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When Los Angeles was seized by chaos and violence 20 years ago, the city's deep divisions were brutally exposed. A TV helicopter watched overhead as white truck driver Reginald Denny was pulled from his cab and beaten. A radio reporter was standing nearby. "He is bleeding, he is trying to get back into his truck," said Bob Brill of UPI Radio at the time. Charlie Beck, then a police sergeant, had just arrived home from work. "It was almost seven o'clock at night. Reginald Denny was being dragged out of his truck," he said. "You saw that on television?" asked Blackstone. "I saw it on television. No police cars were responding," said Beck. <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Calligraphy-Shop">Chinese brush painting </a> Denny managed to pull himself into his truck and drive away, passing Lawrence Tolliver's barbershop. "And you thought he was a redhead?" Blackstone asked Tolliver. 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Incomes remain low and the unemployment rate is high -- around 20 percent. The area schools rank right at the bottom on standardized test scores. But the area has 20 percent fewer liquor stores and 50 percent more major supermarkets than in 1992. Gang violence has diminished. And the police force -- once mostly white -- now looks more like the city it patrols. "There was a huge divide between the police department of this city and the African-American community. How long did it take to close that gap?" Blackstone asked Beck. "Twenty years (laughs). And we're still closing it," said Beck. Added Tolliver: "The police are no longer the occupying force that they were." Tolliver is so impressed by improvements in the police department that three years ago he convinced his son to join the LAPD. For his part, Chief Beck has a son, a daughter, and a son-in-law on the force. "All three of my kids work in South Los Angeles," said Beck. 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The UN general secretary Ban Ki-moon said President Bashar al-Assad's continued crackdown on protests had reached an "intolerable stage", and that the UN would try to speed up the deployment of up to 300 monitors to Syria. Only 15 are there now. "The government of Syria must live up to its promises to the world," he said. Tens of thousands of people marched into streets across Syria in what has now become a weekly anti-regime protest after Friday prayers. Amateur video from Homs, where the presence of UN observers helped halt weeks of artillery attacks, showed rows of men lining up in a main street, holding each other by the shoulders as they sang and danced. In another protest, people held up 45 squares of cardboard with writing and drawings that – when viewed together from above – showed a picture of Assad and the words "oppression, corruption, despotism, demolition". 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"The women told us their dreaming stories [and] we learned . . . about their craft techniques, and observed them painting works with painstaking, intricate detail." The retired teacher from Melbourne had come to the Daly River -- a region renowned for its scenic beauty and good fishing -- with her husband, Peter, to work as a volunteer on the Merrepen Arts & Sports Festival, <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Elegants">Elegants Chinese painting</a> an event held annually to celebrate cultural pride and indigenous knowledge. They were two of nine volunteers sent by Mary Ward International Australia, the justice and development arm of the Loreto Sisters, which supports the festival host, the Merrepen Arts Centre. It was a good fit for the couple. Deidre is a former Loreto student and Peter chairs the MWIA Board. "[We'd] travelled through areas of the Northern Territory twice previously and were keen to . . . engage with members of the Aboriginal community not just as tourists," Deidre says. "This was our first experience of volunteer work outside our own community, and [MWIA] was committed to ensuring that we were as well prepared as possible for the cross-cultural experience by meeting some of the sisters who had worked for many years with various indigenous communities." In Nauiyu the Blacks discovered a community rich in artistic tradition where about 20, mostly female, artists produce etchings and lino prints, transform fabrics through screen-printing, silk painting and batik, <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Waiting-For-Mommy-Bird-Feeding" title="Bird Chinese painting">Bird Chinese painting</a> sculpt bowls and figures from papier-mache, and weave dilly bags, fishnets, baskets and sun mats from merrepen and pandanus leaves. The arts centre serves as a studio for established and emerging artists such as Gracie Kumbi and Patricia McTaggart. The festival -- now in its 26th year -- is a celebration of this artistic output and gives members of the public the opportunity to meet the artists and purchase their work. And for volunteers such as the Blacks, it opens a window on to a whole new world. "We worked together sewing labels, labelling and pricing articles for sale, cataloguing the artworks and helping to set up display areas for the sale and auction of art," Black says. "We also assisted . . . by selling craft products, artworks, mango smoothies and coffees." For the people who live on the Daly River, 250km southwest of Darwin, the volunteers have become an invaluable part of the festival. 