An 11-hour sleep and a hearty Scottish breakfast sparked the latest impressive round in Russell Knox's glorious summer of golf, putting him in contention to seal back-to-back wins on the European Tour at the Scottish Open on Saturday.
Knox mastered the windiest conditions of the week over the Gullane links to shoot a four-under 66 in the third round, leaving him two strokes off surprise leader Jens Dantorb (68) and one behind a six-way tie for second place in the event used as a tune-up for next week's British Open.
On a day when Robert Rock — the overnight leader by two shots on 13 under — plunged down the field after a 76, Knox found himself tied for eighth place and among the lead groups teeing off late on Sunday because of TV scheduling.
Rock's implosion — he shot the worst round of the day, which included a triple-bogey seven on No. 11 — saw more than half the remaining field race past him.
Kim, who has just one top-10 finish in 84 career PGA Tour starts, shot a seven-under 64 — closing with four straight birdies — for a three-day total of 22-under 191.
Bronson Burgoon (66) is 17 under and Australian Matt Jones (66) is 16 under.
Brooke Henderson birdied the 17th hole after a so-so back nine, finishing with a two-under 69 on Saturday to take a one-stroke lead at the Marathon Classic.
The late birdie moved the 20-year-old Canadian out of a tie for the lead as she seeks her second win this season. Henderson is at 11-under 202 after three rounds at Highland Meadows.
Angela Stanford and Brittany Lincicome are one stroke behind. Stanford vaulted into contention with a 6-under 65, which tied for the low round of the day. Lincicome had a 4-under 67, including birdies on two of the final three holes.
This is the fifth time in Henderson's career she has held the 54-hole lead. She went on to win on three of the four prior occasions. Jacqui Concolino is two strokes back while 11 players are three back, including defending champion I.K. Kim and NCAA champion Jennifer Kupcho. The Wake Forest player is in the field on a sponsor's exemption.
Defending champion Scott McCarron and Bart Bryant shot matching 65s on Saturday to move into a share of the lead with Jeff Maggert at the Constellation Senior Players Championship.
McCarron birdied two of the final four holes at Exmoor Country Club for a three-round total of 16-under 200 in the fourth of five majors on the PGA Tour Champions schedule. Last year, he rallied to win the event at Caves Valley near Baltimore.
Maggert, who led most of the day, shot 66. Vijay Singh (66) was one shot back. Three-time champion Bernhard Langer (67) and Illinois golf coach Mike Small (66) were another shot behind, and Scott Parel (70) was in a group at 13 under.


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It's now been two years since Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, lifted to that office by white evangelical voters, and the debriefing continues. The recent midterm elections showed Republican support among white evangelicals remains steadfast, and polling proved that a large majority of white evangelicals still support the president. Articles and books purporting to explain the mystery of evangelical Trump support continue to roll off the presses, analyzing the situation from disparate angles. Some offer religious explanations, others political. This fall, a new essay collection, The Evangelical Crackup? The Future of the Evangelical-Republican Coalition, marshals the combined energy of more than two dozen political scientists to try and clarify the matter.
Paul A. Djupe is associate professor of political science at Denison University. He is the current editor of Religious Engagement in Democratic Politics, a new book series from Temple University Press. With Ryan L. Claassen, he is co-editor of The Evangelical Crackup?, the first release in that series. Eric C. Miller spoke with Djupe about the book recently by phone.
R&P: What is the "evangelical crackup," and why phrase it as a question?
PD: Well, it didn't start out as a question! The project was inspired by David Kirkpatrick's article from 2007 in The New York Times that detailed a splintering of the Christian Right—a fading generation of Christian Right elites, new and less polarizing issues on the agenda (e.g., human trafficking and global warming), and shrinking organizations. Of course, in the run up to the 2016 election, we also thought that Trump would provoke some sort of rebellion given his proudly admitted sins, his profound unorthodoxy, and his past support for abortion and gay rights. Needless to say, 2016 forced new punctuation. But that question mark was always going to work better given the diverse ways that we define and inquire about the political behavior of this important religious group. We began to think about a crackup not just in terms of the religious-political coalition, but internal to the religious group in particular.
R&P: The book has eighteen chapters and more than two dozen contributors. How did you select and arrange these?
PD: I began arranging this while I was the editor of the journal Politics & Religion and, as such, had an eagle-eyed view of the field. I invited some of the usual suspects who have been doing this a long time, but was lucky enough to know of younger scholars doing excellent work on a wide range of questions—about Latino evangelicals, the emergent church, Christian conservative legal organizations, and others. The volume is much richer for their inclusion. The organization is "political science" in that it follows the political targets. The first group of chapters addresses political targets, such as vote choices, party activists and party platforms, rights support, and state parties. The second thinks about the politics of religious change, looking at shifts in social networks, views of salient groups, and religious movements. The third section loops in public policy targets, such as the spread of "In God We Trust" mottoes in locales across the country. The final section offers big picture thinking about the Republican-evangelical coalition.
R&P: In a chapter co-authored with Brian R. Calfano, you suggest that evangelical elites were not particularly influential in determining evangelical attitudes toward Trump. Can you explain?
PD: This chapter is key to how I approach religious influence, and it follows a simple premise. In order for elites to have influence, they need to communicate clear, consistent messages. So, we did the radical thing of asking people who attend church whether their clergyperson had spoken out about Trump as well as how supportive of Trump they were. Few clergy of evangelicals had reportedly spoken out (9 percent in September and 23 percent by the week before the election) and perceptions of where they stood on Trump were all over the map. In most cases, people appeared to be guessing. We also asked about their perceptions of evangelical elites—people like Paula White, Rick Warren, Tony Perkins, etc. And here too, many had no idea who these people were and most didn't know where they stood on Trump. Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention's Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission (their main advocacy arm) was a prominent NeverTrumper, but perceptions of his Trump support were around 50/50, suggesting that people were guessing. Under these conditions, it's not at all surprising that partisanship is the best explanation for evangelical vote choices in 2016.
R&P: In his chapter, your co-editor Ryan L. Claassen argues that conservative racial attitudes—rather than "moral" commitments—secured the alliance between evangelicals and Trump. How so?
PD: Ryan is riffing off of a 2014 piece by Randall Balmer in Politico that argues that the early Christian Right leadership had their roots in efforts to protect segregated Christian private schools. Those schools sprang up when the federal government mandated integration after the 1964 Civil Rights Act. According to Balmer, the shift to social issues like abortion in 1979 (yes, six years after Roe v. Wade) was a strategic decision that would do the work of the racial politics without having to go on the record about race. Ryan, a specialist in this sort of analysis, wanted to see if he could find supportive evidence in public opinion data. He takes advantage of the shift in partisanship of white Southerners across this time period to assess the extent to which the growing Republicanism is more tightly linked to racial attitudes or abortion attitudes. Not surprisingly, he finds evidence for both driving increasing Republicanism, but in the South more of the change (about double) is due to racial conservatism. Together, these two accounts provide a challenge to the typical origin story of the Christian Right linked to Roe.
R&P: Based on an examination of denominational organizations, J. Tobin Grant and David Searcy write that evangelicalism is far less cohesive than the conventional wisdom would suggest. In their view, different varieties of evangelicals found their way to Trump for different reasons. Does that sound right to you?
PD: Yes. It is typical to assume that religious traditions, especially evangelicals, are unified groups—"81 percent" of them voted for Trump, after all—but just because people arrived at the same location does not mean they are there for the same reasons. They present a new way of organizing denominations that is quite satisfying to academics who tend to place a lot of weight on organization. People do not invest in organization on a whim, so joining decisions send strong signals about commitments. Since there is diversity in how denominations are grouped and organized, there are going to be diverse paths to political behavior. There's a neat productive tension between this chapter and the one I wrote with Calfano—these sorts of tensions pepper the book, which made it a joy to teach from.
R&P: Robert J. McGauvran and Elizabeth A. Oldmixon examine economic attitudes to account for evangelical fiscal conservatism. If evangelicals have traditionally been famous social conservatives, what drew them to Trump's economics?
PD: This is the question that famously inspired Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas? Why would evangelicals, who tend to have a lower socio-economic status (SES), favor policies tilted toward the wealthy? The answer tracks well before Trump to the early 1990s, at least, when the Christian Right had made major inroads into the GOP. The Christian Coalition cut a deal to back the 1994 GOP manifesto "The Contract with America" if the GOP would pursue the "Contract with the American Family." Also, the shift in fiscal conservatism resulted from a reframing of these issues away from the rich versus poor to emphasize the value of individual responsibility. Notably, evangelicalism teaches a rugged individualism and self-reliance, with insulates believers from the negative influence of others. At the same time, evangelical SES has improved across time, and the repetition of clear and consistent messages from Republican elites has surely affected white evangelical ideologies.
R&P: In the final section, Robert Wuthnow documents what he calls "ironic continuities of political evangelicalism." How does he distinguish political from religious evangelicalism, and what does it teach us about support for Trump?
PD: If my own writing is suggesting some of the same lessons as Bob Wuthnow, then I am probably on the right track. As noted above, Brian and I argued that evangelicals were on their own in 2016, while Bob argues here that we should make a further distinction. Political evangelicals were united, while religious evangelicals were not. In other words, evangelicalism is a set of religious practices and beliefs promoted by religious organizations. Those organizations are fragmented, are growing more racially diverse, and did not engage with the campaign at high rates. On the other hand, evangelical elites that Republicans were "conferring power on," part of a long courtship, were highly connected to the campaign and sought to maintain the tight identity link. Of critical importance to Bob's recent writing (including this chapter) on the study of religion and politics is that we think carefully about "selecting on the dependent variable." Just because 81 percent of evangelicals voted for Trump does not mean we can infer that there are religious reasons for doing so.
R&P: What does the future hold for the Evangelical-Republican coalition? Is it cracking up?
PD: I can't help but trot out a social science truism—it depends. The link of white evangelicals to the Republican Party appears stronger and more impregnable than ever. The combination of elected officials, evangelical elites, social networks, ideological purity, and legal and party organizations conspire to keep this productive relationship going. There is coming a time when several of those actors may realize they can no longer win elections with a base of white conservatives—as Robert Jones has argued—but until the engineer of this train decides to change tracks, it will continue forward.
At the same time, this conception of the coalition deeply challenges our conventional wisdom about religion. We once thought that certain religious and moral values would serve as limits to providing political support. For example, Bill Clinton may be presiding over a booming economy, but his moral failings were too great to support. None of that veneer remains intact; we can foresee almost no circumstances at this point that would intervene in the mutual love affair—the equally yoked relationship—between white evangelicals and Trump. But, that necessarily entails a crackup of evangelicalism. It may mean separating out political and religious evangelicalisms as Wuthnow suggests, but we could stop short of that choice and simply acknowledge that religion is no longer powerful enough to influence political behavior. Religion appears to be failing to exercise independent power on the decisions adherents make.


