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BardenStone: Taking a family approach to selling stone
BardenStone of Memphis, TN, is a longstanding family business that prides itself on taking time to know their customers and assist them in making the appropriate choices for their stone applications
BardenStone of Memphis, TN, strives on creating a welcoming and personal experience for its customers.
The company carries an assortment of marble, granite, rubble and building stone - catering to all design styles.
Among the stone varieties available are Arkansas fieldstone, Oklahoma flagstone and Pennsylvania Bluestone.
Many of BardenStone's stone products are ideal for landscape projects.
At its Memphis, TN, location, the showroom expands beyond inside to an outdoor stone yard where displays provide inspiration for the company's customers.
The outdoor area includes a private courtyard to further illustrate to clients the numerous design options there are for the company's stone products.
In 2015, BardenStone built a stunning 3,000-square-foot showroom at its Byhalia, MS, location. The floor of the entry foyer is a custom stone design inspired by Versailles.
In other areas of the showroom, stone products are displayed as artwork on the walls.
Visitors to the Byhalia showroom are by appointment only to create a personal one-on-one experience.
The newest addition to the fabrication shop is a Brembana Maxima CNC stoneworking center.
The shop is equipped with automated machinery for lifting slabs safely, as well as a GMM Axia bridge saw.
The warehouse in Byhalia, MS, maintains a full inventory of slabs — many of which BardenStone imports from worldwide.
Jennifer Richinelli
KEYWORDS building stone / fabrication shops / onyx
When walking into BardenStone's showroom on Cherry Road in Memphis, TN, there is an immediate sense of warmth and friendliness. As a family business in its third generation, it is evident the Barden family cares about its customers and devotes itself to producing quality stonework to meet their design needs.
While Bob and Brenda Barden are still very involved in the business, the couple's three children, Darren, Billy and Nancy, are now immersed too. "We grew up in this," said Nancy Barden, who studied interior design and uses her expertise to offer innovative solutions to BardenStone's customers. She added Darren and Billy Barden provide their fabrication expertise.
Barden explained the company was originally founded by Bob Barden's father, Erlewood Barden, as White Stone Co., a pre-cast stone enterprise. Their grandfather went on to represent large stone producers in the U.S., including Coldspring and Indiana Limestone Co. Barden continued to say their father, Bob Barden, joined the business in 1971 after returning from the Vietnam War. Their mother, Brenda, who was formerly in real estate, came on board in 1986.
"The company was always in Memphis, but originally downtown," said Barden. "It has been in this location for almost 50 years. We bought a second location in Byhalia, MS, 21 years ago. We needed more room. Home building exploded in the early 1990s."
From the start, BardenStone offered a selection of rubble and building stone to its customers. Its lineup includes Arkansas fieldstone, Oklahoma flagstone and Pennsylvania Bluestone, which is a favorite among clientele.
Eventually, the company expanded its product lines to include marble and granite.
The amount of rubble and building stone verses the amount of marble and granite that is sold is split evenly.
"Bob and I have been traveling to Verona, [Italy], for 20 years," said Brenda Barden. "We also travel to Brazil. We have met a lot of people that we have maintained relationships with. Many are our friends."
Becoming entrenched in the industry influences the entire staff at BardenStone — especially how each values every customer and job, and treats it as an upmost priority. "This is our life," said Nancy Barden. "It's all my parents know."
To take their business to the next level, BardenStone opened its own fabrication shop at the Byhalia location. Having its own machinery has allowed the company to specialize in custom work. "We have done custom dining room tables and special pieces of furniture," said Nancy Barden. "People seek us out. The Internet has been very helpful.
"It's an experience," Nancy Barden went on to explain. "In a house, we do everything for the inside and outside. We're not a 'turn and burn.' People come to us when they need guidance and expertise to find the best stone for their home or commercial project. It means a lot to our customers that we are so invested. We are family oriented and people appreciate that."
"Our clients have confidence we aren't cookie cutter," added Brenda Barden. "They are paying for something different with us."
The fabrication operation
The majority of BardenStone's business from September to January is countertops, according to Nancy Barden, adding her brothers for the most part produce everything in the shop. The entire facility in Byhalia totals 30,000 square feet, with 10,000 square feet devoted to the fabrication shop and 3,000 to the showroom. The rest of the space is for the warehouse, which holds between 100 to 125 different colors of exotic natural stone slabs. "Some are bundles and sometimes we have one-hit wonders," said Brenda Barden. "We are known for carrying some unusual material, such as pink onyx. If we don't have it in stock, we outsource through our partners located all over the U.S. We mostly have 3cm material, but also some 2cm."
Additionally, BardenStone does offer quartz surfacing. "We try to be a purist, but we can't ignore the requests for engineered stone options," said Nancy Barden.
The fabrication shop houses a Brembana Maxima CNC stoneworking center and a GMM Axia bridge saw, as well as a Prodigy bridge saw, Pro Edge III edge polishing machine and a Wizard radial arm workstation — all from Park Industries. "When we got the CNC, it took over because it can do it all," said Nancy Barden. "But you still need to know how to fabricate by hand because machines can breakdown. Fabricators still require critical skills and knowledge in the basics of stone fabrication."
Billy Barden explained when BardenStone decided to take the leap to purchase a CNC, they did their research first. He credits the Stone Fabricator's Alliance (SFA) as a great resource.
"We looked at several CNCs and then visited Stone Pro's shop in Illinois to witness [the Maxima]," he said. "Like anything, it is intimidating at first. CMS seems like they care about helping you. Their techs are knowledgeable."
The CNC is equipped with ADI tooling and Scorpion finger bits, which the company purchases from Braxton-Bragg of Knoxville, TN.
Initially, production began with the GMM Axia bridge saw. "The GMM is the workhouse of the shop," said Billy Barden. "We purchased it in 1997. We found out if you take care of a machine, it will last a long time."
The Wizard is used weekly for honing slabs. "Park is well built," said Billy Barden.
Currently, BardenStone runs one shift. "It's mostly done with me and my brother," said Billy Barden. "We let the machines do 90% of the work." The number of employees varies with the workload, but the company tries to keep the staff at 10 people or fewer.
He explained he assists on every install and that templating is done with Luan plywood. The templates are then placed on a digitizer to make a CAD drawing that is sent to the Brembana, as well as used for a shop drawing for client approval.
Marketing its products
BardenStone services the City of Memphis, Northern Mississippi, Arkansas and Middle Tennessee. "We go where the work is," said Nancy Barden.
Recently, the company has devoted time to social media, hoping it will assist in stirring up new business. "We utilize technology as much as we can," said Nancy Barden. "We're getting our name out there on social media and trying to educate people through Facebook. We created 'Stone Style,' where I highlight natural stone use, ideas and colors to our BardenStone fans and friends. When I see something new, I post it to give our followers ideas."
In 2015, BardenStone built a stunning showroom at its Byhalia location. The floor of the entry foyer is a custom design inspired by Versailles. "It was made with the Brembana CNC," said Nancy Barden. "We were testing different techniques and wanted to highlight craftsmanship."
The entry design is meant to inspire BardenStone's customers. "When clients arrive, we want them to feel our confidence and know that BardenStone is the right choice," said Nancy Barden.
The other areas of the showroom are set up as a gallery and are more modern in style. "We have highlighted the stones like artwork in a museum," said Nancy Barden.
To view the Byhalia showroom, it is by appointment only. "We want to have a one-on-one experience with the customer," explained Nancy Barden. "Sometimes they have their own designer and sometimes they need assistance. We are here to help them."
BardenStone
Memphis, TN, and Byhalia, MS
Type of work: primarily custom residential
Machinery: a Brembana Maxima CNC stoneworking center from CMS Brembana North America in Caledonia, MI; a GMM Axia bridge saw from GMM of Italy; a Prodigy bridge saw, Pro Edge III edge polishing machine and a Wizard radial arm workstation — all from Park Industries of St. Cloud, MN; Scorpion finger bits supplied by Braxton-Bragg of Knoxville, TN; and ADI tooling from GranQuartz
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NEW ORLEANS has settled into its groove. The city is approaching the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina and the massive flooding from systemic levee failures triggered by the storm. Upheaval has made way for permanent realities, including one essential revelation: New Orleans is more so an unyielding crime city with a drinking problem than a quaint drinking city with a crime problem.
The tradition has always been that you may more or less describe the things that happen you imagine them of course but you more or less describe the things that happen but nowadays everybody all day long knows what is happening and so what is happening is not really interesting.
On the one hand, crime is so pervasive and affects every level of society such that any New Orleans novel with range is a de facto noir book or at least contains stock characters of the genre. Examples of this include the B-girls of John Kennedy Toole's classic Confederacy of Dunces, the criminals in Louis Maistros's magical realist The Sound of Building Coffins, and the arsonist murderer of Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein's mid-19th-century urban gothic The Mysteries of New Orleans. The excellent Yellow Jack by Josh Russell and the Liquor series by Poppy Z. Brite (now Billy Martin) also contain more than a few wrongdoers.
On the other hand, today more than ever before, "everybody all day long knows what is happening." This leads to an increased interest in well-researched nonfiction about New Orleans: Chris Wiltz's (also known for her Neal Rafferty mysteries) The Last Madam, Matthew Randazzo and Frenchy Brouillette's Mr. New Orleans, and Orissa Arend's Showdown in Desire come to mind in the realm of true crime. But what does it mean for the city's contemporary crime fiction?
I'm presently reading Two Guns from Harlem: The Detective Fiction of Chester Himes by New Orleanian Robert Skinner, who is also the author of the recommended and almost completely unknown Wesley Farrell noir series set in the 1930s. It makes sense that Skinner's a local, considering that the Amistad Research Center (ARC) at Tulane University is the home of Himes's papers. Around a year ago, I read Chester Himes for the first time, thanks to the ARC. The unexpected thrill of charging through Himes's ultra-vivid and galvanizing Harlem Detective series remains with me. Few writers so unflinchingly reveal the dignity and indignity of a character, or push absurdity to the limit. Few pry into the head of a person and show the ferocity of human nature. While working through the nine books of the series, I was struck that the so-called "genre hack" could flat outthink and outwrite most contemporary authors of "literary fiction." Himes's Harlem Cycle helps us understand a place and people. Ourselves, too, frankly. The books have their own guiding truths. They are unique and meritorious. Their verticality is a separate beast from horizontal daily life.
In real life people are interested in the crime more than they are in detection, it is the crime that is the thing the shock the thrill the horror but in the story it is the detection that holds the interest and that is natural enough because the necessity as far as action is concerned is the dead man, it is another function that has very little to do with human nature that makes the detection interesting.
The human mind, then, is where fiction has a place to stake its claim, since it can rarely compete with the vagaries of human nature. Thus a noir book (using "noir" and "crime fiction" interchangeably), like any other art form worth its salt, should offer just enough reality for the reader to find connection, yet have its own truth and internal logic — not necessarily those of the outside world. This is the lesson learned from reading Chester Himes, which also serves to answer the guiding questions of this essay. The place and necessity for crime fiction in a dangerous city is not to exploit, but to reveal the seams of a city and the psyches of its people, as Himes did with Harlem. We should look at a work of crime fiction as a document of a place and people. If noir is so real you can feel it and so well written you can taste it, then context and perspective are provided. As a result, a place and its people are better understood — and the reader is enriched in the process.
The following authors should be considered the leading lights of New Orleans noir. Each has a different approach. Each has different qualities. All are recommended reads and have their own unique ways of showing us context and perspective.
Award winner James Lee Burke is in a league of his own. Cajun protagonist Dave Robicheaux staggers through the haunted landscape connecting rural New Iberia to urban New Orleans. Burke writes with a beauty, depth, and sheer scope of the soul foreign to most authors of any stripe. Though the Robicheaux books may have run their eventual course in recent years, none of them is anything less than a high-water mark in chronicling a state too often marked by venality, brutality, and family trees with both rotten roots and withered branches.
James Sallis, most recently heralded for the film adaptation of his book Drive, is in his own company as well. His serial hero, black detective Lew Griffin, takes his sweet time wandering through his own mind. Occasionally, he also solves crimes in the Lower Garden District and locates missing people throughout the region. Sallis's style over the seven titles is a literary, reflective sort, well placed in the company of international authors like Jose Saramago and Cees Nooteboom.
New Orleans has a surplus of crime. But so do a lot of cities. What makes this one so unique are all the currents that swirl around it, reaching back hundreds of years into the past. Racial dynamics, corruption, and vice all brewing. Now add music and food and tribal rituals. And above it floats intimations of respectability. Where else are you going to find these elements in a better mix?
Julie Smith and Bill Loehfelm both offer the unique perspective of a female NOPD protagonist. Loehfelm's Maureen Coughlin is a recent East Coast transplant. His newest, and third in the series, Doing the Devil's Work, moved from simply mirroring and reordering reality to something more original. In this way he joins Edgar Award winner Julie Smith as a writer of detective fiction who does more than "describe the things that happen." Smith's Skip Langdon series, easily her best, was written a few decades ago, back when New Orleans was the murder capital of the country, and features an unwilling Uptown debutante more at home on the grittier side of Canal Street. Smith also edited the captivating New Orleans installment of Akashic's noir series.
Lambda Award winners Greg Herren and Jean Redmann are writers who contextualize the New Orleans gay and lesbian communities, respectively, while perfectly illustrating the keen sense of place that draws readers to crime fiction. Herren does so while focusing on the Irish Channel, Garden District, and even specific streets. Redmann's The Intersection of Law and Desire is one of the only books of New Orleans fiction that looks at the isolated Desire Projects, which are no longer standing.
The unfortunate lack of New Orleans crime writers of color is made obvious by omission. Perhaps this will eventually be remedied, though it is no less the case for crime fiction nationally. We can only hope that internationally known New Orleans local Yuri Herrera, who Francisco Goldman praised as "Mexico's greatest novelist," writes about the Crescent City one day.
This list should also include part-time New Orleanian Laura Lippman, winner of one of the first annual Pinckley Prizes — recently established to honor the late Diana Pinckley, whose "Get A Clue!" column covered over twenty years of crime fiction for The Times-Picayune.
Noir and New Orleans are a good match. It's a way to engage with the city's history and uniqueness, while at the same time striking a chord common with all urban dwellers. We read these novels for the voices of the narrators, the attachment we grow to feel toward their locales, and that little frisson of fear that no other kind of fiction quite delivers. It is both a dependable and surprising pleasure.
Michael Allen Zell is a novelist, playwright, and essayist.


