Tention Free : Tell us a little bit about yourself. Your background, education, profession etc. ??
I am from fall mass I have lived in New York over 15 years came here to model at 18. My background is Portuguese and German. I went to school for personal training and do that when I am not making music or doing photo shoots or movies.
Tention Free : We been hearing a lot about Mr. New York AKA Jsilvaceleb and "This is my New York", so we notice your starting to gain a lot of attention how does it feel?
I have always been on the runway since 16 with Tyson Beckford and other top models traveling the world. Rap, Freestyle comes naturally for me I am able to make tracks on the spot also produce myself, engineer everything I do it all. So This is my NYC in the fact that Nobody can do everything that I can at a level that I do it and I never stop working.
Tention Free : What made you realize that music was your path?
At 15 year, I went to job core. Joe the black and mild seller was at the smoke spot in loring job core Maine. I noticed a rap battle I was told to jump in and rap. I did and people loved it! They told me I was good. Really good. Then I never stopped went back to mass and started performing at house parties and then shows at clubs all over the world.
Tention Free : Please tell our readers more about your album "Empire Must Rise"?
"Empire Must Rise" is My first Gospel Christian CD, that is avail on all platforms. I know he is all there is GOD everything AAG all about God is a song that is the main focus as well as GOSPEL. It was recorded at the world famous quad studio. It was amazing you could feel the power of the Lord working throughout the whole process, it took about 8 months to produce so about 1 track a month.
Tention Free : What makes your style unique?
My style is unmatched and unique because I am a fashion plate with so much creative energy that I am what every artist really wants to be, I set trends. I make new waves and look good doing it.
Tention Free : Do you have any advice for anyone wanting to be a professional rapper?
Pac, System of the down, Biggie, Wu tang, Metallica, Big pun, Maralyin Manson, Micheal Jackson.
Tention Free : What are your future plans as a model ? Your vision for the coming years.
Model is over rated. I got into music so I can have longevity in the business looks fade. Hits never get old. Now its all about the gram. If you get a sponsor and make money that way you cut out all the B.S people trying to rob your talent.
Tention Free : Everybody needs time out. What do you do in your free time?
I work out. Run with my pit bull and work on my clothing line Hampton world.


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Jeff Osborne, Nicki Minaj's latest music video director, touches on 9/11 Truth issues in statement to Billboard Magazine
Orangutan. Wed, 11/12/2014 - 11:02pm
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In an exclusive statement, Jeff Osborne breaks down the creative process behind the video, including Young Money's brief guidelines. Read in full below:
"The reason I'm not apologizing is because neither I nor the video are anti-semitic. I can't be sorry for something I'm being falsely accused of. The video represents Young Money as a generic totalitarian regime, which takes images and symbols from several countries and time periods, one of which is Nazism. As an artist I have two voids to fill. First, meeting the demands of the client and two, creatively applying my own voice where I can. The Young Money team came to me with a set of parameters in which they exactly stated -- something black and white, dark, ominous, with hints of imagery like Sin City or Metalocalypse.
As far as applying Nazi imagery, 100% me. Whether it was interpreted that way to their team, I have no idea. Not once did we ever sit in the same room, nor did they ask if I applied a deeper hidden meaning. I simply send them the video and they reject, approve, or ask for changes.
I made this creative decision to show the juxtaposition of the most iconic form of totalitarianism and ways it still exists today, specifically in politics, the military-industrial complex, censorship, and intense monitoring and tracking of our citizens. It has nothing to do with glorifying Hitler or the Holocaust. People think it's trivializing the Holocaust because the song talks about sex, but I have no control over the lyrical content. I had an opportunity and an outlet, which I knew would reach millions of people, and wanted to make a statement. The term New World Order isn't just an edgy pop culture reference. It is very real and was a term used by president George H.W. Bush, ironically 10 years to the day before 9/11.
We have a government that tracks us, monitors us, has programs dedicated to controlling our minds and testing diseases on us, and no one asks any questions. People aren't privy to things like MK Ultra, the School of the Americas, the fact that the Bush family owned Securacom, which was in charge of security for the World Trade Center, Dulles Airport, and United Airlines. The fact that in every recent war, the opposition leader has worked for the CIA. I'm not saying I know all the facts, but do people really think there isn't more to the story? Look up from your smartphone and smell the fuckin' roses, I'm trying to help you! People vilify artists for using this type of imagery in their work as if they're part of the 1% club. Believe me, any artist who has brain cells know they're not in the club. In my opinion it's not glorification, it's a subliminal warning because you can't openly say these kinds of things. Me? I don't give a shit. I have no corporate interests, PR team, or image to maintain.
My comment about the First Amendment was in regard to people demanding the video be removed, not their interpretation of the video, which I welcome openly, whether positive or negative, because that's the point of art."
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Alex Jones talks with music video direct Jeff Osbourne about his controversial new video for Nicki Minaj's song Only.
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Is it possible that a particle has zero velocity but still have a acceleration?
Only for an instant. Acceleration is a change in velocity. When the derivative of acceleration with respect to time is zero, the velocity would be zero.
Can an object have zero velocity but still have an acceleration?
Yes. It won't have zero velocity for long, but it's possible for the instantaneous velocity to be zero when the acceleration is non-zero. For example, if you throw a ball straight up, at the very top of its path it's not moving upward or downward, but it still has an acceleration, and will fall from that point starting immediately.
When average velocity is equal to its instantaneous velocity acceleration?
you are still. motion is at rest.
Can an object have increasing velocity and decreasing acceleration?
