalist, praised the decision as demonstrating American support for the United Nations). Harvard law professor Manley Hudson argued in an influential law journal article that the court's ruling was mistaken. The provisions of the UN Charter, he determined, were addressed to the political departments of member states, not their judiciaries. The provisions were clearly not "self-executing" in the manner of a treaty, but rather represented a goal to be achieved by legislation.
Attorney General Howser appealed the ruling to California's Supreme Court. In April 1952, by a narrow 4-3 majority, the California high court struck down the Alien Land Act. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice Phil Gibson found that the law violated the 14th Amendment, since it had been created and enforced "as an instrument for effectuating racial discrimination." Although he recognized that the U.S. Supreme Court had not specifically overruled its previous decisions on the Act's constitutionality, he proclaimed that following the Oyama and Takahashi decisions, they could no longer be considered controlling precedent. At the same time, in a widely quoted and praised section of the ruling, Gibson considered and rejected the argument that the law was invalidated by the UN Charter, since the provisions of the Charter were "not intended to supersede existing domestic legislation." State officials decided not to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court, no doubt realizing that the appeal would likely be futile.
The state supreme court rulings in Fujii v. California and Masaoka v. California (1952), decided shortly afterwards, eliminated the last vestiges of the Alien Land Act. Though symbolically important, their actual impact was questionable, as they came just weeks before Congress passed the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration Act , which eliminated the legal category of "immigrant ineligible to citizenship" on which the law had been based.
Authored by Greg Robinson , Université du Québec À Montréal
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Samsung Reintroduces Flat Screen Display In Galaxy S10
Seoul, South Korea based one of the largest technology devices manufacturer companies in the world is reportedly working hard on its next flagship Galaxy S10 and other giant gadgets, S10 is revealed to be to come a number of further advanced features as well as to reintroduce flat displays in a basic variant of the Samsung's next phone.
We have certainly seen three variants in Galaxy S6 but not so much in previous versions of the series, since then South Korean tech giant producer has been maintaining its custom bringing more advanced features in its every new release.
As we also discovered, Samsung had removed the flat displays for its flagship smartphones from the time when the launch of Galaxy S8. If the a Korean publication's 'Etnews' report is to be believed the world's most-liked brand for smartphones production has set to place OLED displays dubbed as M9 in in the upcoming smart-devices.
It has also made public in publication's account, South Korean will using the display specifications in forthcoming S-series — 5.8-inch flat screen for the basic variant, 5.8-inch curved display for middle one and the high-end version to be released with a curved 6.2-inch display.
The report also suggests that one of the largest smartphone manufacturers in the world are in collaboration with new companies for the organic chemicals for the Red, Green and Blue subpixels to bring unexpected but incredible devices to next generation.
We also have learnt form the report that the Red, Green and Blue subpixels will also be used for the M9 generation and also replace in the Galaxy S9 and Note9 by replacing the M8 chemicals.
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If previous reports are to be considered those have suggested us that the 'budget' Galaxy S10 will have an 'Infinity-O' display feature, although if the abovementioned report contains truth so S10 would be with flat displays, the Infinity-O screen could be the flat screen version.
Nonetheless, the South Korean is expected to be to make public the flagship Galaxy S10 series smartphones at Mobile World Congress (MWC) 2019.
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Rockets hit Israel near the Lebanese border on Thursday and Israel struck back in the Syrian Golan Heights, saying the rare salvo had been launched there by a Iranian-backed Palestinian militant group. Iran is not even waiting for Obama to sign the Iran deal to hit Israel, and it seems Obama is not complaining either.
The group, Islamic Jihad, denied the Israeli allegation. It had previously threatened reprisals should one of its activists in Israeli detention, Mohammed Allan, die of a hunger strike. Allan ended the fast on Wednesday after an Israeli court intervention.
The attack was unusual as that frontier had been largely quiet since the 2006 war between Israel and the Lebanese guerrilla group Hezbollah. By contrast, the Israeli-held Golan, some 16 km (10 miles) to the east, has occasionally come under fire from within Syria during the four-year-old civil war there.
In a statement, the Israeli military said the rockets that hit Israel in the upper Galilee "were launched from the Syrian Golan Heights … by Islamic Jihad, sponsored by Iran".
Israel "holds the Syrian government responsible for attacks emanating from Syria", the military said, adding that it had retaliated against targets in Syria.
Syrian rebel sources said Israeli warplanes struck several of Damascus's military facilities on the Syrian Golan. They said the strikes caused casualties, but did not elaborate.
Islamic Jihad's leaders are based in the Syrian capital while the bulk of its followers are in the Gaza Strip, whose dominant faction Hamas has mostly been observing a truce with Israel that ended the war in the Palestinian enclave a year ago.
Islamic Jihad acknowledges receiving support from Iran, Israel's arch-foe. Israel has sought to highlight such Iranian backing for regional armed groups as it campaigns against U.S. congressional approval of the July 14 deal curbing Tehran's nuclear project in exchange for international sanctions relief.
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only the internet gives me evidence that the days aren't actually resetting back to the same point before i wake up.
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do u have any cheese in this groundhog loop?
this is the worst kind of groundhog day loop: the one where you can't try to kill yourself to get out of it. not because it won't get you out of the loop, but because you'll actually die, and that's not what anyone wants.
i woke up this morning and i'm still in this body, i think there is some EXPLAINING that needs to be done!!!
You're trapped in a groundhog day loop. That's the explain.
It's 12 AM in Australia so I can be safe from the rules. KE you can save yourself from a time loop by becoming a spacial entity. To do so you must turn yourself into a blackhole and enter yourself and then turn into a white hole and exit yourself in your black hole form. It worked for me last time, I swear.
