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However, the Leopold Museum - privately funded and therefore not obliged to follow the law - would have preferred to keep all five drawings. In 2011, it sold one Schiele painting so it could pay $19 million to the heirs of a Jewish art dealer and - as part of the deal - keep another painting.
The New York-based heiress with whom the museum reached Thursday's agreement, who officials connected with the case said preferred to remain anonymous, had turned down an offer of money and insisted on getting the artwork back.
The Austrian Jewish Community, which backed her, said the now-found agreement was a good solution. "I am happy that the heiress can still enjoy the drawings," community representative Erika Jakubovits said.
Elisabeth Leopold, widow of museum's late founder, Rudolf Leopold, who bought the pieces in 1960 from a Maylaender friend, said: "I have made a huge sacrifice in memory of Karl Maylaender."
Leonardo DiCaprio and Margot Robbie have been at the center of false tabloid stories since they first co-starred together in 2013’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Now that the two are reuniting for Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, the bogus reports have started emerging again. Here are five recent wrong rumors about the co-stars.
In September, Gossip Cop busted Woman’s Day Australia for falsely claiming that DiCaprio was pursuing Robbie on the set of their upcoming movie. The unreliable magazine failed to mention that DiCaprio is dating model Camila Morrone. The actor had been in a relationship with the model for more than nine months at the time the story was published, and the two are still together. In fact, recent reports suggest that their romance is becoming increasingly serious. Regardless, sources assured us DiCaprio wasn’t hitting on his married co-star.
In July, Gossip Cop debunked a Life & Style story claiming DiCaprio called out Brad Pitt for flirting with Robbie on the set of Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. The article was a complete work of fiction. For starters, Robbie’s first day of filming on the Quentin Tarantino movie took place just one day before the magazine published its phony story. Additionally, Pitt wasn’t on set that day and the actor’s spokesperson later confirmed that he and the actress hadn’t even began working together yet. DiCaprio didn’t confront his co-star over nonexistent flirting.
Gossip Cop called out New Idea in April for alleging that Robbie’s husband, Tom Ackerley, was worried about DiCaprio trying to steal his wife on the set of their new film. The tabloid contended that the assistant director was jealous and wary of the movie star given his reputation as a “ladies man.” However, Robbie had already debunked past rumors about her and DiCaprio having any sort of romantic connection. “We’re friends. Those rumors were inevitable, but there’s no truth to them,” she told Vogue Australia when The Wolf of Wall Street was released. Their dynamic hasn’t changed and Ackerley never worried about the actor stealing his wife.
Also in April, back when Robbie was still just in talks for Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, NW wrongly reported that Ackerley wasn’t allowing his wife to join the film because he didn’t want her working with Pitt and DiCaprio. The magazine claimed that the assistant director had trust issues and didn’t want his wife around the two handsome leading men. Around the same time the bogus story was published, E! News dedicated an article to Robbie and Ackerley’s strong marriage, noting that he’s “very supportive” of her career. More importantly, Robbie officially joined Once Upon a Time In Hollywood just a few weeks after Gossip Cop debunked the tabloid’s false narrative.
And finally, Gossip Cop busted Woman’s Day Australia in January for similarly reporting that Ackerley was upset about Robbie reuniting with DiCaprio. As noted above, the assistant director is a champion of his wife’s career and doesn’t hold her back from work over jealousy of her co-stars. Also, Robbie had previously described DiCpario as “a wonderful big brother,” adding, “He took me under his wing and always looked out for me, which is really nice.” The relationship between the co-stars has always been friendly and professional. The actress’s husband had absolutely no issue with the two teaming up for a second time.
Cusumano, Katherine. “Leonardo DiCaprio and Camila Morrone, Still Dating After Eight Months, Have Absconded to Europe for the Ultimate Summer Vacation.” W Magazine, 4 Aug. 2018.
Brown, Alexandra. “Nine things you need to know about Margot Robbie.” Vogue Australia. 21 January 2014.
Heller, Corinne. “Inside Margot Robbie's Private Marriage to Tom Ackerley.” E! Online, E! News, 27 January 2018.
One year after they debuted on the newly commissioned USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), the Navy’s revolutionary new aircraft catapult and arresting gear have proven their viability.
Since first launching and recovering aircraft at-sea July 28, 2017—six days after Ford’s commissioning—the Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arrested Gear (AAG) have successfully executed 747 day-and-night catapult launches and arrestments of F/A-18E/F Super Hornets. The initial goal was to conduct between 400 and 500 such cycles prior to the post-shakedown availability (PSA) Ford began July 14, said Capt. Stephen Tedford, the former program manager for the Aircraft Launch and Recovery Program Office at Naval Air Systems Command. Tedford led the program office from September 2014 until his change of command on July 12.