Now that we've enjoyed all of our Halloween activities and eaten our share of Halloween candy, it's time to start thinking about Thanksgiving. I love Thanksgiving, but I think we shortchange it a bit in our race to Christmas. In an attempt to be deliberate about enjoying each part of this holiday season, I put together 10 of my favorite side dishes, appropriate for the Thanksgiving table.
Spicy Sour Cream Hash Browns - This particular recipe has been a family favorite for many years, and makes its way to just about every family holiday meal.
Roasted Ranch Root Vegetables - Looking for a way to get your kids to eat any vegetable that isn't covered in ranch dressing? Try this recipe - it has the flavor of ranch but lets the sweet natural flavor of the vegetables shine through.
Grilled Artichokes with Herb Aioli - Break out the grill for this artichoke recipe. Before trying this recipe, I'd never had artichokes with anything besides butter. Glad I decided to broaden my range.
Coconut Pineapple Rice - Simple to make, with loads of tropical flavor.
Rosemary and Thyme Shortbread - These are fantastic. Salty and sweet, herbaceous and buttery, with a hint of pepper. And the smell that fills your house as they are baking is out of this world!
Fresh Corn Salad - This is the perfect combination of sweet and salty and spicy from the corn and cheese and jalapenos. Yum!
Spicy Corn and Pepper Casserole - I love corn (could eat it every single day) and I love peppers (ditto). And this casserole brings those flavors together in a wonderful, creamy, spicy combination that is out of this world. Give it a whirl!
Roasted Potatoes with Lemon Vinaigrette - Oh my, are these tasty. Crisp and hot with lovely herb-y lemon flavor.
Sweet and Spicy Cornbread - This is wonderful hot from the over, with butter and honey. Perhaps habanero honey if you're looking for a bit of extra oomph!
Italian Rice Balls - Serve with your favorite marinara sauce, and enjoy the delicious, melty insides and the crispy outside!
Which ones do you think would be delicious on your Thanksgiving table?


