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Sir Nicholas Bacon (c. 1622–1687) was a Tory M.P. for Ipswich, between 16 March 1685 and his death in 1687. He served with Sir John Barker.

He was the son of Nicholas Bacon of Shrubland Hall, Suffolk,  and his wife Martha Bingham. His father was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge before being admitted to Gray's Inn.

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After registering the worst month since October 2020, the Dow Jones Industrial Average staged a strong comeback to start the new month. This is especially true as the blue-chip index logged in its best week since June, gaining 1.2%.
The Senate voted to temporarily increase the debt ceiling, breaking a prolonged stalemate that rattled the markets in recent weeks. Easing concerns about the U.S. debt ceiling have supported the markets. Optimism over the earnings season, which will kick start this week, has also bolstered investors' confidence (read: Ride Out the Volatile October Month With These ETFs).
Although Q3 earnings growth is expected to decelerate significantly from the first half's breakneck pace, the earnings picture remains strong. Total S&P 500 earnings are expected to be up 26.1% from the same period last year on 14% higher revenues. The earnings projection reflects the same growth expected at the start of Q3 despite the rising cost pressures amid supply-chain disruptions and labor/material shortages. This would follow the 95.0% earnings growth on 25.3% higher revenues in Q2.
Of the 16 Zacks sectors, 14 are expected to earn more relative to the year-ago quarter as autos and utilities are expected to report a decline in earnings.
Given the strong earnings trend, SPDR Dow Jones Industrial Average ETF Trust (
DIA - Free Report) , which tracks the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index, is in the spotlight.
DIA in Focus
This is one of the largest and most-popular ETFs in the large-cap space with AUM of $29 billion and an average daily volume of 3.9 million shares. Holding 30 blue-chip stocks, the fund is widely spread across components with each holding less than 7.8% share. Information technology (22.6%), financials (16.9%), healthcare (16.2%), industrials (15.5%), and consumer discretionary (14%) are the top five sectors. DIA charges 16 bps in annual fees and has a Zacks ETF Rank #2 (Buy) with a Medium risk.
Nearly one-fourth of the blue-chip firms are expected to announce results this week and in the next. Goldman (
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JPM - Free Report) are expected to report on Oct 13 while UnitedHealth (
UNH - Free Report) will announce earnings on Oct 14. International Business Machines (
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JNJ - Free Report) is expected to release earnings on Oct 19. Intel (
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Let's delve deeper into the second-quarter earnings picture that will likely aid the fund in the coming days.
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According to our methodology, the combination of a positive Earnings ESP and a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy), 2 or 3 (Hold) increases the chances of an earnings beat. You can uncover the best stocks to buy or sell before they're reported with our Earnings ESP Filter.
Goldman has a Zacks Rank #3 and an Earnings ESP of 0.00%. The company witnessed positive earnings estimate revision of 31 cents over the past seven days for the yet-to-be-reported quarter. Analysts raising estimates right before earnings — with the most up-to-date information possible — is a good indicator for the stock. Goldman's earnings surprise track over the preceding four quarters has also been robust, the average beat being 72%. The stock has a VGM Score of A.
JPMorgan has a Zacks Rank #3 and Earnings ESP of +0.60%. The company saw positive earnings estimate revision of 3 cents over the past seven days for the to-be-reported quarter. It delivered an average surprise of 33.27% in the last four quarters. The stock has a VGM Score of B (read: How Will Bank ETFs Fare This Earnings Season?).
UnitedHealth has a Zacks Rank #2 and an Earnings ESP of +1.95%. The stock witnessed positive earnings estimate revision of a penny over the past 30 days for the to-be-reported quarter and delivered an earnings surprise of 12.49%, on average, over the last four quarters. It has a VGM Score of B.
International Business Machines has a Zacks Rank #4 and an Earnings ESP of +1.73%. It saw negative earnings estimate revision of a penny in the past 30 days for the to-be-reported quarter. The company came up with a beat in each of the last four quarters, the average being 6.76%. It has a VGM Score of B.
Johnson & Johnson has a Zacks Rank #4 and an Earnings ESP of +6.20%. The company witnessed negative earnings estimate revision of a penny over the past seven days for the yet-to-be-reported quarter. It's earnings surprise track over the preceding four quarters has also been robust, with the average beat being 8.55%. The stock has a VGM Score of B.
Intel has a Zacks Rank #4 and an Earnings ESP of -0.62%. The stock witnessed no earnings estimate revision over the past 30 days for the soon-to-be-reported quarter and delivered an earnings surprise of 20.18%, on average, over the last four quarters. It has a VGM Score of A (read: Semiconductor ETFs Soaring to New Heights).
Dow has a Zacks Rank #2 and an Earnings ESP of 0.00%. It saw negative earnings estimate revision of a penny over the past seven days for the to-be-reported quarter. The company came up with a beat in each of the last four quarters, the average being 25.56%. It has a VGM Score of A.
With some of the blue-chip companies expected to report an earnings surprise, investors should closely monitor the movement of the Dow ETF and grab an opportunity that arises from a surge in any of the 30 stocks.
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Q: Android getting EditText content from other Thread In my problem, I have my MainActivity, with a TextView and EditText, and a method, which should send out messages to the TextView and receive the content of an EditText. The problem is receiving text from the EditText, and making this method wait for the user input
I'll try to post my cropped code so you will gain some knowledge about what I am trying to achieve.
public class MainActivity extends Activity {

public class MonitorObject{
}
final MonitorObject mSync = new MonitorObject();
private TextView mConsoleOut;
private EditText mInputLine;
public String inputString;
public synchronized String getInputString(String value){this.inputString = value; return inputString;}

IOHandler IOhandler;

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

    mConsoleOut = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.consoleOut);
    mInputLine = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.actionInField);

    EditText editText = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.actionInField);
    editText.setOnEditorActionListener(new TextView.OnEditorActionListener() {
        @Override
        public boolean onEditorAction(TextView v, int actionId, KeyEvent event) {
            synchronized (mSync){
                mSync.notify();
            }
            return true;
        }
    });
    GameCycle gameCycle = new GameCycle();
    Thread gameloop = new Thread(gameCycle);
    gameloop.start();
}

public class GameCycle implements Runnable{
    public void run(){
        game();
    }
}

public void game(){
findViewById(R.id.actionInField);
    Integer time=0;
    PlayerClass p1 = new PlayerClass(1,4);
    TileClass tile = new TileClass.Forest();
    Integer gamestate=0;

    while(gamestate==0){
        time++;
        tile.initialize_tilesettings(time, p1);
        tile.passed=true;
        List actionResponse=new ArrayList(Arrays.asList("repeat", "type", "returnval"));

        while(gamestate==0 && !actionResponse.get(1).equals("tileChange")){

            actionResponse=Arrays.asList("repeat", "type", "returnval");
            Boolean tileActions = true;

            while(!actionResponse.get(0).equals("continue")){
                //actions to be repeated

                String exe=null;

                tileActions=true;

                List<String> params = new ArrayList<>();

                <<<<<print>>>>>("\nWhat will you do?");

                synchronized (mSync){
                    try {
                        mSync.wait();
                    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
                        e.printStackTrace();
                    }
                }

