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One of April Ellis's pony creation's dubbed "Ferrari" waits to be taken out for a test ride in San Francisco, Calif. |
An animatronic pony April Ellis calls "Freeky" reacts to her touch in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis shows off one of her electric wheel chair pony creations in her Potrero Hill garage in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis experiments with recycled materials in her garage in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis and her pony creation "Primus" make their way home from a trip to the coffee shop in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis watches as people investigate one of her pony creations in San Francisco, Calif. |
With her husband Dave Paschich close behind, April Ellis reassembles her electric pony after if flipped on the way home in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis prepares to garage her pony creation in San Francisco, Calif. |
April Ellis arranges her Mission Pony creations in her Potrero Hill garage in San Francisco, Calif. |
“Sometimes it’s hard to run errands because you get stopped quite a bit,” said April Ellis, who beamed every time a passerby’s jaw dropped at the sight of Ellis and her husband puttering down a Mission District street atop electrically propelled ponies. A year ago, Ellis decided she needed a break from her career as a ... |
At first she’d planned to take a month off to tinker with the toy pony and electric wheelchair parts. But she soon realized there was more potential in the urban equine endeavor she called Mission Pony. She quit her job to pursue the project full time. She has since built five pony prototypes and expects to outgrow her... |
The report of the UN committee on the rights of the child on child abuse in the Catholic church is the harshest ever indictment of the church by a non-partisan body on an issue that has for long roiled and tainted the image of the church. |
The watchdog agency has pointed out that tens of thousands of children have been abused for years within the church and has called upon the church leadership to remove all known and suspected abusers from their positions and hand them over to law enforcement authorities for investigation and prosecution. The tone, teno... |
While it is well known that sexual abuse of children is a shameful reality, the church was in the past in complete denial of it. But with a large number of instances of abuse coming into the open and with criticism mounting all over the world, it has been forced to recognise its existence. Even then it has shied away f... |
The church authorities should heed the call and take immediate and effective steps to eliminate sexual crimes against children by the clergy and officials. The Vatican is a signatory of the UN convention on the rights of the child and is duty-bound to protect them. However, the response of the Vatican is not helpful. P... |
The digital age has left the charkha forlorn but Indu, pictured in the next two pages, teaches those who care to learn how to spin the charkha and connect with an important thread of India's history. |
No expert would hazard a guess as to when humankind began to spin cotton, wool, and other fibres into yarn. But it is accepted without much doubt that the spinning wheel was invented in Asia, probably in China or India. And Mahatma Gandhi turned the spinning wheel, or the charkha, as it is known in India, into a symbol... |
There is something elemental about spinning that elevates it to an activity resembling meditation that is reached through focused and relaxed physical effort. The digital age has left the charkha forlorn, but at the National Gandhi Museum in Delhi, right across Rajghat, Indu, pictured here, teaches those who care to le... |
Experiential learning, anchored by our renowned cooperative education program, lies at the heart of academic life at Northeastern. The integration of study with professional work, research, and service in 131 countries around the world gives students real-world opportunities and responsibilities. They explore their pat... |
Northeastern's graduate campuses in Charlotte, N.C., and Seattle, and its technology hub in Silicon Valley offer in-demand degree programs aligned with their regions’ educational, workforce, and economic development needs, including programs in emerging fields, such as cybersecurity, health informatics, and operations ... |
To submit an application please carefully read the requirements listed within the Gallery Application before submitting your proposal. You will be contacted once your proposal has been received but please allow four to six weeks for a more detailed response. |
The submission process has been updated as of January 23rd, 2019. If you recently emailed any proposals to Bruce Ployer between November 1st 2018 and January 23 2019, please resubmit your application to Thomas Vannatter, the new Gallery Manager. |
Please check back soon, or reach out to Thomas Vannatter for more information about the process to have your work considered to be included in the Art-Lift program. |
The university welcomes proposals for artwork that aligns with the spirit of Northeastern: innovative, entrepreneurial, global, and urban. |
All artwork exhibited at the university will go through a curatorial process. |
