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Vladimir Karolkov (1946-2021) dit Korolkov (en ) est un peintre, né en 1946 dans le village de Kastsyukovichy (), à cette époque dans l'URSS.

Il a étudié à l'Académie d'Arts de Vitebsk, sa mère artiste lui a enseigné également les rudiments de la peinture.
Puis, il a poursuivi de manière intense le spirituel et l'absolu. Il a été tôt familiarisé à l'œuvre de Malevich, Soutine, puis s'initie vers les portraits et paysages qui représentent une force peu commune. Ils s'en dégagent une puissance et beaucoup d'audace.

Biographie

Après s'être passionné pour le dessin à ses débuts, il expose ses huiles et sa peinture augure une certaine sensibilité et ses dernières réalisations lui permettent d'intégrer la cour d'honneur d'excellents contemporains à découvrir. Sa peinture est toujours animée d'une facture bien particulière qui ne laisse jamais indiffèrent, associant la nature, les paysages environnants de son cher pays, la Biélorussie.
Il exprime dans sa peinture tous messages, comme la vie quotidienne, jusqu'aux dissonances musicales.
Aujourd'hui, il fait partie du noyau inconditionnel des peintres, reconnus par ses contemporains et surtout sa peinture est très recherchée par les collectionneurs avertis particulièrement aux États Unis, France et Angleterre.

La peinture de Karolkov

À partir des années 1990, il associe des couleurs, plus fraîches, plus calmes mais non moins apaisées. Korolkov a été bouleversé tôt par la disparition de ses parents et sa peinture extériorise une vie tourmentée mais apaisée par la découverte de la nature et ses jeux de couleurs qui lèvent toutes ambiguïtés de sa vie.

Technique
La Biélorussie a toujours été l'un des lieux artistiques les plus vifs en Europe avec l'École de Vitebsk, dernière exposition à Paris en 2019 au Centre Pompidou la nouvelle génération où beaucoup d'artistes ont préféré rester dans leur pays, offre une grande opportunité de découvrir des artistes jusqu'à ce jour inaccessibles.

Karolkov offre une palette d'une richesse extrême, qui se traduit par un pur lyrisme, pictural d'un goût parfait, raffiné, mélangeant les bleues, jaunes, des tons justes et forts qui s'harmonisent dans la somptuosité.Il lui suffit de représenter un aspect quelconque de la nature pour ressentir tout a la fois des émotions.

Expositions personnelles

Expositions collectives

 1980 - exposition d'art républicain «La jeunesse du pays», Minsk.
 1982 - exposition d'art républicain «Terre et peuple», Minsk.
 1982 - l'exposition d'artistes biélorusses, Moscou.
 1984 - exposition inter républicaine, Kaunas;
 1987 - exposition internationale à Zielona Góra, PPR.
 1987 - exposition d'art républicain «Octobre: 70 ans», Minsk;
 1988 - exposition internationale à Francfort sur l'Oder, RDA.
 1989 - exposition d'art républicain des régions, Minsk;
 1990 - exposition internationale, Minsk.
 1991 - une exposition d'art biélorusse, Tallinn;
 1982 - exposition d'art républicain «Terre et peuple», Minsk.
 2012 - exposition d'art républicain «Red Color», Minsk, Art Palace, avril.

Notes et références

Naissance en juillet 1946
Naissance dans le gouvernement de Moguilev
Peintre biélorusse du XXe siècle
Peintre biélorusse du XXIe siècle
Décès en janvier 2021
Décès à 74 ans