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Book Review: foodStuff
May 21, 2017 southcapenetRegular Columns
Tony Jackman
Human & Rousseau
Review: Brian Joss
Jackman has many strings to his bow. He's a playwright, author, chief sub-editor of the online Daily Maverick, he used to write a column, Sliced and Diced for the Weekend Argus and owned a bistro in Cradock, which attracted an assortment of the weird and the wonderful, among them two visitors from Orania, which had unintended consequences. Now he lives in Grahamstown with his journalist wife, Diane Cassere.
In this cook book subtitled, Reflections and recipes from a celebrated foodie, he reminisces about his life and how fate, rather a recruitment ad from De Beers Consolidated Diamond Mines, brought him and his Yorkshire family to South Africa – where they settled in Oranjemund at the mouth of the Orange River.
The stories reflect Jackman's nomadic life: some are humorous, some are about life in general and the saddest chapter of all is when he writes about the death of his son Nic at the age of 19 in January 11 1992.
The chapters with several sub-headings are Reflecting on the Past; Reflecting on My Life and Reflecting on the Now and Beyond, and they all include recipes, each one sounding more tempting than the other. Unusually , parsnips, which I really enjoy, get a section of their own. Parsnips are quite hard to find in the average supermarket although in season they are plentiful at farmers' markets.
Jackman writes that "parsnips are finally getting to enjoy their place in the sun". You can make a Roasted Parsnip Soup or enjoy Bangers and Parsnip Mash. You can also use them to make a rosti, just use parsnip instead of potato; you can add chunky pieces of parsnip to a winter chicken casserole or use a parsnip puree to top a shepherd's or cottage pie.
In the sub-chapter, The Wheel's Still In Spin, Jackman reflects on a world gone by: Woodstock; life on the Cape Times when subs edited copy on the Atex system to today as chief sub-editor of the online Daily Maverick, where he can publish stories and pictures at the click of a button from his home study.
One of the dishes in this section is Lacquered Pork Shoulder or Belly. The lacquer is a dark, syrupy glaze that can also be used on a game bird or duck breast.
There are numerous recipes and include Cape Malay Mutton with Akhni; Beef Fillet with Melted Brie; French Onion Soup; Macaroni Cheese, which with Jackman's touch becomes a dish fit for royalty, or the snob at your table. Greek Shoulder of Lamb; Lemon Roasted Potatoes; All-Day Venison; Karoo Saddle Chops on the Braai and Duck Two Way with a Spiked Grapefruit Juice, to name just some. If you have a sweet tooth then you will surely be tempted by the Lemon Syrup Cake; Chocolate Tart or Ratafia Figs. Ratafia from Haute Cabriere wine estate is a staple in my liquor cabinet and using it with figs makes a decadent dessert. You could use Drambuie or Van der Hum, but it won't be the same.
The recipes are easy to follow and the instructions clear so you could with a bit effort and a lot of passion produce dishes that will have your friends asking for more. foodStuff is much more than a recipe book, it's a memoir of one man's life and the adventures that shaped him. Photographs are by Myburgh du Plessis.
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Of all the crazy stories we heard last summer about the GOP efforts to depose Colorado Republican Party Chair Steve House, this snippet from the Washington Post's Ben Terris was perhaps the most shocking.
... House arrived the night of June 15 to find himself outnumbered -- and on the defensive. [Colorado Attorney General Cynthia] Coffman was joined by Tom Tancredo, a firebrand former congressman, and Becky Mizel, a Pueblo County chairwoman. Three months earlier, these three had been his biggest supporters when he challenged and beat the incumbent party chairman -- but now, suddenly, they wanted him out.
They ticked off a litany of grievances: House's bookkeeping habits, his communication style, his refusal to hire one of their allies as executive director.
"Is that all?" House asked after each point, in an exchange recalled by Tancredo and confirmed by House's office.
"Well, there's Julie," Coffman said.
"I know three Julies," House said.
Come on, said Coffman -- who was he trying to kid?
"Are you accusing me of having an affair?" House asked.
"Well," Coffman said, "are you?"
All of us have dirt to be uncovered, and normally you don't want to see it trotted out in the media, no matter who it is.
But this story about Cynthia Coffman is an absolutely legitimate invitation for reporters to take a look at Coffman's own house, literally, the one she lives in alone, separate from her husband, U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman.
But it appears that only public statement Mike Coffman has made about his marriage has been expunged from the public record by The Denver Post.
Mike Coffman: "The fact the we're married in this day and age is a success story in and of itself."
But if you look for that quote in The Post's archives now, you find it gone, disappeared.
Bartels tells me the quote is accurate, as recorded by her from Mike Coffman.
So the purpose of this blog post is to scold The Post for deleting the quote and to reinsert it into the public record, for what it's worth.
It's not uncommon for the first versions of Post stories to changed prior to being finalized for publication and inclusion in the newspaper's database, but this deletion was a mistake.
And also, to be fair, here's Cynthia Coffman's explanation for the unusual living arrangement of herself and her husband, as explained in 2014 through Cynthia Coffman's spokeswoman to The Denver Post's Kurtis Lee, who pointed out that the Coffmans' separate addresses prevent Cynthia Coffman from voting for her husband.
"Cynthia and Mike owned their own homes before they were married," said Sarah Lenti, a spokeswoman for the attorney general campaign. "Mike works in Washington, D.C., but for the weekends, and Cynthia lives and works in Denver as chief deputy attorney general."
Cynthia Coffman: I don't relish the hardship for Steve or the party, nor was anyone involved in that meeting eager to have the conversation at all. But as someone who was being inundated with information raising some very serious questions, I had no choice but to sit down and lay out the accusations to Steve. There was no joy in this, there were no threats, nor was there any desire for the meeting to become public fodder.
Coffman concluded with, "At the same time, just sort of sweeping it under the rug wouldn't have been responsible."
Actually, keeping Steve House's personal stuff under the rug would have been the responsible thing to do. Now Cynthia Coffman will have to face the mirror.


