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Interior with a Young Girl Reading (1902). Paul Gustave Fischer (Danish, 1860-1934). Oil on canvas.

After a stay in Paris from 1891-1895, Fischer’s colours became richer and lighter. It was not long before Fischer gained fame as a painter of cities, not just Copenhagen, but scenes from Scandinavia, Italy and Germany, reaching his zenith between 1890 and 1910. He benefited from contemporaries in Norway and Sweden, especially Carl Larsson.

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Photoshop Portrait Painting Tutorial from Ilya Kuvshinov on Vimeo.

Here’s my first video tutorial I’ve done couple of months ago for my Patreon supporters! You can support me too for high-res files, video processes, PSDs, brushes I use in this video, tutorials and more here: patreon.com/Kuvshinov_Ilya

Tracklist:

Beach Fossils - Daydream Breton - Interference Pompeya - To The Orient Neils Children - Warm Wave Yppah - Never Mess With Sunday Bloc Party - Flux Bombay Bicycle Club - Magnet Delphic - This Momentary Monomen - Drum of Glass The Killers - Smile Like You Mean It The Dead Weather - Will There Be Enough Water?

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↑ China’s Devaluation of the Yuan is expected to effect a wide range of companies worldwide

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Source: Glenn Phillips

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Seven million is a crowd Space on the island is getting tight. Singaporeans fear that foreigners are taking up too much of it […]The population, of about 5.5m now, has doubled in the past 30 years and is still expanding. In 2013 a government white paper forecast that it would increase to 5.8m-6m by 2020 and 6.5m-6.9m by 2030. This, however, assumed that Singapore would continue to take in large numbers of immigrants. […] By 2030 the population of long-staying “permanent residents” would climb from about 500,000 now to around 600,000, and the number of “non-resident” foreign workers would increase from the present 1.6m to 2.3m-2.5m, covering both the low-paid migrant workers who dominate the building industry, for example, and high-paid Western “expats”. These projections have caused alarm. Already, probably more than half the people living in Singapore were not born there. That proportion seems likely to rise. Singapore has always been an immigrant society, quick to assimilate newcomers. But that openness and tolerance has frayed as some Singaporeans have felt crowded out, and foreigners are blamed for pushing up property prices and holding down wages.The government argued the proposed levels of immigration would be necessary to maintain even moderate growth because Singaporeans are not reproducing themselves. Last year the “total fertility rate” (TFR), a notional estimate of the number of babies a woman will have over her lifetime, was 1.25, way below the replacement rate of about 2.1. Singapore is tumbling off a demographic cliff. From 2020 the number of working-age Singaporeans will decline, and by 2030 there will be only 2.1 workers for every citizen over the age of 64, compared with 6 last year. […] For such a persuasive government, the failure of the campaign to raise fertility suggests a lack of will. It has tried to make parenthood more attractive by offering “baby bonuses” and improved maternity and paternity leave, but if the aversion to babies has its roots in the economic cost of parenthood, maybe it is being sustained by an ideological opposition to increasing state support for child-rearing and by the psychological effects of living on a small, increasingly crowded island. Whatever its cause, it has presented the government with one of its biggest political challenges: high immigration. This has become a source of great discontent, but there is no plan B.

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The Leviathan -- Teaser from Ruairi Robinson on Vimeo.

Proof of Concept/pitch for The Leviathan, created by Ruairi Robinson. follow me on twitter! twitter.com/RuairiRobinson Website me on ruairirobinson.com Developed with the assistance of Bord Scannáin na hÉireann/ the Irish Film Board And Jim Uhls who wrote the script for FIGHT CLUB Creature design by Jordu Schell Sound design by Brandon Jones

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Sinclair called this the alcohol-deprivation effect, and his laboratory results, which have since been confirmed by many other studies, suggested a fundamental flaw in abstinence-based treatment: going cold turkey only intensifies cravings. This discovery helped explain why relapses are common

http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2015/03/the-irrationality-of-alcoholics-anonymous/386255/

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The British Broadcasting Company announced today that it is making a 90-minute dramatic film that tells story of how developer Rockstar Games rose to prominence through its megapopular Grand Theft Auto games. It is part of the BBC’s Make It Digital initiative, which looks to celebrate coding in the United Kingdom. Rockstar North, the developer responsible for actually making the GTA games, is based in Edinburgh, Scotland. While games have regularly crossed over into the world of fiction-based films (Mortal Kombat, Need for Speed) and documentaries (Indie Game: The Movie), this is one of the first “docu-dramas” to come out of the industry.

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Cecilia Beaux (1855-1942). Man with the Cat (Henry Sturgis Drinker), 1898. Oil on canvas 48 x 34 5/8 in. (121.9 x 87.8 cm). American

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Rare Encounters: Nancy Sheung’s Portraits of Hong Kong Women in the 1960s.

《珍影集: 常惠珍鏡頭下的1960年代香港女性》

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Raw 1.0 - Basic Tutorial from DensityDesign on Vimeo.

Basic tutorial on Raw, an online app for designers and vis geeks, aiming at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, OpenRefine) and vector graphics editors (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, ...). Try the application here: raw.densitydesign.org

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THE LANGUAGE OF KNIVES - SAM WEBER

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The "First Global Rainfall and Snowfall" map covers more of the globe than any previous precipitation data set and is updated every half hour, allowing scientists to see how rain and snow storms move around nearly the entire planet. As scientists work to understand all the elements of Earth’s climate and weather systems, and how they could change in the future, GPM provides a major step forward in providing the scientific community comprehensive and consistent measurements of precipitation.

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This emerges from NCDS data. It is not an estimate of the effect of capital availability upon transitions(6) into self-employment, but rather -- and perhaps more relevant to policy -- an estimate of the lasting effect upon the stock of people running their own businesses. 

The inheritance effect is found both at age 23 and at age 33. It is especially large among the younger group (perhaps because older people have other ways to acquire capital). 

NSS data indicate that most small businesses were begun not with bank loans but with own or family money, that individual entrepreneurs felt they had needed most help with finance, and that the single biggest concern of potential entrepreneurs was with where to obtain capital.

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A hospitable environment. Singapore is regularly ranked as one of the easiest countries in the world in which to do business 

Serious government skin in the game. In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program. The initiative, allowed five venture capital companies to receive matching funds from the government.  Ultimately dubbed the Technology Incubation Scheme, the program helped bring a flood of diverse investors into the country.

It is hard to create an ecosystem overnight, but consistent, concerted efforts by the government have given a serious boost to start-ups in Singapore.

Wide use of soft power to address hidden barriers to entrepreneurialism.  doing something as uncertain as starting a business when you could go to work for a big bank or, even better, the government, was countercultural for the best and brightest a decade ago. So over the past few years political leaders have relentlessly talked up the importance of entrepreneurialism (see, for example, this Facebook post from Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong); state-sponsored universities have aggressively pushed innovation (the National University of Singapore has a program to send students overseas to get firsthand experience in other entrepreneurial hubs); and the state-owned television company MediaCorp has run television programs celebrating entrepreneurialism.