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LAP -- Life After Panda -- is somewhat incomprehensible for San Francisco Giants fans. For one thing, what are these guys gonna do with those enormous heads? Pablo Sandoval has been there for all three Giants' World Series runs, and although his weight and his batting average have fluctuated greatly, his popularity has not.
He is arguably the most popular Giant, certainly the most gregarious, and this will be very hard to replace.
But it looks like the Giants will have to do just that. According to the Boston Globe, both Sandoval and the A's Jon Lester have been offered "multiyear deals" by the Boston Red Sox. And CBS Bay Area rates Sandoval's likelihood of accepting that offer at "90 percent."
The Giants offered Pablo the same contract given to Hunter Pence, five years at $90 million. Sandoval wanted that deal last Spring when Giants were justifiably suspicious about Pablo's physical condition. But when that offer came after the World Series, Sandoval countered by asking for a seven year deal.
Sandoval was in Boston yesterday where I am told there is a 90 percent chance that he will sign with the Red Sox. The other 10 percent goes to the Toronto Blue Jays.
By asking for seven years, Pablo was essentially saying to the Giants "So Long And Thanks For All The Rings." And the only reason that the Blue Jays have a 10 percent chance is because of a more forgiving tax rate.
The Giants want to keep Sandoval, but will not overpay to do so. According to most sources, that puts SF out of the running, and in search of a new third baseman.
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HomeTechnologyNew Data Sources: A Conversation with Google's (GOOGL) Hal Varian
New Data Sources: A Conversation with Google's (GOOGL) Hal Varian
By Mark Curtis May 1, 2014, 1:03 PM
In recent years, there has been an explosion of new data coming from places like Google (GOOGL), Facebook (FB), and Twitter (TWTR). Economists and central bankers have begun to realize that these data may provide valuable insights into the economy that inform and improve the decisions made by policy makers.
As chief economist at Google and emeritus professor at UC Berkeley, Hal Varian is uniquely qualified to discuss the issues surrounding these new data sources. Last week he was kind enough to take some time out of his schedule to answer a few questions about these data, the benefits of using them, and their limitations.
Mark Curtis: You've argued that new data sources from Google can improve our ability to "nowcast." Can you describe what this means and how the exorbitant amount of data that Google collects can be used to better understand the present?
Hal Varian: The simplest definition of "nowcasting" is "contemporaneous forecasting," though I do agree with David Hendry that this definition is probably too simple. Over the past decade or so, firms have spent billions of dollars to set up real-time data warehouses that track business metrics on a daily level. These metrics could include retail sales (like Wal-Mart and Target), package delivery (UPS and FedEx), credit card expenditure (MasterCard's SpendingPulse), employment (Intuit's small business employment index), and many other economically relevant measures. We have worked primarily with Google data, because it's what we have available, but there are lots of other sources.
Curtis: The ability to "nowcast" is also crucially important to the Fed. In his December press conference, former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke stated that the Fed may have been slow to acknowledge the crisis in part due to deficient real-time information. Do you believe that new data sources such as Google search data might be able to improve the Fed's understanding of where the economy is and where it is going?
Varian: Yes, I think that this is definitely a possibility. The real-time data sources mentioned above are a good starting point. Google data seems to be helpful in getting real-time estimates of initial claims for unemployment benefits, housing sales, and loan modification, among other things.
Curtis: Janet Yellen stated in her first press conference as Fed Chair that the Fed should use other labor market indicators beyond the unemployment rate when measuring the health of labor markets. (The Atlanta Fed publishes a labor market spider chart incorporating a variety of indicators.) Are there particular indicators that Google produces that could be useful in this regard?
