Hi people! What are you thinking to make some "real world" test, about what configuration od DAW is better for users who work with a huge number of VST Instruments,and on the other hand some test for the people who is working mixing job?
I think that this stuff will be great for people who wanna buy new DAW,and they dont know what is the best choice for them! Agree??
You can add,what kind of application you use,audio interface,your system configuration and how much is CPU usage in your application during the Test.
If you wanna i will make a short project with some VST instruments,and than to see differences beetwen a DAW-s?
Yes,exact that what i am talking about! Those tests are probably usefull for some who dont use a Big VST Instruments and dont use many of them!
Lets talking about Big and powerfull VSTI,who needs a much more CPU than a Magneto-s or some Steinberg Synths - like A1 (Korg Legacy Cell,Atmosphere,Stylus RMX...).
some really hungry CPU and RAM Instruments and non DSP plugins.
Any tests for laptop processors ?
Ha,ha,ha! Ok and FORGET ABOUT IT!!!!
AND BTW,IF THIS ANSWER BELONG TO A PC MODERATOR OF THIS FORUM,I DONT KNOW WHAT ARE YOU MODERATE AND HOW CAN YOU HELP PEOPLE!!! THANKS NECOLA 1 MORE TIME.
Like i said in the theme of this posts,i am searching for a computer that can handle with 20 VST Instruments without CPU limitation.
I have buy Q6600 2,4 Ghz with the Asus P5K mainboard,2 Gb Dual channel Value Ram from Kingston (800 MHz)-audio interface is RME Fireface 800,And i was not satisfied.
After 10 VSTI my ASIO meter was on 80%-Cubase SX3! (Trilogy,Stylus RMX, 2XKorg Legacy,Virtual Guitarist,Grand Piano 1 and some other plugs).
Do you have some recommendation about PC , that can handle with all my wishes.
I dont working mix and mastering,cause that goes in other studio to finalize!
first let me answer why you do not see benchmarks like this.
is so the tests can be duplicated by others. very very fwe people would have 5-6 different samplers i would try to use in a test.
we tried doing several tests with "demo" verisons like NI etc.
what we ended up with was a huge headache.
either the demo would time out ofter 1-2 reboots or it would bsod the system etc.
We had discussed doing a series of tests like you asked (geared toward sample based people) but the time involved is astronomical and fwe people would be able to verify our findings.
My goal with the benchmarks page was never to be about what an ADK system can do but rather what the individual processor can.
if i start to publish tests that are not validatable by the masses it would be likely i would be accused of "fixing" the test!
most of what you mentioned is NOT quad core able and a few i think are not really dual core able.
so whats a sample guy to do?
run the fastest GHz wise and the fastest FSB wise.
of course you should be doing like most who are sample heavy (orchestral guys). run 2-6 systems.
FYI DDR3 is an absolute joke for audio, the latency is so high, its worse for audio than ddr2 533.
Now simple question,is it better for my use to buy 2 Dual Xeon 5130 processor,CL4 Memory or to buy some Quad core (QX6850) or some Core 2 Duo with CL4 memory-(Cubase SX3,Windows XP Home or PRO).
I dont have a money to buy 2-6 computers.
Sorry for taking your time,and one more time BIG THANKS!!!
Xeons will offer you less ability than a single quad particularly @ low latency.
even a dual quad Xeon does not do as well as a single quad @ low latency.
plus cubase has issues with 8 cpus.
a dual E6850 would do better for sampling than a Q6600.
you could also try overclocking your 6600.
To buy P35 chipset Mobo from Asus-P5k Deluxe or something from Intel;or go with some older-like Asus P5W DH Deluxe or Intel XBX2.
Older are working ok,but what is with P35 chip?
This seems like a waste of time. I'm going to go with George in asking, "why do you need one?"
If you're running a professional studio, then you just buy a computer, and go on with it. You find out if it's fast enough for your tasks or not. Generally it is fast enough. Were I still running a commercial studio I'd just go out an buy a 8-core Mac Pro, throw 8gb of memory in it, and call it a day. I wouldn't worry about how many instances of D-Verb I can run so that I could brag about it.
In a professional environment, your time is worth more than what you get out of benchmarking systems and taking time to build them. Saved yourself $200 in building a computer yourself? After shipping, taxes, and your time (if you spent 4 hours at all doing this then you probably wasted $200 right there) then you're screwed. Just go turnkey. It's not worth it.
If you're not running a professional studio, then you don't "need" to have the fastest system. Any modern system will do computing just fine.
It's about making sure a machine can deliver and meet your needs. composers using soft samplers and soft synths are taxing their machines WAY more than a studio is.
It's not about plug counts. He's asking about power for VSTI instruments. Different beast to slay.
And you suggestion to just by an 8 core mac is deadly at the moment for composer types. guys running soft samplers are running into a cool little OSX bug where you hit 3.5 gigs of loaded ram and it then jumps to 1 terrabyte of ram being used - with the spinning beach ball of death soon thereafter.
those 8 gigs of ram are wasted money at the moment until apple plugs this memory leak bug. The only way to now about this bug is to ask this exact question.
On the PC side its all about processor+motherboard. Some combinations yeild great results while others are a nightmare.
Asking guys to post processor load results is incredibly helpful for these types of decisions. My 4 sample farm pc's where put together based on me asking exactly this question (in sample composer forums).
One knowledgable guy posted the exact specs he found yeilded very stable gigastudio machines. I just bought exactly what he suggestion and it allowed a dumb Mac guy like me to build my own PC's that are to this day rock solid.
Literally priceless information - but ya gotta ask the question.
Quite a few guys bought new macpro 8 cores to use with VSL's library and man are they in a world of hurt at this moment while waiting for apple to fix the memory leak bug. The only way to know if your dream machine can deliver what you hope is to ask this question. He is just asking it in the wrong forum.
A universal kontakt/cpu/ram stress test would be a good idea as its the most common soft sampler at the moment.
edham- You're right in that some combinations of stuff just doesn't work well.
Had a friend that stays bleeding edge normally, with a pretty good sized studio near here. He runs Logic with the TDM bridge. He had a HUGE HD system. When Logic 7 (or I can't remember which piece) came out, he ran out and got a few huge HD systems, Logic 7 and some new G5 macs. Apparently at the time, HD + G5 + Logic 7 (although it should work in theory) didn't work. It was a work of hurt for him.
I guess I just figured (and assumed) that the guy was running more of a recording studio than a composition studio. My bad.
Still, I've always felt that benchmarks are a poor way generally to go about purchasing procedures. They rarely all line up and point to "this is the perfect system".
I could care less for example about the benchmarks on my MBP. I like the form factor and other features more than any benchmark on a Dell or Alienware laptop that had hacked OS X to run on it.
That's a great point. RARELY does the best benchmarked machine turn out to be the best Audio machine.
You may have just cost me $2600.
Yep I did the 3 computer system builds in 4 years. Saved some $$ using parts out of the older and into the newer. Working through forums building ...almost... what was suggested as I still had ram and Hd's that were sorta good.
But I never had the performance in them, reliability wasn't there doing it myself.
#1 Because I wanted to use Logic Pro, yes I had OSX running on my C2D with it and it reminded me of how I used to work.
#2 It costed a little more, and I have nothing in that Mac that was in an older computer. Found out my 2 Sata drives were vibrating etc.
#3 There isn't much I can do to the Mac Pro to get more performance, baring more Hd's, well they can only take Sata drives, so my old 30 gig ide drives can finally rest easier in the kids computer as a raid 0 for whatever. Where my Pc, there was always better this or better that to try. In the Mac I made myself have to stick with one system for 3 years!
#4 Which ever machine you do go with, we're lucky enough to have machines that can handle what we throw at them and still have some horsepower left to spare for posting on a forum.
#4.2, My MacPro, 5 gigs ram, 4 Sata Hd's and Logic Pro can handle Ezdrummer, BFD, Waves SSL across all channels, IR, Ivory, Sculpture, RMX, and more I'm probably missing, all as my default template. It works, with low latency, reliable and I never see the system struggling.
#4.3 I'd go with a 4 core system whatever the brand, I'd figure a laptop might not be the best solution for a more sample based system as those libraries need lots of Hd space and streaming from multiple drives. With FW options for everything from Hd's to audio and DSP cards you'll run out of I/O before the CPU and Ram are even an issue.
I simply realized that in general building systems isn't worth my time. They aren't interesting to me like building other electronics.
You think that you'd be able to get a better 'deal' in building a system, but really when Dell calls nVidia and says they want 100,000 video cards... they get far better a deal than you ever will on the cards. You pay a premium to them to build the system, test it, and support it... but at the end of the day it's really worth it for your time.
Don't just look at the raw price costs. Those are misleading. Your guitar is nothing more than $300 of wood (if that). Your amp is a $100 transformer, some tubes, and a few passive components. Your guitar pedals are dirt cheap inside too.
An Apple X-SAN looks to be a 'bad deal' when you consider than you can buy a networked san hard drive for a few hundred bucks. Then you consider multiple raid controllers, hotswapable drives, hotswapable redundant power supplies, enterprise support, fibre channel, efficient cooling design, etc... and you realize that it's not just a hard drive that you're benchmarking agaist. You're looking at what your business is worth per hour. If it's down for an hour, what is that doing to you? If you loose a month of work, what does that do to you? etc.
real drum alternative to Stylus RMX???
How reliable are Stylus and Trilogy?


