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Color: Make It Relative
If you want to learn the "grammar" of color to avoid visual mistakes, just watch this wonderful video from Richard (Dick) Nelson, creator of the color matrix. Nelson, who studied with Josef Albers at Yale, used animation to build a 3D color wheel illustrating the dimensions of color relationships. The video is part of Nelson's Dimensions of Color series.
See more of Nelson's work here.
My thanks to Deborah Barlow at Slow Muse who introduced me to the great site Color Is Relative (lots to explore there). Also enjoy the interactive Same Same or Different site; it's equally engaging.
Josef and Anni Albers Foundation
Josef Albers at The Art Story
Josef Albers, Interaction of Color (Revised/Expanded Edition), Yale University Press, 2006
Richard Nelson Lessons (Dimensions of Color)
Richard Nelson's Dimensions of Color Blog
Labels: 3-D, color, color grammar, color master, color matrix, color wheel, complementary colors, Dick Nelson, Josef Albers, pigments, Richard Nelson, shades, tints, tones, video, visual language
Wednesday Wonder: Sound, Visualized
Maybe you've wondered what sound waves look like?
The video below shows you sound's geometric vibration patterns, called Chladni patterns, named for "Father of Acoustics" Ernst Chladni (1756-1827). Chladni published one of the first treatises on the science of sound. (A musician, he invented both the euphonium and the clavicylinder; a meterorite enthusiast, he was among the first to claim, correctly, that meteorites originated in outer space and, subject to earth's gravity, fell from the sky.)
Note: You might want or need to adjust the video's sound.
(My thanks to Open Culture, where I first saw this visualization.)
Chladni Plates: First Step Towards Visualizing Sound at Whipple Collections
Labels: acoustics, Chladni patterns, Ernst Chladni, Father of Acoustics, geometric patterns, sound visualization, sound waves
Color Theory (Poem)
You did not send white
roses; what innocence
protested you sore denied.
You did not send peach
roses, hope for the future
flagged. And no, you did
not send red roses. No
emblem of the heart you stole
with words could fix what
passion spent in petals picked.
Posted by Maureen at 6:30 AM 13 comments
Labels: color theory, colors, flower meaning, language of roses, love, poem, poetry, rose colors, roses, symbolism, writing
Memorial Day: 'Arlington'
The award-winning music video below, Arlington (Dream Wild Productions), seems especially fitting for today's Memorial Day observances. Released April 24, the music video was inspired by the story of Private First Class Michael Arciola, who died at age 20 in Al Ramadi, Iraq, on February 5, 2005. Bringing blood-red roses and a favorite childhood storybook, his mother, Teresa Arciola, drives hundreds of miles up to six times a year to visit her son's grave in Section 60 at Arlington National Cemetery.
The lyrics to the song "Arlington" were co-written by Lisa Nemzo and the late Artie Colatrella.
Donations raised through the video go to The Global Stress Initiative and The David Lynch Foundation's Operation Warrior Wellness, each of which serves veterans and active military members and their families.
ArlingtonTheFilm on FaceBook, Twitter, and Flickr
"A Military Mom Never Forgets", January 27, 2011 (Video with Pvt. Arciola's Mother)
"Arlington: Call to Honor", Smithsonian Channel Video
Dream Wild Records/Lisa Nemzo Music on FaceBook
Labels: Arlington National Cemetery, death, Global Stress Initiative, Iraq War, Lisa Nemzo, Memorial Day, Michael Arciola, military, military families, Operation Warrior Wellness, remembrance, Teresa Arciola
. . . If I defer the grief I will diminish the gift. . . .
~ Poet Eavan Boland, from "The Pomegranate"
Eavan Boland Profiles at Academy of American Poets, The Poetry Foundation, Stanford University
Eavan Boland reads "The Wife's Lament" at Poems Out Loud
Jeffrey Brown, "Conversation with Eavan Boland", PBS NewsHour, March 9, 2012
Poets Q&A with Eavan Boland at Smartish Pace
Labels: Eavan Boland, inspiration, poem, poetry, quote, The Pomegranate
Saturday Sharing (My Finds Are Yours)
The days are getting longer, giving you more time to explore in the light. Today's edition of Saturday Sharing shows off the original memoirs of Casanova, jazz album covers in the Smithsonian's Folklife archives, a new site that promises all things Gandhi, a place for every final sentence, a discussion list for those reference questions you haven't been able to answer, and The Reading Glove, which may or may not be self-explanatory.
✦ France's National Library, now the owner of the original manuscript of Casanova's Histoire de ma vie, has uploaded excerpts online. Click the cover image to explore the selected pages in the writer's own hand.
Tony Perrottet, "Who Was Casanova?" Smithsonian Magazine, April 2012
Smithsonian Magazine on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube
✦ Enjoy browsing these jazz album covers from the Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian. Some of those album titles might make good poetry prompts. The Duke Ellington Collection is another great resource for jazz fans.
✦ A new site GandhiMedia, from Berlin-based GhandiServe, features audio, more than 17,000 images, video, and close to 5,000 written documents in more than 50 categories relating to Mahatma Gandhi.
✦ If you're doing research online and can't find what you're looking for, try Project Wombat, a discussion list for difficult reference questions.
✦ If you've ever wondered how to end something you've written, perhaps The final sentence will be of help. The site is described as "[a]n evergrowing compilation of 'final sentences' from every literary work, if we could find them all, that has ever existed."
✦ You've heard about Google Glasses. But what about The Reading Glove? Can you imagine trying to combine the two?
Labels: Casanova, Duke Ellington, Gandhi, GandhiMedia, Histoire de ma vie, jazz album covers, literature, music, Project Wombat, research, science, Technology, the final sentence, The Reading Glove
✦ At Tracing Bosch & Bruegel: Four Paintings Magnified, be an art detective and explore how four paintings from the 16th Century use the same scene but look very different, and discover techniques and materials used to uncover the artists' narratives. There's much on the site to keep you absorbed.
Bosch & Bruegel on FaceBook and Twitter
✦ With financing from UBS, New York City's Guggenheim Museum launched last month the Guggenheim UBS Map Global Art Initiative. The museum deems the cross-cultural project "unprecedented".
Museum Press Release
Carol Vogel, "Guggenheim Project Challenges 'Western-Centric View'", The New York Times, April 11, 2012
✦ It takes people to create portraits. Check out Craig Allen's artworks, including the Statue of Liberty and Marilyn Monroe.
✦ If you're looking for an artist residency, grant, or fellowship and unsure where to start, take a look at this multi-part series (Part One, Part Two, Part Three) compiled by ArtInfo.
✦ Photographer Ian Ruhter's Silver & Light project, which involves shooting wet plate, is an exercise in creating beauty. (My thanks to OnBeing blog for the video link.)
SILVER & LIGHT from Ian Ruhter on Vimeo.
Ian Ruhter Photography on FaceBook, Twitter, and Tumblr
Ian Ruhter's The Enabled Project
World Wet Plate Day
✭ Kathleen Schneider sculptures are on view through June 17 at A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, New York. Schneider is a professor of art at University of Vermont, where she teaches sculpture and experimental drawing.
A.I.R. on FaceBook and Twitter
✭ In Reston, Virginia, Greater Reston Arts Center presents through June 9 "Play", featuring six regional artists who explore facets of play through sculpture, furniture, painting, fiber art, installation, and performance. The participating artists are Ed Bisese, Calder Brannock, Dickson Carroll, Jacqueline Levin, Marco Rando, and Ming-Yi Sung Zaleski.
GRACE on FaceBook and Twitter
GRACE Blog
✭ As part of its Currents 35 series, Milwaukee Art Museum is exhibiting through October 7 the work of New York-based sculptor Tara Donovan, who, through accumulation, "regenerates" Styrofoam, tar paper, straight pins, pencils, straws, buttons, plastic cups, electrical cable, and other common manufactured materials into fantastic biomorphic shapes. Donovan uses in each of her works a single material, which may be glued, stacked, folded, or otherwise manipulated into an installation that surprises and delights. Donovan was the recipient in 2008 of a MacArthur "Genius" Grant.
Tara Donovan, Untitled (Detail), 2008
Polyester Film; Dimensions Variable
© Tara Donovan Courtesy The Pace Gallery*
Photo Credit: Dennis Cowley
* Videos of Donovan's installation of mylar sheets, exhibited at Pace in 2011, can be found on YouTube and Vimeo.
Tara Donovan Profiles/Images at ACE, New York, and The Cool Hunter
Slideshow of Tara Donovan's Pin Drawings at Fast Co.
MAM on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube
✭ From June 8 to September 3, visitors to the St. Louis Art Museum will have the opportunity to watch a team of conservators restore a 348-foot-long painting, the Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi River, the sole surviving mural (c. 1850) depicting the landscape along the Mississippi. Go here for a brief history of the panorama and here for a selection of images.
SLAM on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube
✭ Fans of French surrealist Andre Masson will find much to like at "Andre Masson: The Mythology of Desire: Masterworks from 1925 to 1945", on view through June 5 at Blain | Di Donna in New York City. The exhibition of more than 30 paintings and works on paper is described by the gallery as "the largest and most comprehensive" in New York City since the Museum of Modern Art's 1976 retrospective.
Slideshow at ArtInfo
Andre Masson Profile and Images at MoMA
Notable Exhibitions Abroad
✭ If you are lucky enough to be in London this summer, spend an afternoon at the British Museum, which is showing, until September 2, "Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite", a remarkable series of 100 etchings created between 1930 and 1937. The exhibition marks the first time a complete set of the prints has been shown in a public institution in England. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Pablo Picasso, Young sculptor at work, 1933
Plate 46, Vollard Suite, Etching
© Succession Picasso/DACS, London 2011
Images at The Guardian
British Museum on Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube
"A Guide to Collecting Picasso's Prints: Chapter 6: A Survey of Picasso's Prints: 1930-1944, The Vollard Suite through Dora Maar"
Labels: 20th Century artists, Andre Masson, art, artists, Craig Allen, Ian Ruhter, Mississippi River Panorama, photography, Picasso, play, Tara Donovan, Vollard Suite, wet plate
Art21's 'Change'
Take 55 minutes to view this opening-season episode, "Change", from Art21. The show features Los Angeles-based documentary photographer Catherine Opie, Ghanaian-born "found-object" sculptor El Anatsui (once you've seen his gorgeous work, you don't forget it), and Ai Weiwei, arguably China's most famous artist and human rights activist. Those unfamiliar with these artists will be well-rewarded by these personal profiles.
Watch Trailer: Season 6, Art in the Twenty-First Century on PBS. See more from ART:21.
Catherine Opie at The Guggenheim
Catherine Opie at Art21
Holland Cotter, "A Midcareer Retrospective of Catherine Opie at the Guggenheim", The New York Times, September 25, 2008
El Anatsui at Art21
El Anatsui at Jack Shainman Gallery (Images)
El Anatsui at National Museum of African Art
"A Conversation with El Anatsui", ArtInfo, March 18, 2010
Ai Weiwei at Art21
"Ai Weiwei: The 2011 TIME 100"
Alison Klayman's Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
Art21 on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube
Labels: activism, Ai Weiwei, art, Art21, artists, Catherine Opie, change, El Anatsui, human rights, installation, photography, sculpture, social attitudes, society, video
Wednesday Wonder: Aurora Borealis
The aurora borealis is a wonder, truly, and, as captured here, in landscape photographer Ole C. Salomonsen's 2012 stop-motion film, Celestial Lights Viewed From Earth, it will leave you in awe.
Salomonsen, of Tromso, Norway, spent the months from September 2011 to April 2012 on a project that took him across Norway, Sweden, and Finland; in his quest to film the aurora borealis, Salomonsen shot some 150,000 exposures from which he selected approximately 6,000 frames for use in the video below. (Salomonsen plans to use other sequences for another project.) Using two to three cameras, he shot most of the sequences using circular fish-eye optics; his list of gear appears on his Vimeo page.
Norwegian composer Kai-Anders Ryan contributed the gorgeous music for Salomonsen's film.
Celestial Lights is the second of Salomonsen's video projects. The first time-lapse video, In the Land of the Northern Lights, may be viewed here.
Stunning still photos by Salomonsen may be seen on his Website and on Flickr.
Northern Lights Explained
Ole C. Salomonsen on FaceBook and YouTube
Kai-Anders Ryan on FaceBook
Audio Track for Celestial Lights on iTunes
Labels: astronomy, aurora borealis, auroras, celestial lights, film, Finland, Kai-Anders Ryan, Northern Lights, Norway, Ole C. Salomonsen, photography, Scandinavia, stop-motion video, sun, Sweden, video
Words Wouldn't Come (Poem)
Words Wouldn't Come
On reading a review of a Norton lecture
Think of arms, wrists, hands, fingers
erasing the dark to let in more light.
Then you can do something unforgiving
to dead words traveling the thick black lines
on paper: smudge everything with the hush
of the artist's gestures. The first sentence
without fire, without oxygen in its voice,
rendered in double negation, at odds with
the ornamented images you draw in calligraphy
to get at what is hidden, does not answer
the puzzle of what makes blossoms prized
objects, even when they balk, refusing to come
out. Inside every riddle is understanding:
we cannot pull the chest ache close enough
to experience escapes from gravity. Unfolding
the creation of a poem is an art form, revealing
disparate strands of days when the ink presents
itself, waiting for instruction, our own translation.
This is another example of a "found poem"; each word used is taken from this review of artist William Kentridge, Norton Lecturer this year at Harvard. Other "found poems" of mine can be read here and here.
For an explanation of "found poem", go here. Also see The Found Poetry Review, a quarterly that celebrate found poetry, centos, erasure poems, and other forms incorporating elements of existing texts.
Labels: creation, creative writing, creativity, found poetry, Found Poetry Review, inspiration, poem, poetry, text, writer's block, writing, writing process
Monday Muse: Minnesota's Poet Laureate
. . . I also think rules make it possible to break rules. . . .
~ Joyce Sutphen on Writing Sonnets*
Minnesota's second official Poet Laureate is Joyce Sutphen, who succeeded Robert Bly in 2011.
See my post on Bly, who served from February 2008 to August 2011, for details about the establishment and responsibilities of the honorary state position. In a news conference following announcement of her selection, Sutphen stated she hoped to arrange events that will bring together Minnesota's many poets who do readings, "who work in the schools, who put poems into the parks, into galleries, and on sidewalks and in film and on the radio."** Since her appointment, Sutphen has been involved in many poetry readings around the state.
Poetry makes the world real for me . . . In the end,
it isn't hard: When I sit down to write a poem,
one thing just leads to another.
~ Joyce Sutphen***
Called by poet Louis Jenkins "a true daughter of the Minnesota soil", Joyce Sutphen is the author of First Words: Poems (Red Dragonfly Press, 2010), Fourteen Sonnets (Letterpress Ed., Red Dragonfly Press, 2005), Naming the Stars (How Cow! Press, 2004), Straight Out of View (Holy Cow! Press, 2001; Beacon Press, 1995), and Coming Back to the Body (Holy Cow! Press, 2000). She is co-editor, with Connie Wanek and Thom Tammaro, of the anthology To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets from Pre-Territorial Days to the Present (New Rivers Press, 2006).
A writer in free verse and forms such as sonnets, Sutphen writes often on childhood and family, everyday rural life, home and place, relationships, poets and poetry, truth and beauty, and mortality (she says she is a fan of memento mori). Her work, Sutphen says, is informed not only by her deep study of Shakespeare but "everything else that I know and love: driving Highway 169 back and forth each day, listening to Bob Dylan, memorizing poems by Emily Dickinson and Yeats, listening to the news, reading poems by my contemporaries, or watching a Little League baseball game."****
Among often-mentioned qualities of Sutphen's poetry are her wit, lyricism, use of metaphor, sensitivity to meter and rhythm, and clarity of vision achieved with largely unadorned and accessible language. Her voice can range from the elegaic to the celebratory, from solemn to joyful. Her imagery gets its strength from the many details she employs to create a particular scene or mood or to share with us a particular memory, as these lines from several of Sutphen's poems show:
[. . .] I thought about the way we'd aged,
how skin fell into wrinkles, how eyes grew
dim; then (of course) my love, I thought of you.
~ from "At the Moment"
[. . .] sometimes you woke because you thought
you heard a cry but they were all sleeping,
so you stood in the moonlight just listening
to their breathing, and you didn't mention
that you were an expert at putting toothpaste
on tiny toothbrushes and bending down to wiggle
the toothbrush ten times on each tooth while
you sang the words to songs from Annie, [. . .]
~ from "Things You Didn't Put on Your Resume"
[. . .] The apples, coming off the peeler,
Are winding staircases, little accordians,
slinky toys, jack-in-the-box fruit, until
my grandmother's paring knife goes slicing
through the rings [. . . .]
~ from "Apple Season"
The image that haunts me is not beautiful.
I do not think it will open into a field
of wildflowers; [. . .]
[. . .] it takes off its clothes and crawls
between the top and bottom sheet. [. . .]
~ from "In Black"
Sutphen has published poems in American Poetry Review, Atlanta Review, The Atlantic Monthly, Poetry, Minnesota Monthly, North Dakota Review, Poetry, Shenandoah, The Virginia Quarterly Review, The Writer's Almanac, and numerous other literary periodicals.
The recipient of a Barnard New Women's Poets Prize (for her debut collection Straight Out of View) and a Minnesota Book Award in Poetry (for Naming the Stars), Sutphen also has been awarded a Jane Kenyon Poetry Prize and a Willow Poetry Prize. The poet was a Witter Bynner Fellow of the Library of Congress in 2006 and George Morrison Artist of the Year in 2009. In addition, she won the 2010 What Light competition for her poem "Polygamy".
Sutphen teaches courses in British literature and creative writing at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minnesota.
Photo Credit: Poetry Foundation
All Poetry Quotations © Joyce Sutphen
* Quoted from Connie Wanek, "In the Country for Poets", Minnesota Artists, August 25, 2011
** Quoted from Tim Pugmire, "Joyce Sutphen Named Minnesota Poet Laureate", MPRNews, August 23, 2011.
*** Quoted from Brian Ojanpa, "GAC Professor JoyceSutphen Has Been Named Minnesota's New Poet Laureate", The Free Press, August 23, 2011
**** Quoted from Holly Vanderhaar, "Joyce Sutphen", The Writer's Almanac Bookshelf
Press Release, "Governor Dayton Names Joyce Sutphen as Poet Laureate", Office of the Governor, August 23, 2011 (Poet's Biography [pdf])
Joyce Sutphen Profiles at Gustavus Adolphus College, Library of Congress, Minnesota Artists, The Poetry Foundation, Red Dragonfly Press
Joyce Sutphen's Poetry Online: "Crossroads" at Academy of American Poets (Poets.org); "From the 6th Floor" at The Cortland Review; "A Bird in County Clare", "A Kind of Villanelle", "All Reason and No Rhyme", "At the Moment", and "Casino", All at The Poetry Foundation (Others Listed); "Grounded", "The Wordsworth Effect", and 26 Other Poems at The Writer's Almanac; "Tornado Warning", "The Bob Dylan Dream", "Death Becomes Me", and "At the Moment", All at Minnesota Artists; "At the Cardiologist's", "Death Inc.", and "Harrow", All for the What Light Poetry Project, at Minnesota Artists; "How to Listen" and "Just for the Record", Both at Joyce Sutphen Website; "Harrow", "Homesteading", "Into Thin Air", "Living in the Body", "My Brother's Hat", "The Problem Was", "To Take Her Home", and "What to Pack", Audio, All at The Knox Writer's House; "Seeing, Up Close Again" at Caffeine Destiny; "The Aunts" and "The Exam", Both at American Life in Poetry; "Living in the Body" at Yahoo! Voices; "At the Moment" at Altered Faces; "Secret Agent Man" at Bossy Betty; "Things You Didn't Put on Your Resume"; "The Book of Hours" and "November, 1967", Both at Your Daily Poem; "Silo Solo" at dvsjr.com; "From Out the Cave"; "Apple Season" at Images for Renewal; "Guys Like That" at Poetry Dispatch; "As Time Always Does" at Alehouse Journal; "Bookmobile" at another eye opens; "Naming the Stars" at American Poems; "Ever After" (scroll to end); "The Aunts" at The Learning Network/Poetry Pairing, The New York Times; "From Out the Cave" at 37days blog; "The Nereids" at Whistling Shade; "Crossroads" and "Naming the Stars", Both at Best Poems Encyclopedia
Drew Kerr, "Joyce Sutphen: Minnesota's Poetry Promoter", Twin Cities Metro
"Minnesota's New Poet Laureate Joyce Sutphen on 'Luxuriating in Language'", WTIP Radio Interview, September 23, 2011
"Minnesota's New Poet Laureate Ponders Next Move", StarTribune, August 26, 2011
Podcast with Joyce Sutphen at Podcast.com, KMSU, December 30, 2010
Joyce Sutphen on FaceBook
First Words Book Review at Verse Wisconsin Online
Straight Out of View Book Review at Eclectica
Holy Cow! Press
League of Minnesota Poets
Red Dragonfly Press
Labels: Joyce Sutphen, Minnesota, Minnesota Poet Laureate, poems, poet, poetry, poetry awards
. . . When a poem can lead you into an unfamiliar place,
where what you must do is watch and listen closely,
think and associate quickly, and find your footing from scratch,
it is imparting a set of skills that are yours to keep. . . .*
~ Tracy K. Smith, Poet
* Quoted from "The Wisdom of Clouds: Why Poetry Is Essential to Democracy', SpeakEasy, The Wall Street Journal, April 7, 2012
Tracy K. Smith, Poet, Assistant Professor of Creative Writing, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University; Winner, 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry, 2008 Essence Literary Award, 2005 Whiting Award, 2004 Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award, 2002 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, James Laughlin Award; Recipient, Wallace Stegner Fellowship and Breadloaf Writer's Conference Fellowship
Profiles at Academy of American Poets, Graywolf Press, PBS NewsHour, PEN American Center, Princeton University's Lewis Center, and Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative
Life on Mars (Graywolf Press, 2011), Duende: Poems (Graywolf Press, 2007), and The Body's Question (Graywolf Press, 2003)
"NewsPoet: Tracy K. Smith Writes the Day in Verse", All Things Considered, NPR, January 27, 2012
Jacques J. Rancourt, "An Interview with Tracy K. Smith", Devil's Lake, July 8, 2011
Tracy K. Smith on FaceBook
Labels: essay, poet, poetry, poetry awards, poetry books, Pulitzer Prize, Tracy K. Smith
Words, music, photographs, film, science, and recycling are at the heart of today's Saturday Sharing links.
✦ You no longer have an excuse for throwing out empty toothpaste tubes, thanks to the Recyclebank, devoted to recycling issues and strategies for living green.