Yes, decreasing acceleration could still be positive, which yields an increase in velocity (speed). Velocity is the rate of change of position, and acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. As long as the acceleration is positive, then velocity is increasing. If acceleration becomes negative, then velocity is decreasing. ======================= I second that accelerated motion ! Even if the acceleration is petering out, as long as it's still more than zero, the speed can be increasing. By the way ... you can have a big solid acceleration, and it doesn't mean that the speed or the size of the velocity has to be increasing. Or even changing. But that's another story.
How an object could still be moving with the 0 acceleration?
Zero acceleration means that the velocity doesn't change. It doesn't mean that there is no velocity.
How is it possible for an object to have no velocity for an instant but still have real acceleration at that instant?
If, for example, there's a cup on a table, it's not moving, but since the Earth rotates, it still has movement.
Can the velocity of an object be positive and acceleration negative?
Yes. An object slowing down but still moving in a positive direction has a positive velocity but a negative acceleration.
Can a particle have zero velocity but still has an acceleration?
Yes, but only briefly, not permanently. At an instant in time the acceleration can be non-zero while the velocity is zero. However, this would change the velocity to non-zero after any amount of time. An example of this is when you throw a ball into the air: at it's highest point, the velocity is zero (it changes from going upward to going downward, passing through zero for an instant). However the acceleration is downward the entire time.
Examples where velocity is zero but not acceleration?
When a ball is thrown up in the air there is a moment, when the ball reaches its maximum height, the velocity of the ball is zero, and acceleration due to gravity still exists [downwards]. If the velocity is zero, the acceleration is not necessarily zero.
Does an object's speed increase even if acceleration decreases?
Acceleration is nothing but rate of increase in velocity. If acceleration at the time is positive velocity will increase independent of acceleration in past. Suppose you are moving at 5m/s at t=0. Acceleration is 5m/s2 initially. At t = 1 your velocity will be 10m/s. If acceleration became 3m/s2, then your velocity at t = 2 will be 13m/s. Thus your velocity still increased but comparatively lesser in amount. Now if acceleration became -8m/s2, velocity at t = 3 will be 5m/s, thus velocity decrease due to negative acceleration.
An object with a constant acceleration but with zero velocity what is mean is n't possible.?
Yes, it can happen. when the velocity is momentarily zero while an object is changing from moving in the positive direction motion to the negative direction; the object obviously will stop at one point, but will still have a constant acceleration.
Can a body have zero velocity and still be accelerating?
No. A velocity indicates a speed and direction. An acceleration is a change in speed or direction.
Do acceleration and velocity always point in the same direction?
No. Acceleration is a change of velocity and doesn't have to point in the same direction. Consider braking car: it still moves with decreasing velocity in one direction, while braking force and thus acceleration is in the opposing direction.
Can a body have accerlation butb still have zero velocity?
Yes, it is possible. When a body thrown upward (from the surface of Earth or any other planet but with velocity small enough not to overcome the gravity) and reaches its maximum elevation its velocity is zero but the acceleration is g (due to gravity).
How is Acceleration related to speed?
Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity (not speed). Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity over time. Velocity is defined by speed and direction. A satellite orbiting the earth at a constant speed is still accelerating because gravity is making it travel in a circle (or ellipse) and consequently its direction and therefore its velocity is constantly changing.
Why is it that an object can accelerate while traveling at constant speed but not at constant velocity?
Acceleration means the velocity changes. Velocity is made up of speed and a direction, so if only the direction changes, the velocity still changes, and therefore there is acceleration. The typical example is moving around in a circle.
When velocity is positive and acceleration is negative what happens to an object's motion?
Its slowing down (but still moving).
What is an object doing at the moment its instantaneous acceleration is zero?
it can be moving at constant velocity or staying still
Can an object have an eastward velocity while experiencing a westward acceleration?
The answer is yes and no.Acceleration is the rate of change of velocity. Velocity is speed plus direction.If an object is travelling eastward and slowing down in a straight line then its velocity is decreasing, it is still travelling eastward. However the force slowing the object is a westward force.A reducing acceleration (slowing down) is most often called a deceleration or negative acceleration. So you have a negative eastward acceleration.
Can a body have a constant velocity and still be accelerating?
No. Acceleration is defined as the rate of change of velocity. If velocity is constant, then its rate of change is zero. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another contributor obfuscated: If we were to get really picky with our vectors we could say that an object could have constant velocity in the x-y plane and still accelerate in the z-axis. Also a system of objects could have a net-velocity in 3-D space and still have a radial acceleration. A solar system traveling through space at constant velocity will have a radial acceleration, for each component part of the system, around the gravitational center of mass of the system.
Can an object have a positive velocity and a negative acceleration?
Yes. A car that brakes is slowing down and therefore has negative acceleration, but is still moving forward a therefore has positive velocity because it cant all of a sudden stop.
If an object has zero velocity does that mean it must have zero acceleration?
No, an object with zero velocity does not necessarily have zero acceleration. The best example of this is an object that is thrown into the air. Let's look at that.The object that is lofted up is constantly accelerated by gravity. The object will have some initial velocity, and its velocity will decrease under the influence (the constant acceleration) of gravity. At some point it will "stop" in air for an instant, and the velocity of the object will be zero. But gravity has always been accelerating the object, and it will continue to do so, pulling it back down to earth. The object was accelerating at g, which is the earth's gravitational constant, even during the instant that it was not moving.Sooooo....in the above explanation, Quirkyquantummechanic appears to have successfully argued that "zero acceleration" is, in fact, a degree of acceleration, and is not the same as "no acceleration". Also, QQM indirectly pointed out that an object approaching zero velocity also approaches zero acceleration, and at the precise moment of zero velocity, the object is at zero acceleration albeit still under the influence of acceleration.Therefore, the answer to the original question is still "Yes" - an object at zero velocity does have zero acceleration.
In circular motion there is acceleration and yet speed is constant why?
