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TORONTO, March 22, 2012 — Canadians believe that maintaining our drinking water supply is one of the most important areas for government funding (behind hospitals and tied with schools). Yet, more than 80 per cent feel there is no need for major and immediate investment in their community's drinking water/wastewater facilities, which they believe to be in good condition, and in need of only minor investment for upkeep. Ironically, more than a third of Canadians (37 per cent) who use municipal water are not very aware of the condition of the water and sewage infrastructure serving their own home.
"Canadians believe in the safety of their drinking water and assume that the infrastructure that provides it is efficient," says Bob Sandford, Chair, Canadian Partnership Initiative of the UN Water for Life Decade. "This is a national 'pipe dream' because in many municipalities, water distribution and sewage pipes can be up to 80 years old and have already reached the end of their service life. In fact, reports have shown there is an $88-billion investment required to repair and build new water infrastructure in communities across Canada."
According to the fifth annual RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study, more than three-quarters of respondents (78 per cent) stated their main source of water comes from the municipal water supply. While the majority felt that their municipalities were doing a good job at maintaining current water and sewage systems to prevent breakages in the short term (68 per cent), they were less impressed with the municipalities' work on upgrading these systems for the long term (61 per cent). However, only a quarter (22 per cent) would be willing to pay through a water bill or taxes into an infrastructure fund to upgrade drinking water/wastewater facilities in their community.
"Investments in water infrastructure maintenance are chronically underfunded and often deferred. This is causing a multitude of issues not immediately associated in the minds of Canadians with water quality and supply," notes Sandford.
More than half of Canadians (54 per cent) have been inconvenienced by a water related issue in the past two years. A backed-up drain, boil-water warnings, water bans/use restrictions or closed beaches due to poor water quality tell a larger story of the disconnect between Canadians' confidence in water quality and infrastructure, and the issues that they are actually facing.
"All of these inconveniences highlight the failing infrastructure in many Canadian municipalities. What may seem like minor issues in our own backyards represents a larger problem with regard to our country's water," says Sandford. "We have found that Canadians are confident in freshwater as a lasting resource but don't understand the potential impact inconsistent infrastructure maintenance can have on the supply, quality and cost of water."
Canadians' level of confidence in the safety and quality of the country's drinking water has increased significantly over the past four years to 88 per cent in 2012, up from 81 per cent in 2009. This confidence helps explain why almost half of Canadians (49 per cent) believe freshwater is the country's most important natural resource, with the exception of Albertans who ranked oil first, followed by fresh water. Eighty-one per cent of the population feels confident that their regions have enough fresh water to meet long-term needs.
And, while respondents reported that they try to conserve water, they also take it for granted. Almost half leave the water running in the kitchen when washing and rinsing dishes (44 per cent), while 12 per cent hose down their driveways, and 14 per cent admit to flushing things down the toilet that should be disposed of in another manner.
Chris Coulter, GlobeScan's president, adds "We have been polling on water issues for 25 years. This survey is a tale of romance between Canadians and their treasured water. But there's a significant gap between romance and reality. We found a troubling lack of awareness not only about water conservation but also the very pressing need for investment in infrastructure. Mobilizing the political will to deal with these issues will be a challenge."
2012 RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study: Additional highlights Following are additional highlights from the 2012 RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study, which has tracked Canadians' perceptions and attitudes towards water quality and conservation since 2008.
Water consumption behaviours
Top five things people do that upset Canadians the most about water usage
Top five things Canadians admit they have knowingly done themselves
About the RBC Canadian Water Attitudes Study
These are some of the findings of a GlobeScan poll conducted between February 1-15, 2012, on behalf of RBC and sponsored by the UN Water for Life Decade. A sample of 2,428 adult Canadians from an online panel were interviewed. Weighting was then employed to balance demographics and ensure that the sample's composition reflects that of the adult population according to Census data and to provide results intended to approximate the sample universe. The margin of error for a strict probability sample for a sample of this size would be ±2.0 percent, 19 times out of 20. All sample surveys and polls may be subject to multiple sources of error, including, but not limited to sampling error, coverage error and measurement error.
About the RBC Blue Water Project
The RBC Blue Water Project is an innovative, wide-ranging, 10-year global commitment to help protect the world's most precious natural resource: fresh water. It includes a $50 million philanthropic commitment to organizations that protect watersheds and ensure access to clean drinking water. The RBC Blue Water Project also promotes responsible water use through awareness programs and supports programs that encourage businesses to develop and commercialize innovative solutions to the water issues facing the world. Since 2007, RBC has pledged over $32 million to more than 450 not-for-profit organizations worldwide that protect watersheds or ensure access to clean drinking water. For more information, rbc.com/bluewater.
About Canadian Partnership Initiative of the United Nations Water for Life Decade
The United Nations Water for Life Decade is a globally proclaimed decade for action on water quality and availability issues. While each country in the world will be focusing on its own water quality and availability issues within the larger context of the global fresh water situation, the Canadian initiative has been defined by a nation-wide public and private sector partnership aimed at identifying and responding to regional and national water issues. The United Nations Water for Life initiative in Canada exists to put Canadian water issues into a global context. The Canadian United Nations Water for Life partnership initiative is housed, and has its research home in the Western Watersheds Climate Research Collaborative at the Biogeosciences Institute at the University of Calgary.
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It is a timeless story of love, tragedy and triumph. Dance performer, choreographer and instructor Jothi Raghavan of Westford will present "Bhavayami Raghu Ramam," in Bharata Natyam – classical dance from southern India – to interpret "Ramayanam."
It is a timeless story of love, tragedy and triumph. Dance performer, choreographer and instructor Jothi Raghavan of Westford will present "Bhavayami Raghu Ramam," in Bharata Natyam – classical dance from southern India – to interpret "Ramayanam," which tells of the heroic Rama and his beloved wife, Sita. Eleven dancers and musicians will perform aspects of the tale, illuminated by Raghavan's choreography, in a show set for Sunday at Littleton High School. "People will enjoy the presentation, even if they are not familiar with Indian mythologies," Raghavan said. Beyond Bollywood Classical Indian forms such as Bharata Natyam originate in temple rites. In India, Raghavan said, dance is still revered. But making a living as a dancer is not easy. Raghavan said, "Dance is not encouraged as a career move. People want their children to be engineers or doctors. Artists are out of the mainstream, just like anywhere." Raghavan has dedicated herself to dance since the 1970s. Her dance school, based in Westford and Bedford, is Nrityanjali, meaning, "offering of dance." Her pride in her students shines through. One student, Neha Kumar, of Westford, will give her first recital for family and friends on Aug. 1, also at Littleton High School. Raghavan hopes her education efforts will reach beyond her students to the general public, especially those whose knowledge of Indian dance may begin and end with Bollywood. Bollywood has helped expose the mainstream to the art form, but a classical dance performance can take an audience to the culture's deepest roots, she said. Recalling her first days of performing in the United States, she said, "When I said Indian dance, people thought I meant Native American dance." She observed, "When Madonna started, I knew we had arrived." If you go "Bhavayami Raghu Ramam," a Bharata Natyam dance presentation by Jothi Raghavan When: Sunday, Aug. 2, 5 p .m. Where: Littleton High School, Performing Arts Center, 56 King St., Littleton Cost: $50 patrons, $20 general, $15 students and seniors. Benefits LearnQuest Academy of Music in Waltham. For more information: Call 978-392-4677 or 508-481-7842 or visit www.learnquest.org. Margaret Smith is Arts and Calendar editor at GateHouse Media New England's Northwest Unit. E-mail her at email@example.com.

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CALGARY, Alta. – Hockey Canada announced Wednesday that Ron Tugnutt (Peterborough, Ont.) has been hired as a full-time goaltending consultant for the 2011-12 season.
In this expanded role, Tugnutt will be scouting for Canada's national men's teams as well as working with Hockey Canada's development department to develop and improve resources for goaltenders and goaltending coaches.
Tugnutt will continue to work closely with Canada's National Junior Team and National Men's Under-18 Team, scouting and assisting goaltenders for Hockey Canada's Program of Excellence.
Ron Tugnutt, 43, has worked with Hockey Canada in a part-time capacity over the past two seasons. He served as goaltending consultant for Canada's National Junior Team at the 20 IIHF World Junior Championships, winning two silver medals, and will continue as the goaltending coach for Canada's National Junior Team at the 2012 IIHF World Junior Championship. Tugnutt also served as goaltending consultant with Canada's National Men's Under-18 Team at the 2009 IIHF World Under-18 Championship, finishing fourth. He served as an assistant coach with the OHL's Peterborough Petes in 2010-11. As a player, Tugnutt spent 17 seasons in the NHL and represented Canada twice, at the 19 IIHF World Championships.