Recyclebank on FaceBook and Twitter
✦ More than 100,000 concert recordings from more than 5,200 bands are available at the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive. It's quite a collection!
✦ You'll find thousands of metaphors in this database created for The Mind Is a Metaphor by Brad Pasanek of the University of Virginia. Be sure to read the About page for information about the assembly of database and its taxonomy. (My thanks to The New Yorker Book Bench blog for the link to this resource.)
The Mind Is a Metaphor Blog
✦ Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus, which uses the opensource WordNet database, helps you learn about associations among words and concepts.
Visuwords™ on Twitter
✦ More than 1,900 documents, photographs, and films are included in the Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project, which launched in late March and continues to be augmented. (My thanks to the Smithsonian's The Bigger Picture blog for the link to this wonderful resource.)
✦ NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio is responsible for this mesmerizing animation of the surface currents of the world's oceans, 2005-2007: Perpetual Ocean.
NASA Goddard Images on FaceBook and Twitter
Labels: graphical dictionary, Internet Archive, Live Music Archive, metaphors, music, NASA, Nelson Mandela Digital Archive Project, Recyclebank, recycling, South Africa, The Mind Is a Metaphor, Visuwords
✦ Today is International Museum Day.
✦ The latest iteration of Google Art Project launched last month. Among the enhancements: many more participating arts institutions, improved search options, cross-collection highlighting, and a facility that allows users to create their own collections and share them with friends.
✦ The work of "paper engineer" Matthew Shlian is inventive and captivating.
✦ The educational Website Oh Freedom!, developed by Smithsonian American Art Museum and National Museum of African American History and Culture, aims to be an in-depth resource for teachers who use American art in studies of African American civil rights.
✦ There's a museum for everything, and the latest is the Museum of British Surfing in Braunton, United Kingdom. (My thanks to Art Beat for the link.) The collection includes surfboards, wet suits, photographs, memorabilia, and more, including a section where you may upload your own surf history.
Museum of British Surfing on FaceBook and Twitter
✦ In Washington, D.C., the Hirshhorn Museum, wrapped in Doug Aitken's SONG 1, became a panoramic movie screen. Here's how it looked before the sunset-to-midnight show ended on May 13:
The Seattle Art Museum is next to get an Aiken treatment. The museum has commissioned the artist for Mirror, shown here. The artwork is to be installed in early 2012.
✦ Realist painter Andrew Wyeth is the subject of this motionpoem. Go here for text of the poem, which is by L.S. Klatt.
✭ In Colorado, Denver Art Museum is the exclusive U.S. venue for "Yves Saint Laurent: The Retrospective", on view through July 8. The exhibition spans 40 years of fashion design and includes a selection of 200 haute couture costumes by Saint Laurent. Organized thematically, the exhibition also includes photographs, drawings, and film.
Here's a video of the exhibition in Paris:
Denver Art Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube
✭ The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, is showing paintings, drawings, and prints of Julie Mehretu. Organized by Highpoint Center for Printmaking, Minneapolis, Minnesota, "Excavations: The Prints of Julie Mehretu" is on view through June 17. A catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Julie Mehretu, Entropia (review), 2004
Lithograph and Screenprint on Arches 88 Paper
© Julie Mehretu
Exhibition Press Release
Julie Mehretu at Highpoint Center for Printmaking
National Museum of African Art, David Binkley and Kinsey Katchka Talk with Julie Mehretu at Ethiopian Passages: Dialogues in the Diaspora, March 28, 2003 (NMAfA Profile of Mehretu)
Julie Mehretu on art21
FLLAC on FaceBook
✭ Running through June 9 at Smith Center for Healing and the Arts is "Fluid: Rhythms, Transitions & Connections". The exhibition, at the center's art gallery in Washington, D.C., presents the work of artists Francie Hester, Lisa Hill, and Rebecca Kamen, each of whom addresses questions relating to loss, memory, and our connections to nature and one another.
Hester is showing her Connectome Series, on the complexity and transitoriness of memory. Kamen, working with sound artist Susan Alexjander, investigates the biological and metaphysical relationship with water and the body. Hill, drawing on her parents' signatures, examines how identity is formed and altered by time and health.
Included in the exhibition is the installation Words as Legacy - A Leaf of Knowledge, created by Hester and Hill and inspired by the words of Bendan Ogg, a poet who died from brain cancer at age 20. A feature of the installation is a community knitting project that attracted more than 100 participants.
Words as Legacy
Rebecca Kamen's Fluid Series (Also see the series as installed at The Brink Gallery, Missoula, Montana.)
Fluid - The Soundtrack Story (pdf) Note: The Fluid sountrack is available to download at Alexjander's site.
Smith Farm on FaceBook, Twitter, and YouTube
See my post "She Got to Build the Universe", about Rebecca Kamen's installation Divining Nature.
✭ New York City's Rubin Museum of Art, one of my favorite haunts, is presenting "Illuminated" through September 3. The exhibition, which examines both aesthetic and technological approaches to creating and adorning sacred books, features illuminated Tibetan manuscript pages and entire books dating to the 13th Century, in addition to a bi-folio of the "Blue Qur'an", illuminated pages of Jain Sutras, and other exquisite ancient texts. Also on view are book covers that are carved from wood, painted, and made of leather or silver repousse.
Rubin Museum on FaceBook, Twitter, ArtBabble, iTunes, and YouTube
Internet Sacred Text Archive
Labels: Andrew Wyeth, Doug Aitken, Francie Hester, Google Art Project, Julie Mehretu, Lisa Hill, Matthew Shlian, paper engineering, Rubin Museum, sacred books, SONG 1, Susan Alexjander, Yves Saint Laurent
Stradivari and Guarneri, Violin Masters
By any measure, a violin is a thing of beauty,
an object of extravagant curves and burnished surfaces,
fragile and delicate in the hands yet powerful enough
to fill a hall with soaring sound.
But not all violins are created equal. . . .
~ Introduction to Violin Masters
Two grandmasters of violin-making, Antonio Stradivari and Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu, are the subject of a new film that debuted on PBS May 1. Produced by John Forsen and narrated by actor Alfred Molina, Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona tells Stradivari's and Guarneri's story with interviews with world violin expert Charles Beare and other historians and professionals, luthiers, and virtuosos of the violin, including Joshua Bell, Itzhak Perlman, and Pinchas Zukerman, who share their perspectives on owning and performing with a Stradivari or a del Gesu.
Here's the short trailer for the film:
Watch Violin Masters: Two Gentlemen of Cremona (Trailer) on PBS. See more from PBS Arts.
Go here for brief biographies of the talent associated with the film. The PBS site offers a number of Web-only interview clips and slideshows.
Check your local PBS affiliate for program-scheduling information. The film is available for purchase as a DVD.
Beare's, Violin Dealer/Expert, Founded 1892
Stradivarius Violins at Encyclopedia Smithsonian
Violin Makers at Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Labels: Antonio Stradivari, Cremona, documentary, film, Guarerni del Gesu, Italy, music, music history, musicians, string instruments, violin, Violin Masters, violin-makers, violinists
Interview with Poet Kelly Cherry
Award-winning Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry graciously accepted my recent invitation to be interviewed by e-mail. Part of that interview appears today at the T.S. Poetry Press blog, TweetSpeak, where Ms. Cherry talks about her earliest memory of experiencing a poem, what influenced her to become a writer (she's also a novelist, short story writer, memoirist, essayist, critic, and translator), her writing aspirations, and the wide range of poets who have influenced and inspired her. Ms. Cherry also provided a poem, "Two Roses", to accompany the interview; you'll find that, too, at TweetSpeak.
The remainder of my interview — Ms. Cherry shares her advice to students, the value to her of her travels, her poetry collections she's most proud of, her experience as Poet Laureate, and the titles of poetry collections on her reading table — is below.
I first wrote about Kelly Cherry's appointment as Poet Laureate here.
Interview with Virginia Poet Laureate Kelly Cherry
Maureen Doallas: You were born in Louisiana and grew up in Virginia. What role does place have in your poetry?
Kelly Cherry: We left Louisiana for Ithaca, New York, when I was five, and when I was nine, we moved to Virginia—Richmond and Chesterfield County. I've also lived in Manhattan, Brooklyn Heights, England, and Wisconsin, and have traveled elsewhere. All these places have impressed themselves on my work. Place is often but not always acknowledged in my poems. But place — and climate — are always important.
MD: And music?
KC: I love music and cannot remember a time when I didn't. My parents were string quartet violinists. They specialized in the late Beethoven quartets but also played Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, etc., and usually included a contemporary quartet on each program, which in those days meant, say, Diamond, Elliot, Riegger. When I was still crawling, I crawled around the legs of a quartet in rehearsal.
MD: Of the dozen poetry collections you've written, of which are you most proud, and why?
KC: Well, of course, every parent loves every one of the children. But I guess I'd pick out Natural Theology, God's Loud Hand, Death and Transfiguration, and The Retreats of Thought. I'm not sure I know why. Maybe I just feel more comfortable about them. Maybe I took big steps in them. I like Rising Venus for its bravery and organization.
MD: What do you advise your students who want to become poets?
KC: Read and write. Read and write. Read and write. Read and write. Read and write.
Secondarily, I tell them the wastebasket is their friend. That they must make good friends (the human kind) who write, and keep them, because they will need to cheer one another along the way. Also, that they are in competition with no one except themselves. And that if they want to be writers, writing must become a habit.
MD: Where have you found some of your most satisfying and meaningful connections to people or place?
KC: I love talking with my writing buddies but I also like to talk with people who aren't even interested in reading. I am infinitely grateful to my husband, who is smart and fun and kind. We both love our dogs Pippin and Booker. Halifax is a pleasant little town. I go to pulmonary rehab and enjoy talking with folks there and at a small seniors group I teach every other week at an assisted living home.
I found the Philippines to be full of generous, open-hearted people and am sorry I've not been able to go back. Theatre in London is fabulously exciting. Any classical concert is likely to send me into ecstasy, especially if the program includes Beethoven. Latvia and Russia registered deeply on my work. Germany's museums. The cities of Helsinki and Vienna. And, like everybody else, I love Paris.
The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst [Virginia] has played an important role throughout my career. [It's] located on Mt. San Angelo, with beautiful landscaping and sculptures, [and] creative artists in residence have time and peace to work.
In 2009, I was a Rockefeller Fellow at Bellagio, in Italy. The center and the town are beyond gorgeous. I had a book I planned to work on but, even so, before I went, someone said to me, "Don't write poems about Bellagio in Bellagio. It never works." Sure enough, as soon as I arrived, I began a poem about Bellagio. Fortunately, my friend's warning echoed in my mind and I turned away from a failing poem back to my project. [Bellagio's] a wonderful place to write as long as you don't attempt to capture what can't be captured. It's also a place to meet interesting people working on interesting projects.
In 2010, I was a Director's Visitor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, working on a poetry manuscript. Again, a verdant campus, a studio with wonderful windows, and whole days and weeks in which to concentrate. Perfect!
MD: What has most surprised or delighted you in your role as Virginia's Poet Laureate?
KC: I've never been around small children much, and getting to read a storybook to a bunch of pre-K kids was one of the highlights of my life. Such amazing energy! Such good spirits! And every single one was adorable.
I was also very pleased to deliver the keynote address at the opening of the Virginia Book Festival this year and to read at the National Book Festival last year. [You will find a transcript and recording of the latter here.]
I should also say I've met a lot of warm, interesting folks — beginning with the Poetry Society of Virginia and extending to countless communities — who care deeply about poetry and contribute immensely to the life of poetry.
MD: What poetry collections are sitting on your reading table now?
KC: Christian Wiman's translation of Osip Mandelstam [Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam]. For the Mountain Laurel by John Casteen III. Life on Mars by Tracy K. Smith. . . . and Love..., an anthology edited by Richard Krawiec. Conditions of Grace: New and Selected Poems by Mark Sanders. A Wiser, More Beautiful Death by Miklos Radnoti. The Cold War by Kathleen Ossip. They Carry a Promise: Selected Poems by Janusz Szuber.
MD: Thank you for taking the time to talk with me.
Kelly Cherry's two-year tenure as state poet ends this year. She plans to publish a new collection of poems in 2013.
Kelly Cherry Website
Kelly Cherry Poetry, Fiction, Nonfiction, Translations
Labels: Kelly Cherry, music, poet, poet interviews, poetry, poetry books, poetry writing, state poet, state poet laureate, T.S. Poetry Press, TweetSpeakPoetry, Virginia, Virginia Poet Laureate
Let Rain (Poem)
Let Rain
Let rain slip
from the puffed-up lip
of a cloud,
ping like the heart
roughed and raw,
needing a little
grey light of calm.
Let rain finger
its way deep
into ground dried,
cracked, and abandoned
by the hand
that gave it
inner life. Let rain
prime resistance
against a sullen sky,
tatter the sheathing
of morning's face,
remind us how shutters
shelter against the cold.
My recording of "Let Rain":
Labels: audio, metaphor, poem, poetry, poetry writing, rain, recording, relationships, weather, weather as metaphor, writing
Monday Muse: Kentucky's Poet Laureate
You know, when times are hard, people want poetry.
There is something about it that speaks to the human spirit.
And for that reason, I think it will live.
~ Maureen Morehead*
Kentucky's Poet Laureate is Maureen Morehead, who will fulfill her two-year term of service at the end of 2012. (The deadline for nominations for the 2013-2014 term are due September 30, 2012.) Morehead succeeds Gurney Norman for whom I posted a profile here.
Information about Kentucky's statutorily mandated position and its responsibilities can be found in my post about Norman.
Note: In the coming weeks, please look for Monday Muse profiles on these Poets Laureate: Joyce Sutphen (Minnesota), Sheryl Noethe (Montana), Eddie D. Wilcoxen (Oklahoma), Sydney Lea (Vermont), Patricia Forlander (Wyoming), and Steven Kealohapauole Hong-Ming Wong, otherwise known as Kealoha (Hawaii).
I believe that what is abstract, spiritual or mythic
about a poem begins in imagery anchored in place.
For me, that place is Kentucky....**
Louisville resident Maureen Morehead, Ph.D., is the author of the forthcoming Late August Blues: The Daylily Poems (Larkspur Press), The Melancholy Teacher (Larkspur Press, 2010), A Sense of Time Left (Larkspur Press, 2003; available through resellers), In a Yellow Room (Sulgrave Press, 1990; available through resellers), and Our Brothers' War (Sulgrave Press, 1994), which includes short stories by Pat Carr about Kentucky women during the Civil War. (A first edition of Our Brothers' War may be available through resellers. The book was reprinted by Sulgrave in 1995 and by Howell Press in 2005, according to information at Amazon.)
To read one of Morehead's poems is to learn something about how deeply the subject of place informs her writing. As Morehead told an interviewer, "Poetry is imagery and metaphor. My imagery is drawn from here, and my imagery becomes my metaphor for what I want to say. You could follow me around for a while, and you'd see where my images come from. "*** The poet also draws on her teaching experience and historic public tragedies, such as the Civil War, the destruction of Hiroshima, and the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Themes in her work include love, isolation, and mortality, death, and grief, as well as time and memory. Written in free verse, Morehead's poems display great attention to craft.
Here is an excerpt from Morehead's "Why I Stopped Writing in My Diary" from Our Brothers' War:
It was May when we married.
I was sixteen.
The peach trees were in bloom,
and the white peony.
Forgive me.
when someone you love dies
it is the sound of his boots upon gravel
that you wait for, [. . .]
Morehead's poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, California Quarterly, The Iowa Review, The Kansas Quarterly, The Louisville Review (the Winter 2012 issue is planned in honor of Morehead), The National Poetry Review, Poet and Critic, Poetry Magazine, Southern Poetry Review, and other literary periodicals, as well as in a number of anthologies, including The Kentucky Anthology: Two Hundred Years of Writing in the Bluegrass State (University of Kentucky Press, 2005), Place Gives Rise to Spirit: Writers on Louisville (Fleur-de-Lis Press, 2000), and The American Voice Anthology of Poetry (University Press of Kentucky, 1998).
The recipient of poetry fellowships from the Kentucky Arts Council and Kentucky Foundation for Women, Morehead is on the faculty of Spalding University, where she teaches in the brief-residency MFA Program in Writing. She is retired from public school teaching to which she devoted more than 30 years of her career.
Photo Credit: Spalding University MFA Faculty
All Poetry Quotations © Maureen Morehead
* Quoted from "Maureen Morehead, Kentucky Poet Laureate", Kentucky Public Radio, April 25, 2011 (Audio is included with this article.)
** Quoted from Induction Comments
*** Erin Keane, "Kentucky Inspiring to Poet Laureate Maureen Morehead", The Courier-Journal, June 19, 2011
Video of Induction Ceremony for Maureen Morehead
Maureen Morehead Profile at Spalding University
Maureen Morehead Poems Online: "Tsunami", "To Matisse", "Books", "The Melancholy Teacher", "Words", and "May These Six Poems Avoid the Slush Pile", All at Kentucky Arts Council; "Ode to the Workshop Poem" at The Kenyon Review Online; "Plans" and "Walking the Beaches for Michael" at Southern Poetry Review; "A Woman Remembers Hiroshima" at The Poet's Corner; "My Mother Is a Hand" at Public Republic; "Why I Stopped Writing in My Diary" and "Driver's License" from The Kentucky Anthology at GoogleBooks
A broadside, "The Night for Writers" is available through Larkspur Press.
Candace Chaney, "New Poet Laureate Forged Her Craft in the Classroom", Kentucky.com, April 24, 2011
Liz Nethery, "Maureen Morehead: Kentucky Poet Laureate" in The Magazine of Spalding University, Summer 2011 (In this brief interview, Morehead talks about her affinity for language, the inspiration for her writing, influences, and her experience as Poet Laureate.)
Barbara Sabol, "Shifting and Layering of Tone in Maureen Morehead's 'My Mother Is a Hand'", Public Republic, October 8, 2008
"Maureen Morehead" in L. Elizabeth Beattie, Conversations with Kentucky Writers II (University of Kentucky Press, 1999), at GoogleBooks
"Q&A with Maureen Morehead", Kentucky Monthly, November 2011 (Morehead's poem "November" appears in a sidebar.)
"One to One with Bill Goodman: Maureen Morehead", KET, 2011
Maureen Morehead on FaceBook and Pinterest
Video of Maureen Morehead Reading from The Melancholy Teacher (20:25 minutes)
Kentucky Arts Council, Five Kentucky Poets Laureate: An Anthology
Kentucky Page at Academy of American Poets
Kentucky Poetry
Kentucky Writers' Day
Labels: Gurney Norman, Kentucky, Maureen Morehead, poet, poetry, poetry awards, poetry books, poetry writing, state poet, state poet laureate, writer, writing
God is not found in the soul
by adding anything but by subtracting.
~ Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart, c. 1260 - 1327/8, Theologian, Philosopher, Christian Mystic
The Eckhart Society
Meister Eckhart Profile in Stanford Encylopedia of Philosophy
Labels: inspiration, Meister Eckhart, quote
Today's new edition of Saturday Sharing reflects just how eclectic the Web's offerings are. Take a moment and browse the maps at Flowing Data, a site dedicated to computer scientist Alan Turing, the interactive Body & Soul, ballet in ultra slow-motion, and a digital archive of World War I poetry. Also enjoy listening to today's video recording of Marian McPartland's musical tribute to environmentalist Rachel Carson.
✦ The interactive Body & Soul is based on the book Body & Soul: The Courage and Beauty of Breast Cancer Survivors (Clerisy Press, Emmiss Books 2004) by photographer Jean Karotkin, who herself is a breast cancer survivor. The site allows you to view the book, comprising a series of black-and-white photographs of and brief essays about breast cancer survivors, and links to Living Beyond Breast Cancer, a national education and support organization dedicated to assisting anyone who is newly diagnosed, in treatment, finished with treatment, or years beyond living with metastatic breast cancer; it also provides information and support for family members, caregivers, friends, and health care providers.
Jean Karotkin Fine Art Photography
✦ At The Collections, you'll find a digital archive of First World War Poetry. Among the poets whose work is featured are Robert Graves and Wilfred Owen.
✦ A Website dedicated to Alan Turing marks the centenary of the computer scientist's birth.
✦ At Flowing Data, find out what your state ranks "the worst at"; then look immediately below the "The United States of Shame" to see "The United States of Awesome". While on the site, also be sure to look at the "hand-crated wall map" of the U.S.
✦ Have you ever watched ballet in ultra-slow motion (1000 frames per second)? Here's an example.
✦ Enjoy this recording of Marian McPartland's A Portrait of Rachel Carson, the jazz pianist's tribute to the pioneering environmentalist. This year marks the 50th anniversary of publication of Carson's famous Silent Spring.
Life and Legacy of Rachel Carson
Biography of Marian McPartland (NPR)
Marian McPartlands Piano Jazz (NPR)
"Marian McPartland's Rachel Carson in Concert", NPR Music, April 2008 (You'll also find at the same link a video about the making of A Portrait of Rachel Carson.)
David Hajdu, "Hajdu: The Many Musical Tributes to Rachel Carson", The New Republic, March 23, 2012
Labels: Alan Turing, awesomeness, ballet, Body and Soul, breast cancer, Flowing Data, maps, Marian McPartland, poetry, Rachel Carson, shame, visualizations, World War I
A Local Commission for Artist Linn Meyers
Wednesday Wonder: 'The Mystery of Picasso'
The Rules for Planting Roses (Poem)
Monday Muse Asks Did You Know...?
Baltimore's Art-Enriched Medical Facility
Wednesday Wonder: Julene Harrison
Snapshot ~ A Found Poem