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Executive functions are the set of cognitive, or thinking processes which control all of the other lesser thought processes we need to function as productive members of society.
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Anticipate and react appropriately to situations
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Clearly these are all essential skills to live a healthy, productive life and this is why West Coast Treatment Center has incorporated executive functioning therapies into our drug and alcohol treatment curriculum.
Executive Functioning and Addiction
Numerous clinical studies (1)(2)(3) have demonstrated that the brain's executive functions are compromised by active addiction and alcoholism. This compounds the challenges that addicts and alcoholics face in their recovery because recovery can require good decision-making, impulse control, and forethought.
Research has also shown that executive functioning can play a role in a person's likelihood to become addicted, even before they take their first drink or drug. This means that not only do addiction and alcoholism undermine executive functioning but in many cases, the addict is beginning from a position of having less-than-optimal executive functioning.
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Sources and Studies:
(1) Volkow, Nora D., et al. "Dopamine in drug abuse and addiction: results of imaging studies and treatment implications." Archives of neurology 64.11 (2007): 1575.
(2) Verdejo-Garcı́a, Antonio J., et al. "Differential effects of MDMA, cocaine, and cannabis use severity on distinctive components of the executive functions in polysubstance users: a multiple regression analysis." Addictive Behaviors 30.1 (2005): 89-101.
(3) Lundqvist, Thomas. "Cognitive consequences of cannabis use: comparison with abuse of stimulants and heroin with regard to attention, memory and executive functions." Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 81.2 (2005): 319-330.
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Complex lower extremity injuries pose a significant challenge in terms of management especially when the distal leg is involved. This is compounded by the fact that many patients in this environment who sustain fractures present to traditional bone setters before presenting to the hospital often with complications. We present a 26 year old man with severe right leg injury following a road traffic accident who presented to us at Ntasiobi Specialist Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria for amputation through a traditional bonesetter. He had comminuted fractures of the tibia and fibula with periosteal stripping and an extensive soft tissue loss affecting the distal ½ and about ⅔ of the circumference of the right leg. This degree of injury required free flap reconstruction which was not feasible. We used external fixator to stabilize the bones and improvised negative pressure dressing with a delayed distally based posterior calf fasciocutaneous flap for wound cover. The limb was salvaged though with some challenges but patient was satisfied with the outcome.
A 26-year-old man presented with a history of injury to left lower limb following a collision of the motorcycle he was riding with a car. There was profuse bleeding but no loss of consciousness. Other parts of the body were not injured. He was first taken to a traditional bone setter who advised him to be taken to the hospital for amputation.
Examination revealed a young man who was pale but otherwise stable, with a laceration on the right thigh and an extensive soft tissue loss affecting the distal one-half and about two-third of the circumference of the right leg. There were exposed comminuted fractures of the tibia and fibula, with periosteal stripping. The dorsalis pedis and posterior tibial artery pulsations were absent, but capillary refill was good and planter sensation was intact.
He had initial wound debridement and plaster of paris (POP) backslab application on the 2nd day of admission, and 4 days later, he had a second look debridement and application of external fixator [Figure 1] with delayed primary closure of the thigh wound. He had infection of the leg wound by Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas specie which was treated based on their antibiotic sensitivities. An improvised negative pressure dressing was commenced on the 6th day [Figure 2]. After some weeks of negative pressure dressing, the wound contracted and granulated significantly, but the exposed bone was not covered despite trephination [Figure 3]. The suction apparatus used for the negative pressure dressing broke down, and the procedure was discontinued.
He was then worked up for wound cover and had a delayed distally based posterior calf fasciocutaneous flap which was transposed and partly inset 1 week later [Figures 4]. Split skin graft was used to cover the secondary defect. Two weeks postoperatively, the tip of the flap was split and inset astride the external fixator pins on the exposed bone. Wounds healed after few weeks of dressing and external fixator was removed. He was discharged with above-knee plaster of paris and nonweight bearing crutches after about 6 months of admission. He was followed up for more than 1 year [Figures 5], can bear weight with the limb and is satisfied with the outcome.
Mangled extremity has been variously defined as a limb with an injury to at least three out of four systems (soft tissue, bone, nerves, and vessels), a complex fracture with additional involvement of at least two of the following: artery, tendon, nerve, or soft tissue (skin, fat, and muscle) or an injury to an extremity so severe that the viability of the limb is often questionable, and the loss of the limb is a likely outcome., Our patient's injuries fit into the last two. The decision to amputate or salvage the limb is not usually an easy one. Although amputation may be a nightmare for the patient, limb salvage may entail prolonged hospital stay, multiple surgeries, or nonfunctional limb, and failed attempt to salvage the limb might result in increased morbidity or mortality. Numerous lower extremity injury severity scoring systems have been developed to assist surgeons in deciding whether to amputate or perform limb salvage. These scoring systems have not been shown to be good predictors of limb amputation or salvage.,, The decision to amputate or salvage has to rely on the experience of the surgical team and available facilities.
With advances in trauma care and reconstructive techniques such as free flaps, limbs that would have been amputated are now being salvaged., However, in environment with limited resources such as ours, attempts at salvage still pose a significant challenge. This is compounded by the preference by a good number of our people to patronize traditional bone setters., This often predisposes to infection which jeopardizes efforts at salvage. Our patient was first presented to a traditional bone setter as it is the usual practice in this environment. He was, however, advised to be taken to the hospital for amputation which is in line with an erroneous belief that injured limbs that present to hospitals are amputated. Fear of amputation has been documented as one of the reasons why traditional bonesetters are being patronized.