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His mother would lay out art supplies around their pagoda house and tell him to start painting -- don't worry about the mess. After several moves, his family settled in Brooklyn, his dream of coming to the United States finally coming true. Once in America, he started formal art training in Manhattan, initially focusing on realism. He started a small arts studio with friends and started doing advertising work. Inspired by the counter-cultural movement, Max's work started to move more into psychedelia. He capitalized on new developments in print making and turned his original art into vibrant, colorful posters. "Colors are beautiful, like music is beautiful," he said. "We love sunsets; we love flowers. It's just very attractive to the eyes." By the late '60s, his work had become mainstream, like the counter-culture itself. He had become a rock star in the art world. He appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show and the Tonight Show. His face adorned a cover of Life magazine with the headline "Portrait of the artist as a very rich man." Max licensed his work to corporations, showing up on everything from socks to clocks. He helped spearhead the restoration of the Statue of Liberty with portraits of the American icon. He's painted on the White House lawn and has been the official artist of the Super Bowl, Grammy Awards and the World Cup. He figures he's painted about 150 celebrities, <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Leonardo-da-Vinci-Shop">Leonardo Da Vinci paintings</a>most recently a portrait of singer Taylor Swift that he presented to her. He's 74 years old now, but doesn't have plans anytime soon to slip into a leisurely retirement. "I feel like I'm 42 years old," he said. "I feel like I'm in good shape." And he'll do exactly like he did when he first started painting as a boy in China: Wake up, take a brush, find paint and start creating. 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It's also very experimental. And it really has no known precedents in Japanese and East Asian painting traditions. JUDY WOODRUFF: The scrolls of Colorful Realm are on display together for the first time ever outside Japan at Washington's National Gallery, the product of sensitive diplomatic and cultural negotiation. <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Calligraphy-Shop">Chinese brush painting</a> The collection is widely considered the finest example of Japanese nature painting. The 30-scroll series is on loan from the Imperial Household. A Jakuchu triptych of the Buddha and two bodhisattvas, the centerpiece of the exhibit, was sent by the monks of Shokokuji, to whom the artist gave it nearly 250 years ago. YUKIO LIPPIT: It was meant to be used for a Buddhist ceremony one day per year. And so to have it displayed for four weeks in Washington is a very special occasion. 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Some conservative activists have denounced Romney's decision to match Obama's position on student loan rates. "Mitt Romney is going to sell out conservatives in his party" to improve his chances in the November election, Michael Brendan Dougherty wrote in a blog carried by sites including Free Republic. By taking on student debt, Obama spoke to middle-class America and also targeted a growing economic burden that could hamper the national recovery. <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Scroll-painting-Shop">scroll</a> While leaning on Republicans in Congress to act, he also sought to energize the young people essential to his campaign — those who voted for him last time and the many more who have turned voting age since then. Obama urged students to go to social media sites like Twitter to pressure their lawmakers to prevent the interest rates on the loans "from shooting up and shaking you down." 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With Romney seemingly assured of sweeping the five Republican presidential primaries being held Tuesday, the former Massachusetts governor planned a focus on the general election with a speech in New Hampshire titled "A Better America Begins Tonight." <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Calligraphy-Shop">Chinese brush painting</a> Ahead of the speech, Romney supporters said Obama's policies had hurt younger voters and questioned whether the president could garner the same amount of support as in 2008. "Young people are sitting here three and a half years later and they're not better off," said Alex Schriver, chairman of the College Republican National Committee. The president was also speaking Tuesday at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and then at the University of Iowa on Wednesday. All three schools are in states that Obama carried in 2008, and all three states are considered among the several that could swing to Obama or Romney