"We are excited about Ron's new position with Hockey Canada and look forward to working with him on a full-time basis," said Brad Pascall, Hockey Canada's vice-president of hockey operations/national teams. "The experience that he has, both in the NHL and internationally, will have a definite impact on our goaltenders, and we feel the way he works and thinks reflects our organization."
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American and South Korean ships and planes fired on imaginary North Korean submarines Monday as four days of joint exercises reached the half-way mark with no sign of North Korea doing anything to spoil the war games – yet.
US and South Korean officials are not quite prepared to say they have called the North Koreans' bluff by ignoring its threats of a strong – even nuclear – response to the exercises. But most analysts are convinced that the North had no intention of challenging the might of the air and naval forces amassed off South Korea's east coast.
"I don't think North Korea will respond during the exercise," says Kim Sung-han, professor at Korea University's Graduate School of International Studies. "We don't expect another provocation."
But some analysts say North Korea might do something else, such as test firing a long-range missile toward Japan or the US west coast.
Kim Tae-woo, long-time analyst of North Korean intentions at the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, doesn't think North Korea is ready to explode a nuclear device for the third time. "A long-range missile test is more possible," he says. "That's easier. We should be prepared."
As some 20 ships and 200 aircraft zigzagged through the seas and skies about 70 miles off South Korea's coast, the North Korean media kept up a steady drumbeat of denunciations reminiscent of the North's diatribes during previous US-South Korea military exercises.
The difference this time was that the stakes have risen sharply since the sinking of South Korean navy corvette the Cheonan in March in which 46 sailors died. A South Korean investigation, which included the views of experts from the US, Britain, Australia, and Sweden, blamed a North Korean midget submarine for firing the torpedo that split the Cheonan in two and sunk it in minutes.
North Korea denies any role in the attack.
Divide and conquer strategy?
North Korea's strategy of denial appears to many analysts to have sharpened the divisions among the nations that have participated in recent years in so-called six-party talks on the North's nuclear program. North Korea has said it now wants to return to the talks, last held in Beijing in December 2008, but "we have a crack among the parties," says Professor Kim Sung-han. China and Russia support the North, he says, while the US and Japan support the South.
On a more practical level, "Operation Invincible Spirit," as the current war games are called, has provided an opportunity for American and South Korean forces to perfect coordination on some of their most sophisticated weaponry in the biggest joint exercises conducted by the two allies in more than 30 years.
The US commander in Korea, Gen. Walter "Skip" Sharp, said the exercises "send a clear message to North Korea that its aggressive behavior must stop" and that the US and South Korea "are committed to enhancing our combined defensive capabilities."
As warplanes roared from the deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier the USS George Washington, at 98,000 tons one of the biggest in the US navy, US and South Korean destroyers and at least one South Korean submarine cruised surrounding waters. For the first time, US Air Force F-22 raptors also joined the games, taking off with scores of other aircraft from the major US base at Osan.
Aside from symbolic significance, the focus on anti-submarine warfare showed the frustration over countering future submarine attacks. A South Korean military spokesman said the exercises Monday were "aimed at better detecting intrusions by an enemy's submarines and attacking them."
North Korea's national defense commission, the center of power for leader Kim Jong-il, the commission chairman, greeted the war games with a blitzkrieg of invective ranging from a warning of "retaliatory sacred war" to the threat of deploying a "powerful nuclear deterrent."
The strong language inspired derisive rejoinders from analysts mingled with concern about what it meant in terms of North Korea's ambitions as a nascent nuclear power.
"They feel they cannot allow this [military exercise] to happen without this reaction," says Han Sung-joo, who has served previously as South Korea's foreign minister and ambassador to Washington. "I don't think anything will happen in the next few days."
Analysts see the allusion to "nuclear deterrence," however, as indicating North Korea's ambitions for its nuclear program. North Korea has twice conducted underground nuclear tests, first in October 2006 and again in May of last year, and is believed to have enough weapons-grade plutonium for between six and a dozen warheads.
"They might want to use this occasion as an opportunity or excuse to do something with their nuclear program," says Mr. Han. "They can conduct another nuclear test or do something with their missiles." North Korea has successfully built short and medium-range missiles and in April of last year test-fired a long-range missile capable of reaching the US west coast.
The China factor
In any case, China's refusal to support the United States and South Korea in blaming North Korea for the attack on the Cheonan is assumed to have emboldened the North. China instead went along with a watered-down statement issued by the UN Security Council that noted the investigation and condemned the attack but did not hold North Korea responsible for it.
"One element here is China," says Han Sung-joo. The North Koreans "probably think they have managed to bring China to their side. They are trying to make full use of what they consider to be China's backing."
Analysts say that the view that China will always back the North may also lead to another unexpected attack on the South. "They usually try to do the thing that were not expected," says Mr. Han, but he doubts if North Korea "can do anything that will force us to take retaliatory measures."
Mr. Kim, from the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses, agrees. "They cannot do anything against our exercises," he says.
"They may plan something against South Korea, and they practice nuclear blackmail."
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I accidentially called my son a "Dumb Ass" on the weekend.
Not because he opened the back door before the house alarm was disabled, not because he constantly makes his brother cry out, "NO LINUS", and certainly not because he puts more effort into being a pain in the ass, than being a good kid… I actually don't know why I called him that, I think it just slipped out.
To be honest – that excuse sucks – "I don't know". It's an excuse I hear from him all the time.
Me: "Linus, why did you try to push your brother off the kitchen stool?"
Linus: "I don't know".
Me: "Linus, why did you push that girl at school?"
Linus: "I don't know".
Me: "Linus, why did you use a screwdriver and etch your name into your brother's wall, then blame it on him when you know he can't write?"
Linus: "I don't know".
Well, I know why I called him that and why he frustrates me so much. IT's because he reminds me too much of me when I was that age – save for the fact that his is smarter and way cuter.
I don't want him struggling through life being the class clown – with people laughing at him instead of with him – then getting older without having any friends and having people look at you like your a giant loser / idiot / dumb ass day in and day out. It's hard work!
The main differences I see right away is that this boy has a LOT of confidence and we encourage him to ne his own boy, but he has got to be respectful, which I was, but he is not! That is my only must for him. He must behave and be kind. I expect it from him and we battle over this. His biggest issues to date surround respecting others personal space.
But enought about Linus…
In general, feel it IS better to be a dumb ass than a smart ass, right?!?
So who else is a dumb ass… Let me tell you who. The woman in the Tim Horton's drive-through who parked on the other side of the path and walked over to the microphone to place her very LONG, complicated coffee / lunch order. If she really wanted to walk, and order something that crazy, she should have gone inside. It's called a drive-through, not a drive in, park, get out, order and hold up everyone else-through… dumb ass.
Then again, when she went to pick up and pay for her food, she parked far enough to the side that she had to again get out of her car to grab her food and pay, but close enough that when she opened her door she smashed it up against the brick wall. Ouch. Dumb ass indeed.
And then there was a family a Home Depot… I was there to get a key for our house for our nanny who lost hers. While there I saw they had some beautiful raspberry and grape plants that were huge, on sale, and already flowering so I picked up 6 of them.
They are heavy.
I went to the checkout line and witnessed this exchange;
An elderly woman who appeared to have severe athritis was in line with a potted flower and 2 bags of soil.
A very tall, pretty woman walked over to her with a packet of seeds in her hand and asked the woman if she would mind, if she went ahead of her.
The elderly woman agreed.
Then once in line, this womans father rolled up with his trolly full of plants and soil and together they explained to the elderly woman that they were together.
The elderly woman was frustrated but let them go ahead, the whole time I was behind the elderly woman holding 6 heavy plants.
Man these people took forever. The cashier was in training and once they were finally checked out, this family – now 4 of them – needed help getting their stuff to their car. So after much debate (I would have said, take your fucking plants to your fucking car and get the fuck out of here – or something like that), the son went and got their car and did what I have never seen anyone do before…
He backed his SUV up over the sidewalk, in between the aisles of plants and right up to the exit of the garden centre so that neither he, nor anyone else could get out.
Then he opened the trunk and sat inside while they waited for someone to come put their stuff inside.
After a good 5 minutes, the father grabbed the stuff and tossed it inside, but then the entire family went back inside the store.
Dumbfounded, we all stood outside realizing that no one could escape the garden centre until the truck was moved and the new cashier was going to shit his pants because now the elderly woman needed help getting those bags of soil to her car.
Finally someone much more senior showed up, saw the car, freaked out that it was there, then proceeded to walky-talky the store to have it removed.
By that time, but the woman and Ihave managed to wiggle though the plants area and escaprre for light, fresh air and food and water.
That, my friends, makes this family a family of dumb-asses.