Our patient had Anderson type IIIB open tibial fracture with extensive soft tissue loss of two-third of the circumference to the leg including the muscle and tendons of the anterior compartment. This degree of injury required free flap reconstruction. However, free flap reconstruction requires microvascular expertise and facilities, availability of viable recipient vessel, and has potentials for prolonged surgery and possible failure., Cross-leg flap is another option, but its use can be limited by the incidence of necrosis, difficulty of immobilizing the both legs for 2 to 3 weeks, joint stiffness, chances of thromboembolism, and concern about donor site cosmetic deformity. Besides, with a large defect in our patient, cross-leg flap would not have been able to provide cover without exposing vital structures in the normal limb.
In the initial management of the patient, we chose the locally modified negative pressure wound therapy (NPWT) which has been shown to be as effective as patented ones but cheaper. NPWT is known to prevent wound infection, protect exposed bone from dessication, and promote granulation tissue formation., Although there were challenges such as frequent power outage and breakdown of the suction machine, we still had marked improvement in the wound. Definitive cover was provided with a delayed distally based posterior calf flap. This flap was originally described as a two-stage procedure without delay involving raising the flap and its division to cover ankle defect in a setting of complete soft tissue envelop in the leg. Its use in a setting of extensive soft tissue loss as in our patient (distal one-half and anterior two-third) has not been described as it is a precarious flap in such setting. However, we did not have more viable options, and we had to use delay technique to improve the chances of flap survival. The limb was salvaged, and patient is satisfied with the outcome as he ambulates without much limitation.
This case demonstrates that limb salvage is feasible even amidst adverse working conditions. Efforts to salvage can be rewarding and should be pursued where possible.
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Gill NA, Hameed A, Sajjad Y, Ahmad Z, Rafique Mirza MA. "Homemade" negative pressure wound therapy: Treatment of complex wounds under challenging conditions. Wounds 2011;23:84-92.
Aderibigbe SA, Agaja SR, Bamidele JO. Determinants of utilization of traditional bone setters in Ilorin, North Central Nigeria. J Prev Med Hyg 2013;54:35-40.
Joseph Sina O, Taiwo OC, Michael Ayodele I. Traditional bone-setters and fracture care in Nigeria. Merit Res J Art Soc Sci Humanit 2014;2:074-80.
Prasarn ML, Helfet DL, Kloen P. Management of the mangled extremity. Strategies Trauma Limb Reconstr 2012;7:57-66.
Sinclair SK, Kubaik EN. Principles of mangled extremity management. In: Toretta P, Court-Brown C, Heckman JD, McKee M, McQueen MM, Ricci W, et al., editors. Rockwood, Green and Wilkins fractures in adults and children. 8th ed. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer Health Adis (ESP); 2014. pp 429-48.
Ly TV, Travison TG, Castillo RC, Bosse MJ, MacKenzie EJ. Ability of lower-extremity injury severity scores to predict functional outcome after limb salvage. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2008;90:1738-43.
Schirò GR, Sessa S, Piccioli A, Maccauro G. Primary amputation vs limb salvage in mangled extremity: A systematic review of the current scoring system. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 2015;16:372.
Agarwal P, Raza HTK. Cross-leg flap: Its role in limb salvage. Indian J Orthop 2008;42:439-43.
Isiguzo CM, Ogbonnaya IS, Uduezue A. Modification of negative pressure wound therapy in the economically constrained region; a preliminary report. Niger J Plast Surg 2012;8:39-43.
Le Nen D, Hu W, Lefevre C. Posterior calf fasciocutaneous flap with distal pedicle to reconstruct ankle defects. In: Strauch B, Vasconez LO, Hall-Findaly EJ, editors. Grabb's encyclopedia of flaps (3 vols). 2nd ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott-Raven 1998. pp 1875-7.


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Cuatrillo (capital: Ꜭ, small: ꜭ) (Spanish for "little four") is a letter of several colonial Mayan alphabets in the Latin script that is based on the digit 4. It was invented by a Franciscan friar, Alonso de la Parra, in the 16th century to represent the velar ejective consonant  found in Mayan languages, and is known as one of the Parra letters.

A derivative of the cuatrillo by adding a diacritic, , was used for the alveolar ejective affricate  found in the same languages.

The cuatrillo is encoded in Unicode at the code points  and , respectively. The cuatrillo-commas are at  and .

As an example of use, the letter appears when spelling the name of the K'iche' language in the Parra orthography: .

See also
Tresillo

References

External links
Cuatrillo and Tresillo in Recent Linguistic Publications
N3028: Proposal to add Mayanist Latin letters to the UCS

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In our main site version, due out late August (which has now slipped to mid-October), there will be menu items for additional information about a specific artist such as their Biography, their personal statement about their work, their CV, Exhibit experience and more. For now, I'd like to include some background on the several artists that won both the vote count and jury portion of our South of France Art Competition. We have collected several writings and we will continue to add to this list over time. A consideration in interpretation is that many of the myartspace artists are from countries all over the world and have used translation techniques from their own language into English, some of these translations may be slightly less optimal than said in their own "tongue" however, we have represented them as best possible under these circumstances. Thank you for your understanding.
JURY WINNERS:
BEST IN COMPETITION:
ILONA NIEMI, Piikkio, Finland:
Ilona Niemi is a visual artist from Finland (b. 1975). Her works are psychological portraits inspired by the disappearance of the artist's childhood friend, Piia, in 1988. Using traditional oil painting techniques, Niemi depicts faces of young women from her hometown in Finland, and surrounds them with candy-colors and rounded shapes. In contrast to the paintings' initial impact of sweetness, her visual sources are morbid: the biomorphic shapes are based on diatoms found in the bodies of drowning victims, and the colors are often abstracted from autopsy photographs. The resulting works are reminiscent of childhood play but with a grown up, psychological twist – hiding the sinister under a sugary coating. Niemi has exhibited actively, and her work has been shown in the National Portrait Gallery in London, as well as in numerous group shows in Britain, Finland, Norway, France, Japan and the US. She has had solo shows in New York, Chicago, Scotland, and Finland. During her artistic career, Niemi has won various awards, such as the Royal Scottish Academy Painting Prize, and John Kinross Scholarship for a three-month residency in Florence.
