5 Things to Think About Before Investing in Art | Madame Noire ...

Born to Austrian and Ugandan parents in Seattle, Isolde Brielmaier always had a strong understanding of various cultures. First falling in love with dance and attending a public school where the arts were heavily integrated into the everyday curriculum, she got the artistic bug early. ?I danced very seriously through my early 20s,? Brielmaier says, ?and always tried to balance that with being a good student.? But while attending high school in Germany, the long-term performer decided she no longer had an interest in pursuing dance full-time. Instead, she chose to become a full-time student of history and sociology at New York?s Columbia University and spent her spare time at the Dance Theater of Harlem and Alvin Ailey?s dance studio. However, it was her courses in art history that would become a major component in her life and career.

Curating small exhibitions in the SoHo section of New York, Brielmaier was eventually asked to teach at Vassar University. What was supposed to be a one-time thing turned into a five-year career as a visiting professor. In the past, Brielmaier advised athletes and entertainers in purchasing contemporary art, but she now operates as the as the chief curator of SCAD (Savannah College of Art and Design). Today she also curates international art exhibitions in the SCAD community and beyond. BlackEnterprise.com sat down with the art guru who broke down the top five things to consider when looking to break into the world of art.

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Cassini images reveal ice on Saturn satellite Hyperion

Web edition : Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012

Hyperion may look like a wet sponge, but the Saturnian moon is actually covered in ice. New studies of images taken by NASA?s Cassini spacecraft in September 2005 reveal that the moon ? a weirdly rotating, reddish, potato-shaped satellite with a honeycomblike surface ? is covered in water and carbon dioxide ices, with hydrocarbons and iron-containing compounds mixed in. In some ways, Hyperion is similar to certain comets, which suggests the moon formed elsewhere before being snared by the ringed planet, scientists report in an upcoming issue of Icarus. Further analyses, conducted by a separate team of researchers and published in the same journal, describe Hyperion?s perplexing, spongelike surface as the product of several moonscaping processes: Impacts blasting debris into space, eroding crater walls, mass wasting and sublimation have all sculpted one of the solar system?s weirdest-looking objects, the team proposes.

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Avadon: The Black Fortress [Android Game Review]

Sometimes a game is made on such an impressive scale, it dwarfs the games around it by its sheer magnitude and detail. Avadon: The Black Fortress is one such game, and while its graphics and sound effects might initially leave you in the lurch, the excellent story and massive amount of content more than make up for it.

When you first open up Avadon, you're shown the all too familiar options screen. Chances are you'll want to start a new game, and when you do so, you're able to create your character. There's four classes to choose from: blademaster, shadowwalker, shaman, and sorceress.

Each class fits one of the established archetypes we've grown accustomed to seeing (for example, the blademaster is a tanky, devastating warrior, capable of taking damage, while the sorceress is mostly ranged, casting spells, wearing cloth, and equipped with the occasional heal), so all should be familiar on that front.

After you've settled on your name, Avadon tells you the game's story through a series of still images and text. All of the drawings are very well done, and it's clear a lot of effort went into the detailed storyline. (Long story short, you're now a warrior working at the Black Fortress, defending your land, fighting off baddies, and trying not to infuriate the all-powerful and crazy ruler of the place).

Once you're actually in-game, the camera takes a 2½-D, top-down view of your environment. You simply tap where you want to move and your character will walk there, and if you happen to tap on another NPC, you also use touch to advance through all of the dialogue.

There's a multitude of button that run alongside the bottom of the screen, and these help you access your inventory, player stats, and abilities, to name a few. On the right side of your combat status icon (the middle icon that shows a peace sign when you're not fighting) are quick access slots for your preferred spells and items. You can hold four of each, so as you continue to get better gear and more abilities, you can switch these out as necessary.

Combat is fairly fluid, using a turn-based system that should be familiar to anyone who has played a tactics game before. A grid appears underneath all involved parties feet, you're limited to how many squares you can move (as are they), and you tap the enemy you want to attack. When you have skills, this would be the time to use them. (You aim and control them using the same touch method.)

While the battle style isn't clunky, I'd definitely appreciate an auto-attack function so I don't have to keep tapping the enemy I'm on. Sure, you might want to switch to someone else mid-fight, but in the battles I played, it was all pretty straightforward (we steamrolled them), so being able to check out for a few seconds would help keep the monotony down.

Still, Avadon: The Black Fortress is truly a game of epic proportions. It's detailed, very engrossing, and just plain long. The fact that Spiderweb Software promises it to be the first in a trilogy of games excites me (and gives me hope they'll improve the graphics), and if you ever played the older games of a bygone era, this might just tickle that nostalgia bone of yours.

