Monthly Archives: February 2014
Want Information on Heart Health? FDA Has It!
Want Information on Heart Health? FDA Has It!
American Heart Month–first celebrated in February 1964 following a proclamation by President Lyndon B. Johnson–turns 50 this year. And FDA has a wealth of information to keep you and your family heart-healthy.
Whatever the question, www.fda.gov is a great place to look for heart-healthy answers.
Eating for Heart Health
Trans Fat and Heart Health
FDA Targets Trans Fat in Processed Foods
Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) and Heart Health
And read our Consumer Updates:
FDA Helps Women Get Heart Smart
FDA Team Advances Women’s Health
Why is the Great American Smokeout Important?
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Art, made with code: calling all future interactive artists
In between creating masterpieces like the Sistine Chapel and “Madonna and Child,” Michelangelo dissected cadavers in the hopes of understanding how the human body worked so he could paint it accurately. He’s not the only one: there has long been a connection between science and art. And it’s true today more than ever, as modern artists use technology for inspiration, inventing ways to give life to code, letting it spill from the screen and onto the canvas. We call this “DevArt,” and this summer, we’re teaming up with the Barbican in London and their Digital Revolution exhibition to celebrate DevArt in an interactive gallery. And we want you to be a part of it.
As part of this exhibition, we’re looking for the next up-and-coming developer artist. This is your opportunity to express your creativity, and to have your work featured in the Barbican and seen by millions of people around the world. To throw your hat in the ring, build a project on the DevArt site and show us what you would create. From there, we’ll pick one creator whose work will sit alongside three of the world’s finest interactive artists who are also creating installations for DevArt: Karsten Schmidt, Zach Lieberman, and the duo Varvara Guljajeva and Mar Canet.
The exhibition will open at the Barbican this summer. Until then, visit g.co/devart, where you can submit your own project. If you’re not the creative coding type, visit the site to see some incredible art and follow the artists’ creative process—from concept and early sketches to the finished piece—on their respective Project Pages. You’ll get a rare look into artists’ ways of working with modern technologies (including some Google products), and maybe even get inspired to create something yourself.
If you had the chance to make your mark in today’s art world with technology as your canvas, what would you create? We’d like you to show us.
Posted by Steve Vranakis, Executive Creative Director, Google Creative Lab
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One vote short on unemployment
Mr. Portman of Ohio: No.
Mr. Kirk of Illinois: No.
We needed one of those two Senators in particular, and thought there was a chance of earning their support. But with their “no” votes, any hope for the 21,000 veterans who lost their unemployment benefits last December evaporated into yet another Tea Party-led filibuster in the Senate.
For those veterans, and the 3,000 more who join their ranks with each passing month, VoteVets commits to continue the fight to extend unemployment insurance for all the job seeking Americans who need this important bridge to their next paycheck.
So far over 25,000 veterans, military family members, and VoteVets supporters have called on Congress to extend unemployment benefits. Add your name to theirs.
http://action.votevets.org/unemployment-vote
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has committed to keep bringing this issue to a vote until it passes.
Next time it happens, we’re going to be there with hundreds of personal stories from veterans who lost their benefits, and 30,000 supporters who stand ready to take action on their behalf.
Thanks for being a part of that fight.
Jon Soltz
@JonSoltz
Iraq War Veteran and Chairman
VoteVets.org
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