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newlook replied to Beth n Rod's question in Wood Cleaning & Restoration - Decks, Fences, etc.
This guy is attending and looking forward to it!
Tristan, We posted the below comment on our EBC FaceBook Page a few weeks ago regarding asphalt cleaning. In it there is some suggested mix ratios that you should go by relating to oil and asphalt. I do not recommend a 50/50 mix with the attempt to clean up all the oil up with just 1 treatment. Instead I would recommend going with a weaker mix with multiple applications to remove the oil little by little on each application. Here is the FB post EBC has components in its formula that offers or provides superb degreasing agents. Asphalt by nature is a petroleum base product. When you apply EBC or any type of degreaser to asphalt make certain that you will not impact the density or compromise the integrity of the asphalt itself. All asphalt is different from region to region. There are just way too many different variables from one asphalt lot to the next to pin point or establish a common mix ratio to for all contractors to use. In other words, one size does not fit all in this case. Applying EBC to concrete or other hard surfaces is a different ball game and should not be misunderstood as the way to clean asphalt. Suggestions when cleaning oil/grease/fuel off of asphalt: Test a small area with a light mix of EBC. Light mix ranges from 12-16 oz to 1.5 gal. of water. Spray a small portion of the affected area and then agitate with a broom. Let it dwell for 10-15 minutes and then rinse with 120-150. This mix ratio is a baseline recommendation. Certainly there will be instances where you as a contractor may have to "bump" up the mix to make it stronger, if applicable. When doing so please be aware and keep your eye on that asphalt. Cleaning grease/oil and etc off asphalt requires YOU the contractor to be VERY FAMILIAR with the soap/degreaser you are using. Just because it worked on concrete does not mean the same ratios will work on asphalt. Totally two different animals.
This past Monday I had a chance to carve out some time in our busy schedule to meet up with Jake Clark at their wood stain plant located in Sonora, CA. Though I do not do any type of wood restoration or staining, I have known Jake for many years and he is also considered a dear friend of our family. I was in central Cali. washing and decided to take a detour and head up to the foothills of the Sierra's to check out the new plant. Boy am I glad I did. The processing plant is just awesome. The production line employees all the way up to the folks manning the phones are "top-notch" individuals. Each one of them explained to me their role in the production process of how Armstrong-Clark's stains are made and the critical steps each one of them does in order to ensure that each batch of stain is blended to perfection. I just didn't realize all the different "checks and balances" that Jake implemented in the production of his stains to ensure that when a contractor opens up a pail of Armstrong-Clark stain they are getting the "best of the best". The plant itself is very clean and from what I could tell everything about the "guts" of the plant is well kept and operational. The computerized mechanism's that ensure the proper amount of liquids to be blended together was fascinating to see and watch compared to observing someone that is "eye balling" ratios for blending. Jake, you have a great operation going on in Sonora. The people that work for you complete your stain line and it was truly gratifying to see these individuals actually enjoying what they do. I can only surmise that you created a culture with your employees that empowers them to be part of the overall picture of what Armstrong-Clark is all about. Very encouraging to see young people actually enjoying their job. Hat's off to you my friend. I tried to attached some pics of the plant but for some reasons I keep on getting a Error This upload failed.? Thank you Jake for taking the time to show me the plant. I appreciate it.
I am just trying to get through today...LOL. Honestly I haven't even thought about it but will keep those dates open.
In a few months, EBC will be going into it's 3rd year since we went to market with our soap. Certainly thankful to those that gave EBC a shot and appreciate the contractors that continue to use it today on a regular basis. We have a terrific group of Distributors across the U.S. that carry our product line. Look out 2014!
Found out today that the NAVY unfortunately has put a HOLD on Madison being accepted in due to the GOVT SHUTDOWN going on. The civilians that process the paper work are not working.......a little frustrated about this and so is she.


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The Parliamentary Ombudsman oversees and promotes the legality of actions taken by public authorities and the implementation of fundamental and human rights.
carries out inspections at offices and institutions, in particular at prisons, military garrisons and other closed institutions.
The present Parliamentary Ombudsman is Petri Jääskeläinen (in office since 1 January 2010).
The current Deputy Ombudsmen are Maija Sakslin and Pasi Pölönen.
The Human Rights Centre is administratively located within the Office of the Parliamentary Ombudsman. The Ombudsman appoints the Director and experts of the Human Rights Centre as well as the members of the Human Rights Delegation.
The Ombudsman submits an annual report on its activities for the Parliament and separate reports when necessary.


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Q: Custom Wordpress 404s (plural) in .htaccess I need to catch all the 404's in my wordpress site and redirect them according to the original url request.  For instance, if the following is a 404
http://example.com/news/123.html

I need to redirect it to
http://example.com/news

And I will have multiple instances of this, like the following 404
http://example.com/hats/greenhat.html

Will go to
http://example.com/hats

I can't figure out how to do this in Wordpress.  In my .htaccess file, this is my first line
ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/my-custom-404.php

But instead of redirecting to my-custom-404.php, it still goes to the default wordpress 404 page.
Here is my htaccess for reference
 ErrorDocument 404 http://example.com/index.php

 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /

 #Rewrite 404s to the news section
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/404/$
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /news/index.php [R=301,L]

 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d

 RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^example.com$ [NC]
 RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://example.com/$1 [L,R=301]

 # THE WordPress
 <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteBase /
 RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
 RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
 RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
 </IfModule>

In my file as a test I am trying to rewrite all 404 to /news/index.php, which isn't working - everything is still going to the wordpress 404 page

A: Wordpress has it's own way of handling 404. Inside your WP theme you can create a file called 404.php and inside that file have a PHP code to:

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*Read the current request URI using $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']