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Occasionally updated and intentionally simple, this is my little corner of the internet. If you're looking for pictures of my life and times, go to my Instagram account. Want to read my blog posts and product/race reviews, go to the blog page. Looking to check out some tech projects, swing by GitHub, LinkedIn or peruse my resume here. Want to meet the better half, Angela Huynh, go here.
So, I would quantify myself as a Black Minimalist which is comprised of Fitness plus Technology plus Travel and multiplied by Coffee & Design. Or simplified into Black Minimalist = Coffee + Design (Fitness, Technology, Travel). Or even more simply as: BM = C+D(F,T²). Either way, my interest may vary but they all are amplified by coffee and run through the lens of intelligent design.
Here are my current Q2 – 2019 priorities, I will review them again in July. Quarterly objectives are better than resolutions or goals because they are not so lofty you get discouraged by the effort. And they are small enough to be measurable and manageable.
Exercise: specifically bike more & take the 21-Day Tabata Yoga Challenge.
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That means that Torpedos will no longer disappear if they touch a piece of moving terrain, or animations viewed through panes of glass on the Shellendorf Institute stage now display correctly. Nintendo has even noticed that a sticker on the player's ink tank when using the Kensha Splattershot Jr. was the same as the Splattershot Jr., and have now changed it.


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I've got an idea about improving Iterator. Since it came into my head I started noticing more and more places, where I wished I could use this. At first I didn't find any trace of anybody proposing it, but somebody pointed me to this Rust issue, which is similar, but has different perspective. This was posted originally on Rust users forum. What do you think about this idea?
Add Iterator::extend_into method, which takes a collection and extend it with iterator's self.
Sometimes there is a need to create a sophisticated iterator and then put all it's items into a collection. Of cource there is Iterator::collect, which creates a new collection, but there is no convenient method of collecting into an EXISTING one.
The Borrow allows passing collections either by value or by reference, which makes it much more elastic.
Thank you! I've added an example of passing and returning by value. I'm not sure, if I understood your comment correctly, but in the previous examples my_fns take vec: &mut Vec, so they don't need to pass &mut vec into exten_into, because that would make them them actually pass &mut &mut Vec?
Bikeshedding: I'd rather call it collect_into.
To me the phrase source_iterator collect_into destination_vector sounds more intuitive than source_iterator extend_into destination_vector. The latter would make me believe the iterator gets extended somehow (at least at first sight).
How does using BorrowMut here compare to having a blanket impl like impl<'a, C: Extend<T>, T> Extend<T> for &'a mut C?
Isn't it too late to consider such a thing? I thought blanket impls on references were a breaking change.
Why BorrowMut feels odd? It's exactly the use case, which it was made for, to make refs and value act the same. Like you said, BorrowMut is implemented for every T and &mut T, while AsMut for every &mut T but only some Ts.
It's exactly the use case, which it was made for, to make refs and value act the same.
Note that Borrow and BorrowMut take this quite far: They demand that Hash, Ord, and Eq impls must agree. That's because they are actually made for collection elements (e.g., to be able to search a map of String keys with a &str key), while AsRef/AsMut is the more general one. In that sense, it is quite strange to use BorrowMut for something that has nothing to do with Ord, Eq, or Hash.
Hmm, I looked up the BorrowMut docs and found no Hash, Ord or Eq constraints, so I dont' think they will ever get in user's way. The fact, that these methods operate on &self, indeed makes result of T.borrow_mut() impl them if T does, but I can't understand how does it matter?
If you are implementing Borrow and both Self and Borrowed implement Hash, Eq, and/or Ord, they must produce the same result.
I see, so you're saying, that BorrowMut might be too strict for this use case? An alternative would be to define own trait, almost the same, but without these soft constraints. But is it worth it? BorrowMut is already in standard library and widely used, so interface using it might be in practice more elastic.
AsMut is the correct trait for this behavior, but there is no AsMut<T> for T for coherence reasons.
I disagree. Documentation states that AsRef is to be used when wishing to convert to a reference of another type. Borrow is more related to the notion of taking the reference. This use case is about obtaining reference no matter in what form comes the collection, not about converting reference type.
That is done almost exclusively for specific (and almost always unsized) targets. In my eyes, AsRef is useless for abstracting over arbitrary T and &T.
That's because AsRef is to be used when wishing to convert to a reference of another type. Borrow is more related to the notion of taking the reference.


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The MBA Young Lawyers Division is participating in Boston's 4th Annual 5K Road Race & Summer Celebration on June 30 at the Bank of America Pavilion in Boston. The race will be from 7 to 8 p.m., and the celebration will go from 7:30 to 10 p.m.
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Gail McAuliffe and John Hogan from the Dept. of Veteran Services were available to assist attorneys with callers' questions.
A supplement to the monthly Dial-A-Lawyer Program, the veterans' program is part of the MBA's Serving Our Veterans in the Law initiative.
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The Veterans Dial-A-Lawyer is provided at no charge as a public service of the MBA with the financial support of the Massachusetts Bar Foundation, the philanthropic partner of the MBA. The MBA acknowledges its partnership with the Massachusetts Department of Veterans' Services and thanks it for its important role in the success of the program.
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Most people wouldn't give good odds on a young woman going from cashier to having oversight of over 2,000 stores in a major North American Fortune 50 corporate retailer, Home Depot.
But beating the odds is exactly what Jamaicans are known for and that's exactly what Ann-Marie Campbell has been doing since her childhood. Campbell will be returning to her beloved Jamaica as a speaker at the Destination Experience Visionaries' Summit on April 5, 2019. (The summit runs from April 4-6).
She learned her first lessons in retail 'right at home', so to speak, from her grandmother in Jamaica. Campbell's father died, derailing the family, when she was not quite two years old. Her grandmother not only raised her, but ran a successful furniture and appliance business of her own – and as a divorcée. Those summers spent in that store would, in fact, prove to be a valuable, if informal, 'internship' for the greater roles that lay ahead.
Campbell also recognises the formal learning she received at her alma mater, Holy Childhood High School, saying that the "structural discipline" of that Catholic institution was very helpful on her journey.
That classic immigrant journey, however, played out in even less restrictive and confounding times than the present and had its share of challenges. She left Jamaica to pursue higher education in the United States (US), earning her first degree in philosophy (of all subjects) and followed that up with a master's degree in business administration from Georgia State University. Along the way, she faced the well-known obstacles of institutional racism and gender discrimination, but the unique Jamaican combination of fire and poise enabled her to sail past and around those and excel.
Campbell is obviously very proud of her Jamaican heritage, which is proven by a simple Google search. Not all diaspora members operating at the highest levels are recognised as Jamaicans, and we often end up happening upon their connection to our island. But with Campbell, it's hard to find any documentation that does not associate her with her roots.
She was also driven by an unusual thirst for knowledge.
"I always believed that the ability to conduct fact-based discussions based on knowledge of a subject, is a distinct advantage," Campbell said. She made the US National Scholars Honor Society and is also a member of international business honours society Beta Gamma Sigma.
This combination of attributes facilitated her aforementioned rise through the ranks at Home Depot, which had already achieved national status by the time she started as a cashier in 1985. Only four years thereafter, the organisation surpassed rival Lowe's to become the largest home-improvement chain in the US. What Campbell may not have known then, was that the breakneck pace of expansion had created spiralling debt. She was all too busy in her own race, transitioning from store manager to district manager and later to regional vice-president. As a true 'mailroom-to-marquee' type of executive, she had, at various times, responsibility for operations, merchandising and special orders, retail marketing and sales, as well as vendor services.
Her appointment in 2009 as president of the Southern Division of Home Depot coincided with the housing crisis in the US and the worst global downturn in over 70 years. Layoffs and some closures ensued (including the entire EXPO interior-design business), but Home Depot and Campbell were able to weather the storm.
That resilience, coupled with her natural Jamaican charm (Home Depot's co-founder, Bernie Marcus, would joke that for the first five years, he had no idea what Campbell was actually saying but knew that his customers and associates liked her), clearly endeared her to the executive board, and they gave her responsibility for the 2,000-outlet network at another crucial time; with revenues at US$88 billion, the company announced, a strategic revenue target of US$100 billion over the next three years.
Recognising, among other things, that close relationships between associates and the professional contractors that make up the bulk of Home Depot's customers was critical, Campbell created a merchandising execution team (some 40,000 nationwide at the time) to tend to store appearance and stocking needs. That freed up the remaining associates to 'serve and schmooze' the customers, which, in turn, helped with loyalty retention and boosted sales.
Of course, after three years, it was 'mission accomplished', and Home Depot moved into the 'US$100 billion Club' – on the same footing with other retail giants like WalMart, Kroeger, and Amazon. But with all her success – she regularly shares her expertise and experiences with a wide variety of audiences – it's the intimacy of the shop floor that still provides Campbell with her best inspiration, and many associates vouch that she 'still speaks good badge'.
She'll be sharing some of the insights that she has gained on her journey at the upcoming Destination Experience Visionaries Summit in April. She will also bring the unmistakable passion and determination that saw her through three decades at Home Depot and helped her to perfect the work-life balance of motherhood and career. She will also share how she is giving back, including the establishment of the Ann-Marie Campbell Scholarship for undergraduates at the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State.
But mostly, she will be sharing the belief that it is entirely possible, if you're committed, conscientious, and aware, to beat the odds – whether as an individual or as a country.