Velocity is a vector quantity, meaning it has a size and a direction.The size is what we call "speed".But a change in direction only is still a change in the velocity.Any change in velocity ... even if only a change in direction ... is called "acceleration".
When ever an object is standing still which value is always zero?
Its speed, velocity, and acceleration are all zero.
Can an object have an acceleration if the object is NOT moving?
Answer #1:No. Acceleration is defined as a change in velocity, regardless of magnitude or sign.If an obect has a velocity of 0 m/s, then it's acceleration must also be 0 m/s.However, an object can have a velocity with zero acceleration if the velocity isconstant.===========================Answer #2:An object can have acceleration and still have zero velocity AT ONE INSTANT of time.When you toss a ball or a stone upward, it has constant acceleration downward,due to gravity, as soon as it leaves your hand. It proceeds upward for a while, thenstops and begins to move downward. At the very peak of the arc, at the transitionfrom upward to downward motion, its velocity is zero.Same for a pendulum at either end of every swing.
Can an object be accelerating if it's instantaneous velocity is zero?
Of course, since the instantaneous velocity indicates the velocity at a certain moment in time it does not describe the change in this velocity a moment from the stated instance, which is the acceleration. Therefore, the initial velocity can be zero and still experience an acceleration since the velocity may change in the next instance. The instantaneous velocity of an object is merely the derivative of the position function, the acceleration which is the 2nd derivative of position. Therefore acceleration is first derivative of velocity, thus, the slope of the velocity function may be non zero while the function value at the given time may be zero. For instance consider a simple parabola, y = t2, as the position function, this is obvious from the non linear nature of the graph that there is an acceleration experienced. The velocity function is, by taking the derivative, v = 2t, which is a linear function, stating a constantly changing velocity. The acceleration, differential once again, is a = 2. Thus, we have found that the acceleration at every point in time the acceleration is 2. Looking at the velocity function, it is obvious that there is a zero at t = 0, while at all time the acceleration is 2. Thus, this is an example showing that a function value in a function does not describe its immediate changes from this current point to the next, thus knowing the instantaneous velocity of an object does not give any information about its acceleration unless a change in this velocity is given.
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Given my interdisciplinary background, I've taught graduate and undergraduate courses in Media Studies, Art History, Exhibition and Museum Studies, and Comparative Literature. While art is always the focal point, the readings in my courses are typically grounded in critical theory, media studies and philosophy, and the assignments tend to be oriented toward professional application for artists, curators, art historians, designers and various creatives.
Critical Theory in Art, Design and Visual Culture
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Based on the core idea from the humanities that we can learn to read, look, and think critically as well as to be self-reflexive as we relate to the world around us, CRIT 160 offers an introduction to critical thinking in relation to art, design, and visual culture. Understanding art, design and visual culture requires learning their complicated histories but also the theories and philosophies that have developed to address the visual. This course provides an issues-based introduction to critical theory in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, especially as it relates to art, design, and visual culture.
The class is organized in three sections: Subject/Object/World, Systems, and Resistance. Subject/Object/World provides greater context for the dominant Western perspective, particularly within the nineteenth century, and its ties to colonialism, the patriarchy, modernity and capitalism. This section will showcase how assumptions regarding the artist's critical position to the world, their artistic output, and their imagined audience replicate certain power structures. Systems begins in the early part of the twentieth century, and reveals a paradigm shift in relation to the rise of cybernetics, the role of technological development and an information society. This presents a new framework for conceiving the subject, object and world that delivers both problems and possibilities. The last section, Resistance, brings us to the strange, weird, and evolving twenty-first century. Students will contemplate how to make meaning through critical creative practice given the mass medium of the internet, the rise of the attention economy, and much more.
The broad goal of this course is to teach critical thinking skills and the capacity to imagine creative solutions in relation to theoretical texts and art and design works as well as visual culture and thus to prepare students to engage in the various strains of contemporary artistic and design discourse and practice. Students will be expected to rigorously engage not only with the readings, but to develop regular art viewing as a part of their day-to-day life. Towards this end, the midterm will require that you go off campus, and view an exhibition from an approved list.
This course will provide students with a critical examination of issues, theories, movements and ideas that are relevant to contemporary design practice. The class will offer a survey of the study of visual communication and human-centered design. Students will be given an introduction to an overview of the history of design with a focus on major movements and schools of thought from 1900 to present. Through discussions, readings, lectures and research assignments, students will explore selected themes, engage in critical analysis of selected historical and contemporary works and use case studies to further understand the cultural, social and political implications of design as a visual and cultural language.
Exhibition and Museum Histories
This seminar provides students with the history of the formation of the modern museum and the progression of contemporary curatorial practices, from cabinets of wonder to the first public institutions in both Europe and the United States to today's kunsthalle. We will consider how institutions shape and reflect a shifting public realm, and vice versa. Examining seminal exhibitions from the early 20th century avant-garde to the post-war art into the present, we will consider the evolution of institutions and exhibition practices in relationship to themes such as a changing media environment, the rise of mass culture, the formation of subjectivity, art and activism, etc. Throughout, we will critically examine the historical structures and politics informing curatorial practices and institutions.
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Introduction to Media Studies
Scripps College, Art Department
This course presents a comprehensive view of the issues important to media studies, including the development of new technologies, visual literacy, ideological analysis and the construction of content. Drawing from texts, a variety of sources (contemporary art, film, video, new media) and other theoretically informed models, the course seeks to provide students with a critical understanding of popular culture and mass media productions.