HERSHEY - Two minutes into Wednesday night's game, Greencastle-Antrim held a 7-0 advantage over Gwynedd-Mercy, and things were looking good for the Blue Devils.
The Greencastle-Antrim girls basketball team took on Gwynedd-Mercy in the second round of the PIAA-AAA tournament Wednesday, and fell victim to the Monarchs' tough defense in a 39-22 loss.
But after that first two minutes, Greencastle went cold.
Greencastle scored a measly 15 points for the remaining 30 minutes and suffered a 39-22 defeat in the second round of the PIAA Class AAA girls basketball playoffs.
"Give them the credit; we did what we could," Greencastle coach Mike Rhine said. "We just didn't have enough. I don't have a problem losing to a team that's better. When you play someone that good, this is what happens."
The victory puts the Monarchs (25-4) into the state quarterfinals, where they'll face Archbishop Wood. Greencastle finishes 24-4.
"We didn't quite come out on them early, but we knew we had to pick it up," Gwynedd-Mercy coach Thomas Lonergan said. "We were able to get into our full-court press, and I think that really wore them out."
Defense was the name of the game for the Monarchs, who held Greencastle to a 17.9 shooting percentage. The Blue Devils managed only seven field goals despite taking 39 shots, and were only 3-for-8 from the foul line.
"They were all over us," G-A senior Meghan Hirneisen said. "They did a really great job. They got some turnovers off our offense because they were up top guarding us so well. We weren't really able to run our offense. They were just aggressive and scrappy; they were a really good team."
Gwynedd-Mercy did an exceptional job on Blue Devil leading scorer Jenay Faulkner. She scored a free throw to put Greencastle up 1-0, then never scored again. Faulkner did still have eight rebounds, four assists and a pair of steals.
The boards were also a big factor in G-A's defeat. By the end of the game, the Monarchs held a 37-20 advantage in rebounds.
"We just tried to go back to the fundamentals, and in the first half especially, we boxed out tremendously," said Erica DeCandido, who finished with 19 points and 14 rebounds for the Monarchs. "We knew they were shooting a lot of threes - long shots make long rebounds, so we had to get out on them."
Despite the loss, Greencastle made it to the second round of states for just the second time in school history.
"It's amazing what we've accomplished this year," Hirneisen said. "Hannah (Crist) and Jenay both got their 1,000th points; we won the division again, and I don't think anyone thought we would get here."
NOTES: Gwynedd-Mercy did not score at all in the fourth quarter ... Hirneisen led the Blue Devils with 10 points, and Crist had 7 ... Brigit Coleman finished just short of a double-double for the Monarchs with 11 points and nine rebounds.
Carly Heineman 2 0-0 4, Maggie Cameron 1 0-0 2, Erica DeCandido 7 4-5 19, Brigit Coleman 5 0-0 11, Danielle Senour 0 1-3 1, Mary Claire Casey 1 0-0 2, Megan Dougherty 0 0-0 0. Totals — 16 5-8 39.
Hannah Crist 2 1-2 7, Morgan Wagaman 2 0-0 4, Jenay Faulkner 0 1-4 1, Morgan Sweitzer 0 0-0 0, Meghan Hirneisen 3 1-2 10, Ashley True 0 0-0 0, Lydia Crist 0 0-0 0. Totals — 7 3-8 22.
3-point goals — GM 2 (DeCandido, Coleman), GA 5 (Hirneisen 3, Crist 2).


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use Carp;

use Bio::KBase::ServiceRegistry::Client;
use Getopt::Long;
use Pod::Usage;

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=head1	NAME

is_alive

=head1	SYNOPSIS

is_alive --url "http://kbase.us/services/ontology_service"
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=head1	DESCRIPTION

The is_alive script prints out to STDOUT the return value of the is_alive
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=item   --url The url of the service to check.