Fully installed on Ford, the four EMALS catapults and AAG, which comprises three engines powering three arresting wires, are set for initial operational capability in 2019 and 2021, respectively, prior to the ship’s first scheduled deployment.
Through January, Ford had six at-sea periods, four of which included EMALS launches and AAG recoveries. Multiple times, the systems launched and recovered more than 80 Super Hornets in a single day, including one day with more than 110 cycles, and another with more than 130, Tedford said.
“We had a very successful fall demonstrating on CVN 78. We have an awful lot of work to do still, and we will always have work to do to maintain these systems and sustain them in the future, but they do work,” Tedford said. “To me, the proof that we are doing things right is when I talk to the Sailors on 78, and when those Sailors tell me that they never want to go back to Nimitz, we got something right.
EMALS and AAG are designed to, respectively, launch and recover a wider envelope of aircraft than the legacy steam catapult and MK 7 arresting gear. They also weigh less and require significantly less manning—AAG alone saves 65 tons and requires half the manning of the MK-7.
Struck said launching with EMALS also feels “just a little bit different” than with steam catapults.
“EMALS is also driven by software, so the acceleration profile is slightly different, a little smoother,” he said.
EMALS and AAG also promise significant quality-of-life improvements for Ford Sailors. The all-electric systems also generate far less noise and heat than the legacy steam catapult and hydraulic MK-7 arresting gear.
On the flight deck, EMALS largely resembles the steam catapults on Nimitz-class carriers, but below deck, it’s a different story, said Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Launching and Recovery) Petty Officer 1st Class (ABE1) Daniel Rivera.
Built-in diagnostics identify components in need of repair, making EMALS and AAG far more reliable and easier to maintain than the legacy systems.
“Life as a maintainer is much easier working on EMALS than on steam catapults,” Rivera said. “When there is a problem with EMALS, the system is able to determine exactly what is wrong, so there is less manpower needed to troubleshoot.
Having completed land-based developmental testing at its test site at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, EMALS will soon begin an integrated test and evaluation (IT&E) period, which will include system reliability testing.
A key performance parameter for any new aircraft system, reliability ensures operational readiness for the fleet. Single-day shipboard operations have shown that both systems are able to meet operational requirements.
“In developmental testing, we’re trying to find problems with these systems,” Tedford said. “We then take that data and do the best we can to generate predictions of what we think our reliability will be when we get to the ship.
As for AAG, “the team has made incredible progress over the last two years,” Tedford said. The system has conducted more than 2,000 arrestments using dead-loads, weighted sleds that replicate the mass and—when pushed by a jet car—force of an aircraft.
Following its year-long PSA, Ford is set to undergo flight deck certification with components of the entire air wing sometime in 2020, Tedford said.
The Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division in Orlando, Florida, is developing a virtual training classroom that will allow Sailors to practice on virtual EMALS and AAG systems displayed on 55-inch touchscreens. The classroom will be stood up at the Center for Naval Aviation Technical Training at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia, so that when the Ford is in homeport, students can go straight from the virtual environment to the ship for direct, hands-on experience. Ford Sailors will also be able to deploy with a condensed version of the training program, so that they can train new shipmates as they arrive. The training should be ready for EMALS in fiscal 2020 and AAG in 2022, Tedford said.
Meanwhile, logistics teams are also working on both systems’ Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals (IETMs), which allow Sailors to pull up drawings and other reference material when performing maintenance.
That includes everything related to maintainability, reliability, spare parts, training and logistics, “the pieces that typically come together toward the end of any development program,” Tedford said.
His team is working with the Naval Supply Systems Command and Defense Logistics Agency to establish an EMALS and AAG supply chain, and planning kicks off next year for both systems’ depot facilities.
“We’ve got EMALS and AAG debuted, so now the focus is on how we posture ourselves and the fleet to sustain them as a system, making sure that we’re training the crew adequately and ensuring we are positioned for the future with CVN 79 and CVN 80. Instead of focusing on a single system, we are focusing on a fleet of systems. That’s the challenge ahead of us,” Tedford said.
Any number of restaurants offer Kung Pao chicken and beef with broccoli, but to be reminded of the depth and variety that even a single subset of Chinese cooking contains, this is the place we turn. You could pop in every week for a year and not exhaust the menu–a bound book with five times the number of dishes offered by most restaurants on our list. Equally staggering is the range of flavors, textures, and effects beyond the familiar hot and spicy–cool and spicy, crunchy and tangy, slippery and aromatic, delicately mild, intensely pungent.
What to get: Flounder with pickled cabbage; pickled cucumbers; General Guan’s chicken; seaweed noodles with sesame oil and garlic; lotus-root salad; mapo tofu.
SALISBURY, NC- T. Willie Robinson, passed away on February 2, 2019 at Accordius Health Center of Salisbury. Services entrusted to Blackwell Funeral Home are incomplete at this time.