*From the URI find last index of /

*Using substring function get rid of part after last / and redirect

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A. Hamlet is included in the literary canon because it contains many themes that can be analyzed by students despite its limited amount of characters. For example, Hamlet and Laertes as foil characters can be used to discuss the consequences of indecision versus bravery. Ophelia's mental breakdown can be analyzed and explain how the concept of madness contributes to a story. Seeing as Hamlet has been an applicable text for many AP Literature exams in the past several decades, it has rightfully earned its place in the literary canon.
B. The opening line of the play, "who's there?", is incredibly significant because it immediately sets a tone of suspense. This theme continues throughout the play as the audience watches the characters gain information and the plot furthers. Not only does it demonstrate that the characters themselves aren't always knowledgeable to their situation, the audience also experiences the story as though they were a part of it.
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Calling Toots Hibbert's music old-school reggae would be an understatement.
Toots and the Maytals 1968 song "Do the Reggay," was the first time the word defining the style of music was used in a recording.
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San Francisco Sued for Mistreatment of Homeless People
A Group of Unhoused San Franciscans Is Taking the City to Court for Violating Their Civil Rights
In late September, seven individual plaintiffs, along with the Coalition on Homelessness, filed suit against the City and County of San Francisco and Mayor London Breed for the city's cruel criminalization of homelessness and the brutal policing, encampment sweeps, and destruction or seizure of personal property that violate the victims' Constitutional rights. They are represented by the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, the ACLU Foundation of Northern California, and the global law firm Latham & Watkins LLP.
Given the increasingly legalistic approach to countering homelessness in cities and states across America, this lawsuit might be just the thing to stop unjust laws and lobbied lawmakers in their tracks.
Let's take a closer look at what the lawsuit lays out.
What Exactly Is This Lawsuit Objecting To?
The lawsuit is pushing back against the city of San Francisco's attempts to push homeless people out of sight and out of mind. Some of the ways they're doing this include:
Sweeping encampments
Seizing or destroying belongings that are vital to survival without shelter
Citing and arresting people for sleeping in public even when they have nowhere else to go
Turning public opinion (sometimes violently) against unhoused people by blaming them for their own circumstances that are, in actuality, the result of a systemic failing
The practice of illegally seizing and destroying personal belongings of unhoused San Franciscans is a clear violation of the Fourth Amendment. The amendment states in no uncertain terms that "the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated."
The legal team behind this monumental lawsuit further alleges that because the city lacks and has always lacked adequate, affordable housing and shelter for all its residents, all these citations, arrests, and harassment of unhoused people, therefore, violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.
Punishing people for not going somewhere else when there is nowhere else for them to go seems pretty cruel and unusual.
Let's Hear from the Unhoused and Formerly Unhoused Plaintiffs
Three of the seven plaintiffs in this case have released short statements to be published in the lawsuit's announcement. This is what they had to say about the city of San Francisco's treatment of unhoused people like them, in their own words:
"We do not deserve to be treated like criminals and to have our belongings thrown in the trash when we are at our most vulnerable," says Nathaniel Vaughn, a life-long San Franciscan who recently became unhoused.
Toro Castaño speaks from experience, saying, "The City's sweeps [are] a dehumanizing disruption to the small ounce of stability that I was trying to build for myself during one of the hardest times of my life."
Sarah Cronk agrees, saying, "We are just trying to scrape by and build as much of a life for ourselves as possible—with both dignity and safety. The city makes that impossible for us."
These are just some of the people who have personally been affected by San Francisco's callous disregard for its houseless residents. We'll undoubtedly be hearing from many more as the lawsuit progresses.
'Tough-on-Crime' Policies Distract from the Real Issues
The root cause of homelessness in San Francisco and beyond is the lack of affordable housing. As San Francisco has been on the leading edge of astronomical housing cost inflation, it has also led the way in homelessness as long-time residents were priced out of housing in their neighborhoods and pushed out onto the streets.
This is a simple thing to understand, and it would be a simple thing to solve if the political will were there. But instead of making the necessary changes to make housing in San Francisco affordable for all, the city has dedicated its resources to over-policing and criminalization that only make the problem worse. Like a child cleaning their room by shoving all the clutter under the bed, the city of San Francisco hopes to solve its homelessness problem by pushing all of its unhoused residents out of the city or into jail.
It hasn't been working, and it never will. In fact, this approach has actively been making the problem worse for years. Criminalization, citation, and property seizure make it exponentially more difficult for a person to escape homelessness. Consider how hard it is to secure housing with an arrest record. Or how difficult it is to secure a job when your identification documents have been seized and destroyed. These things and worse happen to homeless people every day.
If the city of San Francisco and its mayor let it, this lawsuit could be just the wake-up call needed to let go of fear-based policies that help no one and invest in something we all need – safe, secure, and affordable housing.
San Francisco Spends Millions of Dollars on Making Homelessness Worse
Anti-homeless bias is ingrained in our society, and lawmakers certainly aren't immune to that. Still, it would take some pretty strong prejudice to act against the interest of yourself, your city, and your constituents for so long by spending millions of dollars on heartless policies that are proven to worsen the problem.
Of course, many things can influence politicians beyond their internal sense of right and wrong. With that being the case, it's a good move to make it as difficult and annoying as possible to do the wrong thing. It gives them plenty of time to reconsider selling out their moral compass.
A legal challenge like this one sends the message that we're no longer going to sit back and allow these inhumane policies to operate unchallenged. We can only hope there will be more where this came from.
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Toronto Shelter System Turning More People Away than Ever Before
