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Nissan's case against Carlos Ghosn scheduled for first hearing
Carlos Ghosn. (AP)
Bloomberg Thursday 12 November 2020
The first hearing for Nissan Motor Co.'s lawsuit against Carlos Ghosn is scheduled to take place in Yokohama on Friday, part of the Japanese automaker's efforts to claim 10 billion yen ($95 million) in damages from its former chairman.
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Nobuo Gohara, an ex-prosecutor and critic of Japan's justice system, said he and a team of lawyers will represent Ghosn in the civil case, which was filed in February by Nissan. The automaker is seeking to "recover a significant part of the monetary damages inflicted on the company by its former Chairman as a result of years of his misconduct and fraudulent activity, it said in a statement at the time.
Ghosn, 66, was arrested in November 2018 on charges of financial misconduct and was facing a criminal trial in Japan until he made a dramatic escape to Lebanon at the end of December last year. While the former auto executive may never face a Japanese tribunal, others in his orbit remain embroiled in legal proceedings.
Greg Kelly, the former Nissan director who was arrested on the same day as Ghosn and was charged with helping Ghosn understate his remuneration, has denied the allegations and is in the third month of his trial in Japan. Michael Taylor and his son Peter are currently detained in Boston as they face extradition to Japan on allegations they aided in Ghosn's escape.
"I accepted this case because it may be the only way to learn the truth about Ghosn's arrest and the charges against him, given that he is no longer in the country and unlikely to face criminal proceedings, said Gohara, who published a book earlier this year questioning prosecutors' actions against Ghosn.
The initial hearing for Nissan's lawsuit will take place at the Yokohama District Court at 11 a.m. on Nov. 13. Gohara will be joined by three other attorneys.
"We do not comment on pending litigation, Azusa Momose, a spokeswoman for Yokohama-based Nissan, said in response to an inquiry about the hearing. "We will make our claims in court.
Nissan and the Tokyo Public Prosecutors Office have asserted that Ghosn underreported his income and used company money for personal gain, charges that he has denied. Nissan, which was also charged, isn't contesting the prosecutors' assertions. Nissan director Motoo Nagai, chair of the board's audit committee, is the company's representative for the civil proceedings, according to a copy of the lawsuit obtained by Bloomberg.
"Nissan's claims are baseless, and it failed to produce evidence supporting its claims, said Leslie Jung-Isenwater, a spokeswoman for Ghosn. "Mr. Gohara will defend Mr. Ghosn's interests in this civil procedure.
Separately, Ghosn is pursuing his own claims against Nissan, saying he was wrongly dismissed from the carmaker's Dutch unit and by a joint venture called Nissan-Mitsubishi BV. He's claiming 15 million euros ($18 million) in lost income.
The 10 billion yen total that Nissan is seeking is based on payments made to or on behalf of Ghosn, including "the use of overseas residential property without paying rent, private use of corporate jets, payments to his sister, payments to his personal lawyer in Lebanon as well as costs related to the investigation into his actions, and legal and regulatory fees.
Nissan shares were down about 1.2 percent in early morning trading on Thursday, ahead of the automaker's quarterly earnings announcement. The stock is down about 35 percent this year.
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There's no one place to start when surveying the damage left behind in the wake of Hurricane Sandy. Choosing any one group or relief effort feels narrow and self-serving -- and many of you reading this are no doubt mired in your own struggles coming out of the storm (or indeed, may not be reading this for days, even weeks, still to come).
So to apply but one filter to the many concerns presently facing our region: right now we're thinking about our friends and colleagues in the hospitality and beverage industries, many of whom will spend the next year fighting tooth and nail for their businesses' survival. Even for those who manage to get back up and running quickly, the road to any semblance of profitability will be a long one, at best.
Those of you who have made it through the past week relatively unscathed, we humbly ask of you: please, support the local businesses that you want to see make it through 2012. Pay in cash, whenever possible. Tip generously. Tell your friends to do the same. A handful of bars in Lower Manhattan are already open for business thanks to the collective energies (and ice) of numerous bars in Brooklyn and upper Manhattan. If you want to get a jump start supporting your favorite local watering holes, here's an updated list of bars open for business (including many in the Sandy zones). Similarly, Eater has been compiling a list of restaurants open for business.
Further, many bars and restaurants will be hosting fundraising events over the coming days and weeks, which we will try to keep track of on the Classic's Facebook page. (Tonight, for example, Booker & Dax will be taking over Momofuku Ma Peche starting at 5pm to raise money for the American Red Cross.) Eater is also continually updating a page for fundraising events nationwide.
And if you've got the time and wherewithall to do more than patronize your beloved local establishments: the USBGNY (United States Bartenders' Guild, New York chapter) has organized a volunteer effort to help clean up some of the bars that were most devastated. Their herculean efforts have already received national recognition on NBC News; folks can sign up to volunteer via this form.
Lastly, a number of Brooklyn-based distilleries and producers have also been badly affected.King's County Distillery; Jack From Brooklyn; Cacao Prieto; the Red Hook Winery; Six Point Brewery (to list but the handful we've spoken to). If you want to see these brands survive, go out and buy their products. And, while you're at it, why not buy them from one of the retailers who have been similarly devastated: Dry Dock Wines & Spirits in Red Hook; Waterfront Wines & Spirits in Brooklyn Heights; Rosetta Wines in FiDi; Vintry Wines in Battery Park (again, to list but a few).
Bottoms up, dear friends -- we'll get through this yet.


The Western Junior College Athletic Conference has announced the Baseball Players of the Week for the week of March 11-17.
Luis Comacho of Frank Phillips College is the WJCAC Baseball Position Player of the Week.
The sophomore outfielder from Puerto Rico had a .722 batting average (13 for 18) for the week with 7 doubles, 1 home run, 8 RBIs and 10 runs scored.


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Vera studied fine arts and applied arts in college and worked for years as a graphic designer and commercial artist. Moving to Canada, though, and rediscovering nature's vibrancy on such an immense scale drew her to painting, which she immediately saw as the ideal means for conveying the visual splendor of her new home.
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If the Democrats were the source of the fake dossier why is there an investigation into Trump and not an investigation into the Democrats who are the real ones colluding with the Russians?
Attorney Marc E. Elias of the international law firm Perkins Coie LLP acted as a middleman according to an October 2017 report out of the Washington Post and was hired by the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee to seek out and retain companies willing to do opposition research on Donald Trump and his campaign associates during the runup to the 2016 presidential election.
As it turns out Fusion GPS was one of the companies hired by Elias to investigate Trump and his associates. In turn, Fusion GPS hired Christopher David Steele, a former British intelligence officer with MI6 to craft the now infamous dossier in which Steele mixed some truth with complete fiction. To top it all off the dossier was funded in part using monies from Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and monies from the Democratic National Committee. Not to mention, it has been reported that there was at least one other democratic mega-donor involved in the operation which some speculate may have been George Soros.
Former disgraced FBI Director James Comey told Fox News host Brett Baier back in late-April on Special Report that he did not have any direct knowledge other than reading in news reports that the dossier was funded by Hillary or the DNC and even tried to say the dossier was funded by the Republicans in what can only be considered a deep state PSYOP.
Taking all of this into consideration, why isn't Trump's attorney Rudi Giuliani screaming to high heaven that the dossier is fake oppo research compiled by the Dems in an effort to politically undermine Donald Trump?