MICKE TONG, San Francisco, California:
"Micke's art is his way of assimilating into humanity, discovery of the self and manipulating wondrous historical events to make his statement. Much of his work re-interprets life and does so through unusual use of color, shape and transparency. Although the bulk of his art has been in the digital realm, Micke carried his fascination with the unique and unusual into a wide range of multi-media artwork including video, performance and art installations. "
TOP ARTIST AND PHOTOGRAPHER WINNERS FOR VOTE COUNT:
SUE COOK, Oxfordshire, U.K.:
To explain my painting career you have to go back to World War I really and to my Welsh grandfather. He had dreamed of being an artist and had an exceptional talent. He drew and painted constantly and I think hoped it would mean earning a living above ground. In those days nearly all the boys were destined to work down the mine.The War started and like so many in his village, he signed up at 17 and was sent to France. He did a fantastic self portrait of himself as a gladiator to pass the time on the boat.
In France, he was badly injured and sent to a remote hospital but my great grandmother got a telegram saying he was dead. In her grief she destroyed all his paintings and drawings. He returned eventually and refused to ever paint or draw again. This sketch is all that remains of his work. Years later, as me and my sister were growing up, he would spend hours instructing us on how to draw and paint - but would never do it himself. When I was a teenager he finally told me why he never drew again - he said that he had seen such horrors in the trenches it was all he could see whenever he lifted a pencil and it just overwhelmed him so much it was easier not to draw at all. Very tragic I think. But he did tell me shortly before he died about 10 years ago, that I should always follow a dream and to keep drawing.
So I did. I had done all the 'science' subjects at school (as my parents wished) and gone to University to get a degree in Microbiology. I had a series of jobs all science related...the latest being to train as a science teacher. I got my teaching certificate when I was 7 months pregnant with my second child. It was then I decided it was time I started living my life the way I wanted to. So, I went and bought myself a set of acrylics and a canvas in November 2004 and started painting in my kitchen when the kids had gone to bed (they are 6 and 2). And I haven't stopped since.
To begin with they were paintings for around the house, and gifts for friends and relatives. People said I should sell them. So I made bet with myself - if I could sell a painting on ebay I would build a website and have a go at marketing myself.
Well the painting sold to an MD of a New York Ad agency and it cost as much as the canvas to send it to New York!! More orders came in and the kitchen was beginning to look more like a studio....it was becoming a right pain to have to clear away all my stuff (and put it out of reach of the kids) for every mealtime. On one disastrous occasion, Maddy (my 2 year-old daughter) got hold of a biro and added her own scribbles to a painting I was about to finish. I had a few choice words to say that day. You can imagine it felt like the professional equivalent of saying the dog ate my homework when I tried to explain to my client that there would be a bit of a longer wait for her canvas!
Well the orders keep coming, and I have been incredibly fortunate to have sold enough work to pay for converting part of the garage into a studio. And I couldn't be happier - I am so lucky to be able to paint and be at home for the kids, I couldn't ever consider going back to working in a lab or office ever again....I finally have my own little bit of art space to work in - I think my grandad would be proud.
SCOTT TALLEY, Lockhart, Texas:
I am from Lockhart Texas and recently graduated from Texas State Technical College where I received my degree in Digital Media Design. I recently discovered my purpose in life and plan to devote all my time to photography and selling my posters. I would describe myself as easy going, creative, driven, and adventurous. I don't really see my photography as art but more so as a way to capture how I view the world around me.
RUNNERS UP, JOINT SECOND PLACE:
LARZ ELDBAGE, Sigtuna, Sweeden:
I live for 3 important things:
1. PEACE - need forgiveness
2. FREEDOM - need responsibility
3. LOVE - need understanding
RACHEL PAPO:
"The life of eighteen-year-old girl in Israel is interrupted when she is plucked out of her environment at an age when sexual, educational, and family values are at their highest exploration point. She is then placed in a rigorous institution, where individuality becomes a secondary matter, making room for nationalism.
My project is an exploration of the mandatory military service of Israeli female soldiers based on my own experience in the Israel Defense Forces between the years 1988-1990. My photographs disclose a complexity of emotions with an emphasis on melancholy. The soldier is often caught in a moment of self-reflection, uncertainty, a break from her daily reality, as if questioning her own identity. With this project I wish to seek answers to matters that were left unresolved, and to shed some light on this defining moment in the lives of Israeli women."
MICHAEL BERKOWITZ, Brooklyn, New York:
I've been taking photos almost all my life. I took my first lessons with Alfred Eisenstadt, a family friend, when I was 15 -- however until fairly recently, it was painting, sculpting and performance pieces that spoke to me as an artist.
My work had always revolved around religious themes, and I have had a fair amount of renown in that field. (The work I did immediately prior to photography is in the permanent collection of The Jewish Museum, The Yeshiva University Museum and The Hebrew Union College.) About 4 ½ years ago, I picked up a book by Taschen, entitled, "Early Erotic Photography," nude photographs from the 1800's. I was so taken by the images that I purchased a large format camera, built a set in my studio, hired a model and took some photos. I was so pleased with the results, and the reaction of others to the images was so swift and strongly positive, I became hooked on photography. It felt as if I was doing exactly what I was meant to do. I have never looked back. In 2005, my first book of photographs, Erotic Flashback was published internationally by Goliath Books. I am currently working on a second book.