                <<<<<getinput>>>>>String inp=returnInputString();
                String[] splitIn=inp.split(" ");

                for(String text:splitIn){
                    params.add(text.toLowerCase());
                }

                for(ActionClass action:p1.getActions()){
                    if(action.method.contains(params.get(0))){
                        exe=action.method;
                    }
                }

                if(exe==null){
                    <<<<<print>>>>>("Not a valid action");

                    actionResponse=Arrays.asList("repeat","","");
                }
                else{
                    try{
                        actionResponse=p1.excecFunctionByTag(exe, Arrays.asList(p1, tile, params));
                        if(actionResponse==null){
                            throw new RuntimeException();
                        }
                    }
                    catch (Exception e){
                        for(ActionClass action:p1.getActions()){
                            if(exe.equals(action.method)){
                                String actionEnt=action.actionEntry;
                                <<<<<print>>>>>("\nInvalid parameters, try: "+actionEnt);
                                actionResponse=Arrays.asList("repeat","","");
                            }
                        }
                    }
                    return;
                }

            }
        }
        if(gamestate==1){
            <<<<<print>>>>>('You died! Game over!\n\n<-<-< New Game >->->\n\n')
            game();
        }
        else if(gamestate==2){
            <<<<<print>>>>>("You have defeated the boss! Behind the fallen enemy you can see a path. You follow it and find a small village. You are safe!\n\n<-<-< New Game >->->\n\n")
            game();
        }
    }
}

I have marked the required input/output methods with <<<<< >>>>>.
Have mercy with my java skills, since this is my first large project in java and the whole structure is converted from python.
Again, all help is greatly appreciated.

A: The problem is simple that normally threads don't notify back to the ui or the main thread. And to solve this issue android has AsyncTask. You can use AsyncTask as:

*

*Initiate your TextView and EditText in onPreExecute() method.

*Send or call your methods to send what so ever text you want in doInBackground() method.

*You will then get the result in onPostExecute() method. Here you can setText() to your EditText.

Note: AsyncTask is a thread that contact backs to the main ui thread, for which it has this onPostExecute() method.
For better understanding of AsyncTask check this link:
http://www.androidhive.info/2012/01/android-json-parsing-tutorial/

A: Okay, so as far I understand from your question, You want to get some text from UI (which is handled by UIThread), process it on a worker thread and post the resultant text in a TextView again in UI (UIThread).
This is how I would do it in MainActivity:
 final String line = editText.getText().toString();
// This Handler is associated with our UI thread as it is initialized here and will handle communication with Worker thread.
        uiHandler = new Handler();
        worker = new Worker();
        worker.start();
        worker.doWork(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                // processing 'line' here and posting back
                 // result to your textView.
               // UI thread's handler is used to communicate our results back.
                 uiHandler.post(new Runnable() {
                            @Override
                            public void run() {
                                textView.setText(result);
                            }
                        });
            }
    });

and finally, the Worker thread class :
/* A worker thread for offloading heavy work so as to keep UI thread responsive
* and smooth */

public class Worker extends HandlerThread {
    public final String NAME = "Worker";
    private Handler handler;

    public Worker() {
        super("Worker", HandlerThread.NORM_PRIORITY);
    }

    public void prepareHandler() {
        handler = new Handler(getLooper());
    }

    // do some work in background
    public void doWork(Runnable someWork) {
        prepareHandler();
        handler.post(someWork);
    }
}

I hope this helps someone. Happy coding!

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1. Neighborhood friends. Let's face it. My forever friends are the people who were my very first neighbors; people I met when I was three. I love them just as much as I did when we were running around playing kick the can after school. The neighborhood we moved from four years ago gave us a multitude of grown-up friends. Even though we live where-ever we do now, many of us are still close. We were all the same age, we all had children that went to school together and we all were struggling with the same issues (paying the bills, working multiple jobs, fitting in). It was a very pleasant place to grow our family. I'm grateful I was allowed to have the experience of getting to know so many great people. I'm equally grateful that my daughter made her forever friends in the same neighborhood.
2. First BBQ of Spring. We were invited by two of our best friends to a BBQ on Saturday. They are also friends from our old neighborhood and I adore them. Our spouses get along, our kids get along... I don't know how we got so lucky. I'm grateful that we were able to stuff ourselves silly with all things-grilled, laugh about nothing in particular and watch our children do the same. That friendship is such a gift.
3. Peel and Stick Flooring. You know how we've been working on the bathroom downstairs and that it hasn't been one of our favorite re-dos. It mostly had to do with how scared we were to see the water damage that had taken place over who-knows-how-long. What began as a paint-job, quickly became a huge overhaul to find and fix a leak. Everything with any capacity to be water-damaged had to be thrown out. The cabinet was soggy, the floor had curled up and there was more grossness than I care to mention on a Sunday. Thank goodness we found the problem (equally gross). We couldn't put down carpet or lay wood in the basement, so went with this really cool flooring from Home Depot. It wasn't too pricy and it looks like wood, except that it's not. It's this peel and stick stuff that you lay like stickers to the floor. The pieces overlap so the floor kind of "floats". The best part of this pseudo-linoleum is that it is highly water resistant and comes with a 25 year warranty. I do believe it will outlast me. Thank you, Big Orange Box Store.
4. My house. I sometimes am afraid of the outside world. I don't enjoy shopping on Saturdays or going to movie premiers that are practically sold-out. I am just as happy sitting with my family in this aging old brick haven. Scares like we had with the bathroom remind me again how easily something can be taken away. I had nightmares of black mold and sagging support beams; of wet concrete or cracked sub floors. We do not live in a cookie-cutter house. We do not live in a McMansion, or anything resembling "new or shiny."It's an old house with aluminum wiring that badly needs a new roof and windows that don't whistle when the wind blows. I write lots of blog posts on the different ways we try to fix it up, I know. It has great bones and was built by people we loved. People who aren't alive anymore; people I talk to when I'm repairing something. "Oh 'so-and-so, ' Why did you choose to put the wall here and why isn't it square?" or "Hey, 'so-and-so', Make sure I don't get electrocuted when I touch this wire..." It goes on and on. The point is, I genuinely love this house; as much as you can love something that doesn't breathe. I know like everything else, that it might not be standing forever. We live in a time of economic uncertainty..We live on a fault line and/or I run too many appliances all at once... But for now, I put my babies to sleep every night in this home. I read novels in its corners. I watch the sun stream in when it's cold outside from the living room windows. I create down in that silly craft room and sometimes, I cook in its kitchen... I will never take any of it for granted.
5. At this very minute, I am grateful for my five senses. I'm looking at this screen and feeling the keys as I click out all of my rambling thoughts. I can hear the whoosh of "light sabers" and smell buttery microwave popcorn. I am upstairs in my room and the man and our youngest are enjoying some episode of "Star Wars" down in the living room.
It is Sunday night, and all is well.
Have a wonderful evening, friends.
I love how you put my thoughts into words. Amen, sista!
I echo you on all five - we are very lucky to have all these great people, events and things in our life.
Also, we weren't watching just some episode of Star Wars. No, it was the world premier of Star Wars Episode 8, acted, directed and recorded by our youngest with the help of Legos and an iMac. I burned the file he created on a DVD for him. I gave him a case for the DVD and he even made his own cover art. He is very creative, just like his siblings - they all must get it from their mother.
We are very thankful as well, it's always nice to get together. Glad that your bathroom is coming along.