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Entreacto (Entr'acte) es una película francesa de 1924 que se encuentra entre las tres primeras películas del director de vanguardia francés René Clair (1898-1987).

Entreacto es una composición fílmica de clara vinculación dadaísta y surrealista en donde la construcción narrativa convencional del modo de representación clásico no tiene cabida. Así, las secuencias se van sucediendo una a otra sin aparente vinculación (ausencia de raccord).

Fuente de experimentación a su vez de las teorías acerca del ritmo en la composición cinematográfica desarrolladas por el propio René Clair, un siniestro y a la vez cómico cortejo fúnebre va acelerando el paso hasta que de repente, un féretro cae al suelo y el supuesto muerto sale del mismo vestido de prestidigitador y rompe el cartel que anuncia el final de la película.

Algunos sostienen que la película hace una alusión al poeta Arthur Cravan, sobre la base de la aparición de objetos como un cañón de guerra, el ballet, guantes de boxeo, un barco de papel, un muerto que desaparece, entre otros. Situaciones que estuvieron presentes en la vida del poeta-boxeador Cravan y en su misteriosa desaparición.

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Jean Börlin: El cazador / El mago.

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Entreacto, de René Clair. Ficha técnica y análisis (en inglés).

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"Naked creepers" and cold of the Subarctic
The vast area of the North is interesting for zoologists primarily by extreme conditions, which do not allow many animals live here. The species diversity of vertebrates constantly (as opposed to seasonally) inhabiting this territory is small. Nevertheless, even amphibians live here, or "naked creepers" - according to the classification of the last century. How do they survive here, it is investigated by zoologists of the Magadan Institute of Biological Problems of the North of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The researchers of the laboratory of Biocenology of the IBPN FEB RAS told about amphibians and cold of the Subarctic to the popular science magazine Kommersant-Nauka.
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Session at the headquarters of the RGO following the results of the expedition of 2018 (St. Petersburg)!
On February 6, 2019, at the St. Petersburg Branch of the Russian Geographical Society, at the meeting of the paleolimnological commission, the researchers from the IBPN FEB RAS (Andreev A.V., Khamenkova E.V.) presented a report on the results of the RGO expedition of 2018 to the southern spurs of the ridge Chersky - "Mountain-lake territory of Chersky ridge".
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The researchers of the laboratory of the Biocenology of our Institute (Prof. D.I. Berman, leading researcher N.A. Bulakhova and senior researcher E.N. Meshcheryakova) published an article on the discovery of phenomenal adaptation for amphibians in Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group).
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Expeditionary research on the wintering waterbodies of the Siberian wood frog in the Amur region
The large territory of North Asia, Mongolia and China, is inhabited by one of the most widespread and mass species of amphibians -the Siberian wood frog (Rana amurensis). In the coldest winter region of Russia - Yakutia, it is distributed up to 71 ° N, and in the valley of the middle Lena it is almost as numerous as in the south of the Far East. An indirect evidence of its "prosperity" in this northern region is the fact that it is the only amphibian not included in the Red Book of the Republic. The Siberian wood frog is much rarer in the territory of the Magadan region, where it is found "foci" along the rivers Kava, Taui, Yama and Kolyma (Seymchan-Buyunda depression, lower reaches of the Balygychan and Sugoi rivers).
Probably due to its northern distribution, this species has long been considered to be one of the most cold-resistant amphibians. However, in 2015, the researchers from the laboratory of Biocenology convincingly showed that R. amurensis does not tolerate long-term cooling below -2.5 ° C, and therefore cannot overwinter in cold regions (including permafrost) on land, but only underwater in non-freezing through waterbodies.
It is believed that the distribution of species wintering underwater may be limited by low levels of oxygen under the ice ("suffocation areas"). Until now, frogs were considered to tolerate hypoxia better than mammals, but much worse than freshwater turtles or fish: only a few European and American Rana species are able to exist for restricted time under 2.5–2.6 mg / l O2 and for a short time (3–7 days, including comatose state) – in a sate of anoxia. Studies of the concentration of dissolved oxygen in wintering waterbodies of the Siberian wood frog in various parts of the areal showed that it falls to 0–2.1 mg / l, without mass death of frogs (as opposed to fish in "suffocation areas"). In laboratory experiments, R. amurensis was able to live for up to 97 days in hermetically sealed small containers with water under conditions of almost complete anoxia (less than 0.2 mg / l O2) at a temperature of 2–3 ° C, retaining the ability to respond to external stimuli. Thus, it was shown that the Siberian wood frog in winter, maintaining activity, can go without oxygen (does not breathe) and switches to anaerobic metabolism.
The unique ability undoubtedly contributed to the Siberian wood frog's colonization of the coldest regions of Northern Asia, where the overwhelming majority of non-flowing nonfreezing reservoirs, including those, on permafrost, are almost completely deprived of oxygen in winter.
The revealed adaptation of animals to prolonged extreme hypoxia in the active state represents the first known case of this kind in the amphibian class. This ability is likely to allow the use of the Siberian wood frog as a unique model for the development of therapy for diseases associated with tissue hypoxia - cardiopulmonary, cerebral, vascular, etc.
Author: N.A. Bulakhova, leading researcher of the Laboratory of Biocenology