At first, my sole intention was to enjoy myself simply by creating a beautiful image. Once I had a handful of photos, I created a website. Within a few months, women from all over the world were discovering my site and offering to pose for me, without pay -- in exchange for prints. Women came from as far as Iceland and Italy to work with me.
Seeing how powerful the models desire to expose and exhibit themselves made the process more complex and compelling. Time and again, the women expressed gratitude for the opportunity and explained how liberating and empowering it felt to pose nude.
Recently, I've been combining some of my experience and skills from my days in sculpture and performance with my photography. I've begun creating elaborate costumes and jewelry for each model. Most of the models love the dress-up aspect of my work. It connects with their early experience and helps them feel comfortable in exposing themselves. I want to push this aspect of my work even further.
Throughout my entire career as an artist, I have always asserted that it is always through our bodies that we experience the world; and that experience profoundly shapes how we perceive and process our experience. Eroticism is one our most powerful and profound visceral experiences and certainly deserves a serious investigation in fine art. It is this aspect of erotic art which I am pursuing.
My models come from all walks of life, range in age from 18 to 50, and are all shapes and sizes. They are students, housewives, business women, archeologists, psychologists, teachers, composers, artists, even two physicists. They all share a desire to explore their sexual identity, look at that image face to face, and in turn show it to the world.
RUNNERS UP, JOINT THIRD PLACE:
YOLANDA ROSA, Mexico:
JASON MICHAEL AUMANN, San Francisco, California:
"My name is Jason Michael Aumann. I am a fine artist attracted to the idea of creating sensual, subtle, thought provoking images. My works assert an emphasis on color, composition and the human figure. Most are usually quite involved, both with their construction and meaning. I aim to create art that engages the viewer beyond aesthetical interests or a momentary glance. Time & the epiphenomal, symbolism & narrative, emotions & the human condition are all reoccurring themes used in my visual vocabulary. Formed together, they build a distinctive dialogue that encourages the viewer to take possession of their own interpretation."
MARINE PENVERN, Paris, France:
I am interested in myself as a human being in relation to the environment.I explore my own life through the self portrait, sort of a quest to my self.It is both to know and enjoy all the pleasures of my own self.Those paintings came to me when I had no subject at all and couldn't think of one. It first started on a cold day of winder. The heat was off in my apt, and so I made a piece of clothing with a hood to keep me warm. As I was staring at a blank canvas, my own shadow appeared. The shape of it seemed interesting enough to paint it. Later I picked up a plaster mask of my face that I made a while ago and held it in front of it. The painting then came together in a very magical way. It was meant to be.The other shadow paintings then came along as an exercise of style.
SUZETTE TROCHE, Santa Clarita, California:
Artists Statement People, places, thing; all shot in super-terrific, Hi-Fi color, in unexpected and exciting new ways. The happy, glittery toes of yours truly must visually satisfy the insatiable appetite of the viewing public. Let me take you over the rainbow to my little Hollywood- where I tun pixels into frozen films. Enthusiastic, excited patrons are banging their spoon on the nice china asking "is it soup yet?"..My fancy image casserole is pipin' hot and ready to be served to the most discerning gourmand.
SHORT LISTED:
CRAIG GORDON:
JENNIFER CHU:
JULIANNE INGLES, Chicago, Illinois:
My series called The People & Co. is inspired by an image of a pre-dynastic bird deity – a simple figure carved from stone with a small head, small cone-like breasts, the legs of a mermaid, and arms that are raised above its head, curling backward. The image struck a note with me and I painted it. The canvases began with a single goddess-like figure. Later she was joined by other figures. Quietly, they revealed themselves as the characters in my life. I called them The People.
My paintings raise questions and reveal themes such as healing, death and celebration. These questions and themes are not always apparent when I begin a painting. Abstract thoughts and emotions seem to float around the studio and I try to gather them up and put them on the canvas. Gradually they become concrete, but when I look at a completed painting it is as if I am remembering a dream.
Arts writer Robert Kameczura summarized my work nicely in part of an essay he wrote:
"The worlds in Ms. Ingles' paintings belong to her figures, which symbolize some of the deeper aspects of our nature, ranging from benevolent to tragic. Ms. Ingles' work is that of a compassionate person with a deep interest in using forms, color and paint textures to conjure metaphors about life and a sense of atmospheric places. These places are part domestic and friendly, part distant and otherworldly. They have a distinct sunlit aura but this luminosity is sometimes troubled by shadows and darkness. There are dichotomies: between light and dark, between figures and other figures, between figures and the places they inhabit. But through these dichotomies Ms. Ingles' work asks us thoughtful questions. What is our relationship with our fellow humans? What is our relationship with ourselves? What is our relationship with the landscape we live in? What gives beauty or a haunting aspect to a place? What is the nature of the world we live in?"
ZACHAR VAKS, Tashkent, Uzbekistan:
Hard Uncomfortable hand human ties to beast instinct within. I am underscoring insecurity of my narcissism. So confident cliché fearing . Rhyme is comfort for the narrative yearning folk culture lack. WIsh writing was more fluid. Art Definitions Red Meat addiction is pulsating as the most potent honesty. Lies through all curative aesthetic absorbent of all comments to critique the self is to hard to be the hardest. pass the coolness 3axap water. I will create masterpieces, if only persisting. Roots may shift. Deleting edit self forming process to aim for acknowledgment. Man potential rejections collective successful cross out, the fake 2n guess ? marking I veins will grow as a painter Human. Dreamalities conduct. Don't want to wake mother, sister ,grandmother. I miss my passed grandfather. I love him.
