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Paul Klein: Really Good Art
I've been waiting for the opening of Jun Kaneko's ceramic sculptures at Millennium Park. There are two powerful bodies of work on view. To the south are the dangos I've been familiar with, and exhibited, when I had a gallery. And on the north side of the park are the new Tanuki sculptures that are making their first public appearance. The new work has a playfulness that will engage a broader audience. I'm eager to see how the public interacts with them.
There's a gorgeous show of paintings by Thomas Nozkowski at Russell Bowman. I represented Nozkowski for a stretch during the 1980's. I have distinct memories about his home (an old church), car (a small station wagon with racks in the back for unfinished paintings so he could pull over and work on them while en route to or from Connecticut), and that he worked at Mad Magazine. The focus of these content full, abstract paintings and his unique engagement with his art make him and his art totally memorable. There is a purity here that is special and moves toward balancing the hyperbole in today's art world.
Sanford Biggers is a powerful artist whose work often presents a contemporary take on his cultural heritage. At Monique Meloche his large window presents century old quilts he has painted and embellished. These quilts may have been an Underground Railroad sign of a safe house. His beautiful and contemplative art acknowledges a deeper past and contextualizes its contemporary relevance. Also on view, in the gallery, are disarmingly beautiful and tough work by Kate Levant who investigates alternative uses of atypical materials in work that occasionally incorporates photographic images.
See you out there!
Paul Klein
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Why You Should Use Antivirus, Even If You Browse Carefully
The best way to avoid viruses is to use common sense, but that doesn't mean you should avoid antivirus altogether. Our friends at the How-To Geek explain why.
Good browsing practices can take you pretty far. If you aren't browsing shady sites, downloading files from suspicious sources, and clicking links from people you don't know, you'll put yourself at less risk for viruses. But Chris Hoffman from How-To Geek explains how you can still get infected:
We have previously written about ?zero-day? exploits ? vulnerabilities that the bad guys find first. Ones we don?t know about, which we can?t protect ourselves from. At events like Pwn2Own and Pwnium, contestants are challenged to compromise fully patched software like Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, and more for a financial reward. These browsers and plug-ins inevitably fall as the contestants use unpatched security flaws to crack their security.
These flaws are corrected as soon as they?re found, but new ones inevitably pop up.
Just because you're careful doesn't mean you're safe. You can get infected just by visiting a web site, even if its a web site you trust. Heck, our friends at the Wirecutter had a short bout with malware a few weeks ago. A friend or family member could send you a link that looks legit, but perhaps they've been infected by malware themselves. Common sense will take you pretty far, but it isn't foolproof.
We recommend Avast for your antivirus needs, but there are a lot of great apps out there. If you don't have antivirus installed on your system, hit the link below to read more about why you might want to.
HTG Explains: Why You Need An Antivirus on Windows, No Matter How Careful You Are | How-To Geek
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FDA chief calls agency a "true bargain" for Americans
By Toni Clarke
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The head of the Food and Drug Administration asked Congress for more money on Thursday to address food safety, security and inspections, but said the agency is working hard to control costs and is a "true bargain" for Americans.
"We have made belt-tightening a priority," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee.
Among FDA's priorities are new food safety regulations, improving inspections of imported goods, and developing countermeasures against chemical and biological threats.
The FDA's proposed budget for 2014 would increase by $821 million to $4.7 billion over 2012, of which industry fees would account for $770 million, or 94 percent. The 2013 budget has not yet been finalized.
While the agency has requested more funds in certain areas, it has suggested decreased funding in others, including funding for drug and medical device programs.
Hamburg said FDA's responsibilities have expanded in the wake of new laws designed to protect Americans from food-borne illnesses, infectious diseases and radiological and nuclear threats.
"FDA is a true bargain among federal agencies," Hamburg said. "Americans each pay about $8 a year for FDA's appropriations, which is substantially less than the amount Americans spend each year on snack chips alone."
For about 2 cents a day, she said, "Americans get an extraordinary array of public health benefits."
Hamburg said one the agency's greatest challenges is to respond to the globalization of the food and drug supply chain. She noted that over the past decade the number of imported shipments of FDA-regulated products has soared.
In 2012, she said, about 28 million shipments of imported food and medical products were imported, including 50 percent of the country's fresh fruits, 20 percent of fresh vegetables, 80 percent of seafood and 40 percent of drugs.
"The world has changed and our historical regulatory approaches and tools - such as hoping to intercept products at our borders - are outdated and often inadequate," she said.
"If we are to continue to promise Americans a safe food and drug supply, FDA must continue to transform itself, from a primarily domestic agency to one that uses innovative global strategies to secure a vast global supply chain."
