KnownOrigin is a blockchain-powered platform that enables users to buy, discover, and collect digital artwork by some of the world’s most renowned illustrators, artist, and creative practitioners. This platform brings art ownership to the digital world, and grants users the opportunity to buy original artwork and rare digital assets. Their focus is also uniquely positioned on real-world events including a pop-up gallery event at Seven Brothers Brewery.
The blockchain provides a reliable source of ownership that is trustworthy and unchangeable where users can create rare digital assets to embed into the blockchain permanently. These assets are also limited in numbers, therefore the value of each of these artworks will be driven up accordingly.
Users will have a Ethereum-supported wallet that will hold the digital tokens, which can be used to purchase both digital assets and physical artwork on the website.
KnownOrigin seeks to follow through with the idea of being able to allow a user to download a high-res digital copy of a specific artwork, protected and verified by blockchain infrastructure. There is a liaison created between catering to people that want their proof-of-ownership on the blockchain, and people that just want to hang their artwork on the wall.
sourceTraditional buying and selling currently has no real way that is fail-safe and can keep their artwork secure once it gets downloaded to someone’s phone or laptop. With the Smart Contract system on the Ethereum blockchain, true ownership and provenance can be maintained.
On Thursday August 23rd, KnownOrigin artist Jordan Yates will be speaking at the Craft event! Check out the link here.
Many incarcerated women and girls are behind bars for doing favors for gang members (pick up extortion Money, move weapons, sell drugs, assist in kidnappings, etc.). These women put themselves at serious risk for their partners and the guys from their barrio, and afterwards many feel disillusioned and abandoned as they pay time for these crimes (alone). Many times, when a woman goes to jail, her boyfriend leaves her for another. Nevertheless, women seldom question their reason for doing favors for the homeboys. Yesterday, I asked a girl why she did, and the following poem is a result of that conversation.
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The decision US President Donald Trump is going to make in relation to the “Iran Nuclear Deal” is going to become clear this weekend. The comments made to date and the developments we have so far witnessed form the opinion that Trump is going to withdraw from the deal. Trump withdrawing from the deal and new sanctions being imposed on Iran is going to negatively impact both other signatory countries and numerous countries that do business with Iran.
The likelihood that the tension between Iran and Israel may lead to war has led to an increase in oil prices. Breaking off the deal is going to further escalate tensions.
Meanwhile, it is said that former US President Barack Obama’s Secretary of State John Kerry is in active operation behind the scenes for the “Iran deal” to continue. According to the media, Kerry held meetings with French President Emmanuel Macron, Iranian Foreign Minister Jawad Zarif, German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini. Kerry’s contacts are being harshly criticized by Trumpists. As a matter of fact, Kerry is being accused of “treachery.”
While everyone’s attention is on the decision Trump is going to make on May 12, the “Russia Investigation” carried out by Special Counsel Robert Mueller is still a complete mystery. New information is being revealed daily.
The other day, it was revealed that the boss of investment company “Colony NortStar,” Tom Barrack, is also under investigation. Barrack, one of the donators of Trump’s presidential campaign, had headed the “Presidential Opening Committee” after the elections. According to the article published by Politico magazine, 315 names were added to this investigation. As many as 200 are directly linked to Trump. There are 75 foreign citizens, mostly Russian, in the “Russia Puzzle.”
These 315 figures are a big puzzle showing how deep and complex the “Russia Investigation” is. Nobody can guess what awaits Trump at the end of the puzzle.
Thus, Trumpist Republicans are pressuring Trump to use his presidential authority and have both Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein dismissed.
One other problem occupying the Trump administration is Gina Haspel, who was nominated for the position of CIA chief. The first session for CIA Deputy Director Haspel at the “Senate Select Committee on Intelligence” (SSCI) starts on May 9. Haspel is accused of approving torture on the suspects detained in the CIA’s secret prisons during the George W. Bush administration. It is said that Haspel has a role in the elimination of the videotapes showing the tortures.