Obviously...TOO OBVIOUS syndrome how to go past.I will sleep...I must be brutally honest in my painting How I want to activate Magic and expose all my queries, insecurities,dilemmas. Magic fuses visual language with senses of nose, ears, sex Honesty, help Honesty for me.
Yet I want people to see. I love love one liner barriers. Just help pass lazy, lethargy pity and go towards organization , Discipline, strength, Honest Good strong heart. I will. Confidence.
JORIS VAN DAELE, London, U.K.:
My work is about the natural beauty and sexuality that is innate in women and men who are, in most usual circumstances, considered ordinary. I seek out each subject's best view, and explore and discover new ways of seeing while preserving his or her individuality. It's a message about all humanity and the beauty within.All art is built on a footing of prior work. My greatest technical teacher was Ansel Adams, as Ruth Bernhard and Man Ray taught me honesty of vision with the figure. My work is built on their foundations and inspiration...I first experimented with the Internet in 1996, to bring my work to a larger audience than the few galleries in New York and Los Angeles that were carrying my work. I was pleased by the large and extremely positive response that resulted, and created the on-line Bare Naked Gallery in 1998 to exhibit and market my work. The web site has helped me meet interesting subjects and clients, and has been a successful way of selling my work. My studio is located in London, Ontario Canada.
TADASHI TERADA, Japan:
*My Policy
The foundation is Wabi-sabi in Japanese arts.
It is the thing of Nature and assembles.
It treats preciously. The material itself.
They have a dialog. Like a -- YODA of Star Wars -- It is the cause of "FORCE". The meaning is "Ki(mind-power)" of Japan.
It's my treasure.
*This actual theme
'Blessing of forest in the last autumn.'
My art is gleaned in the forest of autumn. It was discovered with my dog:-) When the creation was started,it was completed with surprising swiftness.
The material having interesting shape stirs up the creative impulse.
It doesn't end infinitely.
VOTE COUNT WINNER
RUNNER UP, SECOND PLACE:
GABRIELA CALLEJA, Chile:
"I am Gabriela Calleja, born in Chile, in the year 1977, I currently live in New York. I have inherited from my family the love for art and the love for nature. At the beginning of my artistic career, I unconscientiously fusioned these two loves of mine, and the result are my paintings, which fill me with joy and life. For this reason a short time ago I decided to show my work (which had been appreciated by only friends and family until this time), and try to deliver small instances of joy to the world, instances that are truly necessary in times that we are living. My current battle is to continue on my journey throughout the world turning sad walls in to happy walls that are filled with life.
HANS OHMAN:
My art is intuitive symbolism. Intuitive symbolism is more about what I do in my daily life than what I create. The art I create is my souls reaction to what I do in my daily life.
It is expressed in my poem Because:
Neither birds or men can live beneath the ocean.
Neither fish or men can fly above.
Neither birds or fish can dream my wonders.
So I fly my dream and dive into the ocean of love.
Just because I can.
CORRIGAN CLAY, Coos Bay, Oregon
Corrigan Clay is a photographer, digital artist, and oil painter whose work often combines each of these mediums in various ways. His subject matter are often philosophical or spiritual in nature. His oil paintings focus on the landscape as a narrative, idea-laden artform while his photography uses echoing natural images to accent the implications of a larger philosophical idea. Most of his photography is composited with photoshop to add age, incorporate design elements, and strengthen composition.
One of Clay's driving artistic principles is to avoid "Artonomy". Artonomy has two meanings, one is the disection of art into its elements in order to celebrate independant elements as art. Corrigan feels that this dissection is a modern emphasis based on enlightenment influences from the sciences, and that while it has produced exquisite art, it has also sacrificed art's ability to useall of its elements to communicate ideas effectively. "While art will always be subjective to the viewer," says Clay "the artist can draw some boundaries on their viewer's experience and communicate through story, atmosphere,color, and composition. Art is powerful psychologically, and to reduce it to 'pretty colors' or 'bold lines' is to rob it of that power".
Artonomy is also the false idea that the artist is a solitary well of creativity that ought to be brooding and famous. Clay states this distaste for artistic autonomy, saying, "As an artist, I don't want to dissect my art into its various organs, nor do I want to be divided from those I wish to speak to through my art. I don't want to be famous and misunderstood, but to speak clearly and compassionately to the audience my art might find, no matter how broad that community might be."
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Winners for the myartspace "South of France" Competition
The first annual myartspace "South of France" competition concluded on July 14th, 2006. Winners of the competition were selected by two methods – popular vote and jury vote. Two top-winners were selected from each.
The jurors have selected the following winners:
Ilona Niemi from Piikkio, Finland
Micke Tong from San Francisco, California Runners Up,
joint second place:
Larz Eldbage from Sigtuna, Sweden
Rachel Papo
Michael Berkowitz from Brooklyn, New York
Yolanda Rosa from Mexico
Jason Michael Aumann from San Francisco, CA
Marine Penvern from Paris, France
Suzette Troche from Santa Clarita, California
Craig Gordon
Jennifer Chu from Chicago, Illinois
Julianne Ingles from Chicago, Illinois
Zachar Vaks from Tashkent, Uzbekistan
Joris Van Daele from London, United Kingdom
Tadashi Terada from Japan
The winners of the popularity vote were as follows:
Sue Cook, Painting, from Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
Scott Talley, Photography from Lockhart, Texas
Gabriela Calleja, Artist, from Chile
Runner Up, joint third place:
Hans Ohman, Artist
Corrigan Clay, Photographer, from Coos Bay, Oregon
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The MyArtSpace South of France Competition Jury
The MyArtSpace South of France Competition jury consists of three highly qualified members of the art community:
- James Cavello, President and co-owner of the Westwood Gallery
- Jaye Adams, Independent artist member of the National Arts Club
- Christian Benedetto Jr, CEO, Poet and Fine Art Collector.