Logo, tagline & full branding. Project required finding a creative way to incorporate the many types of animals they are able to assist. The result was a logo that can be altered to suite the purpose, as well as an animated version for use on the nonprofit's website.


Wednesday 7 November 2018: Eaton nurse Tamara Lowe loves her job so much that she finally convinced her parents to fly half way across the world to work alongside her on her latest medical mission to Africa.
Miss Lowe, who has been volunteering with the international medical charity Mercy Ships on board their hospital ship each year since 2014, had always wanted her dad Mark and mum Liz to share her experience.
"And I knew Mum would always be able to do a number of different jobs on board," Miss Lowe said.
It wasn't until their youngest daughter Belinda left home this year that Mr and Mrs Lowe took the chance to volunteer.
They travelled to the Canary Islands in July to join the hospital ship on its sail to the West African nation of Guinea and will return home this week, while Tam will continue serving on board until June 2019.
"Guinea is the same as all of Africa; the problem is too big so why should I try, what can I do? But if we all, and I mean all, do our bit we can make a difference," Mr Lowe said of his motivation to volunteer.
"I know that the majority of people in Guinea are some of the poorest in the world," Mrs Lowe added.
The Africa Mercy hospital ship arrived in the port city of Conakry, Guinea, in August 2018 with plans to provide 2,500 life-changing surgeries on board, treat over 8,000 people at a land-based dental clinic and provide health care training to local medical professionals during 10 months in port.
"I absolutely love the work," Tam said.
"The best thing has been seeing first hand where Tamara has been living and working for the past five years and also meeting some of the friends she has made," Mrs Lowe recalled.
"Nothing can prepare you for this except love and compassion and a willingness to serve," Mark concluded.


