Today at a briefing on the Hill, the National Academy of Social Insurance released a new report, “Fixing Social Security: Adequate Benefits, Adequate Financing” . This report outlines potential strategies to enhance benefit adequacy and ensure long-term solvency for Social Security.
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National Academy of Social Insurance Cites WOW in Report on How to Strengthen Social Security
San Francisco’s Intersection for the Arts is hosting a thought-provoking group exhibit that opens this upcoming Wednesday, November the 4th. From the site: Featuring the work of eight artists living in Tehran, Iran — Nima Alizadeh, Saba Alizadeh, Mohammad Ghazali, Ghazaleh Hedayat, Abbas Kowsari, Mehran Mohajer, Neda Razavipour, and Homayoun Sirizi — alongside new work by San Francisco- based artist Taraneh Hemami, this exhibition compiles a collective narrative of everyday Tehran, the largest city in the Middle East and the 16th most populated city in the world with close to 8 million residents. Representing the current unpredictability of each day in Tehran and also the hope that comes from imagining a better future, the artists chronicle narratives of place and time, demystifying life in a country that has been misunderstood and maligned for decades
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One Day: A Collective Narrative of Tehran
Veronica, Jojo, Sue, Matt, Me at Guildford Festival Bless me, dear blog-readers, for it’s been six weeks since my last blog post. And I have probably sinned a lot. Though in truth it’s hard to remember quite what I’ve been up to
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Where did the time go? (en welkom op mijn Nederlandse lezers)
As part of the summer-long Fame Festival in Italy that culminated in a final show last month, artists Blu and David Ellis spent a long week collaborating to create this amazing animation clip, made by filming morphing hand-painted murals. The video loops twice, in case you are beyond astounded the first time around
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Combo: A Collaborative Animation by Blu and David Ellis
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Digikids Art and Craft – How to make Flowers with clay
We’ve had visitors here for the last few days and on Saturday, a perfect day for being outside in the desert sun without roasting (as are most October days), our guests decided they wanted to see some Vegas glories of the natural versus man-made variety.
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Valley of Fire
Andrea Dezso is an artist in a wide variety of media (animation, sculpture, book design, fibers), and while her heart embroidery from 2004 isn’t new, it is certainly impressive. More: Pricked: Extreme Embroidery [ Read More ] [ Comments ]
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Heart Embroidery
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Exciting Career Opportunities in Computer Forensics Training
I’ve been very lucky this year, I’ve managed to get together with my stitchy friends from along the 401 corridor once a month since May! This weekend was another one of them! This time it was hosted by Rebecca in the Kingston area. Our furthest east stitcher was Lynn from the Chesterville area and the furthest east was Bonnie from the Coburg area with folk from in between!I only took a few
I’m in awe of the detail in this newly completed fiber book from Million Little Stitches . She’s included pages for each month, and the intricate stitching, gorgeous design and meticulous attention to detail is stunning.
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Completed Fiber Book
Based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Vinylville definitely has the most clever handmade Mac-specific stickers out there. I just got my Snow’s Revenge (pictured above and also available in white) in the mail, and I love it. You can actually apply these to any glossy surface, so I’m inclined to smack it onto my Subaru and put an Apple logo sticker in her hand, just so I can see Snow White actually in the snow
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Vinylville’s Mac Laptop Stickers
My neighbor Teresa Cuseo is an amazing artist and crafter — every time I talk to her or go over for a visit she’s doing something creative, from terrific mosaics to yummy baked goods to cool jewelry and clever shrines. She recently bought a Day of the Dead crafting book and has plans to make some Day of the Dead altars, but the shrines and altars she’s created thus far pay homage to the various incarnations of the Virgin Mary, bicycling, her loved ones, other religious figures, and roses.
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Shrines, Just Because
Stacy Sanders, Associate Director of the Initiative, is our guest blogger this week. Find out what she has been up to below! With November just around the corner, it seems the perfect time to reflect on a blitz of field activity for the Elder Economic Security Initiative (Initiative) this fall.
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Reflections from the Field: OLDER is BOLDER
In continuation with Part I , let us see what is project management all about. If we take 10 IT projects , out of ten one or two projects are completed on time, budget with full scope. The success on any IT projects is not an completion of project in time , budget and scope
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Project Management in GIS – Part II
Since Disney bought Marvel comics, there have been a number of artists offering up creative image mashups. Perhaps my favorite is character designer/story artist Jeffrey Thomas’ Dark Princesses series. Thomas reinterprets iconic Disney female characters with a seriously dark twist
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Jeffrey Thomas’ Dark Princesses
Janet Echelman is a public artist who makes large-scale fiber works. This one, called Her Secret is Patience , is in Phoenix, Arizona, and is made from painted galvanized steel and recyclable high-tenacity polyester braided twine netting.
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Janet Echelman’s Her Secret is Patience
On October 22nd, 2009 when Windows 7 is available for purchase from computer retailers around the world, you can look forward to dozens of improvements and new features. The one I am most looking forward to is the fulfillment of a long-ago stated goal; a vision of easy choices, of seamless migration, of natural evolution
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You’ve Got Windows 7, Now What? | Easy Choices | Windows 7 Bridges the 64-Bit Future and 32-Bit Past
Microsoft updates Windows® 7, just before launch…and it is very cool! Back in June, I wrote a brief blog on some interesting developments from Microsoft, Hulu and YouTube . I covered how each of these vendors had released news and/or applications to bring more content to the HTPC in new and exciting ways. At that point in time, Microsoft’s announcement of Netflix integration into Media Center was strictly limited to Windows Vista®. However, I had suggested that they would include this integration into Windows® 7 by launch time. Well, I am happy to say that Microsoft released an update for Windows 7 in the past couple of days that now adds Netflix. However, Microsoft did not stop with just the Netflix integration; the update includes support for the Adobe Flash player and even more mainstream content from content providers like CBS, NBC, PBS and others, offering both current shows like ‘How I Met Your Mother’, ‘Dateline’ and ’60 Minutes’ to classic shows like ‘Star Trek’, ‘Twilight Zone’, ‘MacGyver’ and more. If you have not seen this yet, Hack 7MC has a nice overview on the new features added to Windows 7. You can also find a discussion on these new changes at The Green Button While some may raise concerns regarding viewing quality of the content, I think this change should be viewed from a larger perspective. This change puts the framework in place for delivery of real and interesting content on Windows 7 capable PCs. I have spent some time over the past couple of nights checking out the content and while it is not HD quality, it was certainly better than low resolution web video I have seen on other sites. I’m hopeful that the visual quality of the material will be improved upon as time moves forward; it is the framework that I find really exciting. As I stated previously, these are exciting times for the HTPC. The role of PC technology in the home is constantly changing for the better.
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Netflix and Internet TV on Windows® 7, have you seen it?
Building your own AMD technology-based HTPC, where do you start? For those of you that have been following along our AMD@Home blog, you know I have written multiple blogs on HTPC topics such as why you might want one and the cool things you can do with it . I have even covered how I am using one at home for my family’s TV viewing needs. For this entry, I’m adding a little flair to the blog series by taking your through the videos for the assembly of an HTPC and show how easy it is to put one together. There are a total of 9 videos in this series — most are only a couple of minutes long so it should make for easy viewing. One of the main advantages of building your own system is that you are in control not only of the cost, but also the features and functions. You get to choose exactly what components will go into the build and a sense of pride when the job is complete
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How To: Guide for the Assembly of an HTPC
This collection of solar system-inspired from artist Jimmy McBride have left me breathless. What really has me excited, though, is his post about his next project .
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Solar System-Inspired Quilts from Jimmy McBride