=back

=head1	AUTHORS

Thomas Brettin

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New York's Petzel Gallery with Dana Schutz: "Imagine Me and You"
February 27, 2019 Mary Hrbacek
Dana Scutz, Beat Out the Sun, oil on canvas, 94 x 87.5," 2018
Petzel Gallery presents "Dana Schutz, "Imagine Me and You," an exhibition of twelve new large-scale oil paintings and five bronze sculptures that makes visual commentary in multilayered social, personal and political tableaux. Schutz confidently confront the viewer directly, with breathtakingly fierce, even brutal images. They are not "pretty"; the artist is not overly preoccupied with aesthetics, or with traditional "good taste." Her assertive art is instead utterly honest, prepped to seize the awareness of a media-saturated public for whom art, film and television supply an overload of daily visual sustenance.
Schutz does not employ the classic "Golden Section" or bother about harmonious colors relationships. She uses the strong primary colors, often unmixed, preferably a deep red that makes a passionate visceral appeal which disarms audience's critical, intellectual armor. On first view, such explicit openness and forceful directness constitutes a definite challenge which is bound to be vaguely unsettling. The works might even be described as slightly caricaturish. But they have another kind of beauty, a beauty that ensues when one is sincere, authentic and real.
Schutz's inventive symbolic imagery enables her to engage the viewer's unconscious, in messages meant to be gradually apprehended at a level beneath her textural surfaces. Her thickly painted impastos create a visually compelling effect of depth and volume. Some of the works relate to a layered cubist vernacular employed in a loose tumbling technique, which she combines with emotional expressionistic patterns. The paintings are deep, disturbing and poetic. This is not conceptual art. There is no text to explain the underlying content. The meaning of these works takes time to grasp and absorb as they communicate subliminally; they can also be impenetrable. They speak to current issues indirectly, in highly charged yet veiled meanings.
Schutz is far from timid; she is outgoing. While the messages require some unraveling and interpretation, her imaginative statements are nonetheless quite commanding. She is not a "people pleaser." Sometimes she exposes the underpinnings of the subject's feelings in adult portrayals. Perhaps she has noticed a physical charge between the recipient and giver of an award, a connection which seems to have inspired her highly original image that is graphically yet obliquely expressed in her work entitled "The Presenter." Her art is no doubt at times autobiographical, but it is impossible to be certain if the imagery in "The Presenter" arises from a dream, is in fact a visual diary, or is rather an explicit comment on a public event.
Right: Dana Scutz, Strangers, oil on canvas, 84 x 88," 2018
Schutz's pictures display references to Phillip Guston, George Condo and German painter Stephanie Gutheit. She expunges her fears and negative emotions in works such as "Painting During an Earthquake," and "The Treadmill,"
which is a frantic and rather hilarious depiction of a woman engaged in a workout. Her commentary on these personal experiences is droll and ironic. It is conceivable that the inspiration for the piece entitled "Mountain Group" arose when she attempted to paint a motif en plein air, only to have her mountain view blocked by hordes of nature-loving hikers. The artist's frustration here is palpable, especially for anyone who has tried painting outdoors from nature. Her work entitled "Beating the Sun" may refer to a hate group in the process of destroying the sun's light, or perhaps the enlightened, socially conscious vibe of inclusion and #metoo disclosures it symbolizes.
Schutz is incredibly brave; her audacity is breathtaking. She has a fearless story to tell that will not be suppressed by propriety or tradition. Her works are the antithesis of convention. The artist may be angry, she may be outraged or even saddened by a sense of "Is this all there is?" But this exhibition explicitly demonstrates her determination to make her intimate statement.
Left: Artist, Dana Shutz
New York City is not exactly famous for its "heart" or for the "soul" of its character. It takes pride in being tough and in being brutal with what it imagines is the admirable and necessary intention of weeding out newcomers, "the weak," or the untalented. Schutz is a risktaker who opens her heart; to frankly expose one's life experiences to such an audience is either unaware or enlightened. This exhibition provides an impressive example of inclusive truthfulness in the artworld.
Schutz displays wry humor in "Painting in an Earthquake," where the artist anchors a skeletal head with her foot, as she scans her work amidst random materials that have tumbled to the floor. She stretches four arms every which way in an attempt to control the damage. The figure, whose back faces the viewer, does not seem anxious to leave the dangerous scene. She is nothing if not stalwart. Schutz is especially adept at creating provocative vignettes, as seen in the thumb cum arm that transforms into a male body part in the painting entitled "Presenter." This painting displays a woman whose skirt is pulled to her chin, exposing her sexuality from the front. Can it be that the figure compromised herself in order to receive the award? There is no telling, but her chin transforms into a large male organ that fits within the fingers of the oversized "presenter's" hand. Painting about scary or daunting experiences seems to help Schutz find her way through them to achieve a sense of resolution or acceptance of a difficult incident.
The primitive, fierce looking female portrayed in "Touched" is a miracle of angry indignation. Judging by the red slash (brushstroke) on her broadly painted face, it is possible that she has been beaten. The economically painted ciphers that indicate her two breasts show marks that may signify they have been pinched. In an image with public underpinnings entitled "Washing Monsters," the large naked arm of "Big Brother," controller of the status quo, shields and protects the big headed, small body of an executive villain who may have been bailed out from the blame of those who were gratuitously molested. Horns (horniness) adorn the top of the oversized naked arm. The executive has been "washed" or expunged of all accountability.
Right: Dana Schutz, Mountain Group, oil on canvas, 120 x 156," 2018
In "Treadmill," rays of light emanate from the TV monitor as the figure one assumes to be the artist frantically works out on exercise equipment. Like most people grappling with exercise equipment, the woman seems overwrought. The humorous image reveals the artist's frailty and touches many viewers' life pursuits. "Strangers" is a fearful enigmatic image fraught with the impending need to defend oneself with a bat and a frying pan. As the protagonists are alone, it may indicate a modicum of imagined fear of persecution, which may be justifiable or just an illusory threat.
Schutz's bronze sculptural works are filled with energy and passion. There is a sense of Picasso's playfulness about pieces such as "Head in the Wind," which expresses the movement of the unseen air, and "Sun Lady," in which rays are made solid on a hovering sun, perched above the figure's head. These five bronze pieces, marked by fingerprints, recall fresh clay works which are imaginative, freer than traditional figurative bronze sculptures.
Dana Schutz's individualistic, provocative paintings challenge the status quo typically on view in a city that takes pride in the historic prominence it achieved in its Abstract Expressionist heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, and in its Pop art tradition led by Andy Warhol, that peaked in the 1960s. Since that time, especially during the culture wars of the 1990s, painting has periodically been pronounced to be demonstrably "dead." Human beings by their nature have forever been eating, sleeping, breathing and so on; they have also been creating handwrought pictures since epochs immemorial, as evidenced by the 40,000-year-old cave paintings recently discovered in Borneo, Indonesia. If the current exhibition is any indication, it is possible to anticipate that artists will continue to keep the genre of painting alive. Artists paint for many reasons; like Schutz they may believe that they have something to say. Schutz seems to be angered by the state of contemporary life and she has found a meaningful strategy to make her thoughts and feelings public. Her voice is being heard.
By Mary Hrbacek, Contributing Writer
Through February 23, 2019
Posted in: Art, Collectables, Exhibition Reviews, Sculpture, Speaking of Art
Tagged: contem, fine art art criticism, new york artists
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On Thanksgiving Day and Black Friday, Sigma will gift us FREE WORLDWIDE SHIPPING with no limits from November 26 – 27, 2015. Cyber Monday coupons and holiday galore!
Sigma has improved their system a lot since that year that chaos ensued and sigmabeauty.com became too slow for the mass to get their order in on time. Free shipping is not a huge deal for most Americans who only have to buy $30 for the offer, but international buyers pay a lot for shipping! I've gotten the feedback that this deal is most welcomed in countries like UK, Australia, France, Brazil.
The weekend between Black Friday and Cyber Monday is also celebrated with a special free gift with purchases of $50 or more. What is the free gift? There is some mysterious air around it, but stay updated by checking the Sigma coupon page.
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If you've been following this blog for a while, you may remember that about two-and-a-half months ago I wrote about my anger issue. After struggling against my habitual reactive and sometimes explosive anger pattern for quite some time, I decided to see whether I could stop this destructive behaviour in myself. So I embarked on a sixty-six day experiment, sixty-six days being the most widely accepted length of time needed to change a habit. It has been a couple of weeks since I finished the experiment and I am pleased to announce that whilst I am not yet saintly in my calm, my behaviour in response to triggers has improved immensely (just ask my partner!).
Identify the link between my anxiety levels and my outbursts. If my anxiety is choking me, it doesn't take much to spill over into reactive anger.
Reflect on the real cause of my distress. It was rarely what I initially thought it was.
Clear away festering stuff that was blocking me emotionally.
I made some interesting breakthroughs in terms of how I see myself, the kind of behaviour I was or wasn't prepared to tolerate from others (cue quitting my job) and what I really wanted to prioritise in my life. In that time I started taking myself on regular solo bush hikes, I got down and dirty with meditation, fell in love with my oil burner and lavender oil and I decided that I didn't give a rats a%$e whether I was the "right" kind of employee, student, daughter, lover or friend.
Living up to the expectations of others is a huge burden. In fact, I think successfully meeting the expectations of others can be downright impossible because often others don't really know what they want from you. If they have their own issues and insecurities, their expectations may shift or be quite irrational. So if we are chasing a moving target, or several moving targets from all the different people we want to please, it doesn't take long before our own emotional resources are depleted. Then, lump on top of this the expectations we place on ourselves, and the pot really starts to boil over.
The less people I try to please, the happier I become. The happier I become, the more people around me start to relax in my presence. Life starts to flow. And it becomes much easier to identify unwanted weeds and rocks and pull them out, ie. to ditch the commitments (or people!) that are pulling me under.
So there you have it. I thought I had an anger issue. My anger was only a symptom though. A symptom of unease, of anxiety, of exhaustion, of a strong desire to ditch others' road maps and follow my own compass.
Do you have (or have previously had) any undesirable habits that you think are signs of something that needs attention in your life?


First issue is a false negative in the CPU detection. It says that my 6 core Intel i7 980 is not capable of running MR apps even though it exceeds the minimum spec for "mixed reality ready" in terms of actual CPU power and runs Oculus VR content just fine. It's not a common CPU, so probably isn't in the database.
Second issue is that if I choose to set up a "simulation" or use the registry to bypass the hardware check, I always get a "Something Went Wrong" error of 2181038087-11 -- no idea what that means.
I ran into the same thing on my secondary machine. Was thinking I might have to replace the GPU, but it seems the CPU is the main issue. I have the 990X that I'm sure is also missing this instruction set. That's a bummer as it is still a great PC otherwise and really powerful CPU.
Hey Patrick, not to take this out on you, but I have to say that I find this Microsoft trend over the last few years to be very distressing. This is coming from a Microsoft fan and someone who still uses a Windows 10 Mobile phone even though MS and everyone else has abandoned the platform. Microsoft used to be known for supporting a wide breadth of PC hardware but now with every new OS update or otherwise, MS seems to be consistently dropping support for hardware that is perfectly capable (even with point updates ala windows 8.1 x64 dropping support for first and second generation x64 processors because they lack compare exchange 128 support).
Now it seems that AVX instructions are required for Mixed Reality even though competing VR solutions have no such requirement. You guys used to know how to program for compatibility with a wide variety of hardware without relying on only the latest whiz-bang instruction sets. Now granted AVX is supported by almost 90% of the market according to the latest Steam hardware survey, but bad word of mouth from whatever fraction of that remaining 10% feel their hardware should have been up to snuff is something that can be very detrimental, especially when you are starting from behind in the market (something I hoped MS would have learned from their phone attempts). Additionally, since Windows will soon be branching out to ARM devices again via OneCore, will the Mixed Reality Portal never be able to run on ARM processors which all lack AVX instructions?
I can understand you telling me that my hexa-core Phenom II is too old to run your platform (even though I've not yet seen any other reason to replace it), but to say the same to someone with a hexa-core Core i7 just seems ludicrous to me. People aren't going to build/buy a new PC just to support Mixed Reality, they're just going to buy and support a competing product instead, one with the foresight to support all the hardware powerful enough for their platform.
I had held off on buying VR equipment because I was really excited about Windows Mixed Reality and I wanted to be able to use and support the platform but since I'm not even able to set it up that won't be possible now. I had a heavy heart tonight as I re-packaged my Lenovo Explorer and put it in a box with a return shipping label. I've already placed an order for a competing VR product that I know will work with my processor.
@Xenrid .... nice comment about Microsoft backward compatibility support for older hardware, I myself have been trying to encourage them to be more supportive particularly on hardware supplied by them over the last three years. Intel is also failing the industry with inadequate support for their integrated processor / graphic solutions... leading to I suspect a reluctance by many professionals to buy any new products from other than the market leader. In Graphics, NVidia seems to be the vendor to support, if Microsoft continues to manage their high priced Surface (Intel affiliated) product line like they have over the last two years, they are going to lost market support. I do recognize that technology is changing rapidly and they are trying to adapt but they have to be aware that not everyone has the financial wealth to spend on new technology as they do.
I do think that an explanation of "your CPU is lacking in features required by Mixed Reality" would make more sense than "your CPU is not powerful enough"


Re: How long will sales prices last?
How long will sales prices last?
Wanted to know how long IT Blu ray, Blade Runner 2049 blu ray and Baby Driver blu ray will be on sale. Is there anyway to tell by looking the item up on Bestbuy.com?
Thanks for checking out Best Buy as your source for new movies. I know I tend to pick up at least one a week, and sales definitely play a part in determining what movie makes the cut. I can answer this question for you.
Generally speaking, our sales run from Sunday through Saturday, with weekly sales refreshing at 12:01 AM ct. Occassionally we may also have more limited sales, which would be called out in some other fashion. For everything in our ad, please visit our page here.
I was also interested in this question. Thank you very much for your reply.


