All that Slothrop knows for sure
A favorite that comes back to me these summer nights: He likes to tell them about fireflies. English girls don’t know about fireflies, which is about all Slothrop knows for sure about English girls. — Thomas Pynchon , Gravity’s Rainbow qmnonic on Flickr
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By Peter Crimmins The restoration crew at the Philadelphia Art Museum likes to say that The Gross Clinic now looks like it did when it came off Thomas Eakins easel in 1875. Only partially true. The way it is presented in the Museum’s Perelman Building is nothing like the debut the painting had at the 1876 Centennial Expo in Fairmount Park
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Restoration puts the drama back in the Gross Clinic
Oracle shuts down open source test servers Oracle shut down its three PostgreSQL build farm servers without warning…”If they had given us, say, three months warning, I'd have been less peeved,” Dunstan told iTnews. “It can't have been costing them much – the thing pretty much runs itself, and they can't be short on hardware.” Slashdot Ask Slashdot Story | What To Do About CC License Violations?
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Guest Blogger: Jeremy Mason As an artist without formal training, I have had to really break into the local art scene. That process is still happening and it has been a great learning experience. I haven’t yet landed that show at the gallery of my dreams, but I have optimized my exposure by finding creative and respected places to hang my art. Specifically, I have looked for fantastic art spaces without huge barriers to entry.
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Bright, overstated jewellery is so Summer 2009. Jewellery for summer 2010 is all about going big and bold in one area, then scrimping somewhere else. For example, pile on those chunky bangles, but go without earrings.
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Utility, entertainment apps a big presence on Samsung’s popular apps list An application that turns the Samsung Wave (S8500) into a flashlight tops Samsung Apps’ list of most popular downloaded Apps from June 1 to mid-July. Utility and entertainment apps dominated the list released today by Samsung Apps, the application hub for leading mobile phone provider Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.
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Top Applications at Samsung Apps on Bada Platform
Enhanced feature set: Multi-SIM, Yahoo Sports! and Social Networking Apps Spice Mobile, the mobile handset business of India’s leading mobility company, Spice Mobility Ltd. as part of an aggressive product marketing strategy, has broadened its portfolio to launch yet another pioneering device – The M-6 Sports, targeted at the young sports enthusiast , and who have consistent need to stay connected to their sporting news or information of choice and simultaneously stay connected with their friends. The M-6 Sports has been priced at a very reasonable Rs.
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Revenues grow by 9% over same period of previous year. Net loss at US $ 3.23 million Sify Technologies Limited (NASDAQ Global Markets: SIFY), a leader in Enterprise and Consumer Internet Services in India with global delivery capabilities, today announced its consolidated unaudited results under International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) for the first quarter of fiscal year 2010-11. Q1 Performance Highlights 2010-11 • Sify reported a 9% growth in revenues for the quarter ended June 30, 2010 against the same period of FY 2009-2010
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Sify reports revenues of US$ 38.63 million for first quarter of fiscal year 2010-2011
“Flameless Digital Induction Cooking System” from Metro Ortem Ltd Metro Ortem Limited India’s leading manufacturer of all type of fans has come up with its latest innovation, Ortem Sogo Digital Induction Cooking system in collaboration with Sogo of Europe. It uses Induction Heating (I.H.) technology for quick and uniform heating which is notably more energy & cost efficient form of cooking. And by using less energy your monthly cooking costs will markedly decrease
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Ortem Sogo – The new style of cooking
– GAAP Revenue of $1.433 billion – Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 26.5 percent – Non-GAAP Earnings Per Share of $0.35 – GAAP Deferred Revenue of $2.998 billion – Cash Flow from Operations of $335 million Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) today reported the results of its first quarter of fiscal year 2011, ended July 2, 2010
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Introduces five fragrances – Red Roses, English Rose, Jasmine, Sandalwood and English Lavender Wipro Yardley, a heritage personal care brand from Wipro Consumer Care & Lighting, has launched its first soap brand in India. The initial range of Wipro Yardley soaps have been introduced in five exotic fragrances of Red Roses, English Rose, Jasmine, Sandalwood and the extremely popular English Lavender. These premium soaps are now available in stores across India at an attractive price of Rs
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Wipro Yardley Launches Luxury Soaps in India
Gallery 339 ’s 10-artist summer show, In Review , doesn’t quite come together as a statement about contemporary photography—the fluffy press release extols the work’s “lively, complex, and intelligent dialogue about meaningful issues.” Nonetheless, the uniformly polished work is attractive and occasionally insightful. Kyohei Abe, Imaginary Scape #2, 2008, Archival Inkjet Print, 20 x 20 inches (left). Kyohei Abe, Imaginary Scape #12, 2008, Archival Inkjet Print, 20 x 20 inches (right).