Denzel Curry at Commodore Barry Park on Aug. 26, 2018 in Brooklyn, New York.
Also, Dolly Parton moves to Sony/ATV, Gregg Wattenberg joins Spirit Music Group and Andy Mineo links with Position Music.
Concord Music Publishing has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing deal with rising hip-hop artist Denzel Curry. With the agreement, Concord acquires Curry's full catalog as well as future work. The deal is the first in Concord Music Publishing's new joint venture with Loma Vista Recordings.
On March 14, Concord Music Publishing also announced a new sub-publishing deal with Paris-based independent music company Because Editions covering catalog in the United States and United Kingdom. Conford began administering the catalog in 2013. It includes songs by artists Christine & The Queens, Daft Punk, Manu Chao, Justice, among others, as well as the iconic composition "My Way."
The arrangement is also reciprocated in France, where Because has sub-published much of the Concord Music Publishing catalog since 2008.
"Because have such a varied and eclectic catalogue, we are delighted to extend our remit from the UK to now include the US in what is a very exciting time for both Concord and Because," said Kim Frankiewicz, executive vp of worldwide creative at Concord Music Publishing. "With our new global infrastructure in place, and our North America and UK creative and marketing teams working hand in hand with Because' US synch and A&R teams, we are honoured that the Because folk have entrusted us with their catalogue and look forward to bringing them even more value."
Rising pop singer Carlie Hanson has signed a worldwide co-publishing and administration deal with Primary Wave Music Publishing for past and future songs, Billboard can exclusively report. The announcement comes just weeks after the 18-year-old signed a recording contract with Warner Bros Records and released the video for her latest single, "Numb." Her debut EP is scheduled for release later this year.
"Carlie's songwriting is badass and vastly developed for an 18-year-old," said Jake Livingston, head of A&R for Primary Wave Music Publishing. "On stage she wears her emotions on her sleeve as did her favorite singer, Kurt Cobain."
Sony/ATV Music Publishing has signed a deal with legendary country singer Dolly Parton, covering her extensive catalog and future releases in North America and territories not covered by existing sub-publishing arrangements. Sony/ATV Music Publishing would not state the type of deal.
Spirit Music Group has signed global publishing deal with songwriter and producer Gregg Wattenberg for his catalog, including songs recorded by Train ("If It's Love"), Goo Goo Dolls ("Let Love In"), Phillip Phillips ("Gone, Gone, Gone" and "Raging Fire"), Five for Fighting ("Chances") and more.
As part of the multi-faceted deal, Spirit Music Group will acquire the complete catalog of songs Wattenberg wrote under Sony/EMI, where Sony or the respective admin will still retain administration, while Spirit becomes the copyright owner. The company also acquired Wattenberg's publishing interest on songs he wrote for the WWE prior to Jan. 1, 2018, and songs that Wattenberg had publishing in from his Arcade Songs catalog. Spirit now admins the songs that Wattenberg has written that he self-publishes, Spirit co-publishes future works that Wattenberg writes, and Spirit and Wattenberg will co-publish anything signed under the new joint venture partnership.
Andy Mineo has signed a partial catalog and go-forward global publishing admin deal with Position Music. The agreement includes his two current EPs, The Arrow and The Sword, as well as his previous Magic and Bird project with Wordsplayed and all songs from 2017 on. His previous publishing catalog remains with his record label Reach Records's publishing company.
The deal has already resulted in a prime placement of Mineo's "I Ain't Done" in the recent Under Armour campaign for Steph Curry's new sneakers.
"Andy Mineo is a world class rapper, performer, hook writer and a true creator," said Position Music's president and CEO Tyler Bacon. "We are thrilled to be a part of his team."
Entertainment One (eOne) has signed an exclusive publishing agreement with Grammy-winning songwriter and producer Aaron Pearce. Under the worldwide co-publishing deal, eOne will acquire part of Pearce's song catalog and will support Pearce going forward in signing songwriters to his new publishing venture, Vintern Songs.
Cage the Elephant has signed an exclusive worldwide publishing administration deal with BMG for their upcoming fifth album, Social Cues, which will be released April 19.
"We are thrilled to be working alongside Cage the Elephant on their groundbreaking new album," said David Hirshland, BMG's executive vp of music publishing catalogs. "Beyond being their publishing partner, we are all huge fans of the band."
Universal Music Publishing Group (UMPG) announced a worldwide administration agreement with new independent publishing company S2 Songs on March 11. The deal is a joint venture between the two companies on all music going forward. S2 Songs is led by multiple Grammy-nominated songwriter Savan Kotecha and music executive Sonny Takhar, founder and CEO of Live Nation joint venture KYN Entertainment.
"It's really great to be working again with Jody Gerson and David Gray who we have both known for most of our careers," said Kotecha and Takhar in a joint statement. "We know our songwriters and producers will benefit from having Universal Music Publishing's global muscle behind them."
Big Deal Music Group has partnered with leading tech innovator Exactuals for advanced analytics and transparency services. Exactuals will provide these services through its payer and payee portal dashboards, helping Big Deal analyze trends using real-time data for its entire roster -- which includes Beach House, Local Natives and My Morning Jacket -- and enable total transparency for its artists.