Trust is constantly on my mind these days. My husband and I found out that I am pregnant. Anyone who has read my previous work for Catholic Exchange knows that I have had three miscarriages and spent 3.5 years afflicted with post-partum depression and anxiety. The doctors know why I had miscarriages and my Catholic NaPro doctor told me three years ago that she could possibly help us have another successful pregnancy. In the meantime, she was able to begin treating my severe hormone deficiencies.
At that time, I had just suffered my third and most traumatic loss which resulted in emergency surgery. The post-partum that had developed 10 weeks after I gave birth to my daughter, deepened after each loss. That was not the time for another child. My husband and I knew that God wanted us to heal and walk the Cross of post-partum depression. My body also needed major healing after all it had been through. We didn't know when the post-partum would lift and we knew the risk of me getting it after another pregnancy was high. Thankfully, NaPro offers a post-partum depression progesterone treatment that has helped a lot of women.
After that difficult time, we didn't know or think we would have any more children, but God's ways are not our own. It would have been imprudent to try and I wrote about the need for prudence in such decisions. God calls each one of our families to a different path to holiness and we cannot compare our situation to the person sitting next to us in the pew because we have no idea what they are going through, can handle, or what God is asking of them. Being judgmental is a sin for a reason and it stems from the destructive sin of pride. But, God is also not done with any of us. Crosses lift, evolve, or take a new shape. Old Crosses disappear and new ones take their place. In all of these we are called to trust.
Congratulations on your pregnancy! Prayers that you and your baby remain healthy and you can bring him/her to full term! I believe you are on the right track – turning to Mary and placing your trust in Jesus. I firmly believe that through your consecration to Mary and by taking your prayers to Jesus through her, your prayers will be answered. I speak from experience as I have done the same with my newborn grandchildren. Our Mother has always come through.
I am a first-timer to your blog and I really like what I see. Your devotion is inspiring. I would like to invite you to peruse my blog, http://www.reflectionsofalaycatholic.com. I am a relatively new Catholic and I write mostly about my personal experience of how God is present to me. I don't yet have the confidence to discuss global issues as they relate to our faith, but I'm working on it, and reading and learning from holy men and women like you will help me get there. Keep up your good work!


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Q: Why doesn't the 'toast' message work, in Android? Cannot fix bug, please help! Imagine I have the following code that runs as a background processor for an android application:
public class Background extends Service
{
    public void popup (String message, int duration)
    {
        Toast.makeText(this, message, duration).show();
    }

    class BackgroundChecker extends TimerTask
    {
        public void run()
        {
            popup("Message!", Toast.LENGTH_LONG); // here
        }
    }
}

When it reaches the popup message i.e. // here, Android tells me to force quit. I know that the problem is with context i.e. this, but I don't know why because I have extended Service in that class which Android API told me to. Can you help me figure out why this is happening and how to fix it? By the way, instead of this I used getApplicationContext() as well but it still crashes =(.
Thank you.

A: I havent tried this, but how about having your service tell an activity to do a toast, since a Service is a background activity it seems like its context wouldnt work to do a toast.
Something else you could try is to extend the Application class, and have a toast generator there, and then from your service call.
ApplicationExtender variableName = (ApplicationExtender) Background.this.getApplication();
variableName.toast("message");

Your ApplicationExtender:
public class ApplicationExtender extends Application {

    public void toast(String message){
    Toast.makeText(super.getApplicationContext(),message,Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
    }

}

You need to add your extending class to your manifest for it to work.
<application android:icon="@drawable/icon" android:label="@string/app_name" android:name=".ApplicationExtender">

I cant garantee this will work, I havent tried it.