Why isn't Trump's attorney Rudi Giuliani screaming to high heaven that the dossier is fake oppo research compiled by the Dems in an effort to politically undermine Donald Trump?
Needless to say, it was BuzzFeed that originally posted the fake dossier to the innerweb after Senator John McCain passed it off to members of the FBI.
The PDF file of the 30-page typewritten report alleges that high Kremlin officials colluded with Trump, offered him multi-billion dollar bribes, and accumulated compromising evidence of Trump's sexual escapades in Russia. That the dossier comes from former British intelligence officers appears, at first glance, to give it weight especially with Orbis' claim of a "global network." The U.S. intelligence community purportedly has examined the allegations but have not confirmed any of them. We can wait till hell freezes over. The material is not verifiable.
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synopsis: Publisher and event organizer Mash Media announced the official acquisition of the International Confex exhibition from UBM Live. International Confex provides the annual meeting place for the events world and connects event professionals with the best venues, destinations, finishing touches, technology and event support services.
buyer: Mash Media Group Limited
Mash Media is the leading publisher of magazines and directories for the event, exhibition, meetings and conference sectors for meetings and events industry. "
target parent: United Business Media Limited
target: International Confex
International Confex provides the annual meeting place for the events world and connects event professionals with the best venues, destinations, finishing touches, technology and event support services the industry has to offer.
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closed 12/4/2019 via BNC Analysis
Connect Meetings, acquired BizBash Media
synopsis: Connect Meetings, a division of Tarsus Group, has announced the purchase of BizBash, the iconic trade media company for event and meeting planners, further expanding Connect's market leading position.
buyer parent: Tarsus Group plc
buyer: Connect Meetings
Connect Meetings is a leading provider of trade shows in the United States, serving the business travel and meetings sector through a combination of national, regional and vertically focused events which are supplemented by an integrated media offering and additional marketing solutions. "
target: BizBash Media
BizBash is the leading trade media for the event industry. BizBash publishes magazines and e-newsletters, hosts Web sites, and produces trade shows, conferences, and award shows for corporate event and meeting professionals, event marketers, and sales, PR, fund-raising, and HR executives.
closed 4/28/2003 via Market Wire
Hanley Wood, LLC, acquired Davis Peterson Collaborative LLC
synopsis: Hanley-Wood, LLC, the leading business-to-business media company serving the residential construction industry, has acquired the key assets of Davis Peterson Collaborative (DPC), producer of home building-related trade shows, events and conferences.
buyer: Hanley Wood, LLC
Hanley Wood, LLC, is the premier media company serving housing and construction. Through four operating divisions, the company produces award-winning magazines and Web sites, marquee trade shows and events, rich data and custom marketing solutions. "
target: Davis Peterson Collaborative LLC
Davis Peterson Collaborative LLC conducts and manages trade shows, events, and conferences for media organizations, companies, professional organizations, and trade associations.
closed 11/15/2019 via PR Web
Executive Speakers Bureau, acquired National Keynote Speakers
synopsis: Executive Speakers Bureau, a full service Speakers Bureau, is pleased to announce the acquisition of National Keynote Speakers, which provides companies with Motivational Speakers, Keynote Speakers and Corporate Trainers for their corporate event or convention needs.
buyer: Executive Speakers Bureau
Executive Speakers Bureau, founded in 1993, is a full service Speakers Bureau. Based in Memphis, Tennessee, they offer thousands of national speakers as well as speakers local to their clients' venues to help meet each organization's individual needs. "
target: National Keynote Speakers
National Keynote Speakers provide companies with Motivational Speakers, Keynote Speakers and Corporate Trainers for their corporate event or convention needs. They have a presence in 12 U.S. markets providing their clients with a balanced mix of nationally recognized speakers and local experts.
closed 9/11/2019 via BNC Analysis
Skift, acquired EventMB
synopsis: Skift, the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel, has acquired EventMB, the first blog for event professionals. EventMB is the go-to online resource for Trends, Technology, Innovation and Education for the event industry. EventMB offers daily articles that are read by thousands of event professionals from around the globe.
buyer: Skift
Skift is the largest industry intelligence and marketing platform in travel, providing news, information, data and services to all sectors of the world's largest industry. Skift identifies and synthesizes existing and emerging trends in its daily coverage of the global travel industry. "
target: EventMB
EventMB is the first blog for event professionals. EventMB is the go-to online resource for Trends, Technology, Innovation and Education for the event industry. EventMB offers daily articles that are read by thousands of event professionals from around the globe.
closed 9/3/2013 via Market Wire
Eventbrite, acquired Lanyrd
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synopsis: Eventbrite, the global self-service ticketing platform, announced it has acquired London-based event data company Lanyrd. This acquisition will bring powerful product and technical assets to the leading events platform. The Lanyrd team will relocate to Eventbrite's headquarters in San Francisco.
buyer: Eventbrite (EB:$162.01)
Eventbrite is an online service that people everywhere use to create, share, and join any event imaginable. Whether it's a photography class with a local artist, or a sold-out concert in a city stadium, Eventbrite makes it happen. "
target: Lanyrd
Lanyrd, a social conference directory based in London, allows users to add and discover events as well as track friends' professional event activity. The company was founded in 2010, and has helped nearly 40,000 events in 148 countries have a better and more social event experience.
closed 11/5/2007 via PR Web
Red 7 Media, Inc., acquired Expo Magazine Inc.
synopsis: Ascend Media's Expo Magazine has been sold to Red 7 Media, a B2B media company based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Expo is a leading trade publication serving exposition and convention professionals. Expo's readers are executives of trade associations and societies, for-profit show owners, producers or management firms, and corporate event management.
buyer: Red 7 Media, Inc.
Red 7 Media, founded in 2002, publishes magazines and newsletters, produces executive conferences and seminars, and creates custom marketing and lead-generations programs in the event and publishing industries. "
target parent: J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
target: Expo Magazine Inc.
Launched in 1989 as the first publication exclusively targeting exposition management, EXPO reaches more than 7,500 industry professionals 10 times a year. Since its premier issue, EXPO has been the one magazine that show managers call their own.
closed 10/16/2019 via PR Newswire
Northstar Travel Group, LLC, acquired CAT Media
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synopsis: Northstar Travel Group announced it has acquired CAT Media, located in East Grinstead, England, outside London. CAT Media is a leading global multiplatform business-to-business marketing services, information and events business serving the meetings and incentive industry.
buyer parent: EagleTree Capital
buyer: Northstar Travel Group, LLC
Northstar Travel Group is the leading B-to-B information and marketing solutions company serving all segments of the travel industry including leisure/retail, corporate/business travel, meetings and incentives, and travel technology. "
target: CAT Media
CAT Media owns leading brands serving the UK and global MICE industry including Meetings & Incentive Travel, Association Meetings International, Meetpie.com, an online membership portal for meetings professionals, M&IT Challenges, M&IT Awards, VenueSource.com, and Convention-Source.com.
closed 4/4/2017 via Company Press Release
Northstar Travel Group, LLC, acquired Schneider Publishing
synopsis: Northstar Travel Group acquired the assets of Schneider Publishing, which includes the TEAMS Conference + Expo and Meetings Quest conferences, and the SportsTravel and Association News magazines. Schneider Publishing provides events, conferences, and media and information products to organizers for sports, associations and corporate meetings.
buyer parent: Wasserstein & Co., LP
target: Schneider Publishing
Schneider Publishing creates and provides world-class publications, conferences and information products and services that improve the lives of people who use them. They publish the Association News and SportsTravel magazines, and organize the TEAMS Conference and Meetings Quest trade-show series.
closed 1/7/2015 via BusinessWire
Cvent, Inc., acquired Elite Meetings International Inc.
synopsis: Cvent, Inc., a leading cloud-based enterprise event management platform, announced the acquisition of Elite Meetings International (EMI), a Santa Barbara, Ca.-based premier hospitality marketing company. EMI's online venue-sourcing tools for meeting planners will be integrated into Cvent's growing hospitality cloud offering.
buyer: Cvent, Inc. (CVT:$219.51)
Cvent, Inc. is a leading cloud-based enterprise event management platform, with more than 12,600 customers worldwide. Cvent offers software solutions to event planners for online event registration, venue selection, event management, mobile apps for events, e-mail marketing and web surveys. "
target: Elite Meetings International Inc.