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VENICE.- The French pavilion for the Venice Art Biennale 2017 has been transformed by Xavier Veilhan and the pavilion's curators, Christian Marclay and Lionel Bovier, into a musical space in which professional musicians from all over the world will work throughout the duration of the exhibition.
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ANJOU, FRANCE.- Laure de Beauvau-Craon, who led Sotheby's France for almost 15 years, died on Saturday, 29 April in Anjou, in the Loire valley, aged 74.
Born Laure de Rougemont, she became a princess when she married Marc de Beauveau-Craon, the heir of a noble house tied to the duchy of Lorraine. Her royal title did not stop her from waging—and winning—a war on another ancient order, France's "commissaires-priseurs". Established by King Henry II in 1556, the organisation held a monopoly over the auction market in France for centuries.
BRUSSELS.- There are two ways to deck Donald Trump. Ai Weiwei and Shepard Fairey have teamed up with Belgian skateboarding non-profit, The Skateroom—which supports charitable initiatives through the sale of fine art skateboard decks—to create works that take aim at American president Donald Trump.
According to the Skateroom's website, the artists were given a carte blanche to create whatever they wanted.
The works are marketed prominently on the site's homepage under the banner "#100daysoftrump."
NEW YORK, NY.- The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents a major retrospective of the photographs of Irving Penn to mark the centennial of the artist's birth.
MEXICO CITY.- The Museo Nacional de Arte (MUNAL, National Art Museum of Mexico) presents 'Melancholy', an exhibition that delves into the manner that melancholy, commonly characterized by reflecting the darkest human sides of passion and affection, is represented in Mexican art through a selection of 137 works of art including paintings, etchings, sculptures and writings.
The exhibits can be visited through April 9th through end of July, in the rooms on the first floor of the site.
VENICE.- Damien Hirst has created the exhibition the post-truth world deserves. "Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable," showing concurrently at both of the Pinault Foundation's spaces in Venice, is a labyrinthine, multi-layered concoction bringing together stories, objects, film, and photographs, all of them dubious—deliberately, teasingly so.
MADRID.- What began more than a century ago as one man's passion for all things Spanish, has become the world's largest collection of Hispanic art outside Spain -- and now part of it is going on display in the country for the first time.
Masterpieces from the 18,000-work collection founded by American philanthropist Archer Milton Huntington go on display at Madrid's Prado Museum from Tuesday.
AMSTERDAM.- After an absence of 14 years, the two paintings by Van Gogh that were feared lost are again on display in the Van Gogh Museum. The works were stolen from the collection in 2002 by thieves who needed only a few minutes for the entire operation.
The theft was a major blow to the art world.
Last September, a team from the Italian Guardia di Finanza stumbled upon the two paintings during a house search in the vicinity of Naples.
ST. LOUIS.- Edgar Degas's depictions of ballet dancers, nude bathers and racetracks have been abundantly—perhaps even overabundantly—shown.
But at the St. Louis Art Museum, "Degas, Impressionism, and the Paris Millinery Trade" offers the first in-depth look at an important but less-familiar subset of the famed French Impressionist's output: paintings and drawings of the hat business.
BEIJING.- Ren Hang, one of the leading lights of the new generation of Chinese photographers, despite enduring censorship and intimidation from the authorities throughout his career, died on Friday at the age of 29, his gallerist has confirmed.
Ren Hang was arrested many times for his sexually explicit, joyously celebratory photography. Although he was globally renowned, he never gained the recognition he deserved in his home country, in part because he was repeatedly denied the opportunity to display his work in Beijing and throughout China.
WASHINGTON.- Adolf Hitler's personal telephone, which the Fuehrer used to dictate many of his deadly World War II commands, sold at auction on Sunday for $243,000, the US house selling it announced.
Originally a black Bakelite phone, later painted crimson and engraved with Hitler's name, the relic was found in the Nazi leader's Berlin bunker in 1945 following the regime's defeat.
LONDON.- Among the finest works by Gustav Klimt ever to come to auction, Bauerngarten was painted in 1907, during the golden years of Klimt's career, and was a highlight of the critically acclaimed Painting the Modern Garden exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts in London last year.
This work is to be offered at auction for the first time in over two decades, set to lead Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Art Evening Sale in London on 1 March 2017.
LONDON.- A US hedge fund chief has refused to sell a Renaissance masterpiece painting to Britain's National Gallery after the Brexit vote sent the pound tumbling.
The iconic London museum had met the £30 million asking price agreed in a 2015 deal with James Tomilson Hill III, chief executive of the Blackstone Alternative Asset Group, for Jacopo Pontormo's "Portrait of a Young Man in a Red Cap".
But Tomilson Hill now argues that the pound's weakness against the dollar would leave him with a "material loss".
MIAMI, FLA.- The Jewish Museum of Florida-FIU has commissioned a new dramatic work based on the museum's current exhibition, Stitching History from the Holocaust. The new one act play is called A Stitch in Time, and is about the true story of Paul and Hedwig "Hedy" Strnad who tragically perished in the Holocaust after failed attempts in 1939 to secure a visa to flee to the U.S. from Prague.
NEW YORK, NY.- On March 2, 2017, Sotheby's will offer a single-owner sale dedicated to the collection of Ed Cohen and Victoria Shaw. Titled, In Its Own Light, the auction is largely focused on Post-War and Contemporary Art, including examples of German Expressionism and Modern British art.
The New York couple's collection was created over 35 years and reflects the close relationships (often grounded in a shared passion for literature), between Ed Cohen and many of the artists represented, as well as with gallerists such as Anthony d'Offay and Marian Goodman.
LONDON.- In a new and unusual approach to color in the work of abstract painter Josef Albers, David Zwirner's first London exhibition devoted to Albers focuses on one color that held a pervasive place in the artist's oeuvre.
Sunny Side Up, a trove of paintings in which yellow dominates, is drawn from five decades of the artist's work and conveys the limitless expressive potential of color and light that characterizes Albers's practice as a whole.
If there was any single inspirer of Josef Albers's embrace of color it was the German Romantic poet, Johann Wolfgang Goethe.
PARIS.- The Louvre Museum in Paris has announced that its 2016 visitor figures fell by 15 percent and, subsequently, so have its profits, in what has been a tumultuous year for France.
The museum announced a drop in visitor figures by millions, resulting in a large financial loss for the beloved French museum which was, on top of prior terror attacks in Paris, flooded and caught up in a fire last year.
NEW YORK CITY.- The first of four planned phases of the Second Avenue Subway opened on New Year's Day, marking the first major expansion of the New York City Subway system in 50 years.
In the early part of 2014, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority revealed that it would liven up stations along the first phase of the Second Avenue Subway line with tons of public art. On Sunday, visitors viewed the first of many planned installations.
LONDON.- Recognized as leading dealers in the field of European sculpture, Tomasso Brothers Fine Art also specializes in Old Master paintings and objets d'art.
At TEFAF Maastricht 2017 the gallery will present an extremely rare portrait from the late 16th century by the renowned Italian Baroque artist Annibale Carracci (1560-1609), and for which a full provenance, including King Philip V of Spain and Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, can now been unveiled following extensive research by the gallery.
LONDON.- Exploring an unparalleled period in American art, this long-awaited exhibition reveals the full breadth of a movement that will forever be associated with the boundless creative energy of 1950s New York.
In the "age of anxiety" surrounding the Second World War and the years of free jazz and Beat poetry, artists like Pollock, Rothko and de Kooning broke from accepted conventions to unleash a new confidence in painting.
NEW YORK CITY.- The billionaire gallerist Guy Wildenstein is re-listing his New York townhouse at a discounted price after the property failed to sell.
According to The Real Deal, Wildenstein knocked almost $10 million off the initial asking price and put the Manhattan mansion at Sutton Square back on the market last Wednesday for $39.8 million.
MUNICH.- A German court Thursday threw out a challenge to the will of collector Cornelius Gurlitt, clearing the way for a spectacular Nazi-era art hoard found in his home to go to a Swiss museum.
The superior regional court in the southern city of Munich ruled that collection, including pieces by Cezanne, Beckmann, Holbein, Delacroix and Munch, could be inherited by the Museum of Fine Arts in Bern.
Gurlitt died in May 2014 aged 81 and named the museum as the sole heir of the hundreds of works, found in his cluttered Munich apartment and valued at millions of euros.
PARIS.- A lost drawing by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci has been discovered in the papers of a French provincial doctor, a Paris auction house said Tuesday.
The dreamily sensual sketch of Saint Sebastian is thought to be worth around 15 million euros ($15.8 million) and is an "extraordinary discovery", the Tajan auction house said.
It has been authenticated by the French specialist Patrick de Bayser and Carmen C. Bambach, curator of Renaissance drawings at New York's Metropolitan Museum and a Da Vinci expert, it added.