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Facebook Inc (FB) Former VP Talks About Acquisition Strategies and the Next Moves
By Neha Gupta on	 May 27, 2014 Business & Finance, Companies, Internet
In an interview on Bloomberg Television, Chamath Palihapitiya, former Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) Vice President of Growth for Mobile and International, discussed acquisition strategies.
Palihapitiya talked about the take- over strategies for Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) and tech giant Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG) on Bloomberg West. He commented on Facebook's $19 million acquisition of the popular text messaging application, Whatsapp, and the acquisition of Oculus and said that these were some good moves by the social networking media. He had been involved with the operations of the company during some of its acquisitions and believes that Whatsapp has been the most economical and smartest acquisition.
He said that he had created a growth team at social capital in Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), which the social media uses within companies that it invests in. It helps them not only growing, but also assists them in understanding the market trend of what is gaining popularity. He said, "Whatsapp will turn out to be the cheapest and smartest acquisition done by any internet company." It will be worth much more than the initial amount that was paid to acquire it as compared to the $150 billion Facebook, along with its many acquisitions by 2016, he said.
As far as it concerns acquisitions and innovations at Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Palihapitiya does not think that it will matter what the company involves itself more into. He pointed out, citing John Chambers' words, "If you, as a stalwart company, aren't figuring out every day how to get into the next wave, you're going to die." It is important for a company to keep innovating even after five years to continue the inflow of cash. Companies like Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), Cisco Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CSCO) and Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE:HPQ), he said, have made this very mistake and have ended up not knowing their next move. As a result, he said, these companies' "lunch gets eaten up."
The full video is available below:

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NFL Week 13: footdiva's Straight-Up Picks (9-5, 64.3%)
Game TV Pick
Dallas 27 at New Orleans 17 8:20pm et on
Cowboys (W)
Tampa Bay 30 at Atlanta 17 1:00pm et on
Buccaneers (W)
Arizona 33 at Chicago 22 1:00pm et on
Cardinals (W)
LA Chargers 41 at Cincinnati 22 1:00pm et on
Bengals (L)
Minnesota 27 at Detroit 29 1:00pm et on
Vikings (L)
NY Giants 9 at Miami 20 1:00pm et on
Dolphins (W)
Philadelphia 33 at NY Jets 18 1:00pm et on
Eagles (W)
Indianapolis 31 at Houston 0 1:00pm et on
Colts (W)
Washington 17 at Las Vegas 15 4:05pm et on
Raiders (L)
Jacksonville 7 at LA Rams 37 4:05pm et on
Rams (W)
Baltimore 19 at Pittsburgh 20 4:25pm et on
Ravens (L)
San Francisco 23 at Seattle 30 4:25pm et on
49ers (L)
Denver 9 at Kansas City 22 8:20pm et on
Chiefs (W)
New England 14 at Buffalo 10 8:15pm et on
Patriots (W)
Tie Breaker: 56 total pts in last game (Actual: 24)