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Jets get bounces, survive Wildcats in CTCI consolation
Joel H. Edwards / Special to The Courier-Tribune
Dec 29, 2017 at 10:25 PM Dec 29, 2017 at 10:29 PM
ASHEBORO — Seth Moore hit a 3-pointer with 48 seconds remaining to give Jordan-Matthews the lead for good in a 54-52 win over Eastern Randolph Friday in the consolation round of the 27th annual The Courier-Tribune Christmas Invitational at Asheboro High School.
Eastern Randolph will play Providence Grove on Saturday at 1 p.m. in the seventh-place game, while Jordan-Matthews will play Trinity at 2:30 p.m. for fifth place.
"We've had a lot of close games," J-M head coach Rodney Wiley said. "We told them to keep hanging in there and eventually the ball's going to bounce our way, and today it did a couple times."
After the Jets tied the game at 44-all with a pair of free throws from Camden Fuquary with 3:46 left in the game, ER went received back-to-back baskets from Stephan Jones and another field goal from Landon Collins to take a 50-44 advantage with 2:15 to go.
Jordan-Matthews fought right back when Cortez Waden scored and was fouled with 1:53 remaining, giving him a chance for a three-point play. He missed the free throw, but the Jets came away with the offensive rebound. They quickly worked the ball around the perimeter, finding Fuquary for a 3-pointer from the wing that cut the margin to 50-49 with 1:42 to go.
ER's Braxton Luther missed the front end of a one-and-one
with 1:28 left. The Jets pushed the ball after gaining the rebound, setting up Alex Cotton
for a driving lay-up and a 52-51 J-M lead with 1:21 left.
Jones hit the second of two free throws to even the game up at 51-all with just over a minute remaining, but J-M answered again, finding Moore in the corner for a 3-pointer with 48 seconds left and a 54-51 lead.
The Jets had chances to extend the lead, but Cotton and Fuquary each missed a pair of free throws. ER's Luther got off a contested 3-point attempt that was just off the mark. Kody Wilder grabbed the loose ball and put up a desperation attempt that was partially blocked, but a foul was called on Fuquary.
Five-tenths of a second was put back on the clock, giving
ER one final opportunity. Wilder hit the first free throw before missing the second shot on purpose. However, that shot missed the rim, which gave the ball to the Jets. After a timeout, J-M was able to inbound the ball to end the game.
Moore hit four 3-pointers on the way to a game-high 16 points, with Fuquary and Jayquan Artis adding 12 points each. ER was led by Luther with 12 points, while both Andre King and Jones hit double-digits with 10 points apiece.
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10 Memorable Moments to Mark the 11th Anniversary of Guiding Light's Final Episode
Matt Purvis
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Remembering the end of the long run of a soap opera giant.
September 18th marks the eleventh anniversary of when the legendary soap opera Guiding Light aired its final episode. Among the only soaps to survive and thrive with the transition from radio to television, Guiding Light proved to be one of the longest-running soap operas in history. In its 72 year span, it lasted 15 years on radio and 57 on television. Not only did it survive this jump in medium, but it also managed to keep afloat on the waves of the major changes in daytime itself, bravely experimenting in ways that other shows often wouldn't. The shifting series of writers and producers who created the show over its many decades always proved that it was as relevant and innovative as any newcomer. In practice, this meant competing for domestic drama, business brutality as well as outlandish tales of time travel and the princely storybook romance of San Cristobal.
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Launched in 1937 by soap opera pioneer Irna Phillips with Emmons Carlson, the series took its name from the lamp of Rev. Dr. John Ruthledge, a clergyman in a Chicago suburb who sermonized for justice. This original image would subsequently be transformed into the lighthouse that became the show's logo and one of its primary mythical reference points. While still on the radio, the series built up a complex set of relationships between Ruthledge and his cynical rhetorical enemy Ellis Smith. Their opinions of humanity were frequently challenged by the increasingly scandalous behavior in the parish. By the 1950s, the reverend was dead, and their moral debates were transformed into the show's controversial tales of death, crime, hypocrisy, and sickness. And with the 1950s, the show made its leap into TV with 15 minute episodes. With each coming decade, the series would introduce another generation of characters for a new generation of viewers to grow up with.
The soap opera innovated with its use of exotic location shooting – including in Saint Lucia, Puerto Rico, Florida, and parts of the Caribbean – and with the more experimental and raw digital camerawork of its final year. It also worked to showcase actors in unusual ways, controversially providing episodes dedicated to specific characters and episodes about a special event like the blackout, the meeting of Phillip Spaulding's (Grant Aleksander) many ex-wives, or an episode dealing with male characters. Perhaps its most remarkable standalone episode involved its then-current cast re-creating the early days of the soap's history on the radio to honor its seventieth anniversary. Early on, it had also been especially inventive in getting its fans to vote on the criminal case of Meta Bauer (Jone Allison), who killed her husband Ted in 1950. Although she was obviously guilty, the fans liked her enough to acquit her.
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Since its move to TV, the series kept up at least a few of its core families, most notably the Bauers who generally staffed the local hospital. If they provided the flawed moral center for the show, the other families that circulated in the town created significantly more friction. This included the often-mercenary and wealthy Spaulding family as well as the complex villain Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow). Over the years, the canvas introduced other families into the mix, including the Cooper family, the Reardons, Chamberlains, and Lewises.
With decades of rich and complex stories to choose from, it was hard to settle on just a few fleeting instances, but take a look at our gallery of ten memorable moments from Springfield history and share your memories of the soap below. Get the soap news, spoilers and interviews in your inbox daily with Soaps.com's newsletter.
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Longtime stalwart cast member Charita Bauer died in 1985. Her death was integrated into that of her character, Bertha 'Bert', matriarch of the Bauer clan. While perhaps not the most dramatic of moments, it registered strongly with longtime viewers, reminding them of the depth with which their lives were connected to the series and its long history.

In June 1976, Leslie Jackson Bauer (Lynne Adams) was killed off when she was run down by a drunk driver. Another seemingly random accident, it was particularly surprising since the young character was so popular.

In spite of their extraordinary wealth, the Spaulding family was rarely functional either in business or in their private dealings. Although the history of the family is littered with double-dealing and betrayal, one of the more surprising moments came when Alan (Christopher Bernau) was about to confess to his son Philip (Grant Aleksander), that he was not really his father. Before that could happen, Bradley (James Rebhorn) shocked Phillip by telling him that he was actually a Marler. Paternity panics would haunt the rest of Phillip's life.

Guiding Light shocked audiences again by featuring the first marital rape story on daytime. Although Roger Thorpe (Michael Zaslow) had raped Rita Stapleton (Lenore Kasdorf) only a few months before, his rape of his wife Holly (Maureen Garrett) on March 5, 1979 left even more viewers unsettled thanks to its disturbing graphicness.

Fans were appalled when Maureen Reardon Bauer died (Ellen Parker, Ellen Dolan) in a car crash on January 11, 1993. Most shocking of all was its random quality. Maureen had recently discovered that her husband Ed (Peter Simon) was having an affair with her best friend Lillian Raines (Tina Sloan). When he attempted to sort things out with her, she drove away in a fury and crashed her car.

Reva Shayne (Kim Zimmer) left one of her first major impressions on audiences by leaping into a fountain. But this would only be the start of many memorable watery moments, including plummeting to her apparent death by suicide. In one of the more treasured incidents, she and Josh (Robert Newman) had the first of their many weddings at Cross Creek, with her making a grand entrance by boat.

Annie Dutton (Cynthia Watros, Signy Coleman) rarely had a bad scene and her villainous plots included everything from attempted murder to kidnapping Lizzie Spaulding and drugging Josh. But the severely mentally unstable nurse and her frequent bouts of pill-popping and boozing hit a special peak during her wedding to Alan when her secrets were revealed. She was promptly hauled off by the cops, but quickly escaped by knocking out the guard and setting her mattress on fire.