James Cavello is President and co-owner of Westwood Gallery located in SoHo, New York. He established the gallery in 1994 and also owns the affiliated company, Corporate Art Associates, Ltd., founded in 1986. He is a well-known curator, art consultant, patron and active member of the arts community. In addition to exhibiting Contemporary paintings, photography, sculpture and video, Mr. Cavello brokers secondary market artwork from 19th century Impressionism to 20th Century Pop art. Previous purchases or sales include works of art by Renoir, Picasso, Leger, Lempicka, Modigliani, Warhol, Haring, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg and many other master artists.
Westwood Gallery focuses on emerging or established artists and brings an audience of collectors and appreciators to view exhibitions of artists' work. The gallery has received media coverage from The New York Times, ArtNews, Art in America, NBC Today Show and many other media, both local and international. Mr. Cavello has also created award-winning Contemporary exhibitions in the U.S. and abroad, including receiving the Medal of Excellence from the French government for an exhibition at the Van Gogh museum in Auver-Sur-Oise. His corporate art firm creates site-specific art, working with international architects and designers.
Further creative endeavors include the production of a short film on the work of an artist from Europe and several publications in reference to the life and work of selected artists. In addition, Mr. Cavello is working on museum exhibitions planned in the United States and several countries, including Japan, U.K. and Germany. He has served as a Governor on the board of The National Arts Club and also serves on the board of several non-profit New York organizations, including the Worldwide Children's Foundation of New York. He was recently awarded by Edwin Gould Services for Children and Families, a children's agency in New York City for his dedication to helping non-profits through the arts.
To review the Curriculum Vitae for James Cavello click here.
Jaye Julia Adams is a fine artists who resides in Brooklyn, New York. Ms Adams received both classical and modern art instruction in a wide variety of painting mediums. She studied at the Museum School in Boston with Don Stone and the New York Arts Student League with Robert Brackman and Everett Raymond Kinstler. Ms Adams also studied mural and movie techniques with Lester Polokov. Ms Adams has been featured in a number of solo exhibitions including:
- the Beyond Decor Gallery in Palm Beach (2005),
- the National Arts Club in New York City (1990, 1993, 2002, 2005),
- the Peel Gallery in Vermont (1992, 1994, 1996),
- the Red Mill Gallery in Vermont (1995),
- the Brownstone Gallery in Brooklyn New York (1991, 1993),
- the Alliance Francaise in Sri Lanka (1991),
- the Agnes Stacke Gallery in France (1987).
In addition to her solo exhibits, she has participated in a number of Group Exhibitions including:
- the Westwood Gallery in New York (2006),
- Armory Invitational in West Palm Beach (2005),
- the Westport Art Center (2005),
- the Garden Gallery on Dean in Brooklyn (2003, 2004),
- the Pacific Studios in Brooklyn (2002),
- National Academy of Design in New York (1992).
Commercially, Ms Adams has been involved in art projects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, ABC News and the World Art Exhibition in Dachau, Germany in 1997. Ms. Adams combines professional, traditional painting discipline with modern themes in art. She is an active member of myartspace.com and has a portfolio on-line.
To review the Curriculum Vitae for Jaye Adams click here.
Christian M Benedetto Jr is CEO of a well respected real estate and Insurance firm, with offices in Newark, NJ and across the United States. A former Marine and decorated combat veteran of the first gulf war, he holds degrees in Philosophy, Financial services, Management Information Systems and Finance. Mr. Benedetto is an avid art collector and has an extensive collection of works from emerging and established artists. Mr. Benedetto is also a prolific author of poetry. His Third book of poems "M - the missing letter poems" has been very well received. Christian lives in a loft in Newark NJ. His books are available on Amazon.com and at book stores everywhere.
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The upcoming direction of the website
CATHERINE'S RESPONSE AROUND A QUESTION ON THE COMPETITION AND DIRECTION OF THE SITE...
I want to address your concern as one that is shared by many others on www.myartspace.com. I think it is fair to say that even our Tech team is staggered by the numbers some contestants are pulling in. We are in a new era! We can see the stretch of the web and the creative techniques people can harness to build their network, is far beyond our wildest imaginations. We started myartspace site with a competition and it is hard to see all the many other things we will be offering Visual Artists until our next version is out, after the competition is over. We are really a free website for Artists/Photographers to put their work up, availing state of the art technology and communication capabilities, such as messaging and blogs, video, (so we can really start to build a network of significant friends and contacts). This version is due out after the competition ends, near the end of July. There will be personal stores available for each gallery member as well in the fall.
Myartspace will sponsor many other opportunities for artists/photographers to participate in, including juried shows. We hope you're happy with the uses our site can avail, to extend your art to others and build a network of appreciators.
See below a sample of what the new site will look like....
Understanding the Impact of Social Networking
Social networking is a powerful tool for building vast influence and power. This power will be exploited by a new generation of emerging artists to build their commercial success and reputation.
From Web 1.0 to Web 2.0
The Internet has evolved over the past 10 years. It began as a place where web surfing, email and online purchasing were the primary usage patterns. It is now shifting, in what is often referred to as "Web 2.0" as a vehicle for social networking. The bottom line – information travels very rapidly around the globe. The magnitude of the Internet, the speed in which information travels, and the potential response from tens or hundreds of thousands of socially-linked users is quite amazing to all and understood by few today.