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Lagos trains 8000 students on entrepreneurship, employability skills
By Gbenga Salau
Embarks On Massive Youth Empowerment
Initiatives To Tackle Unemployment
Worried by the growing rate of unemployment among youths, especially graduates of higher institutions in the country, Lagos State Government has commenced its youths empowerment programmes, targeted at final year students and those in penultimate classes in higher Institutions in the state, with the aim of making the 8000 participants entrepreneurs and boosting their employment opportunities.
The 8000 penultimate and final year students were drawn from all the higher institutions in the state and are now undergoing entrepreneurship and employability skills training programme, sponsored by the State Government under its Jobs Initiative Lagos (JIL).
JIL, according to Special Adviser to Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Education, Barrister Tokunbo Wahab, is aimed at preparing participants for immediate entry into the workforce as employees and employers of labour, by equipping them with the new market-aligned knowledge, soft skills, business tools, and a mindset re-orientation that will make them suitable and qualify for their chosen careers in the technology-driven world of work.
Wahab, represented at the opening ceremony by Sanwo-Olu's Senior Special Assistant on Tertiary Education, Youths and Students Relations, Mr. Omotayo Sanya-Olu, explained that the selected 8000 participants would be trained in such core areas as Soft Skills, Resume Writing, Work Etiquettes, Presentation and Pitching, Corporate E-mail Drafting, Negotiations Skills, Interviewing Techniques, Microsoft Suites, Microsoft PowerPoint Presentations, Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook and Entrepreneurship Skills development.
Wahab further explained that the state government came up with the initiative to up-skill youths in the state, by equipping them with all necessary skills that would not only make them employable and highly competitive in the competitive global market but also make their services highly essential for national economic growth, thus remain relevant in the 21st-century global digital economy.
He said: "… We have equally designed an all-inclusive entrepreneurship programme that will teach participants how to launch and run a successful new business of their own, with an in-depth knowledge of business development strategies and risk factors that will help them to stabilise in the competitive global markets."
Wahab, who appealed to participants to justify the government huge investment in the project, by maximising benefits of the training through active participation, attentiveness and total co-operation with their facilitators, urged them to shun any form of evil vices that could undermine the government's good intentions
Earlier in her remarks, Assistant Project Coordinator, LoftInc Allied Partners Limited, the organisation collaborating with the state government on the training programme, Mrs. Olatokunbo Aiyenimelo, disclosed that the state government in partnership with her organisation had earlier trained about 28000 youths in the first phase of the scheme, adding that professionals and experts in different areas were on ground to take participants through various skills development programmes.
While commending the Lagos government for the initiative, the Chairman, University of Lagos Students Union Council, Adesanya Sodeeq Olawale, also a beneficiary, said the programme would help to develop their potential skills, while preparing them for the challenges required for good jobs and entrepreneurship skills.
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John the Baptist was a Zimbabwean
The Herald in full sycophant form
It's an old joke; apparently when asked if he was Christ, John the Baptist replied "I am not the one". It's also the favorite escape clause for Zimbabweans when faced with a potential penalty for some misdemeanor.
And so it was, two weeks ago, when I discovered that the electronic scale we use for weighing fertilizer and chemicals had been broken by someone overloading it – I got just that response from the person most likely to have been the culprit, "I am not the one". I'm afraid to say I lost my temper. Then I realised that there were customers with small children in the nursery. I should have been embarrassed except I wasn't though I did recognize that something needed to be done about my increasingly volatile temper – so now I'm on the "happy pills".
When I saw this headline on The Herald (it's a government-owned paper) I was struck by how the President, ED Mnangagwa, is effectively saying "I am the one, I am taking responsibility for what I say, trust me". Well isn't that interesting. His slogan for the election last year was "Zimbabwe is open for business". Then in the troops hit the streets at the first sign of unrest and promptly shot dead 6 people in the back as they ran away. Footage was broadcast of a soldier taking aim and opening fire – clearly identifiable. At the inquest the army said it was very definitely not responsible; they were imposters who opened fire. Later ED Mnangagwa said he had ordered the troops onto the street i.e. he was the one responsible though initially he said he was NOT the one.
Back in the mid 1980s when the Ndebele people in the south-west of the country were being persecuted and massacred for supporting the then president Robert Mugabe's nemesis, Joshua Nkomo, guess who was in charge of the Central Intelligence Organisation whilst North Korean trained 5th Brigade was committing the massacres? You guessed it, ED Mnangagwa. He hasn't quite said he was not the one but he does claim that he didn't know anything about it.
The Gukurahundi Massacres (around 20,000 victims) as they are known are back in the news and the President has said that justice must be seen to be done. Victims are being given proper burials and a commission has been set up to investigate what happened. I am sceptical that anyone will be held accountable, least of all ED or the then commander of the 5th Brigade, Perence Shiri, who happens to be the current Minister of Agriculture. So I think it should be quite likely that "the investors" in the article might also be a little cynical when the President "gives his word". No I didn't read the article. It wasn't my newspaper – it was lying unopened in my local bank and I didn't feel inclined to wade through what was bound to be a lot of sychophantic guff.
A friend of mine always used to buy The Herald; "you have to know your enemy" he'd admonish me when I asked him why but even the happy pills I'm taking don't fortify my patience to that level. I don't think they are meant to. But they might actually be calming my temper – I haven't lost it since that day but then nobody has claimed they "are not the one".
Tags: ED Mnangagwa, Gukurahundi massacres, John the Baptist, Perence Shiri, The Herald
Mike is multi-talented. He's been working on the electrics of the cottage so that we can get it functional for renting out, but he can fix computers too and turn his hand to just about anything else; painting, welding you name it. But he's struggling for work and even had to borrow some diesel off me the other day as he was running out and didn't have any cash to put fuel in his car.
Smart has been doing tiling and minor building work for us. He's pleasant, hard-working and also broke. Unlike a lot of builders here he does ALL the work himself; mixing cement, carrying the bricks and of course the building.
Nearly everyone is struggling to get by in Zimbabwe none more so than the artists. So this Sunday I went along to the art fair and expo at the Mukuvisi Woodlands – a nature reserve within the confines of the city which has a selection of non-dangerous game, horse rides, walks and is a great place to go and relax watch the birds and enjoy the animals. Not surprisingly they are also struggling, so it was a good opportunity to go along and lend support.
Works by Daryl Nero, Arthur Azvedo, Helen Leiros and Lyn Barrie were on display (main boards L to R)
It was not a big event but a lot of my favorite artists were on display. I cannot think a lot of money was made but a few paintings had been sold and everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves. Most works were well beyond my budget but I did pick up a couple of small pieces by Roseanne Tunmer that my wife could appreciate (she doesn't share my taste in art). I heard Roseanne quip as I was paying that she'd be very pleased if someone stole some of her work!
A lion face in progress by Kelli Barker
Heron and tortoise by Roseanne Tunmer, pods by Wayne Stutchbury
Of course not everyone in Zimbabwe is struggling. The kleptocrats who rule the country are very well off thank you and seem quite unconcerned that their shenanigans are widely reported in the independent press. Those who can are helping themselves whilst the rest of us get by – or not.
Some, such as Grace Mugabe – the president's wife, have millions but don't use them. She has recently laid claim to the Mazowe dam (reservoir) denying all-comers access to a livelihood or recreation. Local water authority engineers who came to inspect a leak in the nearly 100 year-old wall were chased off in favor of Chinese engineers.
The much vaunted command agriculture scheme has been shown to be a massive money loser . For the uninitiated it is a scheme whereby funding has been acquired (some $500m) to allow mostly resettled farmers who have no access to funds (they have no title for the land they are on and therefore no collateral) the ability to grow maize and solve the nation's chronic food shortage. The government supplies the inputs in the form of seed, fertilizers and chemicals and then buys back the harvest – at a loss! 400,000 ha were to be identified and a figure of 2m tonnes of maize harvested. At 5 tonnes/ha it is quite doable for less than highly skilled farmers. However only some 160,000 ha were subscribed to the scheme (or 17200 ha according to the government mouthpiece The Herald – I think a zero is missing). This amounts to about 800,000 tonnes at 5 t/ha or an average yield of 12.5 t/ha to achieve the 2m tonnes that has been much quoted, which is wishful thinking of a high order. ART farm where I used to live gets this sort of yield in a good year (which this last season was) and they farm to research standards. The farmers who this scheme targets have, at best, very ordinary farming skills. Even I, and I have basic maths skills, can see that something is badly wrong here.
Trawling the web yields some other interesting figures too. According to the Newsday site farmers started to deliver maize on the 1st April this year. Chatting to the ART farm manager yesterday he told me their maize was still at 14% moisture so hadn't been harvested (it needs to be 12% or less to avoid storage problems) so I do wonder how this is possible. Is the government going to dry what must be wet maize?
I am struggling to summarize this debacle which even the most basic mathematics can reveal. Perhaps I should close with a quote from an issue of The Financial Gazette; "If figures do not lie, can anyone really give the US$500 million command agriculture initiative much of a chance given this compelling evidence of a nation that has squandered every opportunity at its disposal?" Dated September 29 2016 it is prescient. Even the ultimate slime-ball of a politician, Jonathan Moyo, has labelled it "command ugly-culture".
Tags: command agriculture, Grace Mugabe, Jonathan Moyo, Mukuvisi woodlands, the Financial Gazette, The Herald
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Q: How to prevent people with limited user accounts from accessing my computer How can I stop limited user of my computer from using the F2 or F12 keys to access my computer while I'm away? They will use them to start it in safe mode and while they are in there it bypasses my password and I don't want them deleting or moving my file around. In fact all I want them to be able to do is go on the internet. They don't need access to any thing else. Can I do that?

A: First off, understand that physical access == root access. Period.
as such, there is nothing you can do that will absolutely prevent unauthorized users who have access to the physical pc.
In this regard, traditional security tactics like fences, armed guards, and locked doors are your best means of protection.
for the average home user, the only options left to you are:

*

*place a lock on the case, so it cannot be opened.

*place a password on the BIOS for both management and boot up (to block both F2 and F12).

*disable the booting of external media, like optical media, usb
media, and network boot protocols.

*use disk encryption so the drive cannot be removed and inspected in another machine.


June 1st 2015 was the start of our Weaving thru America. It was a late start due to getting new tires on the trailer. We drove from LA to Sacramento via Route 99. We stopped for dinner. What was a 5 12 hr drive turned into 8. Photo's taken on the road – means you are seeing what we saw while driving. Out the window of a 1998 e320 Mercedes Benz Station Wagon.