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A universal ethic for a globalized world
As a Jewish believer, I draw my ethical inspiration and guidance from the Bible, expounded in the Talmud and commentaries of our Tradition. It might seem simplistic to look to the Bible for a guiding ethic for our modern globalized world, but in my opinion it is there that we find eternal moral values that are arguably even more critical for our times than ever before.
Fundamental to Biblical teaching is the affirmation that not only because we are temporary sojourners in this world, but because our world is created by God and accordingly in reality belongs to Him alone (Psalm24: 1), human ownership of property can only be tenancy (Leviticus 25: 33) and to see it as anything more than that is both impious and ultimately immoral.
Furthermore, central to Biblical teaching is the idea that the human being is more than simply the summit of the eco-system. The human person is of a special Divinely endowed nature that makes all human life and dignity inalienable and of infinite value. Indeed not only is the wanton destruction of a human life the most terrible and condemnable of deeds, but our sages teach that any disrespect for another is an act of disrespect for God Himself , as we are all created in the Divine Image. Moreover our very humanity demands of us special duties, responsibility and purpose, to begin with in relation to Creation itself. Accordingly, the Bible describes the human person as placed in the world, in the Garden of Eden, "to work and preserve it." (Genesis 2: 15). Indeed, Jewish tradition describes this task as a Divinely mandated "partnership" with God in the Divine Creation.
Moreover Genesis teaches that humanity's principle task and purpose is obedience to God's moral will and law, the observance of which ensures our well-being; and at the heart of this moral law are our responsibilities towards one another born out of the recognition of the abovementioned sanctity of human life and dignity.
The paradigm that integrates much of these values and more - central to Biblical teaching, appearing as it does in the Decalogue - is the concept of the Sabbath.
At the heart of the concept of the Sabbath is the idea that our blessed and ambitious human creativity and development must be disciplined. First and foremost in order to ensure our own sense of proportion and moral equilibrium so that we do not delude ourselves into thinking "my strength and the power of my hand had gotten me all this success" and behave without moral restraint
In the words of the great nineteenth century rabbi Samson Rafael Hirsch "The Sabbath was given so that we should not grow arrogant in our dominion in God's Creation…. …(to) refrain on this day from exercising our human sway over the things of the earth, and not lend our hands to any object for the purpose of human dominion. …. the borrowed world is, as it were, returned to its Divine owner in order to realize that it is but lent (to us). On the Sabbath you divest yourself of your glorious mastery over the matter of the world and lay yourself and your world in acknowledgement at the feet of the Eternal, your God."
Moreover in emphasizing the obligation to ensure the rest of all persons regardless of rank and even of the need for animal life to recuperate on the Sabbath, further moral limits are placed on our temporal power and the concept of the sanctity and dignity of life is reinforced.
However in addition to this weekly ethical paradigm, the Bible contains a septennial ethical paradigm which takes further the ideas contained in the weekly Sabbath.
This is the model of the Sabbatical year, which Leviticus 26 describes as the means for guaranteeing lasting security for society. The teleology of the Sabbatical observance is rooted in the above mentioned recognition stated in Leviticus 25: 23 that "the earth is mine (says the Lord) and you are strangers and sojourners with me."
The Sabbatical year seeks to inculcate this consciousness through three central components. Firstly, during the seventh year the land is to lie fallow (Exodus 23: 10) recuperating its natural vitality. As a result, any illusion of exclusive ownership and utilization is removed as the land and its natural produce are available for all - especially for the poor - for the year. This not only affirms that we are all temporary sojourners in God's world, but that as far as the land is concerned – and in an agricultural society the land is the very source of status – the Sabbatical year emphasizes that poor and rich alike are the same entitlement before God.
This awareness that we are all sojourners and vulnerable, if you will, leads to the recognition that sustainable development is only possible where there is social responsibility, especially in relation to the most vulnerable in society. The Biblical emphasis in this regard is unequivocal and reflected not only in the abovementioned land remaining untilled and its natural fruits available to all; but also in the other precepts of the Sabbatical year, notably the cancellation of debts (Deuteronomy 15).
Of course, this Scriptural requirement needs to be understood in the context of Biblical agrarian society. This was not a commercial society in which monies were commonly lent as part and parcel of normal economic life. Rather, loans were necessary when the farmer had fallen upon hard times and had a poor harvest, or even none at all; and lost the resources available to guarantee his continued harvest cycle. In such a case, he borrowed from another.
Indeed, those who have resources are obliged to provide such loans for those in such hardship (Deuteronomy 15: 8), and when the disadvantaged farmer's harvest prospered, he could return the loan.
For this reason it was prohibited to take advantage of his situation, e.g. through taking interest. However, if the farmer were unable to overcome this setback, there was the danger of his being caught up in a poverty trap. The Bible recognizes that this would not only be his problem but that of society, and accordingly utilizes the Sabbatical year to free the individual from such a trap. The obligation concerning the release of debts is not an excuse for irresponsibility, but rather the obligation of responsibility for balanced and sustainable development, ensuring a socio-economic equilibrium between the more and the less advantaged in society – essential for the latter's positive development and security.
For similar purpose, the Sabbatical year also required the release of slaves (Exodus 21: 2-6). As opposed to the former precept, this may appear not only to be irrelevant but archaic. Yet within this idea are certain profound messages. In ancient Israel, a Hebrew would enter into slavery if he had no means of providing a livelihood for himself or for his family. In this manner, he in fact voluntarily sold his own employment to another. However, the requirements upon those who maintained such slaves were so demanding that the Talmud declares that "he who acquired a slave, (in fact), acquired a master over himself!"(TB Kiddushin 22a). As indicated in the Book of Exodus, an unmarried slave would be provided not only with all basic material needs, but even with a spouse. Understandably, in ancient Israel, there were not a few such Hebrew slaves who were very content to be in that situation. However, the Bible requires that in the Sabbatical year, all such slaves be set free. But as it states in Exodus 21, "if the slave plainly says 'I love my master, I will not go free,' then his master shall bring him to the doorpost … and shall pierce his ear with an awl." (Exodus 21: 5-6). Our sages of old ask, "why should the ear be pierced and why against the doorpost?" They answer that the doorpost which God passed over in Egypt when He delivered the children of Israel from slavery and the ear which heard Him say at Sinai 'for unto me, the children of Israel are slaves' and not that they should be the slaves of slaves; let these testify that the man voluntarily relinquished his God-given freedom! Moreover according to Jewish law, the slave still had to go free in the Jubilee year, even if he still did not want to! The Bible also requires the erstwhile master to provide this man – who now has to enter the open market – with the material means to establish himself in it (Deuteronomy 15: 14). This obligation again reveals the understanding of the importance of the recognition of the dignity of the human individual and his/her freedom for the health of society - not only should no-one be subjugated, but all should be provided with the means for independent growth.
This biblical model is rooted in a moral vision that demands that we contend with the dangers posed by human arrogance. For it is arrogance that justifies greed, exploitation, irresponsibility and violence towards others.
Fundamental then to the Scriptural message, is not only the special focus on the most vulnerable in society, but the insistence that we recognize that we are all vulnerable – we are all temporary sojourners in God's world. Such awareness may lead us to live more responsibly towards ourselves, our neighbors, our communities, our nations, our humanity, our ecology.
It may also instill in us an awareness of the fact that we are all potential links in a very long chain and of the enormous responsibility this places upon us. In tractate Ta'anit of the Talmud, we are told the story of how a righteous man known as Honi the Rainmaker saw someone planting a carob tree and asked him how long it would take before it bore fruit. The man told him it would take seventy years. "Do you think you will live another seventy years?" asked Honi. The man replied "As my forefathers planted for me, so I plant for my children.
Surely in these paradigms and their central values we find a universal ethic which is arguably even more critical for our modern globalized world than ever.
Interestingly, the most extensive passage in the Bible dealing with Sabbatical year, Leviticus Ch.25 is followed in the next Chapter by the promise of good rains and harvests and prolonging our days on the earth, as a consequence of observing the Divine commandments; and warning of the opposite, if the Divine word is ignored and desecrated. This of course is reiterated in the eleventh chapter of Deuteronomy (verses13-21), the second paragraph of the Shema, - the central biblical reading in our daily liturgy, morning and evening.
Maimonides could only explain this imagery in metaphoric terms. It only made sense to him as a way of conveying the higher idea of spiritual consequences to our actions, in a manner that even the most simple might be able to grasp – "the Torah speaks in peoples' language".
However it has been pointed out that today we can understand these texts more literally than ever before, because the consequences of human conduct on our environment are so strikingly evident . Human avarice, unbridled hubris, insensitivity and lack of responsibility towards our environment, have polluted and destroyed much of our natural resources, interfered with the climate as a whole jeopardising our rains and harvests and threatening the very future of sentient life on the planet (see the reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change http://www.ipcc.ch/ ) Moreover unrestrained irresponsible indulgence in modern society has not only led to far greater cruelty towards animal life exploited for human consumption, but also to a further exploitation of large sections of humanity to serve a much smaller sector. Indeed shocking numbers of human beings languish in hunger while others over self indulge.
A recent study concluded that the average US citizen needs 100 acres of biologically productive space to support his or her annual consumption of food, water, energy and other resources. Distributed evenly however there are only 15 acres of productive land for each of the 6.5 billion people on earth. That means that the average US citizen consumes over seven times his or her share of the earth's capacity. Multiply this by hundreds of millions of people and the human environmental toll comes into better perspective.
While these realities confront global governance as well as national authorities; we as communities, families and individuals are also challenged in terms of our own lifestyles and conduct. I think it noteworthy in this regard , that a vegetarian lifestyle is not only an important response to the problematic exploitation of sentient life , but a reduction in meat consumption is critically necessary in developed societies in order to reduce deplorable wastage at the expense of other parts of the world. For example, it takes 17 times the amount of water to produce a kilo of beef than it does to produce a kilo of grain. Wise and responsible reorientation and utilisation of resources could enable us to address most of the shameful hunger and poverty that afflict our planet.
Thus the Biblical link between natural conditions/productivity and our moral conduct is strikingly relevant for contemporary society, as is our very capacity to live in the land, l the earth that the Creator has provided for us. Indeed herein we do not see only a universal ethic for our globalized world, but the ethical values that are critical to the very survival of our globalized universe.
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Support and information sharing group for Ontario's injured workers and those disabled through illness. Information about benefits available to the public that they do not know about.
Stories of their injuries and what is going on in their life since.
This is a group for the injured workers Wcb of Alberta didn't pay, WCB Alberta is an Insurance company that Denies as many claims as possible. denying claims and proper medical care saves them money. injured workers are a liability and therefore need to be removed from the system as soon as possible. the so called appeal process is a sham… the appeal board is on the payroll of WCB. Independant Medical Exams are conducted by Doctors on the the WCB payroll and these Doctors are taught to lie and decieve as a matter of common WCB practice. WCB does not lose in Court, they have endless resources and will use the most underhanded tactics available.
Injured workers that have been messed around by Workers Compensation either by LMR or by not receiving the proper payout that they deserve. We have worked hard to support our families, we did not ask to get hurt on the job, and now that we have, we have no job and no rights.
This group provides support and information to injured workers and their families.
This group is for injured workers involved with WSIB. You can share your thoughts, experiences, stories, issues, whatever you are comfortable sharing. This is a group for support and advice. This is a SAFE place, no DRAMA or NASTINESS, will be tolerated.
I would like to hear about your experience with the system what your injury was and if you are working again or pensioned if your an attorney how do you get thru this process? need answers to alot of question's, I have an appeals hearing coming up soon.
INJURED WORKERS SCREWED BY A.I.G.
This group is a place where people of all race, color, or beliefs can come together to compare and or share their horror stories they have aquired at the hands of A.I.G. And any other insurance with an adjuster that can only say "NO" to treatment prescribed by your primary treating physician.
Organization of people affected by negative WCB tactics that are looking for change.. Injured workers for a "present day" WCB system for future people who have to deal with injury at work. Share info, stories and bad (wrong) decisions that need to be made known.
The AIWS was established in 1984 to help injured workers treated unfairly by the Alberta Workers Compensation Board.
For anyone disabled on the job, recovering from your injury is a long, hard road but how long is it really? What happens if many years down the road you develop complications from your work related injury? Do you know what your rights are…..Until it happened to us, we had no idea. Here you'll have a support network of injured workers who have become severely disabled because their rights were violated by Carriers more intersted in saving money than providing care for the serious complications that arise from WC claims awarded years earlier.
Justice For Injured Workers NOW!!!!!
This is a facebook group dedicated to injured workers, family and friends of injured workers.
It is my goal to make it federally mandated that Police Officers and Fireman receive 100% of their pay when injured in the line of duty. On May 16, 2005 my husband was seriously injured in the line of duty while attempting to pull someone over on his departmental motorcycle. Due to someone elses negligence and failure to yield to his lights and siren he was involved in the accident and injured. After 5 1/2 years he is still dealing with injuries from the accident. At the time of the accident he was a Sgt. He has since been promoted to Lieutenant and subsequently is at a higher pay level. He will be undergoing a hip replacement in March. We will recieve 65% of his pay that he was receiving when the accident occured.
Helping injured workers by sharing their story of abuse by the Workplace Safety & Insurance Board and how they are coping everyday.
This group is private and only people from the project will be invited … We have set this group up to stay in touch and provide information and resources to you from time to time … Please make use of this group to ask any questions of the SA Unions staff … We hope you will make use of this forum and stay in touch so we can see if our work with you is sustainable 🙂 Enjoy …..
Source of assistance for injured workers 'n their families.
This groups mandate is to raise awareness and to educate. The goal is justice for injured workers and their families.
This site is dedicated to all injured workers who have had or having problems with WCB.
California Injured Workers' Demand Human Rights!
If you are, or have been, an injured worker in the State of California and have had a workers' compensation claim, we want to hear from you! Please join our group and tell us your story…we are trying to film a documentary on how California injured workers' are treated…worse than animals…help us change it for employees and employers.
Is it time to create a union for Injured Workers ? Transparancy for all to see.
Disability Should Not Equal Poverty!
I would like to hear from oilfield workers that have been injured an are not being supported by their oil companies. I want to start a coalition to compensate employees that were employeed on the rigs before mandated laws were in effect protecting them from harmful chemical exposures.
We are a non-profit organization helping injured workers with their claims.
After a post on the Sunny Coast Community Board by Stuart Field asking who would employ someone with limited ability and on pain medication a lot of interesting chatter eventuated and this page was subsequently born. It is a program in motion currently looking to bring together as many injured Sunshine Coast Workers as possible for a free flowing brain storming session to document our joint challenges and triumphs and to collaboratively build a network of people and information to assist injured workers both now and in the future. We invite you to take part in something that we believe has the power to change broken lives for the better. Join us here today.
Educate the general public and injured workers on policies and new initiatives of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board and also the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act. Maintain a resource library of useful information on WSIB and Health issues. Increase community awareness of the issues affecting injured workers. Provide referrals to other community services where needed. Promote education for workers to eliminate work place injuries.
Without Prejudice When a worked like my self simone gets injured in the work place like Winners Homesence It is employers duity that the injued worker gets everything they need to get healthy again not kick them to the street and say we just have no room to deal with this and try to close the book on it and think they can get away with it. Please join my group and help me stop this from happening to another injured worked anywhere and also to make winners understand that they will not get away with this.
The current WSIB and its employers are using publicly funded agents such as ODSP to dump cleints that were injured ,while on the job.The current claim denial rate is close to 50 %.If we are going to have a system that is adverserial then I want the right to sue my employer.
This group is for people in Florida who have been injured in a car, sports or work accident and need to find good resources or want to share their experience involving: chiropractic services, good attorneys, advice on recovery, or any advice in general.
Post Here ,or Help Injured Workers Find out where to go for Help .By posting your Tragic accident at work and the help you have received or not received!! Post your story how Government has helped you or how that have not. Was your accident reported by your Employer to Worker Compensation or Occupational Health and Safety? This group is created to help injured workers stop the Companies from getting away with compensating injured wokers Medically or Financially and get the help the desperately need and deserve !!!
* IF YOU ARE THE OWNER/ADMIN OF ONE or more OF THE INCLUSIVE GROUPS, Pages and/or Events AND WOULD LIKE TO INVITE OTHERS TO JOIN YOUR GROUP, PLEASE INCLUDE YOUR GROUP/PAGE DESCRIPTION, LINK, AND YOUR INVITATION.
THROUGH THE END OF THE YEAR, WE WILL REACH OUT TO THE GROUP OWNER/ADMINS THAT WE CAN, WITH INTENTION TO HAVE A MORE PERSONALIZED INVITATION TO THOSE WHO ARE IN A POSITION TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF INJURED WORKERS AROUND THE WORLD.
Love one another like there's no tomorrow!
If that's too complicated, connect as you like, and remember remember, WE ARE THE MEDIA NOW and we work like antz!
HOW CAN WE SAVE LIVES AND FREE THE HOSTAGES OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION?