LONDON.- Pace London is presenting American Classics, an exhibition of key works by photographers who emerged in postwar America.
On a continuum between artistic vision and documentary investigation, these artists photographed North American people, culture and landscape.
Works by Diane Arbus, Richard Avedon, Harry Callahan, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Irving Penn, Henry Wessel and Gary Winogrand are on view until 17 December 2016 at 6 Burlington Gardens.
NEW YORK, NY.- Park Avenue Armory mounts the North American premiere of Manifesto —a work by Julian Rosefeldt that stars Academy Award-winner Cate Blanchett.
Inspired by the tradition of artist manifestos, Manifesto is a collage of artistic declarations of the 20th century reinterpreted as poetic monologues that provoke timeless questions about the artist's role in society.
Rosefeldt adapts the installation in a site-specific presentation for the Armory's Wade Thompson Drill Hall, where it is on view December 7, 2016 – January 8, 2017.
MIAMI BEACH, FLA.- Madonna's evening of music, art, mischief and performance raised over 7.5 million dollars for the superstar's Raising Malawi foundation during Art Basel on Friday, December 2, 2016 at the Faena Forum in Miami Beach, FL.
The evening was made possible thanks to support from MDNA Skin, BVLGARI and Perrier Jouet.
NEW YORK, NY.- The Museum of Modern Art presents A Revolutionary Impulse: The Rise of the Russian Avant-Garde, an exhibition that brings together 260 works from MoMA's collection, tracing the arc of a period of artistic innovation between 1912 and 1935.
The exhibition will be on view December 3, 2016–March 12, 2017.
MIAMI, FLA.- The Rubell Family Collection announces a planned move in 2018 to a new 100,000-square-foot museum set on a 2.5-acre campus in Miami's Allapattah District. The planned move comes after 23 successful years in the RFC's current, legendary 40,000-square-foot museum space in Miami's Wynwood District. The new museum is designed by Selldorf Architects and is slated to open December 2018.
The Rubell Family Collection's move is motivated by the desire to exhibit a greater proportion of the collection and expand the Collection's programming.
LONDON.- Alexander Rodchenko's Construction No.95, is the star of a single owner collection of Russian avant-garde works set to come to auction for the first time in November.
Dating from 1919, when Russia led the world in terms of artistic innovation, this is undoubtedly the most important work by the artist to appear at auction since Sotheby's landmark sale of Russian Avant-Garde and Soviet Contemporary Art in Moscow in 1988.
PARIS.- On December 13th, Artcurial's photography department will gather collectors from around the world for a rare event, an auction with a remarkable origin: The Stéphane Kovalsky Collection, featuring the Willy Ronis inheritance.
This is the first monographic auction dedicated to the great humanist artist, Willy Ronis and will include around 160 lots, mixing famous works and lesser-known pieces, retracing the impressive career of the photograph whose comrades included Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Doisneau and Edouard Boubat.


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Rabbi Menachem Froman, an Israeli settler known for his efforts to promote coexistence between Arabs and Jews, has died. He was 68.
His son Shivi Froman said he died Monday after a long illness.
Froman, who served as the rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Tekoa, had ties to many Palestinian leaders. He was an outspoken opponent of attacks by Jewish settlers on mosques. He often visited damaged holy sites with local Palestinian officials. He believed Israelis and Palestinians could live together peacefully.
Froman was a founder of the Gush Emunim movement promoting Israeli settlement of the West Bank. He opposed the removal of Jewish settlers from the area, claiming a sacred biblical connection to the land.
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Each Monday as we begin a new week, we will open a new Prayer Corner. As the month of June is dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, we will begin with this prayer.
O most holy heart of Jesus, fountain of every blessing, I adore you, I love you, and with lively sorrow for my sins I offer you this poor heart of mine. Make me humble, patient, pure and wholly obedient to your will. Grant, Good Jesus, that I may live in you and for you. Protect me in the midst of danger. Comfort me in my afflictions. Give me health of body, assistance in my temporal needs, your blessing on all that I do, and the grace of a holy death. Amen.
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The experts in pony car animal husbandry knew their talents would not go to waste when Ford revived the 5.0-liter V8 dubbed Coyote. Here's one of their first crossbreeds, a swap into a Fox-body Mustang. Call it the Foxyote.
Built by Kurgan Motorsports, the Coyote V8 apparently slipped easily into the space once occupied by the wheezy 2.3-liter four-cylinder. As MustangEvolution details, the hard part was custom-building the motor mounts, braces and other support structures, along with upgrades to brakes and transmissions.
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Justice Antonin Scalia has become one of the most ridiculed figures in the media since news of the Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality.
The Onion predicted Scalia and his dissenting cohorts will one day be portrayed as villains in an Oscar-winning movie. The Atlantic picked apart his obscure, condescending word choice – "argle-bargle" – to describe the 5-4 ruling that repealed the Defense of Marriage Act.
"It's not exactly Supreme Court level language, which is exactly why Scalia chose it," writes Rebecca Greenfield. "People use these types of terms to sound either juvenile or pejorative, which was the justice's point: These other opinions aren't just wrong, they're argle-bargle level wrong, or plain dumb."
The Daily Show, never much a fan of the Supreme Court justice who's been known to compare homosexuality to bestiality, questioned his logic in supporting DOMA yet voting to throw out a key part of the Voting Rights Act.
During Wednesday night's show (starting at 2:45 in the clip), correspondent Samantha Bee explained that Scalia defended DOMA because he thinks it's wrong to kill a longstanding law. John Oliver asks why, then, did he strike down part of the Voting Rights Act the day before?
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The idea of children's bodies being sold for sex is not something most people care to think about much less talk about. But every day, in the Bay Area, children are sold, beaten, drugged, hustled, molested and raped — exploited for someone else's profit.
January is National Human Trafficking Awareness Month and the streets where children are trafficked daily in Oakland will soon be different.
On Thursday, my office, in partnership with Misssey (Motivating, Inspiring, Supporting and Serving Sexually Exploited Youth) and Clear Channel Outdoor, will kick off a campaign in Oakland denouncing human trafficking. Twenty-seven billboards will educate the community that buying a child for sex is human trafficking.
Also, 30 bus shelters will send a strong message to those who are being trafficked that getting out of the situation is possible, others have survived and "U can 2."
To those who are buying or selling children for sex, the message is clear: You will be prosecuted in Alameda County by my office, which leads the nation in human trafficking prosecutions.
Since 2005, my office has prosecuted more than 350 traffickers with high conviction rate. We have seen nearly 400 youths who have been trafficked or are at risk for trafficking and Misssey, a community-based organization that provides comprehensive services in a safe environment to support and serve sexually exploited youth, has worked with hundreds of exploited youths.
Despite our best efforts and significant strides to combat this problem, Oakland continues to be plagued with an underage sex market.
The FBI has identified Oakland as an epicenter of trafficking in the Bay Area counties. The majority of exploited children are 13 to 16 years old, some as young as 11.
Even more shocking, the number of commercially sexually exploited children is increasing, while the average age of those exploited is decreasing, according to Misssey.
Working with the Northern California Regional Intelligence Center, the Oakland Police Department has been a law enforcement leader in addressing human trafficking of children.
It is time to come together and end child sex trafficking. Educating and engaging the community is essential. One way to help is, "If you see something, say something." Keep the human trafficking hotline in your cellphone, 888-373-7888 or text Be Free (233733), and report anything suspicious. Through this hotline, more than 75,000 calls have come in to identify nearly 9,000 survivors.
You can also sign up for the Alameda County District Attorney's Office Human Exploitation and Trafficking Watch mailing list at HEAT-Watch.org to learn more about human trafficking and what you can do to join the fight.
Download a free toolkit so you can build your capacity to hold traffickers accountable and keep victims safe.
Donate your time and money to organizations that are making a difference, such as Misssey, Bay Area Women Against Rape, West Coast Children's Clinic and HEAT Watch.
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Speak out: Let policymakers know we need the toughest penalties for traffickers and the predators who buy children for sex and resources for victims of human trafficking. Together, we will we put an end to modern-day slavery.
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SUNDAY, June 2 (HealthDay News) -- A new drug called lambrolizumab appears to improve outcomes in patients with advanced melanoma, according to the results of a phase 1 trial.
Lambrolizumab is an antibody that works by revealing the cancer to the immune system so it can mount a response and kill the cancer cells with few serious side effects, the researchers said.
"This is early, but it's very encouraging," said lead researcher Dr. Antoni Ribas, a professor of medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles.
"This is a new class of drugs for cancer that are giving benefits in patients with melanoma, in terms of having a high rate of tumor responses that are durable in patients with metastatic melanoma," he said.