Elite Meetings International (EMI) helps meeting planners find the finest hotels and resorts for their meetings, incentive events, and trade shows through tools they love to use. EliteMeetings.com helps clients find the world's best hotels and resorts for their group.
closed 9/3/2020 via PR Web
Adweek, Inc., acquired Target Marketing and Publishing Executive
synopsis: Adweek is acquiring Target Marketing and Publishing Executive from NAPCO Media. Publishing Executive serves as the most reliable resource of insight and analysis on the magazine media industry. Target Marketing Magazine covers all direct response media, including direct mail, e-mail, telemarketing, space advertising, the Web and direct response TV.
buyer parent: Shamrock Capital Advisors, Inc.
buyer: Adweek, Inc.
Adweek is the leading source of news and insight serving the brand marketing ecosystem. Adweek's award-winning coverage reaches an engaged audience of more than 6 million professionals across platforms including print, digital, events, podcasts, newsletters, social media and mobile apps. "
target parent: Specialty Graphic Imaging Association
target: Target Marketing and Publishing Executive
Publishing Executive serves as the most reliable resource of insight and analysis on the magazine media industry. Target Marketing Magazine covers all direct response media, including direct mail, e-mail, telemarketing, space advertising, the Web and direct response TV.
announced 4/16/2013 via PR Web
Publishing Secrets, Inc., will acquire InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com
synopsis: PrintingForLess.com agreed to sell InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com to Publishing Secrets, Inc. InDesign Magazine is a bimonthly periodical devoted entirely to Adobe InDesign and to the thriving community of InDesign professionals. CreativePro.com is an industry portal and resource for the creative professional and publishing community.
buyer: Publishing Secrets, Inc.
Publishing Secrets Inc. Is the parent company of InDesignSecrets.com, EPUBsecrets.com, DesignGeek, and PEPCON: The Print + ePublishing Conference®. Over a quarter-million InDesign users worldwide rely on InDesignSecrets as the number-one resource for all things InDesign. "
target parent: PrintingForLess.com
target: InDesign Magazine and CreativePro.com
InDesign Magazine is a bimonthly periodical devoted entirely to Adobe InDesign and to the thriving community of InDesign professionals. CreativePro.com, launched in 1998, is a well-respected industry portal and resource for the creative professional and publishing community.
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Access Intelligence, LLC, will acquire Red 7 Media, Inc.
synopsis: Access Intelligence announced that it will acquire Red 7 Media. Red 7 Media serves the event industry with its Event Marketer, EXPO, Best Events and Event Design media brands and associated events, and the media industry with its FOLIO and Audience Development titles and Folio Show.
buyer parent: Veronis Suhler Stevenson
buyer: Access Intelligence, LLC
Access Intelligence, a portfolio company of Veronis Suhler Stevenson, is a b-to-b media and information company headquartered in Rockville, Md., serving the energy, chemical, defense, aerospace, healthcare and communications markets. "
target: Red 7 Media, Inc.
Red 7 Media is a privately-held business media company that publishes magazines and newsletters, as well as produces conferences and trade shows in the Event and Media industries.
closed 4/5/2010 via BNC Analysis
PWxyz LLC, acquired Publishers Weekly
synopsis: PWxyz LLC announced that it has acquired Publishers Weekly, the Publishers Weekly Show Daily and PublishersWeekly.com from Reed Business Information-US.
buyer: PWxyz LLC
PWxyz is a new company formed by George W. Slowik Jr., who ran Publishers Weekly in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Slowik, who will hold the title of president, plans to retain all the brand's editorial, art and advertising employees. "
target parent: Reed Elsevier
target: Publishers Weekly
Publishers Weekly is the leading publication serving all segments involved in the creation, production, marketing and sale of the written word in book, audio, video and electronic formats.
closed 1/14/2010 via Company Description
Duncan McIntosh Company Incorporated, acquired Editor & Publisher Company
synopsis: Editor & Publisher, the only independent news organization reporting on all aspects of the transforming newspaper business, has resumed publication in print and online following its sale to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., the Irvine, Calif.-based magazine and newspaper publisher.
buyer: Duncan McIntosh Company Incorporated
Duncan McIntosh's publications include Boating World magazine; Sea Magazine, America's Western Boating Magazine; The Log Newspaper; and FishRap News. "
target parent: The Nielsen Company, Inc.
target: Editor & Publisher Company
Editor & Publisher is the only independent news organization reporting on all aspects of the transforming newspaper business.
RedBooks, will acquire Oventio
synopsis: REDBOOKS, a global leader in sales prospecting and lead generation technology, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Oventio, a leading data provider of conference and industry data related to speakers, speeches, and more.
buyer: RedBooks
RedBooks is an information services and technology company based in New York, NY, with two main divisions: the premier lead generation and competitive intelligence tool; and a technology division, focused on advanced machine learning and natural language processing. "
target: Oventio
Oventio is a leading data provider of conference and industry data related to speakers, speeches, and more. The company was founded in 2011.
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infoUSA, Inc., acquired Millard Group
synopsis: infoUSA, the leading provider of proprietary business and consumer databases and sales leads, today announced the acquisition of Millard Group of Petersborough, New Hampshire. Founded in 1977, Millard is a premiere brand in the list brokerage and management business with a blue chip client base.
buyer: infoUSA, Inc. (IUSA:$499.91)
Infogroup is the leading provider of data and interactive resources that enables targeted sales, effective marketing and insightful research solutions. "
target: Millard Group
Millard Group manages a full spectrum of domestic and international mailing lists, databases, e-mail and telemarketing files, providing comprehensive list management services for catalog, publishing, continuity, and fundraising clients.
Centaur Media plc, acquired Profile Group (UK) Limited
synopsis: Centaur Media plc, the business information and events group, has acquired Profile Group (UK) Limited ("Profile"), a specialist digital information business for media, PR and marketing professionals. Profile's information brands include Fashion Monitor, Red Pages, Entertainment News, Year Ahead and Foresight News.
buyer: Centaur Media plc (LSE:CAU:$91.02)
Centaur Media is a leading UK based business information, publishing and events group. It provides marketing and information solutions to buyers and sellers within several high value professional and commercial market communities. "
target: Profile Group (UK) Limited
Profile Group (UK) Limited is a specialist digital information business for media, PR and marketing professionals. Profile provides forward planning and contact information to enable them to optimise journalistic workflow and plan future PR and sponsorship campaigns.