Toronto has come under fire lately, both for its homeless problem and its proposed "solution." Currently, Canada's most populous city serves as both a centralized hub of homelessness and a petrifying graveyard for...
Why FEMA Won't Fund Homeless People During Natural Disasters
Climate change continues to threaten all of humanity, but none so much as people who are already homeless or just a few paychecks away from homelessness. In the wake of Hurricane Ian, with many still reeling from the...
National Implications of LA's Homeless PIT Count are Bleak
With Rents Rising Fast, Texas Homeless Shelters See More Families Seeking Help
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Solving Homelessness and Saving Taxpayer Dollars
Improving Homeless Response Systems Through Diversion and Problem-Solving


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Discoveries in Galleries
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Figurative Expressionism
The leading publication for discoveries & rediscoveries
Bill Rane
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Thematic Exhibitions
Painting as a Codex for Cosmic Truths
Bill Rane was born in Bend, Oregon on March 3rd, 1927, but grew up a few hundred miles east in the remote and idyllic hills of Garden Valley, Idaho. As a boy, he realized he was to become an artist but it was not until after serving in the US Navy during WW II that he began his studies in earnest. He first attended Boise Junior College, then San Francisco State College, and finally the University of California at Berkeley, studying art and literature at all three.
Trips to Latin America became frequent and made a lasting impression upon his artistic soul. From the late 1940s through the early 1950s, he was living in Guatemala where he married a native Guatemalan and had three children. However, by the late 1950s, divorce had led Bill to San Francisco and Sausalito where he became part of the beatnik community. Painter, roustabout, and raconteur, he became a fixture in the early Sausalito Arts Festivals.
In 1958, Rane remarried (for forty-seven years) and had five children. The family traveled extensively throughout Mexico because Bill continued to be captivated by the mythology and culture of Latin America with its exotic ancient treasures as well as its vibrant village markets alive with flowers, textures, and colors. Stylistically, he also drew inspiration from other ancient cultures as well as the early modernists. Visitors to his studio could often be caught cocking an ear as they heard him refer to his works with a favorite phrase, "the literature of paint." The phrase was an apt one for it revealed Bill as an avid reader with a boundless curiosity for the literature, arts, and myths of all cultures. He could just as easily delve into the Greek Classics or ancient Egyptian or Mayan mythology to create a visual metaphor. At the same time, he admired such masters as Modigliani and Picasso while remaining resolute in forging his own unique style. As an important part of that process, he demanded of himself to rework paintings over and over, typically painting with a heavy impasto as he layered oil pigments — sometimes to the point of building mounds upon the canvas. He was constantly moving in the studio, weaving about his easel, dripping, dropping, and dashing brushstrokes. The process might appear both random and obsessive to the observer yet these strokes were assuredly from the steady hand of a master. In short, his body and soul were immersed in every piece. Thus, elements both ancient and modern provided inspiration for a large body of paintings that form his cosmic codex. The stylized female figure is likely a sylph. The pictograph may refer to an ancient myth. Other recurring subjects included goddesses, mythical animals, sea creatures, geese, pelicans, and pomegranates.
Rane was also a writer, tracing his spiritual development in a poetic bildungsroman novel entitled, Talfulano (New York: Horizon Press, 1976). He had also begun work on a second novel, The Diary of a Tomb Painter, the essence of which describes his life in art. In describing the book, he mused on which images the pharaoh would select for the chamber walls to aid his passage into the afterlife. In planning with his tomb painter, the pharaoh decreed:
"Paint, no battles, no accomplishments. Paint the feeling of the great river winding through the land and lovers lying on her shores. Paint children at play in the bulrushes. Paint the graceful Ibis wading. Paint fishermen in their boats catching fish and the great muscled flanks of my horse, his exquisite head with his nostrils flaring. Paint the beauty of the Queen's sad eyes, the curve of her neck and bodice. Paint the great ocean with her sea birds. Paint the feminine — paint women washing clothes at the river's edge, women in the market, mother with child. Paint musicians playing and villagers dancing. Paint the great mating rituals of men and of beasts. Let your brushes and your paint celebrate the beauty of life, tomb painter! It is remembrance of the light that ferries the soul to the far shore."
On the morning of September 2nd, 2005, when the sun was just rising over Taos, Bill Rane passed away. One close friend remarked, "It's like a great old library has burned down. The world has lost so much." Ultimately, Bill was a seeker of universal values and cosmic truths. He believed in the concept of the "Every Man/Woman." In every work, we see the footprints of various cultures. We see humanity's reach for beauty. Moreover, we see Rane's heartbeat.
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Feedbacks of Ballistic Overkill players are really appreciated to the development of this game. And thank you for your contribution that we have this patch. It is the huge one for developer team and they are glad to see everything occur as they intended. They will keep working hard on it and fix all issues in the short time.
Firstly, Team Deathmatch score system was broken in the starting minutes of the patch. However, this bug was fixed. And now, you can run it normally.
Next, Capture Point ended very fast for the first hours of the patch. And this problem is also fixed so that you can experience Ballistic Overkill effectively. In both cases, if you are still having problems, try closing the game and letting Steam update the game (it\'s a really small one, so it should be almost instant).
Grenades can work automatically every 30 seconds, except for Grenadier, which activates every 8 seconds. This feature will be present in the new UI to Ballistic Overkill when it releases.
You can use the option to turn off the sound when chatting.
Also, you can open the in-game menu by pressing Esc. At the upper left corner of the screen, you can see a speech bubble which showing your chat mute options.
If the chat below is not displayed, you can think that you have chat muted and you will not be able to see and or post on chat.
To change the chat settings, you should click on the speech bubble.
When you realize the chat in the menu of Ballistic Overkill, you can come back and chat.
Now, the Weapon Secondary function default button is replaced with the E key instead of V.
A few Vanguard weapons are available as primary and secondary because of the default loadouts.
Additionally, some weapons can\'t be updated with the weapon stats UI.
Aside from fixes and balance changes, the key point is to improve game modes and make them become better for players to experience. And that is the main goal for the next update.