Melanoma is the deadliest type of skin cancer and, until recently, there was no effective treatment, Ribas said. In metastatic melanoma, the cancer has spread.
One of the ways some cancer cells fool the immune system is with a protein called PD-L1 on their surface, which renders the cancer invisible. "PD-L1 is a way the cancer tries to conceal itself or hide from the immune system," Ribas said.
Lambrolizumab blocks the protein and "exposes the cancer to the immune system," he said.
Ribas said that lambrolizumab might also be effective against other cancers, and has already been tested in patients with lung cancer.
The new study was a "phase 1b" trial, which seeks to determine if a drug is safe and also looks for signs of effectiveness. More testing and randomized trials are needed before the drug could become available, Ribas said.
The report was published online June 2 in the New England Journal of Medicine to coincide with the Sunday presentation of the findings at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology in Chicago.
For the trial, 135 patients with advanced metastatic melanoma were placed in three groups and treated with different regimens of lambrolizumab.
The researchers found that, overall, the drug improved cancer in 38 percent of the patients regardless of dose. Specifically, 25 percent of the patients who received the lowest dose showed improvement as did 52 percent of those given the highest dose.
In all, 77 percent of the patients showed some response to treatment, they noted.
How long the positive response lasts isn't known. Five patients were taken off the drug because their cancer worsened. So far the longest response has been over one year, Ribas said.
Most side effects with lambrolizumab were mild and easily managed, he added. These included fatigue, fevers, skin rash, loss of skin color and muscle weakness.
According to Ribas, 13 percent of patients had more serious side effects, including inflammation of the lung or kidney, and thyroid problems.
The research was funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme, the maker of lambrolizumab.
In April, lambrolizumab received "breakthrough therapy" designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which means the agency will expedite reviewing the data to speed up getting the drug approved, Ribas said.
One dermatologist welcomed the news of the study results.
"I had a patient who was treated with this and it is definitely a lifesaver," said Dr. Doris Day, a dermatologist at Lenox Hill Hospital, in New York City. Before being treated with lambrolizumab her patient had moved to California, but kept Day updated.
Current treatment for advanced melanoma is interferon, which has severe side effects, Day said. "You kind of wish you were dead, because you feel awful," she explained. Lambrolizumab, however, has very mild side effects, she added.
"Life extension is one thing, but if you can't extend life without quality then there's really no point. My patient did well and had good quality of life," Day said.
"Having metastatic melanoma may not be as much of a death sentence as it was," Day noted. "There is hope. There are options now that extend life and quality of life."
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The plot, dreamed up in tandem by both Raven and Marvel's CB Cebulski, revolves around Dr. Doom's scheme to unite the supervillains in a nefarious group known as Masters of Evil. Their goal? You guessed it, world domination. This is no typical caper, so the powers and talents of literally dozens of superheroes will be required to quell the threat.
Who can you expect to play? While certain characters were not yet playable, the character select screen showed Captain America, Spider-Man, Thor, Wolverine, Ms. Marvel, Ronin, Captain Marvel, Spider-Woman, Deadpool, Thing, Luke Cage, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, Storm, Mr. Fantastic, Iceman, Elektra, Iron Man, and nine or so mysterious, unlockable silhouettes. On the villain's team are Dr. Doom, Galactus, Bullseye, The Rhino, Arcade, and many, many more. This is quite the Marvel house party.
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The basic gameplay is closely patterned after X-Men Legends and Baldur's Gate: Dark Alliance, with lots of real-time combat, leveling-up, and general dungeon hackery. Even if you're alone, you'll command a team of four characters at once, with AI controlling your three teammates. The huge selection of characters should offer some much-needed variety in playing styles, and further novelty should come through a plot that branches and turns out differently depending on which missions you accept.
Combat's the name of the game, so you'll be doing plenty of it in Ultimate Alliance's 17 different environments. In addition to the typical quick combos, you can grapple and block, as well as attack from the air. A new superpower meter charges as you play, and unleashing its fury spells doom for most enemies. (In multiplayer, one player's super attack will also set off everyone else's, which is a great tactic versus the tough bosses.) Once in a while you'll also run into an environmental object that can be used offensively, as well as equippable weapons. Few games offer more ways to dice, blast, immolate, shatter, zap, ensnare and generally destroy your foes, and you'll only earn more as you level each hero up.
In addition to the typical dungeon crawls, unique scenarios will help keep the action fresh. For example, one level involves fleeing across sky-high catwalks in the wake of the immense and terrifying Galactus. Another bit, a boss fight versus the massive snow giant Ymir, requires you to steal the massive spear of a merely gigantic ice soldier, after which you can leap up Ymir's body to plunge it into his neck. The spear sequence plays out with a button-pressing mini-game on Xbox 360, while the Wii and PS3 versions require various physical controller motions.


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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) Walk-on Alex Barlow made a spinning 6-foot jumper with 6.1 seconds left in overtime and Butler toppled No. 1 Indiana 88-86 Saturday in the Crossroads Classic.
Barlow had scored only 12 points all season. The Bulldogs (8-2) handed the Hoosiers their first loss and beat a top-ranked team for the first time in school history.
The Hoosiers (9-1) were led by Victor Oladipo and Cody Zeller with 18 points each. Indiana had a chance to win it, but Jordan Hulls' half-court heave was off to the left.
Indiana rallied from a 71-64 deficit in the final 2 1/2 minutes to force overtime and led 84-80 with 2:12 to play. The Bulldogs charged back with two 3-pointers and won it with Barlow's short jumper.
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What Hawai'i Chefs Eat When They Go Out to Local Restaurants
Everyone envisions chefs laboring away at the hot stove, so much so that we sometimes forget they do venture out of their kitchens, eat at other restaurants, try new dishes and relax with friends around a table.
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Justin Pardo
Chef/Owner of Market Fresh Bistro
At his restaurant: Haleakala braised lamb ragu on fresh pappardelle ($15).
For Pardo's recommended dish at Market Fresh Bistro, he takes a whole 40- to 50-pound Haleakala lamb, breaks it down, sears it and braises it over the course of two days along with Kula vegetables and a handful of herbs from the restaurant's garden. San Marzano tomatoes brighten the ragu, and it's finished with pecorino cheese. The thick, meaty sauce is spooned over fresh pappardelle pasta for a deeply comforting dish. 3620 Baldwin Ave., Makawao, (808) 572-4877.
He also recommends: Pancakes at Tasty Crust ($3.50).
"I love tasty crust pancakes. I get them whenever I get the chance," Pardo says. "They're just delicious— they're big, they're fluffy, they're really, really good. "The other appeal of eating at this family-run business, which began in 1944, is that, sometimes, he'll see other chefs. "It's the kind of place we like to eat, hole-in-the wall, mom-and-pop-type of places," he says. 1770 Mill St., Wailuku, (808) 244-0845, tastycrust.com.
James McDonald
Executive Chef/Owner of Io Restaurant
At his restaurant: Veal porterhouse with fresh Hawaiian peppercorn-brandy sauce ($44).
What McDonald loves about this dish is the way the fruitiness of the fresh peppercorns in a classic brandy sauce play against the veal. In addition, the accompanying roasted root vegetable risotto—made up of kohlrabi, beets, daikon and heirloom carrots—is sourced from the restaurant's own farm. 505 Front St., Lahaina, (808) 661-8422, iomaui.com.
He also recommends: Seared ahi and foie gras at Lahaina Grill ($31).
This unctuous dish is served with a fig compote and glazed with a Maui onion duck demi-glace. "What makes it so memorable is the perfect execution of cooking on the foie gras and ahi, coupled with the richness of the foie gras blending with the tuna," says McDonald. "The demi pulls the two elements together perfectly." 127 Lahainaluna Road, Lahaina, (808) 667-5117, lahainagrill.com.
Perry Bateman
Executive Chef at Mama's Fish House
At his restaurant: Fresh fish, Hawaiian-style ($40).
It was hard to nail down down Bateman on a single dish—he kept drifting among seven different preparations of fish, from papio to moi to uku—but, in the end, he settled on the fresh fish sautéed with butter and coconut milk. He seemed slightly embarrassed to be recommending a dish that resembled a luau plate, in such an upscale restaurant as Mama's, but he didn't need to be. The fish is accompanied by Hawaiian wild pig, trapped in macadamia-nut orchards on the Big Island; lomi-lomi salmon; fresh poi made in-house with Maui taro; Molokai sweet potato; tropical Island fruit; and an apple banana baked with sugar, rum and butter. It's a perfect representation of "blending our fishermen with our farmers and making it really good," says Bateman. 799 Poho Place, Paia, (808) 579-8488, mamasfishouse.com.
He also recommends: Braised lamb shank with lemon risotto at Capische ($38).