Contemporary Art and Post Media
San Francisco Art Institute, Exhibition and Museum Studies MA
Some have argued that the rise of social media, ubiquitous computing and smart phones has resulted in an increasingly mobile, networked world and a new phase for contemporary art, particularly within the past ten years. Many new terms have been developed by art historians, curators, critics, and artists from the early 2000's until now to explain this shift within contemporary art – including concepts such as post medium, formatting, dispersion, post media aesthetics, post media, radicant art, meme art, and circulationism. This course will review these discussions alongside an overview of the history of internet art, which has nurtured many of these conversations. How does social media affect the reception of contemporary art? How can new technologies generate platforms for the presentation of contemporary art? How can or should art criticism evolve to reflect these changes? In order to tackle these and many other important questions, this class will review writings by Sarah Cook, David Joselit, Nicolas Bourriaud, Domenico Quaranta, Lev Manovich, Boris Groys, Rosalind Krauss, Hito Steyerl, Ed Halter, Seth Price, and more. Assignments will prepare students for the types of writing necessary for professional museum work, such as press releases, extended wall labels, brochure essays, etc.
Introduction to Comparative Literature: Necessary Fictions
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Professor Gabriella Basterra
New York University, Department of Comparative Literature
We like to think of ourselves as acting freely, creating our own ideas and objects. In other words, we like to think of ourselves as subjects. The self-conscious and autonomous subject constitutes itself in relation to what is 'other.' But what is this 'other'? The word 'other' does not always refer to another person: It may also refer to constitutive events, or 'necessary fictions.' These 'others' may be the addressees of our poems, the material and immaterial products of our imaginations, and indeed the otherness we find in ourselves. How do we relate to these 'others'? How do desire, action, and ethical duty (but also fate, guilt, and the law), allow us to perceive ourselves as free? We will explore these and other questions as they have been posed in literary works by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Plato, Ovid, Garcilaso de la Vega, Racine, Keats, Poe, Gautier, Baudelaire, Melville, Lorca, Kafka, Beckett, paintings by Da Vinci and Velázquez, and philosophical and theoretical writings by Kant, Hegel, Freud, Marx, Saussure, Heidegger, Lacan, and Levinas. Though the tragic fate of Agamemnon or Oedipus appears inevitable, in our reading we explore how fate is a necessary fiction that enables action. Today we have transferred the power of fate onto other essentialized constructs such as the free market, advertising, or intelligence organizations which come to structure our desires and dictate the course of our lives. We will trace how inspiration may be found in negation by reading literary texts on the unknown contents of letters – as in Poe –or on endless waiting for what will never come—as in Melville and Beckett. Situated at intersection of the different discourses that comprise Comparative Literature – fiction, poetry, art, philosophy, psychoanalysis, and political theory – this class aims to problematize the notion of modern subjectivity. Our primary concerns will be at once ethical and poetic: How can what exceeds knowledge and representation signal itself in thought?
Texts and Ideas: Animals & Humans
Professor Jacques Lezra
"One might go so far as to define man as a creature that has failed in its effort to keep its animalness…" So writes the German philosopher Peter Sloterdijk. What sort of animal were we? Where, how, and by whom has the line between the human and the animal been drawn? With what consequences for our "human" understanding of the world? Of concepts like the "soul," "society," politics, the family? Is the line between the human and the animal drawn differently in different genres–in literary works, theological treatises, natural histories, paintings, films? We come at these questions from different angles, following them from antiquity to early modern responses to these questions, and in essays by contemporary philosophers and advocates. Readings: Genesis, Numbers, Euripides' Bacchae, Plato's Phaedrus, Ovid's Metamorphoses, Apuleius' Golden Ass, Marie de France' Bisclavret, Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream, Montaigne's "Apology in Defense of Raymond Sebond, Machiavelli's Prince, H. G. Wells's Island of Dr. Moreau and Island of Lost Souls, Derrida's "The Animal that therefore I am," selections from Boccaccio, Peter Singer, Giorgio Agamben, Donna Haraway.


Louisiana: A 5-year-old girl died Sunday from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head while playing with a gun inside her New Orleans home.
Maryland: A man shot a passing cyclist Saturday night in Herndon when the gun he was loading accidentally fired, police said.
California: A California woman suspected in the shooting death of her longtime girlfriend was fatally shot by police over the weekend after she pulled a gun on the officers as they were on routine patrol in an alley in Santa Ana.
California: A San Diego man has been arrested on three felony charges in connection with the accidental shooting death of a 10-year-old boy, officials said. Eric Klyaz was killed June 4 when he and a 9-year-old neighbor were playing with a gun they found in the girl's garage and the weapon discharged, according to the county medical examiner.
Idaho: An off-duty Jerome County sheriff's deputy got a scare last week when a friend's gun accidentally discharged. Jerome County Sheriff Doug McFall said deputy Anthony Gratzer did not need hospital treatment when shrapnel hit him.
Indiana: A 12-year-old Scipio boy has died from head injuries sustained during an accidental shooting.
Tennessee: A Kingsport Highway man who accidentally shot himself in the chest about 10:30 p.m. Saturday was listed this morning in critical condition in Johnson City Medical Center.
Ohio: A 9-year-old northeastern Ohio boy was looking at a gun with his teenage cousin when the firearm went off and killed him in an apparent accident.
The latter point was emphatically made in a YouTube video posted in October by Pratt, which shows him being stopped by Plainwell police while carrying a shotgun down a sidewalk.
"Just exercising my rights," Pratt tells the officers, who include Cassie's father.
"You're right you can do it, but common sense says you don't do it," an officer retorts.
But there is a simple and direct way to make them accountable for the harm their products cause. For every gun sold, those who manufacture or import it should pay a tax. The money should then be used to create a compensation fund for innocent victims of gun violence.
This proposal is based on a fundamentally conservative principle — that those who cause injury should be made to "internalize" the cost of their activity by paying for it. Now, gun manufacturers and sellers are mostly protected from lawsuits by federal law.