Skype, an online Internet phone-service provider was acquired by eBay in 2005. At the time it was bought, Skype was adding 150,000 new subscribers per day. They had amassed almost 60 million users in 200+ countries in a matter of less than 2 years and for less than $20 million in spending.
YouTube today counts more than 9 million users. Daily users upload 35,000 videos and view 30 million each and every day! As Eric Kintz pointed out in his blog, In October 2005, Nike produced a pseudo home digital video of soccer star Ronaldinho, practicing while wearing his new Nike Gold shoes. The clip was downloaded 3.5 million times on YouTube and provided Nike with tremendous exposure to its core young male audience.
MySpace, a social networking site, grew from 6 million members to more than 80 million members in a matter of 18 months. The most popular myspace user, known as Tila Tequila has over 1 million friends she is linked to.
It is estimated that a new blog is created in the world every 7.4 seconds, which implies 12,000 new blogs per day. Over 400,000 posts are made to blogs every day, which translates to one every 4 seconds. And those reading blogs far outnumber those posting to them in most cases.
When myartspace published a press release about the competition on July 5th it was picked up and read by 26,000 within 6 hours.
Developing a social network is hard work that consumes time. It also has the potential to pay huge dividends and be a source of incredible leverage and support. Mostly simple math is at work in a social network. Let's say, for instance, that I have 50 friends that I email. In turn, they each mail 50 additional friends on average, who in turn do the same. My single email that was copied to 50 people is now in the hands of 125,000 people before lunch. While it's very unlikely that exact scenario would unfold, and undoubtedly many of those email would end up in the trash or spam folder, the point should be clear. Developed social networks are powerful.
MyArtSpace hopes to help people develop large and successful social networks so that they can have a large following of their art. Though there are only about 700 galleries online today on myartspace, these galleries have been viewed over 100,000 times in the past few weeks. It is our hope that an artist can upload their latest work on myartspace, have it viewed by tens of thousands of people over a matter of days or weeks, and if they wish, sell hundreds of print copies of that work, Myartspace strives to make that happen by helping develop the fastest growing online community for artists and photographers in the world.
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Some Links for myartspace
I wanted to post a few links that are handy to know.
For frequently asked questions about My Art Space:
http://www.myartspace.com/faq
For a video of some of the My Art Space art:
http://www.myartspace.com/demo
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In Business News this week: the Czech public debt reaches a new high; Czechs buy less food, clothes and home appliances; Albania is set to withdraw ČEZ's licence to operate in the country; up to 40 percent of retailers violate trade regulations during post-Christmas sales; and the popular Czech butter spread will undergo an EU-enforced name change by mid 2013.
Czech public debt reached new high last year
The Czech state debt in 2012 increased by around 10 percent to reach the total of 1.688 trillion crowns, or around 86.2 billion US dollars, the Finance Ministry said. The debt is expected to exceed 43 percent of the country's gross domestic product. Last year, the debt rose by 168 billion crowns; however, the Finance Ministry also increased its reserve for the financing of the debt by some 65 billion, mainly by issuing government bonds. The deficit of last year's state budget reached 101 billion crowns, or 3.1 percent of GDP, down from 143 billion in the previous year.
Czechs buy less food, home appliances
November's retail sales dropped by 1.8 percent, after a 2.2 percent surge registered in October, according to figures by the Czech Statistical Office released this week. The decrease is attributed mainly to lower sales of new cars and home appliances as well as retail sales of food, clothes and shoes, the statistical office said. New car sales stagnated over the whole of 2012, increasing by just 0.42 percent. Czechs increasingly bought cars with a lower fuel consumption and diesel engines. The share of new diesel cars sold reached 40 percent for the first time.
Albania to withdraw ČEZ's licence
Photo: Miloš Turek
Albanian authorities announced this week that by the end of the month, they would withdraw the licence from a daughter company of the Czech power producer ČEZ to operate in the country. The move is seen as retaliation for ČEZ's decision in November to cut electricity supplies to its non-paying Albanian customers, according to Moody's rating agency which also said the firm's exit from the country would cost around 5 billion dollars.
ČEZ acquired a majority stake in an Albanian power distribution company in 2009 but ran into problems last year when the Albanian regulator approved a 91% increase in electricity prices but didn't allow the company to pass through the increase to its customers. ČEZ CEO Daniel Beneš said the company would seek international arbitration against Albania over the lost investment while the Albanian government accused ČEZ of having incurred damages of one billion dollars.
Inspection: 40 percent of retailers violate trade regulations during post-Christmas sales
Up to 40 percent of Czech retailers violated trade regulations during their post-Christmas sales, the Czech Trade Inspection said. Inspectors carried out nearly 300 checks across the country to find that in many cases, retailers provided misleading information on the prices of the goods, and often misinformed customers of the real scope of the discounts. The highest proportion of trade violations – 73 percent -was discovered in the South Bohemian and Vysočina regions, the lowest – 23 percent – in the capital. The Czech Trade Inspection will continue to monitor retail sales until the end of the month.
Popular Czech butter spread to undergo EU-enforced name change by mid 2013
Photo: Eva Senetová
The popular Czech diary product, butter spread, will undergo an EU-enforced name change by the end of the year, the Czech Agriculture Ministry said this week. The EU's Court of Justice ruled in October the product cannot have the word butter in its name because it contains much less milk fat than required by EU legislation. The butter spread, known in Czech as pomazánkové máslo has been on the market for some 30 years. Producers will probably change the product's name to just pomazánkové, meaning spread, although some more inventive proposals have also appeared, including "you-know-what spread", "Barroso spread", or "diary product known as butter spread prior to EU bureaucrats' intervention".
Author: Jan Richter
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