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Toronto Blue Jays Mt. Rushmore (Franchise Four)
Charlie Miller
Major League Baseball is promoting an effort to identify the best four players in each team's history with their "Franchise Four." We selected our choices for Mt. Rushmores a few years ago. Here are updated versions for all 30 teams. Who are the four baseball players that have risen above all others for each organization? The question sounds simple, right? Not so fast. Let the arguments begin.
Toronto Blue Jays Mt. Rushmore
The Toronto Blue Jays began play in 1977 along with the Seattle Mariners. It took the Jays six seasons to escape the cellar, but the team managed to win a division title as soon as 1985. Having competed in the same division as the Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox during their entire existence, the Jays have always had tough competition. Their success has been pretty compact with all five postseason appearances in the span of nine years from 1985-93, culminating in back-to-back World Series titles. The Jays have finished above the breakeven mark in 20 of their 38 seasons heading into 2015. Success has been difficult to come by in recent seasons. They've won as many as 88 games just once (1998) since the title seasons of 1992-93, and finished in the upper half of the five-team AL East just once in 20 years (2006). Toronto was once the envy of all of other MLB teams when attracting fans. During the team's heyday in the early 1990s, the Jays topped 4 million three successive seasons. However, since the strike in 1994, attendance hasn't reached 3 million in a season.
Although he ranks behind Dave Stieb on most of the career lists, Halladay dominated the American League while he was Toronto. He made his debut in 1998, but joined the rotation full-time for good in 2002. From 2002-09, Halladay made six All-Star teams and was in the top five in Cy Young voting six times as well, winning the award in 2003 with 22 wins. Over that span, Doc Halladay averaged 16-7 and 214 innings.
Tony Fernandez
The slick-fielding shortstop made three All-Star teams, won four Gold Gloves and amassed 1,583 hits for the Blue Jays. He's the Jays' all-time leader in games and hits, fourth in runs and total bases. Fernandez was traded back to the Blue Jays in June of 1993, and teamed with Alomar to give the Jays one of the best defensive middle infields in baseball. Fernandez rapped out seven hits and nine RBIs in the six-game World Series win over Philadelphia.
The Hall of Fame second baseman essentially launched his Hall of Fame career in Toronto. He spent just five seasons in Toronto, but made five All-Star teams and won five Gold Gloves. He finished sixth in MVP voting three times while with the Blue Jays. He averaged 90 runs and 41 steals in his five seasons and batted .307.
The likeable Carter doesn't rank in the top five in any category other than RBIs, but no Blue Jays fans will ever forget him jumping with joy after his walk-off home run off Mitch Williams to end the 1993 World Series. Carter anchored the lineup in the No. 3 and No. 4 spots in the batting order for the two championship teams.
Close Calls
Few GMs have had as positive an impact on a franchise as Pat Gillick had in Toronto. The Hall of Famer built the team that captured the back-to-back titles in 1992-93.
The leader in franchise wins, Dave Stieb was the team's ace throughout the 1980s and made eight All-Star teams.
Tom Henke is the all-time leader in saves with 217.
Carlos Delgado, the catcher-turned-first baseman, leads the franchise in runs, homers and RBIs.
Cito Gaston managed the Jays to their two World Series titles.
Slugger Jose Bautista should hit his way into the discussion before he's through in Toronto.
Follow Charlie Miller on Twitter @AthlonCharlie or email him Charlie.Miller@AthlonSports.com
Other teams' Mt. Rushmores:
Roy HalladayRoberto AlomarDave StiebTony FernandezCarlos DelgadoJoe CarterTom HenkeJose Bautista


2 Samuel 22:12 He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
He shrouded himself in darkness, veiling his approach with dense rain clouds.
He made darkness a canopy around Him, a gathering of water and thick clouds.
"And He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
Darkness was your tent! Thunderclouds filled the sky, hiding you from sight.
The darkness around him was his canopies— amassed water was his overhanging clouds!
He shrouded himself in darkness, in thick rain clouds.
He made darkness around himself a canopy, a gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
He surrounded himself with darkness. He made the dark rain clouds his covering.
And He made darkness pavilions round about Him, Gathering of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
"And He made darkness canopies around Him, A mass of waters, thick clouds of the sky.
He placed darkness like tabernacles round about him, dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
And he made darkness his hiding-place; his tabernacle round about him was the darkness of waters, he condensed it with the clouds of the air.
He made darkness a covering round about him: dropping waters out of the clouds of the heavens.
And he made darkness round about him a tent, Gatherings of waters, thick clouds of the skies.
And he made darkness pavilions around him, dark waters, and thick clouds of the skies.
And He setteth darkness Round about Him -- tabernacles, Darkness of waters -- thick clouds of the skies.
Ben-hadad received this message while he and the kings were drinking in their tents, and he said to his servants, "Take your positions." So they stationed themselves against the city.
Furthermore, who can understand how the clouds spread out, how the thunder roars from His pavilion?
(12) Made darkness pavilions.--Psalms 18, more fully, "He made darkness his secret place; his pavilion round about him were dark waters." A word appears to have dropped out here, and in the second clause the margin, "binding (or gathering) of waters" is a more exact translation, the word differing in one letter from that used in the psalm.
22:1-51 David's psalm of thanksgiving. - This chapter is a psalm of praise; we find it afterwards nearly as Ps 18. They that trust God in the way of duty, shall find him a present help in their greatest dangers: David did so. Remarkable preservations should be particularly mentioned in our praises. We shall never be delivered from all enemies till we get to heaven. God will preserve all his people, 2Ti 4:18. Those who receive signal mercies from God, ought to give him the glory. In the day that God delivered David, he sang this song. While the mercy is fresh, and we are most affected with it, let the thank-offering be brought, to be kindled with the fire of that affection. All his joys and hopes close, as all our hopes should do, in the great Redeemer.


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There's a TV, wifi internet, free coffee and tea, a small fridge with drinks in your room. Use of washer, towels & sheets, shampoo, soap included, you share facilities with the host.
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Police and partners work together during road safety enforcement operations
Warwickshire Police Roads Policing Officers (RPO) and Special Constables have taken part in two road safety enforcement operations supported by the DVSA with the aim of making Warwickshire's roads safer for everyone.
Sixteen vehicles were weighed during the first operation on 17 February. This resulted in two drivers being prosecuted for overweight vehicles. The vehicles were also prohibited from moving until their weight was reduced.
The DVSA also prohibited two drivers from continuing their journey one due to the load being insecure and another for no tread on tyres.
The DVSA also supported a one day 'commercial vehicle' operation on the M40 Northbound Warwick services on 24 February. Officers intercepted 20 commercial vehicles and brought them into the services for the driver documentation and vehicles to be checked by both police and DVSA.
Only 8 vehicles were in order and 12 others (60%) had issues including 3 vehicles with insecure loads and the drivers of these were prohibited from proceeding until their loads were safely secured.
Three vehicles had illegal tints – Fortunately two drivers could remove the tints at the roadside, however the DVSA prohibited one driver from continuing their journey as the glass was tinted so could not be removed.
Six vehicles were also found to be overweight with one 21% overweight. All 6 drivers received Traffic Offence Reports and 4 drivers were prohibited from continuing their journeys until their vehicles were adequately unloaded. This involved other vehicles being called to the services to take part of their loads.
Police also intercepted a fully loaded 3.5 ton car transporter and trailer weighing a massive 4 ton. This was found to be half a ton overweight and the driver was immediately prohibited by the DVSA from continuing his journey due to excessive windscreen tints (17%) that could not all be removed. This meant the driver then had to remove the tints of the vehicles he was transporting so that they could be driven away on trade plates. The car transporter and trailer was also seized by officers.
PS Shaun Bridle said "Overweight vehicles are extremely dangerous to the drivers themselves and other road users as the additional weight affects handling and braking distances and heavy loads can start to pull the vehicle instead of the other way around. Warwickshire Police and partners see the results of collisions at first hand and that is why we will do whatever we can to help prevent collisions from occurring and to improve road safety for everyone.
DVSA's Head of Enforcement Delivery David Collings, said "DVSA's priority is to protect people from unsafe drivers and vehicles.
"This action alongside our partners serves as a reminder of the risks associated with cutting corners on road safety. Every driver or operator has a responsibility to check their vehicle is in a roadworthy condition before beginning a journey.
"We endeavour to support drivers and operators to remain safe, which is why we have produced guidance accessible on GOV.UK to empower commercial road users to make Warwickshire roads safer for everybody."
Further operations are planned throughout March to support the Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership target of reducing the number of people killed and seriously injured on Warwickshire's roads by 50% by 2030 and to refresh and increase the skills of all Warwickshire Police Roads Policing Officers and Specials.
This van was 20.5% overweight
This car transporter was 16.5% overweight
Risk to other road users from loose items in back of truck
Two arrested for drugs offences – Leamington
Sketch released in connection with sexual assault – Rugby
Two men arrested after drugs warrants executed in Rugby
Warwickshire Road Safety Partnership is encouraging bikers to refresh your skills ready for the new season
Eight questioned as part of fraud investigations
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Stolen car seize following police chase and collision in Ryton


Add the chickpeas and all remaining ingredients into a food processor. Add 4 tbsp of the chickpea liquid.
Process for 3-5 minutes until creamy and smooth.
Place on a dish or in a bowl. Drizzle with olive oil and sprinkle with cayenne pepper.
If your hummus turn out slightly too runny for your taste, add in a tbsp of flour or gram flour and continue to process.
If you want to start from dried chickpeas, then soak 150 g (5 oz) of dried chickpeas overnight. Drain, then boil in lightly salted water for 1½ to 2 hours until the chickpeas are tender. Then follow the recipe above.