There is already established precedent for what Finlay and Culhane propose, an excise tax to cover damage from firearms. The Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act of 1937 imposes a federal excise tax on firearms and ammunition that is distributed among the 50 states (and the US territories) to promote wildlife habitat and recovery. The obvious difference is between Pittman-Robertson and what Finley-Culhane propose is that what the latter want is punitive, as opposed to generally supportive of culture and society. Such a tax would actually do little to curb accidental gun violence or crime of passion gun violence, unless the money were to be spent on education and marketing to increase owner responsibility … or pay for background checks maybe? The NRA will never allow such because that would hurt their real masters, the American Arms Dealers.
I have written often, softly, politely, loudly and rudely, that the 2nd Amendment defends the right of firearm ownership. It does not defend the right to manufacture or trade without regulation. Regulation of commerce is solely up to the auspices of Congress. And as long as key members of Congress are owned by the NRA, no tax will or can curb firearm violence.


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Why We Love penteados (And You Should, Too!)
I had to laugh when I was reading this article because I couldn't think of anything to say. It was about how penteados is a term in Spanish that refers to a type of flower. I could swear I heard someone say "penteados" in the back of my head.
In my native Venezuela, penteados is the flower that grows on a tree that you can hold in your hand, and when you look at the flowers they look like little plastic flowers. This is the flower that grows next to the statue of the Virgin of Guatimala, so I guess I'm the first person to have ever heard this term.
Its not just the flowers. Penteados has a meaning in Spanish that is much more literal. In Spanish, the word penteado means a flower, and this flower was the first to grow on trees in the Americas. This is a pretty cool way of saying that its also a flower.
Penteados is literally a flower that grows next to a statue of the Virgin in the form of a cross. It is a flower that grows inside a tree, and it takes the form of a cross. One particular kind of penteado is very common in Mexico. It has a red color, and is called "red-lipped.
The red-lipped penteado was the first to grow on trees in the Americas (and it was also the first flower to bloom in the New World). It's a pretty cool way of saying that we're in a time loop.
That is a very clever concept. One thing you learn when you're in a time loop is that you can never do anything in a loop. The only thing that you can do is undo the previous action and start over again.
It doesn't stop there though. The penteado is just one of the most powerful tools for a time loop because it's very precise. It's like a time-reversal device, except instead of flipping the coin, it flips the penteado that changes your future. As a time-looper, you can't really mess with the penteado, so it's kind of like playing the lottery.
While penteados are most commonly seen as a way to get back into the past, there are also times when they are used to get back into the future. For example, the penteados in the first Deathloop trailer were all a way to get back into the present.
Some people believe that the penteado is a form of reincarnation, but it's far from that. In fact, the second Deathloop trailer starts off with a description of a penteado that will change your future, but when you start to see what happens, you realize that it's actually a time loop.
The penteados in the Deathloop trailer are actually the same creatures that were in the first Deathloop trailer, but with different names. In the first Deathloop trailer it was called "The Pentad," and this is what you see in the second Deathloop trailer. The first Pentad is a version of a human who has a very specific purpose for his life.
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Royal Navy developing AI mine-hunting submersible
Horsham, UK. 27 June 2019. The Royal Navy is using artificial intelligence to task autonomous submersibles with hunting underwater mines.
British geospatial and data company Envitia, which has expertise around applying AI and machine learning to complex data problems, along with its partner BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, has been selected to deliver this, one of the first AI projects for the Royal Navy.
Mine-hunting is currently carried out by a fleet of mine-hunter ships using sonar to survey seabeds looking for anomalies. But these new AI-enabled submersibles will be much quicker in being able to scan an object, identify the threat, and make decisions about what to do with it.
The Royal Navy's Route Survey & Tasking Analysis (RSTA) project will adopt autonomous vehicles, open architectures and AI, with the intention to deliver an unmanned capability for routine mine countermeasure tasks in UK waters by the year 2022.
Outgoing First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones, said: "AI is set to play a key role in the future of the service. As modern warfare becomes ever faster, and ever more data-driven, our greatest asset will be the ability to cut through the deluge of information to think and act decisively."
Envitia, as the prime contractor, is working with BAE Systems Applied Intelligence to deliver RSTA, one of the first applications to be built on the Royal Navy developed NELSON data platform. This is a common data platform to deliver coherent access to Royal Navy data at sea and ashore.
Sandy Boxall, BAE Systems Sales Director, said: "We're delighted to be supporting Envitia on this important project, it is hugely complementary to our work on Programme NELSON and demonstrates our commitment to supporting SMEs in the UK MOD marketplace."
In addition, Envitia is utilising its maritime geospatial toolkit to deliver geospatial services into the application, to ensure RSTA has accurate and up-to-date maritime data for each mission.
Nabil Lodey, Envitia CEO, said: "Envitia has a strong heritage with maritime data, and this project demonstrates the successful journey Envitia has been on since last year, working with our customers to utilise authoritative data to aid mission planning through to post-mission analysis. This application has the potential to transform mine surveying and increase the efficiency of the Navy mine-hunting capability, and we are proud to be leading the way."
As part of the Mine Countermeasures and Hydrographic Capability (MHC) programme, RSTA will intelligently task a fleet of autonomous vehicles, utilising machine learning, to analyse mission conditions and improve the success rate of all its missions over time.
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PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Pinnacle West Capital Corp. (NYSE: PNW) today reported consolidated net income attributable to common shareholders for the 2018 third quarter of $315.0 million, or $2.80 per diluted share. This result compares with net income of $276.1 million, or $2.46 per share, for the same period a year ago.