Fifty-three top figures, including former CIA directors John Brennan, Leon Panetta, Michael Hayden, Porter Goss, George Tenet and William Webster, sent a letter to the SSCI and asked for Haspel’s approval. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger is also among the signatories. Brennan, Panetta, Hayden and Clapper, who directed heavy accusations toward Trump, and many names who are known to support Trump are in alliance with respect to Haspel’s approval.
Haspel, who has an effective campaign against her, has it tough. It is said that Haspel wants to withdraw herself from the running so as to prevent herself from falling into the position of Trump’s doctor, Admiral Ronny Jackson, but she was convinced by the White House to continue on her path. Jack-son, who is suggested for secretary of Veteran Affairs, had withdrawn from candidacy due to the claims against him.
Trump had accused the FBI of being a “deep state” institution that conspired against him. Lisa Page, who is mentioned in claims linked to the “Russia Investigation” as an “anti-Trump FBI agent,” resigned on Friday. Page was Deputy General Manager Andrew McCabe’s adviser. Another name that resigned on the same day is James Baker, one of the advisers to FBI Director James Comey – who was dismissed by Trump last year. While Trump is headed toward breaking the “Iran Nuclear Deal,” the atmosphere in Washington is again very chaotic.
From the beginning, the power of a compelling “story” has propelled the Giving Kitchen. Here, we feature the story of Kim Brewer, served by a Direct Grant due to the death of a loved one.
Kim Brewer carries her darling husband David’s memory with her every day, in the form of an e.e. cummings poem that reads, “i carry your heart with me… i am never without it.” It’s one of several tattoos she has that express her love for him, each packed with meaning, packed with heart.
In September, Kim was at Staplehouse to take part in an interview with a cable news network that wanted to hear how The Giving Kitchen was impacting the lives of restaurant workers in need. In the moments before the interview, she hugged and chatted with Jen Hidinger, sharing stories of how they’ve chosen to mark important aspects of their lives... in ink.
Tattoos are just one of the few bonds the two women share. They are both part of the GK community. They have both been tremendously strong in the face of loss and adversity. They are both champions of helping others facing similar adversity. Both have had meaningful experiences with nature--birds, more specifically--around the passing of their loved ones.
Here are Kim’s and Jen’s words on a few of their tattoos, and on being part of the giving kitchen community.
Kim: The script tattoo is the first few lines of an e.e. cummings poem “i carry your heart with me (i carry it in my heart)." A dear friend read the entire poem at David’s memorial service for me.
The tattoo on my right arm has a few little things in it that make it significant. The Roman numeral dates--the one up top, above the dandelions, is our wedding date (11/17/1993)--David had this tattoo, as well. The one on the bottom is the day David died (10/23/2016).
The dandelions represent the “weeds” that are typically hard to get rid of in your garden, but are quick to blow away the little blooms in a hard wind... so the dandelion reminds you to make the most of every day and moment you have with your loved one.
This tattoo was designed by my nephew. If you look closely, there is a little dandelion bud with a red heart (which is my heart floating away with the other buds), and there are a few birds, especially a red bird. Birds played a big part in David’s passing (cardinals appearing the day before, and a bird flew into a window the day of his passing).
I also have a tattoo on my ring finger that says, “Tu Me Manques,” which is French for “I am without you” or “I miss you.” I have several tattoos, but these three really express my love and honor for David.
The Giving Kitchen grant took the stress off David (sick people need to avoid stress at all costs) and me [when he was sick] so we could concentrate on his treatment, care and comfort. When David was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a very aggressive and fatal brain tumor, and was told that he could no longer drive or work, we realized we couldn’t make our monthly bills on only one salary. With the very generous grant from GK, we were able to pay our mortgage, electricity, water, etc. I honestly do not know what we would have done or how we would have survived without that grant.
I truly believe it made a huge difference in our lives. Since I have met and worked with the amazing staff and volunteers of GK, I have found so much comfort and hope in this dark period of my life. I am proud to be a member of GK family and will always, always have a place in my heart for GK.
Jen: I’m encouraged every single day by each and every GK grant recipient. They are the everyday heroes that help shed such a bright light on what the Giving Kitchen is all about. Kim and I share a monumental loss with the passing of our husbands to illness, but together we are able to see all the good that they provided in our world. My hope is that we are able to continue to share the legacy of their kindness and generosity of spirit.