Varian: Absolutely. Queries related to job search seem to be indicative of labor market activity. Interestingly, queries having to do with killing time also seem to be correlated with unemployment measures!
Curtis: What are the downsides or potential pitfalls of using these types of new data sources?
Varian: First, the real measures—like credit card spending—are probably more indicative of actual outcomes than search data. Search is about intention, and spending is about transactions. Second, there can be feedback from news media and the like that may distort the intention measures. A headline story about a jump in unemployment can stimulate a lot of "unemployment rate" searches, so you have to be careful about how you interpret the data. Third, we've only had one recession since Google has been available, and it was pretty clearly a financially driven recession. But there are other kinds of recessions having to do with supply shocks, like energy prices, or monetary policy, as in the early 1980s. So we need to be careful about generalizing too broadly from this one example.
Curtis: Given the predominance of new data coming from Google, Twitter, and Facebook, do you think that this will limit, or even make obsolete, the role of traditional government statistical agencies such as Census Bureau and the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the future? If not, do you believe there is the potential for collaboration between these agencies and companies such as Google?
Varian: The government statistical agencies are the gold standard for data collection. It is likely that real-time data can be helpful in providing leading indicators for the standard metrics, and supplementing them in various ways, but I think it is highly unlikely that they will replace them. I hope that the private and public sector can work together in fruitful ways to exploit new sources of real-time data in ways that are mutually beneficial.
Curtis: A few years ago, former Fed Chairman Bernanke challenged researchers when he said, "Do we need new measures of expectations or new surveys? Information on the price expectations of businesses—who are, after all, the price setters in the first instance—as well as information on nominal wage expectations is particularly scarce." Do data from Google have the potential to fill this need?
Varian: We have a new product called Google Consumer Surveys that can be used to survey a broad audience of consumers. We don't have ways to go after specific audiences such as business managers or workers looking for jobs. But I wouldn't rule that out in the future.
Curtis: MIT recently introduced a big-data measure of inflation called the Billion Prices Project. Can you see a big future in big data as a measure of inflation?
Varian: Yes, I think so. I know there are also projects looking at supermarket scanner data and the like. One difficulty with online data is that it leaves out gasoline, electricity, housing, large consumer durables, and other categories of consumption. On the other hand, it is quite good for discretionary consumer spending. So I think that online price surveys will enable inexpensive ways to gather certain sorts of price data, but it certainly won't replace existing methods.
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1868 Indigenous cricket tour to England
On 10 April 2018, Cricket Australia announced the men's and women's teams that will commemorate the 150th anniversary of the 1868 tour to England by an indigenous team from Australia – the first ever overseas sporting tour by Australians. Ashleigh Gardner will captain the women's team and Dan Christian the men's.
This news prompted me to write this short blog and finalise an article on my Stevens ancestors of Witham, Essex, and their involvement in cricket, because this involvement included organising and playing in one of the matches against that touring indigenous team in September 1868.
My great-grand-uncle, Charles Richard Stevens (1851-1910) helped organise the match between the tourists and the 'gentlemen' of the Witham Cricket Club. He also played in the match. He only scored 4 and 6 as the tourists went on to win by an innings and 43 runs.
Judging by the members of the two teams soon to go to England, the current gentlemen of the Witham Cricket Club would seem unlikely to do as well against the tourists as their predecessors did in 1868.
The field on which they played still exists and cricket is still played on it as my photograph, taken in August 2016, attests. But it will not feature in this year's tour.
My overview of the 1868 match and the involvement of the Stevens family in cricket in Witham can be found HERE.