(Reporting By Toni Clarke, editing by Ros Krasny and Doina Chiacu)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fda-chief-calls-agency-true-bargain-americans-153312411.html
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Thursday, April 18, 2013
Housing Starts: Single-Family Home Builders Still Cautious ...
By Robbie Whelan
The pace of annual housing construction rose above 1 million units in March for the first time since June 2008. But before builders start cheering the return of the good old days, it?s worth noting a few things.
First, the middle of 2008 coincided with the beginning of the worst housing downturn and most destructive financial crisis since the Great Depression. Second, the balance of the new housing industry has, since then, dramatically shifted.
The most important shift is the change in the balance between single-family housing?typically the types of for-sale tract homes, townhouses and ranches one pictures in suburbs with sunny climates?and multifamily housing? typically rental apartments.
In most months during the housing boom (that is January 2004 through mid-2007), single-family housing starts outnumbered multifamily starts by a factor of 4 to 1 or higher. In January 2006, for example, the apex month of new housing construction, builders started work on homes at an annual pace of 1,823,000 single-family dwellings per year, versus 423,000 multifamily units.
Now, the balance is much closer to even: Single-family starts fell 4.8% in March (though they are still 28.7% above the same month a year ago) to an annual pace of 619,000, while multifamily starts rose 26.9% from the previous month, and a stunning 82.3% annually, to a pace of 392,000 per year. That?s 1.58 single-family homes started for each multifamily unit started, compared to 4.3 at the peak of construction.
What?s happening here? Mainly, it?s that builders are far more willing to invest in rental housing than in for-sale housing. There could be many reasons for this: many are still unemployed and unable to start their own new households; it?s still relatively hard to qualify for a mortgage; many consumers are still skittish about the economic recovery or worried they may still lose their jobs, making big purchases look like a bad idea. But the bottom line is, those with the bulldozers and hard hats still think building homes for rent is a better prospect than trying to sell them.
So while on the surface, passing the 1 million per year starts threshold might seem like an important, positive milestone, there are still questions about whether the new housing machine is fully charged. Permits to build new homes, an indicator of future construction activity, fell 3.9% in March, and declined across all classes of housing (although permits are still 17.3% above last year), and yesterday, the Journal reported that home-builder confidence fell for the third-straight month in April, an unexpectedly glum sentiment for the spring home-selling season.
?Clearly, the home-building recovery is running into a few snags,? wrote Paul Diggle, of Capital Economics, in a research note. ?Yet these growing pains are to be expected at this point in the recovery. After all, the earlier collapse in home-building activity saw many construction workers retrain and fewer lots brought forward for development. It will take a while before home builders? ability to build many more homes catches up with their appetite to do so.?
Source: http://blogs.wsj.com/developments/2013/04/16/single-family-home-builders-still-cautious/
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Ariz. bill passed makes cities sell turned-in guns
PHOENIX (AP) ? Arizona cities and counties would have to sell guns turned in at community buyback events instead of destroying them under a law passed by the Legislature.
The bill doesn't have any effect on guns seized by law enforcement, which already have to be sold to a federally licensed dealer under a law passed last year. But that didn't stop a lengthy debate that veered into the possibility that the gun used to shoot U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords might end up back on the street.
The bill is designed to eliminate a loophole in last year's law that requires police agencies to sell seized guns. Cities, including Tucson, have continued to hold buyback events and destroy the weapons, arguing that because they were voluntarily surrendered, they aren't covered by the law.
The Senate passed House Bill 2455 Tuesday on an 18-12 party-line vote and it now goes to Republican Gov. Jan Brewer for action.
Democrats argued that Republicans complain about the federal government when it requires the state to take action, yet they're quick to force local governments to do what they want.
"We hate it when the federal government mandates it to the state, and we're doing the same thing," said Sen. Lynne Pancrazi, D-Yuma. They also complained about victims having to deal with the knowledge that a gun that killed a loved one could end up back on the streets.
Republicans countered that allowing cities and counties to destroy guns that could be sold is a waste of taxpayer's money.
"It's not about protecting Second Amendment rights, it's about protecting the taxpayers," said Sen. Rick Murphy, R-Peoria. He also argued that the state doesn't require the destruction of cars involved in fatal accidents, so requiring guns to be destroyed is simply a feel-good measure that protects no one.
Murphy and Senate President Andy Biggs, R-Gilbert, pushed back at the argument against the state telling cities and counties what to do. Both noted that states retain rights not given to the federal government through the U.S. Constitution, while under the state constitution, cities and counties are subdivisions of the state.