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DAY 1: LIMA IN:
Our representative will be waiting at Lima´s airport, reception and transfer to the hotel. The transfer time from Lima´s airport to Lima town lasts almost 1 hour. Accommodation at the hotel.
Overnight in Lima
DAY 2: LIMA – CITY TOUR:
Leisure morning.
At noon, the guide will meet you to start a full day guided tour of the Peru´s capital – Lima (known as the city of the kings).
The guide will take you into the Historic Center of Lima to visit the Main Square or "Plaza de Armas" where the Government Palace, the Archbishop's Palace, the Cathedral and Town Hall are located. You will then proceed to visit San Francisco Church, a masterpiece of Colonial architecture preserving the best examples of Colonial religious art in America.
Return to the hotel.
DAY 3: LIMA – CUSCO – CITY TOUR:
Transfer from the hotel to Lima´s airport for your flight to Cusco.
At Cusco´s airport our representative will be waiting for you. Upon arrival, airport reception to be transferred to the hotel, time free to rest and acclimatize to the altitude.
In the afternoon, the guide will pick you up from your hotel and take you on a half day tour of Cusco. You will start visiting the main square surrounded by magnificent colonial buildings, the Cathedral, the Koricancha which was the most important temple of the Inca culture; it was dedicated to worship the sun. Finally we will visit the archaeological sites of Sacsayhuaman and its impressive rocky constructions, followed by Kenko, Puka Pukara and Tambomachay. Return to the hotel.
Overnight in Cusco
DAY 4: SACRED VALLEY OF THE INCAS: PISAC – OLLANTAYTAMBO:
Today, you will set off for the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Along the way you will stop to visit Awanacancha a llama project where you will see South American camelids such as llamas, alpacas, and vicuñas, also you have the chance to appreciate the traditional Inca weaving and dying techniques which have been kept by the local people for centuries.
Your journey continues to the small village of Pisac, and there you will walk through its lively typical market and have some free time to interact with the townsfolk and artisans and to shop for handicrafts and souvenirs. Continuing the tour you will visit Pisac´s archaeological site located at the top of the mountain which gives us a clear idea of the hard work and amazing ingenuity required to create the Inca's agricultural terraces, its constructions are just compared with Machu Picchu buildings.
You will enjoy a buffet lunch at the town of Urubamba, and then visit Ollantaytambo which is one of the most beautiful, and significant sites in the entire Cusco region. It is a very interesting, and typical pueblo with extensive, well preserved Inca ruins; crowned by the sacred archaeological site with its impressive temple of the sun.
Transfer to the hotel.
Overnight in the Sacred Valley
DAY 5: SACRED VALLEY – AGUAS CALIENTES:
Free morning to rest or explore Ollantaytambo on your own, this is amazing town known as the last inca city living, because the inca buildings are still used as basement of the modern constructions, and by its old streets continue running the clean water of the Incas.
At midday you will board the Expedition train which will take you to Aguas calientes town; this scenic train ride is considered one of the most beautiful in the world. Upon your arrival, reception and accommodation at the hotel.
Aguas calientes is a small village almost 90% dedicated to the tourism activities, there are many activities to do; you can visit the Mandor waterfalls, visit the site Museum, go to the hot springs, visit the market or walk around this village.
Overnight in Aguas Calientes
DAY 6: MACHU PICCHU – CUSCO:
Today, you have a full-day to explore Machu Picchu citadel – the new seven wonder of the world; the shuttle bus service will take you for 20 minutes from Aguas Calienets to Machu Picchu where you will have a 2- 3 hours fully guided tour of the mysterious ruins, visiting the most important sector of the city such as the temple of the Sun, the Intihuatana, the temple of the three windows, the mausoleum, the temple of the condor, etc.
If you are in a good physical shape you can hike to the Inca Bridge, Huayna Picchu, Inti Punku sun gate, or just wander through the ruins taking pictures.
You then return to Aguas Calientes to catch the train back to Cusco (Poroy train station), arrival to Poroy and transfer to the hotel.
NOTE: hike to the summit of Huayna Picchu, (Huayna Picchu now requires an extra, limited-availability permit; allowed just 400 per day. It is a 1.5-hour hike)
DAY 7: CUSCO – PUNO (TOURIST BUS SERVICE):
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the bus station to take the tourist bus to Puno.
This route is considered one of the most spectacular-amazing highland trips in the south of Peru, which includes guided tours to Inca and pre-Inca remains in the route.
You will visit the church of Andahuaylillas known as the "Sistine Chapel of America"; it was built on top of a huaca, or sacred place for the Incas. Made out of adobe and brick, the church is a small structure consisting of one nave, apse and bell tower. The quality of its Mudejar coffered ceiling and the artwork of the altars make of this church the most beautiful of Cusco region.
Continuing with the trip, you will arrive to Raqchi where is located the most important building known as the "Wiracocha temple" that according to the old chroniclers was built by the Inca Wiracocha in honor to the Superior God invisible for the Andean people.
The next stop will be in La Raya (the highest pass) which is the watershed between the valley that drains into Lake Titicaca and the valley that leads down to Cusco and to the Sacred Valley.
Finally you will visit Pukara which was the first regional population center in the northern Lake Titicaca Basin during the Late Formative Period (500 BC- AD 200), providing valuable insights into the origins of Andean civilization in the highlands.
Arrival to Puno, reception and transfer to the hotel.
Overnight in Puno
DAY 8: FLOATING ISLANDS: UROS – AMANTANI: 2DAYS/1NIGHT:
Early in the morning you will be picked up from your hotel and then transferred to the harbor. We start off our boat excursion of Lake Titicaca by visiting "The Uros Floating Islands" which is located at 30 minutes from Puno; Uros is a small community that has lived on these reed Islands for decades. They used the TOTORA (reeds) to build their floating island platforms and over it they build the houses completely with reeds; also this material was used to build their canoes.
After visiting this floating Island, we continue our tour towards Amantani Island where we will spend the night. There are no hotels on Amantani Islands, but upon arrival you will be welcomed by local families; the group will be splitted into smaller groups for overnight stays with local families.
It is very beautiful and peaceful island; there are six villages and ruins on both of the island's peaks, Pacha Tata and Pacha Mama, we will walk up to Pacha Mama from where there are stunning views of the lake and surroundings.
Your local familiy will provide traditional clothing at the house; men are given ponchos and wooly hats, the hats are hand-made by the families, with unique styles, so that they can recognize you in the hall. Women are given colorful skirts, blouses and veils.
Overnight in a familiar house.
DAY 9: AMANTANI – TAQUILE – PUNO:
After a traditional breakfast, you will be transferred to Taquile Island (1 hour on boat); in Taquile we will appreciate numerous ancient agricultural terraces and archaeological sites.
The island is narrow, only about 1 km wide, and 6-7 km long; once you reach the island you will have to walk up along a narrow path, enjoying on the way impressive views of the Lake Titicaca and also see gorgeous little houses inhabited by locals. At the top of the island you will have free time to explore and appreciate the traditional pre-Inca and Inca textiles; the most characteristic garments is the "Chullo", a knitted hat with an earflap, and "The Calendar Waistband", depicting the annual cycles connected to ritual and agricultural activities.
Afterwards you will have the lunch at one local restaurant; finally we will descent to the harbor to take our boat back to Puno.
Overnight in Puno:
DAY 10: PUNO – LIMA – HOME:
After breakfast and depending of your flight time to Lima, transfer to Juliaca´s airport.
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Tours/activities described in the itinerary
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Meals mentioned
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Round trip bus ticket (Aguas Calientes – Machu Picchu – Aguas Calientes)
Train Ollantaytambo – Aguas Calientes – Cusco (Expedition, tourist class train)
Oxygen and first aid kit
Assistance 24 hours
Puno/floating island:
Bus ticket Cusco – Puno (guided tour included entrance fee)
2days/1night tour to the floating island (included entrance fees)
Professional bilingual guide for the tours
Acommodation: hostels
Lima (2 nights)
Cusco (2 nights)
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Aguas Calientes (1 night)
Puno (2 nights)
Floating Island (1 night)
Aircraft tickets (Lima – Cusco / Juliaca – Lima)
Extra services not mentioned in the itinerary
Entrance to Huayna Picchu ($ 20.00 per person)
Meals not mentioned in the program
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Chao Canh is one of the special food in Quang Binh. This dish is the most favourite breakfast for the local people. The ingredients are quite familiar included: Snakehead fish, shrimps, pork. When serving guests, porridge soup is sprinkled onions, cilantro and sliced fragrant. It is served with shredded green cabbage. Inspite of the simple ingredients, the flavour is truly amazing.
Only with a small coal stove, guests can quickly enjoy seafood in many restaurants in Quang Binh province such as fish, shrimp, oysters, clams, snails … in two ways, depending on the baking and steaming requirements.
The province is well-known for various dishes made from oysters. Fresh oysters caught from Nhat Le river are processed into different dishes such as fried oysters clamped in rice papers, oyster sour soup, etc. It would be incomplete when visiting Phong Nha without enjoying oyster soupl.