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NEW DELHI: The action against activists arrested by Maharashtra police on Tuesday relating to Elgar Parishad, followed by Bhima Koregaon violence, has not come overnight as a stage for the same was set by erstwhile UPA government.
Defending the action, ministry of home affairs sources said that UPA government had come out with a report in December 2012 which identified 128 organisations having links with or acting as fronts for CPI (Maoists) and had recommended action against these organisations.
Seven out of 10 activists – Varavara Rao, Sudha Bhardwaj, Surendra Gadling, Rona Wilson, Arun Ferreira, Vernon Gonsalves and Mahesh Raut - arrested by Maharashtra police since June 6 this year belong to organisations identified by the previous government, said a source.
Gautam Navlakha (leader of People's Union of Democratic Rights), Varavara Rao (president of Revolutionary Democratic Front), Bhardwaj (vice president of Indian Association of People's Lawyers), Ferreira and Gonsalves ((former member and secretary respectively of Maharashtra State Committee of CPI Maoist), were arrested on Tuesday while Gadling (general secretary of Indian Association of People's Lawyers), Rona Wilson (Public Relation Secretary of Committee for the Release of Political Prisoners), Raut (State Convener of Visthapan Virodhi Jan Vikas Andolan), Shoma Sen (executive member of Committee for Protection of Democratic Rights) and Sudhir Dhawale (Republican Panthers) were arrested on June 6.
About Rao, officials said he has been arrested several times by Andhra Pradesh and Telangana police in the past while Ferreira and Gonsalves have also been arrested earlier as well by Maharashtra police in 2007 and spent several years in the prison.
Citing the intelligence bureau report from 2012, MHA sources said the bureau had identified that these 128 organisations were propagating the Maoists' agenda in 16 states including Delhi, Chhattisgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, Bihar, Karnataka, Odisha, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Haryana and Kerala.
The IB report had stated, "the front organisations ensure fusion between overground and underground activities. They are responsible for recruitment of educated youth who go to the field to keep the movement alive and play the role of ideologues".
These organisations also gather funds, are part of misinformation campaigns and provide legal aid to Maoists, the IB, which comes under the home ministry, had added in 2012.
Sources, citing IB's analysis, said that these organisations included student unions, youth organisations, lawyers' groups, workers associations, women organisations, tribal bodies and NGOs, and many of them were working with an objective to infiltrate the cadres of different associations for violence.
"They indulge in distributing pamphlets and other ideology material of CPI (Maoists), holding rallies, and even penetrating into protests," the MHA officer added.
These activists, a MHA official said, are being investigated for their links with CPI (Maoist), a banned organisation operating with the devious objective of overthrowing democratic order, and the support provided by them to the CPI (Maoist).
"Such individuals cannot escape responsibility for aiding and abetting the violent acts committed by CPI (Maoist) underground cadres," he said.
"The CPI (Maoist), towards the achievement of its ultimate objective of seizure of political power through protracted peoples war, attaches immense importance to the urban movement which works towards creation of a United Front in support of their movement," another official said.
The urban movement is the main source for providing leadership and resources to the CPI(Maoist). The responsibility for provision of supplies, technologies, expertise, information and other logistic support is also shouldered by the overground activists in urban centres, the official said.
He added that "urban Naxalism is not a fiction of government's imagination but a stark reality as Maoists are working towards creating a united front to support their movement".