Brandt added that delivering value to APS customers went beyond just keeping the lights on. The company's regulatory settlement, which was approved and implemented in August 2017, is enabling the company to invest in a smarter, cleaner energy infrastructure, while also keeping electricity rates competitive. This fall, APS filed a second request with the Arizona Corporation Commission (ACC) to return federal tax savings to customers. If approved, this second tax cut will provide retail customers with total tax savings of $205.5 million or almost $8 per month, on average, when combined with the first reduction implemented in March.
The effects of weather variations, which are an unpredictable driver,impacted results by $0.23 per share compared to the year-ago period. The average high temperature for this year's third quarter was 105.3 degrees - 1.6 percent higher than last year's quarter and 1.2 percent greater than normal based on a rolling 10-year average. The resulting impact in the 2018 third quarter was that residential cooling degree-days (a measure of the effects of weather) were 13 percent higher than in the same 2017 period and 5.4 percent above 10-year historical averages.
The impact of federal corporate tax cuts improved results by $0.14 per share,driven by the timing difference between income tax expense and the passing of savings directly back to customers.
Greater retail electricity sales -excluding the effects of weather variations - increased results $0.07 per share due to customer growth of 1.6 percent, partially offset by energy efficiency and distributed generation.Weather-normalized sales were 1.2 percent higher in the third quarter compared to 2017's third quarter, while year-to-date sales were 0.1 percent higher than the first nine months in 2017.
Higher transmission revenues, excluding the effects of corporate income tax rate changes, improved results $0.05 per share compared to 2017.
Adoption of new accounting guidance and higher market returns for pension and other post-retirement benefits positively impacted results by $0.04 per share.
The net impacts of the company's 2017 regulatory settlement improved earnings $0.02 per share. This increase included a retail base rate increase, largely offset by the impact of changes in residential rate design and seasonal rates. Effective Aug. 19, 2017, the comprehensive and broadly supported settlement was APS's first base rate increase in five years.
The net effect of miscellaneous items increased earnings$0.03 per share.
Higher operations and maintenance expenses reduced results by $0.12 per share compared with the prior-year period. The increased costs were largely the result of an increase in public outreach costs at the parent company primarily associated with the Prop 127 ballot initiative.
Other operating expenses, including higher depreciation and amortization and increased taxes other than income taxes, reduced results by $0.12 per share compared with the prior-year period, largely because of increased plant in service, changes in rates and higher property values.
Prop 127, a ballot measure that would have amended Arizona's State Constitution and required Arizona's regulated utilities to obtain 50 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2030, was rejected by voters on Tuesday.
'Arizona voters made it clear that Prop 127 was a bad idea,' said Brandt. 'With the election now behind us, it's time for Arizonans who are serious about clean energy to come together and work on a forward-thinking plan that is right for Arizona.
For 2018, the Company continues to expect its consolidated earnings guidance will be in the range of $4.35 to $4.55 per diluted share on a weather-normalized basis.
Looking ahead to 2019, the Company estimates its consolidated earnings will be within a range of $4.75 to $4.95 per diluted share, and expects to achieve a consolidated earned return on average common equity of more than 9.5 percent.
Key factors and assumptions underlying the 2018 and 2019 outlook can be found in the third-quarter 2018 earnings presentation slides on the Company's website at pinnaclewest.com/investors.
Pinnacle West invites interested parties to listen to the live webcast of management's conference call to discuss the Company's 2018 third-quarter results, as well as recent developments, 11 a.m. ET (9 a.m. Arizona time) today, November 8. The webcast can be accessed at pinnaclewest.com/presentations and will be available for replay on the website for 30 days. To access the live conference call by telephone, dial (877) 407-8035 or (201) 689-8035 for international callers. A replay of the call also will be available until 11:59 p.m. (ET), Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018, by calling (877) 481-4010 in the U.S. and Canada or (919) 882-2331 internationally and entering conference ID number 37662.
Pinnacle West Capital Corp., an energy holding company based in Phoenix, has consolidated assets of almost $18 billion, about 6,200 megawatts of generating capacity and 6,300 employees in Arizona and New Mexico. Through its principal subsidiary, Arizona Public Service, the Company provides retail electricity service to nearly 1.2 million Arizona homes and businesses. For more information about Pinnacle West, visit the Company's website at pinnaclewest.com.
Dollar amounts in this news release are after income taxes. Earnings per share amounts are based on average diluted common shares outstanding. For more information on Pinnacle West's operating statistics and earnings, please visit pinnaclewest.com/investors.
restrictions on dividends or other provisions in our credit agreements and Arizona Corporation Commission orders.
These and other factors are discussed in Risk Factors described in Part 1, Item 1A of the Pinnacle West/APS Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2017, which readers should review carefully before placing any reliance on our financial statements or disclosures. Neither Pinnacle West nor APS assumes any obligation to update these statements, even if our internal estimates change, except as required by law.