Dresch SP (1983). Education, Earnings, and College Enrollment in the United States. IIASA Research Report (Reprint). IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria: RR-84-014. Reprinted from Review of Public Data Use, 11:357-360  and The Crisis in Higher Education, J. Froomkin (ed.), Academy of Political Science, New York, 35(2):108-118 .
Technological developments and associated changes in the structure of economic activty have substantial consequences for the relative demands for the various factors of production. Changes in the composition of labor demand have particularly significant consequences, especially in market economies, in which relative earnings and conditions of employment may change substantially even over relatively brief periods. The first of the two papers in this report, which build upon the author's earlier modeling of the markets for different educational-attainment classes of labor, documents the anticipated decline in the relative earnings of the highly educated in the United States in the period since the late 1960s. The second then summarizes the probable implications of these and related developments for the educationl attainments of future cohorts of labor force entrants.
It is anticipated that future studies will provide comparative analyses for other economies, illluminating the influence of institutional, demographic, and other factors on the process of labor force adaptation to changing patterns of labor demand.


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Barcelona vs Man Utd: Can Solskjaer's men draw inspiration from PSG win?
By Solomon Fowowe
16 April 2019 | 3:34 pm
Manchester United travel to Nou Camp seeking to overturn a goal deficit against Barcelona in the UEFA Champions League tonight by 8pm. Will the heroics in the dramatic second leg win against Paris Saint Germain provide enough inspiration against a Lionel Messi-led Barcelona?
Manchester United manager, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, has said the memory from the Paris Saint Germain will help the players.
"It will help us as a team to try and turn things around.
"We know Barcelona at the Nou Camp is a difficult prospect, but the memory from that night will live with the players. It's not that long ago and we are one goal better off."
Admittedly, it was a different Manchester United at the Parc des Princes, full of verve and conviction accompanied with the extra dash of luck. Perhaps, it all just lines up perfectly for them, hard and fast breaks rewarded with goals and Chris Smalling playing out of his skin to keep Messi and Luis Suarez at bay. There's speed to burn for Marcus Rashford, Anthony Martial and Jesse Lingard while Romelu Lukaku's physicality could come in hand. The perfect smash and grab.
It does sound tenuous when you note Messi is well rested for the tie, Suarez is sharp in front of goal again and
Barcelona have lost only once at the Camp Nou in the Champions League knockout stages in the last 12 years.
Barcelona is a far different proposition to PSG. PSG was without Neymar in the second leg and the French Champions have a propensity for bottling such situations. They fumbled a hefty 4-0 lead against Barcelona in 2017 to lose 6-1 in the second leg.
It would take more than the memory of the PSG game to overturn the deficit at the impressive and vociferous Camp Nou.
Barcelona are seasoned and are probably one of the best teams in handling an away lead.
They will be comfortable in front of their home fans with their captain Messi leading them. Though not overly comfortable, knowing they are only one goal ahead.
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Tarquin Cooper was a guest of Argos in Cappadocia (+90384-219 3130; argosincappadocia.com), two nights from €500; Dalton Brothers (+90384-271 2840; cappadociahorseriding.com), horse riding from €25 per hour; and Sumahan on the Water (+90216-422 8000; sumahan.com), one night in a deluxe room from €195. Anahita Travel (+90384-214 2202; anahitatravel.com), tours of Kaymakli from €275. Pegasus Airlines (0333-300 3555; flypgs.com) flies daily from Stansted to Kayseri, from £121 return.
For millennia it has been a staging post for marauding armies between the ancient worlds of Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean. Its history makes your average Game of Thrones episode appear quite tame: dozens of empires passed through, from Persians and Romans to Alexander the Great, from the Byzantines and Arabs to Mongolians and Turks. And they all prized one thing, besides its women and its wine: its horses. They are what give the region its name – Cappadocia is derived from the Hittite word katpatuka, said to mean "land of the beautiful horses". The scenery isn't bad either, a dramatic and rugged landscape of canyons, pockmarked hills and surprisingly fertile valleys.
Above all, Cappadocia is known for its "fairy chimney" rock formations and a vast network of caves carved in the soft volcanic rock. Some have even been turned into remarkable places to stay, such as boutique hotel Argos in Cappadocia. But there's only one way to really get to grips with it: saddle up and see for myself by horse.
My Pegasus flight from Stansted might not be the easiest to reach from town, or the most glamorous I've ever taken, but it is by far the most convenient. After a quick transfer at Istanbul's Asian-side airport, Sabiha Gökçen, I'm on the 20.45 to Kayseri. It arrives at 22.10 and my driver is waiting. After another hour I arrive at Argos in Cappadocia, and am led to my suite. I go to bed with that enjoyable feeling of not having a clue where in the world I am.
I am woken early by the call to prayer; Islam arrived here in the 11th century. I draw back the curtains and gape in wonder; the sun bursts over a ridge on the horizon, casting a richly deep golden light across the plains. I look around to find my bearings. I seem to be staying in an ancient citadel built into a mountain.
His prize mare is Hürrem. "She is my champion endurance horse; 90km in six hours," he says proudly, before passing me the reins. It's with trepidation that I mount; it's been a few years and I'm not sure how much the body is going to enjoy this. But Hürrem, a beautiful chestnut, has the build of a polo pony, which suits my kind of one-handed riding style.
I understand why it was that when the 18th-century French traveller Paul Lucas first brought this area to western attention, describing it as "the graveyard of a vanished city", he was accused of making it up; at times it is like something out of a fantasy novel. From arid plains we abruptly enter the verdant Red Valley, a canyon filled with the magical colours of autumnal apricot trees, boarded in by walls of pink-white rock. "Hazirmisin!" cries Omar. Before I'm able to figure out that it means "Are you ready?" we've launched into a fast canter and bolt along narrow twisting trails. He then shouts something else, which I take to mean "Duck!" – just in time, as a low branch comes into view.
After two hours we come to the village of Çavusin. We swagger through like outlaws and climb a steep hillside trail that's home to the ruins of a fifth-century church built into the rock. I dismount to explore. It is a little like the wonder of Petra (another civilisation built into rock), made more of an adventure by the absence of safety ropes and handrails. In places, the floor literally gives way to an unnervingly steep drop.
Before starting this journey I'd told Omar that I was after a proper all-day adventure. "Don't worry," he'd said drily. The next few hours bear it out. After a brief stop to water the horses we take it up a gear, breaking again into a brisk canter. But these are horses, and horses like to run; when the trail steepens, suddenly we're off, galloping at full charge. The adrenaline surges – nothing is quite as exhilarating as being on a horse at full pelt on a slope, particularly on a narrow trail with any turns ahead invisible. At the crest of a hill we finally come to a halt and survey the terrain. In the distance is the ancient citadel of Uçhisar, our next destination.
The trail soon becomes too narrow to ride and we're forced to dismount and lead the horses on foot. It's like following the crest of ascending sand dunes along a path that's barely wide enough for two feet, let alone four hooves. After a final, searingly steep climb we eventually top out. I'm bent double to catch my breath.
As we canter towards Uçhisar, silhouetted against the sun, I wonder how it would have appeared to the ancient pilgrims and warriors, seeking refuge and conquest down the centuries. Refuge is more on my mind: camouflaged in the hillside somewhere is my hotel – but there's still another 8km to go. As if to taunt us, just as we're riding through town the heavens open and drench us.
Without gloves my hands are cold; without long boots, the chafing is starting to bite; and without waterproofs, my humour is sorely tested. But there is a silver lining – and it's worth the pain. On the last leg of our epic 35km tour we enter a lush wooded valley bursting with apple, plum and apricot trees; we grab low-hanging fruit, a sweet balm for morale. And then, as we clear the trees and enter the plains, the most stunning rainbow appears across the horizon. We ride towards its pot of gold until, after seven hours in the saddle, we finally make goal. An hour later I'm in the hotel's hammam, where aching muscles are massaged and the dust is washed from my pores.
It's quite possible that man first tasted wine in this area. Fitting, then, to submit to a little local wine tasting back at the hotel, which boasts over 22,000 bottles in its cellar. It's then upstairs for a traditional beef kebab.
Cappadocia is to hot-air ballooning what Cowes is to sailing, and from spring onwards the sky comes alive with hundreds of balloons. I'd arranged a hands-on dawn flying lesson; unfortunately, it's decided that I'm just out of season and the winds are too strong. So, hiking boots on, I start the strenuous route to the next best vantage point – the summit of Uçhisar's citadel, to watch the sun rise.
After breakfast, a guide takes me to the underground city of Kaymakli for some subterranean exploration. This is where, over centuries, local inhabitants built a network of caves and tunnels to hole up, sometimes for months on end. They were ingenious; also small, as I discover while contorting myself to enter a narrow passageway. It's very Indiana Jones – huge circular doors like millstones stand ready to roll into place, blocking off and trapping unwanted visitors. I shuffle along tunnels, down steps worn over centuries and into chambers where five minutes seems a suffocatingly long time to wait, let alone five months. After an hour my back and I are ready for daylight. On the way back, we stop so I can test my climbing skills at Monks Valley, home to hollowed out fairy chimneys where hermit monks once lived. I carefully ascend the original, very worn vertical steps of one of them and clamber inside to explore. Scratched into the rock I see the outlines of a board game. Life must have been pretty dull.
It's possible to fly back to London the same day if one forgoes the morning's activities; but taking advantage of the stopover in Istanbul allows a night at Sumahan on the Water, which enjoys some of the best views of the Bosphorus – and puts me in place to catch the first flight in the morning.
Thanks to a handy three-hour time difference, I'm back into Stansted at 09.50 and in the city an hour later, sore, exhausted – and elated.