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Home Football COLUMN: Fans are somewhat excited for Indiana football… and they should be
COLUMN: Fans are somewhat excited for Indiana football… and they should be
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It's safe to say Indiana fans are excited for the return of IU football for the first time since the Kevin Wilson day's.
And here is the thing: they should be.
Don't get me wrong, last season was the epitome of Indiana football. Early success leading to high expectations, featuring a rigorous schedule leading to a 5-7 record, a loss to Purdue, and yet another year not playing in December.
But since Nov. 24's loss to Purdue, Head Coach Tom Allen has been cooking something in Bloomington; a blend of great recruiting and new coaching mixed with a strong quarterback room. All topped off with a defense that has made significant strides since the arrival of Allen in January 2016. Safe to say that fans are catching a whiff of the early success that is cooking in Memorial Stadium.
The offseason brought newcomers to Bloomington. The first being Utah transfer quarterback Jack Tuttle, who continues to crowd the quarterback room with Michael Penix and Peyton Ramsey. Both of whom have proven their ability to compete in the Big Ten, even though Penix was used so sparingly.
Tuttle, a pro-style quarterback, would've been the second highest recruit to commit to IU had he done so out of high school based on 24/7 Sports rating system. In high school, he completed 205-of-295 (69.5 percent) for 3,171 yards with 41 touchdowns and just four interceptions.
The other newcomer is one that will work hand and hand with Tuttle, the new offensive coordinator, Kalen DeBoer. I'll make this one quick. Fans should be excited for DeBoer because the offensive efficiency of last season can't get worse. DeBoer comes from Fresno State where he boasts a 22-6 record with him as the head of the offense.
The two seasons before DeBoer joined the Bulldogs were the 120th best offense and had a 4-20 record. Fresno State added DeBoer where he lead them to become the 47th best offense in the nation just two seasons later. He executed a similar turnaround at Eastern Michigan improving its offense to becoming the 35th best in the nation.
Now let's get to why fans should be excited.
One: The Quarterback:
All three quarterbacks have proven to be extremely unselfish. It seems in every news conference they all speak about making each other better and how they all are committed to doing what they can to help whether they are the starter or not.
I love this. It reminds me of the Eagles quarterback room from two seasons ago. The one with Nate Sudfeld (Indiana alum), Nick Foles and Carson Wentz. The unselfishness and commitment to get better despite adversity helped lead the entire team to win the Super Bowl. This much unselfishness and commitment are good, No, it's great and fans should be pumped for it.
Two: The Coaching:
It was bittersweet watching the Hoosiers last year. On one side you had the Hoosiers' defense coached by Allen that led the Big Ten in takeaways. 2.2 per game, a number so good that, if you aren't playing in the hardest conference in college football, could lead you to be one of the best defenses in the nation.
However, on the other side was what held the Hoosiers back from bowl contention last year, its terrible offensive production. The Hoosiers ranked as average as far as offensive efficiency goes which lead to the parting of ways with former offensive coordinator Mike DeBord.
Going back to DeBoer who has built a career off rebounding poor offenses, did I mention that last year at Fresno State he produced the 26th best scoring offense with the 29th best passing offense? With the crowded quarterback room the Hoosiers are touting the fix may come as DeBoer's easiest yet.
Three: The Running Game:
The fact that I have gotten this far and not mentioned the running game is a promising sign for the Hoosiers.
Stevie Scott rushed like no freshman before him at IU breaking records in yards (1,137), attempts (228), touchdowns (10) and 100-yard games (6). Not to mention Scott did all this while playing for one of the most predictable offenses in the Big Ten with little to no run-pass options. Scott is fortunate in the sense that this season the sophomore duo of him and Ronnie Walker JR. also get some more help.
Scott and Walker will welcome Sampson James, the true freshman out of Avon originally committed to Ohio State but flipped to Indiana the Sunday following the Hoosiers defeat to the Buckeyes in October. Scott was one of the best high school players in the state and if all goes as planned, the two backs will provide Indiana with one of the best running back duo's in the Big Ten.
I'm not saying that Indiana will go 12-0 next year and make a trip to the College Football Playoff.
I'm not expecting a 10-win season and a trip to the Big Ten Championship. I know very well next season may be another 5-7 or 6-6 record. But one thing is for sure: fans can be excited because next season will bring the combination of talent and good coaching that IU needs to make strides in improving the overall program and changing the history of overwhelming expectations with underwhelming success.
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The Meritor Team based at Cwmbran have been working with Total Precision for some time now.
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We think that this recognition should come from Meritor to you personally Jez and that you should also recognise individuals within your organisation on behalf of the Total Precision Senior Leadership.
So thanks to all at Total Precision from Meritor and in particular to you Jez.
I have dealt with both Andy & Jez for a number of years, during which we have developed a very good understanding and working relationship. When they founded Total Precision Limited we conducted a deep and searching analysis of their intentions and forecasts for business stability and growth which we found to be sound. Based on this analysis, we had no hesitation in transferring a number of products to support their business.
We have now been trading with Total Precision for a number of months and they continue to be a proactive supplier that continuously supports our business needs. On time delivery and excellent quality are a given, together with timely notification of any development, good or bad.
We expect Total Precision to be perceived as a supportive Partner and intend to grow with and develop our relationship for many years to come.


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It's been almost six years since the last time Drake, 40, and Nardwuar have been together. Today, a new interview has been released as the three have reunited for another great clip. Here, they discuss a wide range of topics including, hip-hop, Canada, and more. Check it out above. Drizzy's album Views is out now.


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'Blade Runner' screening part of dystopian party at the Presidio Theatre
G. Allen Johnson	July 17, 2019Updated: July 18, 2019, 5:17 pm
Blade Runner a Warner Bros. Film Starring Harrison Ford, directed by Ridley Scott 1982 Photo: Warner Bros.
You might have seen "Blade Runner," the Ridley Scott-Harrison Ford classic science fiction film, but have you experienced it?
On Saturday, July 20, at the Presidio Theatre, you can. The party gets started at 10:30 p.m., with a dystopian-themed party featuring drinks, food, art and more. (Food, you say? That would be apple strudel, Viennese coffee and cloves while they last.)
Come dressed as your favorite character.
Normally, considering it was a box-office bomb in 1982 — not even close to covering its $28 million dollar budget, plus distribution and marketing expenses — I'd say no one thought it would become an acknowledged classic and future cosplay event. But then again, I thought it was a good movie back then, and so did my mother when we went on its first run. We were always mystified by its poor reviews and attendance, especially considering Ford was at his Han Solo-Indiana Jones height of popularity.
Ah well, he and Scott got the last laugh.
"Blade Runner" Dystopian Night: 11:30 p.m. Saturday, July 20. $15-$18. Presidio Theater, 2340 Chestnut St., S.F. 415-776-2988. www.lntsf.com
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Schoolgirls from the north-east of Scotland gained valuable insight into the energy industry at an event hosted by Wood Group and Centrica.
Twenty girls had the opportunity to engage with female engineers from both companies in a visit, focused on inspiring more young women to consider a science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) career.
Stemettes, an organisation which aims to attract more young women to industries where they are traditionally under-represented, were also involved in the event, which showcased different types of engineering within the oil and gas industry and the international opportunities available.
Samantha Murray, a structural engineer for Wood Group Kenny and a STEM ambassador says: "Shining a light on the vast and diverse career prospects that exist in the oil and gas industry is crucial to nurturing new talent.
"Females working in process, integrity, structural and subsea engineering from across Wood Group, were involved in the day, sharing their experience, supporting interactive activities and offering advice to the girls on how to pursue a career in the sector."


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Does Walter have any health problems? Why did his owners put him up for adoption?
Does he need regular haircuts?
Would Walter be ok in a home with other pets and kids or is he too sky for that. As well is he kid friendly cuddly boy?
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Two weeks before Christmas, broke, recently dumped and with no family to turn to, Lisa Greer has no choice but to take a position as personal assistant to bitchy, aging movie star, Tasha LeClair. After being belittled by Tasha, Lisa is almost hit by a car, only to be saved by the handsome French actor, Julien Joubert. When the sexy Frenchman offers her a job as nanny to his daughter, she's cautious of a man who stirs her broken heart. Lisa is reluctant to accept, given her attraction to the suave movie star, but is forced to agree when Tasha sacks her.
The world thinks Julien has it all—looks, money and fame but his glamorous lifestyle hides tragedy and guilt. Lisa is a breath of fresh air in his, and his daughter's life, but he's sworn to never love again.
When unexpected heat ignites between them, will he find the courage to face his demons?
Christmas With the Boss
Jilly Henderson was looking forward to a week of bliss at the beach: alone, no work and no one to bother her. The last thing she expected was to find her hunky boss holidaying in the beach shack next door. He looked mighty different to the uptight executive she was used to. He'd shed the suit and turned into a surf god.
Dominic is horrified that Jilly is living in the old shack. Rumour has it that it's haunted. He wants her to move but she digs in.
Can she ignore his charms...and who is the secret visitor who won't leave her in peace?


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Richard loves sports. That proves to be e.g. from his study choice: human movement sciences. During this study, beside his interest in the human body, he developed an interest in the philosophical, historical, social and psychological area related to work and sports. This is why he studied (cognitive) psychological courses during and after his Master in Exercise physiology. In his current profession of Human Factors all these fields are present: it concerns optimal physical, but also mental performance of people in complex systems. It concerns working in teams, it concerns pleasure! And above all: making the world a better place.


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Completion of two unique externships, typically full-day placements extending throughout the semester at an approved off-campus site.
Completion of a minimum of 400 total clinical hours (including 375 direct clinical contact hours).
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Syntetos, A, Nikolopoulos, K, Boylan, J.E., Fildes, R and Goodwin, P 2009, 'The effects of integrating management judgement into intermittent demand forecasts' , International Journal of Production Economics, 118 (1) , pp. 72-81.
Empirical research suggests that quantitatively derived forecasts are very frequently judgementally adjusted. Nevertheless, little work has been conducted to evaluate the performance of these judgemental adjustments in a practical demand/sales context. In addition, the relevant analysis does not distinguish between slow and fast moving items. Currently, there are neither conceptual developments nor empirical evidence on the issue of integrating judgements and statistical forecasts for slow/intermittent demand items. Moreover, no results have ever been reported on the stock control implications of these human judgements. Our work analyses monthly intermittent demand forecasts for the UK branch of a major international pharmaceutical company. The company relies upon a commercially available statistical forecasting system to produce forecasts that are subsequently judgementally adjusted based on marketing intelligence gathered by the company forecasters. The benefits of the intervention are evaluated by comparing the actual sales to system and final forecasts using both forecast accuracy and inventory control (accuracy implication) metrics. Our study allows insights to be gained on potential improvements to intermittent demand forecasting processes and, subsequently, the design effectiveness of forecasting support systems.


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