Although many may want to, few viewers would be able to forget that time that Josh cloned Reva. In January 1998, Bethany Joy Lenz began to appear as the cloned Reva, now a mischievous teenager. While the clone had been introduced as a baby, it wasn't until her leap into burgeoning maturity that the extent of the show's leap over the shark took full effect.

In a convoluted plot twist that would be used by several soaps, Blake Marler (Elizabeth Keifer) wound up getting pregnant with twins, each from a different father. Etched even more in the minds of the viewers however was the brutal confrontation between the fathers, Ross Marler (Jerry verDorn) and Rick Bauer (Michael O'Leary) which included Ross spitting in his rival's face. In the end it turned out that Ross was the father of both.

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Reva's son Jonathan (Tom Pelphrey) quickly made a name for himself as even more of an emotional powder keg than this mother. His persistent emotional outbursts won the actor several Daytime Emmys, but probably no scene registered more in the minds of viewers than his emotional collapse following the death of his lover Tammy (Stephanie Gatschet), which included him climbing on top of her corpse at Cedars Hospital.

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Journal of Materials Research
Titanium oxide nanotube arrays prepared by anodic oxidation
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 January 2011
Dawei Gong ,
Craig A. Grimes ,
Oomman K. Varghese ,
Wenchong Hu ,
R. S. Singh ,
Zhi Chen and
Elizabeth C. Dickey
Dawei Gong
Department of Electrical Engineering and Materials Research Institute, 208 Materials Research Laboratory, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Craig A. Grimes
Oomman K. Varghese
Wenchong Hu
Departments of Material Science and Engineering, and Electrical Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
R. S. Singh
Zhi Chen
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802
Titanium oxide nanotubes were fabricated by anodic oxidation of a pure titanium sheet in an aqueous solution containing 0.5 to 3.5 wt% hydrofluoric acid. These tubes are well aligned and organized into high-density uniform arrays. While the tops of the tubes are open, the bottoms of the tubes are closed, forming a barrier layer structure similar to that of porous alumina. The average tube diameter, ranging in size from 25 to 65 nm, was found to increase with increasing anodizing voltage, while the length of the tube was found independent of anodization time. A possible growth mechanism is presented.
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When Your Cat Refuses to Be (Litter) Boxed In
A cat behaviorist explains why they are so particular about where they pop a squat.
by Jodi Helmer
Generally, cats can teach dogs a thing or two about doing their business. If you let them, a dog will walk right past a tree to lift their leg on your neighbor's car rims, then strategically poop at the bottom of another one's stoop. Besides the fact that cats can be trained to use a human toilet (a story for another time), these diminutive geniuses will politely regulate their BMs to a litter box — that is, until they won't.
Much like us in our bathrooms, it turns out there's a lot more going on in a litter box than numbers one and two. From playing in it to guarding it, most of these behaviors are harmless enough. But avoiding the litter box altogether? Not cool, kitty. We caught up with Dr. Niwako Ogata, BVSc, PhD, DACVB, and director of the Purdue Animal Behavior Clinic at Purdue University, to get the scoop on why this happens and what you can do about it.
Change is bad
Okay, change is good but don't expect your cat to be down with it. Many pet owners believe their animals spite pee and revenge poop to show their disapproval for something, i.e. losing sleeping in bed privileges thanks to a new partner. The argument can be very convincing, especially when they seek out your pillow when there are umpteen less gross, but equally rude, locations to stage a protest. But Ogata says anxiety is more likely to blame when a cat won't use the litter box, and adds that cats are notoriously fussy creatures that may react to the slightest change in their environment, even just a new type of litter.
The grass is always greener…or the rug softer. Maybe it's the downy material or the absorbency or how it's just so nice to knead. The jury's out as to why many cats prefer rugs to litter boxes but if yours is guilty, either limit their access to the room with the rug in question or spray it with a sour-smelling deterrent. Another favorite place to 'go' — which admittedly makes more sense — is in a potted plant, where they can bury their business. If your cat has abandoned the litter box (or never attempted to use it in the first place) consider where it is located. Ogata recommends a quiet, private area that's easily accessible and far from their food and water bowls — but not so far that it shares the basement with a scalding furnace or the laundry room with loud, clanking machines.
Most cats prefer larger litter boxes and litter made from small, clay granules (as opposed to silica or wood pellets). Some may care not for privacy and avoid litter boxes with lids. Ogata also says that you should pass on litter boxes disguised as household objects like side tables and ceramic pots. They are purely aesthetic — something your cat will not appreciate (and then will proceed to poop under the bed). She adds that "an open shape is better." We think open concept spaces are cool, too.
"If there is a sudden change in litter box habits, make an appointment with the vet to rule out medical causes," says Ogata. Cats can get UTIs, too, which causes pain when they pee. They could assume that the litter box has something to do with it and associate pain with it. Climbing into and out of a litter box could also present a challenge to an aging, arthritic cat.
Private and guest baths
If you have multiple cats, it follows that you have multiple litter boxes — you should, anyway. Ogata suggests one litter box per cat, plus one extra. So, two cats equal three litter boxes? That's right. It's not that your cats are divas; it's just in their nature to be territorial. "In multi-cat households, cats can be bullies and the aggressor can block access to the litter box," she explains. Observe your kitties and place litter boxes where each one likes to spend time — the farther apart, the better.
Your cat feels about a dirty litter box the way you do about a dive bar's restroom. The sight or scent of poop will send them running in the opposite direction. "The most important thing to a cat is the cleanliness and smell of a litter box," says Ogata. "A spot that is wet, dirty, or smelly will deter them from going back." And if they are well trained, they will hold it, which can cause bladder and kidney issues. If you've been eyeing automatic litter boxes, you may need to think twice. The unexpected motor noise or motion can startle sensitive cats. Get into the habit of scooping out the litter box at least once a day. Set an alarm on your phone as a reminder! Your cat will thank you by pooping where they are supposed to.
Jodi Helmer
Jodi Helmer is a North Carolina-based freelance writer who shares her home with an embarrassing number of rescue dogs and relies on four feral cats to patrol the barn. When she isn't refilling food and water dishes, Jodi writes about animals for Scientific American, Sierra, WebMD, AKC Family Dog, Living the Country Life, and Out Here.
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Merir, or Melieli, is a small outlying island of the Palau group, in the western Pacific Ocean. The island has an area of  and is very long and narrow, stretching approximately  from north to south but only approximately  at its widest point. It is uninhabited. An abandoned village which previously hosted a radio station lies in the northwest part of the island.

The island itself is covered with trees but it is surrounded by a beach around which is a lagoon. Outside this, the whole is surrounded by a coral reef and the open ocean.

Together with the islands of Sonsorol and Fana, which are  to the northwest, and the island of Pulo Anna  away, Merir forms the state of Sonsorol in the Republic of Palau.

The first recorded sighting of Merir by Europeans was by the Spanish missionary expedition commanded by Sargento Mayor Francisco Padilla on board of the patache Santísima Trinidad in November 1710.

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Travel operators are expecting high demand for Greece in summer 2012. One cruise operator has already seen an 80% jump in bookings for Greek itineraries, according to travel industry magazine Travel Weekly. Fotis Lambrianides, Commercial Director of Olympic Airways, says the airline has seen a significant increase in flight bookings already, for next summer, up 10% compared to last year.