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Karl Lagerfeld gave SpongeBob SquarePants a makeover for a charity auction, resulting in this little charmer, which sold for €1,000. [WWD]
Zac Posen, who two weeks ago announced a lower-priced line, Z Spoke, will do a line for Target in the U.S. (He already designed a capsule collection for Target's Australian outpost in 2008.) Zac Posen for Target Go International will hit stores on April 25 of next year. Rodarte for Target goes on sale this December, at last. [WWD]
Even though it's late November in sunny London, Kate Moss is allegedly planning an outdoor dinner party. Her nefarious plan? The supermodel, whose recent choice, in an interview, of a notorious eating disorder sufferers' slogan as her motto we highlighted, wants to be photographed eating food. [Mirror]
The verdict on "Black Friday" post-Thanksgiving sales: an "unexceptional yet decent" $41.2 billion was spent. [WWD]
Both potential buyers of the bankrupt house of Christian Lacroix failed to meet a new, extended deadline to provide the bankruptcy court with guarantees of their capital. If the company is not sold, the current owners, the Falic Group, will likely go forward with their preferred scenario, in which only 11 key staff are retained, and the brand is either auctioned off to cover debts, or turned into a licensing machine for scarves and perfumes. [AFP]
Patrick Dempsey stars with his wife, Jillian, in his new Avon perfume ad. Because this scent is "about two people and the power of the relationship." [People]
Sonia Rykiel's H&M lingerie line will be launched this December with a fashion show at the Grand Palais. The models will walk on moving floats that travel around a fantasy Parisian streetscape, dominated by a 30 meter Eiffel Tower made from 25 km of wire and fairy lights. Trees will have balloon canopies, and the Café de Flore will be mocked up as the Café Flirt. Also, imagine 6 meter poodles and 2.5 meter bunnies. Best part? It'll be streamed live on the mighty Internet. [SB]
The pink-and-black '50s-themed collection goes on sale this Saturday in more than 1,500 H&M boutiques worldwide, as well as Rykiel's own stores. Prices range from €7.95 - €19.95 for underwear, and €79.95 for sleepwear. [WWD]
Morrissey is collaborating with Stella McCartney on a line of vegan footwear. McCartney says the shoes could be in stores next year. [Daily Mail, 2nd item]
Helena Christensen, on the term of art 'supermodel': it's "silly and cartoonish, but to be a part of that whole group of girls — at the end of the day, I was there. I did it. I am a million experiences richer." [Telegraph]
It's a comeback for Aussie model Catherine McNeil. McNeil will be on the cover of next month's Australian Vogue, a casting move that her booker says gives any model "credibility" — oddly implying that McNeil needs some. The 20-year-old has been on an extended break from international modeling, but is expected to rejoin the moil next show season, in January. [News.com.au]
Mulberry creative director Emma Hill, who previously designed accessories for Marc Jacobs and the Gap, on the heyday of 'it' bags: "I was partly responsible, at Marc Jacobs, for the It bag thing. I realized that we'd made it when I saw knock-offs on the street corner. But a trend like that squashes people's individuality. If you're all trying to get the same thing, it's not very special. There are possibly more things to worry about in life than waiting two years for a handbag. I think those years are over." [ToL]
Jenny Sanford applied to trademark her own name in early July, shortly after the June revelation that her husband, South Carolina governor Mark Sanford, was hiking the Appalachian trail enjoying two magnificent parts of another woman. Jenny Sanford applied for the trademark intending to use it to market a line of clothing, mugs, and other household items, to be sold through her website. The trademark application has not yet been approved. [State]
Christian Audigier is opening an Ed Hardy store in London this week, the U.K.'s first. [Guardian]
Victoria's Secret is a popular target for professional shoplifters. Four women pepper-sprayed a sales associate in Tennessee this month in order to boost 30 pairs of underwear. [UPI]
Due to Dubai's debt crisis, the American investors who recently and separately bought significant chunks of Barneys New York's debt, Ron Burkle and Richard Perry, might end up controlling the Dubai-owned company. If they do, they should probably convince someone there to hire a C.E.O. All the best companies have one. [Dealbook]
Pierre Cardin, 87, was briefly hospitalized in Paris for exhibiting falling blood pressure and a slow pulse. Cardin was en route to Greece, where he was holding a fashion show. As if this were 1963, or something. [AFP]
French eBay users are banned from selling or buying certain branded perfumes, like Christian Dior and Kenzo. A court in Paris has fined the auction site 1.7 million Euros for not enforcing the law effectively enough. [BBC]
The market in exotic skins, like alligator, has been among the worst affected by the recession. (It's not hard to imagine why, given a pair of alligator Manolos can easily run $4,000.) The farmers who raise the gators in Louisiana, Florida, and Georgia are paid for their troubles by tanneries, who then sell the processed hides to fashion companies. But while farmers complain that prices offered by tanneries have fallen below the cost of even raising the animals, fashion companies say the reduction in the cost of finished skins has been minimal. Which major fashion brand significantly expanded into alligator tanneries during the boom years? Hermès. The other thing you should know about this article is that a man named Tommy Fletcher, whose work involves going into bayous to fight mother alligators with a pole and frequent bites when handling the live young, says that running an alligator farm is "like being married to Miss America. You get all the benefits of the hugs and kisses, but she's mighty high-maintenance." [NYTimes]
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Cleveland's first Lutheran high school, located downtown near Cleveland State University, was founded in 1948. Due to emminent domain, the school was one of many buildings torn down in the summer of 1958 to make way for construction of the I-90 Innerbelt.
The Lutheran community, and the newly-formed Cleveland Lutheran High School Association (CLHSA), subsequently made the decision to build two Lutheran high schools, one in Rocky River (which became Lutheran High School West) and one in Cleveland Heights (which become Lutheran High School East).
Lutheran High School West opened its doors to its first class of students on October 27, 1958. Since then, thousands of young people have walked the halls of the school building on Linden Road. Despite a stretch of years in the 1970s when the school was struggling to maintain enrollment and manage operating costs, the CLHSA and Lutheran community in Northeast Ohio has ensured that Lutheran West has been able to remain an exceptional educational option on Cleveland's west side.
Lutheran West students and their families are blessed with the opportunity to
receive a Christ-centered secondary education. The 60-year history of Lutheran West has been filled with academic, athletic, and fine arts achievements, but the strongest source of pride for our community has been the ability to cultivate a strong Christian foundation in the lives of so many young people.
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Franz Peter Sigel (né le  à Sinsheim - mort le  à New York) était un officier germano-américain, originaire du grand-duché de Bade. Après avoir pris part à la révolution allemande de 1848/49, il s'exila aux États-Unis d'Amérique, où il s'illustra dans les rangs nordistes lors de la guerre de Sécession.