Authority Media Network, LLC, acquired Subscription Site Insider
synopsis: Authority Media Network, LLC, a newly formed media company focused on building a network of trusted business-to-business information and training resources, announced that it has acquired the Subscription Site Insider, an online publication helping paid content executives grow their online and digital subscriptions.
buyer: Authority Media Network, LLC
Authority Media Network, LLC (AMN), formed in 2014, is a media company focused on building a network of trusted business-to-business information and training resources. "
target parent: InfoCommerce Group Inc.
target: Subscription Site Insider
Subscription Site Insider is an online publication helping paid content executives grow their online and digital subscriptions. Their help paid content, subscription sites, and membership site publishers grow their businesses and bottom lines through new research, training and networking.
closed 12/10/2012 via Company Press Release
InfoCommerce Group Inc., acquired Subscription Site Insider
synopsis: Subscription Site Insider and Subscription Site Central – the go-to sources for paid content executives – has been acquired by InfoCommerce Group, a data-driven research and consulting firm serving the information industry.
buyer: InfoCommerce Group Inc.
InfoCommerce Group is a boutique consulting and research firm, serving the specialized business information publishing community. Its research, client project work and annual conferences provide the market with the insight, information, and inspiration needed in this time of transformational change."
Blockthrough, acquired PageFair
synopsis: Blockthrough, a Toronto-based leading Adblock Revenue Recovery platform for publishers, announced its acquisition of PageFair, an industry pioneer in publisher adblock solutions based in Dublin, Ireland.
buyer: Blockthrough
Founded in 2015, Toronto-based Blockthrough is the world's leading Adblock Revenue Recovery platform for publishers. Blockthrough helps publishers recover revenue lost to adblocking by creating safe, unintrusive ad experiences that leverage the publisher's existing monetization partners. "
target: PageFair
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Shamrock Capital Advisors, Inc., acquired Adweek, Inc.
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buyer: Shamrock Capital Advisors, Inc.
Shamrock Capital Advisors is a Los Angeles based alternative investment firm investing in the media, entertainment and communications sectors. They use their proprietary network of relationships and deep industry vertical knowledge to identify companies with potential for investment. "
target parent: Beringer Capital
target: Adweek, Inc.
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Busch Group, acquired MEEDIA GmbH & Co. KG
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buyer: Busch Group
The Busch Group is a leading media company in Germany. The group's portfolio consists of established media brands and popular events, including Blickpunkt: Film, Gamesmarkt, MusikWoche, mediabiz, Entertainment Night, DIVA and more. "
target parent: Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holtzbrinck GmbH
target: MEEDIA GmbH & Co. KG
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Image credit: Rob Evans, (b. 1959), Cicada, 1998-2000, acrylic and oil on canvas, H. 40" x W. 120 inches, James A. Michener Art Museum. In trust to the James A. Michener Art Museum from Mrs. Joyce Tseng.
Rob Evans combines people, objects, and places to create mysterious, autobiographical and metaphorical paintings. When creating Cicada, he drew on his vivid childhood memories of the years he spent at his grandparents' farm, which was called "Roundtop," located above the Susquehanna River in Central Pennsylvania. When the main house on the property sold out of the family in 1994, Evans began working on Cicada. He hoped the painting would serve as a monument to the house and all its memories and as a statement to the fact that all things will eventually change, no matter how permanent they may seem in childhood.
Evans works on his paintings for a very long time. His starting point is often a small sketch made in response to something in his daily routine that catches his attention or imagination – something small and simple like a leaf or a ball, or something large and complex, like a river or a doorway. He also makes sketches about passing thoughts, memories, and ideas. He keeps all of his sketches in a sketchbook, where they may sit for months or even years before being used in a painting. Periodically, he looks through his sketchbook to refresh his memory and keep his ideas alive in his mind. Eventually, many of his sketches take root in large-scale paintings.
Cicada began in 1994 with a sketch Evans drew of a cicada on a tree branch shedding its skin, and grew over a period of three years into a large triptych, or three-panel painting, made with acrylic and oil paints on a canvas that is ten feet long. He placed the cicada in the center section, adding his memories of an evening spent watching fireworks from the porch of his grandparents' home on the left and of the interior of the house on the right. The panel on the right includes a glimpse of the Susquehanna River through the rear door as well as a view of an empty wheelchair seen through a different door. The wheelchair belonged to his grandmother, who lived in the house for many years.
Cicada is full of symbols, things chosen to represent other things or ideas. The child entering the scene at the left reminds us of life's beginnings. The wheelchair in the doorway on the right symbolizes old age and disability. The fireworks burst with the energy of youth, yet we know they are short-lived. The empty wheelchair is like the empty cicada shell – both are reminders of previous lives now over. In the center is the cicada, a large insect (commonly known as a locust) that matures under ground in cycles of 5 to 17 years. The cicada symbolizes the never ending cycle of life and metamorphosis. In the distance, the river underscores the constantly flowing nature of life. By skillfully weaving symbols together such as these from his past that contain many layers, Evans creates a dreamlike narrative painting in which time is compressed and viewers can find their own meanings and associations.
Surprisingly, Cicada was exhibited in seven different museums before it was completely finished. Evans worked on the painting between each exhibition, allowing it to evolve, like a cicada, over time. He also mixed mulch, pumice gels, and glass beads into his paint and sanded the surface with an electric sander to create a patina, or special surface that shows long use or age.
Make a list of everything you see in this image, starting from the left of the painting and working to the right. Include all the textures, colors, shapes and objects you see.What do you feel is the most important part of this painting? Why?
Light and dark create many contrasts in this image. Where do you see light? Where do you see dark? What kind of mood does the light and dark create?
What time of year is depicted in this painting?
This painting has many openings, showing you views beyond. Look through some of these openings. What do you see?
How would you describe the sense of space and distance in this painting?
Why do you think this artist made his painting so long and thin? Do you know of any other art forms that are also long and thin like this?
How does the artist contrast the natural world with human made objects in this work?
What do you notice about the depiction of outdoor and indoor places in this painting?
What signs of life do you see in this work of art? Do you see any signs of death?
Is there a story in this painting? If so, who or what are the "characters"?
Have you ever heard the word triptych? Is this painting a triptych? How can you tell?
How does this painting make you feel? Why?
Rob Evans was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1959. He grew up in Maryland, and currently lives near Wrightsville, Pennsylvania. After graduating from Syracuse University in 1981, he moved into a nineteenth-century farm above the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania. This farm, surrounded by acres of an old growth oak forest, was once part of a larger property owned by his grandparents. Evans had spent summers there, roaming the woods, collecting insects, bones, old bottles, and all kinds of other artifacts. This property, known as "Roundtop," and its natural landscape, are the starting point for many of his paintings.
Evans is influenced by the quality of light, intimate spaces, and dramatic use of light and dark found in the work of seventeenth century Dutch painters: Rembrandt, Vermeer, and van Ruisdael. He is inspired by 20th century American realist painters Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Andrew Wyeth, and Charles Burchfield because of the dreamlike realities they create in images of everyday life. Influences leading to his use of the multi-paneled format include David Hockney's photo montages, early Dutch altarpieces, and the powerful narrative works of his teacher at Syracuse University, Jerome Witkin. Evans enjoys the unusual points of view found in films of Alfred Hitchcock and illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. He admires the rich surface texture of paintings by Jackson Pollock for his rich and energized surface texture, and the depictions of atmospheric light in nineteenth century American landscape paintings.