Wes Anderson has an instantly-recognizable style. He is peculiar and particular. He loves to move the camera laterally and often shoot characters or objects in the center of the frame. His films are very twee and for each one he has a specific color palette. While the colors are bright, the characters tend to be muted. The comedy is constant but always very dry. This somewhat small bag of tricks is also undeniably appealing. His films always create a nice, welcoming atmosphere for audiences. The sentimentality within them is often present — but it is never saccharine. The heart within them is often subtle and reserved. He has a small repertoire of actors he likes to recycle—including his college roommate, Owen Wilson — but his films never get stale. He's easy to parody — and often is — but nothing comes close to the real thing. There's something unquantifiably special about his films, and below are the best of his work so far.
This is the quintessential Wes Anderson film because it displays what the fountain of comedy and tragedy he is capable of finding in dysfunctional families. Gene Hackman plays Royal Tenenbaum — the strange and long-absent patriarch of a once-famous family of kid geniuses. His return and subsequent attempt to make amends with his now-grown children shakes up their lives as well as everyone else's around them. It features a star-studded cast with great performances and for anyone unfamiliar with Anderson's work, The Royal Tenenbaums is the best place to start.
Bill Murray plays some role in every one of Wes Anderson's film — save for his directorial debut Bottle Rocket. However, in this particular film, Murray is front-and-center. He plays the eponymous Steve Zissou — a Jacques Cousteau-inspired oceanographer. He finds himself in a strange relationship with the sea and everyone around him after his partner is eaten by a rare breed of shark and he swears revenge, with a jealous sidekick, a pregnant journalist and a man who may or may not be his illegitimate son amongst his crew. Anderson's affection for miniature effects and stop-motion animation are used to great effect in the thoroughly enjoyable film.
In his first film role, Jason Schwartzman plays Max Fischer, the protagonist of this coming-of-age film. Max is a gregarious young playwright and academic underachiever. As an unwealthy student who was admitted to a private school on his writing ability, his tenuous enrollment at the school becomes even more tenuous when his and a local businessman's budding friendship becomes a competition for the attention of a widowed teacher. Along with being grounded and satisfying from start to finish, Rushmore is also my personal favorite Wes Anderson film.
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As Wes Anderson's career has progressed, he has committed further to his particular style — each film more quaint than the last. His sets look meticulously-constructed diorama. In Moonrise Kingdom, he even had an entire house constructed sans back wall; a life-sized dollhouse so that he could easily pan from room to room. It's a story about young love between two troubled kids—one of them a forgotten child of estranged parents, and the other an orphan. They send their entire small northeastern island into chaos by running away together, all while a storm moves ever closer to the tiny landmass. The film is sweet and the heart feels very real, even as Anderson's films look increasingly like living dollhouses.
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We also encourage you to read, Bringing Home Your Newborn for useful baby-specific information.
It took your body about eight- to nine-months to grow your baby and expand your pregnant belly. Then, with some abrupt pushing – or a C-Section – that belly is immediately emptied. In the meantime, the connective tissues that hold the pelvic organs together have shifted and stretched, and you'll be able to feel this every time you stand up or use your abdominal muscles.
This is totally normal – as are the uncomfortable to painful contractions that occur as your uterus begins to shed the rest of the lochia and tone itself back up again. Be gentle with yourself.
Please read, My Body After Childbirth: What to Expect, for comprehensive overview of how to work with your body for the year or two after baby is born.
There are a lot of fluids involved with the postpartum phase and the more absorbent materials you have on hand, the less laundry you'll do in the long-run.
Sanitary pads – Keep pads attached to your underwear to catch the lochia (bloody, vaginal fluid that lasts for about 10- to 14-days.). They'll also come in handy as you adjust to post-partum incontinence, which should begin to resolve itself with time and your attention to rebuilding pelvic strength.
sufficient during the beginning-stages. When you're home, consider using folded towels inside your shirt to save your clothes and sheets. They'll also come in handy if baby pees on you during diaper changes and for the copious amounts of spit-up that are quite common when baby overeats or if their tummy is upset.
Clean gauze for incision drainage. If you've had a C-Section, your incision will drain as it heals. Keep the area clean and dry – and use clean gauze to absorb the leaky serum.
It's best to accept that you'll be leaky, damp and (potentially) smelly for a little while…but that's par for the course with new motherhood.
Everything takes unbelievably longer when you have a baby. Getting from your bedroom into the car for a quick grocery errand can take about an hour (no joke) by the time you've packed the diaper bag, fed the baby, changed a diaper, changed your shirt from the spit-up, fed the baby again and are ready to go. Be flexible and forgiving about anything resembling time-tables or schedules.
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Liberman's secret plan to storm the Likud Party
Foreign Minister Avigdor Liberman considers registering thousands of his supporters in the Likud Party, which will enable him to take control of it on his way to the premier's seat.
Avigdor Liberman attends a meeting with the business community in Uganda's capital Kampala, Sept. 10, 2009. - REUTERS/James Akena
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After the launch of Avigdor Liberman's new 2014 persona, all we have left to do is find out what road the foreign minister will take to realize his dream of becoming the prime minister of Israel, to where he emigrated in 1978 from the Soviet Union at age 20. Liberman faces a simple dilemma: Either he returns to his independent Yisrael Beitenu Party to scrape up some 20 seats out of the 120-seat parliament — which is not an impossible feat — or he will dismantle his own party and join the Likud Party to seize control of the ruling party from within, thus earning a ready-made political platform.
Liberman joined the Likud ranks as soon as he arrived in Israel, serving as the party's director-general when Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took control of it in 1993. He still holds onto many important power bases in that party, among its constituents as well as in the party's caucus. That said, Liberman faces fierce opposition inside the Likud from all those who consider his return as jeopardizing their own standing and future. Minister of the Interior Gideon Sa'ar, Defense Minister Moshe (Bogie) Ya'alon, Minister for Regional Development Silvan Shalom and maybe even Minister for Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz are hoping to succeed Netanyahu some day. There are also the various radical elements, chief among them Deputy Transportation Minister Tzipi Hotovely, Deputy Defense Minister Danny Danon, Coalition Chairman Yariv Levin and others who construe Liberman's moderate political views and his surprising pragmatism to be a threat to them. The latter, combined with the settlers, who make up many of the Likud constituents, will see Liberman as a foreign element that should be prevented from making a "hostile takeover" of the party.
Before the 2013 elections and following a decision that rocked the political establishment, Netanyahu and Liberman called a news conference, announcing that the Likud and Yisrael Beitenu parties would run in a joint slate called "Likud Beitenu." Back then, Liberman predicted that the joint slate would garner as many as 45 seats (prior to the election they had 42 seats together; 27 for Likud and 15 for Liberman.) The foreign minister's prophecy proved wrong. The joint party suffered a resounding defeat, raking in only 31 seats (thus posting a loss of 11 seats compared to what they had before.) Yet, that was the most successful abortive move in the history of Israel's politics, since it awarded Netanyahu another term as prime minister. Had Netanyahu not joined forces with Liberman, he very well could have lost the elections. The rest is history.
For the past month and nearly under the radar, Liberman has been campaigning among his activists on the ground ahead of the decision he would be expected to make in early March. Two weeks ago, he visited the town of Katzrin in the Golan Heights, where all his activists in the north got together. At his request, he was presented with a carefully crafted and highly detailed plan as well as a list of 100 key activists. Each one of them pledged to sign up 400 Israelis to the Likud Party. The objective of this plan is to join the Likud and sign up on Liberman's behalf an overwhelming number of 40,000 new members. This is a tall order that will tilt the balance of power within the Likud, making Liberman the strongest man in the party overnight.
Also that week, Liberman held a similar meeting with activists in the southern city of Ashdod. Two more meetings are scheduled to take place over the next few weeks, in Kiryat Motzkin in the north and Ashkelon in the south. At the end of this campaign, the party caucus will hold a special meeting on March 4, at which point Liberman will make his final decision. Most of his friends and associates believe that he should return to Yisrael Beitenu and break away from the Likud, partly because of the opposition he faces within the ruling party.
When all is said and done, the only person to make that decision will be Liberman himself. The plans that were presented to him indicate that he seriously considers storming the Likud Party. It seems that Liberman understands that the heyday of Yisrael Beitenu as a party for newly arrived Russian immigrants is gone. The massive wave of immigration from Russia has been integrated in the country. Those immigrants are more Israeli than they are Russian. They are not as inextricably linked to Liberman as they used to be. The only road to ascend to power must go through the Likud.
For his plan to storm the Likud to be successful, Liberman needs the cooperation of two figures: Netanyahu, as chairman of the Likud Party, and Transportation Minister Yisrael Katz, who serves as chairman of the party's secretariat, which oversees the party's logistical management. The Likud statute stipulates that you cannot elect or be elected in the movement before being a member for three years. Ostensibly, this regulation would neutralize Liberman's assault operation. However, it does have a mitigating clause. If the chairman of the secretariat, with the consent of the movement's chairman, agree to shorten this time frame — or in other words, if Liberman's newly signed-up constituents as well as Liberman himself are exempted from accumulating this three-year wait period — the move will be considered kosher.
And this is where we get to the crux of the story, which is the recent political pact between Minister Yisrael Katz, one of the most forceful and important politicians in the Likud, and Liberman. The two have tied their fate together. They are seen together at many functions. It's also important for Netanyahu to see Liberman coming back. In his current persona, Liberman backs Netanyahu in the diplomatic process and gives him a tailwind in running the party's affairs. Netanyahu is petrified by the extremists, chief among them the people from Judea and Samaria, who have taken over the Likud. Liberman can solve the problem for him and get rid on his behalf of those radicals. It appears that the two have some sort of an understanding to the effect that Liberman will not run against Netanyahu in the next elections, which would take us to the 2021 elections. By then, anything can happen. Yisrael Katz is cementing his position as Netanyahu and Liberman's wing man. This trio, Bibi (Netanyahu), Evet (Liberman) and Katz, will seize control of the Likud, send the radicals from Judea and Samaria back to their original size and curb the assault of the younger guard, by Gideon Sa'ar, for example.