When applicable, private university spaces, including offices, interior lobbies, and conference rooms, may be curated by the “owners” of that space, in collaboration with the Campus Curator. |
Gallery 360 exhibits are curated by a formal committee process. That process and timeframe is outlined on the Gallery 360 website. |
Temporary formal exhibits in public spaces throughout the campus (West Village Atrium, International Village lobby, hallways throughout Curry Student Center, and Ell Hall) are curated by the Campus Curator, sometimes in collaboration with the Public Art Initiative team. The process for submission is outlined on the Gal... |
Proposals for public art installations–both permanent and sort-term–are reviewed by the Public Art Initiative team. Final decisions are made by the president of Northeastern. The team recruits local, national, and international artists, and looks favorably on proposals by artists from the Northeastern community. Submit... |
Northeastern’s Center for the Arts, based in the College of Arts, Media and Design, makes art and culture an integral part of the Northeastern experience. |
The College of Arts, Media and Design is Northeastern’s hub for creativity and entrepreneurship in design, communication, and the arts. The college is grounded in the core disciplines of architecture, art + design, communication studies, game design, journalism, media and screen studies, music, and theatre. |
It's a big day for particle physics! Scientists at CERN believe they have found a fundamental building block of our universe: the elusive Higgs boson. |
You may know it by another name. It's also called the "God particle." |
Today's announcement is just a preliminary result, though scientists say it is "very strong." |
But what exactly is the Higgs boson... And why do we care about it? |
Scientists believe it is the particle that gives all matter its mass. Finding it would fill a huge hole in the Standard Model of physics. That theory explains how our universe works. |
Wow in my life time.... I am impressed with the LHC! |
Why people have the need to mix their superstitions and dogmas with scientific matters? |
Any serious scientist can confirm that there is no relationship of this Higgs boson or any other sub-atomic particle with any mystical or supernatural issue. |
We have to stop accepting the mystical and religious preachers to confuse people with this kind of misinformation every time science offers any advance. The same kind of proselytisers that create this kind of nonsense as "the God particle" are those who try to deny any scientifically proven fact that challenges their r... |
The media in general should not give space for this kind of mystification. |
Hi Marc Sher (who I used to know at Santa Cruz many years ago),Though the basic thrust of your argemunt is right (i.e. that scalar fields are problematic at high energies), it is not true that the quartic Higgs coupling becomes negative. I am pretty sure you are thinking about Landau's pole. I hope Peter W. will indulg... |
Jeff,You can look up the expected width of the bump, I think it's very rgulhoy 2 GeV or so. Remember, right now the bumps are near the limit of statistical significance, not something well-resolved where you can precisely locate a peak. The numbers being quoted are also not as precise as possible. It could very well be... |
Discover and explore London using full colour interactive linked maps, in this simple to use PDA version of The Rough Guide London Map. Find all the top tourist spots and key attractions with ease, information on the city and its sights can be quickly displayed with links to photographs and map locations. All in a supe... |
Aqueduct, ninth race. Grade 3. Purse: $100,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, 3-year-olds and up. Post: 5:15 p.m. |
LOWDOWN: Inherit the Gold, a 5-year-old New York-bred gelding, meets open stakes company for the first time but should be up to the task after winning four straight by daylight margins over the inner dirt track, including a pair of state-bred stakes. Inherit the Gold is 5-for-6, with a second, going two turns in his ca... |
Gulfstream Park, 10th race. Grade 3. Purse: $150,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, fillies and mares. Post: 5:36 p.m. |
LOWDOWN: Unrivaled Belle, making her first start since winning the Breeders’ Cup Ladies’ Classic, is the class of this field, but Bill Mott’s horses aren’t cranked up comiing off a layoff (see To Honor and Serve and Drosselmeyer). We’ll try to beat the Belle with Awesome Maria, a top-class filly who’s stretching out of... |
Gulfstream Park, 11th race. Grade 2. Purse: $300,000. Mile-and-an-eighth, 3-year-old fillies. Post: 6:11 p.m. |
LOWDOWN: R Heat Lightning, one of 2010’s top 2-year-old fillies, looked better than ever romping to a 71⁄4-length score over this track in the Grade 2 Davona Dale making her second start of 2011. Stretching from a mile to two turns should help her chances. |
LAST WEEK: Twice Over was ninth as the 2-1 favorite in the Dubai World Cup. At Gulfstream Park, Musketier (9-5) ran second in the MacDiarmida paying $3.20 to place, $2.40 to show. At Fair Ground, Elite Alex (7-2) was fourth in the Louisiana Derby. |
The death of a young Iraqi girl in the chaotic aftermath of Operation Desert Storm will leave an indelible mark on two Western men who tried to save her. |