Avadon: The Black Fortress is $9.99 in the Google Play Store. We've got video and download links after the break.

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U.S. Chamber of Commerce to spend big on 2012 election

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which helped Republicans make big gains in the 2010 congressional elections, is planning its most aggressive push yet to send business-friendly lawmakers to Washington in the November 6 election.

Thomas Donohue, the president and CEO of the powerful business lobby, on Tuesday said the Chamber planned to get involved in 11 or 12 Senate races and 35 to 37 races for the House of Representatives.

"We are planning on having a good year," Donohue told hundreds of members of the U.S. small business community at a meeting in Washington.

"Yesterday, reporters asked me how much money we'll spend," he said, adding that journalists suggested the group spent $50 million in the last election cycle. "It'll be a lot of money," Donohue said, "This is a more important election than the last election."

The group has spent $3.4 million so far on this election cycle, according to its public records.

In 2010, when Republicans took control of the House, the Chamber reported spending $32 million on races, according to the Center for Responsive Politics data. This year, Democrats are hoping to contest scores of House seats and protect their Senate majority in some two dozen highly-contested races.

The business lobby, which has opposed some of the Obama administration's key domestic policies, including the 2010 healthcare restructuring law, historically stays away from the presidential race but hits hard on congressional elections as well as state attorneys general and elected judges races.

"Our strategy is to protect the pro-business majority in the House and advance our interests in the Senate," said Rob Engstrom, the group's national political director.

The Chamber is planning to invest heavily in Senate races it considers critical, including in Massachusetts, Nevada, Nebraska, Montana, Florida, Missouri and North Dakota.

The group, whose donors are kept secret, will "equally invest" in dozens of key House races, such as in California, Illinois, New York, North Carolina, Engstrom said.

Although traditionally viewed as a pro-Republican entity, the Chamber does support fiscally conservative Democrats, focusing on votes and policy positions that benefit the business community over party affiliation.

Engstrom said the group, which will announce further endorsements in coming months, has already come out in support of incumbent Democratic Representatives Jim Matheson and John Barrow, of Utah and Georgia respectively.

In what the Chamber called its earliest election engagement ever, the group has already started advertising and advocacy in 31 congressional districts and nine competitive states.

Customized for each race, many of the ads attack candidates who have supported Democratic President Barack Obama's healthcare law. The group also has targeted those siding with Obama in rejecting TransCanada Corp's original full plan to build the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada to Texas.

"We will focus our efforts on a number of issues critical to the American recovery," Engstrom said. "These issues include Obamacare, American energy exploration, a common sense approach to government regulation, limiting frivolous lawsuits, travel and tourism and investments in transportation and infrastructure so our economy can move."

(Additional reporting by Alexander Cohen; Editing by Paul Simao)

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Music is fundamental to the human kind. Music has been the center of cultures throughout the world and across the time. Music is considered to be the best concetrator as it soothes the mind and the body. Certain rhythms and beats calms and relaxes the mind. In realms of yoga, music plays an important role. Meditation music created by a single instrument such as violin, flute as well as a collection of instruments like gong, bells and bowls can have a mesmerizing effect on the listening mind. Spirit Voyage, an online music store, offers an extensive collection of Yoga DVDs, Yoga Books, meditation music CDs and more and aim to lead the practitioner towards a path of self enlightenment.

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Signs And Symptoms Of Acne And Treating Those ? Beauty, Health ...

22 May 2012 o 23:26 | Skin care
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Acne breakouts are the instigative skin disorder, which can be observed as a clogged pores, blackheads, and pimples. Your sebaceous glands or oil glands are usually attached to the strands of hair and discharge a stuff referred as the sebum, that lubricates skin and hair. In general, sebum travels over the strands of hair and thus awayon to the facial skin. In case the oil glands deliver excessive oil through skin then it will brings together with the old skin debris and the follicles of hair will be blocked and then irritated. Normally pimples can affect the chin, forehead, nose, back, trunk, and cheeks.

Acne signs:

Most of the people believe that acne is simply a pimples. But a man or woman who is probably troubled with zits can certainly have any of these followed blemishes:

? Whiteheads
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? Cysts
? Papules
? Pustules
? Nodules

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Bad acne will result in a lot more than the blemishes. Much of the research projects demonstrated that those who have bad acne might have:

? Low self-esteem: Pimples will make the person to feel below par all about themselves.?Because of their pimple breakouts, a lot of them do not want to be along with their unique family and friends. Many of them forget about the office and also education.?

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