THE Jerwood Drawing Prize is the largest and most prestigiousannual open drawing exhibition in the UK -- and this year'sexhibition tours for the first time to Oriel Myrddin Gallery.
First prize was awarded to London-based artist Virginia Verranfor her drawing Bolus-Space. She describes her work as "intuitions,layers, planes, demarcations, nations, symbols, threats,bombardments, …
LAS VEGAS - The cocktail waitress weaves her way through the standing-room only crowd, contorting her body through a sea of men scouring wager sheets, trying not to spill a tray filled with a mix of coffee and beer.
All eyes point toward the bank of three dozen or so TVs that cover the front wall or the massive electronic board that covers the entire side wall with green, yellow and red letters and numbers that stream like something out of "The Matrix."
It's 9 a.m. The adrenaline and alcohol already are flowing, apparent from the round of cheers that ring out when a pregame show comes on the big screen.
Yep, this is Vegas, baby, and there might not be a better …
Indonesia, the largest economy in Southeast Asia, is coming under increasing strain from the financial crisis with new projections showing plummeting exports and slowing growth.
Bank Indonesia Deputy Chief Hartadi Sarwono said Thursday economic growth may slow to below 4 percent in 2009, down from 6.1 percent last year, due largely to declining exports.
Exports could contract by up to 28 percent annually in 2009, he said, after falling more than 30 percent in January.
Indonesia is a major exporter of coal, gold, palm oil, rubber and other precious metals. It also manufacturers textiles, shoes, electronics, automobiles and motorcycles.
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PITTSBURGH The Cubs won again - and the pleasure was all RickSutcliffe's.
Making his first start since being left in Arizona to continuehis shoulder rehabilitation from last May's shoulder-cartilageoperation, Sutcliffe combined with Heathcliff Slocumb and PaulAssenmacher to beat the Pirates 3-2 Thursday night.
It was the Cubs' sixth victory in a row after starting theseason 1-3.
It was Sutcliffe's first triumph since Oct. 1, 1989.
"It feels good just to be one of the guys again," he said aftersix innings of two runs, four hits, two walks and two strikeouts.
"I didn't know what to expect, but I seemed to get stronger …
MORELIA, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican polling firm said Wednesday that six of its employees have been freed after disappearing over the weekend in the western state of Michoacan, an area plagued by drug-cartel violence.
The Consulta Mitofsky firm said in a posting on the company's Twitter account that "polling workers were freed," but does not specify who was holding them.
State prosecutor Jesus Montejano said that the area near Apatzingan where they disappeared is a stronghold of the La Familia and Knights Templar cartels.
"We believe this could be a consequence of one of the criminal groups that operate in the area," he said in an interview with MVS radio.
Roy Campos, …
Rangers can open a 10-point lead over Celtic by beating its traditional rival in the Scottish Premier League on Sunday and goes into the game buoyed by a 7-1 victory over Dundee United in which Kris Boyd scored five goals.
Although Celtic has a game in hand and home advantage, defending champion Rangers goes into the "Old Firm" confrontation with the better form, having lost only once in 18 league matches this season.
Boyd's five goals on Wednesday took him to 160 to lead the Scottish Premier League all-time scorers past former Celtic striker Henrik Larsson's 158. Boyd is yet to sign a new deal with Rangers.
With strike partner Kenny Miller ruled out of the game after being sent off against Dundee United, Boyd is likely to play a big part on Sunday even though he has not always been a regular starter against Rangers' biggest rival.
"He has missed quite a few Celtic games in the time that I've been back, but he also played in a few of them as well," Rangers manager Walter Smith said. "Right at the present moment, the team is doing extremely well and I don't envisage a situation where you would go along there and play without him."
Boyd has struggled to make an impact against Celtic, but Smith doesn't believe that will affect his form.
"I don't think it puts any extra pressure on him," the Rangers manager said. "He accepts the pressure he has of being our leading goalscorer for a number of years."
Celtic needs to win to trim the deficit to four points, especially because Rangers now has a much better goal difference (34 to Celtic's 18).
Celtic manager Tony Mowbray says his team will be wary of Boyd but wants his own strikers to produce the same form.
"Boyd is a threat, obviously," Mowbray said. "I go back to when I was a player (for Celtic). In any given second, Ally McCoist could score a goal and I think Kris Boyd is in a similar mold. You might not notice him for long spells and then he is there. He knows where to run, he knows where to go.
"In this game, I hope we have the match-winners in our side. We have to look at it as confidently as we can and believe that we can create chances. We have players ourselves who can score goals and go past individuals and cause damage."
Third-place Hibernian, which is 11 points behind Rangers, hosts Edinburgh neighbor Hearts on Sunday.
What do we mean by doing theology?" asked author Katie Funk Wiebe, who moderated the plenary sessions at the fourth "Women doing theology" conference, held here June 25-27.
Lois Barrett of Wichita, Kansas, called it "a process of connecting the biblical record with our current context." Elizabeth Soto of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, added that "we need to read our own lives in conjunction with the biblical narrative."
These two strands, the Bible and women's experience today, permeated the conference, which included 84 registrants and focused on the theme "Journey toward healing."
Barrett opened the conference with her presentation, "Women, salvation and healing." She noted that the same Greek word may be translated as "salvation" or "health" (e.g., Luke 8:48,50). Jesus, she said, brought not only freedom from sin but freedom from sickness.
Healing is often a process that includes: 1) letting go of fears, 2) living faithfully, 3) expecting new acts of healing and 4) making it possible for others to experience healing.
Wilma Ann Bailey, Grantham, Pennsylvania, spoke on "Women and dignity in the Hebrew Bible." The Bible, she said, assumes that humans must be conscious of their dignity in order to act morally. "To have dignity is to be honourable, even without being honoured by others," she added.
She looked at various women in the Bible. Many women have rejected the Bible because it is patriarchal, yet many oppressed women -- in Africa, for example -- have found hope and dignity there, she said.
In the Hebrew mind there is no distinction between soul and body, said Soto in her presentation, "Shalom, sanidad y salud (Shalom, healing and health)." Thus, "shalom" (wholeness) includes spiritual, mental and bodily health.
Soto, who combines her training in public health and theology, has worked with AIDS patients in Latin America, where she saw women suffer not only from the physical disease but from social condemnation.
"A theology of health," she said, "must emphasize the totality of the person rather than focusing on the sickness or disease."
This emphasis on wholeness was evident throughout the conference, as women used worship and art to incorporate concerns for healing. The small groups allowed more intimate sharing of experiences, which included the wounds of being treated as "nonpersons," objectified in the media as bodies to look at, labelled "angry feminists" when expressing their pain, and suffering abuse from spouses and from people in the church.
Many also talked about their experiences of healing and the support they receive from other women. The closing worship included anointing with oil and lighting candles as symbols of healing.