"S.I.P uncle T.Willie.. I love you &will miss you much. Love always your niece Sonya Patterson-Thomas"
Set the 1998 Female Vocalist of the Year award aside. Move past all the love for her hit song "How Do I Live."
Whoa, was that ever close.
We're already craving a cup!
Let's hear it for the girls!
When I was a kid, there was precious little in pop culture about trans issues. Sure, there were movies like "The Christine Jorgensen Story," where an actor named John Hansen played the title character, or "Dog Day Afternoon," where Al Pacino's character staged a robbery to pay for the surgery of his lover, portrayed by male actor Chris Sarandon.
There are scores of other examples, before and after these, of men playing trans women in movies. You can go back to Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in "Some Like It Hot," through John Lithgow in "The World According to Garp," and Dustin Hoffman in "Tootsie," all the way up to more recent fare like Jared Leto in "Dallas Buyers Club" and Jeffrey Tambor in "Transparent."
It's a lot less common to see a story of a transgender man on film, but these roles are also often given to women to portray. You might see the typical farce, such as Joyce Hyser as Terry Griffith in the 1980s teen comedy "Just One of the Guys," or a far more somber epic like "Boys Don't Cry," in which Hilary Swank won an Academy Award for her portrayal of Brandon Teena.
Rarer still, of course, is when a female actor plays a trans woman, or a male actor plays a trans man. Felicity Huffman, for one, played the lead role in the comedy-drama "Transamerica" in 2005. I actually can't think of any of the latter off the top of the head.
Of course, I bring all these up thanks to Scarlett Johansson.
It was just last year that Johansson starred in "Ghost in the Shell," a whitewashed retelling of Japanese anime. Apparently not learning her lesson, she took the role of Dante "Tex" Gill in an upcoming story of his life, currently titled "Rub and Tug." Gill was a larger than life character, a mob type who ran massage parlors. He was also a trans man.
When Johansson was announced as the star of the movie, there was an outcry. Aside from the fact that she looked nothing like Gill, here was yet another example of someone of the assigned-at-birth gender of a trans person performing their life on the screen. It didn't help her case when she - via her publicist - defended her decision to play Gill.
"Tell them that they can be directed to Jeffrey Tambor, Jared Leto, and Felicity Huffman's reps for comment," read part of the statement, dismissing critics by naming three other stars who portrayed trans people to popular acclaim - and criticism from transgender people.
It was a tone-deaf statement, seemingly ignoring everything that people were trying to tell her, while noting that these other celebs gained success by playing transgender people.
The thing is, Johansson is coming into this at a time when the landscape is shifting.
We are now seeing transgender people getting roles in TV and movies, playing trans characters. Laverne Cox has been a hot commodity for years now, with a role in "Orange is the New Black," among other projects. Candis Cayne, Chaz Bono, Trace Lysette, Jamie Clayton, and others are appearing more frequently as well, delivering great and authentic performances as transgender people - and that's a key point.
When Leto portrayed Rayon in "Dallas Buyers Club," he wasn't playing a woman. He also wasn't playing a trans woman. He was playing a man playing a woman. He was missing the portrayal in two key ways, and you got a performance that was in no way authentic to the lives of transgender people.
This is what Hollywood seems to want in these roles. It doesn't actually want an accurate trans portrayal. It wants a man playing a woman, or in the case of Johansson, a woman playing a man. It's not making a film for transgender people to see a reflection of their own story, but for non-transgender people to feel some sort of strange sympathy for transgender people through their own lens.
Johansson, I should add, has since dropped the role amid the backlash over her casting and her response.
Those attempting to defend her have been vocal in their displeasure, reminding trans protesters that they have shot themselves in the foot by demanding her removal. They argue that that by not letting that A-list celeb be in the film, people will not turn out to see the movie and people will not learn "awareness" of trans issues.
Right now, on FX, is a series called "Pose." It premiered in early June. The show focuses on trans lives in the 1980s and features transgender people on both sides of the camera. The stories are authentic, and true, and speak to the trans experience in ways you will never see Leto, or Tambor, or Huffman in their respective roles.
These are stories that speak to transgender people, yet also speak to those beyond the community itself. They provide nuance that hasn't been seen in all the stories that have come before.
It has also been popular enough to be renewed for a second season, just a handful of episodes into its first.
In short, Johansson - and I hope by extension, Hollywood - is learning an important lesson: trans stories do have merit. What's more, they don't need a big non-transgender name in order to slap on a veneer of popular acceptance. That is the direction our stories need to go now, not remain in a mold cast by the exploitative movies of years past.
It's time for our stories to truly be ours to tell.
Gwen Smith wants to see a rich future of trans cinema. You can find her at www.gwensmith.com.
CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Gov. Jim Justice has vetoed a bill that would eliminate the state’s role in the greyhound racing industry. Both sides of the issue said the bill would effectively kill greyhound racing at the state’s two tracks.