"I love the braised lamb and risotto," says Bateman. "It's such a simple dish, and yet they do it really well. The lamb is so rich and the lemon risotto balances it well." A savory herb broth is the finishing touch to this course. Hotel Wailea, 555 Kaukahi St., Wailea, (808) 879-2224, capische.com.
Jojo Vasquez
Chef de Cuisine at The Banyan Tree
At his restaurant: Seafood sausage with pumpernickel and béarnaise ($23).
Vasquez favors this dish as much for its taste as its inspiration. He says, "I always like to tap into the creative medium of my cooks and, one guy, Aaron Palone, is a sausage artisan. He makes sausages at home and this reminded me of my earlier career in Chicago where I handcrafted everything from scratch, from pastas to sausages. Also, Chicago being a sausage-grinding community, it was an homage to my hometown, [while] showcasing Hawaii's finest seafood. We chose Kona lobster, Molokai shrimp, local snapper and scallops because the flavor profiles were a hit." Ritz Carlton Kapalua, One Ritz-Carlton Drive, Kapalua, (808) 669-6200.
He also recommends: Ratatouille crêpe at Paradise Found Crêperie ($9.95).
At this small eatery in Lahaina, Vasquez recommends the ratatouille crêpe, with the traditional stew of eggplant, squash, peppers and tomatoes, folded into a freshly made crêpe with garden herbs and mozzarella. 170 Papalaua St., Lahaina, (808) 661-1747.


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Microstock Charts necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 95 diseños de 31 diseñadores freelance.
Microstock Charts
Microstock Charts is a simple website for people who sell photos online to track their earnings and other metrics. As the name implies, the data is displayed in different charts. It's all about the charts.
The project is designed to be modern, simple, and fast. We will be updating the design of the website shortly to be more consistent with these principles. Don't take the current ugly design as an indication of what we want from this project.
Our target audience are technically savvy people with an understanding of design themselves - they're all photographers and illustrators.
We require the design of a simple logo incorporating the name "Microstock Charts" or the domain name "microstockcharts.com" and two simple banner ads that incorporate the logo (standard sizes: 125 x 125 pixels; and, 468 x 70 pixels).
The key element we're after is 'simple' and that's the reason why this project includes both logo and banner ads. We're not after anything elaborate.
Logos with an icon to the left of the name will be well considered, but it's not essential. Any graphic elements beyond the words (including any icons) need to relate to 'charts', not any other aspect of the project.
The appearance of the charts on our website is going to change, so don't incorporate them in your design. We will not discriminate against any design for having charts that look different to ours. Though charts are certainly not essential in either the logo or the banners.
A stylized font is almost essential. We want the 'name' to be the primary element of the brand.
We're totally open about colors, though we want them to look modern.
The content of the banners is not fixed, but a suggested text is "Microstock data tracking that's Free, Private, Easy and Useful" or any other copy from the project website.
Logo must be supplied as vector and banners as PSD.
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DTS Digital Cinema is changing it's name to Datasat Digital Entertainment. We are looking for a logo to rebrand the company which will be utilized in all media (major motion pictures & posters, website, letterhead, business cards, etc.) as well as promotional items.
DTS Digital Cinema
Datasat Digital Entertainment (formerly DTS Digital Entertainment) is an expert provider of digital entertainment services for content owners and exhibitors. A leading innovator and supplier of 5.1 digital surround sound for motion pictures, the company specializes in content management solutions for the delivery and exhibition of movies and other content in digital form, with a dedicated focus on supporting the film industry's transition to digital cinema. Datasat Digital Entertainment has plans to move into the delivery of digital content via satellite and broadband technologies.
Our present website, which will be redesigned, can be found at http://www.dtsdcinema.com. Our present logo, which you can see on the website, is highly recognizable by millions of moviegoers around the world and we would like the rebranded company to have a logo that could also become highly recognized.
We will undoubtedly need to work with the winning designer on a long term basis to augment the logo for various purposes.
- Historically, our logo has been red with white lettering. Other colors we like are black and a deep royal blue (somewhere between the L.A. Dodgers and New York Yankees or take a look at the background in the picture on the Exhibition tab of our website). Staying in the red family is also OK.- Like DTS (which originally stood for Digital Theatre Systems) Datasat Digital Entertainment is likely to be known through the motion picture industry as DDE, so it may help to reflect that in the logo. As an alternative, Datasat could be the primary word to focus on. - The logo should embody trust and technological savvy
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|Laura Inés Pollán Toledo in Cuba and Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma
Sanctions are the last nonviolent way of seeking to change an unjust system by refusing to cooperate with tyranny. When discussing the Cuban embargo in the mass media these two aspects are rarely, if ever, touched upon. Academics and the lobbyists for big business, such as USA Engage, often claim that sanctions never work; rather, it is economic engagement that leads towards greater respect for human rights.
However, recent history in China, Burma, and Vietnam indicate otherwise. This disconnect from reality stems from two factors: self-interest and a reading of power dynamics that ignores people power in favor of focusing on regime elites.
In a New York Times article entitled "Easing of Restraints in Cuba Renews Debate on U.S. Embargo," Carlos Saladrigas claims that "maintaining this embargo, maintaining this hostility, all it does is strengthen and embolden the hard-liners . . . what we should be doing is helping the reformers." Essentially, Mr. Saladrigas argues that lifting sanctions would weaken and dissuade hardliners while at the same time benefiting reformers. Over the past four years the Obama Administration has loosened economic sanctions on Cuba.
If Mr. Saladrigas is correct, we should observe former outsiders in the regime tackling and winning policy discussions, but that has not been the case. On the human rights front the situation has actually deteriorated. One of the policy objectives of the Castro regime both internally and internationally is to portray itself as David against Goliath. Despite having normal trade relations, Hugo Chavez has undertaken the same kind of campaign in Venezuela. Often times the U.S. State Department has fallen short of explaining the sanctions policy fully or for that matter defending it in a vigorous manner at international forums. This has allowed the Cuban government a free hand in a sustained campaign to portray itself as a victim blaming all of its economic woes on the American blockade on Cuba.
Nevertheless as John Adams once observed, "Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." The facts at present demonstrate that the arguments of the regime and its apologists do not hold up under scrutiny. First, one of the problems with the sanctions debate is that words are used interchangeably which are not synonymous while others that should be are not.
For example the Cuban government and many of its apologists use the terms blockade and embargo as if they were the same thing. At the same time the terms embargo and sanctions are viewed as somehow different. A blockade is specifically a military term that according to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary is "for the isolation by a warring nation of an enemy area (as a harbor) by troops or warships to prevent passage of persons or supplies." In the case of Cuba there was only one time when a blockade was put in place and that was by President John F. Kennedy during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis beginning on October 22 and it was ended less than a month later on November 20, 1962.
What is known as the Cuban Embargo began On January 3, 1961 when President Dwight D. Eisenhower suspended trade with Cuba, a few days after his administration broke diplomatic relations with the country. The embargo on Cuba since its inception has meant restrictions on trade and travel to the island by U.S. citizens and in practice has been a partial embargo. Over the decades these sanctions have been loosened and tightened depending on the circumstances at the time.
An actual embargo would mean that there is a complete ban on or prohibition of trade by the United States with Cuba. This is not the case. What you have in Cuba is a partial embargo which is exactly the same in definition as economic sanctions. Between January 2000 and September 2012 according to the United States Census Bureau there has been $4,291,200,000.00 in U.S. trade in goods with Cuba.
The ban on U.S. imports from Cuba remains but U.S. exports to Cuba have been going on since 1992 with the amounts dramatically increasing since 2002 reaching its peak in exports to Cuba under the Bush Administration in 2008. Despite loosening restrictions further under the Obama Administration trade with Cuba has dropped to 363.3 million dollars in 2011 and figures for 2012 show a slight improvement with total sales to the island at $337.5 million as of September. This is not a total embargo but a partial one in which the United States is one of Cuba's top trading partners.
At the same time Cuban exiles, many committed to maintaining economic sanctions against the dictatorship, are also a main source of remittances to their families on the island totaling hundreds of millions of dollars per year. The aim of the embargo initially, during the Cold War, was to penalize the Castro regime for seizing U.S. properties and limit its ability to fund armed guerrillas and terrorist groups in the region aimed at toppling friendly governments. With the exception of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua in 1979 this policy was a success in the Americas.
Following the collapse of the Soviet Union changes were made to sanctions policies that sought in the 1992 Torricelli Bill and 1996 Helms Burton Bill to make clear that sanctions would remain in effect until all political prisoners were freed, the government tolerated a political opposition and free elections were held. Funds were also set aside by Congress to assist through development assistance independent civil society. In addition Congress in the 1980s established Radio/TV Marti to break the information monopoly of the dictatorship. Also in the late 1980s the United States led an effort at the U.N. Human Rights Commission to expose the systematic human rights abuses on the island and hold the Cuban dictatorship to greater scrutiny.