Evans' paintings are in the collections of the James A. Michener Art Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the Allentown Art Museum and the University of Delaware. His artwork has been featured in exhibitions across the United States and abroad, including the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow. His meticulous and intriguing paintings and drawings have been featured in numerous publications and discussed on public radio and television.
In Cicada, Rob Evans presents the theme of metamorphosis, or the change of form or nature of an object into a completely different object. Graphic artist M.C. Escher also presents this idea in his 1937 woodcut entitled Metamorphosis. Look carefully at Escher's prints. How can you compare Evans' Cicada with the Escher work? What similarities and differences can you find? How do both artists depict change? What is the mood of both works?
The Voyage of Life series was painted by Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School of painting, in 1840. In this series, Cole depicts the four stages of life: childhood, youth, manhood and old age. His images follow a voyager who is traveling along a river in a boat. The youngest child departs from a dark cave and the oldest man enters the heavens through the sky. Find images of these works at the National Gallery of Art. How does the depiction of the cycle of life in Cicada compare with Thomas Cole's version, painted over 150 years earlier? How would you compare the world view of these two artists after analyzing their paintings?
In Cicada, Rob Evans shows us images that symbolize the natural cycle of life and death. How have other artists throughout time depicted death? Research this theme, and develop some connections of your own.
Insects are fascinating to many artists and writers – not just Rob Evans! Read the following poems about insects. Combine the cicada theme with the idea of change or metamorphosis by creating an original story about an insect and how it changes your life.
"Forgiven," A.A. Milne, Now We Are Six, 1927.
"Ladybug, Be Good," Norma Farber, The Earth is Painted Green, 1994.
"Insect Soup: Bug Poems," Barry Louis Polisar, 1999.
Metamorphosis is a recurring theme in many Greek myths, including the story of Narcissus, the story of Daedalus and Icarus, and the story of Demeter and Persephone. (See: D'Aulaire's Book of Greek Myths by Ingri and Edgar Parin D'Aulaire, reprinted 1992). How do metamorphosis and the natural cycle of life emerge in these tales? Examine these themes in the mythology of other cultures – mythology from other cultures – e.g., Norse, Celtic and Hindu.
Compare the cycle of life as depicted by Rob Evans in Cicada with the cycle of life and human civilization portrayed in Ovid's (43 BCE to 18 CE) Metamorphoses. Consider metamorphosis as a universal principle that guides human events, as well as the expressive language and images found in poetry and art.
Create your own triptych. Show a transition through time from the left panel to the center and to the right. In Cicada, Rob Evans chose to include people, places, and things that were meaningful to him. What will you choose to represent in your work?
Today we see triptychs almost daily in the form of brochures that advertise events, institutions and programs. Combine what you know about triptychs and graphic design to create an autobiographical, tri-fold brochure about yourself at different stages of your life. Use hand drawn or computer-generated images, or a combination of both.
A triptych is defined as a painting or carving that has three side-by-side panels or canvases. A triptych can also be defined as a work that is represented in three parts. Create a work of art in any medium that will ultimately fit one of these two definitions. Share your work with your class.
Rob Evans uses the shape of his canvas and the images he paints to tell a symbolic story about his childhood. Tell a story from your childhood by creating a series of drawings, like a comic book. While working on your book, research appropriate graphic novels that are also autobiographical.
Look at Transference II, 1987 and Plymouth, 1983 by Rob Evans and Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window, 1658 and The Music Lesson, 1662 by Johannes Vermeer. Describe the unique quality of light and space in all four paintings. What is the role of windows and people in the paintings?
Rob Evans works on his art over long periods of time, often sharing his creative process with others by exhibiting art work "in progress." Research other artists who also have included the audience in watching an original work of art change as it is being made. Is this a modern or old fashioned invention? Does it appear in art forms other than painting? Cite examples of this practice throughout history.
In Cicada, Rob Evans uses everyday objects as symbols. In the contemporary world, we see symbols every day. A red octagon symbolizes stop, for example, and a red circle with a diagonal line through it means that something is prohibited. Walk around your neighborhood and photograph symbols that are easily recognized. Look for common symbols in newspapers, magazines or on the Internet. Create a display of your findings.
During the European Middle Ages and Renaissance, triptychs became essential works of art. Research religious architecture during this time period. Why were triptych altarpieces so common? What features made them so popular? Do triptychs appear in religions other than Christianity? Are there contemporary examples of triptychs?
Hieronymus Bosch created a triptych entitled The Garden of Earthly Delights in 1504 found in the collection of the Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Like Cicada, Bosch's painting tells the story of life and death in three panels. Describe how Rob Evans' painting reflects a twenty-first century view of life and death, and how Bosch's view reflects sixteenth century beliefs.
The song of the cicada is unique, and all cicada songs are species specific. Compare the sound-producing mechanism inside the body of a cicada with another sound-producing mechanism – either animal or human made. What do these mechanisms have in common?
Insects pervade every region on the planet. As part of your environmental studies, research insects that are native to your township, county, state or country. In addition, learn about species that have been introduced for scientific or political purposes. Describe the impact of all species on your ecosystem. How do all these insects help your ecosystem? How do they hurt your ecosystem? How would the ecosystem change if even one of these species were removed from the earth?
Do advancements in medical science always improve a person's quality of life in later years? How does the health care industry today extend life and prolong death? Using scientific research, write a persuasive essay describing the relationship between health care, quality of life, and death and dying today.
How Did Rob Evans Create His Painting Cicada?
Why is the Painting Divided into Three Areas?


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I was asked to make a medieval cake for a surprise 40th birthday party. I was given completely free reign to design the cake, as long as it fit the medieval theme (to match the venue) and the budget. As soon as the word "medieval" was mentioned my mind went to dragons, I was also asked to make cupcakes with flag toppers, so I though those should be represented in the cake somehow.
So I put pencil to paper and came up with a quick sketch of a dragon perched atop a tower. The client loved it, so the work began.
For ages now I have been dying to try using modelling chocolate, but I just never seemed to get around to it, so I decided that the time had come. I bought some chocolate, made some bright red modelling chocolate (following varied online advice), and began to play. I sculpted a little red dragon in the style I wanted for the cake and was very, very pleased with the result!
Modelling chocolate is a wonderful medium! (Once I figured out how to stop it turning into an oily mess). It sets quickly, but can still be worked and changed, and it is easy to blend different parts seamlessly. It is also very structurally strong, and elastic enough that it can take reasonably hard knocks without breaking. Why did I take so long to try it?!
Next came the baking and assembly of the cake itself. The main tower of the castle is made of rich dark chocolate cake with chocolate buttercream icing, the small tower and dragon are both vanilla cream cheese pound cake (which stands up to carving very well) with vanilla buttercream and rice krispy treats. The completed cake stands just over 2 foot tall (65cm), the structure is stabilised by two large vertical dowels firmly screwed to the cake board. This worked exceptionally well, the cake arrived at the venue (a 2 hour car journey away) completely intact.
I wish I had taken more (and better) photos of the whole process!