The photo of my grandparents [used in the tattoo on my forearm] was taken right after my grandpa was released from WWII. It was taken in a photo booth. The four lines I have tattooed near it are from a letter he wrote to my grandmother while he was away overseas. He wrote her love letters.
Kim needed emergency assistance because of the death of a loved one. Learn more about our program services, our Direct Grants and the specifics of our grants based on a death in the family here.
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We’re deep into our First Looks of the season, but there are still a few shows we need to preview before they air later this week. Unfortunately it doesn’t look like things are going to improve… Part 3 of our guide is headlined by… uh.. UHHHH… P.A. Works is doing an action show? That’s all I got. I hate to have to ask this, but is Summer 2018 the worst season of the GLORIO era (since 2012)? What do you think?
​P.A. Works, the studio best known for shows about hard working young ladies in sleepy, rural towns, doing a serious action show about vampires and werewolves set in 1930s Japan? Sure, why not. In fact, controversial anime opinion: I think the best show P.A. Works has ever done is Another, a pretty dark horror story. Yes, better than Shirobako and better than Angel Beats, fight me. Point is, I think they are perfectly capable of handling something like this and I would be shocked if it wasn’t at least respectable.
​Oh look, another attempt to start up an idol anime franchise. Something about TWO FRIENDS, UNITED AGAIN BY FATE, READY TO SHARE THE STAGE TOGETHER or whatever. *Yawn*. I’m kind of curious why they all have weapons but at this point it will take a LOT more than that to get me interested in this.
​A cute romantic comedy set in 1991 about a girl trashing some boy at Street Fighter II and other games sounds like something I could get into. Then I watched the trailer… wow. I can be really forgiving on technical execution but this show looks like trash. Even if it wasn’t 3D, the character designs and animation and just about every aspect of the visuals is hard on the eyes. If that’s how the show is going to look, this will need to be the best written series of the year to win me over.
​In near future Tokyo, a mysterious sound knocks out a bunch of people and when they wake, they have super powers. Sure. If you can detect the sarcasm in my voice, it’s mostly because this is based on a long running collectible digital card game so I’m not expecting a whole lot out of the story. In fact, after watching the teaser PV I’m not expecting much at all beyond some generic anime action. “Not offensively bad” is about as good as I can hope for, which sadly may make it one of the better shows this season.
​SPEAKING OF OFFENSIVELY BAD, this show is about a high school girl who likes to sleep around until she meets a little that she falls in love with. I’m not entirely clear under what circumstances they begin living together (does she kidnap her???) but she will do anything to protect their new life together… EVEN KILL. I think they are going tor some kind of psychological horror thing here but no matter how you want to spin it, it sounds very bad. We’re kind of used to pedophilia casually popping up in anime, and now we’ve found a new version of it! YAY! That actually might be the worst sentence I’ve ever written, please make it stop.
​A show about a dude moving to a seaside town and taking up diving with friends might make this sound like the male version of Amanchu or possibly a competitor for Free! (which is coincidentally returning this season), but watching the trailer makes this look a bit sillier and more fun than either of those. I mean, at the very least it seems like there’s a lot of getting drunk and checking out hot ladies so that already puts this in a separate category. I’ll have to see the show to gauge if its actually funny or not, but it seems worth a look at least.
​So this is basically a softcore porn ecchi harem show. You know the drill. The plot isn’t important but if for some reason you care, some dude who keeps getting possessed by ghosts moves to a boarding house at an old hot springs which – you guessed it – is completely filled with hot, barely clothed anime women. They’re probably all ghosts or something but I don’t know and I don’t care. There’s only one reason to watch this and you will know right away if that reason is for you.
​Tsukomogamis are interesting bit of folklore you see pop up in anime from time to time – basically it’s normal inanimate objects acquiring a spirit and becoming a living thing. In this story, a brother and sister run an Edo-period rental shop and occasionally rent out tsukumogamis to their clients. What impact this has on anything I’m not really sure, but it’s a broad enough premise to tell a lot of different types of stories and the trailer looks decent, so I’ll take what I can get. Worst case it will probably just be boring, but we’ll see.