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Bitcoin auction raises funds for French government
The coins were seized as part of an investigation
A picture taken on February 6, 2018 shows a visual representation of the digital crypto-currency Bitcoin. AFP
Soraya Ebrahimi
Governments might look askance at bitcoin, but it does not mean they do not want to cash in on its soaring value and France is set to pocket nearly $30 million from its first action of the cryptocurrency, a minister said on Wednesday.
The sale was of 600-plus coins seized as part of an investigation and were valued at more than $30 million based on current market prices.
Held online by the Kapandji Morhange auction house, the sale attracted nearly 1,600 bidders.
India to propose law banning cryptocurrencies
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Tesla's Elon Musk to sell a techno track as NFT
"It's a sale that will raise 24 million euros ($29 million) in proceeds for the government", the minister of public finances, Olivier Dussopt, told the television channel, BFM Business, at the end of the auction.
When preparations got under way in September, bitcoin was trading around $10,000, far from the $60,000 it struck over the weekend, putting the sale of 611 coins in an altogether different league.
When bidding began at 9am (8am GMT), the starting price stood at 23,250 euros per coin, but most of the coins sold for around 40,000 euros apiece, more or less in line with the current market price, minus exchange rates and commission.
Although bitcoin has often been accused of being a speculative asset and a means for criminals to move and launder money, the cryptocurrency has seen its value soar in recent months as more mainstream companies, such as Tesla and hedge fund BlackRock, get behind it.
No information has been disclosed about the provenance of the bitcoins as the legal process is under way.
If the defendant wins, they'll receive the funds from the auction minus commissions paid to the auction house.
Otherwise, the French state will pocket any money not awarded by the court to victims or charity.
France is far from the first to auction cryptocurrencies, with the US doing so in 2014, followed by Canada, Australia, Belgium and Britain, according to the auction house.