Crumb coating and final icing was done with my trusty vanilla buttercream. The castle, and all it's details, are crafted from fondant, while the dragon is made of modelling chocolate, dusted (and painted) with gold lustre dust.
At about this point I decided to add some little figurines - a knight and a damsel in distress. These had been mentioned in the 'consultations,' but I hadn't yet included them in my vision. Looking at the nearly finished cake, it was crying out for some extra detail towards the bottom of the cake to balance the 'busy-ness' of the dragon sitting atop it.
I love how this cake turned out!


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The Secretive Soras
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Southwest Florida has a wide array of habitats from coastal beaches to swamplands. With the diverse habitats also comes diverse wildlife that inhabits those areas. When it comes to birds, many may be familiar with pelicans, eagles and a bevy of small songbirds that inhabit their backyards, but there is also more secretive birds that reside in marsh habitats.
These birds belong to a family called rails. They have long toes that help them walk along dense vegetation while hunting the water for small invertebrates, seeds, and insects. The most widespread and abundant of these birds is called a sora, although you wouldn't know it because of they spend their time hidden among the wetlands.
These birds have brown and gray feathers with a bright, yellow beak as adults while the color is a bit subdued in juvenile or immature birds. They have been described to walk like "a chicken that has had too much coffee" because of their quick movements and nervous tail flicking.
Two of these robin-sized birds were recently admitted to CROW's wildlife hospital just a few days apart, both having suffered an unknown trauma. The first arrived from Fort Myers beach on October 3 after it was found laying on its back with crows pecking at it.
"It was unable to fly and we found that it had a coracoid fracture, which is part of the shoulder girdle," explained Dr. Melanie Peel, a veterinary intern at CROW. "At this point, it still needs more time for the injury to heal. We plan to do a flight test in another week or so to assess if it will be ready for release."
The second sora arrived from Fort Myers on October 6. It was noted to have been found standing in a driveway with two drops of blood underneath it.
"We did not find any fractures or major injuries when we examined the bird," says Dr. Peel. "It's likely the bird had soft tissue injuries as a result of being stunned, such as from hitting a car or window, that was preventing it from flying."
After a week of supportive care and plenty of crickets, mealworms and a special insectivore diet, the sora was feeling much better. On October 14, it passed a flight test and was able to be released later that day.
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View information about beaches near Porto Heli and day trips to areas close to Nautica Bay Hotel.
Traditionally the visitors of Nautica Bay Hotel, visit Porto Heli for their summer holidays.
The beaches that the visitor can select are: the Asterias beach, Petrothalasa and Kounoupi on the east side, the Limanakia, Saint Aimiliano – with the small nominal church and Kostas on the south-east side, and finally the Chinitsa beach, Ververonta, Maistraki and Kyparisakia on western and north-western side.
All of them azure, clean and with an exceptionally mild temperature of the water, which usually have a tavern named after the place.
At the same time it is a good starting line for daily excursions.
The visitor of Porto of Heli has various choices to spend his free time.
The daily excursion to Hydra is very popular. In Hydra the visitor will appreciate the absence of wheeled vehicles, he will walk in the alleys of the island and will enjoy his coffee in the harbour. There is a variety of proposals for the lunch time dinner. Exceptional are the taverns in the small alleys of the island. The tourists in the high season will give a cosmopolitan air to the island with a lot of celebrities arriving daily. It is worthwhile visiting the Mansions of the island, to view the harbour from the hill, to admire the sunset from the Kiosk and the Cave, but also to visit the 6 Monasteries and the 300 Churches of the island.
Visiting Spetses is also a proposed daily excursion with the easy access from Porto Heli but also from the Kosta beach. It is worthwhile visiting the Museum of Spetses. It is accomodated in the mansion of Chatzigianni Mexi, one of the most powerful sovereigns of the island during the Revolution. The two-story mansion was built the years 1795 – 1798. Bouboulina's house is open to the public daily.
For lunch time you should visit the old harbour with the fish taverns by the beach. The beach of Saint Anargiron is accessible by sea taxi or bus and has a nominal tavern that serves at midday but also in the evening.
Spetses is unconditionally suggested for your night out with the possibility of returning at any time you wish. Each year a leading cultural event is the feast of Armatas. The second Weekend of September is dedicated in celebrating events witch combine the celebration of the Virgin Mary of Armatas (near to the Lighthouse) with the anniversary of the sea battle on the 8th of September 1822.
The events climax with the representation of burning the Turkish flagship in the central harbour of Spetses.
Ermioni is a lovely village hardly 16 kilometres from Porto Heli. The old beautiful harbour is famous for its bars but also for the fish-taverns. The Mpitsi grove in the cape of Ermioni has a view to Hydra and it is ideal to enjoy a walk.
Kilada is located before Kranidi about 12km from Porto Heli. It is the fish village of the area with a big piscatorial fleet, if we take into consideration the population of the village (hardly 1.000 residents). It has a very nice harbour full of caiques, boats, trawls and dragnet boats. In a very short distance it is found the private owned island Koroni. On the back side of the village lies one of the most beautiful beaches, Lepitsa with the nominal tavern.
Didima will be overtaken at your arrival. The name of the village came from the twin tops of the twin mountains, that are raised above the fertile valley where the village is placed. A special landmark of the landscape offer the two caves Dolines , which are located next to the village and to the foothills of the mountain. The 2 small churches inside the big cave – which is not visible from the road and it is circled by the pinewoods – are Saints Georgiou (right in the entrance) and opposite is the Saints Sotira. Saint Sotira is celebrated on the 06th of August each year. The entrance to the big cave requires particular attention.
The ancient theatre of Epidaurus is hardly 45 minutes from Porto Heli and due to the summer Festival, a lot of visitors combine their holidays with a night performance. The ancient Asklipieio Museum of Epidaurus is open daily and a visit to the theatre is imposed!
Mycenae 'Rich in Gold', the kingdom of mythical Agamemnon, first sung by Homer in his epics, is the most important and richest palatial centre of the Late Bronze Age in Greece. Hardly 1 hour and 10 minutes from Porto Cheli, a visit to Mycenaes as well as to Nafplio the first capital of modern Greece, constitutes an important daily excursion. Do not miss to visit Palamidi and admire the view of Nafplio from high above. Your can enjoy your lunch in the old city of nafplio or by the beach.
Poros is 65 kilometres from Porto Heli. The coastal road is beautiful and passes you near the lemon tree forest. Although it is a pleasant drive the road turns will delay you and you will cover the distance in approximately 1 hour. In Galata you will take the ferry that covers the drive in 5 minutes.
Monemvasia is a good day-long excursion. This excursion is available in the high season with traditional tourist ships. The reception will be glad to inform you for the itineraries.


On the beaches of the mighty Brahmaputra River in Assam, an open air beach fair and festival is organized by the Assam Boat Racing and Rowing Association with support from the Assam Tourism Development Corporation. The festival coincides with the Magh Bihu, the harvesting festival celebrated in the state during the month of January. The Brahmaputra Beach Fair and Festival aims to promote the indigenous tradition and culture of the land to the youth of the state as well as the culture aficionados. The bright and colorful scenes of the festival inspire jubilation and excitement among the onlookers. Traditional sports like boat racing is one of the main parts of the festival, where beautifully decked boats compete in a race held on Brahmaputra River. Other adventure sports are also undertaken during this festival along with other sports like beach cricket, beach volleyball etc. Cultural programmes are also organized that display the traditional arts and culture of the state. Competitions like Kite flying and drawing are also organized. Stalls are set up which sell traditional Assamese handicraft items.