The result of what amounted to a tightening of sanctions and redirecting them from Cold War considerations to a pro-democracy effort combined with diplomacy was to provide protection to Cuban dissidents on the island, along with the means to reach the populace via radio while also setting up licensing to permit the sending of humanitarian and technical assistance to dissidents by civil society groups in the United States. This led to the growth of the pro-democracy movement on the island and greater support for it internationally.
Policies have consequences
The loosening of sanctions and the lower profile on the international front has meant that the regime has not had to face the same level of accountability that it did back in 2003 for example. During the Black Cuban Spring of 2003 the international community's response caught the Castro dictatorship by surprise with a sustained campaign to release 75 Cuban prisoners of conscience arrested during the March 18 crackdown and sentenced up to 28 years in prison.
None of the 75 are serving their sentences in a Cuban prison today. So what have we witnessed in Cuba over the past four years? The deaths, under suspicious circumstances, of national opposition figures such as Laura Inés Pollán Toledo and Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas; The deaths of Orlando Zapata Tamayo and Wilman Villar Mendoza, human rights defenders on hunger strike in the custody of the Cuban authorities; and, an increase both in the number of detentions and the degree of violence used against nonviolent activists.
Over the past four years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of arbitrary detentions in Cuba: from 870 in 2009 to 5,625, thus far, in 2012. One example of this disturbing trend is the death of Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia from pancreatitis, caused by the brutal beating he received from Cuban government agents.
Another is that of American Alan Gross, arrested on December 3, 2009 and sentenced to 15 years in a Cuban prison. He spent 25 days in a Havana jail before being visited by a U.S. diplomat. By that time Alan Gross had been approached by a Cuban "attorney" who just happened to be representing five Cuban spies imprisoned in the United States for espionage and conspiracy to commit murder. This Cuban attorney represented Alan Gross before his show trial and later appeals. Alan Gross's supposed crime: Attempting to provide Internet access to the local Jewish community in Cuba. The reality is that he is a pawn of the Castro regime to be used in pressuring concessions from the Obama Administration.
The Administration dangled several offers to the Castro regime and made a unilateral concession:
- Take Cuba off the list of state sponsors of terrorism.
- Waive probation for one of five Cuban agents convicted of espionage in the United States that planned at least one terrorist attack in the United States and provided intelligence that led to the downing of two US civilian planes over international airspace on February 24, 1996 killing four.
- Cuba democracy programs would no longer be about promoting democracy but "building civil society."
- The White House and Senator John Kerry pushed to unilaterally cut money for the Cuba democracy programs and freeze their funding.
In Burma, on the other hand, where sanctions were maintained, there have been signs of improvement in rights protections. The military junta, after years of trying to manipulate its way out from under them, has had to recognize the political opposition and provide a space for them in Burma's parliament. Things are still far from perfect, but there is hope that serious and permanent reforms are underway. The ability of Aung San Suu Kyi to run for public office, and for an independent press to begin to operate in Burma following decades of systematic censorship and control, are both positive signs. Aung San Suu Kyi has been clear about the importance of sanctions and of confronting those that would engage the dictatorship at the expense of the human rights of the Burmese people:
"Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice, the foundation stones for a sound democracy. I would therefore like to call upon those who have an interest in expanding their capacity for promoting intellectual freedom and humanitarian ideals to take a principled stand against companies that are doing business with the Burmese military regime. Please use your liberty to promote ours."Prominent Cuban-American businessmen have also spoken out against unconditionally lifting sanctions in Cuba, stating in a letter titled "Commitment to Freedom" that "absent the dismantling of the totalitarian apparatus on the island, along with the unconditional release of all political prisoners and the restoration of fundamental human rights, there should be no U.S. unilateral concessions to the Castro regime." They, like Aung San Suu Kyi believe that it is unprincipled for companies to do business with a dictatorship exploiting the suffering of an oppressed people. Things are improving in Burma on the human rights front, while relations are worsening in China and Vietnam. Linking human rights with economic engagement has been a winning formula in Burma- and there's hope that it can be in Cuba as well.
Room for improvement
However, there are always opportunities for improving sanctions policies- seeking out approaches that make the people, and not the dictatorship, the priority. For example on August 4, 2011 the Obama Administration announced a ban on visas for people who the State Department finds have been involved in human rights violations. Unfortunately, since then we have seen that human rights violators of the Castro regime are immigrating to the United States. If this ban were applied vigorously to the hardline elements of the Cuban regime it would be positive step that would protect dissidents by holding abusers accountable and providing a penalty, but this ban also needs to be expanded to follow the path taken by the European Union when dealing with the Mugabe regime in Zimbabwe. Banning the relatives of the hard line elements of the dictatorship from visiting the United States would create greater pressures on the regime for change.
Unfortunately, what has gone on in practice is that the children and relatives of the hard liners have an easy time obtaining visas to the United States while the families of dissidents have a more difficult time.
There are two profoundly different visions of how to achieve positive change in Cuba. One views the populace and their representatives in the emerging independent civil society, or dissidents, as the protagonists of change. The second views regime elites and possible reformist elements within the dictatorship as the protagonists for change. The trouble with the latter view is that it often mistakes profiteering with progress, as China has demonstrated. This approach also undermines the morale of dissidents and the populace at large, thus emboldening the dictatorship. History has shown us that change occurs from the ground up. Thus, when sanctions are lifted in an effort to allow elements within the regime to reform, the action actually has the opposite effect. The paradox is that the most effective way to encourage reform is to empower dissidents by pressuring the regime with sanctions. If the current policy of loosening sanctions and not holding the regime accountable for its gross and systematic human rights violation, beyond pro-forma denunciations of atrocity after atrocity then things will get a lot worse and they will never improve for Cubans.
U.S. sanctions policy with regards to the dictatorship in Cuba was about containment of the exportation of the Cuban model throughout the hemisphere, and during the Cold War having Cuba serve as a drain on Soviet resources that contributed to its eventual bankruptcy. In the post Cold War years it shifted once again with a focus on human rights. The failure of the United States to do this in China, Cambodia, Venezuela and Vietnam with their deteriorating human rights situation is not that the policy in Cuba is incorrect as some would claim but that the policies in these other countries are profoundly immoral and ignore human rights concerns. Instead these policies favor of short-term corporate economic interests that run counter to the interests of the majority of U.S. citizens not to mention the long term economic well-being of the United States.


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The Caloundra region has a range of accommodation available - from budget beachside cabins to luxurious resort suites. When it comes to sea and sand, there are loads of beaches to choose from including Golden Beach, Bulcock Beach, Shelly Beach, Moffat Beach, Dicky Beach, Currimundi and Kings Beach - which is popular for families due to its water park area with a fun fountain for the kids to play in and a foreshore swimming pool.
The best way to explore this part of the coast is by setting off on the Caloundra Coastal Walk which stretches 25 kilometres from Golden Beach in the south to Mooloolaba Beach in the north. It takes in Caloundra Headland, Moffat Headland and Point Cartwright - passing historic sites such as the Military Jetty used for operations in World War II and the heritage listed Kings Beach Bathing Pavillion constructed in 1937.
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Microsoft held a one-day event Wednesday for developers who want to learn more about Windows Phone 8. This will be the first Microsoft smartphone platform based on Microsoft Windows instead of Windows CE. It is a last-ditch, all-or-nothing effort for both Microsoft and Nokia to get back into the smartphone game. I think we saw enough clues during the event and in related official blog posts to say with some certainty that Microsoft soon will announce it is buying Nokia.
Here's my guess: Microsoft will announce it has bought Nokia--or at least the part that makes phones and developers' mobile software--before the end of 2012, maybe around the time Apple is likely to announce an iPhone 5.
I speculated on June 19 that Microsoft will buy Nokia, which has a relatively small market cap of just under $10 billion at this moment. Microsoft paid $6 billion for Aquantive, an online ad firm, and $8.5 billion for Skype. So spending $10 billion to $12 billion on Nokia would not be out of line. Here's what tipped me off at Wednesday's Windows Phone Developer Conference:
Nokia has lost nearly two-thirds of the value it had just last October. It is trading at $2.50 per share now, down from $7 in October. The knowledge that it has recently released its flagship Lumia 900--which cannot be upgraded to Windows Phone 8--will almost certainly negatively affect sales.
Why would Nokia give away the farm to Microsoft unless they are close to becoming part of Microsoft?


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"Elegant Enigmas: The Art of Edward Gorey" is one of the most interesting and entertaining exhibitions of the year.
It's an impressively large show with about 180 drawings, objects and books featuring the work of one of America's best loved artists, illustrators and writers — Edward Gorey (1925-2000) of Cape Cod.