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Stace Budzko has been published and/or anthologized in New Micro Anthology, Great Jones Street, Fiction Attic Press Anthology, Southeast Review, Inch, The Journal of Compressed Arts, Blip, Quiddity, Versal, Bridport Prize Anthology, Upstreet, Necessary Fiction, Prime Number, Norton Anthology of Hint Fiction, Press 53, PANK, Hobart, elimae, The Los Angeles Review, Night Train, The Collagist, Rose Metal Press Field Guide to Flash Fiction, Flash Fiction Forward, Brevity & Echo and elsewhere. The screen adaptations of his stories, "How to Set a House on Fire," "North End, 2010" and "Why I Don't Keep a Daily Planner" have garnered numerous honors and awards as well as art and festival showcases. At present, he teaches at UC Berkeley.
Stace Budzko has been teaching, editing, and consulting for 15+ years.
STORIES (ONLINE)
New Micro Anthology: "How to Set a House on Fire" (Summer 2018)
Great Jones Street "North End, 2010," "Blades," "Why We Will Always Love You, Vera Knightville," "Suppose" (Spring 2017)
Buzzfeed "Why I Don't Keep a Daily Planner" (Winter 2014)
Matter Press "Writer/Teacher or: Protect Me From What I Want" (Fall 2013)
New World Writing "Why We Still Love You, Vera Knightville," "The Man in the Chair at the Kitchen Table," and "Suppose" (Summer 2012)
Drafthorse Journal "Mean, Mean Puppy" (Summer 2012)
Prime Number Magazine "Perfect: A Baseball Story" (Spring 2011)
Necessary Fiction "Are You Ready?" (Spring 2011)
Pank "Beautiful Retards" (Summer 2010)
elimae "It Takes One to Know One (Triptych)" (Spring 2010)
Snow Monkey "Space Monkey with Boo" (Spring 2010)
Hobart "Sad, Sad, Sad" (Winter 2010)
Postcard Shorts "Wish You Were Here" (Fall 2009)
Monkeybicycle "Give This to the Next Fool" (Fall 2009)
Night Train "Things Like This Drive Me Out of My Mind" (Fall 2009)
Itch "The Right Profile" (Fall 2009)
Long Story Short "Steady Hooves at Clear Skies" (Winter 2006)
SmokeLong Quarterly "Hands" (Fall 2006)
Carve Magazine Raymond Carver Short Story Award Finalist "La-Z-Boy" (Fall 2004)
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Journal of Compressed Creative Arts "Compression Statement" (Fall 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Short Sharp Shock: Plays on the Short Form in Prose & Verse" (Summer 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Say It Again: The Dylan Thomas Effect in Prose and Verse" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Bad News: What Happens While You're Busy Making Other Plans" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Cause/Effect: Possibility and Consequence in Story and Verse" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Ordinary Places: How Flannery O'Connor Will Guide You Home" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Words & Images: An Approach to Story Truth" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "The Anecdote: A Flash Fiction/Prose Poetry Conversation" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Object Lessons: Story Excursions in Prose & Verse" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Bad Behavior: A Larry David Moment" (Spring 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Multiple Tellings: A Question of Point of View" (Winter 2011)
Grub Street Daily "I Confess: Emotional Clarity in Story" (Winter 2011)
Grub Street Daily "The Triptych: New Story Form for Writers" (Winter 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Tell It Backward: Origins and Why They Matter" (Winter 2011)
Grub Street Daily "Flash Drama: Craft Essay from the Workshop" (Winter 2011)
Free Press "In Between Days: Craft Essay from the Workshop" (Summer 2010)
Free Press "Senses Working Overtime: Craft Essay From the Workshop" (Winter 2010)
Free Press "Banging With My Goonies: A Metafiction on Microfiction" (Fall 2007)
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Boston Book Festival "Lost in the Bookstore" Audio (Fall 2013)
Boston Book Festival "Jasmine LaRose Takes to the Streets" Audio (Fall 2012)
Vail Film Festival "Why I Don't Keep a Daily Planner" (Spring 2012)
Bridport Film Festival "North End, 2010" (forthcoming Spring 2012)
Columbia Art League "Why I Don't Keep a Daily Planner" Artist: Kate Gray (Summer 2011)
Bay Area Video Coalition "How To Set a House on Fire" Director: Henry Zaballos (Fall 2009)
The Review Review (Fall 2011)
The Los Angeles Review (Winter 2010)
Pank Magazine (Summer 2010)
Field Guide to Flash Fiction (Spring 2010)
The Collagist (Winter 2009)
Bridport Anthology "North End, 2010"
The Incredible Shrinking Story "Toothpick Churches"
Hint Fiction "Why I Don't Keep a Daily Planner"
What Doesn't Kill You "The Dangers in Diving"
Field Guide to Flash Fiction "Hanging Fire: A Meta-Narrative on Flash Fiction"
Hacks "Hands"
Flash Fiction Forward "How to Set a House on Fire"
Brevity & Echo "How to Set a House on Fire"
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Portland Monthly "I Like You 'Cause You Like Me"
Versal Journal "To Be Glad and Young"
Upstreet "The Brown Army"
The Los Angeles Review "Health & Beauty"
Quick Fiction "Chicken with Bicycles"
The Binnacle "Top of the Hour"
Diner "Indian Summer"
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Atypical Winterhalter at the Getty
The subject painting for this post isn't an early one, because Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805-1873) was about 38 years old when he painted it. But it (and one other of the same subject) has a different feeling that those made before and after.
The painting is "Portrait of Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn" (1843), described here on the J. Gaul Getty Museum web site.
And here is Winterhalter's Wikipedia entry. It mentions that he made a highly successful career as a court portraitist. One result, according to the entry, was that his work is difficult to categorize in terms of the various movements of his day. Another is that he was looked down upon by other artists.
Setting that aside, let's turn to Leonilla's portrait and a few other Winterhalters to provide context. Included are two photos I took in April at the Getty that you might want to click on to enlarge.
Elisabeth, Margravine of Baden - 1831
An early example of Wilterhalter's court paintings.
Queen Victoria - 1842
Painted a year before our subject painting.
Barbe Dmitrievna Mergasov, Madame Rimsky-Korsakov - 1864
One of Winterhalter's best-known works.
Sascha von Metzler - 1872
One of his last paintings.
Leonilla, Princess of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn - 1843
The subject painting as seen by my camera at the Getty.
Closer photo. Unlike the other examples of Winterhalter's work, this painting is hard-edge with slightly simplified forms hinting at the Art Deco / Moderne style of around 1930. His subject does not quite seem real.
Princess Leonilla of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn - 1840s
I found this image on the Web. It was dated vaguely as being from the 1840s, but appears to have been made about the same time as our subject. It, too, has the same stylistic spirit. However, the Wikipedia entry on Leonilla has it that its date was around 1836 and painted in Italy along with a portrait of her husband (that I could not find via a Google search). I'm doubtful regarding this claim, given the similarity in painting style and her hair style in both paintings, but could easily be mistaken. Also, I could find no photos of her in a brief Google search, so can offer no other evidence of Leonilla's appearance. She lived to be 101, by the way.
Labels: Painters, Portrait subjects
Alma-Tadema, Miniaturist
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema (1836-1912) was both popular and financially successful in his day. Then Victorian-era art went seriously out of fashion after his death. Times change, pendulums swing, and if your grandparents had sprung for one of his paintings in 1945 and willed it to you, it might be worth several -- perhaps even tens of -- millions today. More about him here.
About six years ago I wrote about Alma-Tadema and his 1894 painting "Spring" that is a public favorite at the Getty in Los Angeles. I visited the Getty again in April and took more photos of it and its details.
When seen in art books, his paintings tend to give the impression of being large. Some are, but many are surprisingly small. And some of his larger paintings contain many small elements. Such is the case with Spring. Below are a few detail photos I took. Click on them to enlarge.
This is an image of Spring found on the internet for general reference.
Here is my establishment photo. Spring is by no means Alma-Tadema's largest painting, but it isn't small. You can get a sense of its size by comparing it to the information plaque at the right. What is small are most of the people and related details pictured in the painting.
This segment is near the painting's center. It shows people in the background of the scene. Many of the heads are about one centimeter high, some even smaller.
The lower part of the painting, edges slightly cropped. Those flowers are a little larger than the letters in the plaque's caption text.
Closer, and slightly to the left of the previous image. On my desktop iMac, what's shown here appears about the same size as in Tadema's painting.
Bernd Steiner, Poster Artist with No Set Style
Bernd Steiner (1884-1933) was an Austrian illustrator and artist best known (though he is far from famous) for his posters. The only biographical information I could find on a quick Google search was this Wikipedia entry in German. The translation feature for once yielded a text that largely made sense in English. Unfortunately, the entry is brief. Basically, Steiner was an officer in the Austro-Hungarian army during the Great War and had his right hand (presumably the one he drew using) badly injured. Regardless, he was able to continue his career, and most of the images of his work on Google are post-war.
By the late 1920s he was living in Bremen, Germany, doing posters for the North German Lloyd steamship company and teaching art. But he returned to Austria, dying in Vienna aged 49.
As the title of this post indicates, Steiner had no recognizable style. On one hand, this meant he could stay current with changing illustration fads and fashions. On the other, this probably contributed to his lack of the fame that the likes of A.M. Cassandre and Ludwig Hohlwein attained in the poster field.
We begin with two examples of Steiner's painting. I don't have information of the first one, but the once immediately above is titled "Oberwölz" (1921).
Here are two posters using the same format from the early 1920s.
Another Vienna poster from the same period. I'm not sure what "Red Monday" refers to other than a name for the event being publicized -- presumably nothing political. The women emerging from a tomato plant is odd, yet interesting.
Postcard illustration.
North German Lloyd poster from around the mid-1920s advertising North Sea destinations.
Nice illustration of elegant first-class passengers heading to South America on Norddeutscher Lloyd steamer Sierra.
Norddeutscher Lloyd announced two very large, fast liners for the North Atlantic run via posters such as this.
Steiner is now using a simplified style fashionable around 1930. This poster advertises three spring sailings to the Mediterranean.