Twenty-two years later, the chance to atone for her brutal murder and the hell unleashed by that first Gulf War takes them back into the broken heart and potent dangers of 21st century Iraq. |
Derek B. Miller’s follow up to his prize-winning debut novel, Norwegian by Night, provides a stunning and unsettling insight into the troubled landscape of the Middle East and a soul-searching exploration of Western foreign policy. |
A senior fellow with the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research and a public policy specialist, Miller delivers both a page-turning thriller brimming with psychological tension and a quietly powerful indictment of Western interventionism. |
In 1991, Desert Storm is over, a so-called peace has been declared and at Checkpoint Zulu, one hundred miles from the Kuwaiti border, 22-year-old Private Arwood Hobbes of the US Army is bored and melting under the hot sun. |
But the conflict is far from over and no one knows this better than 39-year-old British journalist Thomas Benton who reports from war zones and is embedded with the US troops. |
Benton needs Arwood to help him makes an unofficial visit to a nearby rebel-held village so that he can dig out a story which will feature the views of Iraqi civilians on how President Bush’s brave new world will pan out for them. |
But the two men become caught up in a horrific attack in which a local girl in a green dress, found cowering by a smouldering truck, is shot by a merciless Iraqi colonel as they are trying to protect her. |
Arwood and Benton walk away into their respective lives but something has changed for them both. Twenty-two years later in 2013, Arwood contacts Benton convinced that the girl in the green dress is still alive after seeing news footage from Kurdistan. |
In another place, in another war, they meet again and are offered an unlikely opportunity to ‘set things right.’ But are they risking death or capture on what could just be a fool’s errand? |
By setting his outstanding literary thriller in the confused, complex and volatile aftermath of conflict, Miller effectively guns down any notion of military heroics and instead focuses his verbal firepower on the plight of civilians caught up in the deadly wake of war. |
The girl in the green dress metamorphoses into every innocent victim of war, a powerful reminder of man’s inhumanity to man but also a symbol of remembrance, redemption and, ultimately, hope for a better future. |
The stakes are always high for Arwood Hobbes and Thomas Benton but it is only by going back to the most dangerous country in the world and risking never returning home that they can finally lay to rest the ghosts of their past and find answers to the questions that have crippled their lives for over two decades. |
Written with Miller’s incisive wit, intelligence, compassion and authenticity, this is a novel from a writer fast becoming a master of his craft. |
Still wondering what happened to Baltimore’s Sister Cathy? Amateur sleuths have continued tracking the famous cold case in a new podcast series. |
Season 2 of the podcast “Out of the Shadows” covers the death of Baltimore nun Catherine Ann Cesnik, whose 1969 murder remains unsolved. |
The more than 45-year-old cold case got a burst of attention in 2017 with the release of Netflix’s docuseries “The Keepers.” The show followed the efforts of two Maryland women, Gemma Hoskins and Abbie Schaub, to continue investigating the death of their high school English teacher. |
“The Keepers” focused on sexual abuse allegations at Archbishop Keough High School in the 1960s and 1970s and the unsolved 1969 killing of Cesnik, who taught there. It examined the theory that Cesnik was murdered because she knew about sexual abuse allegedly committed by school chaplain A. Joseph Maskell. |
Maskell died in 2001 and was never criminally charged. |
The podcast’s host Shane Waters partners with Hoskins in the second season, which features interviews with several people who appeared in the documentary, including abuse survivor Cindy Lovell and investigative reporter Bob Erlandson. |
Waters and Hoskins began work on the podcast right before “The Keepers” aired. About three years has passed since the docuseries filmed, and Hoskins said her investigation has continued to find new victims, details and theories, she said. |
“Our focus is to make sure this story does not go away,” Hoskins said, adding that Cesnik’s case has still not been solved. |
Waters was excited to discover that listeners have picked up on small details and similarities between Cesnik’s death and others from the time period. The podcast hosts also answer questions from listeners at the end of episodes. |
Upcoming episodes are scheduled to include interviews with survivors Michele Stanton and Donna Von Den Bosch, with new episodes released every Tuesday. |
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence, smart speakers can answer any question, control your smart home, play games, and so much more. |
The best smart speaker is the new Amazon Echo with its 15,000+ skills, ability to buy items on Amazon, support for dozens of smart home devices, and good audio quality. |
Amazon's Echo was the very first smart speaker on the scene with artificial intelligence, and it still dominates the field. Since its launch, Amazon has grown the Echo lineup to include the new Echo, the new Echo Dot, the touchscreen-enabled Echo Show, the fashion-forward Echo Look, the Echo Plus, and the Echo Spot. |