and help decide a close 2012 election. Before his speech on the Colorado campus, Obama went after students in a likely place to find them — a bar. He stopped in Boulder at "The Sink," shaking hands with young people enjoying beers and burgers. Obama roamed the patio area and went table-by-table inside, chatting up students about their ideas. One woman said she wanted to start a restaurant based on cheese fries. "Sounds good," he said. Obama carried voters between the ages of 18-29 by a margin of about 2-to-1 in 2008, but many recent college graduates have had difficulty finding jobs. That raises concerns for the president about whether they will vote and volunteer for him in such large numbers again. Without mentioning her by name in his Chapel Hill speech, Obama cited North Carolina Republican Rep. Virginia Foxx, quoting her from a recent radio interview with G. Gordon Liddy in which she said, "I have very little tolerance for people who tell me that they graduate with $200,000 of debt." <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Chinese-Paintings-Shop">Chinese painting</a> Obama said allowing the interest rates to double this summer would hurt more than 7 million students, costing the average student $1,000 and amounting to a "tax hike" for those students and their families. "Anybody here can afford to pay an extra thousand dollars right now?" Obama asked to jeers from the crowd. "I don't think so." cohen01 on "Romney to claim GOP nomination after primary victories" http://harad.de/bbpress/topic.php?id=5139#post-5226 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 07:51:25 +0000 cohen01 5226@http://harad.de/bbpress/ <a></a><a> </a><a href="http://www.asianwallarts.com">craft stores </a> With victories expected in five Northeastern primaries, Mitt Romney prepared to claim the mantle of Republican presidential nominee — though he has not officially clinched the race — and turn his focus to a general election showdown with President Obama. Romney was poised to win primaries in Pennsylvania, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware — contests whose outcomes seemed all but assured two weeks ago when his chief rival, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, suspended his campaign. The Associated Press projected Romney had won Connecticut, Delaware and Rhode Island after polls there closed. The former Massachusetts governor entered the day just shy of 700 delegates, with 209 at stake Tuesday and 1,144 needed to cinch the nomination. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, winner of two primaries, and Texas Congressman Ron Paul, who has built a loyal following but has yet to win a primary, remained in the race even though neither has a mathematical chance of winning the nomination. In remarks prepared for delivery in New Hampshire, where his campaign began almost a year ago, Romney is to congratulate the other contenders for a hard-fought race and thank his supporters for “a great honor and solemn responsibility.” In an echo of Ronald Reagan’s question — “Are you better off than you were four years ago” — during his 1980 presidential campaign, Romney will ask Americans to consider Obama’s “sweeping promises of hope and change.” <a href="http://www.asianwallarts.com/Calligraphy---Idiom">Chinese calligraphy supplies</a> “After we came down to earth, after the celebration and parades, what do we have to show for three and a half years of President Obama?” Romney will say, according to speech excerpts released by his campaign. "We have seen hopes and dreams diminished by false promises and weak leadership. Everywhere I go, Americans are tired of being tired, and many of those who are fortunate enough to have a job are working harder for less. “To all of the thousands of good and decent Americans I’ve met who want nothing more than a better chance, a fighting chance — to all of you, I have a simple message: Hold on a little longer. A better America begins tonight.” Gingrich has pledged to fight on until the party’s convention in Tampa, Fla., but he has drastically curtailed his schedule as his campaign grapples with $4.3 million in debt and pressure from a Republican leaders to bow out. His hopes of a resurgence were pinned on a win in Delaware. 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The campaign has established a joint finance committee to raise money with the Republican National Committee, which has been staffing up in swing states in preparation for the fall campaign. Romney’s aides have also pulled together a task force headed by longtime advisor Beth Myers to begin the search for Romney’s running mate. Tuesday's primaries throughout the Northeast are expected to give Obama enough delegates to officially clinch the Democratic nomination for a second term. The milestone comes more than a month earlier than it did in 2008, when Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton battled each other until the final primary contests in early June. <a href="http://www.asianwallarts.com/">wall hangings</a> While the fall campaign has already gotten off to a brisk start with the Romney and Obama campaigns engaging on a daily basis over the last few weeks, Romney is still facing some major challenges within his party. 