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Welcome to Finance Insider, Business Insider's summary of the top stories of the past 24 hours.
The merger madness continues.
General Electric is merging its oil and gas business with Baker Hughes
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CenturyLink is tanking after the announcement
The deals are all about synergies
Blackstone is buying TeamHealth in a $6.1 billion deal
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In hedge fund news, Brevan Howard — one of the industry's biggest names — has received redemption requests for an additional $2 billion from the firm's flagship fund this year, according to people familiar with the matter. A hot new hedge fund backed by Stan Druckenmiller is closing in on a big launch.
And Carson Block told us he regrets not having shorted one stock in 2016.
Ex-Barclays boss Antony Jenkins just launched a fintech startup. The CEO of $1.7 billion software company Xero says AI will be "transformational" for finance. And the CEO of BT thinks the global jobs market is on "the cusp of a radical transformation."
Tech billionaire Peter Thiel, a major supporter of Republican nominee Donald Trump, said that Trumpism "isn't crazy and it's not going away" during a major speech in front of the National Press Club on Monday.
There's a good argument that Apple should buy Netflix.
Elon Musk unveiled Tesla's solar roof and new Tesla Energy products. Musk has also finally figured out how Tesla can deal with Uber, according to Business Insider's Matt DeBord.
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Here are the top Wall Street headlines at midday
EINHORN SLAMS TESLA: "Years of over-promising and under-delivering from a promotional CEO" - David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital just threw shade on Elon Musk's Tesla.
Billionaire investor Steve Schwarzman had the perfect explanation for middle-class anger - A big chunk of the US population should feel "scared" and "insecure," according to Steve Schwarzman, CEO of alternatives giant The Blackstone Group.
The hyper-connectivity revolution has taken global risk to extremes - The huge rise in global instability, keeping everyone awake at night, is characterized by senior military and diplomatic officials as the "most high-risk and unpredictable environment in their working lives."
Things are starting to rumble in Southeast Asia— Political risk could be on the rise in two Southeast Asian countries.
A standard statistical model for stock prices is probably wrong - The idea that returns from financial assets are normally distributed underpins many traditional financial theories, but the reality is that many (even most) assets do not conform to this.
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News hardware & software 28 May 2019, 14:10
author: Bart Swiatek
New Snapdragon 8cx Claimed to be Faster Than Intel Core i5
Well-known mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm has announced that its new laptop CPU is performing better than Intel's Core i5-8250U in benchmarks. The chip will be introduced to the market in 2020 on computers manufactured by Lenovo.
Snapdragon 8cx achieves solid results in benchmarks.
The Snapdragon 8cx CPU performs better in benchmarks than the Core i5-8250U;
Office work and 3D graphics display performance have been tested;
Qualcomm's chips has a much lower energy consumption;
The CPUs will be installed 5G laptops from Lenovo, which are likely to debut on the market in 2020.
According to PCWorld, mobile processor manufacturer Qualcomm has announced that the new Snapdragon 8cx CPUs will be able to compete against the 8th-gen Intel Core i5 processors (Kaby Lake-R) in terms of performance. The CPUs will be installed in the "first 5G laptops", which are created by Lenovo within the so-called "Project Limitless". The devices will most likely debut in 2020.
Snapdragon 8cx performance
How fast will the Snapdragon 8cx be? The processor is supposed to have at least 2.5 times more power than the Snapdragon 850, which, according to the editors of PCWorld, in theory should result in a performance similar to Core i7-8550U. In benchmarks, Qualcomm compared its product with the weaker competition unit - Core i5-8250U - which in most cases was defeated. 8cx performs better in both typical office applications and graphic tasks.
Snapdragon 8cx versus i5-8250U - office applications. Source: Qualcomm.
Snapdragon 8cx vs. i5-8250U - graphical benchmark. Source: Qualcomm.
The true power of the Qualcomm CPU
Someone could ask at this point: All right, but what's the point? Qualcomm's processor is doing quite well, but Lake-R level of performance is unlikely to impress anyone in 2020. The answer to this puzzle can be found in two places. First of all, the aforementioned "5G laptops" - the devices are to be the first portable computers permanently connected to a cutting-edge super-fast network (of course, provided that we are within its range). Snapdragon 8cx will be equipped with two modems - X55 (5G) and X24 (LTE), which will allow it to connect seamlessly to the Internet using the best available standard. The second and more important hint, however, is the benchmark for battery life.
Snapdragon 8cx versus i5-8250U - battery life. Source: Qualcomm.
Nearly 20 hours of video playback and 17 hours of intensive office work are a really impressive result for a laptop. For frequent travellers, this result may be just as important or even more important than the results of performance tests. Ultimately, both machines - both Intel-based and Snapdragon 8cx-based - are capable of offering enough power for most everyday applications (except gaming, but nobody reasonable buys such a computer for that purpose). So why decide on the one whose batteries will last for several hours less?
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Fifa U-20 World Cup winner Ransford Osei retires from football at age 30