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Issue: 585 Section: Special Features 16 November, 2010
The First Jeep
The start of a new concept in vehicles
courtesy ASME*
The original Jeep vehicle was the answer to the U.S. Army's call for a light, four-wheel drive, general-purpose vehicle and scout car. For years, the motorcycle and sidecar had been deemed unsatisfactory. It was a call that, as of March 1940, had attracted only a two-person vehicle known as the "Bellyflopper," a small four-wheel drive vehicle that required the driver to lie on his stomach.
Within months, the Army's search for the "perfect vehicle" would lead to the Jeep MB.
Specifications for the vehicle were demanding. It had to have four-wheel drive with a front driving axle and a two-speed transfer unit. Its engine had to be capable of 85 foot-pounds of torque. It also required a rectangular body, a fold-down windshield, three seats, and blackout lighting. Original weight restrictions were a low 1,300 pounds. The vehicle needed to operate from 3 to 50 miles per hour, and the wheelbase was to be 75 inches (eventually lengthened to 80). It also had to carry a 660-pound payload including a .30-caliber machine gun.
These were the specifications sent to 135 U.S. automotive firms on July 11, 1940. Bids were to be received by July 22, just eleven days later! Due to the war then underway in Europe, the rush was on.
Two companies responded initially: Toledo-based Willys-Overland Company and the American Bantam Company of Butler, Pennsylvania. (Ford Motor Company's bid was accepted later.)
Bantam developed a prototype first, the "Blitz Buggy," which was delivered in two short months. It was the work of Bantam's designer, Karl Probst. After 20 days, the Blitz Buggy was accepted, and Bantam earned a contract for 70 more. The first Bantam vehicles were field-tested by Colonel (later General) Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Spurred by Bantam's success, Willys-Overland, under chief engineer Delmar Roos, continued to work on its prototype, the "Quad," so named for its four-wheel drive system. By November, the Quad was ready.
It was symbolically pictured first on Armistice Day, November 11, 1940, and arrived for testing ten days ahead of the Ford model.
Unfortunately, the Quad was 250 pounds too heavy. First thoughts were to replace the powerful Willys engine, an engine Roos had been designing for years.
"The problem that confronted me," said Roos, "was whether or not we should redesign our pilot model to meet this weight specification and stick to the Willys-Overland engine, or simply go out and buy a Continental engine as Bantam was doing and redesign our vehicle."
In what proved to be the correct decision, the engine stayed.
The vehicle was taken apart piece by piece. Each part was evaluated with respect to weight and whether a lighter material could be substituted. Bolts that were longer than necessary were trimmed, and other modifications were made. For example, just one coat of paint was applied. The refined vehicle made the weight restriction by seven ounces.
In the end, all three prototypes were similar in design, with the Willys-Overland entry being the most powerful. In fact, the Willys 105 foot-pounds of torque not only exceeded the requirement, but also dwarfed Bantam's 83 and Ford's 85 foot-pounds of torque.
Contracts for 1,500 units each were given to the three companies, with delivery to begin in June 1941. The order accompanied the Army's recognition that the original weight requirement was neither sound nor realistic. The new weight requirement was 2,160 pounds.
After studying these production models, the Army decided to have Willys-Overland produce the vehicle, although the final design incorporated some of the features of the Ford and Bantam models. The general design and bodywork were largely from Bantam; the front end, Ford; the power unit, Willys.
Going back further, the driveline layout was used by the Dutch Spijker in 1902; the type of driven front axle was pioneered by Otto Zachow in 1907; and, mechanically, the Quad was a scaled-down Marmon-Herrington half-ton 4x4 designed in 1936.
The key factor in the selection of the Willys-Overland vehicle was its powerplant. The Willys Quad had a 60 hp "Go Devil" 4-cylinder L-head engine (both intake and exhaust valves were in the cylinder block). The Willys "Go Devil" engine was rugged, strong, and reliable. It had greater displacement and horsepower than that of either Bantam or Ford. Furthermore, it had come from the Willys Americar and had been tested and tried in years of service.
The horsepower of the basic Willys engine had been greatly increased by Roos. Roos had joined Willys-Overland in 1938 after a career of solving engineering problems for Pierce-Arrow, Locomobile, and Studebaker. When Roos arrived at Willys-Overland, the engine that would later power the Jeep MB already was in production. It had the same bore and stroke but developed only 45 horsepower at 3400 rpm, as compared to the 60 horsepower at 4000 rpm it had after Roos' mechanical ministrations.
His first step was to take the engine out of production and run it at full throttle and 3400 rpm for 22 minutes. At this point, the cylinders began to score and the rod bearings burned out. To solve these problems, he redesigned the cooling system and replaced the cast-iron pistons with tinplated aluminium ones. These changes, together with other minor ones, made it possible to run the engine for 50 hours at 3600 rpm. However, this caused the valves to burn out. More redesigning followed and this weakness was eliminated. Step by step, Roos got the engine up to the point where it would run at 4000 rpm for 100 hours without engine failure.
It was this engine that tipped the scales in favour of the Willys-Overland entry.
Ford was asked to co-produce the Willys to boost production and guard against delays because of accidents or sabotage at Willys-Overland. From 1941 to 1945, Ford produced 277,896 Jeep vehicles. Willys-Overland produced 1,800 Jeep MA models from 1940 to 1941, and 368,714 Jeep MBs from 1941 to 1945. The Army requested changes before the MB went into production. As a result, it differed from the MA in a number of ways. Most noticeable was the design of the front end, which followed the Ford design.
Other changes were made as well. Unlike the MA, the MB did not have vacuum ignition-advance control. The Army also requested an improved carburettor air cleaner and a larger generator with 4-ampere capacity, which was standard on most government trucks. The battery was standardized, using the government 2-H6-volt type in place of the passenger-car type. The hand brake was moved to the centre of the vehicle so it could be reached by either driver or passenger. The single-bow top was changed to a double-bow for more headroom.
In addition, the shift lever and driving lights were standardized to conform with other government vehicles. Improvements were made to protect the steering tie-rods and spring shackles. Seals were provided to keep water and dirt out and hold the lubricant in, thereby tripling the life of the shackles and reducing the frequency of required lubrication.
From 1941 to 1945, a number of field modifications were made. Improvements included installation of a surge tank in the cooling system for desert service; conversion of the electrical system from 6 to 12 volts for radio equipment; installation of a capstan winch; oversize tyres and engine-driven air pump; and vacuum instead of manually operated windshield wiper. Also available were field kits for winter conditions, cold starting, heating, and deep-water fording.
During the war, many variations of the Jeep vehicle were built. The amphibious Jeep or "Seep" (for seagoing Jeep) was produced by Ford starting in September 1942. Production was halted in 1943 as the vehicle was not particularly successful, especially on land.
Jeep vehicles were also modified for ambulance duty. Dubbed the "Jane," a Jeep vehicle thus converted could carry three stretcher cases.
Lightweight variations for airborne assaults were also produced. Jeep vehicles were lengthened and made into personnel carriers. They also appeared as half-tracks. In some cases, skis replaced the front wheels. In other cases, trailers were attached to carry supplies and ammunition.
Jeep vehicles were equipped with many different kinds of ordnance, from mortars to cannons to machine guns.
The origin of the Jeep name remains clouded in mystery. One of the most popular theories is that the name came from "General Purpose," or "G.P." Another widespread theory is that it was named in honour of a character in the Popeye comic strip, Eugene the Jeep. Eugene's ability to bound about and go just about anywhere was similar to the characteristics of the vehicle carrying his name. Willys copyrighted the name "Jeep" in 1946.
Although the mystery of the name may remain unsolved, the Jeep performance during World War II is a matter of record.
The late General George C. Marshall called the Jeep vehicle "America's greatest contribution to modern warfare." The Jeep MB model served in every WW II theatre as a litter bearer, machine-gun firing mount, reconnaissance vehicle, pickup truck, front-line limousine, ammo bearer, wire layer, and taxi.
In the Ardennes during the 1944-45 Battle of the Bulge, Jeep vehicles, loaded with stretchers and draped with wounded, raced to safety ahead of spearheading Nazi armour. In the sands of the Sahara, the morass of New Guinea, and the snow fields of Iceland, Jeep vehicles hauled the .37mm anti-tank cannons to firing sites. In Egypt, the British used a combat patrol of Jeep vehicles to knock out a fleet of fuel tankers en route to Rommel's armour forces on the eve of the battle of El Alamein. At Guadalcanal, Jeep vehicles went in with the U.S. Marines. In the end, the Jeep vehicle was called "the most valuable weapon during the war" by two U.S. Presidents.
The first post-war Jeep vehicle was the prototype CJ-1A (CJ stands for Civilian Jeep). The first production CJ, the CJ-2A, was introduced in August 1945 at a price of $1,090. The CJ-2A was heavily based on the wartime MB model.
Although the Jeep MB was not the first four-wheel drive vehicle, it brought together a series of engineering concepts that influenced every subsequent off-road four wheel drive.
*The Jeep is an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) International Historic Engineering Landmark. The text of this story appears by agreement of the ASME. Go to http://www.asme.org/Communities/History/Landmarks/Jeep_Model_MB_1947.cfm for more on this Landmark.
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Sudans flagga är en trikolor i de panarabiska färgerna rött, vitt och svart, med en grön triangel vid den inre kanten. Flaggan antogs den 20 maj 1970 och har proportionerna 1:2.

Symbolik
Färgerna är de traditionella panarabiska och flaggans uppbyggnad påminner om flera andra arabiska länders flaggor. Den gröna triangeln vid flaggans inre ("vänstra") kant återfinns även i Jordaniens flagga. I den sudanesiska flaggan står rött för kampen och de sudanesiska och arabiska martyrerna. Vitt står för islam, fred, optimism, ljus och kärlek. Svart representerar Sudan och Mahdistupproret i slutet av 1800-talet. Grönt står för framgång, godhet och jordbruket.

Historik
Dagens Sudan skapades 1956 av det dåvarande Anglo-egyptiska Sudan. Vid självständigheten infördes en trikolor i färgerna blått, gult och grönt. Den ersattes vid militärkuppen den 25 maj 1969 med den nuvarande flaggan.