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Significant Works Artlyst
Art Catalogues
Swimming to Albania
The Forgetting and Remembering of Air
Ghost Station
Everything Begins With The Skin
Oxford Poets
Venetian Red
I Dreamt I Remebered What Love Was
Ekphrastic Poetry
Poetry as Art
Rainsongs
Girl in White
Rothko's Red
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The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living, 1991
In 1966 John Lennon announced that The Beatles were more popular than Jesus. Damien Hirst may not yet have achieved this near divine status but ask the average person in the British high street to name two contemporary artists and they'll come up with Hirst and "that" shark, and Tracy Emin and "that" bed. As Hirst says: "Art's popular. That's my generation. It wasn't before… isn't that an awesome thing?" But just what is it that's popular and what does he mean by art? A recent article denouncing him as a con man set the cat among the critical pigeons. Critic wins, Hirst wins. There is, after all, no such thing as bad publicity. So what should we to make of this enormous retrospective at Tate Modern, with its pills and medicine cabinets, its spin and spot paintings, its live butterflies, stuffed sharks and outrageously valuable diamond skull?
Column inches have been spent arguing whether Hirst is a good artist. But that is to miss the point. It's not even the right question. Hirst is a showman, a phenomenon of our times thrown up by a zeitgeist that values celebrity and glitz over intellectual depth and craft. He is a genius at spectacle. It is no coincidence that that other artistic barometer, Andy Warhol, was also a lapsed Catholic. Death, theater and the object as icon are common themes to both. Like Warhol, Hirst has not only permeated the cultural consciousness of our times, he mirrors, manipulates and is a product of it.
Born in 1965, he grew up in Leeds. Unemployed after school he decided to give art school a whirl. He wanted to be a painter but couldn't hack it. Then he started collecting objects and making collage. Seeing Saatchi's advertising campaigns on TV he decided: "I want to make art that does what that does." Many have complained he is only in it for the money. "Money is important," he says, "and money can sometimes obscure the art but ultimately the art has got to be more important than the money or I wouldn't do it." Yet in the shop, which has virtually been incorporated into the exhibition, you can buy rolls of wallpaper at £250 a throw, a £310 butterfly deckchair or a set of 12 bone china butterfly plates; yours at a snip for £10,500. And those with £36,800 to burn can go for a limited-edition plastic skull in "household gloss." Art and money have always been bedfellows. The Medicis sponsored Brunelleschi and Michelangelo. So what's the difference? Well the Medicis employed artists because of their extraordinary vision and skill, because they were the best; but without money Hirst's work would simply not exist.
A Thousand Years, 1990
Yet he's always wanted to make serious work. With A Thousand Years he momentarily succeeded. I remember seeing it for the first time in 1990. The vitrine with cow's head, teeming with propagating flies, stank. Here was a living art object that embodied the cycle of life and death. It was disgusting, raw and shocking and still is. There is a directness, a repulsion and attraction that whether Hirst knew it or not plays with notions of the Kantian sublime. It is as iconic a piece as Duchamp's 1917 urinal. But Duchamp had the wit to give up making art and take up chess, while Hirst has gone on making art that has become ever more vacuous. Having made one medicine cabinet why make so many more?
Less would definitely be more. Fragments of Paradise (2008) and Judgment Day (2009) with their heavy steel and gold plated frames and rows of cubic zirconia flashing like diamonds are simply crass and vulgar and that is not even to mention his zillion-pound diamond skull, For the Love of God (2007). Though that, of course, is the point. As Tom Wolfe wrote in his infamous The Painted Word, the rich who bought Jackson Pollock's paintings were trading money for a little of his boho-spirit. The hedge-fund managers and corporate moguls who hang Hirst's sparkly works on their walls want to be seen not only as achingly hip but to show the world how much money they have. Notions of the sublime have nothing to do with it. This is just money in a visual form.
At the end of the exhibition a single white dove hangs suspended in a glass vitrine of blue formaldehyde. It might be a metaphor for the Holy Ghost or the fugitive artistic imagination. It is called The Incomplete Truth (2006). It seems a fitting title for an artist who once dared look at what was important but who turned away, swapping the difficulties and emotional complexities of real art for the seduction of celebrity and money.
Damien Hirst through 2 September 2012 at Tate Modern, London,
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Recent return to the Gator Dental Group in Los Algodones B.C, Mexico for a dental check up. Just like my first time there about a year ago, I was very pleased at the service and the work they gave me.
Let me tell you about Mexico's version of Medicare. Age is not a consideration.
Cost of healthcare in Mexico.
Healthcare, Mexican Style – Private or National?
Health care in Mexico is always a lot less expensive than you will find in the States, and the quality of health care can be very good!