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Former Ghanaian youth sensation Ransford Osei has retired from football at the age of 30.
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He won the golden boot in the 2007 Africa U-17 Championship and 2009 Africa Youth Championship. He also won the silver boot the 2007 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
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Parents – spend quality time with your children with these interesting art and craft ideas for kids and in the process create memories for a lifetime.
Art and craft activities help in teaching kids creativity and imagination. It also helps them develop their motor skills, improve coordination, increases concentration and more importantly, keeps them occupied productively! If you want to spend some quality time with your children, try doing some crafts with them. Rest assured that you will come up with some quirky results that your child will be proud of. And in the process you will also be creating many beautiful memories to cherish for long!
What could be easier than painting a roadside pebble and turning it into garden art? Here's how you get going!
Pick up some flat and smooth pebbles from your next riverside trip. When you are ready to start crafting with your child, choose a pebble from your collection and paint the whole pebble dark blue using acrylic colours and a sponge. Now trace any pattern like a fish or a turtle on it using a pencil. Following this, paint the turtle silver using a brush. Let dry completely. Once dry, apply uniform dots in orange colour around the border using ear buds. Use alternate colours to apply dots to fill in the turtle design. Use light blue colour and add dots outside the turtle design. Voila! Your very own personalized stone art is ready!
Stamping crafts is so much fun to do since most of the materials are already present in the house!
Place an old newspaper (Folded atleast half an inch thick) between the layers of the T-shirt to prevent seepage of colour. Cut the potatoes into smooth halves. Then cut a wedge shape on the backside to make a handle. Pat the potato dry using a tissue. In a paper plate add some blue acrylic colour. Do not dilute. Rub the large potato half in it (smooth side down) till the blue covers it completely. Press hard on the T-shirt and lift carefully. Now repeat the same with the smaller potato to form the wings as shown in picture. Let dry. Use a new half to dip in white colour and print on top of the blue to form the stomach. Let dry completely. Using a paint brush add 2 dots for the eyes. Use orange colour to add feet and a tiny beak.
Help your child surprise a loved one on a special day – be it Mother's day, Father's day, birthday or just like that – an anyday gift for someone special!
Arrange the ice-cream sticks two on top of the other two to form a square. Secure them in place using fevicol. Let dry. Using fevicol decorate the frame using sequins, glitter, sand and shells. Make sure all the sequins are stuck firmly onto the frame. Make a mixture of 1 part fevicol and 1 part water and apply a thin coat all over. Let dry completely. Cut the photo to size and paste behind the frame. Secure a magnetic strip and use as a fridge magnet.
An effective way for teaching kids about recycling is to set an example at home. Reuse stuff lying around the house and craft with them.
Cut the kitchen roll into a 5 inch tube. Cut the construction paper to form a 6 inch by 6 inch square. Wrap around the tube so that one inch is extra and secure in place using glue. Now pinch the construction paper and fold to form ears. Cut the pattern paper into two leaf shapes. Paste to form wings. Paste googly eyes. Finally cut the foam into a triangle and paste to form the beak.
Most kids love messy hands and messy play. So it's time to get your hands dirty! Here's a craft that acts as a keepsake and can even be framed. This can also be painted onto a card for Easter.
Place the paper firmly on the ground. Take some white paint and paint the whole palm using a big brush or a sponge. Stamp onto paper. Wait for 5 seconds before lifting it up. Wash hand. Using the pointer finger dab on some red and yellow feathers. Paint some chicks by using a finger to paint a yellow circle for its face and a larger circle for its body. Paint some grass using green color again using fingers. Add red plumes, feathers, feet using a paint brush. Draw eyes using a marker.
We hope these ideas will help all you Indian moms out there to have a fun time at home while also teachings kids some useful skills!
*Art & craft photos credit: Shruti Bhat.
About The Author: Shruti is well-known in the blogosphere as the Artsy-Craftsy mom! She juggles her full time job with her passion for crafting. Her blog is full of innovative yet easy-to-do art and craft ideas for kids.
This is so cute…yet so innovative and useful….I just loved it !!
@Meghna – Thank you so much.
Wonderful ideas! Looking forward to more such articles..specially the ones where we will be able to understand and explain the life and work of famous artists to our children..
@chandrima – that's one of my favorite topics… but it caters to slightly older kids.
Good supportive pics and ideas!
Nice ideas. Worth making. Please give more such creative ideas.
Super creative ideas and art.
Among so many ideas Recycle was my favourite. Will definitely try them.


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Had the boat out for the first time this season ('09 VTX) and my wedge will deploy properly and then adjust properly when the rider is pulled up, but once I throttle back to pick up the rider, it stays in the up position, so when I try to pull them up again, the boat won't get on plane without lowering the wedge. Any ideas of what could be causing this? Is there any way to reset the wedge?
I think you can recalibrate in maliview screen. Check the wedge options.
Looks like wedge problems as an adult are very different than wedge problems for school age kids.