It might seem a perfect fit for the Portland Public Library (it is the best show ever mounted in the Lewis Gallery), but to pigeonhole Gorey as an illustrator risks underestimating his importance to American culture.
Relying primarily on the Edward Gorey Charitable Trust's collection, "Elegant Enigmas" features Gorey's original pen-and-ink drawings from many of his best-known publications, such as "The Gashlycrumb Tinies," "The Doubtful Guest," "The Unstrung Harp" and many others.
While Gorey is easy to recognize and appreciate, his works are not so easy to explain. Basically, they are enigmatically macabre cartoons with a Victorian gothic flavor — like if James Thurber and Edgar Alan Poe had collaborated to make children's books.
Many of Gorey's images have penetrated deep into American culture. "B is for Basil who was eaten by bears," for example, shows a fragile little boy looking over his shoulder towards us, only to notice two giant bears behind him. The "uh-oh" moment for poor, doomed Basil becomes humorous by being both a postmortem and ironically forever pause just before his grisly demise.
I can't read Basil's epitaph, however, without remembering it follows "A is for Amy who fell down the stairs." (And, yes: She's there too.)
Gorey illustrated Hilaire Belloc's "Cautionary Tales for Children" and published it with broad letters on the cover: "Rediscovered and Illustrated by Edward Gorey." The cover and several pieces from "Cautionary Tales" are here, including the three illustrations for "Algernon/ Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father."
While cautionary tales have been widespread European cultural grist since the earliest myths and fairy tales, they took on a particularly grisly form in the 19th century once they were infected with parody. Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" states that Alice had read "several nice little histories about children who had got burnt, and eaten up by wild beasts and other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules their friends had taught them: Such as … 'if you drink much from a bottle marked "poison," it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later.' "
While the movie "Zombieland" (2009), for example, is all about Alice's "Wonderland," its cautionary tale tone and surreal landscape wouldn't have been possible without Gorey's influence. This is also true for the 1980s slasher movies in which teenagers who take up sex or drinking wind up meeting the likes of the hockey-masked Jason, Freddy Krueger and other morality-driven villains.
Gorey reaches back to the cautionary tale and the uptight and moralistic Victorian era (and borrows its look and flavor) because it opens the door to the world of Freud: Surrealism.
Gorey is essentially psychologized surrealism spread thick with ironical "morality" and social parody.
Surrealism is apparent in Gorey's "Melange Funeste" (1981) — a book in which three stacked pages can be turned to mix and match heads, torsos and bodies of strange figures, i.e., the surrealist game of "exquisite corpse."
Rather than through the arcane genre of cautionary tales, surrealism is how we can most easily understand Gorey's enigmas. They're not riddles but images intended to churn our subconscious energies. If driven by id as children are, suggests Gorey, we can be monsters.
Gorey was a prodigy, as his wonderfully illustrated envelopes sent home from Harvard remind us. Even early on, he developed memorable characters and drew them beautifully in a tightly wound style.
But as Gorey had his (adolescent) artistic awakening, surrealism was an international phenomenon.
In the uncanny "Gazebo," we see an impressively rendered alligator on skates being ridden by puzzled children drawn in an easily legible modern cartoon style, while around them swirl Victorian ghosts.
Or we see a girl waking to find herself under the sea with a floating sea monster looking her in the face. In the misplaced logic of dreams, she isn't drowning, but we feel the building tension of forthcoming gasp-breathed, bolt-upright waking.
Gorey saw our society as a "moral swamp," but offers his readers a vision of moral agency beyond grim lesson lists. This is why he appeals to adolescents and young adults — goth culture in particular — and it is also why you should think twice before taking easily upset young children to see "Elegant Enigmas."
Still, I think this is a great show for most kids. If they watch cartoons such as "Adventure Time" or "Courage the Cowardly Dog" (which are both brilliant), they will likely be more comfortable with it than their parents. When I took my boys (8 and 11) to "Elegant Enigmas," I had to tear them away. It's that kind of show.
"Elegant Enigmas" is weird and unsettling, but it's important and wonderfully entertaining.
Freelance writer Daniel Kany is an art historian who lives in Cumberland. He can be contacted at:
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The Music Never Stops on Bop... Until Now
A farewell message from the Bop.fm founders
TL;DR: the Bop.fm team has been acquired by LifeLock! Bop.fm has shut down as of 10/29/15 - read on to learn more.
Almost three years ago, we started Bop.fm with a goal to unite all the disparate streaming services into a cohesive platform, thus making life easier for music fans and those that serve them. We knew there would be challenges along the way, so we studied the stories of those who came before us and crafted a compelling value proposition for users, music services, artists, labels, and websites.
Since then, we've achieved some great milestones (as demonstrated in the video below):
- Integrating 15 of the largest music services in the world. For many of these services, Bop.fm was the first company to receive private API access, increased rate limits, affiliate relationships, or all of the above.
- Partnering with esteemed organizations such as Facebook, the Billboard + Twitter Trending 140 chart, The GRAMMYs, and Rap Genius.
- Adoption of our music player embed by leading publications like Complex, Pigeons & Planes, Dancing Astronaut, SPIN, and Huffington Post.
- Powering social media campaigns and music playback for major artists like Lil Wayne, Ariana Grande, Wiz Khalifa, Keith Urban, Snoop Dogg, Will.I.Am, and Jason Mraz.
- Reaching over 9 million diehard music lovers per month - users who are passionate about having all of their music easily accessible in one place and easily shareable with others.
While proud of what our small team has accomplished in a short period of time, we realized that we still had a long way to go to unify the ever-evolving digital music landscape. Building out a central destination for consumers can be very expensive and require hundreds of millions of dollars in funding, in an industry fraught with monetization concerns. As we considered the future direction of the company, we debated the tradeoffs between doubling down on a risky endeavor versus aligning ourselves with more promising opportunities that had presented themselves.
Today, we're excited to announce that the Bop.fm team has been acquired by LifeLock! LifeLock is a leading provider of identity protection services for consumers and consumer risk management services for enterprises. Our team will apply our consumer product DNA to help enhance the services that LifeLock delivers to millions of customers - we can't wait to show you what we have in store.
As our team focuses on this exciting new opportunity, the Bop.fm website, mobile app, and embeds will be shut down as of October 31, 2015. Users should have received a separate email that contains their playlist data.
We'd like to thank all of our users, partners, and friends for their valuable feedback and unflinching support as we've taken this journey together. To learn more or contact us with questions, please email info [at] bop [dot] fm.
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PBR Jubilee Weekend
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Today, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) announced that alumnus George E. Cooper, Ph.D., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), will serve as speaker for its summer commencement ceremonies scheduled Friday, Aug. 1 at 6 p.m. in the Al Lawson Multipurpose Center, 1800 Wahnish Way, Tallahassee, Fla.
"We are excited to welcome home alumnus George Cooper to share his passion for higher education with the newest graduates of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University," said President Elmira Mangum, Ph.D. "His career trajectory from ambitious student to university president to White House executive director demonstrates just how far our students can excel using the academic foundation they obtain here."
As a part of the leadership team for the White House Initiative on HBCUs, Cooper works with the president-appointed HBCU Board of Advisors as a liaison between the executive branch and HBCUs across the country. He serves as the constant voice of the HBCU community at the Department of Education and helps to shape policy and deploy resources to better serve the students, faculty and families of the greater HBCU community. He also works with 32 federal agencies that support HBCUs through federal grants and contracts.
Cooper was a senior fellow with the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU), where he reviewed key federal legislation important to HBCUs. Previously, Cooper served for four years (2008-2012) as the 10th president of South Carolina State University (SCSU), where he provided institutional leadership for the orderly and progressive development of the university. During his presidency at SCSU, he also served as chairperson of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities, Council of 1890 Universities (2010-2012).
Cooper spent 17 years with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's, National Institute of Food and Agriculture (formerly the Cooperative State Research Education and Extension Service). He served five years (1985-1990) at Alabama A&M University (AAMU) as vice president for academic affairs and professor, Department of Animal Science, and executive assistant to the president. Cooper served as dean of the School of Applied Sciences and associate professor, Department of Animal Science at Tuskegee University.
Along with a vast array of professional expertise, Cooper has served on a number of boards including recently serving as a member of the Orangeburg, S.C. Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors; co-chair of the National Collegiate Athletic Association, HBCU and Limited Resource Institution Academic Advisory Group (2011); member of the Board of Directors of the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities (2010-2012); and co-chair of the USDA/1980 Task Force (2010-2012).
Cooper received his bachelor's degree in animal husbandry from FAMU, a master's degree in animal science from Tuskegee University, and a doctoral degree in animal nutrition from the University of Illinois – Urbana.