However, Amazon is no longer alone in the smart speaker space. Google entered the fray with the Google Home smart speaker and it now has the small Home Mini, the big Home Max, and the touchscreen-enabled Home Hub. Its smart Assistant now rivals Alexa for power. Apple also got into the AI smart speaker space with its Ho... |
Most recently, traditional audio companies like Sonos, JBL, Marshall, and others have created smart speakers with Amazon's Alexa or the Google Assistant built right in, and they sound absolutely fantastic. |
So which one is best for you and do you even need a smart speaker with artificial intelligence? We've tested the main smart speakers and done a lot of research on each of the main players in this space to bring you the answer to both of those questions. We've also gone over the basics of what's going on in the smart sp... |
Before you buy a smart speaker, you may want to jump ahead to learn about what they can do, the devices they support, and a note on privacy concerns. |
Updated on 11/20/2018 by Malarie Gokey: Added new Echos and the Google Home Hub. |
Why you'll love it: The new Amazon Echo is the uncontested best smart home speaker with its 15,000+ skills, smart home support, and strong audio. |
If you want a smart speaker that does it all, the new Amazon Echo is the best one you can buy. The updated model costs a lot less than the original, but it's just as smart. It comes in new finishes to blend in with your decor better, plus, it's a bit smaller and it sounds better. |
Amazon got a head start on the competition, and it shows. Alexa has more than 15,000 skills, supports dozens of smart home products, and works with too many apps to count. You can even order things on Amazon with your voice. |
This slim, modern cylinder plays audio that matches great Bluetooth speakers for quality, and it'll fit in with any room's decor. When you awaken Alexa, a subtle blue light flicks around the round top of the speaker as it listens in. |
You can play music from Amazon Music, Spotify, Pandora, iHeartRadio, TuneIn, and more, and the sound quality is very good. If you subscribe to Audible's audiobook service, the Echo will also play the narration for you while you cook, relax, or work around the house. |
Alexa can read you recipes, play audio news shows, tell you the score, look up local businesses, check the weather, and complete just about any other basic task that springs to mind. She'll even order you an Uber to the airport and read out your text messages. |
If you have smart home devices already, chances are the Echo works with them. Major ones like the Phillips Hue and other great smart bulbs, as well as Nest and other smart thermostats, work with the Echo. Smart switches, garage doors, sprinklers, locks, and security cameras also play nice with Alexa. The Echo supports ... |
The only downsides are a lack of privacy, the general fear that Amazon is slowly but surely taking over the world, and the fact that Alexa's search chops aren't as good as Google's. |
If you're a Prime member, this is the smart speaker for you, and if you don't have Prime yet, sign up, because all the perks like two-day shipping, free music streaming, free ebooks, and free video streaming on Prime Video are well worth the annual fee. |
Why you'll love it: The Sonos One has the power of Amazon's Alexa, plus excellent sound quality and the promise of Google Assistant and Apple AirPlay 2 compatibility coming soon. |
If you want the best-sounding smart speaker available, you need the Sonos One. It's powered by Amazon's Alexa just like the Echo, so it has most of the same features and supports most of the same smart home devices. We reviewed it and loved its sound quality. |
The advantage Sonos has is that it's neutral in the tech ecosystem debate — Sonos supports Alexa and Apple's AirPlay 2, but it's also going to work with the Google Assistant in 2018 or 2019. No matter what services or devices you use, chances are the Sonos One is happy to play along. |
You can ask Alexa to play any song from Amazon's streaming services, Spotify, Pandora, Deezer, TuneIn, Sirius XM, and iHeartRadio. The rest of the 80 or so supported music services only support commands that pause, resume, skip, or change the volume of your music. That means you have to start playing the songs you want... |
Most other Alexa skills work with the Sonos One, though, so you have full smart speaker functionality in a great sounding package. Audio experts across the board agree that the Sonos One is the best-sounding smart speaker, so if you care about audio above all else this is the smart speaker for you. |
Sonos has been a leader in the multi-room audio space for some time now, and the Sonos One continues that trend. It can sync up with multiple Sonos speakers in your home so you can create a true home theater experience. That's especially good news now that Sonos has the new $399 Beam Soundbar, which has Alexa built-in ... |
Why you'll love it: The Google Home is great for anyone who's all-in with Google and doesn't have Amazon Prime in their lives. |
Google has the search smarts to rule the artificial intelligence space, but its just getting started with the Google Home smart speaker and its artificially intelligent Assistant. |
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