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Opened in New Delhi, ‘Mayukha’ an exhibition of Oil, Acrylics and Tempora Paintings becoming a major subject of discussion in the town now a days. This exhibition, includes the art works of both Odisha based senior artists Mr. Chandramani Biswal and his wife Smt. Sailabala Nayak, would only serve to bring vibrancy to the art, participants and art connoisseurs. This exhibition mounted at the palm court Gallery of the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi had around 45 art works on display. For Chandramani Biswal, art is a specific form of life. Experimenting on the canvas is his deep emotion, brush and cotton pieces are his means of expression and occasionally monochromatic transparent colour treatment comprise his exclusive vocabulary. Painting comes naturally to him, his strokes being governed by instinct. His early painting series, captioned as “Dying century” won him world wide recognition. This series comprises more than two hundred works which represent the symbolical objects. 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He further adds that nature contains series of centuries which in every moment is uncertain and the deserted, unidentified female form seems to create a feeling of undying split of human kind. “we have to stop the energy from deteriorations further to save the century”, he said. The art object incorporate with the Indian mythology does not actual live and breathe but gives the illusion of life. The illusion of pulsating vitality created within the art object is the result of creative devices employed by smt. Sailabala Nayak. She says the artist can paint any thing he wishes, anyway he wishes but with atleast a minimal preference of individual brand or of the smell of own mother land. With this context the art works of tempera on silk and acrylic on canvas are cast in Indian traditional mould with rustic and feminist themes. There is lyricism about her art that makes one feel that it is true Indian visual poetry. 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His remarks could add to pressure on Apple to find a solution to the standoff.Yan's comments followed news that the Guangdong High Court in southern China is seeking to arrange a settlement in the case. In late February, the court began hearing Apple's appeal of a lower court ruling that favored Proview in the trademark dispute."The dispute between Apple and Shenzhen Proview concerning the iPad trademark is going through the judicial process," Yan said in a news conference carried on the Internet.But he added that "according to our government's laws, Shenzhen Proview is still the lawful representative and user of the trademark."China has sought to showcase its determination to protect trademarks and other intellectual property, but with hundreds of thousands employed in the assembly of <a href="http://www.sneakeroutletsale.com/Adidas-Originals-sale">adidas originals sale</a>Apple's iPhones and iPads is unlikely to want to disrupt the company's production and marketing in China.Ma Dongxiao, a lawyer for Proview said the company had expected all along to settle with Apple, with the key sticking point being the amount of money involved."It is likely that we will settle out of court. 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China's benchmark Shanghai Composite Index is up 5.6 percent for the same period."Investors want to share in Apple's growth as they believe sales of iPhones and iPads will remain strong," said Zhou Feng, analyst at Donghai Securities Co."Investing in Apple suppliers is not a bad idea, since they're the girls hanging out with the rich guy."Shares of Apple, which is listed on the Nasdaq, hit a record high of $644.00 this month. 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Its shares have since fallen back, however, and the company barely made a profit in 2011.But analysts believe that Anjie, with its proven and direct relationship with Apple, can continue to perform well, even with its high valuations.The company last week forecast that first-half profit this year may grow as much as 70 percent, after surging 82 percent last year to 101 million yuan ($16 million)."You can hold on to Anjie as long as you have faith in Apple," said Wu Binhua, analyst at Hwabao Securities. 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Despite predicting total U.S. streaming-subscriber additions in 2012 would reach about 7 million, "about the same as in 2010," the nearer-term guidance rattled investors, said Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter. Adding customers to the instant-streaming business is crucial to the company's future as it moves away from mailing DVDs in its signature red envelopes. And sustaining strong growth in users will help offset rising costs as Netflix writes bigger checks for new movies and TV shows. "They are giving a signal to the Street their growth story is over," said Pachter, who rates Netflix a "sell." Netflix said seasonal variations would affect second-quarter customer growth. In a letter to shareholders, CEO Reed Hastings and CFO David Wells said they saw "nothing new or particularly concerning" about customer viewing, acquisition and retention. "All are healthy," they said. "Our gross additions are strong. Our retention is strong. 