Another North German Lloyd "To South America" poster. This shows Rio in the background.
A polar sailing to Iceland, Spitzbergen and Norway on the "Stuttgart" steamer with two (!!) propellers -- I'm not sure why this fact was featured other than to suggest that the ship had some substance and was less likely to become immobilized if a singe propeller shaft went bad.
This poster is dated 1933, the year of Steiner's death. It features an Austrian lake along with an apparent shift in his style.
A Large Tiepolo at the Norton Simon
As I've mentioned before, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) is one of my favorite pre-19th century painters. I posted about his early works here, and about his female faces here. And here is his Wikipedia entry.
The Norton Simon museum in Pasadena, California collection includes a very large Tiepolo, "The Triumph of Virtue and Nobility Over Ignorance" (1740-50, perhaps 1743). Their web site mentions "This painting was designed for a ceiling in the Palazzo Manin in Venice. Virtue is dressed in white with a sun symbol on her breast. Beside her, Nobility holds a statuette of Minerva and a spear. To the left, Fame blows her trumpet. Below, the figure of Ignorance is being vanquished."
Even though it's a ceiling painting, it works fairly well when displayed on a Norton Simon wall. The main ceiling effect is that the depictions are made from a low point of view.
Typical of Tiepolo, Virtue is represented by the pouty blonde model found in many of his works.
A photo I took when visiting the museum in April. The information plaque seen towards the lower right serves as an indication of the scale of the painting.
A cropped image from another photo taken during my visit. Click to enlarge.
A Pre-Impressionist Renoir Painting
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) is known as a French Impressionist, but he wasn't always one. For example, I posted here about a time when he doubted Impressionism. This, and more about him and his art can be found in his Wikipedia entry.
So when I visited the Norton Simon museum in Pasadena, California in April I wasn't surprised by his 1867-68 vintage painting of the Pont des Arts, a footbridge over the Seine connecting the Louvre with the École des Beaux-Arts.
It's a comparatively early Renoir, before French Impressionists such as Claude Monet began using broken (or divisionist) color. The Norton Simon web site's blurb on the painting states; "Planted in the heart of Paris, we stand on the Left Bank of the Seine, looking upstream toward the wrought-iron Pont des Arts... The crisp shadows and liberally applied black are typical of Renoir's early career, when the artist and his friend Monet set out to document their changing city in a celebrated series of views to which this one belongs."
Monet is mentioned, but there also are hints of Édouard Manet in some of the nearly-flat color areas.
This is "On the Terrace" (1881), the sort of painting most folks associate with Renoir.
Here is Le Pont des Arts, Paris (1867-68), the painting I noticed at the Norton Simon.
What my camera saw: establishment shot.
A detail photo. Click to enlarge and inspect Renoir's brushwork.
Labels: Artists' early work, Painters
Some William James Aylward War Art
William James Aylward (1875-1956) was an illustrator who specialized in maritime subjects. That didn't mean he couldn't do other things, and he was selected to become one of a small group of war artists send to France to depict activities of the AEF (American Expeditionary Force). I wrote about him here, and a link with biographical information and examples of his work is here.
David Apatoff at his Illustration Art blog has a series of posts dealing with a Smithsonian exhibit of work done by those artists, including Aylward (one of these posts is here).
I hopped over to his link to the exhibit (here), and selected some examples of Aylward's 1918 work to show below.
Troops Waiting to Advance at Hattonchâtel - St. Mihiel Drive - 1918
The St. Mihiel Salient was a longstanding German bulge on the Western Front. Its eradication was one of the more important tasks assigned to the AEF in September, 1918.
On the Trail of the Hun - St. Mihiel Drive - 1918
Note the peaceful French countryside in the background. It's not clear if this was land behind AEF lines before the attack or some distance north or northeast following the collapse of the salient.
Street Barricade at Château-Thierry - 1918
One of Erich Ludendorff's 1918 offensives thrust the German army across the Marne River at Château-Thierry, a city where a battle was fought. Aylward's illustration was probably made after the Germans were pushed back.
American Troops Supply Train - 1918
Clearing Out the Road through Mont St. Père - 1918
Mont Saint Père is about four miles up the Marne from Château-Thierry, so again this was made after the failure of Ludendorff's offensive. I think it is a very nice work.
August Macke: Restrained Modernist
August Macke (1887-1914) was a modernist painter and founding member of the short-lived Blue Rider (Der Blaue Reiter) group of painters. His Wikipedia entry is here, and an assessment of his life and work is here.
It is impossible to be sure what stylistic path Macke would have followed had he lived a normal life span, because he died age 27 in combat as the Western Front was forming in the aftermath of Germany's defeat in the Battle of the Marne.
As the title of this post indicates, my take on Macke is that he had too much regard for real world appearances to get fully sucked into the modernist "isms" of the early 20th century. Whether this restraint would have continued beyond 1914 is anyone's guess. My opinion is that he was one of the most likable modernist German painters of his time.
August Macke and Elisabeth Gerhard in Bonn, 1908
Macke appears to be wearing his army uniform, which dates this photo in October 1908 or later, as that was the month he began his required service. Elisabeth, who he married in 1910, is the subject of three images below.
Self-Portrait - 1909
Elisabeth Gerhard - 1909
Portrait with Apples (Elisabeth Gerhard) - 1909
Elisabeth Reading
A more modernist version of Elisabeth but, as usual, a restrained Modernism.
Ansicht vom Tegernsee - 1910
A landscape without Fauvist coloring.
Marienkirche mit Häusern und Schornstein - 1911
A scene in Bonn.
Indians on Horses
A painting from Macke's imagination. Wild West adventure stories were popular in Wilhelmine Germany.
Colored Forms III - 1913
He experimented with Orphist abstractions, a new art fashion at the time.
Lady in Green Jacket - 1913
Colors here are more poster-like than Fauvist.
Großes helles Schaufenster - 1912
"Large, Bright Display Window" is my English title to this watercolor that includes some Cubist elements. The female figure is not Cubist, as Macke seemed reluctant to depart far from that reality.
Hat Shop - 1914
Another in a series showing women shopping for clothing and fashion articles.
Fragonard's "Music"
Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806) was a leading French Rococo painter who happily painted many risqué scenes pleasing to his Ancien Régime clientele. He painted other subjects as well, including portraits, but scenes featuring partly clad women in upper-class settings are what he is best known for. Some biographical information is here.
The Norton Simon museum has some Fragonards that I saw when I was there in April. One, titled "Music" (ca. 1760-65) interested me because it was less cluttered that his better-known works.
Young Girl Reading - c. 1770
First, a few of Fragonard's characteristic works.
The Swing - c. 1767-69
The Happy Lovers - c. 1760-65
This also was on display at the Norton Simon.
My photo of "Music." Click this and other images to enlarge.
A closer view.
Closer yet. Fragonard often depicted young women as seen here: from slightly below with their heads tilted and their eyes looking upwards. Note his brushwork and selection of colors.
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Schmeelk: And The Knicks' Inevitable Implosion Has Begun
Filed Under:Carmelo Anthony, John Schmeelk, New York Knicks, Phil Jackson, Tim Hardaway Jr.
Derek Fisher (Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images)Derek Fisher (Photo by Bill Baptist/NBAE via Getty Images)
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It has begun.
ESPN published a bombshell report about the Knicks' dysfunction on Wednesday morning, and it was ugly.
Back in November when the Knicks started losing consistently, the team said on a regular basis that the difference between last year and this year was that this group was staying together and not sniping at one another.
So much for that.
There's been some question about what Phil Jackson meant the other day when he said this team has a loser's mentality.
This is what he meant: Players on teams with losing mentalities fight with one another and point fingers. They disagree and rebel against the coach. They don't like making hard cuts and moving without the ball. They don't like putting in that extra effort on defense, something they think they can get away with. That is what a loser's mentality is.
There is some pure comedy in the story. The bickering between Carmelo Anthony and Tim Hardaway Jr. is like something you would hear out of a junior-high school gym class.
Hardaway Jr: "You shoot too much!"
Anthony: "No, you!"
Hardaway Jr.: "You don't play defense!"
Anthony: "You don't, either! Do you know who I am?"
Hardaway Jr.: "You're coach's favorite!"
For either of these players to complain about not playing defense and not moving the ball enough is utterly laughable, especially on Hardaway Jr.'s part. Hardaway hasn't guarded anyone since he got into the NBA and is a black hole. The ball goes to him and doesn't come back out. Anthony, meanwhile, doesn't do a lot of the little things a superstar needs to do if he really wants to be the leader of a team.
You wonder who leaked this information. Is it a coincidence that this got out shortly after Jackson's quote about the team's loser mentality? Jackson was never shy about using the media to call people out, and this may be his way of putting this team on notice.
Everyone knew the players on the roster this year were not part of the solution. They were always part of the problem. Almost all of them will be gone come 2015, spare Anthony and a couple of others. Seeing how they played last year, there should be no surprise that they have started sniping at each other. There should be no surprise that they are resisting some of the things the coach wants them to do and don't like doing a lot of the small hustle things good teams do (like cutting hard off the ball, getting back on defense, boxing out, pushing in transition more, etc.).
This is a bad basketball team led by a first-year head coach who has been thrown into the deep end of the pool with a bunch of sharks. Fisher will survive because he has the support of Jackson, but right now he is being eaten alive by a bad basketball team that he doesn't know how to fix. The players are already looking to bail on the triangle, not even two months into the season. Whether the triangle is the long-term solution or not, the players already bailing on it reflects more on them than it does the system.