En Allemagne

Fils d'un fonctionnaire du grand-duché de Bade, Franz Peter Sigel est né à Sinsheim en 1824. Après avoir commencé ses études au Gymnasium de Bruchsal, il entra à l'école militaire de Carlsruhe. Lors d'un service à Mannheim, il rencontra les hommes politiques "radicaux" Friedrich Hecker et Gustav Struve.

Sous l'influence de ces derniers, et à la suite d'un duel, il quitta l'armée badoise en 1847 pour entreprendre des études de droit à Heidelberg. Au début de la révolution de Mars 1848, il organisa des corps-francs à Mannheim et dans l'arrondissement de Constance.
Malgré de sérieux doutes quant à l'organisation militaire d'un mouvement dont il était le seul officier (avec le grade de colonel), il se joignit à Hecker et Struve lors de leur insurrection républicaine (13-). Celle-ci devait les mener de Constance à Carlsruhe et leur permettre de rallier en chemin un nombre d'hommes suffisant pour chasser le grand-duc et imposer la République allemande.
Parti de Constance le , les troupes de Sigel suivirent un chemin parallèle à celles d'Hecker, le point de ralliement étant prévu à proximité des rives du Rhin. Hecker et ses hommes furent cependant mis en déroute par l'armée de la Confédération germanique à Kandern, le , sans avoir pu opérer leur jonction avec les troupes de Sigel. Ce dernier rassembla alors les hommes restants et se porta au secours d'insurgés assiégés dans Fribourg-en-Brisgau. Arrivé avec 4000 hommes devant les portes de la ville, Sigel fut vaincu les 23 et .
Réfugié en Suisse après ce premier échec, il prit part à la seconde phase de la révolution badoise, en 1849. Celle-ci avait remplacé le Grand-duc par une République, dirigée par Lorenz Brentano, dont Sigel devint le ministre de la Guerre. Il était également le général commandant-en-chef des armées badoises, mais, blessé lors d'une escarmouche, il dut céder sa place au franco-polonais Ludwik Mierosławski.
La République ayant été écrasée par l'armée prussienne du prince Guillaume (bataille de Waghäusel, , et prise de Rastatt le ), Sigel dut chercher refuge en Suisse puis en Angleterre.

Aux États-Unis

Exilé aux États-Unis à partir de 1852, il y gagna sa vie comme enseignant et directeur d'école à New York puis à Saint-Louis (Missouri). Dans ce dernier État vivait alors une importante communauté d'immigrés allemands, dont certains avaient fui comme lui la répression contre-révolutionnaire. Avec un autre Forty-Eighter ("quarante-huitard"), Friedrich Hecker (qui habitait un village de l'Illinois proche de Saint-Louis), Sigel exerçait une forte influence sur cette communauté allemande, qu'il entraîna dans le camp antiesclavagiste puis du côté de l'armée de l'Union durant la guerre de Sécession.

Commençant la guerre avec le grade de colonel, Sigel fut nommé brigadier general par le président Abraham Lincoln en 1861. Battu à Wilson's Creek (), il s'illustra lors de la Bataille de Pea Ridge (7-), lors de laquelle il commanda deux divisions en tant que commandant en second de l'armée du Sud-Ouest et dirigea l'artillerie de l'Union qui défait le général sudiste Earl Van Dorn. Promu  major general (général de division) à la suite de cette victoire, il fut blessé à la main lors de la Seconde bataille de Bull Run (28-).Sigel fut relevé de son commandement en 1863, avant d'être envoyé en Virginie-Occidentale, où Grant lui confia l'invasion de la vallée de Shenandoah, étape préalable à la prise de la gare de Lynchburg (Virginie), indispensable au ravitaillement de l'armée du général Lee. Sigel fut cependant intercepté et sévèrement défait par le sudiste John Cabell Breckinridge lors de la bataille de New Market (). Il prit sa revanche le mois suivant en affrontant Jubal Anderson Early à Harpers Ferry (Virginie-Occidentale), mais il ne put empêcher le général de la confédération de traverser le Potomac.En raison de cet échec, il fut à nouveau relevé de son commandement et remplacé par David Hunter.

Après la guerre, il devint journaliste à Baltimore puis New York, où il mourut le . Il fut inhumé au cimetière de Woodlawn.

Des statues équestres ont été érigées à sa mémoire, à Riverside Park (Manhattan) et à Saint-Louis. De son vivant (1865), son nom a été donné à un village de Pennsylvanie.

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Judge reverses Philadelphia man's death sentence
A federal judge canceled a murderer's death sentence after concluding the man had ineffective counsel and that the jury had received the wrong instructions.
Kelvin Morris, 47, was sentenced to death in 1987 for fatally shooting the manager of an auto-parts store during a robbery attempt. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the sentence in 1989, saying the evidence against Morris was "overwhelming."
But U.S. District Judge Joseph Rodriguez ruled Wednesday that Morris' attorney was ineffective in investigating and presenting circumstances, such an abusive childhood, mental illness and brain damage, that could have kept Morris off death row.
The decision represents the 200th time a Pennsylvania death sentence has been overturned since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the state in 1978, according to the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania.
The judge also found that the trial judge gave jurors improper instructions, leaving them with the mistaken impression that they had be unanimous in finding a mitigating circumstance.
Rodriguez also ordered a hearing to determine whether Morris' trial lawyer had a conflict of interest. The lawyer was representing Morris at the same time he was representing Morris' brother, Artie, in a civil case. Several witnesses had identified Artie Morris as the shooter in the McDonald case, Rodriguez wrote.