During testimony before a House committee in February, Maricopa County Supervisor Mary Rose Wilcox said buyback programs give people who no longer want guns in their homes a safe way to dispose of them. Some are worried the weapons could be stolen, and others want to prevent a family member from accessing them, she said.
"There are many, many reasons, but they would never fathom that the guns they turn in would be recirculated again," Wilcox said.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/ariz-bill-passed-makes-cities-sell-turned-guns-125026520.html
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Obama, Congress members gets poison-tainted letters
Law enforcement authorities announced on Wednesday they had intercepted a potentially poison-laced letter intended for President Barack Obama, and temporarily locked down some Senate office buildings amid rising concerns of a terrorism-by-mail campaign reminiscent of the anthrax attacks that followed the Sept. 11, 2001, strikes. The missive tested positive for the deadly substance ricin.
The new threats emerged one day after a letter destined for Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi also tested positive for ricin. Officials said there was no evidence of a link to the bombings at the Boston Marathon.
Asked whether the Obama and Wicker incidents were connected, a law enforcement source told Yahoo News "the letters are very similar."
Obama was never in any real danger. Since the anthrax attacks in 2001, mail addressed to the White House goes through extensive off-site screening. The same goes for that of U.S. lawmakers.
Ricin, for which there is no known antidote, is made from ground castor beans?and ground castor beans lacking the poison's potency can still trigger a positive test.
One day after the letter to Wicker was intercepted, "a second letter containing a granular substance that preliminarily tested positive for ricin was received at an offsite mail screening facility," the FBI announced. "The envelope, addressed to the president, was immediately quarantined by U.S. Secret Service personnel, and a coordinated investigation with the FBI was initiated."
Democratic Sen. Carl Levin of Michigan also disclosed that a staffer in his Saginaw office had alerted authorities after receiving a "suspicious-looking letter." "Suspicious letters" were also intercepted at Republican Sen. Jeff Flake's Phoenix office on Wednesday morning, but "no dangerous or hazardous materials" were recovered in that incident, Flake announced later in the day.
And U.S. Capitol Police investigated a fresh potential threat to lawmakers: ?suspicious packages? that had led them to clear three floors in two Senate office buildings, according to a spokeswoman. "Both incidents have been cleared. We have reopened every area?business as usual," Lt. Jessica Baboulis told Yahoo News.
One of the Hill offices investigated was that of Republican Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama.
Asked whether there was any sign that those situations were linked to the Wicker letter, Baboulis replied: ?We have nothing to indicate that."
The White House worked to tamp down fears.
"Before we speculate, before we make connections that we don?t know exist, that the FBI has made a clear statement about, we need to get the facts," press secretary Jay Carney told reporters at his daily briefing in response to a question about whether the nation is "under attack."
Levin also appeared to play down the situation in his field office.
"Earlier today, a staffer at my Saginaw regional office received a suspicious-looking letter. The letter was not opened, and the staffer followed the proper protocols for the situation, including alerting the authorities, who are now investigating. We do not know yet if the mail presented a threat," he said in a statement. "I?m grateful for my staff?s quick response and for government personnel at all levels who are responding."
The suspicious letters and items on the Hill follow heightened tensions in the wake of Monday's deadly Boston Marathon bombings.
The letter sent to the president was never near the president or the White House. After the anthrax scares in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks, the White House moved all mail processing off-site. The screening facility that caught the president's letter on Tuesday is "not located near the White House complex," U.S. Secret Service spokesman Brian Leary noted in a statement.
"On 4-16-13, a letter addressed to the president containing a suspicious substance was received at the remote White House mail screening facility. This facility routinely identifies letters or parcels that require secondary screening or scientific testing before delivery," Leary said.
"The Secret Service is working closely with the U.S. Capitol Police and the FBI in this investigation," he said.
Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer said in an email to all Senate staff that mail delivery would be interrupted on Thursday and Friday, and he urged exceptional precautions when dealing with incoming mail:
Offices should NOT accept sealed envelopes. All unopened items should go through screening. You should accept mail only from a uniformed Senate Post Office employee or a government courier bearing a bona-fide government ID. Should an individual attempt to deliver a sealed item to your Washington, D.C., office, please redirect them to the Congressional Acceptance Site located at 160 D Street, NE (across the street from United States Capitol Police headquarters), or if you have any doubts, call the police. We will process these items safely and deliver them after they have cleared testing. If a sealed envelope already has been delivered to your office and it is of unknown origin, you should contact the United States Capitol Police."
News of the intercepted letter to the president was reportedly announced to senators during a briefing on Tuesday evening.
This post was last updated at 2:27 p.m. to include the all-clear in the Senate office buildings.
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