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The reversal appears to be a result of tightened border controls, a weak U.S. job and housing construction market, a rise in deportations and a decline in Mexican birthrates, said the study, which used U.S. and Mexican census figures and Mexican government surveys. Arrests of illegal immigrants trying to enter the United States have also dropped precipitously in recent years. Whether the reversal is temporary or permanent, it could have significant implications for the United States. The country has 12 million Mexican immigrants, and many work in agriculture and construction. <a href="http://www.asianwallarts.com/Calligraphy---Idiom">Chinese calligraphy supplies</a> One in 10 people born in Mexico live in the United States, and more than half entered illegally. Most live in California and Texas; about 120,000 live in the Washington region. The report does not specify how many of those who moved to Mexico had been in the United States illegally. But the statistics imply that many of them had been: The number of undocumented Mexicans here dropped from 7 million in 2007 to 6.1 million in 2011, while the number of those here legally increased slightly, from 5.6 million in 2007 to 5.8 million in 2011. “The diminished flow appears largely to be a drop in unauthorized immigrants,” said Jeffrey Passel, a senior demographer at Pew and a co-author of the report. He said an estimated 5 to 35 percent of the recent returnees to Mexico were deported. Although most Mexican deportees say they will try to return, their numbers are shrinking, too, the study said: According to a Mexican government survey, 20 percent of deportees in 2010 said they would not return to the United States, compared with 7 percent in 2005. Half of those returning to Mexico took their entire families, including more than 100,000 U.S.-born children of Mexican immigrants. Children born in the United States to Mexican nationals are citizens of both countries. 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Eight men remain suspended and have had their top-secret security clearances lifted. The scandal also involves about 10 military personnel and as many as 20 Colombian women. Rep. Peter King, a New York Republican and chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, said Thursday that more firings could be imminent. "I wouldn't be surprised if you saw more dismissals and more being forced out sooner rather than later," said King, who is being updated on the investigation by Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan. "You may see a few more today or tomorrow." <a href="http://www.asianwallarts.com/">arts and crafts homes </a> Sen. Chuck Grassley, the senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he thought more people would be fired within "just a few days." "'I expect there will be more, but that's what the investigation is all about." 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She came to Tennessee in 1974 as a graduate assistant to work on her master's degree, teach a pair of lower-level physical education classes and, most of all, rehab her injured knee in time for the 1976 Olympics. For this, college basketball can thank Bettye Giles. Giles was the women's athletic director at UT-Martin, which is where Summitt played college basketball. It was Giles, a UT-Knoxville grad and Summitt's college adviser, who helped arrange the grad assistant position. <a href="http://www.asiaartshop.com/Scroll-painting-Shop">scroll</a> Not long after Summitt's arrival in Knoxville, the women's basketball head coach decided to take a sabbatical to pursue a doctorate degree. Summitt was offered the job. "The main thing I can remember is that during that very first month, I would tell her, 'Sure, you can do it, Pat. You know you can do it. You just need to settle down,'" said Giles, by phone from her home in Martin. "I gave her a number of pep talks." 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Standing on the same stage at the Henry Ford Museum where Romney announced his first bid for president in 2008, Obama told a crowd of some 600 enthusiastic supporters: "Change is the decision we made to rescue the American auto industry from collapse when some politicians said, 'Let Detroit go bankrupt.' " Romney, who was born in Michigan and whose father was a former auto executive and governor of the state, opposed the bailout, saying a structured bankruptcy could have achieved the same result without the massive cost to the U.S. government. Moreover, he has argued the Obama administration made too many concessions to auto unions as part of the bailout. The election campaign is intensifying now that it is essentially a two-man race. Romney has been rolling out endorsements this week in the aftermath of Santorum's departure from the Republican campaign. Daniels, at one time considered a possible GOP contender, explained Wednesday on Fox News why he is backing Romney. 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