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Sheikh Mohammed Unveils Plan and AED 1bn Funding for Dubai Future District
Dubai's ruler, Vice President, and Prime Minister, H.H Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum announced his decission of investing AED1 billion in the Dubai Future District. This decission is taken at the second Dubai Council session held recently. It is because of the latest endeavor that the UAE government is seeking to boost entrepreneurship and support the New Economy Companies.
Right behind the Museum of the Future, this new district is prominently located connecting Dubai's three most important places: DIFC, Emirates Towers, and the Dubai World Trade Center.
H.H Sheikh Mohammed mentioned to the media that the country is optimistic about the growth of these startups with potential economic growth. As additional support, the UAE government decided to invest this extra fund. He further stated that the new district is aspiring to be the most significant future economy-focused district in the entire Middle East.
The UAE government also created a committee with a vision to boost the non-oil foreign trade. According to the latest report, the set target is to reach a business turnover of AED2 trillion by 2025.
To support this, the UAE government already decided to take ten progressive initiatives. It is to ensure a business-friendly environment in the country for all new startups entrepreneurs. Furthermore, the country is also planning to establish a special five-year residency visa for future economy entrepreneurs. They'll also get housing in reduced prices, as the report says.
Davies Krish
With a background in journalism and news reporting, Davies enjoys finding surprises and unusual sights in some of Middle East's most well-traveled destinations.
New entry permit system implemented in the UAE
New decree mandates domestic workers to be paid online
UAE to fine visitors overstaying their visit visa; outpass 'must' to exit country
Travellers relieved over revised travel rules to India
Flydubai introduces 30 daily flights to Doha for FIFA World Cup 2022
US Pavilion in Dubai EXPO 2020 is Sponsored by the UAE Government
John Legend and Rashed Al Majid to Perform on DSF Closing Celebration
Miracle Garden is a Unique Attraction to Visit During Winter
60-day visa-on-arrival granted for UAE Nationals in India
UAE may lift the prevailing ban on WhatsApp calls
Sheikh Zayed Road is all set to become a big running track
10th Public Transportation Day in Dubai Celebrated from November 1 to 11


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New Putnam County Building to Help in Times in Trouble
The world of emergency operations and preparedness radically changed on Sept. 11, 2001. Even small communities and counties haven't been immune to the more stringent requirements passed down from the government.
"That's the way we live now," Putnam County board chairman Duane Calbow said.
For its part, Putnam County is trying to better serve its citizens in times of emergency by establishing an Emergency Management Agency building.
The building, best known as the former steelworkers union hall in Hennepin, has been purchased for $85,000 — that price includes six acres and many of the contents, such as office furniture.
The majority of that, $75,000, came from a state non-matching grant, according to Putnam County EMA director Jim Goldasich. The other $10,000 came from the Emergency Management Agency county budget.
Finding a suitable building and location wasn't easy.
For over three years, Goldasich and members of the building committee, with cooperation of the county board, searched for a potential EMA building.
"We had offers of leasing land," Calbow said.
The steelworkers union hall became available late into the search, Goldasich said.
The building was the best fit, both in terms of price and location, Calbow said.
Image courtesy of the News Tribune
The location, right off Route 26 and in close proximity to Route 71, offers easy access for emergency personnel and anyone who may come to Putnam County to assist during a disaster situation.
Putnam County has worked with local and outside agencies for emergencies in the past - usually at the site of a disaster. One room in particular in this building will allow the emergency agency representatives to work together in the same location every time, with the availability of desks, phones, computers and fax machines for communications with each other and outside entities.
This will be done in a controlled access area known as the emergency operation center that is located in the center of the facility.
"Most of this (equipment) in this room was donated by State Farm," said Robert Cofoid, who serves as county death investigator and assists with Putnam County EMA.
The telephone system was purchased at a greatly reduced price.
"We're trying to cut as close as we can cost-wise," Cofoid said.
In addition to the emergency operation center, the building also has a public heating and cooling room which doubles as a training room, a small conference room, a communication room, and offices for Goldasich, the assistant coordinator, the death investigator and public information office.
This building does not affect, nor will it interfere, with the Emergency 911 Center at the sheriff's department. 911 is a separate working area, but will be in direct communication with the emergency services facility when necessary, Cofoid said.
A storage area will house the equipment, such as a service vehicle and trailers, an on-site communication trailer, a light tower and generator, which has been traditionally spread out over the county.
The facility, if needed, could be used now if an emergency occurred. Training with the equipment has not begun yet, but is expected to begin soon. Total completion will be in the first quarter of 2014.
Calbow said providing a safe place for residents to go when they are in the midst of some of their worst times is a responsibility of the county.
"It's an obligation. It's what we must do," Calbow said. "We take that ...very seriously."