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13.08-16.08.2010 ORNARIS – Trade Fair for Innovations and Trends Zurich (Switzerland) 20.08.- 23.08.2010 Formland – Trade Fair for Skandinavian Design, Table Top, Giftware, Handicraft & applyed Art Herning (Denmark) 27.08.-31.08.2010 Tendence – Internationale Frankfurter Herbstmesse frankfurt/Main (Germany) 01.09.-05.09.2010 Habitare – Furniture and Interior Decoration Fair Helsinki (Finland) 03.09.-05.09.2010 CREATIV SALZBURG – Intern.Trade Fair for gifts,home accessories,design-&lifestyle articles,paper,office+ station.goods,floristry,handycraft supplies,art products,toys.. Salzburg (Austria) 03.09.-07.09.2010 Meuble Paris – Furniture Paris Paris (France) 03.09.-07.09.2010 TRADEXPO – International Volume Goods Tradeshow Paris (France) 03.09.-07.09.2010 maison & objet – Home Decoration, Giftware and Tableware Trade Exhibition Paris (France) 08.09.-12.09.2010 INTERGIFT – International Gift Fair Madrid (Spain) 08.09.-12.09.2010 BNV – Budapest International Fair – BIF Budapest (Hungary) 09.09.-12.09.2010 MACEF incl. Chibi ; Cart – International Home Show Milan (Italy) 12.09.-14.09.2010 Top Drawer Autumn London (Great Britain) 19.09.-21.09.2010 ETFAM Trade Fair 2010 – FAIR TRADE Beursgebouw Eindhoven The Netherlands 23.09.-26.09.2010 100%DESIGN incorp
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Here’s an interesting AP story about the growing popularity of ICE’s Secure Communities program, which is in place in Houston and the Harris County jails and is expanding throughout the country. Secure Communities runs fingerprint-based immigration history checks on all…
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Following is an excerpt from a report in Financial Express . “We have decided to go for ICB (international competitive bidding) route instead of an memorandum of understanding for the development of Barunei Port,” said the state minister for commerce and transport, Sanjib Sahoo
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Illustration: Wall tiling decoration of the Pavilion of Mahubay, 16th century The influences and origins of nineteenth century English decorative arts, its pattern work, design styles and principles, is both complex and wide ranging. However, at the forefront of these influences is undoubtedly the impact of the decorative arts of Islam. From the reform principles of Owen Jones to the accomplished founder of the English Arts & Crafts movement William Morris, to the many designers, decorators, critics and writers of Victorian Britain, Islam proved to be a particularly rich deposit of what determined to be the fundamental level of all design, decoration and pattern as seen by the Victorians.
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The Influence of Islamic Decoration on the Victorian
Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard . The Phase-I of the PCPIR project needs 48,268 acres (195.34 sq km) in all out of which 22,232 acres (89.97 sq km) would be devoted to processing facilities while the balance 26035 acres ( 105.37 sq km) is the area set aside for non-processing facilities. Phase-I of the project is scheduled to be taken up during 2010-2020.
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Update on proposed Paradeep PCPIR; land acquisition in full swing
Special themed issue: Beyond ‘new’ literacies – Digital Culture & Education Ten years ago the term “new literacies” was only used by those prescient researchers who perceived that new technologies were going to shape language and literacies, such as Lankshear and Knobel’s (1997) early work on literacies and texts in an electronic age. Others, such as the New London Group (1996) through their work on multiliteracies, were instrumental in evolving the idea of literacies shaped by technologies and contexts; setting the stage for new literacies to become the vibrant field it is today. While the field has grown over the past decade, the central concern of new literacies research remains the same; Getting Flat, Part 2 | Linux Journal In Part 2, I want to examine the human origins of the open-source materials we're using to build this new world
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You probably already read t he story in the paper by my colleague, Wendy Gillis, about former chief curator Dennis Reid being forced to retire prior to the 2014 date written into his contract. There are a million arguments to be made here, about clearing the way for young, dynamic staff, or for an infusion of independent projects giving the museum new life, and none of them are bad; but one thing's for sure: At the age of 67, Reid (left, with painter John Hartman) was likely the most prominent scholar on Canadian art actually working in a museum, not a university, and moreover, was a tireless champion of Canadian artists — a conscience the AGO needs, and will miss. I wish him the best in whatever he does.