​So these two kids are magic lawyers? Like they studied magic law at magic law school and will help you with your magic problems? That sounds pretty interesting but from what I can tell that basically boils down to them being exorcists. It’s hard to gauge what kind of show it is by the trailer, as half of it seems kind of silly and half seems deadly serious. I guess we’ll have to see when this show airs in AUGUST, assuming we don’t forget about it by then (we probably will).
That’s not too much of a stretch from the trailer, although I’m not sure that’s better or worse than whatever I was thinking
Brand Blue is actually about a group of superpower college students who have the power to consume an inhuman amount of alcohol while sometime go diving and do college stuff.
The manga is really funny and it does talk about some diving stuff like sigh language when diving and how to a diving license. But mostly it about college students drinking and making friend.
Not everything needs, or should, be labeled or branded as being “green”. Have you guys noticed how every company on the face of the earth is starting to label their product, no matter what it is, as “green”? I have – and one that stands out as of late is an “Eco-Friendly Paintless Auto Dent Repair” business. Really? Did you really need to label that business as eco-anything at all? I would have used your service regardless of your self-proclaimed green-ness, as paintless dent removal is paintless dent removal. Labeling it as “eco-friendly” just looks kind of like a greenwash to me, and I don’t think anyone is going to fall for it. There is no need for everything to be green — some things can just… be. My friend Adam over at Twilight Earth made an explicit point recently about all things “green” in a post titled “Green Wont Be The Norm, Until We Stop Calling Things Green“, and I could not agree more. By continuing down the path of labeling everything under the sun “green”, the word and meaning gets entirely diluted and no longer has meaning.
While I do still think we need to be able to differentiate between “good” and “not so good” when it comes to the products we buy, at least until everything becomes “good”, we do not need everything to be given the green label. Some things just don’t need it – like my paintless dent removal example above.
It’s one thing to try to greenwash us by claiming your product is eco-friendly when it really isn’t. It’s another to just use the phrase at will for no reason at all, without even trying to explain its use.
Please, manufacturers and corporate marketing people — not everything needs to be green. Sometimes it’s OK for a product to just be what it is!
You are spot on with your perspective – as long as honesty about not necessarily being green won’t trigger a call for bans and apologies. Some necessities are what they are, and maybe that’s good enough. Pragmatism has to fit in here somewhere, or this sustainability movement won’t be sustainable.
Frankly, it turns me off to a company that is trying to get more business by using “green” terms when it’s not necessary. It looks like they are trying to capitalize on our eco-sensibilities. And while I agree with capitalism (as long as it doesn’t include basic shelter, healthcare, water and food – necessities for all at a simple level), I don’t agree with manipulating people for money.
I do agree with all pointed mentioned. I’ve even cut down on the number of times I use the word “green” on my website and blog (though that is the title of both and I don’t have any plans of changing it). It does get old after a while.
24 year old Carina Tyrrell,a fifth year medical student from Cambridge won the Miss England 2014 crown. She will represent England at the Miss World 2014 Pageant which makes her the host delegate as the pageant will be held in London later this yea, Carina won 3 Fast Track events at Miss England 2014 Beach Beauty, Beauty with a Purpose & Eco Round.
Miss England 2014 Top 3: (Left to right)2nd Runner Up: Mary Kate, Winner Carina Tyrell, 1st Runner Up: Holly Desai
The Grievers is a darkly comic coming of age novel for a generation that’s still struggling to come of age.
When Charley Schwartz learns that an old high school pal has committed suicide, he agrees to help his alma mater organize a memorial service to honor his friend’s memory. Soon, however, devastation turns to disgust as Charley discovers that what matters most to the school is the bottom line. As the memorial service quickly degenerates into a fundraising fiasco, Charley must also deal with a host of other quandaries including a dead-end job as an anthropomorphic dollar sign, his best friend’s imminent relocation, an intervention with a drug-addled megalomaniac, and his own ongoing crusade to enforce the proper use of apostrophes among the proprietors of local dining establishments. Desperate to set the world right and keep his own life from spiraling out of control, Charley rages through his days and nights, plotting all the while the ultimate eulogy for his deceased friend and a scathing indictment of a world gone wrong.
Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) on Thursday blasted President Trump Donald John TrumpDeath toll in Northern California wildfire rises to 48: authorities Graham backs bill to protect Mueller Denham loses GOP seat in California MORE's apparent acknowledgement that he made up information about the U.S.-Canada trade relationship in a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling it "more evidence that Trump is unfit" for office.
"At this point, @realDonaldTrump is no longer making stuff up, he is intentionally lying. 2 + 2 does not equal 5 no matter how much @POTUS lies," Lieu tweeted. "This is more evidence that Trump is unfit for the revered office in which he sits."
At this point, @realDonaldTrump is no longer making stuff up, he is intentionally lying. 2 + 2 does not equal 5 no matter how much @POTUS lies.
This is more evidence that Trump is unfit for the revered office in which he sits. #ThursdayThoughts https://t.co/smYz7xNMTv
The Washington Post reported Wednesday that Trump told donors in a fundraising speech that he claimed in a meeting with Trudeau that the U.S. has a trade deficit with Canada, despite not knowing if that claim was true.
Trudeau reportedly pushed back on that assertion, but Trump said he continued to make the assertion.
"I said, ‘Wrong, Justin, you do.’ I didn’t even know. ... I had no idea," Trump said, according to the Post.
According to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. actually has a trade surplus with Canada.
Trump has routinely decried what he calls unfair trade practices that put the U.S. at a competitive disadvantage. The U.S., Canada and Mexico are in the process of renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement at Trump's request.
The president also moved last week to impose stiff tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. He granted Canada and Mexico temporary exemptions from those duties, however, amid concerns of retaliatory trade measures.
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A dark, damp night at the SSE Hydro in Glasgow was lit up by an astounding performance from Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.
The final week of the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe is here and we have to make hard decisions about which of the multitude of shows will be squeezed in and which will miss the cut.
It’s the third week of the Edinburgh Fringe, and this week, I crammed 4 shows into one day. Was it quality or quantity that won over? Let’s find out… View full article »
Climb through the ropes, step into the squared circle and get ready to rumble with Darius Davies on his Road To WrestleMania! View full article »
Anyone that knows me (and I apologise for that profusely) knows that I love love love Edinburgh Fringe month. I love the atmosphere, I love the vibe, I love the sheer multitude of shows to see and all the open air street food and bars. I figured that this year, I would try and keep some kind of track of what I saw and did over these wonderful 4 weeks. View full article »
Well, Hello. It’s that time of year again – I present to you my list of the top seven new albums I’ve enjoyed this year. Couldn’t have timed it better this year, as it’s Hogmanay that this list is unleashed upon the world! View full article »
Sweet Crisis are a band that maybe have skipped under your radar, I must admit, I knew next to nothing about them until I went to see Gun playing in Edinburgh and caught their opening set supporting them. Having seen them live, I’m convinced you should find out about them yourself. View full article »
If you’re a wrestling geek – and being honest here, we all are – you’ll have been watching the Cruiserweight Classic on the WWE Network. Amongst the high-flyers, strong style fighters, technical wizards and everything in between, one man stood out for me. As much as I’m a huge fan of Zack Sabre Jr. and Kota Ibushi, I was pulling for THE Brian Kendrick. View full article »
In this’s week’s episode of “How IC Sports,” hosts Cal Dymowski and Kaitlin Maniscalo sit down with sophomore defensemen Ben Quatresols.
The Ithaca College wrestling team defeated Wesleyan University, SUNY Oneonta and Williams College in the Oneonta Quad Feb. 4 in Oneonta, New York.
The field hockey team’s back line has looked to its younger players to step up in place of injured veterans.
Freshman lacrosse player John Januszkiewicz has surpassed all expectations set by his coach and teammates so far this season.
Staff writer Kristen Gowdy explains the challenges the baseball team is facing while preparing for the NCAA Division III playoffs.
Junior golfer Sharon Li is heading to the NCAA Division III Women’s Golf Championship for the second consecutive year to build off last year’s success at the tournament.
Staff writer Nick Marcatelli takes a look inside the life of Harmony Graves and how she become a record-breaking sprinter.