Now there's word that Anthony is considering resting his balky knee, which is probably the smart thing to do. If I were him I wouldn't want to put my career at risk to play with this group of players, whether he is part of the problem or not. Jackson is going to have to be very careful about the kinds of players he puts around Anthony if he wants this team to succeed in the next few years. It will require particular people, who will have to cover up his flaws on the court and help in the locker room.
December 15 is coming, and Jackson was wise to say he wouldn't make a move for the sake of making a move. But make no mistake about it: Change is coming, whether it's now or after the season. New York will see the last of this group of misfits. At the very least they will be leaving a nice parting gift, a likely top-three pick in next year's draft.
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Post by Rob » Mon Nov 22, 2021 9:40 am
From Whatcar? - they went behind the scenes with Nissan to cover the Ariya at this years Fully Charged Outside show.
When it comes to electric driving, events don't come much bigger than Fully Charged Outside. The brainchild of Red Dwarf actor and EV enthusiast Robert Llewellyn, this EV-focused showcase has grown significantly in scope and scale in recent years. Nissan had a prominent stand highlighting every aspect of its 360-degree approach to electric driving – including a chance for the UK public to see a prototype of the all-new all-electric Nissan ARIYA for the very first time.
The Nissan Ariya's sleek coupé crossover profile and thin LED headlights drew the crowd, but the biggest talking point was the ARIYA's impressively spacious, stylish and high-tech interior.
Whatcar? spoke to Nissan UK Marketing Director Nic Thomas, who said:
"After the difficult year we've had, it's fantastic to be out, meeting customers and the public. With our heritage as the originators of mainstream electric vehicles through the Nissan LEAF, we don't need to convince anyone at this show that the world is ready for EVs."
"We've always found that early electric adopters are incredibly knowledgeable and informed, but that means they ask us difficult questions. That's why events like this are important, because we can bring out our best experts to answer those questions. But, while early adopters are already confident with elements of electric driving, such as range and charging, as electric driving moves mainstream we need to talk to a new set of people to explain how easy and low-cost electric car ownership can be.
"This was also a fantastic opportunity to give the all-new, all-electric Nissan ARIYA its UK public debut – a car that is really going to take EVs to the next level. We started with the Nissan LEAF 10 years ago, and that's done a huge job for us, now we're ready to move the game forward with the Nissan ARIYA.
"I call the Nissan ARIYA a no-compromise electric car. It's our first electric model designed from the ground up, on a whole new dedicated EV platform. So, you've got this beautiful sleek coupe crossover profile. Because we've done away with the engine, you've got a wheel in each corner, which improves the ride and handling, and inside creates this beautiful flat floor. Really beautiful space – so much more space than a typical car of this size – and luxurious design.
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Winners of the Cabinet Makers Association's 2013 Wood Diamonds were announced today at the AWFS fair. In total, 52 awards were given to CMA member shops competing in this annual event, with a number of the winners present to accept their awards.
"We're delighted to recognize these outstanding projects and the people behind them," CMA president Tracy Yarborough said. "This peer judged contest awards honors to the best of the best."
"I'm always astonished at the quality and beauty of the projects submitted for Wood Diamond judging," CMA executive director Dave Grulke said. "It's both inspiring and humbling to see these outstanding works from our very talented members."
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U.S. Supreme Court Upends Internet Sales Taxes
July 12, 2018 by Kenneth Cookson
Prior to June 21, 2018, internet sales were largely free of sales tax. All that changed when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et al. The decision reversed the long-established "physical presence" rule for the collection of sales tax on goods and services made online or through mail order. The "physical presence" rule originated with a Court ruling in 1992 in Quill Corp. v. North Dakota, where North Dakota was prohibited from mandating out-of-state retailers and service providers with no physical presence in that state to collect and remit sales tax on all goods and services purchased online or through mail order and delivered to in-state consumers.
South Dakota, like all states, became concerned with the measurable loss of tax revenue, between $48 to $58 million annually, and enacted a law that it believed worked around Quill: all out-of-state retailers and service providers who, annually, (1) delivered more than $100,000 of goods or services into the state, or (2) engaged in 200 or more separate transactions within the state were required to remit sales tax. Knowing that such a law might bring a challenge, South Dakota filed suit against three of the four largest online retailers delivering out-of-state goods into the area: Wayfair, Overstock, and Newegg (the fourth retailer complied with the law and was excluded from the lawsuit).
Ohio struggles with similar concerns about sales tax by out-of-state online retailers. According to a Columbus Dispatch article earlier this year, studies from several years ago estimated Ohio's losses of tax revenue between $200 and $400 million annually. Unlike South Dakota, Ohio resisted the urge to again target out-of-state retailers, instead mandating that Ohio citizens who purchase goods and services online from out-of-state businesses voluntarily remit use tax as part of their income tax filing. Not surprisingly, Ohioans' voluntary disclosure of online suppliers only shows $4.8 million in taxes on untaxed purchases remitted in 2015. That is the tip of the sales tax iceberg.
What implications does South Dakota v. Wayfair, Inc. et al. hold for Ohio? The details are difficult to say, but in general this decision changes the sales tax landscape. A shift in the burden of remittance of tax from in-state consumers to out-of-state businesses will only occur through legislation. Given that the lame duck period for the Ohio General Assembly is fast approaching, it is unlikely the legislature will take up this issue before next year. However, given the large gap in tax revenue that could be earned from businesses remitting sales tax over individual Ohioans remitting use tax, it is merely a matter of time before Ohio changes its laws.
For online retailers, there is a significant risk that multiple jurisdictions, be they states, counties, or cities, will ask for sales tax remittances and reports. For small retailers or hobbyists who sell online, this burden can quickly become onerous. Changes in procedure for online marketplaces could possibly alleviate this burden. For example, for all orders shipped to Washington state, Etsy automatically calculates the sales tax, adds the tax into the payment, and remits the tax to the state, charging the retailer a fee for the processing.
With many possibilities in this area, for now, we know only that the future of sales tax on internet sales will change.
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Review: You Season 2 Episode 7
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Learn from your mistakes. That's what we are told, that's how it is supposed to be. But, for Joe, there's no reprieve. He is not only going through the same cycle of love and heartbreak but also that of murder and the mayhem that follows it. It always begins with not wanting to hurt anyone, and yet, he ends up killing a bunch more than he had intended. For a serial killer, which he officially is despite not quite having the same taste for murder as other serial killers, you'd think Joe would learn. He is smart, isn't he? He should be able to expertly cover-up a murder, by now. Or at least, not attract suspicion. And yet, here he is.
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Recovering from the break-up, Joe tries to find comfort someplace else. But he is too stuck with Love to let go of her so easily. Still working at the same place isn't helping either. But one can hope, and Joe hopes that one of these days Love will take him back. And then, Milo enters the picture. The best friend of Love's dead husband and a long-time pursuer of Love's affection, Milo is a perfect guy. He looks good, both in person and on paper. Joe tries to dig up the dirt on him but fails to find anything.
Seeing that Love has moved on for good, Joe tries to move on too. All the while, he hopes that seeing him with someone else will make Love jealous and she might bounce back to him. With Forty's encouragement, he sets a profile on the dating site. LA, however, is not full of his kind of people. With no sign of Candace anywhere, he relaxes a bit and connects with Delilah, infuriating Ellie in the process. However, a minor slip that he had made the night of Henderson's murder finally catches up with him.
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Doesn't it get exhausting, Joe? Leaving behind a trail of blood when you thought you wouldn't hurt anyone anymore? Doesn't it get annoying, not being able to do the one thing you set out to? You wanted to be invisible in the city of the people who will resort all sort of detestable ways to be noticed. And yet, here you are!
If you are scrunching your nose and wondering why I have (or at least, tried) to adopt the tone in which Joe narrates his story, it is because I can't think of any other way to get to understand his actions now. I can't understand why he is so stuck in a rut? Why the writers have completely blocked out his growth arc, even when seven episodes of the season are done with.
Joe might not have perfected the art of getting away with murder, even after his hands are stained with the blood of half-a-bunch of people, but the writers have tried to rectify some mistakes in this episode. Did you wonder why that cop in Greenwich never thought about connecting Joe with Peach's death? And whatever happened to that urine jar DNA as well! After Beck's death, the PI looked like he could call out the bullshit in the way the therapist was blamed for the murder. Did he never follow-up on that? Well, that was New York. Let's make it up by making cops in LA smarter!
This season of 'You' is three more episodes from being over, and yet, Joe and his predicament are still the same. Even the people around him seem to be equally dumb. One little detail that I will definitely applaud the show for is the contrast between Candace and Joe. Candace changed her name and intruded into the lives of the Quinn siblings, and she was ousted for trying to con them. Makes sense. It's a shady thing to do. But Joe does the same, and Love doesn't even bother to ring up her PI and ask him to dig into his life. She allows him to be around her. It is either a very smart way to show how patriarchy affects our thought-process, or I am reading too much into it and it was a meagre plot device to get Candace out-of-the-way.
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