That's the plan. It has yet to be approved and the die has not been cast whether to proceed at full throttle. Fierce opposition is expected from other directions. It will probably get to the point where the opponents will contest the act in the movement's court and later in the state courts. Incidentally, even if Liberman's bid is blocked by top Likud members, he stands to win either way. He might be banished, but he will rake in the votes of those who are disappointed in the Likud, if and when. However the chips may fall, Liberman will have to make the final decision next month. Until then, he enjoys his new status.
Incidentally, those who are familiar with Liberman and follow his moves know that his "new" image isn't new at all. What Liberman is saying now is what he also said in interviews he gave in 2003-04 and also in the book he wrote at the time, My Way. His plan for a land swap was published back in the day as well as his statements that he would be willing to evacuate his home in the settlement of Nokdim in exchange for true peace, and that the unity of the people of Israel is more important than more territories.
His warmth toward US Secretary of State John Kerry, and the artillery umbrella he has provided him with, merit another explanation. Liberman's friends emphasize that for him almost everything is personal. Kerry treated Liberman with warmth and respect throughout his previous term, when Liberman was a pariah and a vilified foreign minister. Back then, Kerry was chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He always welcomed Liberman with open arms and friendship. Liberman will forever remember Kerry's attitude, his associates say. He truly believes that Kerry is Israel's friend, and that we will not a see a more honest broker or a better offer than his.
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Review: Adrián Villar Rojas at the Geffen Contemporary: The art museum, frozen in time
Adrian Villar Rojas, "The Theater of Disappearance (detail)," 2017, mixed media.
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By Christopher Knight
Art Critic
A witty moment occurs deep within the massive, immersive installation by Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas that fills almost the entire Geffen Contemporary warehouse space in Little Tokyo. The show, organized by Museum of Contemporary Art curators Helen Molesworth and Bryan Barcena, is part of the citywide series, Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA.
Inside a brightly illuminated refrigeration case, the freezing temperature set at 10 degrees below zero, according to its glowing digital thermostat, a disintegrating bicycle wheel affixed atop a ramshackle stool takes incisive aim at the lingering legacy of Marcel Duchamp.
The famous "Bicycle Wheel" sculpture by the Dada imp, made a full century ago, is kept in the forefront of museum culture today through extraordinary, preprogrammed and finally absurd means. Art on ice, so to speak.
Duchamp's work is like a bottle of milk in the refrigerator whose sell-by date may have arrived somewhere around 1980, the year of Villar Rojas' birth. In case you miss the point, a dead fish is impaled at the base of the wheel, like some supermarket Saint Catherine of Alexandria.
Adrián Villar Rojas, "The Theater of Disappearance (detail)," 2017, mixed media Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times
Adrián Villar Roja, "The Theater of Disappearance (detail)," 2017, mixed media Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times
His sleek and shiny refrigerator is an old-fashioned cabinet of curiosities, re-conceived for a technological age. One of a number scattered throughout the installation, it stands amid big stone boulders, some chiseled and others split in two, as well as tall, skinny monoliths made from sedimentary layers of cast concrete and synthetic amber.
Other refrigerators — commercial, domestic or redolent of a scientific lab — hold artfully arranged displays of tree roots, athletic gear, fish, clothing, feathers, prosthetic limbs, a side of beef, power tools, skeletons and more. Vanitas, a traditional genre of painting and sculpture filled with symbols of death and the inevitability of change, is cleverly transformed into an attractive installation of contemporary objects.
The Geffen's floor has been raised and covered with a layer of packed dirt, the walls painted royal blue — part deep-sea, part distant sky — to underscore the entire museum as an artificial construction. (If you miss that reference, one gallery's walls are lined with theater flats, seen from behind.) The theatrical ensemble, heroic but disheveled, suggests the contained ruins of a civilization, natural and cultural, on display for our amusement.
An extended if very familiar meditation on the modern museum, the grandiose installation, titled "The Theater of Disappearance," suffers from a sense of exhaustion not dissimilar to that of the frozen, dilapidated bicycle wheel so puckishly entombed. "We are proud of our museums," the great Indian art curator Ananda Coomaraswamy wrote in 1947, "where we display the damning evidence of a way of life that we have made impossible." By now a common sentiment, it is merely repeated in Villar Rojas' thoroughly academic installation.
Given the obvious expense and herculean labor of the undertaking, partially underwritten by the artist's dealers in New York and Mexico City, the show, originally scheduled for a four-month run, will now remain at the Geffen for seven months. (After six months, an installation by the artist recently closed on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's New York rooftop.) The gigantism of the project far outpaces its slender rewards, which shrink further by comparison.
Geffen Contemporary, 152 N. Central Ave., L.A. Through May 13; closed Tuesdays. (213) 626-6222, www.moca.org
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The federal judge in the upcoming federal court trial for President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort on Monday unsealed the names of five witnesses being granted immunity to testify, as he granted the defense's request to delay the start of the trial.
Manafort, a long-time Republican operative and businessman, appeared in court for the hearing in a green prison jumpsuit.
The trial scheduled to start on Wednesday involves 16 counts including bank and tax fraud and failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts.
"We thought that we would get it through discovery".
The documents come from a firm that handled Manafort's bookkeeping and the electronic devices of Rick Gates, his longtime business associate.
Mueller's team has four "phones or iPads" and one laptop belonging to Gates, who pleaded guilty earlier this year and has been cooperating with the investigation.
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On Sunday night at half past 11 o'clock, President Trump sent a public message to Hassan Rouhani , his Iranian counterpart. Iran has rejected talks with the US , and Rouhani has accused the USA of stoking an "economic war".
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The five witnesses granted immunity are: James Brennan, Donna Duggan, Conor O'Brien, Cindy Laporta and Dennis Raico.
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The following is a proposal I was invited to submit by Maika Pollack for her Southfirst Gallery in 2015. You will see it revisits the column that I edited for Art21 from 2010-2012 through a set of terms and concepts identified with Afro-Pessimism. After receiving no comment from Pollack about the proposal, I decided not to pursue it further.
From 2009-2011, I produced a column at Art21 blog called 5 Questions for Contemporary Practice. The principal intention of the column was to provide a survey regarding artists' engagement with the public sphere, and concerning what ways they deemed their art to have "political" and/or "social" value. This column came about just as "socially engaged art" and art mediated and framed by "social practice" was coming into focus as an art historical field. It also preceded the Occupy movement, an event which was contiguous with the practices of many of the artists whom I surveyed and in many ways would seem the culmination of the social and aesthetic energies that inspired the column at its inception and throughout its two-year run.
At the invitation of the art historian Maika Pollack, I am organizing a group show that I would like for you to participate in and contribute work for. This show will be held at Southfirst gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, which she cofounded and where she has been the gallerist and main curator for the past decade.
As a means of revisiting the intentions of 5 Questions for Contemporary Practice, I would like to invite you to provide responses to a new questionnaire generated especially for the occasion. Additionally, I request that you invite one other artist to respond to the questionnaire and call for an original work.
The End of the world of course.
Césaire's lines were written as a response to the situation of colonialism, a process of de/worlding that continues in various ways today in spite of the sustained credence given to the term "postcolonial." The prophetic value of Césaire's lines, and the larger poem of which they are a part, sadly maintains because so little would seem to have changed for the better since the time that he wrote them; we are now, in fact, ever closer to the destruction of the planet, largely as a result of the society that he was writing against. We have also come no closer, and are in fact it would seem quite further away, from the goals of global economic justice and a society without racism, particularly racism against Black and Brown bodies, to which he was committed. It is with Césaire's legacy in mind, and the necessary violence of his social and intellectual position, that I would like to propose the following show as a means of directing art's concerns away from civility and relationality towards the apocalyptical and impossible labor our current world demands.
1. To what extent does the artist express a destructive character, a character that would lay waste to the existing world—whether nihilistically or constructively, which is to say, with or without a sense of what world might come to replace the former one?
2. Can art be a revolutionary force for the emergence of a new world, a world no longer structured by the systemic violence of capital, nor by the colonial and genocidal tendencies that undergird it historically and ontologically? If so, how?
3. To what extent must the artist also engage with violence, or become violent through their practice, to bring about the destruction of the current world and thus clear a space in which new structures, forms, and subjects can emerge? What are the possible uses you foresee or have observed for violence in your work?
4. Perhaps you see "art" as too limiting a category to describe what you do and how you wish to contribute to the transformation of the world/society. If this is the case, I wonder where you may locate the limits and threshold of your practice in relation to forms of practice that are revolutionary and/or world transforming?
5. Should the existing world be destroyed, what world would you like to take its place? What are the qualities of this new world and in what ways may art and the artist continue to function in it?
1. A process of world destroying.
2. A desirable world to come.
3. A world that you would want that is already here, though unacknowledged or invisible.
4. The world immediately after the destruction you have imagined or intended for it.