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Q: What is the thermal expansion equation for a cylinder (plane strain)? I know under plane stress assumption it would be dR=(alpha)*(R_0)*dT.
What about plane strain?
I tested it in Abaqus and plane strain had a higher radial displacement than plane stress assumption.

A: This is a really straightforward problem.  It is the linear superposition of two problems:  first (a) thermal expansion with plane stress followed by (b) axial compression to remove the axial strain from step (a).  The radial strain ratio of plane stress to plane strain is then $(1+\nu)$, where $\nu$ is the Poisson ratio.

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SiriusXM iOS App Offers 5-Hour Rewind On Shows
Tuesday December 13, 2011 2:39 PM PST by Jordan Golson
SiriusXM radio has updated its iOS app to include DVR-like pause and rewind capabilities, the ability to restart a show in-progress from the beginning, and the ability to go back in time up to 5 hours on a particular channel to catch-up on missed content.
SiriusXM Internet Radio is free for the iPhone and iPad, but requires a $12.95/month standalone subscription or a $3/month fee for existing SiriusXM subscribers [Direct Link].
TMar
And I'll listen to what they have to say so I can get the best deal on my next subscription when the 6 months free runs out on the new car. :)
They are the worst group I ever dealt with when trying to cancel a subscription.
Me "My radio die."
CS "We'll send you a new one."
Me "I never listened to it anyhow."
CS "It's nice to have in case you want to listen to it."
Me "I'm not going to pay for something I don't use."
CS "We are sending you a new radio and 3 months of free service"
Me "I don't want it and I'm not going to use it. You might as well save it for someone else."
CS "Then call back and cancel in 3 months, it's on it's way."
Well they sent me a radio and gave me the moths free and I never used it and the worst part was I had to call and go through it all over again. While it's great service and they are willing to go the extra mile to keep customers happy there's a point in time where they need to get the point.
cmwade77
I have to say that trying to cancel XM is harder than canceling AOL ever was. In addition, it is over priced for what you get now, it used to be a lot more reasonable. i am just refering to the service it's self, it used to be around $7 per month when I first signed up with them. I got rid of them when they went up to $10 per month, now it's $12.99 and $3 extra if I want to listen on my iPhone? No way is that worth it, when there are various streaming sources that are free and work on the iPhone/iPad and multiple other places, even at the same time.
OutGolfn
I cancelled my XM Radio long ago and pay for Slacker Radio. It's been great. $12.95 or $3.99? That's a tough one!
I have Sirius Xm and I'm astonished at how, despite its 200 channels, there is nothing to listen to most of the time. All of the music channels seem unduly repetitious after you've been driving around listening to it for a week, and the talk radio is mostly unlistenable. The only non-music channels I listen to are NPR and classic radio. There is almost nothing that I would want to "DVR" and certainly no stretch of five hour programming I would want to record and listen to again.
I find that I'm always listening to stuff I've loaded onto my iPhone (Car Talk and Wait Wait Don't Tell Me are available by podcast for free), and Pandora. I don't know if I'll renew my subscription when it comes up again in March.
HarryKeogh
Nice! Hope they add this to the desktop player as well.
Baba booey, Howard Stern's small penis.
socrammtz
I cancelled satellite radio and now pay for Pandora. Much happier now.


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Q: How to connect to postgreSQL from others machine in local network with scalalikejdbc I just began to learn about scala and want to find a way to connect to PostgreSQL with scalalikejdbc. I set up PostgreSQL on machine1 and want to connect to one from machine2.
This is my PostgreSQL configurations:

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*postgresql.conf

listen_addresses = '*'          # what IP address(es) to listen on;
                                        # comma-separated list of addresses;
                                        # defaults to 'localhost'; use '*' for all

*

*pg_hba.conf

# "local" is for Unix domain socket connections only
local   all             all                                     md5
# IPv4 local connections:
host    all             all             127.0.0.1/32            ident
# IPv6 local connections:
host    all             all             ::1/128                 md5
# Allow replication connections from localhost, by a user with the
# replication privilege.
local   replication     all                                     peer
host    replication     all             127.0.0.1/32            ident
host    replication     all             ::1/128                 ident
host    all             postgres        192.168.1.1/24         md5

*

*This is my piece of code to connect to PostgreSQL that written by scala

  def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
    val jdbcDriver = "org.postgresql.Driver"
    val jdbcUser = "postgres"
    val jdbcPassword = "******"
    val jdbcUrl = "jdbc:postgresql://192.168.50.1:5432/jdbc"

    Class.forName(jdbcDriver)
    ConnectionPool.singleton(jdbcUrl, jdbcUser, jdbcPassword)
    val data = DB.readOnly { implicit session =>
      sql"""SELECT * FROM Users""".
        map { resultSet =>
          resultSet.int(1) -> resultSet.int(2)
        }
        .list.apply().toMap
    }

I get an error that "Connection to 192.168.50.1:5432 refused. Check that the hostname and port are correct and that the postmaster is accepting TCP/IP connections."
Anyone can explain to me. Thanks a lot


'It is time', my son said. And my face fell. I had no words. I still don't. Just memories, treasured up in my heart. Memories that now flood me so fast that I fear they will drown me.
Memories of him as a baby. His softness, the smell of him. And those who, even then, were drawn to him. Shepherds. Travellers from a distant land. A king who believed my sweet baby a threat to his kingdom.
Memories, too, of the time I lost him. Every mother's nightmare, that was. The kids had always run fairly free on those festival trips. As long as we knew where they were when it was time for eating or sleeping, we were happy. They were good kids. And we were travelling with family, with friends. My boy had more aunties than he knew what to do with! And that year they were twelve. Men, really. So when I'd not seen him at lunchtime, I wasn't too worried. I figured he'd smiled at one of the other mothers and that she'd fed him as well as her own boy. It's what we did in those days with the village kids. Always in and out of each other's houses, they were. But by nightfall, he didn't come. And a man-boy like that can always be found where there is food. But he was nowhere to be found. Nowhere!
I felt sick that day, much as I did the day last week when he told me it was time. Nearly twenty years may have passed but I was right there again, in that spot a day's walk out of Jerusalem, feeling sick to my stomach. Then I felt sick because somehow I'd managed to lose the one that the angel told me was God's Son. I mean, seriously, how do you lose the Son of God? And what on earth do you pray as you search desperately for him? Not an easy conversation, that one, telling the boy's father – who also happens to be the Almighty One – that you've been a bit careless and, since he sees everything, could he please give you a hint where the boy – who also happens to be the hope of Israel – has got to.
That day I felt sick because I let go of him when I shouldn't have. But this time it's different. Now I feel sick because I actually do have to let go of him. When he goes from me, when he leaves Galilee, he won't be back to stay. The thirty-year-old promise must be fulfilled. There is a kingdom to be claimed. And that king all those years ago was right. My son is a king. And though that is joy to me, it is shot through with the words spoken over him as a baby, that he would be a sign that would be opposed. That he would be a sign opposed and that a sword would pierce my heart also.
'It is time', he said. And somehow the years have collapsed in on themselves, telescoping, until I remember the angel and the journey to Bethlehem and the flight to Egypt like they were yesterday. The memories pile up, the sword pierces deeper, and yet still I hear those words.
Spoken then in innocence. Spoken now with effort that wrenches my gut and excoriates my heart.
Yet still I will say it, though I tremble and fear.