On the vast sandy beaches of the Brahmaputra, the fair and festival is being held from quite sometime now. However after successfully organizing the festival for a few years, there was an 8 years gap after 2004 and directly in 2012, the festival and fair has made a comeback.
The festival is held on the day of Bhogali Bihu or Magh Bihu. It starts from the day break and runs throughout the day.
Before the boats start competing with each other, prayers are said, and rituals observed, for the safe and victorious trip of the boats.
There are a number of folk dance and song programmes organized during this festival.
People take part in a number of adventure sports like rafting and canoeing, paragliding among others.


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Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944)
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973)
Georges Braque (1882 1963)
Kazimir Malevich (1878-1935)
Piet Mondrian (1872-1944)
Victor Vasarely (1906-1997)
Arshile Gorky (1904-1948)
Jackson Pollock (1912 1956)
Mark Rothko (1903-1970)
Clifford Still (1904 1980)
Barnett Newman (1905-1970)
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008)
William Baziotes, Cyclops, 1947,
oil on canvas, Chicago Art Institute.
Art exists within and expresses the context that contains it and therefore is much more profound than one might expect from a simplistic definition. For example, Donna Seamen, writes that "abstract art is an invitation to imagine, to interpret, to reflect. [It] induces reverie [and] liberates us from the literal and the everyday, and provides a bridge to the realm of the collective unconscious."
Martha Schwendener broadens and deepens the context. "But it also had historical roots in Europe and colonial appropriation, and coincided with Einstein's theory of relativity, Saussure's lectures on structural linguistics, two world wars, the atomic bomb and the breakdown of Western ideas about human subjectivity. It became a Cold War weapon, with the West arguing that abstraction illustrated capitalist 'freedom,' while the Eastern Bloc's figurative Socialist Realism* was repressive, just like its political system." You get the idea!
We will not attempt to continue the definition of Abstract Expressionism (AE) since there is little agreement on which of the many characteristics seen in the paintings are most representative; instead we will just look at the works themselves. Since the term was first used in 1919 in connection with the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky we will start with him. First and foremost, AE painters did not want the viewer to see anything "represented" in the painting, it was to be "nonobjective." Kandinsky's Softened Construction exemplifies this goal. "For Kandinsky, the formal structure—the organization of line, color, and space on a flat surface—is inherently expressive and does not require any other frame of reference."
The Cubists Picasso and Braque had similar goals in expressing what came to be called "pure art." Whether they achieved pure art or not, Picasso's Head and The Studio and Braque's The Portuguese are definitely departures from the conventional art of their day. "The personality of the artist is 'invisible,' the shapes are geometric, and the real subject of the picture is its structure, its design."
If the early so-called "pure abstractionists" failed in escaping the presence of representational "form" in their canvases, it was at least a beginning toward that goal. Try as they might their "free-form" shapes did evoke associations with natural objects. "We can see this operating clearly in Jean Arp's relief, Forest, which suggests a tree and the moon to one so inclined. Once we read the image this way, it becomes extremely difficult to ignore the suggestion and respond to the formal structure."
Another way to remove the associations with natural objects was to limit shapes to the most simple found in geometry like circles, rectangles and squares. Kazimir Malevich does this in his Suprematist Composition: Red Square and Black Square. "Here we have but two squares set in relation to each other on a white surface."
It was Piet Mondrian who had the insight as an abstractionist that came closest to "feeling" the fundamental truth of Simple Reality. He advocated in his art the transcendence of form altogether. "To this end, Mondrian rigidly excluded from his paintings curves, diagonals, and unattached lines as well as impure colors and paint texture as much as he possibly could."
The goal of The Point of Power Practice is to choose response over reaction and to create the experience of pure feeling, of beauty, in the present moment. Notice how close that description is to the goal of pure abstraction that painter Victor Vasarely aspired to using the rhythmic interplay of his simple geometric shapes in his painting Kalota. "Here as in all pure abstraction, the ideal is an impersonal encounter that will generate an esthetic response without reference to anything outside the work of art." And indeed, there is nothing outside the resplendent work of art we call Creation.
Abstract Expressionism picked up steam after World War II and was related to a large wartime emigration of European artists and poets to the United States and the shift of the center of Western art from Paris to New York. In the painting The Betrothal II by the Armenian American Arshile Gorky, we can see the use of the Surrealist's symbol system but there is also the beginning of a major shift in aesthetics. "As we continue to examine the painting, we soon become aware that the forms have little weight or substance. They are clearly drawings, in which line and shape play as important a part as the symbol." His Composition in Black and White and Red illustrates his method.
It is Jackson Pollack who demonstrates very clearly where Gorky was headed. Pollack avoids both symbolic or representational devices in his so-called "drip painting" entitled Number I. "It is the paint and color alone that engages our interest." The Surrealist's notion of "automatism" seemed to play a role in Pollack's creative process. In the context of Simple Reality, we could say that in the present moment Pollack had surrendered conscious control to his intuition.
Mark Rothko wanted to eliminate as many references to the world outside of his paintings as possible in order that he could be in direct communication with the viewer. "His ideal viewer should not approach the work with any preconceptions about art." It is as if he wanted to bypass the intellect of the viewer and address the viewers "feelings" directly. Rothko clearly distrusted human reason even to the point of using purely descriptive titles in his work such as Brown and Black on Plum.
"It was in Jackson Pollock's 'all-over' paintings, however, that the transcendentalist impulse most conspicuously renewed itself in America after the war; and the main catalyst for this was again Kandinsky's work which was exhibited in depth—a retrospective of more than two hundred paintings and drawings—at the Museum of Non-Objective Art in New York in 1945."
"In some of Pollock's drawings of 1945-6, one sees the turgid, visceral forms of his "totemic" images loosening, becoming airy and scribbly under the Russian's [Kandinsky's] influence, expanding into a continuum of signs and graphic flourishes that circle around an imaginary point at the centre of the page and gradually expand towards its edges. This was the origin of Pollock's 'all-over' manner, which has been hailed—not without reason—as the most striking innovation in pictorial space since Picasso's and Braque's analytical Cubist paintings of 1911."
The most famous of Pollock's painting styles over the course of his career was called "action painting" or "drip painting." "I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting."
"Nobody could deny, after examining the exquisitely tuned surface of a work like Lavender Mist, 1950, with its close harmony of blues, lilac-greys, white, and silver, the degree of Pollock's control over his risky process. There being so few contrasts of light and dark, the surface became the literal "mist" of its title, a subtly inflected and airy space which, at last, owed nothing to the cubist grid."
One subdivision of abstract expressionism was "color field" painting. "The idea of the surface as a 'field' rather than a 'composition,' overwhelming the eye with one main color, would become a big issue in 1960s painting and sculpture—though usually a pedantic, or at least professorial one."
"On the other hand, Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko and Barnett Newman relied on the large fields of colour to produce solemn and elevated effects. These three painters made up the 'theological' side of Abstract Expressionism. For all his interest in archetype and anima, his study of Kandinsky and his concern for invocatory ritual (echoed physically in the 'dance' of creation around the edges of the canvas on the studio floor), Pollack made no metaphysical claims for his art."
The more fearful the world becomes, the more art becomes abstract.
