Art Chat Podcast #18 - Rhymes, Cave Art, and RIP Don Cornelius Emory Holmes II, Jim Aaron (AKA Jimmy the Peach, James Lick) and Steve Harlow talk.

As well as the expected "women in elegant dresses" there were "teenagers in winkle picker shoes and girls in no shoes at all".

When the night itself came round it was hard to say what excited the press the most, the paintings or the party. The ladies' committee had pulled off the considerable coup of getting the Duke of Edinburgh to come and he was joined on the guest list by Mrs Jack Heinz ("of the Heinz 57 varieties"), Luis Dominguez, the famous Spanish bullfighter, the designer Elsa Schiaparelli, Yehudi Menuhin, Gregory Peck, Anthony Quinn. The Duke of Edinburgh summed up the show "with his usual cheery frankness". Standing before a canvas called Woman in Green, he asked: "It looks as if the man drinks. Does he?"

Pollock, wrestling with the problems of Surrealism, of how to get deeper into the internal subject of the work, began to work on the floor on unstretched canvas with very liquid paint, leaving the idea of a pre-meditated subject far behind.

The safest thing now would be to avoid clicking anything to do with operation megaupload or Anonymous—especially if it's a mysterious Pastehtml link

Geothermal energy developers plan to pump 24 million gallons of water into the side of the dormant Central Oregon volcano this summer to demonstrate new technology

Years ago, the CEO of a leading appliance manufacturer told me he felt obliged to keep a low profile on the Web or face the wrath of his main retail partner.  Not many years later, the partner, Circuit City, was out of business.  Oops.

During my 10+ years of experience with brick & mortar retail doing etail, I observed that retail management hate customers and only pay attention to vendors while on the etail side, since there is little direct experience with customers, management may focus on their needs.

I've been working on jxsnzd0g lately. I'll just finish this round of white to dark touch ups and then it'll be Ruth's turn to paint on it a while. Maybe she'll finish it. I hope.

Measure Number: H.R. 1540 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 )

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Cardin (D-MD) Coburn (R-OK) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Durbin (D-IL)	Franken (D-MN) Harkin (D-IA) Lee (R-UT) Merkley (D-OR) Paul (R-KY)	Risch (R-ID) Sanders (I-VT) Wyden (D-OR)

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Moran (R-KS)

 

YEAs ---86
Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Ayotte (R-NH) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus (D-MT) Begich (D-AK) Bennet (D-CO) Bingaman (D-NM) Blumenthal (D-CT) Blunt (R-MO) Boozman (R-AR) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Brown (R-MA) Burr (R-NC) Cantwell (D-WA) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Chambliss (R-GA) Coats (R-IN) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) Enzi (R-WY) Feinstein (D-CA) Gillibrand (D-NY)	Graham (R-SC) Grassley (R-IA) Hagan (D-NC) Hatch (R-UT) Heller (R-NV) Hoeven (R-ND) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Inouye (D-HI) Isakson (R-GA) Johanns (R-NE) Johnson (D-SD) Johnson (R-WI) Kerry (D-MA) Kirk (R-IL) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lugar (R-IN) Manchin (D-WV) McCain (R-AZ) McCaskill (D-MO) McConnell (R-KY) Menendez (D-NJ)	Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Portman (R-OH) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Rubio (R-FL) Schumer (D-NY) Sessions (R-AL) Shaheen (D-NH) Shelby (R-AL) Snowe (R-ME) Stabenow (D-MI) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Toomey (R-PA) Udall (D-CO) Udall (D-NM) Vitter (R-LA) Warner (D-VA) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wicker (R-MS)

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Cardin (D-MD) Coburn (R-OK) Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Durbin (D-IL)	Franken (D-MN) Harkin (D-IA) Lee (R-UT) Merkley (D-OR) Paul (R-KY)	Risch (R-ID) Sanders (I-VT) Wyden (D-OR)

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Moran (R-KS)

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 932(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 1540      RECORDED VOTE      14-Dec-2011      6:58 PM
      QUESTION:  On Agreeing to the Conference Report
      BILL TITLE: To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2012 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Republican	190	43		8
Democratic	93	93		6
Independent
TOTALS	283	136		14