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Give the Gift of Throwback Collectible Zines
By Julia Felsenthal
Now that so much of our lives takes place in the digital sphere, who doesn't experience the occasional craving for something seriously throwback? That's what we had in mind when we invited makeup artist extraordinaire Pat McGrath to take over Kellogg's Diner in Brooklyn, where she painted the faces of the new tribe of club kids with bright makeup that recalls those eras—the '70s, '80s, and even early '90s—when nightlifers traveled in packs, dressed up on their own terms, and even chronicled their adventures in subculture-specific zines.
Perhaps it's a testament to the durability of paper over the seemingly indestructible kilobyte, but you can still hunt down those zines, now collectibles, on eBay and in specialty shops like the beloved New York City institution Printed Matter. And we think they'd make the perfect gift for the latter-day club kid—or punk, New Waver, No Waver, or art freak—on your list.
"You can trace the hard-core zines of the '80s back to the 1960s and '70s underground press," says Max Schumann, Printed Matter's executive director. Looking for something truly retro? Seek out titles like Yeah, produced by Tuli Kupferberg of The Fugs, a "proto punk anarchist hippie band" in New York's East Village; Fuck You, a literary magazine by Ed Sanders, Kupferberg's Fugs bandmate; or 0 to 9, Vito Acconci and Bernadette Mayer's art and literary serial that comprised only seven, mimeographed, short-run issues filled with conceptual text pieces by now-famous contributors like Sol LeWitt. Acconci also created a cover for Walter Robinson and Edit DeAk's Art-Rite, published between 1973 to 1978, and he was in good company: Artists like Carl Andre and Robert Ryman had a turn as well. "It had both critical writing, downtown gossip, photos from openings, and pure artist projects for the page," Schumann describes. "A nice mix that really captures this sort of energetic and dangerous time."
Some zines, Schumann advises, played with form. Take Just Another Asshole, which appeared at times as a book, an LP (featuring sound work by Thurston Moore, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, and Glenn Branca), and as a spread in a 1980 issue of Artforum. Others were completely homespun, like skateboarder and artist Mark Gonzales's pamphlets of drawings and poetry, which he's been making since the '90s. (In fact, he still does: "He works in fits of creativity," says Schumann. "We won't hear from him for a while. But, for example, just three days ago he stopped in unannounced and had a new zine he dropped off.") Still others existed as tabloids, like the East Village Eye, a monthly offering published from 1979 to 1987. Per its website (yes, it's gone digital), the Eye distinguished itself as the first publication ever to print the word hip-hop and featured contributions from such writers as Richard Hell, who penned a column called "Slum Journal," and Cookie Mueller, who peddled health advice. (Schumann calls it "an amazing time capsule of downtown New York with the emergence of punk and New Wave," tells me most issues included a fashion shoot, and assures that Printed Matter has many back issues in stock.)
Speaking of punk: "My introduction to zines came through punk rock," Schumann tells me, then rattles off seminal titles like Maximum Rocknroll (aka MRR, "one of the greatest resources for hard-core and punk bands"), Punk, and Search & Destroy ("great cut-and-paste punk aesthetics based in the Bay Area.")
That last one was the brainchild of V. Vale, a San Franciscan, whom I reached by phone. Vale was an employee at City Lights bookstore when the punk movement hit the West Coast. "I said I'm going to document it from the get-go. I'm going to make this my publishing project. I got Iggy Pop really early. I got the Ramones."
He was influenced by Andy Warhol's Interview magazine, and by other punk and art zines that appeared around the same time: Slash and No Mag out of L.A.; File out of Toronto; and Vile, a publication that emerged from the Bay Area Dadaists and featured the likes of Genesis P-Orridge. Vale has copies of Vile for sale on his website, along with back issues of Search & Destroy. And if this brief survey has piqued your interest, he's also got Zines! The 1st History & D.I.Y. Guide, the two-volume compendium of zine culture that he assembled in 1996.
"You have to have a lot of drive to do a zine because you're not making any money," Vale explains. "I always said the reason I started publishing was out of anger—I was reading so much in corporate media that was very maligning, very negative, very inaccurate, untruthful even."
When he launched Search & Destroy, it was with "startup money" given to him by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Allen Ginsberg, among others, though he immediately clarifies that he hates the term. "All the startup people I'm surrounded by in Silicon Valley and San Francisco, they probably think they're being punk rock with all their startups. But I don't think so."
But if you're right now wringing your hands over the imminent death of print culture at the sword of the digital revolution, Vale, who attributes the rise of punk zines to the mainstreaming of Xerox machines in the 1970s, has some cautionary words. "I have an aphorism: First technology, then culture. There's a lot of technology we don't think of as technology anymore, but it is. Have you ever tried to make a pencil at home? Or for that matter tried to manufacture ink or paper? Good luck with that! That's technology."
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Has a Torrent TV App been invented yet?
Discussion in 'Mac Apps and Mac App Store' started by Punkwaffle, Nov 28, 2005.
2. Download torrent files and store in directory on disk.
3. Interface that allows users to browse by series (or other criteria), and schedule upcoming torrent downloads.
4. Present movie files in fullscreen and able to open almost any format like VLC.
hope someone has thought of this already, if not it would be useful.
still in beta, and i dont know if it will ban "illegal material", but DTV may be what you want.


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Terrorist attacks affecting aid workers support, FG laments
The Federal Government on Monday decried the level of terrorist attacks on aid workers in Nigeria, particularly in the North-East region, as it stated that this was affecting the support from the workers.
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development, Sadiya Farouq, condemned the recent terrorist attacks on humanitarian aid facilities and the killing of civilians in Damask, a town around Lake Chad in Mobbar Local Government Area of Borno State.
She stated this in a statement issued in Abuja by the Permanent Secretary of the humanitarian ministry, Bashir Alkali.
The statement read in part, "The minister expressed concern over the frequent attacks on humanitarian aid facilities in the North-East region of the country.
"She said the violent attacks will affect the support provided by the aid workers to hundreds of thousands people in need of humanitarian assistance and protection in the area."
Farouq said the attack was unfortunate and against international law on humanitarian operations and aid workers.
In early March 2021, humanitarian aid facilities were attacked by terrorists in Dikwa, Borno State.
Farouq was quoted as saying, "The attacks on aid facilities and killing of civilians should be condemned at all levels. Humanitarian aid organisations should be allowed to perform their duties in line with global best practices."
"I commiserate with the families that lost their beloved ones in the attack, the United Nations and the humanitarian aid organisations over the huge loss."
The minister said her prayer was that those behind the attack should see reason to respect the right to life and put an end to violent killings and destruction of properties.
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House of Reps member empowers returnee IDPs with constituency allowance
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The hamstring muscle is very important in sports such as football. Not only because this muscle is key to sprinting, but also because hamstring muscle injuries are the most frequent kind of injuries. For professional teams, these injuries also result in players being unavailable for competition over the course of many days. Nordic ham curls are a form of eccentric exercise that has become very popular, especially for its ability to reduce injury risk. However, there is little evidence that demonstrates their influence on improvements in speed.
To test this theory, a multidisciplinary group of researchers and coaches – including Marc Guitart, from F.C. Barcelona – carried out a research study which analysed the influence of this type of exercise when it was introduced into the training routine of different teams. The conclusions are somewhat counter-intuitive but clear: improvements in strength do not directly translate into improvements in sprinting ability. The article was published in the open access journal Plos One.
A wide-reaching and surprising study
The study analysed 50 reserve team players from three different teams, who were monitored for 15-17 weeks, almost half a season. One team followed their usual training program. The other two teams incorporated a progressive routine based on Nordic ham curls, which consist of "the player having their knees held in place on the ground by a teammate and letting themselves fall forward while keeping the body straight and controlled. This descent through a controlled knee extension assumes an eccentric activation of the hamstring musculature", explains Guitart. The difference between the latter two teams was that one team had already incorporated these exercises during their previous season, so it was simply a continuation of an established routine.
After the experimental period, the ability to sprint over various distances was analysed, as well as the strength developed as a result of these eccentric exercises. It was found that the group that had incorporated the exercises for the first time did experience an increase in strength, both at an absolute level as well as relative to their body mass. However, improvements in speed for this group were not greater than those registered among the control group, which followed its usual routine. As for the team that had already started practising this type of exercise the previous season, strength increased relative to body mass, but not absolute strength. Furthermore, although this team progressed somewhat more in their ability to sprint over 20 meters, this improvement was not related to the gain in relative strength.
Conclusions, applications and future studies
"With this study our aim was to examine how the application of a Nordic-type strength exercise would affect football players' sprinting ability", summarizes Guitart, "and the conclusion is that there is no direct relationship". These results contradict two previous studies that did find a link, but both of these studies were smaller in scope and were carried out over a shorter period of time.
Nevertheless "there is a lot of research that shows that this type of exercise is useful for the prevention of muscle injuries", adds Guitart. This study revealed that players with previous experience implementing this kind of training barely improved their strength, surely because the load depends on their own body mass, which is practically invariable. Hence, the researchers propose using different stimuli over time, such as using rotational inertia devices, for example.
And the research doesn't end there. "Now we are focusing on more multidisciplinary studies rather than on a specific exercise", explains Guitart. "Above all, we are analysing how to control load and its complexity in terms of exercise, both in strength work as well as optimizing exercises on the pitch", he concluded.