"From the beginning he opposed the Cubist tradition of small size and ambiguous space. What [Clifford] Still wanted, and had found by 1947, was a simpler and more declarative kind of structure: opaque, ragged planes of colour rearing up the surface like cliffs and peaks, emphatic in brushwork and engulfing in their sheer size. Virtually no modernist paintings done before 1945 look like his, and even the influence of Surrealism is less apparent on Still than anywhere else in Abstract Expressionism. His career thus gives us an impression of hell-fire conviction and straightness. Finding his style early, he stuck to it for more than thirty years with only minor variations."
"The most complete painter in the 'theological' wing of the New York School was undoubtedly Mark Rothko. He, too, painted to the large 'American' scale, but for different reasons than either Still's or Newman's, because (he said): 'I want to be very intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command."
"His formula, which he established in 1949 and repeated with minor variations until his suicide in 1970, was a series of colour rectangles, soft-edged and palpitant of surface, stacked vertically up the canvas; often the divisions and intervals between them suggest a horizon or a cloud-bank, thus indirectly locating the image in the domain of landscape. This format enabled him to eliminate nearly everything from his work except the spatial suggestions and emotive power of his colour, and the breathing intensity of the surfaces, which he built up in the most concentrated way, staining the canvas like watercolor paper and then scumbling it with repeated skins of overpainting, so that in such Rothko's as Ochre and Red on Red, 1954, one seems to be peering into depths of mist or water, lit from within."
"Every artist after 1960 who challenged the restrictions of painting and sculpture and believed that all of life was open to art is indebted to Rauschenberg."
"An afternoon's stroll in downtown Manhattan could and did furnish him with a complete 'palette' of things to make art with: cardboard cartons, broken striped barber-poles, sea-tar, a mangy stuffed bird, a broken umbrella, discarded tires, a shaving mirror, old postcards. 'I actually had a kind of house rule. If I walked completely around the block and didn't find enough to work with, I could take one other block and walk around it in any direction—but that was it. The works had to look at least as interesting as anything that was going on outside the window.' Rauschenberg did not want to interfere too much with the objects; he was intrigued by their 'given' quality."
"Rauschenberg's discovery of a stuffed angora goat in the window of a Manhattan store that sold second-hand typewriters—was of some autobiographical meaning, since as a child in Port Arthur [Texas] he had a pet goat whose death, at the hands of his father, scarified him emotionally. The goat was therefore able to take its place with the other creatures that populate Rauschenberg's combines, the eagle, the chicken, and so forth, as a mute emissary from Eden—a survivor of Nature in a flood of Culture, an innocent witness to events before the Fall."
Abstract Expressionists expressed the same desire in their art as most of us do in our lives in general which is to experience consciously the Eden, the "Heaven on Earth" that we knew before we "fell" into the unconscious experience of P-B and the very unsatisfactory identity of our false self.
Abstract Expressionism Continued


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The most loathed teams in the Premier League have been revealed.
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Insurance is the process by which a firm offers to indemnify individuals when a predetermined event occurs.. And leads to a financial loss.
An insurance company seeks a permit from authorities to indemnify individuals when a predetermined event occurs and leads to a financial loss.
An individual approaches an insurance company asking to be cushioned from financial losses.
There is contractual agreement between a client and an insurance firm enforced by signing a policy document.
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insurance companies collect premiums from several policy holders, and puts them in a fund. Then financial managers allocate the financial resources in to a fund.
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You'd rather delegate risk management to another party.
Risk exposures you might face are very large financially.
It is government decree to sought cheap insurance.
You work in a processing plant where you might get injured.
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Antique Apache beaded hide moccasins. CA 1870. The Apache moccasins of tanned deer hide with thick rawhide soles and yellow orche pigment. All sinew thread. Good condition. One of a kind. Measures 18" long and 4" wide.


A beautiful actual sunrise from Kenya overlooking calm waters sets this magnificent scenic postcard design. The back of the postcard continues a similar coordinating background gradient design and 2 columns for the announcement information and mailing address. You can remove the mailing address and use the entire back for the announcement, if desired.
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Whether delicious coffee, fine wine or premium lager is your tipple of choice, The Jury Room Café Bar provides the warm and convivial atmosphere in which you can relax enjoy your drink, pore over the daily or local newspaper or read from the large selection of books and journals that adorn its shelves. The Jury Room also houses a large selection of CDs that archive the many great musical performers who have played at The Dock since it's opening in 2005. These are for sale but if you would just like to listen, a member of staff will be happy to accommodate you.
Housed in the beautiful surroundings of the 19th Century Dock building The Jury Room is open from 10.30am to 3pm daily serving a range of delicious cakes, scones, teas & coffees the ideal place for elevenses, to meet friends or find quiet, warm refuge from the chaos of shopping!
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Red pepper salsa, guacamole and baked mozzarella cheese.
Excellent again. Can't fault it. great food and service. been 4 times and always the same.


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Have you ever wanted a card ASAP but didn't have one handy? Or have you ever wanted to make a card really fast but didn't want to cut a million pieces for mats, framing, whatever? This is where paper cut to card size comes in. People ask me why I buy 6x6 or to 8x8 paper. Not only is it the size you need, the graphics are also smaller so using the paper on cards and smaller scrapbooks is ideal. There are times when less is better.
I love DCWV papers. I go to Joanns and buy them in multiple packs. I fell in love with the Mariposa DCWV papers and I bought the 6.5" and 12x12 paper pack. The design was already "built-in" to the paper...all I had to do was add the embellishments. The design on this paper feels like a textured embossed pattern and is slick and glossy. The aqua leaves are also embossed but with glitter. The picture does not do this paper justice. I used Martha Stewart punches and SU punches. Also used was chalk ink pads to add color around the borders. The phrase "Believe" is embossed and is from Emma at Creative Time . I added butterflies I had in my stash. The ribbon was white but I used a Copic marker (the broad end) and colored it. That's what I love about Copics and Spectrum Noir pens...all you ever need is white ribbon and you can color it to whatever color you desire. At the bottom I used 7ml Sookwang double-stick tape and added Elizabeth Craft Glitter Ritz in copper.
I took the same basic image but changed the punch design on the bottom and took away the ribbon and glitter. Sometimes the look of clean and simple is best. These cards took less than 10 minutes each to make. Make a whole bunch of this type of card so when you need something quick, just pull out the oval pattern and write your sentiment for any occasion.
Today's lesson: Look close at the paper or cardstock you are going to be using. If there is a pattern on it (even if your paper is 12x12), turn your paper in all directions and find the design you would like to use and use it as your focal point or as a background design. There are times you can cut out the design from the paper to make it happen for you. So many ways to scrapbook and make cards....so little time!!
Just a head's up....next Friday is our Lady Anne's Friday Sentiment Challenge! Please do not forget and enter to win a fabulous prize! Good luck everyone!
I will be on a two week cruise to the islands of Hawaii starting tomorrow (I know, how sad this is.. :) as I try to recuperate from the ongoing ankle/foot surgery. I hope the Hawaiian sunsets and beautiful beaches can clear my head and give me a more positive attitude. I don't know if I have the time to post, however, when I get home I will be putting up some of my better photographs. You know I will be very busy scrapbooking my trip!
Beautiful cards, Marie. Have a great time on your trip. I'm green with envy.