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Ackerman Adams Aderholt Akin Alexander Altmire Amodei Andrews Austria Baca Bachus Barletta Barrow Bartlett Barton (TX) Bass (NH) Benishek Berg Berkley Berman Biggert Bilbray Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Bonner Bono Mack Boren Boswell Boustany Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brooks Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Buchanan Buerkle Butterfield Calvert Camp Canseco Cantor Capito Capps Cardoza Carnahan Carney Carter Cassidy Castor (FL) Chabot Chandler Cicilline Cole Conaway Connolly (VA) Cooper Costa Courtney Cravaack Crawford Crenshaw Critz Crowley Cuellar Culberson Davis (CA) Davis (KY) Denham Dent Deutch Dicks Dingell Doggett Dold Donnelly (IN) Dreier Duffy Ellmers Emerson Engel Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Fortenberry Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly

Garamendi Gardner Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Gonzalez Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Grimm Guinta Guthrie Hall Hanabusa Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings (WA) Hayworth Heck Hensarling Herger Herrera Beutler Higgins Himes Hirono Hochul Holden Hoyer Hultgren Hunter Inslee Israel Issa Jackson Lee (TX) Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jordan Keating Kelly Kildee Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kissell Kline Lamborn Lance Landry Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham Latta Levin Lewis (CA) Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Long Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Lungren, Daniel E. Manzullo Marchant Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCarthy (NY) McCaul McCotter McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meehan Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent

Nunes Nunnelee Olson Owens Palazzo Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paulsen Pearce Pelosi Perlmutter Peterson Petri Platts Poe (TX) Pompeo Price (GA) Quayle Rahall Reed Rehberg Reichert Renacci Reyes Richardson Rigell Rivera Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross (AR) Ross (FL) Rothman (NJ) Runyan Ruppersberger Ryan (WI) Sánchez, Linda T. Scalise Schiff Schilling Schmidt Schock Schrader Schwartz Scott (SC) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Sessions Sewell Sherman Shimkus Shuler Shuster Sires Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Southerland Stearns Stivers Sullivan Sutton Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tsongas Turner (NY) Turner (OH) Upton Visclosky Walden Walz (MN) Wasserman Schultz Waxman Webster West Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Yoder Young (AK) Young (IN)

---- NOES    136 ---

Amash Baldwin Bass (CA) Becerra Blumenauer Braley (IA) Bucshon Burgess Burton (IN) Campbell Capuano Carson (IN) Chaffetz Chu Clarke (MI) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman (CO) Cohen Conyers Costello Cummings Davis (IL) DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DesJarlais Doyle Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Eshoo Farr Fattah Flake Forbes Frank (MA) Fudge Garrett Goodlatte Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA)

Griffith (VA) Grijalva Hahn Harris Hastings (FL) Heinrich Hinchey Hinojosa Holt Honda Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hurt Jackson (IL) Johnson (GA) Johnson (IL) Jones Kaptur Kucinich Labrador Lee (CA) Lewis (GA) Lofgren, Zoe Luján Lummis Mack Maloney Markey Matsui McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern Meeks Michaud Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran Mulvaney Murphy (CT) Nadler Napolitano Neal Olver Pallone

Payne Pence Peters Pingree (ME) Polis Posey Price (NC) Quigley Rangel Ribble Richmond Roe (TN) Rohrabacher Rokita Roybal-Allard Royce Rush Ryan (OH) Sarbanes Schakowsky Schweikert Scott (VA) Serrano Simpson Slaughter Speier Stark Stutzman Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Tipton Tonko Towns Van Hollen Velázquez Walberg Walsh (IL) Waters Watt Welch Woodall Woolsey Yarmuth

---- NOT VOTING    14 ---

Bachmann Coble Diaz-Balart Filner Giffords

Gutierrez Johnson, E. B. LaTourette Lynch Myrick

Paul Pitts Sanchez, Loretta Young (FL)

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Who do those 283 serve?

Kellie Jones, curator of the Hammer's show, said Mr. Outterbridge's use of ordinary materials to address sophisticated issues feels "relevant" to audiences today. "A whole generation of younger artists love him for making the point that art can take place anywhere, using anything," Ms. Jones added.