| Reluctant artist turns metal scraps into vivid art
Drip. Drip. Drip. Wayne Kern's calloused hands are dancing to the tune of rain trickling from the ceiling. At his scarred workbench, with the chill of a wet, gray afternoon pulsing through an open window, Kern bends and twists a thick rope of electrical cable anchored to a metal vise. Later today, or maybe tomorrow, the silvery strand will become an ornamental tree, with barren branches reaching out like a mother's arms. "Most people look at this stuff, and they think of it as flawed," he says. Slabs of chipped glass. Torn window screens. Metal guts from clocks and cars. Balled-up pieces of copper wire. Flawed? Not to Kern. To him, each of these things represents the beginning of an art project. The screen? The fins of a fish.
Hip-Hop Rumors: LaLa Plumps Up, Amerie Dropped? AHHmerican Gangster!
Somebody hit me with this as an explanation as to the title of Mariah's new CD, E=MC2.
“Just to clarify your Mariah E=MC2 comment it has nothing to do with Eminem. E stands for Emancipation(as in the title of her last album) MC is self explanatory and the 2 or squared simply means part 2. Emancipation of Mariah 2 but doesn't E=MC2 sound alot better."
Ddot the King hit me with that.
Charlamagne from Wendy Williams said this:
“Come on illseed! Mariah's album title is E for Emancipation the MC for Mariah Carey and the 2 represents the Sequel - Emancipation Part 2."
LMAO! I didn't really think that the E meant Eminem, but it's more interesting that way.
New Delhi, February 29
All security measures are also in place, CBSE chairman Ashok Ganguly claimed. While the class 10th examinations will be conducted from March 1 to 27, the Class 12 examinations will be held from March 1 to April 2. The examinations will be conducted across 5,018 centres of which 375 have been marked as sensitive and will have additional security measures. The National Capital Territory alone will have 1,109 centres. The board, this year, is introducing redesigned High Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) question paper for both the standards. Based on the national curriculum framework2005, the new design includes about 10 per cent of very short answer questions and about 20 per cent of questions to assess HOTS. Advising students to stay calm, Ganguly said the new pattern will test understanding of information and the focus will be on measuring students abilities to reason, justify and evaluate information.
10% of UK drivers 'bump-and-run'
Almost one in 10 British drivers admits to having crashed into a parked car and driving away, according to a survey. Some 70% of drivers have had cars damaged in this way, while 20% of those who admitted the offence felt no guilt. Tony Chilcott, of insurers Direct Line, which commissioned the research, said it is "worth remembering that it is a crime" to hit a car and drive away. A total of 1,526 UK motorists aged over 18, were questioned by YouGov online between 12 and 15 November. Mr Chilcott said "bumping another car can happen so easily", pointing out that "it may be tempting to drive off". This feeling seems to be echoed by the survey's respondents. .
Insurers 'put pressure on claimants to settle for less'
The conduct of insurers who deal directly with accident victims will be investigated following accusations that they put pressure on victims to waive their right to compensation or to settle claims for less than they should. Trade unions and claimant lawyers have handed a dossier of evidence against such insurers to the Financial Services Authority (FSA) for investigation. The trade union, Unite, has highlighted insurers who tried to settle the claims of injured people before they could take independent legal advice - known in the industry as 'third-party capture' - including one accident claim where insurance company Zurich offered £4,000 in 'full and final settlement', only for the case to be settled last November for £35,000. The Association of Personal Injury Lawyers' (Apil) evidence includes a claim on behalf of bereaved parents who lost their three children in a road traffic accident.
Published March 2nd
Joseph E. Grove, 21, was charged Feb. 22 with aggravated robbery and aggravated menacing. Grove is accused of entering a Sumner Street residence to ask the victim to return a safe and then pulled out a handgun and demanded money. Doug L. Snyder Jr., 20, of Georgia, was charged Feb. 20 with felony theft. Snyder was accused of taking a computer and a DVD player from his mother's home and selling them for $80. William J. Bond, 21, and Susan L. Carpenter, 39, both of Champlain Street, and William Fleming, 66, of Ogden Avenue, were charged Feb. 19 with breaking and entering and vandalism. Police responded to a report on Champlain of siding being removed from a house. Fleming was accused of driving the truck to haul the siding away. Phillip R. Hunt, 30, of Hillman Road, and Robert Waggoner, 26, of Fleming Drive, were charged Feb.
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