Gov. Jim Justice was hugging the greyhounds in Wheeling Saturday.
There’s still a chance lawmakers could vote to override the veto today, the 60th and final day of the session, but the talk at the Capitol was that there hasn’t been that much desire to do so.
The governor went to the Northern Panhandle, where greyhound racing occurs at Wheeling Island, to make his announcement. He appeared at Independence Hall with a large crowd.
“If we get rid of greyhound racing it will mean job losses and fewer people coming to West Virginia,” Justice later stated in a release.
In his veto message, Justice questioned the legality of the Legislature unilaterally decoupling West Virginia casinos and race tracks because counties authorized gaming and racing as a package deal. Justice said that SB 437 would also jeopardize the health of the state’s casino industry.
“We can’t turn our back on dog racing in WV!” Justice said in a tweet about his veto.
The bill would have eliminated the state’s role in funding the greyhound breeder’s fund and purses for races. Money in the fund comes from other fees paid by the state’s casinos. The state handles the money through Lottery funds.
It would have allowed the two greyhound racetracks at Wheeling Island and Mardi Gras in Cross Lanes to retain their other gaming licenses.
It also would have invested a million dollars in a fund to promote the adoption of retired greyhounds.
Those who voted for the bill said the state should not have a role in promoting greyhound racing. They also viewed the bill as a way to transfer about $14 million that would have gone to greyhound racing into the general fund to help balance the state budget.
The bill had a particularly challenging path through the state House of Delegates, where there were several delays on voting.
Delegates Erikka Storch, a Republican, and Shawn Fluharty, a Democrat, were particularly vocal in their opposition to the bill. Both serve the Wheeling area.
Justice mentioned both as he made his announcement today. Storch and Fluharty were watching the livestream of his announcement from the House chambers while in recess.
Storch said today she hopes the Legislature will stand pat.
“I’m hopeful that my colleagues can look at the numbers, look at the impact to the state, to their districts,” Storch said.
Fluharty said he was glad his community turned out in support of the governor and the industry that affects his district.
“We were happy to see the results and what took place in Wheeling. Glad to see Wheeling turn out the way they did. That was a great crowd to see the governor,” Fluharty said.
Fluharty was hoping midnight and the end of the legislation will come before any override attempt.
He doubted it would come to that, though.
WINNIPEG — Canadian Tire has bought up the lease to the former Target store at Grant Park Shopping Centre.
The retailer said it has purchased 12 leases, formerly held by Target Canada, for $17.7 million.
“We’re always on the lookout for great opportunities. We’ve been tracking certain Target properties for some time and when the opportunity came up, we moved quickly and secured virtually all of them. We chose 12 properties that fit strategically and financially into our store network,” said Michael Medline, president and CEO of Canadian Tire Corporation.
The 12 new locations will add approximately 400,000 square feet of retail space to Canadian Tire retail’s store network.
It’s not clear when the new store will open or if it will replace an existing Winnipeg Canadian Tire.
Trying to get details on Oprah's final week of shows?
Good luck. Not even Oprah Winfrey knows which stars will grace her couch during two of the last episodes.
"Oprah Show" execs booked Chicago's United Center for May 17 to tape a -- brace yourself -- free show titled "Surprise Oprah! A Farewell Spectacular." The event will air as two, pre-finale shows scheduled to air May 23 and 24.
The taping is expected to include "some of the biggest names in movies, music and television in a one-time-only gathering to celebrate the 25-year legacy [of the show]," Harpo execs said Thursday.
There's one catch: Winfrey won't know who's stopping by. Producers are keeping the guest lineup a secret from her, and the list won't be announced or confirmed in advance, execs said in a news release.
Ticketing information is available on Oprah.com starting at 10 a.m. Thursday. Tickets are free and only available online.
There's still no word on what's planned for the big finale May 25.
Saudi Arabia has no intent to cut production. Their freeze agreement with Russia and a few others is simply an acknowledgment that they have reached the point where they want to be. Anybody who listened to or read Crown Prince and defense minister of Saudi Arabia Muhammad bin Salman's interview in January (The Economist) should have no doubts about his resolve. He realizes the power of the kingdom's oil and is going to use it.
For investors, the idea of value hunting in the oil space has become slightly more popular lately, particular betting on a rise in oil prices. The Velocity Shares 3x Long Crude Oil ETN US:UWTI has been among the most active vehicles of late. It is a very risky bet in my opinion, as the long-term trend is against it. Traders using that fund are betting on a reversal that is probably not here yet.
Lovato's latest perfectly balances party jams with confessional ballads.
Instead of going too edgy or staying a Disney princess, Demi Lovato's Unbroken, which drops Tuesday, is a perfectly mature album without scaring away the teens that grew up loving the "Camp Rock" star.

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